Accomplishments: Department of Social and Behavioral Health
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) has coauthored a publication titled, “Associations of Deep Sleep and Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Family Relationships, Life Satisfaction and Physical Stress Experience in Children: A Caregiver Perspective,” in association with colleagues from Northwestern University, the University of…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) and Micajah Daniels (Social and Behavioral Health) have authored the article “College Students' Readiness to Change in Physical Inactivity Behavior using Perfection Quotient Behavioral Model” with colleagues from the University of Mississippi, University of Mississippi Medical Center,…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) had his work on Introspective Meditation (manan dhyana), a technique for finding complete inner contentment (Santosha), that he has copyrighted, featured in The Daily Guardian, for one of its applications. This application is, “Introspective meditation as a spiritual tool before…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) co-published an article titled, “Effects of cinnamon on anthropometric indices and headache-related disability of patients with migraine: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial,” in association with colleagues from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad University…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual keynote address titled, “The Emergence of the Fourth-generation Multi-theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change in Health Promotion Research,” at the 1st International Health Literacy, Health Education and Health Promotion Congress and the 4th Congress on Health…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Ravi Batra (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Aditi Singh (Internal Medicine) along with a faculty member from University of Southern Mississippi published…
Mohammad Sohail Akhter (Social and Behavioral Health), an incoming graduate student received the Injury and Prevention Student Research Grant from The Injury and Violence Prevention Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Campus for the academic year 2023-24. His project is titled, “Theory-based determinants of stopping drowsy driving…
Tim Grigsby, Andrea Lopez (both Social and Behavioral Health), Rei Serafica (Nursing), and colleagues published a paper titled, "Mental Health and Substance Misuse Indicators Associated with First-Time Homelessness among a Community Sample of Sexual and Gender Minority Adults," in the journal Behavioral Medicine.
This study explores the…
Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently received a five-year, over $3.5 million grant (1R01AG083177-01) from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, "Enhancing Measurement and Characterization of Roles and Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minority Caregivers of Persons living with Alzheimer's Disease and…
Sidath Kapukutuwa, Laurencia Bonsu, Anita Chatterjee (Social and Behavioral Health), Miguel Fudulig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Examining the Gambling Behavior of University Students: A Cross-Sectional Survey Applying the Multi-Theory Model (MTM…
Jyoti Mago (Clinical Sciences, Dental) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) have published research titled, “The Potential Usefulness of ChatGPT in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology” in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science. The research shows ChatGPT-3 being efficient in describing the…
Chia Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Exploring yoga behaviors among college students based on the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change,” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and…