Judith C. Hays | Scholars@Duke

Judith C. Hays
Associate Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing

Dr. Hays' research is in the area of psychosocial and chronic disease epidemiology with primary interests in (1) living arrangements and residential moves in late life, (2) terminal illness, bereavement and widowhood, (3) depression, (4) religion and health, (5) subjective ratings of health, (6) stress and coping, and (7) racial differences in risk and outcome factors.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing, Duke University 2009

Contact Information

Box 3322 Trent Dr., Durham, NC 27710
School Of Nursing Rm 2059, 307 Trent Dr., Durham, NC 27710
judith.hays@duke.edu (919) 684-9389

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Yale University 1991
Duke Appointment History
- Associate Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, Duke University 2005 - 2009
- Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing, Duke University 2004
- Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Geriatric Behavioral Health, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2000 - 2004
- Associate Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, Duke University 2000 - 2004
- Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Geriatric Behavioral Health, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 1994 - 2000
Research
Selected Grants
- Trajectories of Serious Illness: Patients and Caregivers awarded by National Institutes of Health 2003 - 2010
- Duke SON Accelerated BSN Basic Education Grant awarded by Department of Health and Human Services 2003 - 2006
- Living Arrangements and Health Status in Late Life awarded by National Institutes of Health 1999 - 2003
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Journal Articles
  - Hays, JC, Wood, L, Steinhauser, K, Olson, MK, Lindquist, JH, and Tulsky, JA. "Clergy-laity support and patients' mood during serious illness: a cross-sectional epidemiologic study." Palliative & Supportive Care 9, no. 3 (September 2011): 273-280. Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "The ethics of international studies." Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 28, no. 5 (September 2011): 387-388. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "Megacities." Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 28, no. 3 (August 2011): 201-202. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Johnson, KS, Tulsky, JA, Hays, JC, Arnold, RM, Olsen, MK, Lindquist, JH, and Steinhauser, KE. "Which domains of spirituality are associated with anxiety and depression in patients with advanced illness?." Journal of General Internal Medicine 26, no. 7 (July 2011): 751-758. Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "Public health nursing initiates publication of Cochrane nursing care field review summaries." Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 28, no. 1 (April 2011): 1-2. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "A primer on the responsibilities and abuses of scientific authorship." Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 27, no. 6 (March 2011): 471-473. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "Eight recommendations for writing titles of scientific manuscripts." Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 27, no. 2 (August 2010): 101-103. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "The DNP and PHN." Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 26, no. 5 (November 2009): 383-384. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "Publication ethics." Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 26, no. 3 (July 2009): 205-206. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "The quality and influence of the journal." Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 26, no. 1 (March 2009): 1-2. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "Surge capacity of public health nurses." Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 25, no. 4 (September 2008): 293-294. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "The daunting complexity of a data point." Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 25, no. 3 (June 2008): 201-202. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "Drusilla Rageu Poole 1921-1981." Public Health Nurs 25, no. 1 (January 2008): 98-100. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hays, JC. "Lost in translation." Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 24, no. 6 (January 2008): 489-490. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "Invitation for simulations." Public Health Nurs 24, no. 2 (March 2007): 99-100. Full Text Link to Item
