Recently, I was invited to join a research team studying and innovating solutions for Washington State (WA) residents. I enthusiastically joined the team primarily because the focus of this work is to develop and deliver remote solutions for WA residents. Remote resources are always welcomed in rural settings!

Volunteer for research study

Researchers at Washington State University Spokane are looking for people with chronic pain to participate in one 2-hour pain education and skills training program Empowered Relief® is a scientifically tested pain program that may help individuals learn effective pain management skills while also learning to better understand pain. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate that Empowered Relief classes taught by nurses can help individuals better understand and manage their chronic pain.

Those eligible to participate will be:

• Adults 18 years of age or older with chronic pain for more than 3 months
• Able to speak and read English
• Able to attend one 2-hour class online
• Able to complete online questionnaires before and after the class
• Participants can earn up to $30 in gift cards for completing three surveys

For additional information, call or email the research team at 509-324-7443 or Spokane.painstudy@wsu.edu or Pain Study Flyer

This study IRB # 20013-001 has been certified as Exempt by the Washington State University Human Research Protection Program. Principal investigator Marian Wilson WSU College of Nursing 509-324-7443 marian.wilson@wsu.edu

WSU Extension’s longstanding community engagement in broadband and digital initiatives resulted in a large $6M (awarded 2022-2023) contract with the Washington Department of Commerce. This award was to support planning at the local level and for the expansion of local “broadband action teams” across Washington. The scope of this project required the development of a large ad-hoc team to accomplish the deliverables in a timely fashion. Ultimately, this team supported the submission of plans from all 39 Washington counties and independent plans from 14 of 29 federally recognized tribes. These plans enabled Washington to not only qualify for but to increase its eligibility for Federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment funding by an additional $400,000 – meaning more Washington households will obtain access to reliable high-speed internet service over the five-year term of BEAD funding. WSU-Whatcom County Extension Director Shawna Beese was a key member of the WSU team that executed the Washington Department of Commerce contract.

Throughout the project, team members were tasked with assisting BATs and Tribes in developing their own Broadband Local Action Plan and Digital Equity Local Action Plan. At the completion of the project, thirty-seven counties and six Tribes submitted Broadband Local Action Plans, and thirty-nine counties and fourteen Tribes submitted Digital Equity Local Action Plans, many other tribes being covered, in part, by county-level plans. This work culminated in the WSU team being awarded 1st place in the National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals (NACDEP). Locally, Shawna assisted the Bellingham PUD, Nooksack Tribe, Lumi Nation, and the WSU-Whatcom County Extension secure over $170,000 for local broadband action team development.

Presenters:

• Debra Hansen
• Dan Teuteberg
• Shawna Beese
• Elizabeth Weybright
• Stephen Bramwell

Destiny Stanek-Bolles, Honors Degree Candidate & Student Nurse

My name is Destiny Stanek-Bolles, and I am currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree and am a member of the Honors College at Washington State University. I will be defending my Honors Thesis in the Fall of 2024 on the relationship of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) using the NIH All of Us database.

Developmental disorders and their effects on individual success in life are important to me, I am excited to further my research and contribute to the knowledge in this field.

Thank you for your interest!

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Email: d.stanek-bolles@wsu.edu

References

• Hayashi, W., Hanawa, Y., Yuriko, I., Aoyagi, K., Saga, N., Nakamura, D., & Iwanami, A. (2022). ASD symptoms in adults with ADHD: A preliminary study using the ADOS-2. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 272(2), 217–232.
• Joseph, Thurm, A., & Soorya, L. (2015). Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Lugo-Marín, Magán-Maganto, M., Rivero-Santana, A., Cuellar-Pompa, L., Alviani, M., Jenaro-Rio, C., Díez, E., & Canal-Bedia, R. (2019). Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in adults with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 59, 22–33.

ADHD includes the following subtypes, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, combined type; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, predominantly hyperactive impulsive type; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, predominantly inattentive type; child attention deficit disorder; reactive attachment disorder of early childhood, and undifferentiated attention deficit disorder.

ASD includes the following subtypes, active infantile autism; Asperger’s disorder; autism spectrum disorder; autistic disorder; high-functioning autism; and residual infantile autism.

Other includes: aggressive unsocial conduct disorder; Angelman syndrome; borderline intellectual disability; childhood disinhibited attachment disorder; childhood disintegrative disorder; CK syndrome; conduct disorder; conduct disorder, adolescent-onset type; conduct disorder, childhood-onset type; developmental academic disorder; developmental arithmetic disorder; developmental coordination disorder; developmental expressive writing disorder; developmental mental disorder; developmental reading disorder; disorder of psychological development; disruptive behavior disorder; fragile X syndrome; hyperkinesis with developmental delay; Hyperkinetic conduct disorder; Intellectual disability; Lowe syndrome; mild intellectual disability; moderate intellectual disability; motor skill disorder; nonaggressive unsocial conduct disorder; oppositional defiant disorder; profound intellectual disability; reactive attachment disorder; Rett’s disorder; severe intellectual disability; sibling jealousy; socialized behavior disorder; specific reading disorder; stereotypy habit disorder; unaggressive type unsocialized behavior disorder.

Macy Johnston, Honors Degree Candidate & Student Nurse 

My name is Macy Johnston, and I’m a first-year honors nursing student at Washington State University. I’m passionate about researching access to recreation and its impact on stress levels. Exercise is crucial for stress relief and overall well-being. Using the All of Us database, I’ve explored how limited access to recreation affects underserved communities. I’m excited to continue this research and find ways to address these challenges.

