Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 14, 2003|Volume 32, Number 11

Grants to nursing researchers
will fund three new studies

Researchers at the School of Nursing have received three major grants to study Type II diabetes prevention in youth, to teach children with Type I diabetes coping skills and to help women newly diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

The first study, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will examine a middle school-based intervention to reduce obesity and insulin resistance. The study is intended to provide valuable information to help youth manage obesity and prevent Type II diabetes and its long-term physical and psychological complications.

The principal investigator of the $2.4 million study is Margaret Grey, the Independence Foundation Professor and associate dean for research affairs at the School of Nursing.

A second diabetes study, also funded by the NIH and with Grey as the principal investigator, is intended to teach coping skills to children and adolescents with Type I diabetes, and their parents. The $2.3 million study will examine the need for a booster intervention as pre-adolescents reach adolescence and the usefulness of coping skills training for parents of young children with diabetes.

The ovarian cancer study is intended to test the effects of a standardized nursing intervention for adult women newly diagnosed with the disease and how it affects quality of life and costs of care. The study, funded with a $1.8 million NIH grant, also will look at how a nursing intervention affects patterns of symptom distress, the number of symptoms, dimensions of quality of life, number of complications, resource utilization including rehospitalization, and survival.

The principal investigator of the ovarian cancer study is Ruth McCorkle, director of the Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care.

Co-investigators on the Type II diabetes study are Kathleen Knafl and Gail Melkus, professors, Elaine Gustafson, assistant professor, and Dean Catherine Gilliss, all at the School of Nursing; Kelley Brownell, professor of psychology, and Dr. Sonia Caprio, associate professor of endocrinology at the School of Medicine and assistant clinical professor at the nursing school.

Co-investigators of the Type I diabetes study are Gilliss and Dr. William Tamborlane, professor and section chief of pediatric endocrinology.

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