SNHS Assistant Professor Linda Eaton and STEM Teaching Professor Bryan White have been studying test anxiety and how to address it. “It’s been really great to have collaboration across schools and leverage our different expertise,” Eaton said. “We look forward to conducting this next study, and hopefully we will have more data and insight to share in the next year or two.” To learn more about this interdisciplinary collaboration and their findings, read the full article on 56�Թ���B news.

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Niitsu also presented another poster titled, Efforts to Advance the Mental Health Nursing Specialty through Engagement in Quality Improvement (QI), Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), and Research. He was a co-author with other psychiatric mental health nurse scientists, including:

• at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (lead author)
• at the University of Michigan
• at the Rush University, and
• at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

In this presentation, they explained similarities and differences between QI, EBP, and Research in terms of purpose, process, end-product, and practice. They also described how to optimize collaboration among psychiatric mental health nurses in different roles with regards to QI, EBP, and Research.

Niitsu has been serving on the , and this poster presentation is one of their products. Additionally, they have recently published an article titled, “”.

“Presenting at the national conference has given me a great opportunity to talk about who we are and what we do at 56�Թ��� Bothell”, Niitsu said. “It has been such a pleasure for me to tell the national and international audiences how we have been supporting mental health and well-being in our students and to represent 56�Թ��� Bothell”.

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This engagement award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is centered on the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on communities of color. The study’s main aims are to engage and connect with Black and Latinx populations in King and Snohomish Counties, including networks of community stakeholders, providers, and researchers to co-learn about patient-centered research; and to build partnerships with those that work with the communities. It is imperative that we partner with community members with lived experiences in order to learn and prioritize their health care needs.

Although the pandemic created catastrophic results, this collaborative project however helps to create an opportunity for community members, leaders, healthcare providers, researchers, and other stakeholders to come together to learn from one another and to give voice to issues that affect underserved communities. For example, some issues such as health care access, health insurance, and mental health concerns that arose from COVID-19 and their lingering effects continue to be of great burden for communities of color. Additionally, the participants will learn about basic research principles to prioritize and address mental health issues of concern.

The project lead and Principal Investigator for this patient-centered outcomes research is Dr. Hoa Appel, and the co-Principal Investigator is Dr. Mabel Ezeonwu. The community collaborators include Crystal Brown from , Rosario Reyes from the , John Agyapong from , and Summer Starr from (NAMI).

If you’d like to learn more about the study or to participate, please visit .

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Advocacy has become a key part of public health degree programs across the country. Many programs have added policy and advocacy courses into curricula in response to new emphases in accreditation requirements, yet few public health textbooks comprehensively cover the advocacy skills that health professionals need to effect change. This was the impetus that led SNHS professor, Dr. Jody Early, with co-editors, Drs. Keely Rees and Cicily Hampton to publish their new text,

Be the Change, published by Oxford University Press in October 2022, is an affordable, reader-friendly resource on public health advocacy for both undergraduate and graduate students within the health and social sciences.

The book features contributions from over 20 advocates, practitioners, and experts in the field (including a chapter co-authored by SNHS professor, Dr. Selina Mohammed). It highlights important advocacy work, case studies, stories, and wisdom from respected US health professionals, community organizers, and advocates in attempt to strengthen health-advocacy knowledge and skills for those working in public health and healthcare.

“This text was a labor of love, but also an act of solidarity during some of the darkest days of the pandemic and in our nation,” Early said. “What was going on around us strengthened our commitment to create this resource and to share wisdom from those who have been leading change for decades.”

Respected public health leaders and advocates, such as Angela Glover Blackwell and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, offered their support and praise for the text.

“This book is essential and timely,” wrote Glover-Blackwell, a Civil Rights activist and Founder in Residence at Policy Link. “It contains collective wisdom about what’s involved with creating change through effective advocacy and how to go the distance.”

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician, scholar, and activist who helped bring national attention to Flint’s toxic water crisis, added, “Be the Change is a timely and practical play-book that offers students the how-to skills for change-making. It is an essential read for all students who want to make the world a better place.”

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The CROW Connecting Bothell and Bellevue project was proposed by Ko Niitsu, Assistant Professor at 56�Թ��� Bothell School of Nursing & Health Studies, and Christina Lai, an undergraduate student majoring in Health Studies and minoring in Biology at 56�Թ��� Bothell. Lai has been working with Niitsu as an Research Assistant / Student Civic Fellow supported by the Washington Campus Compact.

Niitsu and his colleagues have previously developed an intervention to help 56�Թ��� Bothell students stay resilient during the pandemic through a pilot research project titled, Resilience through Virtual Mindfulness. “Christina was one of the participants of the mindfulness project” Niitsu said. “After the project was over, she approached to me and told me that not only college students but high school students are also struggling with mental health and wellbeing. This is how the idea of the CROW Connecting Bothell and Bellevue project was born”.

Niitsu and Lai are designing a project that college students at 56�Թ��� Bothell function as mentors for high school students in Bellevue. “I am a graduate of a high school in Bellevue, and I am now about to graduate from 56�Թ��� Bothell”, Lai said. “The last few years have been exceptionally challenging and taken a toll on us all. I would like to help youth build a strong foundation to thrive and prepare them for success”.

They are currently developing the IRB application, program content, and network. They are hoping to start recruiting participants in Autumn 2022 and implementing the project in Winter 2023 and/or later.

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