Katharine E Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 178343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharine E Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharine E |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2406-8638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Constructing ‘Otherness’ in the neighbourhood
Drawing from 108 qualitative interviews with 38 participants from an ethnographic study investigating older adults’ experiences of inclusion and exclusion in two increasingly socio-economically diverse neighbourhoods, this paper employs a queer approach to identify how older adults construct and narrate socio-cultural change in the neighbourhood, as well as complicate simplistic binary understandings of older adults invoked in ageing-in-place lit…
Invisible, unrecognised and undervalued
Over the past 40 years, positive ageing discourses that speak to an expectation of continued productivity have gained prominence within research and policy. Such discourses have been critiqued as placing disproportionate value on the extension of older adults' working lives, while obscuring other valuable forms of work performed by older adults. Despite the emergence of theoretical conversations about the expansion of conceptions of work, few stu…
Exploring occupational transitions of Syrian refugee youth to Canada
Introduction Since 2015, nearly 45,000 Syrian refugees who fled the civil war have resettled in Canada. This forced migration can present significant disruptions for Syrian refugees’ everyday lives. Refugee youth may experience distinct changes in their occupations and roles, such as schooling and caring for family. Research exploring Syrian refugee youth’s experiences of occupational transition to Canada is largely absent.Objectives This study e…
Applying the go-along method to enhance understandings of occupation in context
Engaging in human occupation is complex, often involving commonplace practices that cannot be readily articulated. Accordingly, a growing number of occupational science and occupational therapy scholars have called for expanded qualitative methodologies and methods to support enhanced understandings of occupation in context. In this paper we respond to these calls by discussing how the go-along method—a hybrid of participant observation and inter…
Life irrupted
University-based sexual assault has been described as an epidemic. An emerging body of research suggests that sexual assault that occurs during university may have consequences for women’s occupational lives; however, an in-depth understanding of these consequences does not currently exist. Given the significance that the university period holds for individuals’ life trajectories, this lack of understanding represents an important gap in knowledg…
The Aftermath and the Aftermyth
There is an abundance of research on the health consequences of sexual assault during university, but less attention has been paid to how sexual assault also shapes women's everyday lives. To develop an understanding of the everyday aftermath of sexual assault, we used narrative inquiry to analyze how women textually represent everyday living after sexual assault during university within four memoirs. Memoirists discussed their lives as significa…
Applying an occupational perspective to women’s experiences of life after sexual assault
Acceptability of HIV Testing Sites Among Rural and Urban African Americans Who Use Cocaine
African Americans' Perceptions of Adherence to Medications and Lifestyle Changes Prescribed to Treat Hypertension
More than 80 million Americans have hypertension (HTN), and African Americans (AAs) are disproportionately affected. AAs also have lower rates of adherence to HTN treatment. It is important to understand AAs' perceptions of adherence to develop effective interventions. The aim of this study is to examine AAs' perceptions of adherence to medications and lifestyle changes prescribed to treat HTN. In this qualitative study, we used purposive samplin…
Adaptation and Psychometric Testing of Multiple Measures of Religion Among African Americans Who Use Cocaine
This study tests the psychometric properties and demographic variation of three culturally adapted versions of widely used religion scales-the Brief RCOPE, the Religious Support Scale, and items from the Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness and Spirituality-in a community sample of cocaine-using African Americans. The unadapted measures have been previously validated but not in an African American cocaine-using population, which is a gap…
Rural/Urban Residence, Access, and Perceived Need for Treatment Among African American Cocaine Users
OBJECTIVE: To examine how rural/urban residence, perceived access, and other factors impede or facilitate perceived need for drug use treatment, a concept closely linked to treatment utilization. STUDY DESIGN: Two hundred rural and 200 urban African American cocaine users who were not receiving treatment were recruited via Respondent-Driven Sampling and completed a structured in-person interview. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted…
Religiosity and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among African American Cocaine Users in the Rural South
PURPOSE: Racial and geographic disparities in human immunodeficency virus (HIV) are dramatic and drug use is a significant contributor to HIV risk. Within the rural South, African Americans who use drugs are at extremely high risk. Due to the importance of religion within African American and rural Southern communities, it can be a key element of culturally-targeted health promotion with these populations. Studies have examined religion's relatio…
Dimensions of Religion, Depression Symptomatology, and Substance Use Among Rural African American Cocaine Users
Research has shown a relationship between depression, substance use, and religiosity but, few have investigated this relationship in a community sample of African Americans who use drugs. This study examined the relationship between dimensions of religion (positive and negative religious coping; private and public religious participation; religious preference; and God-, clergy-, and congregation-based religious support), depression symptomatology…
A Qualitative Analysis of Provider Barriers and Solutions to HIV Testing for Substance Users in a Small, Largely Rural Southern State
