ADDRESSING MINORITY HEALTH ISSUES UMKC School of Nursing

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ADDRESSING MINORITY HEALTH ISSUESUMKC School of
Nursing

• Thad Wilson, R.N., Ph.D.
• September 25, 2009

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Nursing Initiative for Urban Health and Wellness

• Fosters an environment in which academic and
  clinical faculty, students and community
  providers can develop excellence in education,
  research and evidence-based practice that
  promotes the maintenance of unique health and
  wellness needs of the urban environment.

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Urban Health and Wellness Education

• Student clinical rotations
• Truman Medical Center
• VA Hospitial
• Childrens Mercy Hospital
• Community health clinics
• Public schools
• Community service agencies
• Calvary Health Center
• Hope House
• Graduate Education
• Womens Health Nurse Practitioner Program
• Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program
• Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program

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Urban Health and WellnessPractice

• Sheffield Place womens and family shelter
• Truman Medical Center
• Childrens Mercy Hospital
• Swope Parkway Health Services
• KC VA Medical Center
• KC Free Health Clinic
• Jackson County Health Department
• Kansas City Health Department
• Helen Gragg Clinic
• Indian Health Services Clinic Lawrence
• UMKC Student Health Clinic

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Urban Health and WellnessService to Community

• School operated Helen Gragg Clinic
• KC Free Health Clinic
• Alta Vista High School
• Board of Directors
• Sheffield Place
• Truman Medical Center Board of Advisory
• Pathways to Nursing Academy
• Co-founder Mid-America Immunization Coalition

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Urban Health and WellnessResearch

• Womens and family shelter
• Methadone dependence program for pregnant women
• Pregnancy prevention in adolescents
• HIV prevention in African American and Hispanic
  girls and women
• Violence prevention in urban communities
• Cancer survivorship in Hispanic women
• Heart disease interventions for African American
  women
• Effects of stressful pregnancies on disease risk
  in offspring
• Impact of personal values on end-of-life decision
  making.

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SON Community Based Research Expertise

• Womens Childrens Health
• Cultural
• Urban
• Rural

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Stay Alive with Five A'sPhysical Activity
Program

• Purpose
• Provide an innovative physical activity
  intervention designed to increase physical
  activity and weight loss in rural women
• Goals
• To increase physical activity, cardiovascular
  fitness and weight loss in a group of healthy,
  overweight rural women.
• To identify key behavioral factors that lead to
  health behavior change in rural women.
• Jane Peterson R.N., Ph.D.
• Kansas Methodist Foundation 49,800

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Natural Family Planning Research Grant An
Exploratory Study to Enhance Understanding about
the Use of NFP Methods in Title X Settings

• Purpose Explore knowledge, attitudes and beliefs
  related to natural family planning to identify
  gaps in staff knowledge, awareness and/or comfort
  with the principles and practices of natural
  family planning as a method for clients to plan
  or prevent pregnancy.
• Goal Enhance knowledge about NFP in federally
  funded clinic sites and to meet the family
  planning performance goals of 1) increasing
  utilization of preventive health care and 2)
  reducing unintended pregnancies.
• Jacki Witt, R.N., J.D.
• Office of Womens Health 190,760

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The Impact of Cervical Cancer Treatment on Sexual
Function and Intimate Relationships

• Purpose
• Explore the impact of cervical cancer treatment
  complications on intimate relationships, from the
  viewpoint of women
• Goal
• Inform a more extensive, cross cultural study of
  cervical cancer survivors and intimate partners
  and development of intervention tools to address
  sexual and relationship issues.
• Jennifer Hunter, R.N., Ph.D.
• NINR 6000

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MAMAS II

• Purpose
• Work with a small group of Latina women living
  with HIV who have agreed to partner with UMKC
  nurse researchers to develop the intervention
  activities  (b) work with leaders from HIV
  community organizations that serve Hispanics in
  Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas to provide guidance
  for intervention implementation.
• Goal
• Develop a culturally specific intervention
  program that can be used as a model by health
  care providers and community organizations to
  enhance the physical and mental health of Latinas
  living with HIV.
• Maithe Enriquez, R.N., Ph.D.
• NINR 24,068

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Learner Verification of Cervical Cancer Education
with Mexican Immigrant Women

• Purpose Identify the optimal educational
  presentation of cervical cancer education for
  these women, through learner verification
  interviews
• Goal Increase cervical cancer screening and
  decrease related morbidity and mortality for
  Mexican immigrant women.
• Jennifer Hunter, R.N., Ph.D.
• NINR 149,000

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Familias en Accion

• Purpose Community Coordinating Council conducted
  the baseline community survey. Younger
  respondents had greater experience with violence,
  and women more positive attitudes about gender
  equity. Teach awareness and preventive behaviors.
• Prevent family violence in a Hispanic community
• Pat Kelly, R.N. Ph.D.
• NINR 875,139

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Research supplements to promote diversity in
health related fields

• Purpose
• Implement a community-partnered intervention to
  address the disparity of excess violence and
  intentional injury in a low-income,
  Mexican-American community
• Goal
• Evaluate the effect of a multi-level intervention
  on violent behaviors and their antecedents in
  families, schools and communities
• Maithe Enriquez, R.N., Ph.D.
• NINR 220,203

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Universitys Mission

• UM System
• advance the health, cultural and social interest
  of Missourians .
• UMKC
• Lead in life and health sciences
• Develop a professional workforce through
  collaboration in urban issues and education
• SON
• Improve heath outcomes through excellence in
  selected research scholarly endeavors