Melissa Gilliam
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6007306 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Melissa Gilliam |
| PRENOMES | Melissa |
| SOBRENOME | Gilliam |
| ASSINATURA | GILLIAM M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4881-3572 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Using Digital Games to Promote Equity in Career and Health Education
Black and Latinx adolescents in urban schools can derive numerous benefits from tailored career and health education. However, many factors may prevent schools and teachers from offering such programing. To address the need for career and health education, we prototyped Caduceus Quest, a theory-based, digital role-playing game designed to provide information on health and biomedical science careers and sexual health (specifically HIV) for Black a…
Are Illinois Contraceptive Providers Comfortable Providing Care to Adolescents? Results From a Statewide Provider Needs Assessment
Using body mapping to explore gender with adolescents in Uttar Pradesh
Young women and girls in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India, face gender inequalities, which threaten their health and well-being. This study used body mapping, a visual participatory research method, to learn from adolescents ages 15 to 17 living in Lucknow slums about how gender norms affect their daily experiences. Forty adolescents participated in body mapping. Their body maps and narratives about those maps demonstrate that starting in adolescence, f…
Understanding Adolescents Experiences with Gender-Based Norms in India through a Participatory Storytelling Game
In India, gender inequalities have deleterious effects on reproductive health outcomes among women and girls. This study used an interactive storytelling game as a qualitative data collection approach to learn about adolescents’ experiences and societal norms regarding gender. Eight sessions were conducted with a total of 30 girls and 10 boys (ages 15–17). Participants created characters, themes, and locations for the stories and shared experienc…
Youth Reproductive Justice
Distance to an Abortion Provider and Its Association with the Abortion Rate
Distance to a provider may present a barrier to abortion by preventing access to care. Therefore, policies that increase travel distances have potential for harm
Negotiating Masculinity in a Women's Space
Although women are the focal point of abortion care, a woman's male partner may accompany her to the abortion appointment. Using Connell's 'hierarchy of masculinities' framework, this study examines how male partners negotiate their identity and role in an unfamiliar setting while their female partners undergo an abortion. Twenty-seven in-depth interviews with male partners of women obtaining abortions at a community-based and a university-based …
Understanding young women’s experiences of gender inequality in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh through story circles
Gender inequality poses grave consequences for young women's health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to understand how gender influences the lives of young women living in urban slums of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India using story circles as a research methodology. Narrative-based participatory methods like story circles (which involves sharing individual stories in a group circle on a given topic) can provide the nuance and detail needed t…
Well-woman Care Barriers and Facilitators of Low-income Women Obtaining Induced Abortion after the Affordable Care Act
Supporting Women at the Time of Abortion
Positive narratives regarding men's support for the abortion decisions of their partners provide a counterpoint to commonly held negative narratives. Future research should explore how supportive men who accompany partners at the time of an abortion may improve women's abortion experiences
Reinvigorating adolescent sexuality education through alternate reality games
This paper presents findings from a focus group study conducted to evaluate The Source, an alternate reality game (ARG). ARGs are a relatively new genre of interactive digital games that use a variety of media to engage game players. We developed modules on sexual health, sexual orientation, and homophobia in a game that was delivered to 133 predominantly African-American and Latino US youth. Ten focus groups were conducted with 43 young people a…
“Because if we don’t talk about it, how are we going to prevent it?”
This paper describes the development and evaluation of an interactive, narrative-based, multimedia game to promote learning and communication about sexual violence and health topics. High school-aged participants created the game concept in a three-week workshop, after which assets were assembled and refined by a university-based game design lab. The outcome, Lucidity, was a multimedia game with a nonlinear narrative that led to two different out…
Is Larc for Everyone? A Qualitative Study of Sociocultural Perceptions of Family Planning and Contraception Among Refugees in Ethiopia
Factors Shaping Women's Pre-abortion Communication with Their Regular Gynecologic Care Providers
Variation in Pregnancy Options Counseling and Referrals, And Reported Proximity to Abortion Services, Among Publicly Funded Family Planning Facilities
A better understanding of disparities in provision of pregnancy options counseling and referrals at publicly funded family planning clinics is needed to ensure that women get timely care
Differences in Family Planning Services by Rural–urban Geography
While important characteristics, such as clinics' specialization (or lack thereof), are linked to the provision of family planning services, geographic disparities exist
Postpartum Contraception Use by Urban/Rural Status
Factors Influencing Parental Involvement Among Minors Seeking an Abortion
Objectives. We explored factors that influenced whether minors involved or excluded a parent when seeking an abortion. Methods. In the summer of 2010, we conducted interviews with 30 minors who sought an abortion in a state that did not require parental involvement at the time. Interviews were coded and analyzed following the principles of the grounded theory method. Results. The majority of minors involved a parent. Commonly cited factors were c…
Interventions Using New Digital Media to Improve Adolescent Sexual Health
Abortion‐Seeking Minors’ Views on the Illinois Parental Notification Law
Many minors have deep concerns about the potential harm that could result from parental involvement laws. These opinions provide a valuable addition to the debate on such laws, which purportedly are intended to ensure minors' best interests
Virtual Sex Ed
This article is an introduction to the special issue of Sexuality Research and Social Policy, in which we give an overview and highlight the important themes covered by the featured articles. Each paper is based on a presentation given at an interdisciplinary conference, Virtual Sex Ed: Youth, Race, Sex, and New Media, hosted by the Section of Family Planning and Contraceptive Research within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the C…
