Program of Study
- Enhances the trainee's skills and theoretical, methodological and statistical knowledge.
- Provides individualized guidance to accommodate past experiences, interests and future career plans.
- Fosters a strong mentoring relationship between the trainee and faculty advisor.
BioBehavioral Nursing Research Framework

The table below presents a partial list of person and environmental factors that are currently addressed by the College of Nursing and the collaborating program faculty in their research. These items are examples of the types of research opportunities available to fellows in the training program. Trainees will have opportunities to study a wide range of clinical populations as part of ongoing research programs including people with chronic diseases such as COPD, arterial vascular disease, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, Alzheimer’s disease, narcolepsy, and fibromyalgia. In addition, trainees can research healthy adults, healthy elderly and premature infants as well as animal models.
Opportunities for Studying Person and Environmental Factors Affecting Health
Person Factors
Vulnerability/Resilience |
Environmental Factors
Risk/Resources |
Neurobehavioral
- Delirium in hospitalized elderly
- Daytime sleepiness in people with narcolepsy
- Individual factors that influence responses to perceived pain
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Neurobehavioral
- Effects of an enriched environment on recovery from cerebral ischemia
- Changes in the level of sound and light in the environment of high risk newborns
- Effects of mothers voice on development of preterm infants
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Cardiopulmonary
- Gender differences in myocardial function - animal model
- Alcohol abuse - animal model
- Person factors that affect exercise adherence
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Cardiopulmonary
- Social support for exercise in midlife women
- Effects of community safety on adherence to community-based exercise
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