Compiled by Judith Van Dongen, Office of Research, WSU Spokane
COLLEGE OF NURSING-LED PROJECTS
Sandy Carollo (PI); Janet Katz – College of Nursing
Yakima Valley Community Foundation
“Advancing Health, Education, and Support for Teens in the Yakima Valley”
This pilot project provides an educational health sciences day camp for 10 to 15 at-risk teenage women housed at Ridgeview Community Facility, the only group home for female-only juvenile offenders in Washington State. Through the camp, teens will be exposed to culturally sensitive, evidence-based education on healthy sexuality; explore the emotional connection that drives risky behavior; and gain hands-on exposure to health sciences activities/careers and role models for educational attainment.
Cindy Corbett (PI); Joshua Neumiller; Brian Gates – College of Nursing/College of Pharmacy
Empire Health Foundation
“Preserving Self: Empowering Older Persons Who Take Multiple Medications”
This project follows up on earlier research on medication adherence in older people with multiple chronic conditions, which found that patients’ medication-taking priorities often differ from those of their providers. That study led to the development of a patientcentered medication management toolkit. In this new project, the research team will use the toolkit to engage older adults and their caregivers in interactive educational sessions to empower them with knowledge, skills, and tools to better communicate with healthcare providers about medication management and meeting personal health goals.
Kenn Daratha (PI) – College of Nursing
Providence Medical Research Center
“PMRC Staff Assignment Agreement”
This contract provides funding for Daratha to help procure, manage, and manipulate data associated with a research project led by investigators at the Providence Medical Research Center in partnership with the University of California Los Angeles health systems. The goal of the project is to establish collaborative registries covering patients to advance awareness, detection, intervention, and research in chronic kidney disease (CKD). The registries cover Providence and UCLA patients with electronic health records who have been diagnosed with CKD or are considered at risk for CKD and had at least one encounter since 2006. Data collected includes demographics, encounter type, socio-economic characteristics, laboratory values, imaging studies, and medication data. The registries will be linked with national death indices and the United States Renal Data System to verify mortality and kidney replacement therapy outcomes.
Darlene Hughes (PI); Janet Katz – College of Nursing
Association of Community Health Nursing Educators
“Stories of Purposefulness and Resiliency in an Alaskan Native Community and Community Health Nursing Education”
Building on recommendations for research in Native communities and previously conducted cultural research for decreasing substance and alcohol misuse, this project will identify strengthbased community meanings of resiliency and purposefulness through traditional story-telling with Alaska Native peoples and determine its influence on substance abuse as defined by an Alaska Native community. Other project goals include recording culturally centered stories of resiliency and purposefulness that can be used for educational materials related to health and wellness and developing and implementing a culturally tailored educational tool for community health nurses and students.
Lois James (PI); Stephen James – College of Nursing/Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine/Sleep and Performance Research Center
U.S. Department of Justice; Office of Justice Programs; National Institute of Justice
“An Evaluation of Simulation vs. Classroom-Based Implicit Bias Training to Improve Police Decision Making and Enhance the Outcomes of Police-Citizen Encounters”
This grant funds a project to conduct an evaluation of different methods of implicit bias training. The goal of implicit bias training is to improve police decision making by reducing stereotyping attitudes, judgments, and beliefs. In partnership with the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission, this new study will look at 300 officers based in the city of Toledo and in Lucas County, Ohio. Officers will receive either classroom-based implicit bias training; simulation-based implicit bias training; or both types of training. Some will be assigned to a control group that will be trained at the end of the study. The study will compare each of these groups to determine the impact implicit bias training and training methods on police decision making and outcomes of police-citizen encounters. Researchers will evaluate body camera footage, citizen complaints, results of surveys on arrestee perceptions; and survey and focus group results on officers’ perception of training effectiveness.
Lois James (PI); Stephen James – College of Nursing/Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine/Sleep and Performance Research Center
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety
“Online Training for Law Enforcement to Reduce Risks Associated with Shift Work and Long Work Hours”
This grant provides funding for WSU researchers to create an online training for law enforcement officers related to the health and safety risks of shift work and long hours. As part of this project, the researchers will review an existing online training program for nurses and make recommendations for tailoring its content for law enforcement; produce audio/video segments and photographic images to incorporate into the program; provide narration for selected parts of the program; and conduct two focus groups in California to solicit feedback from law enforcement on the draft training content.