New Media and Research
Defining New Categories of Pregnancy Intention in African-American Women
Perceived Benefits and Barriers to Family Planning Education among Third Year Medical Students
Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to explore third- year medical students’ interest in learning about family planning, exposure to family planning (contraception and abortion) and perceived barriers and benefits to family planning education in their obstetrics and gynecology rotation.Method: We conducted four focus groups with 27 third-year medical students near the end of their rotation in obstetrics and gynecology.Results: Students d…
The Role of Parents and Partners in the Pregnancy Behaviors of Young Latinas
Pregnancy among young Latinas demands attention. These teens have higher birthrates than other teen populations. Seven focus groups ( N = 40) were conducted with Latinas to explore how relationships between young Latinas and their mothers, fathers, and male partners contribute to teen pregnancy. ATLAS/ti (a qualitative data analysis software program) was used to assist in coding and analysis of data. Salient themes were identified. Mothers rely o…
Differences in Family Planning Services by Rural–urban Geography
While important characteristics, such as clinics' specialization (or lack thereof), are linked to the provision of family planning services, geographic disparities exist
The Role of Parents and Partners in the Pregnancy Behaviors of Young Latinas
Pregnancy among young Latinas demands attention. These teens have higher birthrates than other teen populations. Seven focus groups ( N = 40) were conducted with Latinas to explore how relationships between young Latinas and their mothers, fathers, and male partners contribute to teen pregnancy. ATLAS/ti (a qualitative data analysis software program) was used to assist in coding and analysis of data. Salient themes were identified. Mothers rely o…
Distance to an Abortion Provider and Its Association with the Abortion Rate
Distance to a provider may present a barrier to abortion by preventing access to care. Therefore, policies that increase travel distances have potential for harm
Abortion‐Seeking Minors’ Views on the Illinois Parental Notification Law
Many minors have deep concerns about the potential harm that could result from parental involvement laws. These opinions provide a valuable addition to the debate on such laws, which purportedly are intended to ensure minors' best interests
Supporting Women at the Time of Abortion
Positive narratives regarding men's support for the abortion decisions of their partners provide a counterpoint to commonly held negative narratives. Future research should explore how supportive men who accompany partners at the time of an abortion may improve women's abortion experiences
Variation in Pregnancy Options Counseling and Referrals, And Reported Proximity to Abortion Services, Among Publicly Funded Family Planning Facilities
A better understanding of disparities in provision of pregnancy options counseling and referrals at publicly funded family planning clinics is needed to ensure that women get timely care
Factors Influencing Parental Involvement Among Minors Seeking an Abortion
Objectives. We explored factors that influenced whether minors involved or excluded a parent when seeking an abortion. Methods. In the summer of 2010, we conducted interviews with 30 minors who sought an abortion in a state that did not require parental involvement at the time. Interviews were coded and analyzed following the principles of the grounded theory method. Results. The majority of minors involved a parent. Commonly cited factors were c…
New Media and Research
The Role of Parents and Partners in the Pregnancy Behaviors of Young Latinas
Pregnancy among young Latinas demands attention. These teens have higher birthrates than other teen populations. Seven focus groups ( N = 40) were conducted with Latinas to explore how relationships between young Latinas and their mothers, fathers, and male partners contribute to teen pregnancy. ATLAS/ti (a qualitative data analysis software program) was used to assist in coding and analysis of data. Salient themes were identified. Mothers rely o…
Perceived Benefits and Barriers to Family Planning Education among Third Year Medical Students
Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to explore third- year medical students’ interest in learning about family planning, exposure to family planning (contraception and abortion) and perceived barriers and benefits to family planning education in their obstetrics and gynecology rotation.Method: We conducted four focus groups with 27 third-year medical students near the end of their rotation in obstetrics and gynecology.Results: Students d…
Defining New Categories of Pregnancy Intention in African-American Women
Virtual Sex Ed
This article is an introduction to the special issue of Sexuality Research and Social Policy, in which we give an overview and highlight the important themes covered by the featured articles. Each paper is based on a presentation given at an interdisciplinary conference, Virtual Sex Ed: Youth, Race, Sex, and New Media, hosted by the Section of Family Planning and Contraceptive Research within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the C…
New Media and Research
Interventions Using New Digital Media to Improve Adolescent Sexual Health
Abortion‐Seeking Minors’ Views on the Illinois Parental Notification Law
Many minors have deep concerns about the potential harm that could result from parental involvement laws. These opinions provide a valuable addition to the debate on such laws, which purportedly are intended to ensure minors' best interests
Factors Influencing Parental Involvement Among Minors Seeking an Abortion
Objectives. We explored factors that influenced whether minors involved or excluded a parent when seeking an abortion. Methods. In the summer of 2010, we conducted interviews with 30 minors who sought an abortion in a state that did not require parental involvement at the time. Interviews were coded and analyzed following the principles of the grounded theory method. Results. The majority of minors involved a parent. Commonly cited factors were c…
Postpartum Contraception Use by Urban/Rural Status
Reinvigorating adolescent sexuality education through alternate reality games
This paper presents findings from a focus group study conducted to evaluate The Source, an alternate reality game (ARG). ARGs are a relatively new genre of interactive digital games that use a variety of media to engage game players. We developed modules on sexual health, sexual orientation, and homophobia in a game that was delivered to 133 predominantly African-American and Latino US youth. Ten focus groups were conducted with 43 young people a…
“Because if we don’t talk about it, how are we going to prevent it?”