Thanks for your interest,

Macy Johnston I macy.johnston@wsu.edu

References

• Denny, J. C., Rutter, J. L., Goldstein, D. B., Philippakis, A., Smoller, J. W., Jenkins, G., & Dishman, E. (2019). The “All of Us” Research Program. The New England Journal of Medicine, 381(7), 668–676.
• Klaperski, S. (2018). Handbuch Stressregulation und sport. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Perceived-stress. Health Assured. (n.d.). https://www.healthassured.org/blog/perceived-stress/ [PDF] a global measure of perceived stress. | semantic scholar. (n.d.).    https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-global-measure-of-perceived-stress.-Cohen
• Nappo, N. Job stress and interpersonal relationships cross country evidence from the EU15: a correlation analysis. BMC Public Health 20, 1143 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09253-9

Findings

A chi-square tests of association with Cramer’s V effect sizes were performed to examine the relationship between Cohen’s perceived stress scale (PSS) and two select variables from the PANES International Prevalence Study (IPS) on Physical Activity.

There were a statistically significant differences of stress levels based on whether respondents reported:

• “My neighborhood has several free or low-cost recreation facilities, such as parks, walking trails, bike paths, recreation centers, playgrounds, public swimming pools, etc.” [chi-square (df=6, n=71,950) =988.84; p<0.001]
• “There are facilities to bicycle in or near my neighborhood, such as special lanes, separate paths or trails, shared use paths for cycles and pedestrians” [chi-square (df=6, n=71,950) =623.01; p<0.001]

Both tests yielded small effect sizes as measured by Cramer’s V (0.04 and 0.03, respectively). This suggests that although the differences were statistically significant, the effects of safe and accessible outdoor activity on stress levels were minimal.

Amelia Kohut, Honors Degree Candidate & Student Nurse

I am a junior currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree at WSU Spokane. I have been a part of the Honors College at WSU and completed a Mindfulness-Based Emotional and Social Intelligence (MESI) certificate. I plan on completing my Honors Thesis in the Fall of 2024 on the relationship between Cohen’s perceived stress scale and self-reported food insecurity among NIH All of Us Data. This poster is a presentation of my research, and any feedback would be appreciated. I am interested in research regarding social determinants of health, planetary health, and integrative nursing.

Amelia Kohut

818.456.2269 I amelia.kohut@wsu.edu

References

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2022, September 8). Poor nutrition. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/factsheets/nutrition.htm
• Ginsburg, Z. A., Bryan, A. D., Rubinstein, E. B., Frankel, H. J., Maroko, A. R., Schechter, C. B., Cooksey Stowers, K., & Lucan, S. C. (2019). Unreliable and Difficult-to-Access Food for Those in Need: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Urban Food Pantries. Journal of Community Health, 44(1), 16–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-018-0549-2

On January 18, 2024, I participated in a panel discussion about how the NIH All of Us database can be leveraged to complete doctoral studies. I was joined by research team members who were also the 2023 AACN grant recipients.

Presentation title: Reports from Three AACN Member Schools on Research using the NIH All of Us Researcher Workbench

Presentation location: Naples, Florida

On October 22, 2023 I presented a lunch and learn, Bridging the Gap Between Patient-Centered and Community-Centered Care. Thank you to the AHEC for Western Washington for inviting me!

For this presentation I overviewed the All of Us NIH Research Program and my neighborhood based research that has been done in part using All of Us data. The audience responded very well to my grounded theory results that emerged a neighborhood development model. Primary care providers and community health clinic administrators in the audience were especially interested to hear about the Neighborhood Development instrument that Dr. Trey DeJong and myself have developed and are planning to validate through community-based confirmatory factor analysis in 2024!

Presentation location: Seattle, Washington

“In the previous year, WSU College of Nursing Associate Professor Dr. Janessa Graves received the AACN award, with Dr. Shawna Beese,  Research Assistant Professor (Assistant Professor, CAHNRS), as her mentee. Their collaborative work laid the foundation for this year’s proposal, reflecting a commitment to advancing nursing research. Dr. Beese, now principal investigator (PI) expressed her interest in building on the prior year’s success.”

(source: WSU College of Nursing Continues to Shine: Second Consecutive AACN Award)

I am looking forward to this year mentoring four talented honor’s students as they conduct their first research studies and prepare to present their work at the 2024 Western Institute of Nursing (WIN) conference in Utah. We will be using the NIH All of Us Research Program database as a data source for their work. The student researcher’s passion is infectious and I’m hoping there may be future lab member/s among them. I can’t wait to see how these brilliant ladies advance nursing research over the next 9-months!

Top row: Dr. Shawna Beese, Dr. Janessa Graves, and Dr. Sheila Hurst. Bottom row: Destiny Stanek-Bolles, Amelia Kohut, Macy Johnston, Bianca Gherghe

Research collaborator Kayla Wells-Yoakum and I presented a poster on our Rural Resilience project on October 11, 2023.

Our work is culminating into three WSU Publications that will provide resources for community-based education and health promotion professionals that is grounded in current scientific evidence. The WSU Publications are intended to be used separately or as a holistic  collection.

The Extension Resilience Toolkit is expected to be available by mid-late 2024 and will include:

• Neighborhood Resilience
• Rural Community Resilience
• Resilience for Individuals and Families

Presentation location: Wenatchee, Washington