Donald Etheridge Bailey Jr.

My research program has focused on patients with prostate cancer or chronic hepatitis C who elect watchful waiting as treatment for their disease. I have developed and tested a psycho-educational intervention that uses cognitive reframing techniques to help prostate cancer patients live with the uncertainty associated with watchful waiting. Specifically, an Uncertainty Management Intervention for Watchful Waiting (UMI-WW) was effective in reducing depression and improving quality of life in older men with prostate cancer. Currently, I am Principal Investigator on a 2-year longitudinal study of men diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer who are watching and monitoring their PSA values and a 3-year longitudinal study of patients with chronic hepatitis C who are watching and monitoring their disease. These studies are funded by the NIH National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). In addition to my research, I am a co-investigator on Dr. Ruth Anderson's study designed to describe management practices in nursing homes and Dr. Eleanor McConnell's translational research team, which has developed and tested an instrument to assess staff readiness to adopt evidence-based practices in long-term care. I am a tenure track Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing and have recently completed a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor in the School of Nursing · 2012 - Present School of Nursing

In the News

Published September 30, 2024

Nursing, Pratt Collaborate to Tackle Health Challenges

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Recent Publications

Correction: A Hybrid Pragmatic and Factorial Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial for an Anti-racist, Multilevel Intervention to Improve Mental Health Equity in High Schools.

Journal Article Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · August 2024 Full text Cite

A Hybrid Pragmatic and Factorial Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial for an Anti-racist, Multilevel Intervention to Improve Mental Health Equity in High Schools.

Journal Article Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · July 2024 Systemic racism is pervasive in US society and disproportionately limits opportunities for education, work, and health for historically marginalized and minoritized racial and ethnic groups, making it an urgent issue of social justice. Because systemic rac ... Full text Cite

Effectiveness of an Uncertainty Management Psychoeducation Program for Schizophrenia Caregivers: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Journal Article Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association · May 2024 BackgroundThe inconsistent course of schizophrenia causes a long-term experience of uncertainty for individuals and their families. In Turkey, no studies yet exist that have attempted to address this constant uncertainty that is experienced by car ... Full text Cite

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Recent Grants

The influence of Social Determinants of Health and Diet Quality on Symptom Experiences in Patients with Colorectal Cancer

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Sigma Theta Tau International · 2024 - 2025

Multiple Co-occurring Symptoms in Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancers

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Cancer Society, Inc. · 2020 - 2021

Symptom Clusters in Systemic Sclerosis

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2021

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Education, Training & Certifications

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · 2002 Ph.D.

Emory University · 1989 M.N.