Grants and Funded Projects

Funded Faculty Research

• Building Sudanese Community Capacity for Diabetes Identification, Prevention and Care
• Cancer Pain in Elders: Promoting EBPs In Hospices
• Dementia Training to Promote Involvement in Meaningful Activity
• Depression Training to Promote Nurses as Advocates for Older Adults
• Effectiveness of TENS on Hyperalgesia, Pain with Movement, and Function After TKR
• Effects of TENS on Knee Osteoarthritis Pain, Hyperalgesia, and Function
• Exploring What Children Know About Genetics
• Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center
• Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence
• Impact of System-Centered Factors, and Processes of Nursing Care of Fall Prevalence and Injuries from Falls
• Improving Continence & Pain Control in LTC:  The M-TRAIN Intervention
• Persons with Impaired Mobility: Transition to Adulthood
• Postdoctoral Training in Clinical Genetics Research
• Predictors of Diabetes Ulcer Complications

Funded Doctoral Student Research

• Between Two Worlds:  Amish Children with Special Health Care Needs
• The Social Context of Unintended Pregnancy in College-Aged Women
  
• Validity of Rapid Tests to Detect Nosocomial Urinary Tract Infection in Hospitalized Elderly

Completed Research Projects

• Alzheimer’s Demonstration Project: Expanding Culturally
• Appropriate Adult Day Care to Minorities and Mid-Late Stage Clients Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease
• Anxiety Among Older Adults with Dementia in ALFs
• Caring for Native American Elder’s
• Context for Filipino CB Cleft Prevention Interventions
• Depo-Provera & BMD: Continuing Observations
• Evidence Based Practice: From Book to Bedside
• Family Health After Predictive HD Testing
• Elder Pain: Assessment of Intensity
• Family Involvement in Care Studies (FICS)
• Hydration: LTC Intervention to Prevent Acute Confusion
• Leptin Control of Obesity
• Nursing Interventions & Outcomes in 3 Older Populations
• Patient and Contextual Factors in CFCT Decision Making
• Predicting Children’s Responses to Distraction from Pain
• Representational Post-MI Nursing Intervention
• Spirituality of Children with DMD
• Using Nonlinear Models to Predict Nursing Turnover
• Written Emotional Expression & Caregiver Burden Outcomes