PURPOSE: Integrating HIV testing programs into substance use treatment is a promising avenue to help increase access to HIV testing for rural drug users. Yet few outpatient substance abuse treatment facilities in the United States provide HIV testing. The purpose of this study was to identify barriers to incorporating HIV testing with substance use treatment from the perspectives of treatment and testing providers in Arkansas. METHODS: We used pu…
Social services utilization and need among a community sample of persons living with HIV in the rural south
HIV prevalence has increased faster in the southern USA than in other areas, and persons living with HIV (PLWHIV) in the south are often rural, impoverished, or otherwise under-resourced. Studies of urban PLWHIV and those receiving medical care suggest that use of social services can enhance quality of life and some medical outcomes, but little is known about patterns of social service utilization and need among rural southern PLWHIV. The AIDS Al…
Substance abuse treatment in an urban HIV clinic
Substance abuse treatment (SAT) is important for HIV medical care. Characteristics of those who choose SAT and effects of SAT on HIV clinical outcomes are not understood. We compared patients who enrolled and did not enroll in a SAT program offered within an HIV clinic, and evaluated the effect of SAT on CD4 T-cell counts and HIV plasma viral load (VL). Subjects were assessed and invited to enroll in SAT. Enrollees chose to receive psychological …
Religion, Relationships and Reproduction
Moms
The Making Our Mothers Stronger (MOMS) Project is a randomized controlled behavioral trial, comparing a stress-reduction and social support intervention (Healthy MOMS) to a parenting skills intervention (Parenting Skills for MOMS) for mothers living with HIV. Outcomes include maternal mental and physical health, parenting behaviors, and children's behavior. To ensure that these interventions were tailored to the needs of HIV+ mothers, extensive f…
Invisible, unrecognised and undervalued
Over the past 40 years, positive ageing discourses that speak to an expectation of continued productivity have gained prominence within research and policy. Such discourses have been critiqued as placing disproportionate value on the extension of older adults' working lives, while obscuring other valuable forms of work performed by older adults. Despite the emergence of theoretical conversations about the expansion of conceptions of work, few stu…
Exploring occupational transitions of Syrian refugee youth to Canada
Introduction Since 2015, nearly 45,000 Syrian refugees who fled the civil war have resettled in Canada. This forced migration can present significant disruptions for Syrian refugees’ everyday lives. Refugee youth may experience distinct changes in their occupations and roles, such as schooling and caring for family. Research exploring Syrian refugee youth’s experiences of occupational transition to Canada is largely absent.Objectives This study e…
The Aftermath and the Aftermyth
There is an abundance of research on the health consequences of sexual assault during university, but less attention has been paid to how sexual assault also shapes women's everyday lives. To develop an understanding of the everyday aftermath of sexual assault, we used narrative inquiry to analyze how women textually represent everyday living after sexual assault during university within four memoirs. Memoirists discussed their lives as significa…
Constructing ‘Otherness’ in the neighbourhood
Drawing from 108 qualitative interviews with 38 participants from an ethnographic study investigating older adults’ experiences of inclusion and exclusion in two increasingly socio-economically diverse neighbourhoods, this paper employs a queer approach to identify how older adults construct and narrate socio-cultural change in the neighbourhood, as well as complicate simplistic binary understandings of older adults invoked in ageing-in-place lit…
Applying the go-along method to enhance understandings of occupation in context
Engaging in human occupation is complex, often involving commonplace practices that cannot be readily articulated. Accordingly, a growing number of occupational science and occupational therapy scholars have called for expanded qualitative methodologies and methods to support enhanced understandings of occupation in context. In this paper we respond to these calls by discussing how the go-along method—a hybrid of participant observation and inter…
African Americans' Perceptions of Adherence to Medications and Lifestyle Changes Prescribed to Treat Hypertension
More than 80 million Americans have hypertension (HTN), and African Americans (AAs) are disproportionately affected. AAs also have lower rates of adherence to HTN treatment. It is important to understand AAs' perceptions of adherence to develop effective interventions. The aim of this study is to examine AAs' perceptions of adherence to medications and lifestyle changes prescribed to treat HTN. In this qualitative study, we used purposive samplin…
Moms
The Making Our Mothers Stronger (MOMS) Project is a randomized controlled behavioral trial, comparing a stress-reduction and social support intervention (Healthy MOMS) to a parenting skills intervention (Parenting Skills for MOMS) for mothers living with HIV. Outcomes include maternal mental and physical health, parenting behaviors, and children's behavior. To ensure that these interventions were tailored to the needs of HIV+ mothers, extensive f…
Substance abuse treatment in an urban HIV clinic
Substance abuse treatment (SAT) is important for HIV medical care. Characteristics of those who choose SAT and effects of SAT on HIV clinical outcomes are not understood. We compared patients who enrolled and did not enroll in a SAT program offered within an HIV clinic, and evaluated the effect of SAT on CD4 T-cell counts and HIV plasma viral load (VL). Subjects were assessed and invited to enroll in SAT. Enrollees chose to receive psychological …
Religion, Relationships and Reproduction
Social services utilization and need among a community sample of persons living with HIV in the rural south
HIV prevalence has increased faster in the southern USA than in other areas, and persons living with HIV (PLWHIV) in the south are often rural, impoverished, or otherwise under-resourced. Studies of urban PLWHIV and those receiving medical care suggest that use of social services can enhance quality of life and some medical outcomes, but little is known about patterns of social service utilization and need among rural southern PLWHIV. The AIDS Al…
A Qualitative Analysis of Provider Barriers and Solutions to HIV Testing for Substance Users in a Small, Largely Rural Southern State
