Expertise

Keywords: Community/Mental Health

Research Interests

  • Nursing college student wellness and obesity prevention
  • Adolescent Mental Health
  • Bullying
  • Stress
  • Depression
  • Biobehavioral research methods

Keywords

  • stress, bullying, adolescence, mental health, depression, biobehavioral
Communities
Nursing
Degrees
PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Nursing, 2015
MSN, University of South Alabama, 1991
BSN, University of South Alabama, 1986
Keywords
lgbtq studies nutrition education obesity child or adolescent mental health exercise biological markers & sensor mechanisms stress response bullying peer victimization high school 9th grade students biobehavioral nursing weight-based teasing depressive symptoms stressful life events student nursing mental and physical health college student health sleep
Languages
English
Honors

Academic Achievement Scholarship – $1,250 - Alabama State Nurses Association 2014, Alabama State Nurses Association, 2014

Graduate Scholarship, Alabama State Nurses Association, 2012 and 2014

Maternal Child Health Traineeship/Fellowship , University of Alabama in Birmingham. , 2010 - 2012

Associations
Alabama State Nurses Association
American Nurses Assocation
Sigma Theta Tau - International Nursing Honor Society
Southern Nurses Research Society