Accomplishments: Department of Social and Behavioral Health
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has coauthored an article titled, “Diabetes Type 2 Risk Score for African Americans based on Jackson Heart Study data: A cross-sectional study,” in association with colleagues from Jackson State University in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. The article discusses the…
Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-published a paper titled, "Evaluation of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality by Race and Ethnicity Among Pregnant and Recently Pregnant Women in the US, 2019 to 2020" in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Research has suggested trends of worsening maternal health associated with depression,…
Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) and colleagues recently published in Journals of Gerontology Series B, "Transgender Adults from Minoritized Ethnoracial Groups in the U.S. Report Greater Subjective Cognitive Decline." This study found that minoritized ethnoracial transgender adults were more likely to report problems with their…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has once again been listed on Elsevier and Stanford University’s annual report of the top-cited researchers from across the globe based on the work completed during a single year and throughout the person’s career. The most recent list was published on Oct. 10, 2022, in PLOS Biology.…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has published a book titled, Evaluation and Measurement in Health Promotion, with Dr. Rick Lingyak Petosa of The Ohio State University through the publisher Wiley. The book guides current and future public health professionals in becoming experimenting practitioners who take a data-…
Crystal Oden, Emily Weinschreider, and Hilary Linzie (all Medicine) published an article titled, "Self-inflicted Stabbings as Non-fatal Suicide Attempts: A Systematic Review and Case Series," in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Oden and Weinschreider are medical students at the Kirk Kerkorian School of…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has coauthored an article titled, “Differences in Awareness of Chinese Dietary Guidelines Among Urban and Rural Residents: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Southwest China,” in the International Journal of Public Health in collaboration with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University and…
Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published with his colleague, "Alzheimer’s Disease Services, Staffing, and Outcomes in Adult Day Health Centers," in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.
Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-published "Substance Use Outcomes For Sexual and Gender Minority Adults With a History of Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Scoping Review" in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports.
The goal of this scoping review was to collect, summarize, and synthesize existing research on Adverse…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) were featured in the news outlet, "Sunday GuardianLive," through which they discussed the problem of excessive "screen-watching" among preschoolers in India. This has come to light through their previous research study published in the Community Health Equity Research…
A Persian translation of the popular book by Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) titled, Introspective meditations for complete contentment (Santosha), was published this month (ISBN 978-622-7703-38-02). The book combines the collective wisdom from Eastern and Western thoughts and is based on the behavioral tenets…
Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-published a paper on "Major Depression in Postpartum Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Can Social Support Buffer Psychosocial Risks and Substance Use?" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
The study’s aims were to examine the prevalence of major depressive…