Kristen Malecki
Biographic Data
| ID | 1728467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristen Malecki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristen |
| FAMILY NAME | Malecki |
| SIGNATURE | MALECKI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7305-6895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial and geographic disparities in epigenetic aging
Living in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with worse health. However, the biological pathways underpinning this association remain unclear. Using 1388 adults from Researching Epigenetics, Weathering and Residential Disadvantage (REWARD), an ancillary study to the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), we examined the contribution of cumulative neighborhood disadvantage across the life course to racial and geographi…
How does life course exposure to contextual disadvantage accelerate biological aging? The role of psychological symptoms
Objectives Recent research has found that life course exposure to contextual socioeconomic disadvantage may accelerate biological aging, providing key insight into an upstream driver of health disparities. However, questions about the intervening mechanisms remain. We examine the role of psychological symptoms in the direct and indirect relationships between cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and accelerated biological aging. Methods We leverag…
Is neighborhood sense of community good for mental health in a pandemic? Paradoxical findings from longitudinal analyses of Wisconsin health survey
Sense of neighborhood belonging and health: Geographic, racial, and socioeconomic variation in Wisconsin
Background: Individuals' sense of belonging (SoB) to their neighborhood is an understudied psychosocial factor that may influence the association between neighborhood characteristics, health, and disparities across socio-demographic groups. Methods: = 1,706), we conduct a detailed analysis of SoB and health in an American context. We construct OLS and logistic regressions estimating belonging's association with general, physical, and mental healt…
For Submission to the Journal of Community Health: Carbon Monoxide Awareness and Detector Use in the State of Wisconsin
Linking sequences of exposure to residential (dis)advantage, individual socioeconomic status, and health
Life course theories suggest that the relationship between residential (dis)advantage and health is best understood by examining the ordering and duration of cumulative exposures across the life course. This study employs sequence and cluster analysis on two decades of residential histories linked to the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin to define typologies of exposure to residential (dis)advantage and use these typologies to predict self-rated …
Changes in Alcohol Consumption during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Wisconsin
Alcohol consumption often increases in times of stress such as disease outbreaks. Wisconsin has historically ranked as one of the heaviest drinking states in the United States with a persistent drinking culture. Few studies have documented the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on alcohol consumption after the first few months of the pandemic. The primary aim of this study is to identify factors related to changes in drinking at three timepoints dur…
Geographic Isolation and Vulnerability Across Peru's Ecological Regions: The Influence of Regional Contexts of Extraction
Geographically isolated places are often sites of exported environmental risks, intense resource extraction, exploitation and marginalization, and social policy neglect. These conditions create unique challenges related to vulnerability and adaptation that have direct disaster management implications. Our research investigates the relationship between geographic isolation and flood-related social vulnerability across Peru's ecological regions. Ec…
The Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) Program: An Infrastructure for Advancing Population Health
Introduction: The Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) was established in 2008 by the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) with the goals of (1) providing a timely and accurate picture of the health of the state residents; and (2) serving as an agile resource infrastructure for ancillary studies. Today, the SHOW program continues to serve as a unique and vital population health research infrastructure for a…
Exposure to socioenvironmental stress as a predictor of physical and mental health
The literature demonstrates links between socioenvironmental characteristics, dysregulation of the stress response system, and PTSD, though few studies integrate these factors in one model. In a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data collected by the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), structural equation modeling evaluated the relationships between socioenvironmental stress, cumulative biological risk (CBR), and PTSD symptom severity. …
How are social determinants of health integrated into epigenetic research? A systematic review
Investigating Cumulative Exposures among 3- to 4-Year-Old Children Using Wearable Ultrafine Particle Sensors and Language Environment Devices: A Pilot and Feasibility Study
Interdisciplinary approaches are needed to measure the additive or multiplicative impacts of chemical and non-chemical stressors on child development outcomes. The lack of interdisciplinary approaches to environmental health and child development has led to a gap in the development of effective intervention strategies. It is hypothesized that a broader systems approach can support more effective interventions over time. To achieve these goals, de…
Neighborhood Perceptions and Cumulative Impacts of Low Level Chronic Exposure to Fine Particular Matter (PM2.5) on Cardiopulmonary Health
Adverse perceptions of neighborhood safety, aesthetics and quality including access to resources can induce stress and may make individuals more sensitive to cardiopulmonary effects of air pollution exposure. Few studies have examined neighborhood perceptions as important and modifiable non-chemical stressors of the built environment that may exacerbate effects of air pollution on cardiopulmonary health outcomes, particularly among general popula…
Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and maternal depressive symptoms: Moderation by program perception
The association between neighborhood economic hardship, the retail food environment, fast food intake, and obesity: Findings from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
This study indicates that neighborhood-level economic hardship is associated with an unfavorable retail food environment. However inconsistent or non-significant relationships between the retail food environment, fast food consumption, and obesity were observed. More research is needed to enhance methodological approaches to assess the retail food environment and to understand the complex relationship between neighborhood characteristics, health …
Evaluation of a pilot healthy eating intervention in restaurants and food stores of a rural community: A randomized community trial
The intervention achieved high levels of reach, adoption, implementation, and maintenance, suggesting the feasibility and acceptability of restaurant-and food store-based interventions in rural communities. Pilot outcome data indicated very modest levels of effectiveness, but additional research adequately powered to test the impact of this intervention on food environment scores and customer behaviors needs to be conducted in order to identify i…
Oral Health Equity and Unmet Dental Care Needs in a Population-Based Sample: Findings From the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Objectives. We used objective oral health screening and survey data to explore individual-, psychosocial-, and community-level predictors of oral health status in a statewide population of adults. Methods. We examined oral health status in a sample of 1453 adult Wisconsin residents who participated in the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin Oral Health Screening project, conducted with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services during 2010. Result…
Effects of Sequential Prepaid Incentives and Envelope Messaging in Mail Surveys
Journal Article Effects of Sequential Prepaid Incentives and Envelope Messaging in Mail Surveys Get access Jennifer Dykema, Jennifer Dykema * J ennifer D ykema is a senior scientist and survey methodologist at the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, Madison, WI, USA. K aren J aques is a project director at the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, Madison, WI, USA. K risten C yffka is a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Demograp…
Exposure to Neighborhood Green Space and Mental Health: Evidence from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Green space is now widely viewed as a health-promoting characteristic of residential environments, and has been linked to mental health benefits such as recovery from mental fatigue and reduced stress, particularly through experimental work in environmental psychology. Few population level studies have examined the relationships between green space and mental health. Further, few studies have considered the role of green space in non-urban settin…
The Wisconsin Assessment of the Social and Built Environment (Wasabe): A multi-dimensional objective audit instrument for examining neighborhood effects on health
The WASABE has strong inter-rater reliability and validity properties. It builds on previous work to provide a rigorous and standardized method for systematically gathering objective built and social environmental data in a number of geographic settings. Findings illustrate the complex milieu of built environment features found in participants neighborhoods and have relevance for future research, policy, and community engagement purposes
The relationship among caregiving characteristics, caregiver strain, and health-related quality of life: Evidence from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
The art of drawing numbers and stories in the air: Epidemiology, information, emotion and action
> The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles > John Berger, The Shape of a Pocket How do we transmit epidemiological information? How do we transmit the information to guide public health and community health? Do we have stories to be told? How do we tell the stor…
Drinking Water Systems, Hydrology, and Childhood Gastrointestinal Illness in Central and Northern Wisconsin
Objectives. This study investigated if the type of drinking water source (treated municipal, untreated municipal, and private well water) modifies the effect of hydrology on childhood (aged Methods. We conducted a time series study to assess the relationship between hydrologic and weather conditions with childhood gastrointestinal illness from 1991 to 2010. The Central and Northern Wisconsin study area includes households using all 3 types of dri…
Role of global stress in the health-related quality of life of caregivers: Evidence from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Perceived neighborhood quality, sleep quality, and health status: Evidence from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Perceived neighborhood quality, sleep quality, and health status: Evidence from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Effects of Sequential Prepaid Incentives and Envelope Messaging in Mail Surveys
Journal Article Effects of Sequential Prepaid Incentives and Envelope Messaging in Mail Surveys Get access Jennifer Dykema, Jennifer Dykema * J ennifer D ykema is a senior scientist and survey methodologist at the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, Madison, WI, USA. K aren J aques is a project director at the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, Madison, WI, USA. K risten C yffka is a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Demograp…
Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and maternal depressive symptoms: Moderation by program perception
Geographic Isolation and Vulnerability Across Peru's Ecological Regions: The Influence of Regional Contexts of Extraction
Geographically isolated places are often sites of exported environmental risks, intense resource extraction, exploitation and marginalization, and social policy neglect. These conditions create unique challenges related to vulnerability and adaptation that have direct disaster management implications. Our research investigates the relationship between geographic isolation and flood-related social vulnerability across Peru's ecological regions. Ec…