  - Steinhauser, KE, Clipp, EC, Hays, JC, Olsen, M, Arnold, R, Christakis, NA, Lindquist, JH, and Tulsky, JA. "Identifying, recruiting, and retaining seriously-ill patients and their caregivers in longitudinal research." Palliative Medicine 20, no. 8 (December 2006): 745-754. (Review) Full Text
  - Hays, JC, Davis, JA, and Miranda, ML. "Incorporating a built environment module into an accelerated second-degree community health nursing course." Public Health Nurs 23, no. 5 (September 2006): 442-452. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hybels, CF, Blazer, DG, Pieper, CF, Burchett, BM, Hays, JC, Fillenbaum, GG, Kubzansky, LD, and Berkman, LF. "Sociodemographic characteristics of the neighborhood and depressive symptoms in older adults: using multilevel modeling in geriatric psychiatry." The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry : Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 14, no. 6 (June 2006): 498-506. Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "Elementary, my dear readers." Public Health Nurs 23, no. 3 (May 2006): 203-204. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hays, JC. "Teaching with an eye on the storm." Public Health Nurs 23, no. 1 (January 2006): 1-. Full Text Link to Item
  - Jeste, ND, Hays, JC, and Steffens, DC. "Clinical correlates of anxious depression among elderly patients with depression." Journal of Affective Disorders 90, no. 1 (January 2006): 37-41. Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "From narrow to novice in environmental health nursing." Public Health Nurs 22, no. 4 (July 2005): 269-270. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hays, JC, Keller, HH, and Ostbye, T. "The effects of nutrition-related factors on four-year mortality among a biracial sample of community-dwelling elders in the North Carolina piedmont." J Nutr Elder 25, no. 2 (2005): 41-67. Link to Item
  - Kilpatrick, SD, Weaver, AJ, McCullough, ME, Puchalski, C, Larson, DB, Hays, JC, Farran, CJ, and Flannelly, KJ. "A review of spiritual and religious measures in nursing research journals: 1995-1999." J Relig Health 44, no. 1 (2005): 55-66. Link to Item
  - Galanos, AN, Hays, JC, Moore, JD, and Poppe, A. "Where do continuing care retirement community residents die?." J Am Geriatr Soc 52, no. 8 (August 2004): 1401-1402. (Letter) Full Text Link to Item
  - Hays, JC. "The nurse stump." Public Health Nurs 21, no. 3 (May 2004): 199-. Full Text Link to Item
  - Fiori, KL, Hays, JC, and Meador, KG. "Spiritual turning points and perceived control over the life course." International Journal of Aging & Human Development 59, no. 4 (January 2004): 391-420. Full Text
  - Hays, JC, Burchett, BM, Fillenbaum, GG, and Blazer, DG. "Is the APOE ε4 allele a risk to person-environment fit?." Journal of Applied Gerontology 23, no. 3 (2004): 247-265. Full Text
  - Blazer, DG, Fillenbaum, GG, Gold, DT, Burchett, BM, and Hays, JC. "APOE epsilon4 as a predictor of subjective quality of life in a biracial older person community sample." Journal of Aging and Health 15, no. 4 (November 2003): 645-660. Full Text
  - Bosworth, HB, Park, K-S, McQuoid, DR, Hays, JC, and Steffens, DC. "The impact of religious practice and religious coping on geriatric depression." International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 18, no. 10 (October 2003): 905-914. Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "Busy/dying." Public Health Nurs 20, no. 3 (May 2003): 165-166. Link to Item
  - Hays, JC, Pieper, CF, and Purser, JL. "Competing risk of household expansion or institutionalization in late life." The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 58, no. 1 (January 2003): S11-S20. Full Text
