Lisa M Vaughn
Biographic Data
| ID | 108212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa M Vaughn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa M |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaughn |
| SIGNATURE | VAUGHN L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4348-651X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Youth as experts of their own lives: Collage creation to engage adolescent researchers in topic identification
This report describes the process of collage creation designed for Michigan Youth Health (MYHealth) students to generate and prioritize research topics related to adolescent health and wellness challenges. MYHealth is a youth-partnered research training program grounded in youth participatory action research methods and designed to encourage high school students to explore STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and health researc…
Community co-design of contextually relevant rheumatic heart disease primary prevention
INTRODUCTION: Primary prevention of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is aimed at timely diagnosis and treatment of superficial Group A Streptococcal infections, most commonly Strep sore throat. However, uptake and delivery of primary prevention for RHD-endemic regions has room for improvement. Community co-design is an important aspect of intervention development to increase sustainability and reach. METHODS: Group-level assessment (GLA) sessions we…
Group concept mapping with patients, parents, clinicians, and researchers to understand the perception of engagement and value in a learning network: A mixed methods study
A Socially Engaged Approach to Research: Finding Common Ground Within Qualitative Research and Action Research
Aligned with the families of participatory, decolonizing, public participation, involvement, and engagement in research, socially engaged research is an approach to research that includes “collaboration, participation, dialogue, and immersive experiences in one or more aspects of a research process (including formulating research questions, generating data, analyzing data, and presenting research results) and with the purpose of widening audience…
A Community-Engaged Approach to Develop and Implement a Behavioral Infant Obesity Prevention Program for Marginalized Families in Home Visiting
Healthy Eating for My Infant serves as an example of a multiphase community-engaged approach to develop future programs targeting health behavior change among children and families from marginalized backgrounds
Group Level Assessment Methodology as a Liberating Structure Within Qualitative and Participatory Research
Group level assessment (GLA) is a qualitative and participatory research-to-action methodology designed to engage a large group of relevant participants throughout the research process. As originally conceived, a single GLA session is led by a trained facilitator who guides the participants through seven structured steps: climate setting, generating, appreciating, reflecting, understanding, selecting, and action. The purpose of this manuscript is…
Being Open About Struggle: Youth Practices and Perspectives on Resilience
Youth create resilience in a landscape of interpersonal, environmental, and political factors by navigating personal and community stressors. The goal of this study was to explore how youth conceptualize resilience and overcome stressors within their everyday life experiences. Using a national text message survey, 894 youth (ages 14-24 years) were asked five open-ended questions about their life experiences relating to stressors and their abiliti…
Stress management preferences and stress experiences among Latinx immigrants in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic: Mixed-methods results from a community-academic research team
Understanding the diversity of stress experiences among Latinx immigrant groups is critical to developing effective interventions. Coping strategy preferences are variable among different Latinx immigration groups, but asynchronous and/or professional-led stress management was preferred
Qualitative Thematic Analysis in a Mixed Methods Study: Guidelines and Considerations for Integration
Qualitative thematic analysis is a commonly used and widely applicable form of qualitative analysis, though it can be challenging to implement. Due to its use across research questions, qualitative traditions, and fields, thematic analysis is also prevalent in mixed methods studies. Despite its widespread use, the term “thematic analysis” is often confused and not always well described in empirical studies. In addition, there is limited guidance …
The meaning of a youth council for suicide prevention: A reflective study with the youth council members
Psychometric Properties of Scales Measuring Resilience in U.S. Latinx Populations: A Systematic Review
Understanding Connections between Nature and Stress among Conservation-Engaged Adolescents Using Photovoice Methodology
While the literature supports positive associations between nature and adolescent mental health, mechanisms are not well understood, and assessment of nature varies widely among existing studies. To partner with the most insightful informants, we enrolled eight adolescent participants from a conservation-informed summer volunteer program, applying qualitative photovoice methodology to understand their use of nature to relieve stress. Across five …
Engaging Adolescents in the Fight Against Drug Abuse and Addiction: A Concept Mapping Approach
BACKGROUND: To identify contextually-relevant strategies for reducing and eventually eliminating addiction, it is imperative to engage stakeholders that are most affected by drug abuse but typically left out of the conversation, such as adolescents. AIM: The aim of this study was to collaborate with 45 adolescent stakeholders participating in a school-based research program to identify areas to address addiction. METHODS: Guided by a modified ver…
Latino-to-Latino: Promotores’ Beliefs on Engaging Latino Participants in Autism Research
Facilitating health promoting ideas and actions: Participatory research in an underserved Swedish residential area