Oral Health Equity and Unmet Dental Care Needs in a Population-Based Sample: Findings From the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Objectives. We used objective oral health screening and survey data to explore individual-, psychosocial-, and community-level predictors of oral health status in a statewide population of adults. Methods. We examined oral health status in a sample of 1453 adult Wisconsin residents who participated in the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin Oral Health Screening project, conducted with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services during 2010. Result…
The Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), a novel infrastructure for population health research: Rationale and methods
SHOW generates data to assess health disparities across state communities as well as trends on prevalence of health outcomes and determinants. SHOW also serves as a platform for ancillary epidemiologic studies and for studies to evaluate the effect of community-specific interventions. It addresses key gaps in our current data resources and increases capacity for etiologic, applied and translational population health research. It is hoped that thi…
Role of global stress in the health-related quality of life of caregivers: Evidence from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Perceived neighborhood quality, sleep quality, and health status: Evidence from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Exposure to Neighborhood Green Space and Mental Health: Evidence from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Green space is now widely viewed as a health-promoting characteristic of residential environments, and has been linked to mental health benefits such as recovery from mental fatigue and reduced stress, particularly through experimental work in environmental psychology. Few population level studies have examined the relationships between green space and mental health. Further, few studies have considered the role of green space in non-urban settin…
The Wisconsin Assessment of the Social and Built Environment (Wasabe): A multi-dimensional objective audit instrument for examining neighborhood effects on health
The WASABE has strong inter-rater reliability and validity properties. It builds on previous work to provide a rigorous and standardized method for systematically gathering objective built and social environmental data in a number of geographic settings. Findings illustrate the complex milieu of built environment features found in participants neighborhoods and have relevance for future research, policy, and community engagement purposes
The relationship among caregiving characteristics, caregiver strain, and health-related quality of life: Evidence from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
The art of drawing numbers and stories in the air: Epidemiology, information, emotion and action
> The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles > John Berger, The Shape of a Pocket How do we transmit epidemiological information? How do we transmit the information to guide public health and community health? Do we have stories to be told? How do we tell the stor…
Drinking Water Systems, Hydrology, and Childhood Gastrointestinal Illness in Central and Northern Wisconsin
Objectives. This study investigated if the type of drinking water source (treated municipal, untreated municipal, and private well water) modifies the effect of hydrology on childhood (aged Methods. We conducted a time series study to assess the relationship between hydrologic and weather conditions with childhood gastrointestinal illness from 1991 to 2010. The Central and Northern Wisconsin study area includes households using all 3 types of dri…
The association between neighborhood economic hardship, the retail food environment, fast food intake, and obesity: Findings from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
This study indicates that neighborhood-level economic hardship is associated with an unfavorable retail food environment. However inconsistent or non-significant relationships between the retail food environment, fast food consumption, and obesity were observed. More research is needed to enhance methodological approaches to assess the retail food environment and to understand the complex relationship between neighborhood characteristics, health …
Evaluation of a pilot healthy eating intervention in restaurants and food stores of a rural community: A randomized community trial
The intervention achieved high levels of reach, adoption, implementation, and maintenance, suggesting the feasibility and acceptability of restaurant-and food store-based interventions in rural communities. Pilot outcome data indicated very modest levels of effectiveness, but additional research adequately powered to test the impact of this intervention on food environment scores and customer behaviors needs to be conducted in order to identify i…
Oral Health Equity and Unmet Dental Care Needs in a Population-Based Sample: Findings From the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Objectives. We used objective oral health screening and survey data to explore individual-, psychosocial-, and community-level predictors of oral health status in a statewide population of adults. Methods. We examined oral health status in a sample of 1453 adult Wisconsin residents who participated in the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin Oral Health Screening project, conducted with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services during 2010. Result…
Effects of Sequential Prepaid Incentives and Envelope Messaging in Mail Surveys
Journal Article Effects of Sequential Prepaid Incentives and Envelope Messaging in Mail Surveys Get access Jennifer Dykema, Jennifer Dykema * J ennifer D ykema is a senior scientist and survey methodologist at the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, Madison, WI, USA. K aren J aques is a project director at the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, Madison, WI, USA. K risten C yffka is a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Demograp…
