Faculty Research/Grants

 Dr. Pier Broadnax

• Development of Internet-Based Information –Support Intervention for African American Women with Breast Cancer

• Breast Cancer Knowledge and Decision Making of Chilean Women", funded by the National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Center.

• "Integrating A Systems Perspective into Leadership Development of Senior Nursing Students in Community-Based Healthcare Environments", funded by the American Academy of Nursing, Institute of Nursing Leadership.

• Factors that Influence African American Women's Breast Cancer Experience, funded by the Howard University, Division of Nursing, Research Center on Reducing Health Disparities by Self and Family Management.

• Self Management during care giving in African American Caregivers

• Health –Related Quality of Life among Homeless Women
• The Effect of Positioning on Pulmonary Artery Catheter Measurements among the Critically Ill.
• Correlates and Risk Factors Associated with Coronary Heart Disease and the Likelihood of Engaging in Selected Nutrition Health Promoting Behaviors among Women.

Dr. Sheryl A. Nichols

• Adolescents who experienced the Violent Death of a Sibling
• Howard University Excellence Grant, (2003-2004). Awarded $6,000 Grant to Develop Nursing Recruitment Video.
• Howard University Excellence Grant, (2001-2002). $6,000, Recuitment of Minority Students in Health Professions.
• Howard University Excellence Grant, (2001-2002). Awarded $6,000 Grant to Develop and Conduct Intensive Interdisciplinary Recruitment of Minority Health Care Students.

• Menopause and Urinary Incontinence
• Alexander, IM & Ruff, CC. (2003) Menopause and midlife health risks: Black women’s views. A pilot study funded through NIH/NINR P20 Nursing Research Center on Reducing Heath Disparities. Funded: $20,000.00.
• Ruff, CC. (2004) Implementation of a nursing elective on grief and loss: a project funded by the Fund for Academic Excellence, Howard University. Funded: $3500.00.
• Ruff, C. Investigator and Author (2000) Behavioral Interventions in urinary incontinence in African American women. A research study funded by NINR. $86,000.00
• Principal investigator and author, "Nurse Practitioner & Nurse Midwifery Program at Howard University," an expansion grant funded by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Nursing, July 1997 - June 2000. Funded: $575,274.
• Principal investigator and author, "Primary Family Nurse Practitioner program at Howard University," (Funded) a grant funded by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Nursing, July 1992 - June 1995. Funded: $650,000.
• Principal investigator and author, "Psychosocial Stress, Coping and Help Seeking Behavior for Urinary Incontinence," (Funded) a research grant proposal funded by Foundation for Nursing of Maryland, July 1991 - $1,500.

• Adolescents who experienced the Violent Death of a Sibling

• Impact of depression on a nursing intervention among elderly African Americans with type two diabetes. Primary Investigator for a funded research project through the National Institute for Mental Health (part of a 2.2 million dollar funded project). Project approved for funding by NIMH - January 2004.
• HIV and AIDS in Indigenous populations in Brazil. A funded research project through NSAID for $250,000 - Dr. J. G. Linn (principal investigator).
• A Coalition for African American Health: A Survey. Phase one completed. Phase one of the project was funded with a R.I.S.E. grant for $1200.
• Dissertation: Perceptions of senior re-entry Registered Nurse Students in Baccalaureate Nursing Programs, 1993 College of William and Mary.
• Thesis: A Comparative Study of Knowledge Retention and Compliance in Patients in Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs. 1985 Hampton University.

• Unraveling the Symptom Experience of Older Adults with COPD.