  - Bosworth, HB, Hays, JC, George, LK, and Steffens, DC. "Psychosocial and clinical predictors of unipolar depression outcome in older adults." International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 17, no. 3 (March 2002): 238-246. Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "Living arrangements and health status in later life: a review of recent literature." Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.) 19, no. 2 (March 2002): 136-151. (Review) Full Text
  - Steffens, DC, Svenson, I, Marchuk, DA, Levy, RM, Hays, JC, Flint, EP, Krishnan, KRR, and Siegler, IC. "Allelic differences in the serotonin transporter-linked polymorphic region in geriatric depression." The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry : Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 10, no. 2 (March 2002): 185-191. Full Text
  - Blazer, DG, Hays, JC, and Musick, MA. "Abstinence versus alcohol use among elderly rural Baptists: a test of reference group theory and health outcomes." Aging & Mental Health 6, no. 1 (February 2002): 47-54. Full Text
  - Hays, JC, Steffens, DC, Flint, EP, Bosworth, HB, and George, LK. "Does social support buffer functional decline in elderly patients with unipolar depression?." The American Journal of Psychiatry 158, no. 11 (November 2001): 1850-1855. Full Text
  - Idler, EL, Kasl, SV, and Hays, JC. "Patterns of religious practice and belief in the last year of life." The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 56, no. 6 (November 2001): S326-S334. Full Text
  - Goins, RT, Hays, JC, Landerman, LR, and Hobbs, G. "Access to Health Care and Self-Rated Health Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults." Journal of Applied Gerontology 20, no. 3 (September 2001): 307-321. Full Text
  - Blazer, DG, Landerman, LR, Hays, JC, Grady, TA, Havlik, R, and Corti, MC. "Blood pressure and mortality risk in older people: comparison between African Americans and whites." J Am Geriatr Soc 49, no. 4 (April 2001): 375-381. Link to Item
  - Hays, JC, Meador, KG, Branch, PS, and George, LK. "The Spiritual History Scale in four dimensions (SHS-4): validity and reliability." The Gerontologist 41, no. 2 (April 2001): 239-249. Full Text
  - Hays, JC, Galanos, AN, Palmer, TA, McQuoid, DR, and Flint, EP. "Preference for place of death in a continuing care retirement community." The Gerontologist 41, no. 1 (February 2001): 123-128. Full Text
  - Harrison, MO, Koenig, HG, Hays, JC, Eme-Akwari, AG, and Pargament, KI. "The epidemiology of religious coping: A review of recent literature." International Review of Psychiatry 13, no. 2 (January 1, 2001): 86-93. (Review)
  - Huang, BY, Cornoni-Huntley, J, Hays, JC, Huntley, RR, Galanos, AN, and Blazer, DG. "Impact of depressive symptoms on hospitalization risk in community-dwelling older persons." J Am Geriatr Soc 48, no. 10 (October 2000): 1279-1284. Link to Item
  - Helm, HM, Hays, JC, Flint, EP, Koenig, HG, and Blazer, DG. "Does private religious activity prolong survival? A six-year follow-up study of 3,851 older adults." J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 55, no. 7 (July 2000): M400-M405. Link to Item
  - Musick, MA, Blazer, DG, and Hays, JC. "Religious activity, alcohol use, and depression in a sample of elderly baptists." Research on Aging 22, no. 2 (2000): 91-116.
  - Schwartz, S, McDowell Anderson, W, Cole, SR, Cornoni-Huntley, J, Hays, JC, and Blazer, D. "Insomnia and heart disease: a review of epidemiologic studies." Journal of Psychosomatic Research 47, no. 4 (October 1999): 313-333. Full Text
  - Koenig, HG, Hays, JC, Larson, DB, George, LK, Cohen, HJ, McCullough, ME, Meador, KG, and Blazer, DG. "Does religious attendance prolong survival? A six-year follow-up study of 3,968 older adults." The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 54, no. 7 (July 1999): M370-M376. Full Text
  - Foley, DJ, Monjan, AA, Izmirlian, G, Hays, JC, and Blazer, DG. "Incidence and remission of insomnia among elderly adults in a biracial cohort." Sleep 22 Suppl 2 (May 1, 1999): S373-S378. Link to Item
