M Kathryn Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 179135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Kathryn Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8058-6739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sharing purpose, shifting values: Using Liberating Structures to strengthen cross-organisational collaboration and care delivery
The Here Toitū service supports those with health-related conditions or disability find and maintain meaningful work, study, or volunteering experiences. In the Mid-Central region of Aotearoa New Zealand, it is delivered in partnership between THINK Hauora (Primary Health Organisation) and the Ministry of Social Development (MSD, a government organisation) requiring cross-organisation navigation of systems and team dynamics. The teams across the …
Social determinants of health and Covid-19: An evaluation of racial and ethnic disparities in attitudes, practices, and mental health
Previous evaluations have reported racial minorities feel they are at greater risk of contracting COVID-19, but that on average, they have better preventative practices, such as wearing face masks and avoiding large gatherings. In this study, we explored associations between social determinants of health (SDOH), race and ethnicity, COVID-19 practices and attitudes, and mental health outcomes during the pandemic. We examined associations between S…
Facilitators and barriers to providing affirming care for transgender patients in primary care practices in Arkansas
PURPOSE: This study assessed factors affecting the provision of affirming-care best practices (ACBPs) for transgender individuals by primary care providers (PCPs) in a rural, southern state METHODS: We conducted a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study in 2020, including a statewide survey (phase 1) and interviews (phase 2). Surveyed PCPs (phase 1) included Medical Doctors/Doctors of Osteopathy (MDs/DOs), nurse practitioners, and 1 physician …
Knowledge and Attitudes of Potential Community Health Worker Employers: Findings from the State of Arkansas, USA
How and What Students Learn in Hybrid and Online FYC: A Multi-Institutional Survey Study of Student Perceptions
This multi-institutional study surveyed undergraduate students (n=669) about how and what they learned in hybrid and online first-year composition (FYC) classes, employing the Community of Inquiry (CoI) Framework to analyze their responses. The data illustrated a significant difference in hybrid versus online students’ perceptions of the student-teacher relationship
Geographic Hotspots for Low Birthweight: An Analysis of Counties With Persistently High Rates
This study evaluated persistency in county-level rates of low birthweight outcomes to identify "hotspot counties" and their associated area-level characteristics. Administrative data from the National Center for Health Statistics Birth Data Files, years 2011 to 2016 were used to calculate annual county-level rates of low birthweight. Counties ranking in the worst quintile (Q5) for ≥3 years with a neighboring county in the worst quintile were iden…
County-level Variation in Low Birthweight and Preterm Birth: An Evaluation of State Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act
BACKGROUND: Rates of low birthweight and prematurity vary 2-fold across states in the United States, with increased rates among states with higher concentrations of racial minorities. Medicaid expansion may serve as a mechanism to reduce geographic variation within states that expanded, by improving health and access to care for vulnerable populations. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to identify the association of Medicaid expansion wi…
Health Research Funding Agencies’ Policies, Recommendations, and Tools for Dissemination
Funding agencies have a unique opportunity to encourage the dissemination of research results to research participants and lay community audiences by developing policies to increase dissemination of grantees' research findings
Transform Health Arkansas: A Transgender-Led Partnership Engaging Transgender/Non-Binary Arkansans in Defining Health Research Priorities
Next steps include dissemination, identification of evidence-based interventions addressing prioritized issues, and joint development of a research agenda
Community Building Community: The Distinct Benefits of Community Partners Building Other Communities' Capacity to Conduct Health Research
Engaging communities to build each other's research capacity is a potentially valuable strategy
The Development of a Community Engagement Workshop: A Community-Led Approach for Building Researcher Capacity
Participants' written evaluations suggest the workshop was engaging and successfully motivated researchers to adopt new perspectives, acknowledge power imbalances across the domains, self-reflect about their role as researchers, and consider solutions to these problems. Other reported outcomes included the development of relationships leading to new CEnR projects, unanticipated learning experienced by community member participants, requests for a…
Providing General and Preconception Health Care to Low Income Women in Family Planning Settings: Perception of Providers and Clients
Participatory Development and Implementation of a Community Research Workshop: Experiences From a Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership
