Oluwatoyin Olukotun

Biographic Data

ID908897
NAMEOluwatoyin Olukotun
GIVEN NAMESOluwatoyin
FAMILY NAMEOlukotun
SIGNATUREOLUKOTUN O
AFFILIATIONSMedical College of Wisconsin
ORCID0000-0001-8462-4811
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Towards a Trauma-Informed School of Nursing

    Kala Mayer, Kala A Mayer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Nursing Education2026

    BACKGROUND: Trauma-informed practices (TIPs) support academic success and align with nursing values, yet their integration into nursing education is understudied. METHOD: A mixed-methods online survey was administered in Spring 2024 to faculty and staff at a private U.S. School of Nursing to assess TIPs across three domains using Likert items and open-ended prompts. RESULTS: = 0.39) on a 0 to 3 scale, indicating early stage implementation. Scores…

  • Gender-Based Violence in the Lives of Somali Women With Refugee Status

    Open AccessOluwatoyin Olukotun, Hanan Abusbaitan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transcultural Nursing2025References: 27

    Introduction: Gender-based violence (GBV) poses a significant threat to women with refugee status. Methodology: Following our analysis based on a previously published scoping review, we introduce a conceptual framework based on postcolonial feminist theory to inform research, policy, and practice that addresses the unique risk factors faced by Somali women with refugee status experiencing GBV and encountering barriers to care. Result: The framewo…

  • Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women

    Comfort Tosin Adebayo, Oluwatoyin Olukotun et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2024

    Gender-based violence (GBV) is an all-encompassing term that speaks to acts or threats that may lead to physical, sexual or emotional harm to an individual based on their gender. This paper provides a scoping review of research on gender-based violence among Somali refugee women in different parts of the world. Using the socio-ecological model as a framework, we reviewed 30 empirical studies focusing on some form of GBV among Somali refugee women…

  • African American Women’s Maternal Healthcare Experiences

    Comfort Tosin Adebayo, Erin Sahlstein Parcell et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2022

  • The association between history of incarceration and heart disease

    Open AccessOluwatoyin Olukotun, Joni S Williams et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2022Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Influences of Demographic, Social Determinants, Clinical, Knowledge, and Self-Care Factors on Quality of Life in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes

    Open AccessOluwatoyin Olukotun, Olaitan Akinboboye et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2021

  • Promoting the health of refugee women

    Open AccessMaren M Hawkins, Maren Hawkins et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2021

    The health of refugee women after settlement in a new country, can be adversely or positively affected by individual, interpersonal, community, and organizational factors. While much of the previous literature highlights these factors individually, there is a lack of comprehensive synthesis regarding how the factors interact to influence the health of refugee women. We conducted a thematic analysis in our literature review to elucidate how provid…

  • Race and Blackness

    Open AccessComfort Tosin Adebayo, Kimberly Walker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transcultural Nursing2020

    Effective communication is integral to the patient–provider relationship. Yet, as a result of structural factors that ignore the unique health care needs of different populations of patients who identify as Black—both African American and African immigrants—are confronted with communication challenges during health care seeking encounters. Using cultural safety as a framework, in this article, we thematically review communication challenges speci…

  • Trends in Obesity and Medical Expenditure among Women with Diabetes, 2008-2016

    Joni S Williams, Kaiwei Lu et al.ARTICLEEthnicity & Disease2020

    These findings suggest the need to further understand the factors associated with differences in trends for medical expenditures between NHB and NHW women with diabetes and incremental medical expenditures in Hispanic women with diabetes compared with NHW women with diabetes

  • Lessons Learned From the Recruitment of Undocumented African Immigrant Women for a Qualitative Study

    Open AccessOluwatoyin Olukotun, Lucy Mkandawire-ValhmuARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020Cited by: 5References: 36

    Although undocumented immigrants represent a particularly vulnerable population, they are underrepresented in health research. To facilitate the engagement of undocumented immigrants in health research, in this article, we describe the methodological issues encountered while conducting a qualitative study where we sought to understand the health care-seeking experiences of undocumented African immigrant women in the United States. Strategies empl…

  • Navigating complex realities

    Oluwatoyin Olukotun, Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu et al.ARTICLEHealth Care For Women International2019

    Undocumented immigrants encounter a myriad of complex barriers to health care access, negatively impacting their health outcomes. In this qualitative study we aimed to understand the barriers to health care for undocumented African immigrant women in the United States as well as how women navigate these barriers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 undocumented African immigrant women. Our findings indicate that undocumented African…

  • Enhancing Healthier Birth Outcomes by Creating Supportive Spaces for Pregnant African American Women Living in Milwaukee

    Open AccessLucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, Lorraine Lathen et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2018