GLA emphasised the participants' perspective. The participatory process helped them identify what they thought valuable and relevant concerning health issues and supported them in taking actions to achieve change
Disciplinary Literacy in Action: High School Students Doing Research for Change
This article describes how disciplinary literacy practices were enacted among youth within the context of Youth Built Change, a science based program incorporating principles of Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR). Highlighting two YPAR projects, one conducted in a predominantly Black and Latino/a suburban school and one conducted in a predominantly White rural school, specific examples of the disciplinary literacy practices of Believing, …
A scoping review of youth advisory structures in the United States: Applications, outcomes, and best practices
Although youth advisory structures (YASs) have proliferated internationally to facilitate the voice of young people, little is known about the practices of such groups, especially in the United States. To address this gap of knowledge, this study describes the findings of a scoping review of scholarly research on YAS in the United States. The review found that although the use of YAS is increasing, current scholarship offers little information ab…
How Do We Measure Stress in Latinos in the United States? A Systematic Review
Striving for Structure and Stability in Cincinnati's Family Homeless Shelters: A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach
Experiencing homelessness negatively impacts child health, development, and emotional-behavioral functioning, but there is limited knowledge regarding specific service priorities, as articulated by families themselves, to prevent or address these adverse sequelae. Thus, to elicit the service needs perspective of families in shelter and to translate these findings into real-world action, we undertook a community-based participatory research effort…
Participatory Research Methods – Choice Points in the Research Process
Participatory research (PR) encompasses research designs, methods, and frameworks that use systematic inquiry in direct collaboration with those affected by an issue being studied for the purpose of action or change. PR engages those who are not necessarily trained in research but belong to or represent the interests of the people who are the focus of the research. Researchers utilizing a PR approach often choose research methods and tools that c…
Semistructured interviewing in primary care research: A balance of relationship and rigour
Semistructured in-depth interviews are commonly used in qualitative research and are the most frequent qualitative data source in health services research. This method typically consists of a dialogue between researcher and participant, guided by a flexible interview protocol and supplemented by follow-up questions, probes and comments. The method allows the researcher to collect open-ended data, to explore participant thoughts, feelings and beli…
Intersection of Mixed Methods and Community-Based Participatory Research: A Methodological Review
Although mixed methods research (MMR) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) have been employed to investigate complex research questions to improve the reach, rigor, and relevance of research, little is understood about the intersection of the approaches. We conducted a methodological review of studies ( n = 129) using both MMR and CBPR, an advanced application we refer to as mixed methods community-based participatory research (MMCBP…
Personalising Safe Sleep Messaging for Infant Caregivers in the United States
The purpose of our study was to better understand why parents/caregivers might not practice safe sleep behaviours. In autumn 2016, we conducted 'pulse' interviews with 124 parents/caregivers of children under the age of one year at a variety of local community events, festivals and meetings in cities with high infant mortality rates around the Midwestern US state of Ohio. Through an inductive approach, pulse interviews were analysed using themati…
Implementation of a Stress Intervention with Latino Immigrants in a Non-traditional Migration City
Partnering with insiders: A review of peer models across community-engaged research, education and social care
Within community-engaged research, education and social care, peer models that partner with local "insiders" are increasingly common. Peer models are composed of insider "lay" community members who often share similarities or background with a project's target population. Peers are not academically trained, but work alongside researchers and professionals to carry out specific tasks within a project, or in the truest sense of partnership, peers c…
Healthcare Experiences of Latinos in a Nontraditional Destination Area
The purpose of this study was to describe the health and healthcare experiences of immigrant Latinos compared to USA-born Latinos, Whites, and African Americans in Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, a nontraditional immigrant destination area. Immigrant Latinos had significantly worse physical and mental health than other groups and significantly more barriers to healthcare. Latinos rated the degree to which their town is socially accepting of Latinos. Lo…
Qualitative Thematic Analysis in a Mixed Methods Study: Guidelines and Considerations for Integration
Qualitative thematic analysis is a commonly used and widely applicable form of qualitative analysis, though it can be challenging to implement. Due to its use across research questions, qualitative traditions, and fields, thematic analysis is also prevalent in mixed methods studies. Despite its widespread use, the term “thematic analysis” is often confused and not always well described in empirical studies. In addition, there is limited guidance …
Developing strategies for positive change: Transitioning foster youth to adulthood
Place Matters in Non-Traditional Migration Areas: Exploring Barriers to Healthcare for Latino Immigrants by Region, Neighborhood, and Community Health Center
Latino Immigrant Youth Living in a Nontraditional Migration City: A Social-Ecological Examination of the Complexities of Stress and Resilience