Applying participatory principles to the development of the community research workshop resulted in the creation of a mutually acceptable workshop and co-learning experience that empowered community members in their involvement in other community research projects
Linking Residents to Long-Term Care Services: First-Year Findings from the Community Connector Program Evaluation
Preliminary results from the first-year implementation evaluation indicate the program is effective in linking persons to needed LTC, although program refinements were made to improve targeting of intended program recipients
Recruitment of Rural Health Care Providers: A Regional Recruiter Strategy
Context: Access to care in rural areas is a major problem. Despite more than 20% of the US population residing in these areas, only 9% of physicians practice there. Extensive research has documented multiple issues that affect where physicians decide to locate and maintain practices. Creative strategies have been used to influence these recruitment and retention decisions. An emerging strategy, borne out of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's So…
The Arkansas River Valley Rural Health Cooperative: Building a Three‐pronged Approach to Improved Health and Health Care
This paper describes the Arkansas River Valley Rural Health Cooperative (ARVRHC), one of the Arkansas networks jump‐started with support from the Southern Rural Access Program (SRAP). The initial goal of the network was to develop a subsidized health insurance program to provide affordable medical services for the uninsured population (23%) in the 3‐county service area. When planning efforts called for the network to address broader needs, the AR…
Improving Access to Capital for Health Care Infrastructure: The Experience of the Southern Rural Access Program's Revolving Loan Fund
Lack of access to affordable capital is a formidable barrier that compromises rural health care infrastructure development in poor rural areas. Commercial lending institutions are often limited in their ability to respond to those needs due to traditional lending criteria: creditworthiness, equity, management ability, experiences, and cash flow or profits. In the Southern Rural Access Program, a development model more frequently used in other sec…
Issues in Measuring Maternal Morbidity: Lessons from the Philippines Safe Motherhood Survey Project
M. Kathryn Stewart, Cynthia K. Stanton, Mario Festin, Nora Jacobson, Issues in Measuring Maternal Morbidity: Lessons from the Philippines Safe Motherhood Survey Project, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1996), pp. 29-35
Program- and Method-Related Determinants of First DMPA Use Duration in Rural Bangladesh
This article examines the determinants of first-time use durations of the injectable contraceptive Depo Medroxy Progesterone Acetate (DMPA) for rural Bangladeshi women. The method's side effects were defined by 200 first-time users in Matlab district during lengthy, open-ended interviews. Women with many children used the method longer than did women of low parity. Those who experienced side effects had shorter use durations than those who did no…
Acute respiratory infections (ARI) in rural Bangladesh: Perceptions and practices
Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) are a major cause of death in children under five in rural Bangladesh. A popular strategy for lowering ARI mortality in such settings includes detecting and managing pneumonia in children at the community level. The success of programs using this approach requires a well-trained community-based cadre of health workers and the appropriate utilization of services provided. Determinants of health care seeking behav…
Post‐flood nutritional anthropometry of children in Matlab, Bangladesh
The Matlab area was severely affected by the floods of 1988 in Bangladesh. To assess the impact of flooding in Matlab the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) performed post‐flood surveys. Six‐hundred households were surveyed. In addition, length, weight, and mid‐upper arm circumference were measured in children aged 6–35 months. Baseline economic status appeared to be higher inside the Matlab embankment, whe…
A hospital-based mental health court
The Leisure Activities of Grammar School Children
Acute respiratory infections (ARI) in rural Bangladesh: Perceptions and practices
Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) are a major cause of death in children under five in rural Bangladesh. A popular strategy for lowering ARI mortality in such settings includes detecting and managing pneumonia in children at the community level. The success of programs using this approach requires a well-trained community-based cadre of health workers and the appropriate utilization of services provided. Determinants of health care seeking behav…
Issues in Measuring Maternal Morbidity: Lessons from the Philippines Safe Motherhood Survey Project
M. Kathryn Stewart, Cynthia K. Stanton, Mario Festin, Nora Jacobson, Issues in Measuring Maternal Morbidity: Lessons from the Philippines Safe Motherhood Survey Project, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1996), pp. 29-35
The Development of a Community Engagement Workshop: A Community-Led Approach for Building Researcher Capacity
