Idethia S Harvey
Biographic Data
| ID | 78704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Idethia S Harvey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Idethia S |
| FAMILY NAME | Harvey |
| SIGNATURE | HARVEY I S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6535-3910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Qualitative Inquiry of African American Female Church Leaders on Facilitators and Barriers of Conducting Adult Health Programs Within African American Churches
The Past Is so Present
“I Struggle with Breast Cancer and I Struggle with God”
It’s a Job Living Here
Expanding the Nomological Network of Religious-Based Constructs
Spirituality and pain self-efficacy in older adults with chronic pain
Chronic pain is the most common complaint in older people. Evidence indicates that spirituality is effective in pain management. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between pain self-efficacy and spirituality among older adults in Khorramabad, Iran. A significant positive correlation was observed between pain self-efficacy and spirituality (r = 0.31, p < .001). Spirituality, gender, education, and economic status explained 0.…
Knowledge Visualizations to Inform Decision Making for Improving Food Accessibility and Reducing Obesity Rates in the United States
The aim of this article is to promote the use of knowledge visualization frameworks in the creation and transfer of complex public health knowledge. The accessibility to healthy food items is an example of complex public health knowledge. The United States Department of Agriculture Food Access Research Atlas (FARA) dataset contains 147 variables for 72,864 census tracts and includes 16 food accessibility variables with binary values (0 or 1). Usi…
The Impact of Discrimination Beyond Sense of Belonging
Data from the Healthy Mind Study were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression analyses to determine the role of discriminatory experience in students’ confidence in their ability to persist through graduation, controlling for age, extracurricular activity participation, housing, years in their degree program, and their sense of belonging. The final sample consists of 4,708 college students—57.1% women, 70.8% Whites, 7.4% Blacks, 10.4% Asi…
Until I get off parole … then I can swim in it if I want to
Black Americans are overrepresented among those incarcerated for drug-related offenses. Drug use, postincarceration, is associated with high risk of recidivism and overdose deaths. We explored factors influencing drug use among former Black drug offenders. Qualitative interviews with 30 Black Americans released from prison within the past year explored drug behavior as well as institutional, environmental, and social factors that influence drug u…
Delivering Tobacco Cessation Through Community Health Workers
Texas faces unique barriers in health status and risk behaviors such as smoking. To address tobacco use, community health workers (CHWs) are a resource for disseminating education among a population. To promote smoking cessation in Texas, there is a need for the development of a smoking cessation training program for CHWs. The National Community Health Worker Training Center used an approach with CHWs to develop a curriculum. From the curriculum …
Black college students’ sense of belonging and racial identity
Black racial identity model and theory refinement has occurred in the absence of considerations of how Black college students experience and articulate their sense of belonging to the racial group. To fill this gap, the present study utilised storytelling as a framework and investigated how sense of belonging with racial in-group members was expressed in Black college students’ racial identities. Qualitative phenomenological and consensual analyt…
As a Community, We Need to be More Health Conscious
Exploring the Relationship of Religiosity, Religious Support, and Social Support Among African American Women in a Physical Activity Intervention Program
Womanism, Spirituality, and Self-Health Management Behaviors of African American Older Women
Many older African American women perceive spirituality as an important resource in facilitating the self-management process of their chronic disease conditions. Research designs, which are congruent with theoretical frameworks of African American women, are important. However, many researchers remain unfamiliar with womanist thought or are unsure of how that framework can be used to understand specific aspects of self-management practices. The p…
Perceived Social Support and Preventive Health Behavioral Outcomes among Older Women
Spiritual Self-Management
Individuals with chronic illness experience myriad adaptations in self-management practices, which often evolve over time. This study examines the role of spirituality in the self-management of chronic illness among older adults by using criterion sampling between African-American and non-Hispanic white elderly adults enrolled in the “Process of Self-Care,” a National Institute on Aging funded study. Data analyzed from in-depth interviews produce…
The Healthy Connections Project
