Southeastern United States

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Characteristics of Individuals Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Provider Interaction inthe Predominantly Rural Southeast" 
  • "I should know better": the roles of relationships, spirituality, disclosure, stigma, and shame for older women living with HIV seeking support in the South. 
  • 12-month trajectories of depressive symptoms among nurses-Contribution of personality, job characteristics, coping, and burnout. 
  • A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Living With Multiple Myeloma. 
  • A case crossover study of triggers for hand injuries in commercial fishing. 
  • A comparison between National Healthcare Safety Network laboratory-identified event reporting versus traditional surveillance for Clostridium difficile infection. 
  • A mathematical model to evaluate the routine use of fecal microbiota transplantation to prevent incident and recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. 
  • A pilot study of assertive community treatment for patients with chronic psychotic disorders. 
  • A pilot study on the influence of an individualized and experiential training on cancer caregiver's self-efficacy in home care and symptom management. 
  • A prospective study of plasma Selenoprotein P and lung cancer risk among low-income adults. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of the efficacy of a stigma reduction intervention for HIV-infected women in the Deep South. 
  • A telephonic mindfulness-based intervention for persons with sickle cell disease: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Accessibility and accommodations for patients with mobility disabilities in a large healthcare system: How are we doing? 
  • Age, burnout and physical and psychological work ability among nurses. 
  • An evaluation of mHealth adoption and health self-management in emerging adulthood. 
  • An examination of the impact of maladaptive coping on the association between stressor type and alcohol use in college. 
  • Are ecosystem carbon inputs andoutputs coupled at short time scales? A case study from adjacent pine and hardwood forests using impulse-response analysis 
  • Assessing Disparity Using Measures of Racial and Educational Isolation. 
  • Association between Prepregnancy Body Mass Index and Gestational Weight Gain with Size, Tempo, and Velocity of Infant Growth: Analysis of the Newborn Epigenetic Study Cohort. 
  • Association of race and gender with use of antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected individuals in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Association of unmet needs for support services with medication use and adherence among HIV-infected individuals in the southeastern United States. 
  • Associations of maternal diet with infant adiposity at birth, 6 months and 12 months. 
  • Availability of Advance Care Planning Documentation for Older Emergency Department Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study. 
  • Barriers to universal prenatal HIV testing in 4 US locations in 1997. 
  • Benefit Finding in Maternal Caregivers of Pediatric Cancer Survivors: A Mixed Methods Approach. 
  • Black Mothers Living With HIV Picture the Social Determinants of Health. 
  • CTLA-4 gene polymorphisms and systemic lupus erythematosus in a population-based study of whites and African-Americans in the southeastern United States. 
  • Central hair loss in African American women: incidence and potential risk factors. 
  • Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in HIV-infected women in a southeastern US population. 
  • Characteristics of HIV-infected adults in the Deep South and their utilization of mental health services: A rural vs. urban comparison. 
  • Chiari malformation Type I surgery in pediatric patients. Part 1: validation of an ICD-9-CM code search algorithm. 
  • Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis in the southeastern United States: an assessment of how clinicians reached the diagnosis. 
  • Chronic pruritus in HIV-positive patients in the southeastern United States: its prevalence and effect on quality of life. 
  • Clinicians' perspectives on and interest in participating in a clinical data research network across the Southeastern United States. 
  • Community-associated Clostridium difficile infection: experience of a veteran affairs medical center in southeastern USA. 
  • Comparative phylogeography of unglaciated eastern North America. 
  • Comparing user acceptance of a computer system in two pediatric offices: a qualitative study. 
  • Comparison of Placental and Neonatal Admission Complete Blood Cell Count and Blood Cultures. 
  • Comparison of Transcutaneous and Serum Bilirubin Measurements in Neonates 30 to 34 Weeks' Gestation Before, During, and After Phototherapy. 
  • Comparison of brief health literacy screens in the emergency department. 
  • Comparison of non-intensive care unit (ICU) versus ICU rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in community hospitals. 