Louise Kaplan (PI); Tracy Klein and Marian Wilson (Co-PIs) – College of Nursing
Office of Research Dedicated Marijuana Account
“Knowledge, Practices and Attitudes Regarding Marijuana for Medical Conditions Among Washington State Healthcare Providers and Certified Marijuana Consultants”
This survey of health care professionals and medical marijuana consultants, a role unique to Washington State, identified the knowledge, practices and attitudes of health care professionals and medical marijuana consultants regarding medical marijuana, their knowledge of the legal requirements of the law, and sources of information used by healthcare professionals and consultants regarding the use of medical marijuana.
Louise Kaplan (PI); Justin Gill (Co-PI) – College of Nursing/Yale DNP student
Washington Center for Nursing, Washington State University and American Association of Nurse Practitioners
“Washington State ARNP Workforce and Practice Reimbursement Survey”
The purpose of this project is to identify characteristics of the Washington State ARNP workforce and to evaluate the impact of third party reimbursement on Washington State ARNP practice owners and independent contractors. The information we collect will be used for policy and legislative initiatives including work force planning and obtaining support for a bill to require the same pay for ARNPs as physicians receive when billing for the same service.
Jae Kennedy (PI); Elizabeth Wood – College of Nursing; Department of Health Policy and Administration
Administration for Community Living; National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research
“Collaborative On Health Reform and Independent Living Fellowship (CHRIL-F)”
This grant funds a fellowship program that complements and extends the work of the Collaborative on Health Reform and Independent Living (CHRIL), a multisite Disability and Rehabilitation Research Project funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research. The program will fund three postdoctoral research positions for individuals with disabilities who are personally committed to understanding and improving health policies and services for disabled Americans. The goal is to have these students go on to faculty positions at major universities or leadership roles in federal research agencies and nonprofit foundations.
Clemma Muller (PI); Amber Fyfe-Johnson – College of Nursing/Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine/Community Health
Southcentral Foundation/National Institutes of Health; Indian Health Service
“SCF Faculty Development Core for Alaska Research”
This is a subaward of an NIH-funded project to improve the clinical and translational research skills of Alaska Native/American Indian investigators and faculty through targeted training and mentoring opportunities. This helps to ensure that health research at the Southcentral Foundation is carried out in a manner that is culturally, scientifically, and ethically sound. It may also help increase the number of Alaska Native and American Indian investigators within the community.
Lonnie Nelson (PI); Dedra Buchwald – College of Nursing/Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine/Community Health
National Institutes of Health; National Institute of General Medical Sciences
“The First Annual Summit on Urban Native Elder Health and Health Care”
This award funds the first conference in an annual conference series on health and health care for American Indian and Alaska Native elders living in urban areas. The conference was held in Seattle in July 2017. The goal of the conference series is to stimulate research that will address the current gap in knowledge on Native elders living in urban areas and inform the allocation of health care resources for programs responsive to the needs of urban Native elders. Most research on Native health has been conducted in rural and reservation communities, even though 71 percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives live in urban areas. Native populations are at elevated risk of obesity, smoking, substance abuse, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, traumatic injury, and other health issues. The gap in knowledge about urban Native populations is particularly concerning in the case of Native elders (those 65 and older), whose risk profiles and health care needs are likely to differ substantially from their rural counterparts.
Connie Kim Yen Nguyen-Truong (PI); Roschelle Fritz (Co-PI) – College of Nursing
Beta Psi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International – Naomi Ballard Nursing Research Award
“Influence of Culture on Adoption of Smart Home Monitoring for Health Assistance by Asian American Adults and Older Adults”
This is community-engaged research that builds on prior work. Asian community leaders and members at Asian Health & Service Center and the Asian/Pacific community will be engaged to share information about smart home monitoring (its purpose and proposed uses) and gain evidence of Asian immigrant older adults’ comprehension of the technology.
Janet Purath (PI); Joann Dotson; Tamara Odom-Maryon; Linda Ward; Janet Katz; Sandy Carrollo; Dawn DePriest – College of Nursing
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Nursing and Public Health
“Washington State University – Advanced Nursing Practice for Rural Underserved in Eastern Washington (WSU-ANEW)”
This is a new award for a project aimed at building expanded capacity for training family nurse practitioners to serve in rural and underserved areas in Eastern Washington. It funds the creation of a formal partnership with the Community Health Association of Spokane that includes a joint appointment of a Nurse Practitioner Faculty in Residence, who will help enhance evidence-based care for underserved patients in Washington and improve the College of Nursing faculty’s approach to clinical instruction. The project will also implement a preceptor education program that will train preceptors as program partners to enhance nursing education; provide traineeships for 15 to 30 family nurse practitioner students completing training in rural clinics; and create a program to connect graduates to primary care employment in rural and underserved areas.
