Funded Projects
Our faculty members are actively engaged in the advancement of nursing science. The following are currently funded projects organized by faculty members' last name.
Guiding dissemination and implementation of the Future of Nursing: 2020-2030
PI: Ashley Darcy Mahoney
Funder:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Award Start: 3/1/22
Award End: 5/31/25
Overview:
The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity extends the vision for the nursing profession into 2030 and charts a path for the nursing profession to help our nation create a culture of health, reduce health disparities, and improve the health and well-being of the U.S. population in the 21st century. The RWJF sponsored National Academy of Medicine report on the Future of Nursing has conveyed a number of important recommendations for nurses as leaders and change agents in driving more health equity in the United States. The potential for the profession to make traction on the report recommendations is enormous given the interest and will. Closing the gap between interest, action and results, however will take strong leadership and strategy development from a number of people and organizations and this role will help facilitate that implementation.
Enhancing Measurement and Characterization of Roles and Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minority Caregivers of Persons living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
PI: Martiza Dowling, Jason Flatt (University of Nevada Las Vegas) and Joel G. Anderson (University of Tennessee)
Funder:
National Institute on Aging
Award Start: 8/1/23
Award End: 4/20/28
Balance Impairment in Non-AIDS Defining Cancer
PI: Kathleen Griffith & Alice Ryan (UMB)
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Award Start: 9/1/22
Award End: 8/31/24
Overview: Our overall objective is to comprehensively assess and compare balance and mobility in older NADC/PLWH (cases) to older PLWH without NADC (controls) of similar socioeconomic background and to test the feasibility of a resistance and balance training program to improve balance, strength and physical activity in each group.
Reducing disparities in chronic pain with a tailored psychosocial education intervention for an underrepresented population
PI: Hee Jun Kim
Funder: National Institute of Nursing Research
Award Start: 5/14/24
Award End: 4/30/26
Overview: This study aims to fill critical knowledge gaps in pain disparity research by providing evidence of feasibility and acceptability of a culturally-tailored psychosocial pain education intervention for an underrepresented population, using the Korean American community as an exemplar. This is a multidisciplinary, community-based participatory research project. Achieving the study’s goals will demonstrate for the first time that a nurse-led, community-based psychosocial education intervention to reduce chronic pain for the underrepresented Korean American population may be feasible and acceptable, forming the basis for a larger efficacy trial to test the tailored intervention.
Expanding and Promoting Alternative Care and Knowledge in Decision-making (ExPAND) Trial
PI: Dale Lupu
Funder: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Award Start: 7/1/23
Award End: 9/30/29
Overview:
The primary objective of this study is to compare two health system-based approaches for offering kidney failure treatment options to older patients with kidney failure, to ensure they are actively involved in a shared decision making (SDM) process covering a full range of choices and have meaningful access to that full range of choices, including standard in-center or home dialysis (SIHD) and alternative treatment plans (ATPs): active medical management without dialysis (AAMWD), time-limited trial of dialysis (TLT), palliative dialysis, and deciding not to decide (DND).
Nurse practitioner technology-enhanced community health program
PI: Christine Pintz
Sponsor: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Award Start: 9/1/19
Award End: 6/30/23 (NCE through 6/30/24)
Impact of simulation versus case-based learning on psychiatric nurse practitioner students’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors related to mental health care for transgender and gender expansive patients
PI: Rhonda Schwindt
Sponsor: National League for Nursing
Award Start: 9/1/21
Award End: 12/31/22 (NCE through 5/1/25)
Overview: This multi-site, mixed-method will compare the impacts of virtual simulation and case-based learning on the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and skills of psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner students related to mental health care for transgender and gender expansive patients. The study will generate data to guide nurse educators in their selection of effective, evidence-based teaching strategies to promote learning and support curricula changes which align with the professions’ commitment to diversity, inclusivity, and health equity.
Effects of State Preemption of Local Tobacco Control Legislation on Disparities in Tobacco Use, Exposure and Retail
PI: Tony Yang and Carla Berg (GWU-SPH)
Sponsor: National Cancer Institute
Award Start: 4/15/23
Award End: 3/31/27
Overview: Our objective is to advance our understanding of whether—and to what extent—enactment or repeal of state preemption on local tobacco control is associated with disparities in tobacco use, SHSe, and retail (sales, retailer density).
Expanding COVID-19 Vaccination Access to Hard-to-Reach Populations in Washington D.C.
PI: Tony Yang
Sponsor: DC Government – Department of Health
Award Start: 7/1/23
Award End: 5/31/24
Overview: This project aims to vaccinate the most hard-to-reach populations in the District of Columbia to protect them from COVID-19
Recreational Marijuana Marketing and Young Adult Consumer Behavior
PI: Tony Yang, Carla Berg (GWU-SPH) and Patricia A. Cavazos-Rehg (Washington University)
Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Award Start: 9/14/23
Award End: 2/28/27