The Healthy Connections Project: A Community-Based Participatory Research Project Involving Women at Risk for Diabetes and Hypertension Idethia Shevon Harvey, Amy J. Schulz, Barbara A. Israel, Sharon Sand, Deanna Myrie, Murlisa P. Lockett, Sheryl Weir, and Yolanda Hill What Is the Purpose of This Study? • The purpose of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate a community health worker (CHW) intervention in Detroit, Michigan, using a co…
The Healthy Connections Project
The HC project demonstrated the potential for using a CBPR approach to develop, implement, and evaluate a CHW intervention designed to reach African American and Latina women at high risk for hypertension and type 2 diabetes. Participation from relevant communities in the design of the intervention and evaluation, with particular attention to recruitment and retention of representatives from communities who face challenges accessing health care, …
Assessing Self-management and Spirituality Practices Among Older Women
The Role of Spirituality in the Self-management of Chronic Illness among Older African and Whites
Self-Management of a Chronic Illness
Living with a chronic illness is an experience characterized by changes in self-management behavior. Few studies have addressed the role of spirituality in the self-management of a chronic illness among older African American women. The purpose of this exploratory study was to understand the role of spirituality in the self-management of chronic illness. Data from a sample of 10 African American women were collected from semi-structured interview…
Perceived Social Support and Preventive Health Behavioral Outcomes among Older Women
As a Community, We Need to be More Health Conscious
The Role of Spirituality in the Self-management of Chronic Illness among Older African and Whites
Black college students’ sense of belonging and racial identity
Black racial identity model and theory refinement has occurred in the absence of considerations of how Black college students experience and articulate their sense of belonging to the racial group. To fill this gap, the present study utilised storytelling as a framework and investigated how sense of belonging with racial in-group members was expressed in Black college students’ racial identities. Qualitative phenomenological and consensual analyt…
The Impact of Discrimination Beyond Sense of Belonging
Data from the Healthy Mind Study were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression analyses to determine the role of discriminatory experience in students’ confidence in their ability to persist through graduation, controlling for age, extracurricular activity participation, housing, years in their degree program, and their sense of belonging. The final sample consists of 4,708 college students—57.1% women, 70.8% Whites, 7.4% Blacks, 10.4% Asi…
Womanism, Spirituality, and Self-Health Management Behaviors of African American Older Women
Many older African American women perceive spirituality as an important resource in facilitating the self-management process of their chronic disease conditions. Research designs, which are congruent with theoretical frameworks of African American women, are important. However, many researchers remain unfamiliar with womanist thought or are unsure of how that framework can be used to understand specific aspects of self-management practices. The p…
The Healthy Connections Project
The HC project demonstrated the potential for using a CBPR approach to develop, implement, and evaluate a CHW intervention designed to reach African American and Latina women at high risk for hypertension and type 2 diabetes. Participation from relevant communities in the design of the intervention and evaluation, with particular attention to recruitment and retention of representatives from communities who face challenges accessing health care, …
Self-Management of a Chronic Illness
Living with a chronic illness is an experience characterized by changes in self-management behavior. Few studies have addressed the role of spirituality in the self-management of a chronic illness among older African American women. The purpose of this exploratory study was to understand the role of spirituality in the self-management of chronic illness. Data from a sample of 10 African American women were collected from semi-structured interview…
The Role of Spirituality in the Self-management of Chronic Illness among Older African and Whites
Assessing Self-management and Spirituality Practices Among Older Women
Spiritual Self-Management
Individuals with chronic illness experience myriad adaptations in self-management practices, which often evolve over time. This study examines the role of spirituality in the self-management of chronic illness among older adults by using criterion sampling between African-American and non-Hispanic white elderly adults enrolled in the “Process of Self-Care,” a National Institute on Aging funded study. Data analyzed from in-depth interviews produce…
The Healthy Connections Project
The Healthy Connections Project: A Community-Based Participatory Research Project Involving Women at Risk for Diabetes and Hypertension Idethia Shevon Harvey, Amy J. Schulz, Barbara A. Israel, Sharon Sand, Deanna Myrie, Murlisa P. Lockett, Sheryl Weir, and Yolanda Hill What Is the Purpose of This Study? • The purpose of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate a community health worker (CHW) intervention in Detroit, Michigan, using a co…