  • Comparison of the burdens of hospital-onset, healthcare facility-associated Clostridium difficile Infection and of healthcare-associated infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in community hospitals. 
  • Connect-Home: Transitional Care of Skilled Nursing Facility Patients and their Caregivers. 
  • Coping strategies and patterns of alcohol and drug use among HIV-infected patients in the United States Southeast. 
  • Correlates of depressive symptoms in mothers of preterm infants. 
  • Cultural and linguistic adaptation of psychosocial measurements for latinx participants-Leveraging community-engaged research methods. 
  • Cumulative prevalence of psychiatric disorders by young adulthood: a prospective cohort analysis from the Great Smoky Mountains Study. 
  • De facto mental health services in the rural south. 
  • Demographic and illness-related variables associated with HIV-related fatigue. 
  • Depression scale scores in 8-17-year-olds: effects of age and gender. 
  • Development and Implementation of a Perioperative Blood Glucose Monitoring Protocol for Patients Undergoing Spinal Surgery. 
  • Development and Implementation of an Educational Module to Increase Nurses' Comfort With Spiritual Care in an Inpatient Setting. 
  • Development and validation of the parent experience of child illness. 
  • Developmental patterns of sexual identity, romantic attraction, and sexual behavior among adolescents over three years. 
  • Differences by race, sex and age in the clinical and immunologic features of recently diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus patients in the southeastern United States. 
  • Differences in antibody levels to H. pylori virulence factors VacA and CagA among African Americans and whites in the Southeast USA. 
  • Diminished physical function in older HIV-infected adults in the Southeastern U.S. despite successful antiretroviral therapy. 
  • Disclosing Gender-Based Violence During Health Care Visits: A Patient-Centered Approach. 
  • Drivers of secondary succession rates across temperate latitudes of the Eastern USA: climate, soils, and species pools. 
  • Early life predictors of atrial fibrillation-related mortality: evidence from the health and retirement study. 
  • Early-life antecedents of atrial fibrillation: place of birth and atrial fibrillation-related mortality. 
  • Effect of Falls on Frequency of Atrial Fibrillation and Mortality Risk (from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke Study). 
  • Effect of exercise on biomarkers, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and depressive symptoms in older women with breast cancer receiving hormonal therapy. 
  • Effectiveness of targeted enhanced terminal room disinfection on hospital-wide acquisition and infection with multidrug-resistant organisms and Clostridium difficile: a secondary analysis of a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial with crossover design (BETR Disinfection). 
  • Elevated CO₂ enhances leaf senescence during extreme drought in a temperate forest. 
  • Epidemiology of Surgical Site Infection in a Community Hospital Network. 
  • Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia in community hospitals. 
  • Estimating the causal effect of conduct disorder on the time from first substance use to substance use disorders using g-estimation. 
  • Evaluating the sources of potential migrant species: implications under climate change. 
  • Evidence for Coal Ash Ponds Leaking in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Examination of the Role of Religious and Psychosocial Factors in HIV Medication Adherence Rates. 
  • Examining the Factor Structure of the Self-Report of Psychopathy Short-Form Across Four Young Adult Samples. 
  • Experiential aspects of alcohol-induced blackouts among college students. 
  • Exploring movement patterns and changing distributions of baleen whales in the western North Atlantic using a decade of passive acoustic data. 
  • Factors associated with survival in a contemporary adult sickle cell disease cohort. 
  • Factors influencing satisfaction and anticipated turnover for nurses in an academic medical center 
  • Feasibility of using an iPod touch device and acceptability of a stigma reduction intervention with HIV-infected women in the Deep South. 
  • First reported case of Cryptococcus gattii in the Southeastern USA: implications for travel-associated acquisition of an emerging pathogen. 
  • Focused anesthesia interview resource to improve efficiency and quality. 
  • Foundation species' overlap enhances biodiversity and multifunctionality from the patch to landscape scale in southeastern United States salt marshes. 