Latino immigrant children represent the fastest-growing population in the United States and families are frequently residing outside of the traditional migration destinations. These cities lack the infrastructure and resources to provide culturally relevant services and bilingual education that supports these youth. Following a social-ecological approach that attends to the multiple contextual and cultural factors that influence individuals, this…
Attributions of Mental Illness: An Ethnically Diverse Community Perspective
Fathers Know Best: Inner-City African American Fathers' Perceptions Regarding Their Involvement in the Pediatric Medical Home
Being Open About Struggle: Youth Practices and Perspectives on Resilience
Youth create resilience in a landscape of interpersonal, environmental, and political factors by navigating personal and community stressors. The goal of this study was to explore how youth conceptualize resilience and overcome stressors within their everyday life experiences. Using a national text message survey, 894 youth (ages 14-24 years) were asked five open-ended questions about their life experiences relating to stressors and their abiliti…
Personalising Safe Sleep Messaging for Infant Caregivers in the United States
The purpose of our study was to better understand why parents/caregivers might not practice safe sleep behaviours. In autumn 2016, we conducted 'pulse' interviews with 124 parents/caregivers of children under the age of one year at a variety of local community events, festivals and meetings in cities with high infant mortality rates around the Midwestern US state of Ohio. Through an inductive approach, pulse interviews were analysed using themati…
Picturing” Health: A Photovoice Pilot of Latina Girls' Perceptions of Health
The purpose of this study was to conduct a pilot participatory needs assessment, using Photovoice to engage in a critical dialogue with preadolescent Latina girls about their perceptions of health and immediate health concerns. Seven Latina girls participated in the Photovoice study and held a photography exhibition for the community to display their photographs and quotes from their discussions. Eight themes about being healthy emerged. Conducti…
Sociocultural Influences on the Determinants of Breast-feeding by Latina Mothers in the Cincinnati Area
While breast-feeding initiation and duration among US Latina women appear to decrease with acculturation, health care providers in the Greater Cincinnati area have noted lower rates of breast-feeding among even first-generation Latina immigrants. This study's purpose was to identify determinants of breast-feeding for Latina mothers in Cincinnati through qualitative interviews and Spanish Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale ratings. Our findings sug…
Partnering With Students to Explore the Health Needs of an Ethnically Diverse, Low-Resource School: An Innovative Large Group Assessment Approach
School-based health programs have a unique and powerful potential to meet the health needs of children because students spend more time in schools than in any other environment away from home. We conducted a participatory needs assessment called a Group Level Assessment (GLA) in collaboration with an economically disadvantaged and ethnically diverse school to facilitate the students' identification of and subsequent action toward important health…
Social–Emotional Learning in Grades 3 to 6 and the Early Onset of Sexual Behavior
Youth as Partners, Participants or Passive Recipients: A Review of Children and Adolescents in Community‐Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
Community‐based participatory research (CBPR) is an orientation to research that places value on equitable collaborations between community members and academic partners, reflecting shared decision making throughout the research process. Although CBPR has become increasingly popular for research with adults, youth are less likely to be included as partners. In our review of the literature, we identified 399 articles described by author or MeSH ke…
Understanding the Experiences of Youth Living With Sickle Cell Disease: A Photovoice Pilot
A Photovoice pilot was conducted with youth living with sickle cell disease (SCD), in order to further understand their lived experience and examine the acceptability, feasibility, and utility of this method in this population. SCD is an inherited genetic condition whose primary symptom is severe pain. Youth were able to reflect on their experiences with SCD using Photovoice and the adapted SHOWeD method. Parents and youth found Photovoice to be …
Beginning a Partnership with PhotoVoice to Explore Environmental Health and Health Inequities in Minority Communities
Research informs action, but the challenge is its translation into practice. The 2012-2017 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Strategic Plan emphasizes partnership with community stakeholders to capture critical missing information about the effects of environment on health and to improve translation of study results, a daunting task for many traditionally-trained researchers. To better understand economic and neighborhood contex…
Achieving a Shared Vision for Girls' Health in a Low-Income Community
In response to a lack of information related to girls' health in a low-income community, an initiative was developed to create a community-wide vision for girls' health. A forum was conducted following a photovoice project to generate sustainable action steps. Forty-four participants attended the forum. Key action steps included decreasing barriers to participation in girls' programs, offering leadership roles and interpersonal communication skil…
Attributions of Mental Illness: An Ethnically Diverse Community Perspective
Developing strategies for positive change: Transitioning foster youth to adulthood
Healthcare Experiences of Latinos in a Nontraditional Destination Area