Participants' written evaluations suggest the workshop was engaging and successfully motivated researchers to adopt new perspectives, acknowledge power imbalances across the domains, self-reflect about their role as researchers, and consider solutions to these problems. Other reported outcomes included the development of relationships leading to new CEnR projects, unanticipated learning experienced by community member participants, requests for a…
A hospital-based mental health court
Transform Health Arkansas: A Transgender-Led Partnership Engaging Transgender/Non-Binary Arkansans in Defining Health Research Priorities
Next steps include dissemination, identification of evidence-based interventions addressing prioritized issues, and joint development of a research agenda
Program- and Method-Related Determinants of First DMPA Use Duration in Rural Bangladesh
This article examines the determinants of first-time use durations of the injectable contraceptive Depo Medroxy Progesterone Acetate (DMPA) for rural Bangladeshi women. The method's side effects were defined by 200 first-time users in Matlab district during lengthy, open-ended interviews. Women with many children used the method longer than did women of low parity. Those who experienced side effects had shorter use durations than those who did no…
The Leisure Activities of Grammar School Children
The Leisure Activities of Grammar School Children
A hospital-based mental health court
Post‐flood nutritional anthropometry of children in Matlab, Bangladesh
The Matlab area was severely affected by the floods of 1988 in Bangladesh. To assess the impact of flooding in Matlab the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) performed post‐flood surveys. Six‐hundred households were surveyed. In addition, length, weight, and mid‐upper arm circumference were measured in children aged 6–35 months. Baseline economic status appeared to be higher inside the Matlab embankment, whe…
Acute respiratory infections (ARI) in rural Bangladesh: Perceptions and practices
Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) are a major cause of death in children under five in rural Bangladesh. A popular strategy for lowering ARI mortality in such settings includes detecting and managing pneumonia in children at the community level. The success of programs using this approach requires a well-trained community-based cadre of health workers and the appropriate utilization of services provided. Determinants of health care seeking behav…
Program- and Method-Related Determinants of First DMPA Use Duration in Rural Bangladesh
This article examines the determinants of first-time use durations of the injectable contraceptive Depo Medroxy Progesterone Acetate (DMPA) for rural Bangladeshi women. The method's side effects were defined by 200 first-time users in Matlab district during lengthy, open-ended interviews. Women with many children used the method longer than did women of low parity. Those who experienced side effects had shorter use durations than those who did no…
Issues in Measuring Maternal Morbidity: Lessons from the Philippines Safe Motherhood Survey Project
M. Kathryn Stewart, Cynthia K. Stanton, Mario Festin, Nora Jacobson, Issues in Measuring Maternal Morbidity: Lessons from the Philippines Safe Motherhood Survey Project, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1996), pp. 29-35
Recruitment of Rural Health Care Providers: A Regional Recruiter Strategy
Context: Access to care in rural areas is a major problem. Despite more than 20% of the US population residing in these areas, only 9% of physicians practice there. Extensive research has documented multiple issues that affect where physicians decide to locate and maintain practices. Creative strategies have been used to influence these recruitment and retention decisions. An emerging strategy, borne out of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's So…
The Arkansas River Valley Rural Health Cooperative: Building a Three‐pronged Approach to Improved Health and Health Care
This paper describes the Arkansas River Valley Rural Health Cooperative (ARVRHC), one of the Arkansas networks jump‐started with support from the Southern Rural Access Program (SRAP). The initial goal of the network was to develop a subsidized health insurance program to provide affordable medical services for the uninsured population (23%) in the 3‐county service area. When planning efforts called for the network to address broader needs, the AR…
Improving Access to Capital for Health Care Infrastructure: The Experience of the Southern Rural Access Program's Revolving Loan Fund
Lack of access to affordable capital is a formidable barrier that compromises rural health care infrastructure development in poor rural areas. Commercial lending institutions are often limited in their ability to respond to those needs due to traditional lending criteria: creditworthiness, equity, management ability, experiences, and cash flow or profits. In the Southern Rural Access Program, a development model more frequently used in other sec…
Linking Residents to Long-Term Care Services: First-Year Findings from the Community Connector Program Evaluation
Preliminary results from the first-year implementation evaluation indicate the program is effective in linking persons to needed LTC, although program refinements were made to improve targeting of intended program recipients
Participatory Development and Implementation of a Community Research Workshop: Experiences From a Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership
Applying participatory principles to the development of the community research workshop resulted in the creation of a mutually acceptable workshop and co-learning experience that empowered community members in their involvement in other community research projects
Providing General and Preconception Health Care to Low Income Women in Family Planning Settings: Perception of Providers and Clients
Transform Health Arkansas: A Transgender-Led Partnership Engaging Transgender/Non-Binary Arkansans in Defining Health Research Priorities
Next steps include dissemination, identification of evidence-based interventions addressing prioritized issues, and joint development of a research agenda
Community Building Community: The Distinct Benefits of Community Partners Building Other Communities' Capacity to Conduct Health Research
Engaging communities to build each other's research capacity is a potentially valuable strategy
The Development of a Community Engagement Workshop: A Community-Led Approach for Building Researcher Capacity
Participants' written evaluations suggest the workshop was engaging and successfully motivated researchers to adopt new perspectives, acknowledge power imbalances across the domains, self-reflect about their role as researchers, and consider solutions to these problems. Other reported outcomes included the development of relationships leading to new CEnR projects, unanticipated learning experienced by community member participants, requests for a…
Health Research Funding Agencies’ Policies, Recommendations, and Tools for Dissemination
Funding agencies have a unique opportunity to encourage the dissemination of research results to research participants and lay community audiences by developing policies to increase dissemination of grantees' research findings
Geographic Hotspots for Low Birthweight: An Analysis of Counties With Persistently High Rates
This study evaluated persistency in county-level rates of low birthweight outcomes to identify "hotspot counties" and their associated area-level characteristics. Administrative data from the National Center for Health Statistics Birth Data Files, years 2011 to 2016 were used to calculate annual county-level rates of low birthweight. Counties ranking in the worst quintile (Q5) for ≥3 years with a neighboring county in the worst quintile were iden…
County-level Variation in Low Birthweight and Preterm Birth: An Evaluation of State Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act
BACKGROUND: Rates of low birthweight and prematurity vary 2-fold across states in the United States, with increased rates among states with higher concentrations of racial minorities. Medicaid expansion may serve as a mechanism to reduce geographic variation within states that expanded, by improving health and access to care for vulnerable populations. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to identify the association of Medicaid expansion wi…
Knowledge and Attitudes of Potential Community Health Worker Employers: Findings from the State of Arkansas, USA
How and What Students Learn in Hybrid and Online FYC: A Multi-Institutional Survey Study of Student Perceptions
This multi-institutional study surveyed undergraduate students (n=669) about how and what they learned in hybrid and online first-year composition (FYC) classes, employing the Community of Inquiry (CoI) Framework to analyze their responses. The data illustrated a significant difference in hybrid versus online students’ perceptions of the student-teacher relationship
Social determinants of health and Covid-19: An evaluation of racial and ethnic disparities in attitudes, practices, and mental health
Previous evaluations have reported racial minorities feel they are at greater risk of contracting COVID-19, but that on average, they have better preventative practices, such as wearing face masks and avoiding large gatherings. In this study, we explored associations between social determinants of health (SDOH), race and ethnicity, COVID-19 practices and attitudes, and mental health outcomes during the pandemic. We examined associations between S…
Facilitators and barriers to providing affirming care for transgender patients in primary care practices in Arkansas
PURPOSE: This study assessed factors affecting the provision of affirming-care best practices (ACBPs) for transgender individuals by primary care providers (PCPs) in a rural, southern state METHODS: We conducted a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study in 2020, including a statewide survey (phase 1) and interviews (phase 2). Surveyed PCPs (phase 1) included Medical Doctors/Doctors of Osteopathy (MDs/DOs), nurse practitioners, and 1 physician …
Sharing purpose, shifting values: Using Liberating Structures to strengthen cross-organisational collaboration and care delivery
The Here Toitū service supports those with health-related conditions or disability find and maintain meaningful work, study, or volunteering experiences. In the Mid-Central region of Aotearoa New Zealand, it is delivered in partnership between THINK Hauora (Primary Health Organisation) and the Ministry of Social Development (MSD, a government organisation) requiring cross-organisation navigation of systems and team dynamics. The teams across the …
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