Strengthening Communities Where We Live, Work, and Play | Page 8

REACHING PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE

Health Promotion and Risk Reduction for Families and Adults
Tobacco Use

Body Mass Index: Morbidity and Mortality Risks
Seung Hee Choi, PhD, RN

Manfred Stommel, PhD

Study of smoking and related
risky health behaviors among
operating engineers to provide
basis for design of bundled
health interventions to promote
healthy lifestyles through
behavior modification.

Study of the clinically relevant BMI
thresholds for various ethnic and
racial groups to warrant lifestyle
changes, intervention efforts, and
use of health services.

Maternal and Child Health for Low-Income and Underserved Populations

Chronic Illness in Adult Populations

Obesity Prevention and Nutrition

Physical Activity and Nutrition

Mildred Horodynski, PhD, RN, FAAN

Mei-Wei Chang, PhD, RN

Risk reduction for childhood obesity
through theory-based, culturally
sensitive, relationship-skill building
feeding education and intervention
programs for infants, toddlers,
preschool children, teen moms,
and their families.

Community-based interventions
that help young, low-income,
overweight and obese women
prevent excessive gestational
weight gain and lose weight by
promoting stress management,
healthy eating, and physical activity.

Meditation to Improve Health

Barbara Smith, PhD, RN,
FACSM, FAAN

Roxane Chan, PhD, RN,
AHN-BC, LMT

Study of exercise and nutrition
interventions in chronically ill
adults and children to improve
body composition, functional
performance, symptoms, and
metabolic variables.

Identification of the respiratorypsycho-physiological mechanisms
of mindfulness as an intervention
to improve self-care through
symptom awareness among those
with COPD.

Cancer in Community-Based Populations
Obesity Prevention and Physical Activity

Obesity Prevention and Safety

Lorraine Robbins, PhD, RN, FAAN,
FNP-BC
School-based interventions in urban
areas to help 5th–8th grade at-risk
girls overcome their perceived
barriers to attaining physical activity
recommendations calling for 60
minutes a day.

8

Jill Kilanowski, PhD, RN, APRN,
CPNP, FAAN
Child health promotion,
obesity prevention, and safety
interventions based on ecological
risks and protectors among Latino
migrant farmworker families and
Latino immigrants.

Lung Cancer

Breast Cancer
Amy Hoffman, PhD, RN

Gwen Wyatt, PhD, RN, FAAN

Development of self-management
home-based exercise interventions to
reduce cancer-related fatigue, while
improving symptom management
and functional status of persons with
non-small cell lung cancer during the
transition from hospital to home.

Study of complementary therapies
as supportive care interventions for
cancer patients to lessen symptoms
and enhance health-related quality
of life, in order to determine which
therapies warrant translation to
practice as effective symptom
management interventions.
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING • NURSING.MSU.EDU

9