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Performance Methodologies in Suicide Prevention Research: Queerness, Colonization, and Co-Performative Witnessing in Indigenous Community
Get PDFPerformance methodologies take many forms—performative writing, poetic transcription, and co-performative witnessing, to name only a few—and can be both process and product, differentiating and unifying a group between and across differences. As a social work researcher committed to decolonial, liberatory methodologies that make and bring meaning to the communities I work with, performance methodologies fill a gap that other qualitative research methods can only begin to approach. This project is an exploration in performance methodologies and Critical Suicidology through the lens of social work research, with a case study derived from a performance documenting suicide prevention research with Native Hawaiians. This study sought to understand connections between suicide risk and experiences of colonization among Native Hawaiians and among LGBTQ Native Hawaiians. The findings point to the importance of relationships, cultural understandings of identity and identification, and healing through cultural practices. Sections from the performative text, including voices from the participants, as well as feedback gathered from performances of the research, are woven together with academic narrative to form a creative and critical report of the research
Oregon State Rank Assessment for Wallowa Mountainbalm (Monardella walwaamaxsia)
Get PDFOregon state conservation status assessment for Wallowa mountainbalm (Monardella walwaamaxsia) using NatureServe methodology, 2025
Oregon State Rank Assessment for Kruckeberg Mountainbalm (Monardella kruckebergii)
Get PDFOregon state conservation status assessment for Kruckeberg mountainbalm (Monardella kruckebergii) using NatureServe methodology, 2025
Spread
No full textSpread is a genre-bending collection exploring predation, violence, and intimacy as connected, relational experiences. Interweaving essays chronicling relationships with ghosts, bugs, men, God, women, etc. and short fiction embodying non-human perspectives (a deer, bear, bird, and tsunami), Spread attempts to confront and merge with the unfamiliar, and to find tenderness there. It also articulates the urge to live as prey -- the desire to be consumed, and to consume -- and the simultaneous urge to live beyond this foregone conclusion
Preventing Carbon Emissions With Imaging-Based Civil Infrastructure Assessment And Evaluation
Get PDFFor concrete bridges without existing plans, simplified and highly conservative load rating (structural evaluation) methods may be used, which can lead to unnecessary load restrictions, unjustifiable strengthening, or in the worst case, preventable replacements. Avoiding these outcomes not only saves money but it prevents carbon emissions from longer travel and construction activities and resources associated with replacement.
This presentation discusses a case study of a prestressed concrete bridge that required a load rating, and for which no plans existed. Imaging and image fusion using radar and ultrasonic measurements taken from the top and bottom of the slab were performed to produce a digital cross-section of the bridge. Using this image, the location of the reinforcing steel, as well as the location, size, and content of internal air voids could be determined. After extracting these variables and using them in an improved load rating, load restrictions were found to not be necessary for this bridge.
The resulting digital-cross section not only provides useful information for structural evaluations, but it also represents a basis upon which the digitalization of our infrastructure can be achieved.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/trec_seminar/1254/thumbnail.jp
The Intersecting Association of Speaking a Non-Dominant Language and Lower Healthcare Access on Self-Reported Depression Among U.S. Adults: A Cross Sectional Study using NHANES Data (2015-March 2020)
Get PDFObjective: This analytic study examined the joint and independent associations between language preferences and healthcare access on moderate to severe depression among non-institutionalized adults living in the U.S., using data from the 2015 to March 2020 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
Methods: In this cross-sectional study design, we analyzed a nationally representative data set comprised of 11,051 participants. Multivariable logistic regression models were used to estimate the joint and independent associations between our dual exposures and moderate to severe depression, adjusting for key demographic variables based on our theoretical framework. We created categorical measures of preferred language (speaking a non-dominant or dominant language in the U.S.) and healthcare access (uninsured, inadequately insured, and adequately insured) based on previous research and theories of healthcare access. Depression severity was assessed using the validated Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). All measures were based on self-report.
Results: The prevalence of moderate to severe depression in the analytic sample was 8.2% (95% CI: 7.5%, 8.9%). Participants who spoke a non-dominant language and were adequately insured had a lower estimated prevalence of experiencing moderate to severe depression compared to the reference group (speaking a dominant language and adequately insured), with an observed adjusted OR of 0.89 (95% CI: 0.52, 1.52). In contrast, the prevalence odds of moderate-severe depression among those who spoke a dominant language and were inadequately insured was 1.56 times (95% CI: 1.11, 2.18) higher compared to the reference group. Compared to the referent group, participants with both co-exposures present (inadequate insurance and speaking a non-dominant language) had 0.66 (95% CI: 0.34, 1.30) times lower adjusted odds of reporting moderate to severe depression. Individuals who spoke a non-dominant language and were uninsured also reported a lower adjusted odds ratio of 0.51 (95% CI: 0.28, 0.93) of experiencing moderate to severe depression compared to those who spoke a dominant language and were uninsured, who reported an adjusted odds ratio of 1.17 (95% CI: 0.90, 1.52). The interactions between language and healthcare access with depression in the adjusted model and were significant below the p
Conclusion: Findings suggest that speaking a non-dominant language when adequately insured could be a protective factor for depression, independent of potential confounders. We also found evidence of an interaction between the healthcare access measure based on insurance status and speaking a non-dominant language. Our findings underscore the need for future research that extricates the effect of language use and healthcare access on depression by considering longitudinal designs, more comprehensive access measures, and mixed methods with a qualitative component that captures the lived experiences of multilingual participants
Primary Place to Go For Health Care and its Association with HPV Prevalence in US Adults: Results from NHANES 2013-2016
Get PDFBackground: While access to health care is a known risk factor for many infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted infections, little research has investigated the relationship between access to primary care services and prevalent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Given HPV’s prevalence in the general population and lack of available treatments, it is necessary to understand possible risk factors to identify areas for intervention. This study uses primary place to go for health services as a proxy measure for access to care, in order to understand which sources of health care are serving patients with the highest prevalence of HPV infections and thus would benefit most from prevention and vaccination programs.