The purpose of this study was to describe the health and healthcare experiences of immigrant Latinos compared to USA-born Latinos, Whites, and African Americans in Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, a nontraditional immigrant destination area. Immigrant Latinos had significantly worse physical and mental health than other groups and significantly more barriers to healthcare. Latinos rated the degree to which their town is socially accepting of Latinos. Lo…
When they talk about motherhood: A qualitative study of three groups’ perceptions in a Swedish child health service context
The findings of this paper suggest that convergences and divergences in perceptions of motherhood among three groups may be important in equitable access and utilization of healthcare. Individualized healthcare requires nuance and should avoid normative or stereotypical encounters by recognizing social context and needs that are relevant to specific groups of the population
Immigrants as Research Partners: A Review of Immigrants in Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
Youth-Led Participatory Action Research: A Collaborative Methodology for Health, Education, and Social Change
Demographic Characteristics Associated With Barriers to Health Care Among Mexican and Guatemalan Immigrants in a Nontraditional Destination Area
The purpose of this study was to examine demographic factors associated with health care barriers among Mexican (n = 258) and Guatemalan (n = 143) immigrants in Cincinnati, a nontraditional destination (new migration area). Three primary results emerged: length of US residence was not associated with fewer health care barriers, Mexican women and younger Guatemalans endorsed fewer skills-related barriers, and childless Guatemalans reported more ba…
A Social Network Approach to Understanding Community Partnerships in a Nontraditional Destination for Latinos
Cincinnati, like other new migration areas, has recently experienced tremendous growth in the Latino immigrant population. Because greater health disparities exist for Latinos compared to both majority and other minority groups, it is essential to understand how migratory patterns and healthcare infrastructure are related. In this study, social network analysis (SNA), which quantitatively assesses and evaluates network formation and network relat…
Latino Immigrant Youth Living in a Nontraditional Migration City: A Social-Ecological Examination of the Complexities of Stress and Resilience
Latino immigrant children represent the fastest-growing population in the United States and families are frequently residing outside of the traditional migration destinations. These cities lack the infrastructure and resources to provide culturally relevant services and bilingual education that supports these youth. Following a social-ecological approach that attends to the multiple contextual and cultural factors that influence individuals, this…
Place Matters in Non-Traditional Migration Areas: Exploring Barriers to Healthcare for Latino Immigrants by Region, Neighborhood, and Community Health Center
Implementation of a Stress Intervention with Latino Immigrants in a Non-traditional Migration City
Partnering with insiders: A review of peer models across community-engaged research, education and social care
Within community-engaged research, education and social care, peer models that partner with local "insiders" are increasingly common. Peer models are composed of insider "lay" community members who often share similarities or background with a project's target population. Peers are not academically trained, but work alongside researchers and professionals to carry out specific tasks within a project, or in the truest sense of partnership, peers c…
Adolescent and Parental Attitudes About Return of Genomic Research Results: Focus Group Findings Regarding Decisional Preferences
Opportunities to participate in genomic sequencing studies, as well as recommendations to screen for variants in 59 medically actionable genes anytime clinical genomic sequencing is performed, indicate adolescents will increasingly be involved in decisions about learning secondary findings from genome sequencing. However, how adolescents want to be involved in such decisions is unknown. We conducted five focus groups with adolescents (2) and pare…
Fathers Know Best: Inner-City African American Fathers' Perceptions Regarding Their Involvement in the Pediatric Medical Home
Semistructured interviewing in primary care research: A balance of relationship and rigour
Semistructured in-depth interviews are commonly used in qualitative research and are the most frequent qualitative data source in health services research. This method typically consists of a dialogue between researcher and participant, guided by a flexible interview protocol and supplemented by follow-up questions, probes and comments. The method allows the researcher to collect open-ended data, to explore participant thoughts, feelings and beli…
Intersection of Mixed Methods and Community-Based Participatory Research: A Methodological Review
Although mixed methods research (MMR) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) have been employed to investigate complex research questions to improve the reach, rigor, and relevance of research, little is understood about the intersection of the approaches. We conducted a methodological review of studies ( n = 129) using both MMR and CBPR, an advanced application we refer to as mixed methods community-based participatory research (MMCBP…
Personalising Safe Sleep Messaging for Infant Caregivers in the United States
The purpose of our study was to better understand why parents/caregivers might not practice safe sleep behaviours. In autumn 2016, we conducted 'pulse' interviews with 124 parents/caregivers of children under the age of one year at a variety of local community events, festivals and meetings in cities with high infant mortality rates around the Midwestern US state of Ohio. Through an inductive approach, pulse interviews were analysed using themati…
Psychology (30 works) · Medicine (29 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Political science (19 works) · Nursing (16 works) · Public health (15 works) · Participatory action research (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (12 works) · Medical education (12 works)