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The following is a brief summary of my recent research activities:
| 1995 |
Unpublished education doctoral dissertation
titled: "Predictors of Academic Performance for Minority Baccalaureate
Nursing Students" successfully defended at Illinois State University
in May. The Literature Review was published in ERIC's bibliographic
Journal Resources in Education, Feb., 1997. |
| 1997-2000 |
Consultant and Co-researcher with Cara Dayhoff
, et al, and assisted with their research study "Does the Socio-Economic
Status Influence an Individual's Utilization of Health Care Services?"
Study was completed and presented at MNRS poster session in 1997.
This study was a poster presentation at the SIUE SON Annual Martha
Welch Research Day on Sep. 21, 2000. |
| 1997-1999 |
Co-researcher on study titled "Nursing Students' Perceptions
of a Clinical Experience with Elderly Residents of a Public Housing
Development." Study has been completed and presented several
times as a paper presentation and as a poster. An article was published.
(See Publications).
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| 1999-2000 |
Co-researcher on study titled "Prostate
Health Beliefs and Practices of Middle Aged and Elderly Men"
approved by SIUE Institutional Review Board (IRB) January, 1999. A
small grant research award was received from Sigma Theta Tau. The
results have been disseminated at several conferences by poster presentations.
A research article entitled "Prostate Screening Health Beliefs
and Practices of African American Men" has been published. (See
Publications) |
| 2000-2002 |
Co-researcher on study titled "A Comparative
Study of Prostate Screening Wealth Beliefs and Practices Between African
American and Caucasian Men." The study has been completed and
a research-based article by the same title was submitted for publication
consideration in March, 2002. |
| 2002-Present |
Co-researcher on a study in progress titled
"Weight Loss Motivators: A Descriptive Survey." SIUE Institutional
Review Board (IRB) approved the study proposal on February 26, 2002.
The Regional Supervisor for Weight Watchers in St. Louis, Missouri
approved the study for data collection to begin at four Weight Watcher
sites in Illinois on June 12, 2002.
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Reserach honors and awards are included here:
| April 1999 |
Received small grant award from Sigma Theta
Tau, Epsilon Eta Chapter for the prostate research project. |
| Sep 1999 |
Received Blue Ribbon Award for best education research for poster
"Nursing Students' Perceptions of a Clinical Experience with
Elderly Residents of a Public Housing Development" from National
AMSN at the Annual convention in Phoenix, AZ.
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| May 2000 |
Accepted as a participant in the Research Training for? Nurse Scientists,
co?sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NiNR)
and the Clinical Center Nursing Department, held at the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD, July 18?21.
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| Oct 2001 |
Received Blue Ribbon Award for best poster in the Research category
titled "Prostate Screening Health Beliefs and Practices of
African American Men~ from National AMSN at the 1 Oth Annual Convention
in Kansas City, Missouri on October 20.
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