Impact of trauma history on selected primary care health behaviors
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Wilkinson
This project will investigate the barriers and facilitators to breast cancer screening for traumatized patients.
Community Engaged Development of Birth Navigator Intervention to Promote Resilient Childbirth for Trauma Survivors
Principal Investigator: Dr. LG Ward
This project aims to develop an intervention called the Birth Navigator to help perinatal patients and their healthcare providers participate in shared decision-making during the birthing process.
Expanding Reflective Supervision in Rhode Island: A Preventive Approach for Community-Based, Early Childhood Settings Serving Trauma-Exposed Families
Principal Investigator: Dr. Lindsay Huffhines
This project aims to test and implement a training series of reflective supervision for child welfare professionals to improve outcomes for young children and their families.
Evaluating weight-related discrimination as a stressor contributing to pain symptoms among individuals of higher body weight
Principal Investigator: Dr. KayLoni Olson
This project investigates how weight discrimination influences the relationship between chronic pain and higher body weights.
Parenting and Obstetric Experiences: A Qualitative Study
Principal Investigator: Dr. Natasha Sokol
This project investigates how trauma, stress, and discrimination experienced throughout life and in obstetric medical settings could influence postpartum mental health outcomes and treatment.
Assessment of sexual trauma, health, and functioning histories in routine clinical care
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sara Vargas
This project investigates whether health care providers are properly taking sexual health histories and addressing trauma-related sexual health concerns, especially for people of color and those with a history of trauma, to improve standard care practices.
Wearable smart textiles for non-invasive detection of the stress biomarker cortisol
Principal Investigator: Dr. Daniel Roxbury
This pilot is developing a portable, wearable device using "smart textiles" with carbon nanotubes to measure cortisol levels in sweat, which will detect stress in real-time using a small, efficient system that includes an LED light, NIR detector, and a Raspberry Pi for communication.
Parent-child relationship quality in adolescence and sleep and health in adulthood: associations among individuals who were in foster care
Principal Investigator: Dr. Darlynn Rojo-Wissar
This pilot will use an existing nationally representative data set to examine the associations between parent-child relationship quality in adolescence, sleep in adulthood, and health outcomes, and whether there are racial/ethnic differences in these associations.
Early Life Stress and Blood Pressure Trajectories in Black and White Perinatal Women
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sharon Lee
Pregnancy-related hypertensive disorders are the leading cause of maternal deaths in the United States. This research project will investigate whether maternal early life stress is a risk factor for a blood pressure trajectory associated with pregnancy-induced hypertension, and whether this risk is higher for Black women.
An Implementation Science-Informed Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Stress Management in Cardiac Rehabilitation
Principal Investigator: Dr. Emily Gathright
This research project aims to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis using translation and implementation science frameworks to improve widespread adoption of stress management interventions to improve cardiac rehabilitation
Building Resilience to Increase Cardiac Rehabilitation Initiation
Principal Investigator: Dr. Carly Goldstein
This pilot project aims to create four innovative intervention components that are easily disseminated to improve cardiac rehabilitation enrollment to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease
Associations of accelerated cellular age and infant mental health
Principal Investigator: Dr. Teresa Daniels
This pilot project proposes to examine the relationship between infant emotional reactivity and self-regulation with two key mechanisms of cellular aging: telomere attrition and mitochondrial dysfunction.