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College of Nursing

    Intersecting Areas of Expertise

    Our research strengths are underscored by intersecting areas of expertise, including health disparities, chronic disease management, mental health and health care delivery.

    Health Equity Research

    Faculty at the University of South Carolina College of Nursing are committed to conducting and promoting research to achieve the highest level of health for all people.

    • Factors related to obesity in rural adults
    • Relationships between obesity and health outcomes
    • Psychosocial determinants of health 
    • Behavioral interventions
    • Community-based participatory research
    • Patient centered research
    • Decreasing infant morbidity and mortality
    • Physiologic measurement and the autonomic nervous system
    • Reduction of health disparities in the neonatal population
    • Patient-provider communication
    • Language discordance
    • mHealth
    • Primary care pediatrics
    • Health disparities
    • Health disparities 
    • Access to cancer care
    • Cancer survivorship
    • Outcomes research
    • Improving physical activity and nutrition in African-American women
    • Components to rest: mental, physical and spiritual
    • LGBT health disparities
    • Cultural diversity
    • Violence/victimization
    • Community Based Participatory Research and Community Engagement 
    • Cardiometabolic Risk and Prevention; Cancer Control and Prevention 
    • COVID-19 and rural health disparities
    • Rural programs of nursing
    • Patient outcomes in rural areas
    • Educational disparities in nursing education
    • Community-based behavioral interventions
    • Motivation for health behavior change
    • Physical activity and chronic disease prevention
      Dr. Sweeney's CV
    • Data management
    • Statistical methods

    Biobehavioral Research

    Mental and behavioral health research focuses on operationalizing strategies to improve mental health outcomes and care access in South Carolina. 

    • Psychiatric-mental health nursing
    • Crisis intervention
    • Chronic mental illness in adults
      Dr. Baliko's CV
    • Theoretically-based family-targeted intervention development and testing 
    • Mobile health technologies as an intervention delivery modality 
    • Lung cancer survivorship 
    • Lung cancer screening
      Dr. McDonnell's CV
    • Psychiatric-mental health nursing
    • Substance use disorders and recovery management
    • Self-care/self-management for parents in recovery from substance use disorders
      Dr. Raynor's CV
    • Sources of dietary inflammation and chronic disease risk, especially cancer
    • Health disparities
    • Cortisol levels and pattern on health outcomes
    • Effect of meditation on symptoms among cancer survivors
      Dr. Wirth's CV
    • Therapeutic management for women with polycystic ovary syndrome
    • Digital technology for intervention delivery
    • Biological impact of resistance exercise

    Digital Health

    College faculty utilize, explore, and advance technological innovations to improve health outcomes in our patient populations.

    • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 
    • Violence and Victimization
    • Mental health interventions following traumatic loss
    • Interprofessional education innovation and evaluation 
      Dr. Baliko's CV
    • Decreasing infant morbidity & mortality
    • Infant stabilization after birth
    • Global infant health
      Dr. Dail's CV
    • Patient-provider communication
    • Language discordance
    • mHealth
    • Primary care pediatrics
    • Health disparities
      Dr. Dawson's CV
    • Quality mobile health apps
    • Comprehensive patient health
    • Health care systems
      Dr. Donevant's CV
    • Health disparities 
    • Access to cancer care
    • Cancer survivorship
    • Outcomes research
      Dr. Felder's CV
    • Theoretically-based family-targeted intervention development and testing 
    • Mobile health technologies as an intervention delivery modality 
    • Lung cancer survivorship 
    • Lung cancer screening
      Dr. McDonnell's CV
    • Symptoms related to oral targeted therapy
    • Adherence to oral cancer therapy
    • Aging and cancer
    • Oncology clinical trial
      Dr. Wickersham's CV
    • Therapeutic management for women with polycystic ovary syndrome
    • Digital technology for intervention delivery
    • Biological impact of resistance exercise

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