Pediatric Psychology Lab Research
Current Projects
RAISE Sickle Cell Disease. This study is seeking to understand what undergraduate students know about sickle cell disease and to test different methods of increasing knowledge and empathy.
Voices in Transition (Led by graduate student Mariah Scott). This study will conduct qualitative interviews about the process of moving from pediatric to adult healthcare for sickle cell disease warriors.
Motivations for Participation in Bone Marrow Transplant Registry. This study collected data from undergraduate students to understand motivators for participating in stem cell transplant registries as a donor and messaging strategies to increase participation and registry diversity.
Sleep in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant. This study, funded by the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Control, used actigraphy and patient reported outcomes to describe sleep in the 2 weeks after patients undergo stem cell transplants. This study has led to ongoing quality improvement projects at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to improve overnight sleep.
Sleep Health in Early Childhood. In collaboration with the Early Learning Research Academy (ELRA) University School, we are conducted a survey of caregivers to understand how healthy sleep habits develop and how sleep and family functioning contributes to daytime behavior and academic functioning. We also completed qualitative interviews in a sub-sample of this cohort and are currently analyzing this data.
Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. We are currently analyzing sleep data from long-term childhood cancer survivors collected as part of the CCSS Cohort Study.
Publications