A5055187897- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Social Media in Health Education
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Cancer Risks and Factors
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Pregnancy and Medication Impact
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Family Support in Illness
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies
- Endometriosis Research and Treatment
- Cardiovascular Issues in Pregnancy
Duke University Hospital
2020-2025
Duke Medical Center
2007-2025
Duke University
2007-2025
Duke Institute for Health Innovation
2025
Community Link
2022-2024
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
2023
National Institutes of Health
2023
IntraHealth International
2023
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2011-2021
Oregon Health & Science University
2012-2019
The United States is embroiled in a debate about whether to protect or deport its estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants, but the fact that these immigrants are also parents more than 4 U.S.-born children often overlooked. We provide causal evidence of impact parents' immigration status on health their U.S. citizen children. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program granted temporary protection from deportation 780,000 immigrants. used Medicaid claims data Oregon and...
TikTok, a video-sharing application, offers growing platform for contraception-related content. The top 100 videos tagged "#IUD" were compiled using web-scraping application. User demographics and video content analyzed by two independent reviewers, with third to arbitrate differences. More had negative tone (37.8%) about intrauterine devices (IUDs) than positive (19.4%), 27.6% mentioned distrust of health care professionals. Of conveying patient experiences, all or ambiguous 96.8%...
OBJECTIVE: To measure the effect of access to prenatal care on unauthorized and low-income, new legal permanent resident immigrant women their offspring. METHODS: We used a difference-in-differences design that leverages staggered rollout Emergency Medicaid Plus by county from 2008 2013 as natural experiment estimate health service utilization for outcomes infants. Regular pregnancies were an additional control in triple difference design. RESULTS: Our sample included covered (35,182),...
Crisis pregnancy centers are organizations that seek to intercept women with unintended pregnancies who might be considering abortion. Their mission is prevent abortions by persuading adoption or parenting a better option. They strive give the impression they clinical centers, offering legitimate medical services and advice, yet exempt from regulatory, licensure, credentialing oversight apply health care facilities. Because religious ideology of these centers' owners employees takes priority...
Abstract Goals of work : Patients with brain cancer are at a risk experiencing elevated levels distress due to the severe functional, neurocognitive, and neuropsychological sequelae disease. Using National Comprehensive Cancer Network's Distress Thermometer, we evaluated extent sources within population patients cancer. methods Participants were asked complete single‐item rapid screening tool for distress. The Thermometer is visual analog scale on which participants rate their level from ‘0’...
Objectives: Most induced abortions are provided by abortion specialists, despite knowledge and skills overlap with other disciplines, particularly general obstetrics gynecology (OB/GYN). We evaluated patient preferences for miscarriage care from a family planning specialist versus providers, perceptions of OB/GYN's ability to provide safe care. Materials Methods: conducted cross-sectional survey among individuals aged 18-44 receiving (n = 54) or nonabortion gynecological 111) in North...
This study used focus groups to pilot and evaluate a new nutrition label format refine the design. Physical activity equivalent labels present calorie information in terms of amount physical that would be required expend calories specified food item. Three with total twenty participants discussed choices labeling. They provided on comprehension, usability acceptability label. A systematic coding process was apply descriptive codes data identify emerging themes attitudes. Participants all...
To evaluate whether transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS) decreases pain at the time of outpatient endometrial biopsy.
This work was conducted with the support of award K12HD103083 from National Institute Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) U.S. Institutes Health. The content is solely responsibility authors does not necessarily represent official views Jonas Swartz receives personal fees as a contraceptive implant placement trainer for Organon. data that findings this study are available corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Providing care for patients with cancer places caregivers at risk experiencing elevated levels of stress. Caregivers brain tumors may be increased because the multifaceted needs this patient population. As such, authors sought to determine caregiver preferences toward various types stress-reduction programs a population stressed caregivers. This information provides valuable insight researchers designing studies address experiences
The COVID-19 pandemic led to widespread college campus closures in the months of March June 2020, endangering students' access on-campus health resources, including reproductive services.To assess contraceptive and use among undergraduate graduate students North Carolina during pandemic.We conducted a cross-sectional web-based survey enrolled at degree-granting institutions Carolina. Participants were recruited using targeted Instagram advertisements. queried several aspects participants'...