Neighborhood Perceptions and Cumulative Impacts of Low Level Chronic Exposure to Fine Particular Matter (PM2.5) on Cardiopulmonary Health
Adverse perceptions of neighborhood safety, aesthetics and quality including access to resources can induce stress and may make individuals more sensitive to cardiopulmonary effects of air pollution exposure. Few studies have examined neighborhood perceptions as important and modifiable non-chemical stressors of the built environment that may exacerbate effects of air pollution on cardiopulmonary health outcomes, particularly among general popula…
Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and maternal depressive symptoms: Moderation by program perception
Investigating Cumulative Exposures among 3- to 4-Year-Old Children Using Wearable Ultrafine Particle Sensors and Language Environment Devices: A Pilot and Feasibility Study
Interdisciplinary approaches are needed to measure the additive or multiplicative impacts of chemical and non-chemical stressors on child development outcomes. The lack of interdisciplinary approaches to environmental health and child development has led to a gap in the development of effective intervention strategies. It is hypothesized that a broader systems approach can support more effective interventions over time. To achieve these goals, de…
How are social determinants of health integrated into epigenetic research? A systematic review
The Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) Program: An Infrastructure for Advancing Population Health
Introduction: The Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) was established in 2008 by the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) with the goals of (1) providing a timely and accurate picture of the health of the state residents; and (2) serving as an agile resource infrastructure for ancillary studies. Today, the SHOW program continues to serve as a unique and vital population health research infrastructure for a…
Exposure to socioenvironmental stress as a predictor of physical and mental health
The literature demonstrates links between socioenvironmental characteristics, dysregulation of the stress response system, and PTSD, though few studies integrate these factors in one model. In a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data collected by the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), structural equation modeling evaluated the relationships between socioenvironmental stress, cumulative biological risk (CBR), and PTSD symptom severity. …
Changes in Alcohol Consumption during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Wisconsin
Alcohol consumption often increases in times of stress such as disease outbreaks. Wisconsin has historically ranked as one of the heaviest drinking states in the United States with a persistent drinking culture. Few studies have documented the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on alcohol consumption after the first few months of the pandemic. The primary aim of this study is to identify factors related to changes in drinking at three timepoints dur…
Geographic Isolation and Vulnerability Across Peru's Ecological Regions: The Influence of Regional Contexts of Extraction
Geographically isolated places are often sites of exported environmental risks, intense resource extraction, exploitation and marginalization, and social policy neglect. These conditions create unique challenges related to vulnerability and adaptation that have direct disaster management implications. Our research investigates the relationship between geographic isolation and flood-related social vulnerability across Peru's ecological regions. Ec…
Sense of neighborhood belonging and health: Geographic, racial, and socioeconomic variation in Wisconsin
Background: Individuals' sense of belonging (SoB) to their neighborhood is an understudied psychosocial factor that may influence the association between neighborhood characteristics, health, and disparities across socio-demographic groups. Methods: = 1,706), we conduct a detailed analysis of SoB and health in an American context. We construct OLS and logistic regressions estimating belonging's association with general, physical, and mental healt…
For Submission to the Journal of Community Health: Carbon Monoxide Awareness and Detector Use in the State of Wisconsin
Linking sequences of exposure to residential (dis)advantage, individual socioeconomic status, and health
Life course theories suggest that the relationship between residential (dis)advantage and health is best understood by examining the ordering and duration of cumulative exposures across the life course. This study employs sequence and cluster analysis on two decades of residential histories linked to the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin to define typologies of exposure to residential (dis)advantage and use these typologies to predict self-rated …
Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial and geographic disparities in epigenetic aging
Living in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with worse health. However, the biological pathways underpinning this association remain unclear. Using 1388 adults from Researching Epigenetics, Weathering and Residential Disadvantage (REWARD), an ancillary study to the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), we examined the contribution of cumulative neighborhood disadvantage across the life course to racial and geographi…
How does life course exposure to contextual disadvantage accelerate biological aging? The role of psychological symptoms
Objectives Recent research has found that life course exposure to contextual socioeconomic disadvantage may accelerate biological aging, providing key insight into an upstream driver of health disparities. However, questions about the intervening mechanisms remain. We examine the role of psychological symptoms in the direct and indirect relationships between cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and accelerated biological aging. Methods We leverag…
Medicine (20 works) · Environmental health (14 works) · Gerontology (13 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Public health (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Nursing (6 works)