Ka’imi Sinclair (PI) – College of Nursing/Community Health
University of Colorado Denver/National Institutes of Health
“Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Diabetes Translation Research (CDTR) – Research”
This subaward funds work to establish a Pacific Northwest satellite center of the Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Diabetes Translation Research, which is based at the University of Colorado Denver. The goal of the main center is to improve the diabetes-related health of American Indian and Alaska Native people by extending prevention and management research of proven efficacy to both clinical and community settings in American Indian/Alaska Native communities. The Pacific Northwest satellite center will engage local tribes in activities aimed at increasing awareness related to diabetes translational research among American Indians and Alaska Natives; organize and sponsor annual regional conferences about diabetes translational research among Native populations; and develop a regional plan for disseminating the work and research findings of the center.
Jae Kennedy (PI); Elizabeth Wood – College of Nursing; Department of Health Policy and Administration
Administration for Community Living; National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research
“Collaborative On Health Reform and Independent Living Fellowship (CHRIL-F)”
This grant funds a fellowship program that complements and extends the work of the Collaborative on Health Reform and Independent Living (CHRIL), a multisite Disability and Rehabilitation Research Project funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research. The program will fund three postdoctoral research positions for individuals with disabilities who are personally committed to understanding and improving health policies and services for disabled Americans. The goal is to have these students go on to faculty positions at major universities or leadership roles in federal research agencies and nonprofit foundations.
Clemma Muller (PI); Amber Fyfe-Johnson – College of Nursing/Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine/Community Health
Southcentral Foundation/National Institutes of Health; Indian Health Service
“SCF Faculty Development Core for Alaska Research”
This is a subaward of an NIH-funded project to improve the clinical and translational research skills of Alaska Native/American Indian investigators and faculty through targeted training and mentoring opportunities. This helps to ensure that health research at the Southcentral Foundation is carried out in a manner that is culturally, scientifically, and ethically sound. It may also help increase the number of Alaska Native and American Indian investigators within the community.
Lonnie Nelson (PI); Dedra Buchwald – College of Nursing/Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine/Community Health
National Institutes of Health; National Institute of General Medical Sciences
“The First Annual Summit on Urban Native Elder Health and Health Care”
This award funds the first conference in an annual conference series on health and health care for American Indian and Alaska Native elders living in urban areas. The conference was held in Seattle in July 2017. The goal of the conference series is to stimulate research that will address the current gap in knowledge on Native elders living in urban areas and inform the allocation of health care resources for programs responsive to the needs of urban Native elders. Most research on Native health has been conducted in rural and reservation communities, even though 71 percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives live in urban areas. Native populations are at elevated risk of obesity, smoking, substance abuse, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, traumatic injury, and other health issues. The gap in knowledge about urban Native populations is particularly concerning in the case of Native elders (those 65 and older), whose risk profiles and health care needs are likely to differ substantially from their rural counterparts.
Connie Kim Yen Nguyen-Truong (PI); Roschelle Fritz (Co-PI) – College of Nursing
Beta Psi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International – Naomi Ballard Nursing Research Award
“Influence of Culture on Adoption of Smart Home Monitoring for Health Assistance by Asian American Adults and Older Adults”
This is community-engaged research that builds on prior work. Asian community leaders and members at Asian Health & Service Center and the Asian/Pacific community will be engaged to share information about smart home monitoring (its purpose and proposed uses) and gain evidence of Asian immigrant older adults’ comprehension of the technology.
Janet Purath (PI); Joann Dotson; Tamara Odom-Maryon; Linda Ward; Janet Katz; Sandy Carrollo; Dawn DePriest – College of Nursing
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Nursing and Public Health
“Washington State University – Advanced Nursing Practice for Rural Underserved in Eastern Washington (WSU-ANEW)”
This is a new award for a project aimed at building expanded capacity for training family nurse practitioners to serve in rural and underserved areas in Eastern Washington. It funds the creation of a formal partnership with the Community Health Association of Spokane that includes a joint appointment of a Nurse Practitioner Faculty in Residence, who will help enhance evidence-based care for underserved patients in Washington and improve the College of Nursing faculty’s approach to clinical instruction. The project will also implement a preceptor education program that will train preceptors as program partners to enhance nursing education; provide traineeships for 15 to 30 family nurse practitioner students completing training in rural clinics; and create a program to connect graduates to primary care employment in rural and underserved areas.