  - Thakur, M, Hays, J, and Krishnan, KR. "Clinical, demographic and social characteristics of psychotic depression." Psychiatry Research 86, no. 2 (May 1999): 99-106. Full Text
  - Koenig, HG, Idler, E, Kasl, S, Hays, JC, George, LK, Musick, M, Larson, DB, Collins, TR, and Benson, H. "Religion, spirituality, and medicine: a rebuttal to skeptics." Int J Psychiatry Med 29, no. 2 (1999): 123-131. Full Text Link to Item
  - Steffens, DC, Hays, JC, and Krishnan, KR. "Disability in geriatric depression." The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry : Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 7, no. 1 (January 1999): 34-40. Full Text
  - Blazer, DG, Landerman, LR, Hays, JC, Simonsick, EM, and Saunders, WB. "Symptoms of depression among community-dwelling elderly African-American and white older adults." Psychol Med 28, no. 6 (November 1998): 1311-1320. Link to Item
  - Hays, JC, Landerman, LR, Blazer, DG, Koenig, HG, Carroll, JW, and Musick, MA. "Aging, health, and the "electronic church"." Journal of Aging and Health 10, no. 4 (November 1998): 458-482. Full Text
  - Koenig, HG, George, LK, Cohen, HJ, Hays, JC, Larson, DB, and Blazer, DG. "The relationship between religious activities and cigarette smoking in older adults." J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 53, no. 6 (November 1998): M426-M434. Link to Item
  - Schwartz, SW, Cornoni-Huntley, J, Cole, SR, Hays, JC, Blazer, DG, and Schocken, DD. "Are sleep complaints an independent risk factor for myocardial infarction?." Annals of Epidemiology 8, no. 6 (August 1998): 384-392. Full Text
  - Musick, MA, Koenig, HG, Hays, JC, and Cohen, HJ. "Religious activity and depression among community-dwelling elderly persons with cancer: the moderating effect of race." J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 53, no. 4 (July 1998): S218-S227. Link to Item
  - Flint, EP, Hays, JC, Krishnan, KRR, Meador, KG, and Blazer, DG. "Suicidal behaviors in depressed men with a family history of suicide: Effects of psychosocial factors and age." Aging and Mental Health 2, no. 4 (1998): 286-299. Full Text
  - Hays, JC, Krishnan, KR, George, LK, and Blazer, DG. "Age of first onset of bipolar disorder: demographic, family history, and psychosocial correlates." Depression and Anxiety 7, no. 2 (January 1998): 76-82. Full Text
  - Hays, JC, Landerman, LR, George, LK, Flint, EP, Koenig, HG, Land, KC, and Blazer, DG. "Social correlates of the dimensions of depression in the elderly." The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 53, no. 1 (January 1998): P31-P39. Full Text
  - Koenig, HG, George, LK, Hays, JC, Larson, DB, Cohen, HJ, and Blazer, DG. "The relationship between religious activities and blood pressure in older adults." International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine 28, no. 2 (January 1998): 189-213. Full Text
  - Koenig, HG, Larson, DB, Hays, JC, McCullough, ME, George, LK, Branch, PS, Meador, KG, and Kuchibhatla, M. "(1998). Religion and the Survival of 1010 Hospitalized Veterans." Journal of Religion and Health 37 (1998): 15-29. (Academic Article)
  - Krishnan, KR, Hays, JC, George, LK, and Blazer, DG. "Six-month outcomes for MRI-related vascular depression." Depress Anxiety 8, no. 4 (1998): 142-146. Link to Item
  - Hays, JC, Krishnan, KR, George, LK, Pieper, CF, Flint, EP, and Blazer, DG. "Psychosocial and physical correlates of chronic depression." Psychiatry Research 72, no. 3 (October 1997): 149-159. Full Text
  - Blazer, DG, Hays, JC, Fillenbaum, GG, and Gold, DT. "Memory complaint as a predictor of cognitive decline: a comparison of African American and White elders." Journal of Aging and Health 9, no. 2 (May 1997): 171-184. Full Text
  - Krishnan, KR, Hays, JC, and Blazer, DG. "MRI-defined vascular depression." The American Journal of Psychiatry 154, no. 4 (April 1997): 497-501. Full Text
  - Hays, JC, Gold, DT, and Pieper, CF. "Sibling bereavement in late life." OMEGA-JOURNAL OF DEATH AND DYING 35, no. 1 (1997): 25-42. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hays, JC, Saunders, WB, Flint, EP, Kaplan, BH, and Blazer, DG. "Social support and depression as risk factors for loss of physical function in late life." Aging and Mental Health 1, no. 3 (1997): 209-220.