This paper describes the development and evaluation of an interactive, narrative-based, multimedia game to promote learning and communication about sexual violence and health topics. High school-aged participants created the game concept in a three-week workshop, after which assets were assembled and refined by a university-based game design lab. The outcome, Lucidity, was a multimedia game with a nonlinear narrative that led to two different out…
Is Larc for Everyone? A Qualitative Study of Sociocultural Perceptions of Family Planning and Contraception Among Refugees in Ethiopia
Factors Shaping Women's Pre-abortion Communication with Their Regular Gynecologic Care Providers
Variation in Pregnancy Options Counseling and Referrals, And Reported Proximity to Abortion Services, Among Publicly Funded Family Planning Facilities
A better understanding of disparities in provision of pregnancy options counseling and referrals at publicly funded family planning clinics is needed to ensure that women get timely care
Differences in Family Planning Services by Rural–urban Geography
While important characteristics, such as clinics' specialization (or lack thereof), are linked to the provision of family planning services, geographic disparities exist
Well-woman Care Barriers and Facilitators of Low-income Women Obtaining Induced Abortion after the Affordable Care Act
Supporting Women at the Time of Abortion
Positive narratives regarding men's support for the abortion decisions of their partners provide a counterpoint to commonly held negative narratives. Future research should explore how supportive men who accompany partners at the time of an abortion may improve women's abortion experiences
Understanding young women’s experiences of gender inequality in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh through story circles
Gender inequality poses grave consequences for young women's health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to understand how gender influences the lives of young women living in urban slums of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India using story circles as a research methodology. Narrative-based participatory methods like story circles (which involves sharing individual stories in a group circle on a given topic) can provide the nuance and detail needed t…
Youth Reproductive Justice
Distance to an Abortion Provider and Its Association with the Abortion Rate
Distance to a provider may present a barrier to abortion by preventing access to care. Therefore, policies that increase travel distances have potential for harm
Negotiating Masculinity in a Women's Space
Although women are the focal point of abortion care, a woman's male partner may accompany her to the abortion appointment. Using Connell's 'hierarchy of masculinities' framework, this study examines how male partners negotiate their identity and role in an unfamiliar setting while their female partners undergo an abortion. Twenty-seven in-depth interviews with male partners of women obtaining abortions at a community-based and a university-based …
Understanding Adolescents Experiences with Gender-Based Norms in India through a Participatory Storytelling Game
In India, gender inequalities have deleterious effects on reproductive health outcomes among women and girls. This study used an interactive storytelling game as a qualitative data collection approach to learn about adolescents’ experiences and societal norms regarding gender. Eight sessions were conducted with a total of 30 girls and 10 boys (ages 15–17). Participants created characters, themes, and locations for the stories and shared experienc…
Are Illinois Contraceptive Providers Comfortable Providing Care to Adolescents? Results From a Statewide Provider Needs Assessment
Using body mapping to explore gender with adolescents in Uttar Pradesh
Young women and girls in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India, face gender inequalities, which threaten their health and well-being. This study used body mapping, a visual participatory research method, to learn from adolescents ages 15 to 17 living in Lucknow slums about how gender norms affect their daily experiences. Forty adolescents participated in body mapping. Their body maps and narratives about those maps demonstrate that starting in adolescence, f…
Using Digital Games to Promote Equity in Career and Health Education
Black and Latinx adolescents in urban schools can derive numerous benefits from tailored career and health education. However, many factors may prevent schools and teachers from offering such programing. To address the need for career and health education, we prototyped Caduceus Quest, a theory-based, digital role-playing game designed to provide information on health and biomedical science careers and sexual health (specifically HIV) for Black a…
Psychology (18 obras) · Medicine (17 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Reproductive Health and Contraception (13 obras) · Family medicine (11 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (10 obras) · Population (10 obras) · Pregnancy (10 obras) · Environmental health (9 obras)