PURPOSE: Integrating HIV testing programs into substance use treatment is a promising avenue to help increase access to HIV testing for rural drug users. Yet few outpatient substance abuse treatment facilities in the United States provide HIV testing. The purpose of this study was to identify barriers to incorporating HIV testing with substance use treatment from the perspectives of treatment and testing providers in Arkansas. METHODS: We used pu…
Religiosity and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among African American Cocaine Users in the Rural South
PURPOSE: Racial and geographic disparities in human immunodeficency virus (HIV) are dramatic and drug use is a significant contributor to HIV risk. Within the rural South, African Americans who use drugs are at extremely high risk. Due to the importance of religion within African American and rural Southern communities, it can be a key element of culturally-targeted health promotion with these populations. Studies have examined religion's relatio…
Dimensions of Religion, Depression Symptomatology, and Substance Use Among Rural African American Cocaine Users
Research has shown a relationship between depression, substance use, and religiosity but, few have investigated this relationship in a community sample of African Americans who use drugs. This study examined the relationship between dimensions of religion (positive and negative religious coping; private and public religious participation; religious preference; and God-, clergy-, and congregation-based religious support), depression symptomatology…
Rural/Urban Residence, Access, and Perceived Need for Treatment Among African American Cocaine Users
OBJECTIVE: To examine how rural/urban residence, perceived access, and other factors impede or facilitate perceived need for drug use treatment, a concept closely linked to treatment utilization. STUDY DESIGN: Two hundred rural and 200 urban African American cocaine users who were not receiving treatment were recruited via Respondent-Driven Sampling and completed a structured in-person interview. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted…
Acceptability of HIV Testing Sites Among Rural and Urban African Americans Who Use Cocaine
African Americans' Perceptions of Adherence to Medications and Lifestyle Changes Prescribed to Treat Hypertension
More than 80 million Americans have hypertension (HTN), and African Americans (AAs) are disproportionately affected. AAs also have lower rates of adherence to HTN treatment. It is important to understand AAs' perceptions of adherence to develop effective interventions. The aim of this study is to examine AAs' perceptions of adherence to medications and lifestyle changes prescribed to treat HTN. In this qualitative study, we used purposive samplin…
Adaptation and Psychometric Testing of Multiple Measures of Religion Among African Americans Who Use Cocaine
This study tests the psychometric properties and demographic variation of three culturally adapted versions of widely used religion scales-the Brief RCOPE, the Religious Support Scale, and items from the Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness and Spirituality-in a community sample of cocaine-using African Americans. The unadapted measures have been previously validated but not in an African American cocaine-using population, which is a gap…
Applying an occupational perspective to women’s experiences of life after sexual assault
Life irrupted
University-based sexual assault has been described as an epidemic. An emerging body of research suggests that sexual assault that occurs during university may have consequences for women’s occupational lives; however, an in-depth understanding of these consequences does not currently exist. Given the significance that the university period holds for individuals’ life trajectories, this lack of understanding represents an important gap in knowledg…
The Aftermath and the Aftermyth
There is an abundance of research on the health consequences of sexual assault during university, but less attention has been paid to how sexual assault also shapes women's everyday lives. To develop an understanding of the everyday aftermath of sexual assault, we used narrative inquiry to analyze how women textually represent everyday living after sexual assault during university within four memoirs. Memoirists discussed their lives as significa…
Exploring occupational transitions of Syrian refugee youth to Canada
Introduction Since 2015, nearly 45,000 Syrian refugees who fled the civil war have resettled in Canada. This forced migration can present significant disruptions for Syrian refugees’ everyday lives. Refugee youth may experience distinct changes in their occupations and roles, such as schooling and caring for family. Research exploring Syrian refugee youth’s experiences of occupational transition to Canada is largely absent.Objectives This study e…
Applying the go-along method to enhance understandings of occupation in context
Engaging in human occupation is complex, often involving commonplace practices that cannot be readily articulated. Accordingly, a growing number of occupational science and occupational therapy scholars have called for expanded qualitative methodologies and methods to support enhanced understandings of occupation in context. In this paper we respond to these calls by discussing how the go-along method—a hybrid of participant observation and inter…
Invisible, unrecognised and undervalued
Over the past 40 years, positive ageing discourses that speak to an expectation of continued productivity have gained prominence within research and policy. Such discourses have been critiqued as placing disproportionate value on the extension of older adults' working lives, while obscuring other valuable forms of work performed by older adults. Despite the emergence of theoretical conversations about the expansion of conceptions of work, few stu…
Constructing ‘Otherness’ in the neighbourhood
Drawing from 108 qualitative interviews with 38 participants from an ethnographic study investigating older adults’ experiences of inclusion and exclusion in two increasingly socio-economically diverse neighbourhoods, this paper employs a queer approach to identify how older adults construct and narrate socio-cultural change in the neighbourhood, as well as complicate simplistic binary understandings of older adults invoked in ageing-in-place lit…
Medicine (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Demography (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (6 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works)