Virgil Dupuis

Datos Biográficos

ID7800539
NOMBREVirgil Dupuis
NOMBRESVirgil
APELLIDODupuis
FIRMADUPUIS V
AFILIACIONESSalish Kootenai College
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS5
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR5
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2020
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • “It's not about me. It's about what's best for my community”

    Open AccessLina Truong, Alexandra K Adams et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health2025

    PURPOSE: While SARS-CoV-2 significantly impacts rural Native American and Latino communities, COVID-19 vaccines offer an effective and safe mitigation strategy. Vaccine uptake is disproportionately lower in rural communities than in urban communities across the nation. This study examined barriers and motivators of COVID-19 vaccine uptake in two Native American and Latino rural agricultural communities in eastern Washington and Montana. METHODS: …

  • Critical lessons from a pragmatic randomized trial of home‐based Covid‐19 testing in rural Native American and Latino communities

    Open AccessEliza Webber, Sonia Bishop et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health2024

    PURPOSE: Native Americans and Latinos have higher COVID-19 infection and mortality rates and may have limited access to diagnostic testing. Home-based testing may improve access to care in rural and underserved populations. This study tests the effect of community health worker (CHW) support on accessibility, feasibility, and completion of COVID-19 home testing among Native American and Latino adults living on the Flathead Reservation in Montana …

  • Factors influencing Covid-19 testing among Native Americans and Latinos in two rural agricultural communities

    Open AccessDillon Van Rensburg, Alexandra K Adams et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Objective: To examine factors influencing decisions to test for COVID-19 among Native Americans on the Flathead Reservation in Montana and the Latino community in the Yakima Valley of Washington state. Methods: We conducted 30 key informant interviews with community leaders and six focus groups with community members to examine factors impacting decisions to test for COVID-19 during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic from May 2021 to June 2…

  • Intended and Unintended Consequences of a Community-Based Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Dietary Intervention on the Flathead Reservation of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

    Open AccessSelena Ahmed, Virgil Dupuis et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2020

    Tribal communities in the United States face disparities to accessing healthy foods including high-quality produce. A six-week fresh fruit and vegetable (FV) dietary intervention, Eat Fresh, was co-designed with a Community Advisory Board of local food and nutrition stakeholders on the Flathead Reservation of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Montana. Eat Fresh was implemented as a pilot study with low-income participants (n=19) enro…

  • Perceptions of food environments and nutrition among residents of the Flathead Indian Reservation

    Open AccessCarmen Byker Shanks, Selena Ahmed et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Perceptions of the food environment were linked to strategies that could be targeted to improve dietary quality along a social-ecological model continuum. There is need for skill-based education that directly addresses the time and monetary constraints that were commonly experienced by residents. Coinciding food environment interventions to promote dietary quality that engage community members, store management, and government policy stakeholders…