Ka’imi Sinclair (PI) – College of Nursing/Community Health
University of Colorado Denver/National Institutes of Health
“Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Diabetes Translation Research (CDTR) – Research”
This subaward funds work to establish a Pacific Northwest satellite center of the Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Diabetes Translation Research, which is based at the University of Colorado Denver. The goal of the main center is to improve the diabetes-related health of American Indian and Alaska Native people by extending prevention and management research of proven efficacy to both clinical and community settings in American Indian/Alaska Native communities. The Pacific Northwest satellite center will engage local tribes in activities aimed at increasing awareness related to diabetes translational research among American Indians and Alaska Natives; organize and sponsor annual regional conferences about diabetes translational research among Native populations; and develop a regional plan for disseminating the work and research findings of the center.
Marian Wilson (PI) – College of Nursing
University of Cincinnati/National Institutes of Health; National Institute on Drug Abuse
“EMPOWER”
This is a subaward that funds WSU’s participation in the EMPOWER study led by the University of Cincinnati. EMPOWER is a five-year study of 400 non-cancer patients who are being treated with longterm opioid therapy at the University of Cincinnati Health and Duke Health. The study will look at whether use of an online pain management program — the Goalistics Chronic Pain Management Program — could help these patients reduce the amount of prescription opioids they take. The study will compare opioid use and pain outcomes between program participants and a control group who receive treatment as usual.
CONTINUING COLLEGE OF NURSING-LED PROJECTS
Kenn Daratha (PI) – College of Nursing
Empire Health Foundation
“EHF Obesity Prevention Initiative Staff Assignment Agreement”
This grant provides renewal funding for the researcher to provide statistical services to support the Empire Health Foundation’s obesity prevention initiative. Daratha will import student data from each of seven intervention school districts and Educational Service District 101 into a common database for analysis. Student data captured includes demographics, physical measurements, meal participation, fitness performance, attendance, and academic performance.
Mel Haberman (PI) – College of Nursing
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions
“Washington State University Nurse Faculty Loan Program 2017”
This is renewal funding for a federal loan program that helps the WSU College of Nursing prepare graduate nurses for careers as nurse educators. The funds support the WSU College of Nursing’s Nurse Faculty Loan Program, which helps meet the financial needs of graduate nurse educator students for tuition, fees, and books.
Jae Kennedy (PI) – College of Nursing, Dept. of Health Policy and Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research
“Collaborative on Health Reform and Independent Living”
This is continued grant funding for a project to create a Collaborative on Health Reform and Independent Living. The collaborative brings together disability advocates and researchers from WSU and three other institutions to evaluate the impact of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on the physical, psychological, and economic well-being of working-age adults with disabilities. The researchers will analyze data from existing surveys as well as conduct new phone and Internet-based surveys to gather data from health care consumers with disabilities and directors of Centers of Independent Living. Partner institutions in this project are the University of Kansas, George Mason University, and the Independent Living Research Utilization program at TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital.
Lonnie Nelson (PI); Dedra Buchwald – College of Nursing/Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine/Community Health
National Institutes of Health; National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
“Caring Texts: A Strength-Based, Suicide Prevention Trial in 4 Native Communities”
This is continued funding for a study of the effectiveness of the Caring Contacts approach as a way of reducing suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and suicide-related hospitalizations among Native American young adults. A recent study has found that suicide rates for Native American young adults in the Northern Plains and Alaska are much higher than those for white Americans in the same regions. The Caring Contacts approach uses text messages expressing care, concern, and interest to supplement standard suicide prevention. In a randomized, controlled trial, this study will compare the use of the Caring Contacts approach as a supplement to usual suicide prevention care versus usual care only in at-risk Native American young adults.