  • Frailty Assessment in Hospitalized Older Adults Using the Electronic Health Record. 
  • Functional Incidental Training: applicability and feasibility in the Veterans Affairs nursing home patient population. 
  • Gender differences in knowledge and perceptions of HIV resources among individuals living with HIV in the Southeast. 
  • Gene flow, divergent selection and resistance to introgression in two species of morning glories (Ipomoea). 
  • Genetic polymorphisms in tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and TNF-beta in a population-based study of systemic lupus erythematosus: associations and interaction with the interleukin-1alpha-889 C/T polymorphism. 
  • Greenhouse gas fluxes in southeastern U.S. coastal plain wetlands under contrasting land uses. 
  • HIV Diagnoses, Prevalence and Outcomes in Nine Southern States. 
  • HIV Infection and AIDS in the Deep South. 
  • HIV/AIDS in the Southern USA: a disproportionate epidemic. 
  • HPV genotypes and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in a multiethnic cohort in the southeastern USA. 
  • Headaches and psychopathology in children and adolescents. 
  • Health care utilization following a homeless medical respite pilot program. 
  • High-risk preterm infants at 3 years of age: parental response to the presence of developmental problems. 
  • Highly stressed: stressful and traumatic experiences among individuals with HIV/AIDS in the Deep South. 
  • How Four Once Common Diseases Were Eliminated from the American South 
  • How disclosing HMO physician incentives affects trust. 
  • How trauma, recent stressful events, and PTSD affect functional health status and health utilization in HIV-infected patients in the south. 
  • Hydro-Climatological Influences on Long-Term Dissolved Organic Carbon in a Mountain Stream of the Southeastern United States. 
  • Identifying Adolescent Patients at Risk for Sexually Transmitted Infections: Development of a Brief Sexual Health Screening Survey. 
  • Identity disturbance and problems with emotion regulation are related constructs across diagnoses. 
  • Impact of FDA black box warning on fluoroquinolone and alternative antibiotic use in southeastern US hospitals. 
  • Impact of change to molecular testing for Clostridium difficile infection on healthcare facility-associated incidence rates. 
  • Impact of molecular testing on reported Clostridoides difficile infection rates. 
  • Implementation Lessons Learned From the Benefits of Enhanced Terminal Room (BETR) Disinfection Study: Process and Perceptions of Enhanced Disinfection with Ultraviolet Disinfection Devices. 
  • Implementation and Evaluation of Self-Scheduling in a Hospital System. 
  • Implementing survivorship care plans for colon cancer survivors 
  • Improving Adherence to Evidence-Based Guidelines for Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting. 
  • Incident stressful and traumatic life events and human immunodeficiency virus sexual transmission risk behaviors in a longitudinal, multisite cohort study. 
  • Increasing Incidence of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli in Community Hospitals throughout the Southeastern United States. 
  • Independent effects of HIV infection and cocaine dependence on neurocognitive impairment in a community sample living in the southern United States. 
  • Individuals and the variation needed for high species diversity in forest trees. 
  • Insights into patient and family-centered care through the hospital experiences of parents. 
  • Intention to smoke tobacco using a waterpipe among students in a southeastern U.S. College. 
  • Is more better? Examining whether enhanced consultation/coaching improves implementation. 
  • Jail Health Care in the Southeastern United States From Entry to Release. 
  • Knowledge, beliefs, and prior screening behavior among blacks and whites reporting for prostate cancer screening. 
  • Lagged versus concurrent changes between burnout and depression symptoms and unique contributions from job demands and job resources. 
  • Levels of stress and intervention preferences of caregivers of brain tumor patients. 
  • Measuring fatigue in people living with HIV/AIDS: psychometric characteristics of the HIV-related fatigue scale. 
  • Mental health and recovery in the Gulf Coast after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 
  • Minorities, the poor, and survivors of abuse: HIV-infected patients in the US deep South. 