  - Koenig, HG, Cohen, HJ, George, LK, Hays, JC, Larson, DB, and Blazer, DG. "Attendance at religious services, interleukin-6, and other biological parameters of immune function in older adults." Int J Psychiatry Med 27, no. 3 (1997): 233-250. Full Text Link to Item
  - Koenig, HG, Hays, JC, George, LK, Blazer, DG, Larson, DB, and Landerman, LR. "Modeling the cross-sectional relationships between religion, physical health, social support, and depressive symptoms." The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry : Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 5, no. 2 (January 1997): 131-144. Full Text
  - Slotkin, TA, Hays, JC, Nemeroff, CB, and Carroll, BJ. "Dexamethasone suppression test identifies a subset of elderly depressed patients with reduced platelet serotonin transport and resistance to imipramine inhibition of transport." Depress Anxiety 6, no. 1 (1997): 19-25. Link to Item
  - Hays, JC, Schoenfeld, D, Blazer, DG, and Gold, DT. "Global self-ratings of health and mortality: hazard in the North Carolina Piedmont." J Clin Epidemiol 49, no. 9 (September 1996): 969-979. Link to Item
  - Steffens, DC, Hays, JC, George, LK, Krishnan, KR, and Blazer, DG. "Sociodemographic and clinical correlates of number of previous depressive episodes in the depressed elderly." J Affect Disord 39, no. 2 (July 8, 1996): 99-106. Link to Item
  - Hays, JC, Blazer, DG, and Foley, DJ. "Risk of napping: excessive daytime sleepiness and mortality in an older community population." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 44, no. 6 (June 1996): 693-698. Full Text
  - Blazer, DG, Hays, JC, and Salive, ME. "Factors associated with paranoid symptoms in a community sample of older adults." Gerontologist 36, no. 1 (February 1996): 70-75. Link to Item
  - Hays, JC, Schoenfeld, DE, and Blazer, DG. "Determinants of poor self-rated health in late life." American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 4, no. 3 (1996): 188-196. Full Text
  - Blazer, DG, Hays, JC, and Foley, DJ. "Sleep complaints in older adults: a racial comparison." J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 50, no. 5 (September 1995): M280-M284. Link to Item
  - Hays, JC, Fillenbaum, GG, Gold, DT, Shanley, MC, and Blazer, DG. "Black-white and urban-rural differences in stability of household composition among elderly persons." J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 50, no. 5 (September 1995): S301-S311. Link to Item
  - Krishnan, KR, Hays, JC, Tupler, LA, George, LK, and Blazer, DG. "Clinical and phenomenological comparisons of late-onset and early-onset depression." Am J Psychiatry 152, no. 5 (May 1995): 785-788. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hays, JC, Kasl, SV, and Jacobs, SC. "The course of psychological distress following threatened and actual conjugal bereavement." Psychological Medicine 24, no. 4 (November 1994): 917-927.
  - Hays, JC, Kasl, S, and Jacobs, S. "Past personal history of dysphoria, social support, and psychological distress following conjugal bereavement." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 42, no. 7 (July 1994): 712-718. Full Text
  - Hays, JC, Blazer, DG, and Gold, DT. "CES-D: cutpoint or change score?." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 41, no. 3 (March 1993): 344-345. (Letter) Full Text
  - Hays, JC. "Florence Nightingale and the India sanitary reforms." Public Health Nurs 6, no. 3 (September 1989): 152-154. Link to Item
  - Hays, JC. "Beyond the windshield: scavenging community data." Nurse Educ 14, no. 3 (May 1989): 12-16. Link to Item
  - Hays, JC. "Voices in the record." Image J Nurs Sch 21, no. 4 (1989): 200-204. Link to Item
  - Hays, JC. "High-technology and hospice home care. Strange bedfellows." Nurs Clin North Am 23, no. 2 (June 1988): 329-340. Link to Item
  - Hays, JC. "Patient symptoms and family coping. Predictors of hospice utilization patterns." Cancer Nurs 9, no. 6 (December 1986): 317-325. Link to Item
  - Hays, JC. "Hospice policy and patterns of care." Image J Nurs Sch 18, no. 3 (1986): 92-97. Link to Item
  - Wallace, KG, and Hays, JC. "Nursing management of chronic pain." Journal of Neurosurgical Nursing 14 (1982): 185-191. (Academic Article)

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