Methods: Using population-based data from the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from the 2013-2014 and 2015-2016 cycles, we created minimally (adjusted for age) and fully adjusted (adjusted for age, sex, income, level of education, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation) multivariable logistic regression models to compare primary location to go for health care to prevalent HPV infection in adults ages 18-59 years. The final analytic sample included 6,466 participants.
Results: Forty-one percent of the final sample had a prevalent HPV infection (95% CI: 39-44%). In the minimally adjusted model, primarily using hospital emergency departments for health care was associated with 1.89 times the odds of prevalent HPV infection, compared to individuals who primarily go to doctor’s offices or HMOs (95% CI: 1.34, 2.65), while the fully adjusted model reported an odds ratio of 1.41 (95% CI: 1.00, 2.00).
Conclusion: There is evidence of an association of HPV prevalence with primary place to go for healthcare, particularly in hospital emergency departments. These finding suggest that emergency departments may be an effective location to target for HPV prevention interventions, such as vaccination and education. The understanding of potential underlying mechanisms should be the focus of further research
Assessing Behavioral Health Services in Oregon\u27s Rural Health Clinics
Get PDFThe purpose of this research project was to conduct an assessment of the current state of Behavioral Health Services (BHS) in Oregon’s Rural Health Clinics (RHCs). This project was housed within and funded by a grant received by The Oregon Office of Rural Health (ORH), an organization at OHSU with a mission to improve the quality, availability and accessibility of health care for rural Oregonians. In this project, I collected, compiled, and analyzed qualitative and quantitative data through a mixed-methods approach, using surveys and interviews, to evaluate the state and delivery of BHS in RHCs. Surveys and interviews aimed to uncover the needs, gaps, and services that RHCs face in implementing BHS. Participants were recruited electronically through an email-based newsletter and in-person at the 2024 Oregon Rural Health Conference. Thirty-one RHCs participated in this project; participation in the survey and interview were voluntary. Clinics routinely mentioned that workforce recruitment and retention was a challenge and support would be needed in this area to increase the capacity to provide BHS. I introduce three main ideas for future change necessary based on the results of this project: 1) Increased reimbursement for virtual/telehealth appointments; 2) Incentivising integrated behavioral health models; 3) Increase retention of Oregon graduates through residency programs, financial incentives, and more. Future research initiatives are also crucial to continue identifying gaps in BHS availability. Understanding these gaps will lead to equitable and accessible BHS in rural communities in the future
The Equity Imperative: Transforming Research Coproduction for Impact: Comment on “Research Coproduction: an Underused Pathway to Impact”
Get PDFCoproduction is not a new idea in implementation research, health research, or research in general. There is substantial scholarship that establishes its importance and provides guidance and examples for adoption. Given this, why do editorials like Rycroft-Malone et al’s recent paper, Research Coproduction: An Underused Pathway to Impact, continue to be published, and also, necessary? In this commentary, we discuss the importance of equity - not equality - as the underlying paradigm of coproduction research. We argue that it is the incomplete understanding and adoption of this equity paradigm by researchers and their institutions that inhibit coproduction from being fully realized and thus, impactful. We offer examples of what such a paradigm shift might look like, including futures thinking that yields difficult questions that must be addressed to dismantle systemic barriers to power redistribution
SCSHM Benchmark Study on Bridge In-Service Structural Monitoring
Get PDFThe mission of the Society of Civil Structural Health Monitoring (SCSHM, previously known as ISHMII) is to advance the understanding and application of structural monitoring methodologies for the management of civil infrastructure systems. To enable comparative and contrasting studies of various monitoring issues and technologies, the SCSHM Committee on Data-Enhanced Infrastructures Management (DEIMC) identified the need for benchmark problems in the areas of bridge and building structural monitoring. This article reports and briefly discusses the first benchmark study on in-service structural monitoring of bridges that was developed in collaboration with the University of Manitoba, and presents the structure details, study goals, data made available to the engineering community, and other relevant details. This paper has been submitted to the JCSHM as the outcome of the work of the DEIMC Committee of the SCSHM. However, since JCSHM does not publish at present papers without original experimental and or field monitoring components, data from this work cannot be used for publications in JCSHM