  • Navigating reflex urine culture practices in community hospitals: Need for a validated approach. 
  • Neighborhood socio-economic characteristics, African ancestry, and Helicobacter pylori sero-prevalence. 
  • Neighborhood-level socioeconomic determinants impact outcomes in nonsmall cell lung cancer patients in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Nursing Assistants' Use of Personal Protective Equipment Regarding Contact With Excreta Contaminated With Antineoplastic Drugs. 
  • Occupational exposure to crystalline silica and risk of systemic lupus erythematosus: a population-based, case-control study in the southeastern United States. 
  • Occupational health outcomes for workers in the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector: implications for immigrant workers in the southeastern US. 
  • Opportunities for performance improvement in relation to medication administration during pediatric stabilization. 
  • Organization of work in the agricultural, forestry, and fishing sector in the US southeast: implications for immigrant workers' occupational safety and health. 
  • Outdoor smoking ban at a cancer center: attitudes and smoking behavior among employees and patients. 
  • Overload: impact of incident stressful events on antiretroviral medication adherence and virologic failure in a longitudinal, multisite human immunodeficiency virus cohort study. 
  • Overview: HIV/AIDS in the deep south region of the United States. 
  • Pairing QuantiFERON gold in-tube with opt-out HIV testing in a tuberculosis contact investigation in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Parent perceptions of the impact of the Paediatric Intensive Care environment on delivery of family-centred care. 
  • Patient Risk Factors Do Not Impact 90-Day Readmission and Emergency Department Visitation After Total Ankle Arthroplasty: Implications for the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Bundled Payment Plan. 
  • Patient-days: a better measure of incidence of occupational bloodborne exposures. 
  • Patients with chronic hepatitis C undergoing watchful waiting: Exploring trajectories of illness uncertainty and fatigue. 
  • Perceived social competency in children with brain tumors: comparison between children on and off therapy. 
  • Performance of multiplex serology in discriminating active vs past Helicobacter pylori infection in a primarily African American population in the southeastern United States. 
  • Performance of statistical process control methods for regional surgical site infection surveillance: a 10-year multicentre pilot study. 
  • Performance, satisfaction, and transition into practice of graduates of accelerated nursing programs. 
  • Perianesthetic and Anesthesia-Related Mortality in a Southeastern United States Population: A Longitudinal Review of a Prospectively Collected Quality Assurance Data Base. 
  • Personality factors and styles among college students who binge eat and drink. 
  • Physician Aid in Dying in the US South: What Does the Future Hold? 
  • Positive religious coping predicts self-reported HIV medication adherence at baseline and twelve-month follow-up among Black Americans living with HIV in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Predictors of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality in a southern U.S. Cohort. 
  • Preemptive Oral Acetaminophen for Women Undergoing Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy. 
  • Preparing for Total Power Failure in the Operating Room. 
  • Pressure Injury Prevention: Outcomes and Challenges to Use of Resident Monitoring Technology in a Nursing Home. 
  • Prevalence and comorbidity of psychiatric diagnoses based on reference standard in an HIV+ patient population. 
  • Prevalence of DSM-IV-defined mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders in an HIV clinic in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Prevalence of childhood sexual abuse and physical trauma in an HIV-positive sample from the deep south. 
  • Proximal psychiatric risk factors for suicidality in youth: the Great Smoky Mountains Study. 
  • Psychiatric health service areas in the southeast. 
  • Reading the Bible for guidance, comfort, and strength during stressful life events. 
  • Reducing Preventable Surgical Cancellations: Improving the Preoperative Anesthesia Interview Process. 
  • Relation of lifetime trauma and depressive symptoms to mortality in HIV. 
  • Relationship between trauma and high-risk behavior among HIV-positive men who do not have sex with men (MDSM). 
  • Research With Children Exposed to Partner Violence: Perspectives of Service-Mandated, CPS- and Court-Involved Survivors on Research With Their Children. 