Lonnie Nelson (PI); Dedra Buchwald – College of Nursing/Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine/Community Health
National Institutes of Health
“Innovative Multigenerational Household Intervention to Reduce Stroke and CVD Risk”
This is continued funding for a study to test the effectiveness of the “Family Intervention in the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing” (FITSMI) to reduce the risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease in American Indians. American Indians experience much higher prevalence and incidence of stroke than the general U.S. population. The FITSMI intervention was developed in response to results from the Strong Heart Study to encourage lifestyle changes that transform the home environment and reduce stroke risk for all residents. The clinical trial will recruit 360 households with a Strong Heart Family Study member aged 45 and older. Half will receive the FITSMI intervention, which uses a talking circle format in which facilitators guide participants to identify goals for change and create a tailored plan for sustainable implementation; the other half will be assigned to a control group that will receive educational brochures.
Lonnie Nelson (PI); Emma Elliott-Groves; Dedra Buchwald; Clemma Muller – College of Nursing/Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine/Community Health
University of New Mexico/National Institutes of Health
“Rhythm and Timing Exercises for Cerebrovascular Disease in American Indians”
This is an increase in subaward funding for a study to determine whether culturally adapted interactive metronome therapy can improve cognitive function among older American Indians with cerebrovascular disease. Interactive metronome is a form of behavioral therapy that attempts to improve cognitive functioning through mass-practice of simple, repetitive millisecond timing motor tasks—such as clapping hands or tapping feet—in time with a set beat. Through visual and auditory feedback, interactive metronome addresses processing speed, attention, and immediate and delayed memory, all of which can be affected by cerebrovascular disease.
Barbara Richardson (PI); Tamara Odom-Maryon; Janet Purath; Dawn DePriest; Sarah Fincham; Brenda Bray; Megan Willson; Catrina Schwartz; April Davis – College of Nursing; College of Pharmacy; Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Program in Nutrition & Exercise Physiology
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
“Spokane SBIRT Student Training”
This grant provides continued funding for a program to provide students pursuing health professions degrees on the WSU Spokane Health Sciences campus with training to recognize and treat substance use disorders as part of their clinical experiences. The program will provide training to health professions students in a variety of disciplines, including students in WSU’s nursing, pharmacy, nutrition and exercise physiology programs; EWU’s occupational therapy and social work program; and UW’s MEDEX physician assistant and WWAMI medical education programs.
Ka’imi Sinclair (PI); Lonnie Nelson – College of Nursing/Community Health
National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
“Strong Men, Strong Communities: Cultural Tradition to Improve Native Men’s Health”
This is continued funding for a project to develop the Strong Men, Strong Communities program. The program provides a culturally appropriate approach to reducing the risk of diabetes in American Indian men, who experience type 2 diabetes at much higher rates than other racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. The investigators will study the effectiveness of the intervention in three American Indian communities — the Seneca Nation (New York), Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe (Minnesota), and the Indian Health Board of Minneapolis (Minnesota) — as compared to waitlisted control groups.
Denise Smart (PI); Lois James; Tamara Odom-Maryon – College of Nursing TriService Nursing Research Program
“Effects of Sleep Deficiency on National Guard Personnel Responding to Disasters”
This is supplemental funding for a study to examine the prevalence and consequences of sleep deprivation and fatigue in National Guard medical personnel responding to a major disaster. The longterm goal for the project is to help protect the health of service members, civilian disaster response partners, and disaster victims and improve mission capability by reducing fatigue-induced errors by National Guard service members. The supplement adds funding to study personnel from an Air National Guard medical response team based at Fairchild Airforce Base in Washington State. The research team have previously collected data from Texas-based medical response teams during two weeklong disaster training exercises.
Marian Wilson (PI); Hans Van Dongen – College of Nursing; Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine/Sleep and Performance Research Center
University of Washington/National Institutes of Health; National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
“Hypnosis and Meditation for Pain Management in Veterans, Efficacy and Mechanisms”
This concerns continued funding for a WSU-led substudy of a University of Washington research project to evaluate the efficacy of self-hypnosis and mindfulness meditation training to treat chronic pain in veterans. The substudy will investigate the relationship between sleep and pain to determine whether improved sleep early in the course of treatment improves pain and sleep outcomes later. The study will follow 135 veterans enrolled in the parent study and will collect sleep measurements through wristband sleep monitoring devices and sleep surveys for one week just before and after their intervention, as well as three months post-intervention. The study will increase scientists’ knowledge of the relationship between sleep and pain and could be a first step toward the development of sleepbased interventions to help alleviate chronic pain.