The Healthy Connections Project
The HC project demonstrated the potential for using a CBPR approach to develop, implement, and evaluate a CHW intervention designed to reach African American and Latina women at high risk for hypertension and type 2 diabetes. Participation from relevant communities in the design of the intervention and evaluation, with particular attention to recruitment and retention of representatives from communities who face challenges accessing health care, …
Perceived Social Support and Preventive Health Behavioral Outcomes among Older Women
Womanism, Spirituality, and Self-Health Management Behaviors of African American Older Women
Many older African American women perceive spirituality as an important resource in facilitating the self-management process of their chronic disease conditions. Research designs, which are congruent with theoretical frameworks of African American women, are important. However, many researchers remain unfamiliar with womanist thought or are unsure of how that framework can be used to understand specific aspects of self-management practices. The p…
Exploring the Relationship of Religiosity, Religious Support, and Social Support Among African American Women in a Physical Activity Intervention Program
As a Community, We Need to be More Health Conscious
Until I get off parole … then I can swim in it if I want to
Black Americans are overrepresented among those incarcerated for drug-related offenses. Drug use, postincarceration, is associated with high risk of recidivism and overdose deaths. We explored factors influencing drug use among former Black drug offenders. Qualitative interviews with 30 Black Americans released from prison within the past year explored drug behavior as well as institutional, environmental, and social factors that influence drug u…
Delivering Tobacco Cessation Through Community Health Workers
Texas faces unique barriers in health status and risk behaviors such as smoking. To address tobacco use, community health workers (CHWs) are a resource for disseminating education among a population. To promote smoking cessation in Texas, there is a need for the development of a smoking cessation training program for CHWs. The National Community Health Worker Training Center used an approach with CHWs to develop a curriculum. From the curriculum …
Black college students’ sense of belonging and racial identity
Black racial identity model and theory refinement has occurred in the absence of considerations of how Black college students experience and articulate their sense of belonging to the racial group. To fill this gap, the present study utilised storytelling as a framework and investigated how sense of belonging with racial in-group members was expressed in Black college students’ racial identities. Qualitative phenomenological and consensual analyt…
Knowledge Visualizations to Inform Decision Making for Improving Food Accessibility and Reducing Obesity Rates in the United States
The aim of this article is to promote the use of knowledge visualization frameworks in the creation and transfer of complex public health knowledge. The accessibility to healthy food items is an example of complex public health knowledge. The United States Department of Agriculture Food Access Research Atlas (FARA) dataset contains 147 variables for 72,864 census tracts and includes 16 food accessibility variables with binary values (0 or 1). Usi…
The Impact of Discrimination Beyond Sense of Belonging
Data from the Healthy Mind Study were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression analyses to determine the role of discriminatory experience in students’ confidence in their ability to persist through graduation, controlling for age, extracurricular activity participation, housing, years in their degree program, and their sense of belonging. The final sample consists of 4,708 college students—57.1% women, 70.8% Whites, 7.4% Blacks, 10.4% Asi…
Spirituality and pain self-efficacy in older adults with chronic pain
Chronic pain is the most common complaint in older people. Evidence indicates that spirituality is effective in pain management. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between pain self-efficacy and spirituality among older adults in Khorramabad, Iran. A significant positive correlation was observed between pain self-efficacy and spirituality (r = 0.31, p < .001). Spirituality, gender, education, and economic status explained 0.…
The Past Is so Present
“I Struggle with Breast Cancer and I Struggle with God”
It’s a Job Living Here
Expanding the Nomological Network of Religious-Based Constructs
Qualitative Inquiry of African American Female Church Leaders on Facilitators and Barriers of Conducting Adult Health Programs Within African American Churches
Medicine (18 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (12 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Gerontology (9 works) · Public health (8 works) · Alternative medicine (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Spirituality (7 works)