  • Rising rates of carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae in community hospitals: a mixed-methods review of epidemiology and microbiology practices in a network of community hospitals in the southeastern United States. 
  • Risk and resilience of well-being in caregivers of young children in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Role perceptions of divorcing parents. 
  • Searching for "the dying point:" providers' experiences with palliative care in pediatric acute care. 
  • Seasonal Variation of Common Surgical Site Infections: Does Season Matter? 
  • Seed predation and climate impacts on reproductive variation in temperate forests of the southeastern USA. 
  • Sexual orientation differences in HIV testing motivation among college men. 
  • Short Operative Duration and Surgical Site Infection Risk in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Procedures. 
  • Social Context of Sexual Minority Adolescents and Relationship to Alcohol Use. 
  • Social consequence of disease in the American South, 1900-World War II. 
  • Soil-plant-atmosphere conditions regulating convective cloud formation above southeastern US pine plantations. 
  • Southeastern Center for Emerging Biologic Threats tabletop exercise: foodborne toxoplasmosis outbreak on college campuses. 
  • Staff interaction strategies that optimize delivery of transitional care in a skilled nursing facility: a multiple case study. 
  • State of HIV in the US Deep South 
  • Substance abuse and symptoms of mental illness among HIV-positive persons in the Southeast. 
  • Surveying the surveillance: surgical site infections excluded by the January 2013 updated surveillance definitions. 
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus and genetic variation in the interleukin 1 gene cluster: a population based study in the southeastern United States. 
  • Testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer in the southeastern United States. 
  • The Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. Functional impairment and serious emotional disturbance. 
  • The Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. Goals, design, methods, and the prevalence of DSM-III-R disorders. 
  • The Infrequency-Posttraumatic Stress Disorder scale (Fptsd) for the MMPI-2: development and initial validation with veterans presenting with combat-related PTSD. 
  • The deadly toll of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in community hospitals. 
  • The effect of draft DSM-V criteria on posttraumatic stress disorder prevalence. 
  • The effect of water disinfection by-products on pregnancy outcomes in two southeastern US communities. 
  • The epidemiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia in a network of community hospitals: a prospective multicenter study. 
  • The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) response on hospital infection prevention programs and practices in the southeastern United States. 
  • The impact of depth of infection and postdischarge surveillance on rate of surgical-site infections in a network of community hospitals. 
  • The influence of psychosocial characteristics and race/ethnicity on the use, duration, and success of antiretroviral therapy. 
  • The network approach for prevention of healthcare-associated infections: long-term effect of participation in the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network. 
  • The role of pronouns in young children's acquisition of the English transitive construction. 
  • The use of mind-body medicine and prayer among adult patients with chronic hepatitis C. 
  • The use of the Minimum Data Set to identify depression in the elderly. 
  • Thrombolytic therapy for venous thromboembolism: current clinical practice. 
  • Trait anger, anger expression, and suicide attempts among adolescents and young adults: a prospective study. 
  • Trauma, anxiety and reported health among HIV-positive persons in Tanzania and the US Deep South. 
  • Trust in insurers and access to physicians: associated enrollee behaviors and changes over time. 
  • Use of antibacterial drugs in community-dwelling older persons. 
  • Using the galactose-α-1,3-galactose enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to predict anaphylaxis in response to cetuximab. 
  • Uveitis in the southeastern United States. 
  • Validation of the obesity surgery mortality risk score in a multicenter study proves it stratifies mortality risk in patients undergoing gastric bypass for morbid obesity. 
  • Variety of self-injury: is the number of different methods of non-suicidal self-injury related to personality, psychopathology, or functions of self-injury? 
  • Vitamin D receptor alleles do not correlate with bone mineral density in premenopausal Caucasian women from the southeastern United States. 
  • Water won't run uphill: the New Deal and malaria control in the American South, 1933-1940. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Humphreys, Margaret Ellen, Josiah Charles Trent Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine, in the School of Medicine, Duke Science & Society
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Moehring, Rebekah, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases