COLE Lab

Cultivating Opportunities that Lead to Equity (COLE) Lab

Oklahoma State University

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  • Research

    The COLE lab's research examines health disparities and health behaviors among American Indian/Alaska Native (Indigenous) populations, including alcohol and substance use; exercise and eating patterns; and mental health. They also investigate social and individual determinants of health among AI/AN (Indigenous) peoples from both resilience and risk perspectives.

     

    This list includes current grant-funded research and additional projects (ongoing and upcoming data collection).

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    Empowering Indigenous college women to stop rape: A treatment development study   

    (Co-PIs: Anderson & Cole, 09/01/2020-08/01/2021; Peace Outside Campus: The Lindsey M. Bonistall Foundation Grant & North Dakota State EPSCoR Office Grant)

     

    This multi-site project uses mixed methods and aims to develop a culturally adapted intervention to empower Indigenous women and their communities to reduce rape while in college at Tribal colleges and at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) in North Dakota and Oklahoma.

     

    Indigenous Vision MMIW Logo used with permission https://www.indigenousvision.org/mmiwarriors/

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    Mindfulness as a Potential Moderator Between the Historical Trauma Response and Substance Use Among American Indian Adults

    This study seeks to better understand the impacts of historical trauma, substance use, and mindfulness among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) adults. Specifically, the project examines the relations between the historical trauma response and substance use among AI/AN adults by incorporating mindfulness as a potential moderating factor. This study is being conducted to fulfill Cassidy Armstrong's master's thesis requirement.

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    Cognition and Resilience in Relation to Negative Life Events

    This study seeks to investigate cognitive appraisal patterns, cultural factors, resilience factors, and health behaviors as they relate to experienced negative life events. Specifically, the study's aims include: 1) examining associations between cognitive appraisal patterns and PTSD symptoms among racially/ethnically diverse college students, and 2) identify potential protective factors that may moderate the relation between negative cognitive appraisals and PTSD symptoms.

  • Collaborators

    Click the names listed below to find out more about my collaborators.

    OSU Collaborators

    External Collaborators

    RaeAnn Anderson, Ph.D.

    (University of North Dakota)

    Courtney Bagge, Ph.D.

    (University of Michigan)

    Michael Businelle, Ph.D.

    (Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center)

    Dana Carroll, Ph.D.

    (University of Minnesota)

    Marshall Cheney, Ph.D.

    (University of Oklahoma)

    Hilary DeShong, Ph.D.

    (Mississippi State University)

    Jessica Elm, Ph.D.

    Jami Gauthier, Ph.D.

    (Atlanta VAMC)

    Emily Hébert, DrPH

    (Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center)

    Ashley Helle, Ph.D.

    (University of Missouri)

    David Hollingsworth, Ph.D.

    (Tuscaloosa VAMC)

    Crystal S. Lim, Ph.D.

    (University of Mississippi Medical Center)

    Victoria O'Keefe, Ph.D.

    (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

    Sarah Rhoades-Kerswill, Ph.D.

    (Chickasaw Nation)

    Meredith Slish, Ph.D.

    (OKC VA)

    Melissa Walls, Ph.D.

    (John Hopkins School of Public Health)

     

  • PHOTO GALLERY

    See below for pictures of conference presentations and fun times with collaborators, friends, mentors, and mentees!

  • Organizational involvement & collaborators

    Click the links below to find out more about my national organization involvement and collaborators.

    The Native Children’s Research Exchange (NCRE; www.ncreconnect.org) brings together researchers studying child development from birth through emerging adulthood in Native communities. NCRE provides opportunities for the open exchange of information and ideas and for building collaborative relationships, supporting new investigators, and disseminating knowledge about Native children’s development. Supporting the career development of junior faculty and graduate students, particularly those who are American Indian, Alaska Native, or First Nations tribal community members, is central to NCRE’s mission.

    The Youth Suicide Research Consortium (YSRC; http://www.youthsuicideresearch.org/) is an interdisciplinary network of researchers dedicated to the study of youth suicidal behavior among diverse populations (i.e., diversity based on race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation, and ability), with an emphasis on understanding and decreasing disparities.

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