Thousands enrolled during first year of USF’s mental health in the workplace course
More than 4,500 professionals from some of the nation’s top companies, such as Microsoft, Amazon and Johnson & Johnson, enrolled in the first year of USF’s Mental Health and Wellness in the Workplace course. The free course developed by the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences in collaboration with the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay empowers business leaders to build healthy and engaged teams by teaching them how to approach common challenges related to mental and behavioral health and addiction in the workplace and provides insight on how to support employees. Read more.
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CSD associate professor shares expertise on accessible hearing health care
Michelle Arnold, AuD, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD), recently served as an expert panelist invited to contribute her research, expertise, and recommendations as part of a joint National Institutes of Health/U.S. Food and Drug Administration working group on accessible and affordable hearing health care. Arnold was selected to lead a discussion on hearing health care outcomes and consequences in the U.S. Read more.
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Aging studies PhD student reflects on CDC Public Health Law Fellowship experience
Natalia Babenko, MPH, a PhD student in the School of Aging Studies, is a spring 2024 fellow of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Public Health Law Fellowship. "This fellowship has provided me with invaluable experiences and opportunities, particularly in advocating for aging policies and addressing the unique health challenges faced by older adults," said Babenko. Read more about her experience in the program here.
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Being Mindful and Managing Emotions Can Help You Sleep Better
Media India
"Mindfulness is one of the best medicines to improve sleep, reduce stress and improve overall health, according to a new study led by University of South Florida researchers."
USF Health’s Joy McCann Culverhouse Provides Comprehensive Swallowing Care
USF Health
"'...part advocate, part detective, and, of course, a therapist–somebody who really works with a multidisciplinary team to try and rehabilitate that swallow,' said Jaimie Anderson, MS, CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS, a speech-language pathologist..."
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Mindfulness and Sleep Study
WCBS Radio (New York)
"Researchers at the University of South Florida are saying that mindfulness really helps improve our sleep quality. It reduces our stress. Mindfulness because they say mindfulness helps you focus..."
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Jaynes, C. M. (2024). Relative labor market utility perceptions and offending: A rational choice perspective on the benefits of licit and illicit work. Crime & Delinquency. doi:10.1177/00111287241258733
Katiraee, N., Berti, N., Das, A., Zennaro, I., Aldrighetti, R., Dimovski, V., Peljhan, D., Dobbs, D., Glock, C., Pacheco, G., Neumann, P., Ogawa, A., & Battini, D. (2024). A new roadmap for an age-inclusive workforce management practice and an international policies comparison. Open Research Europe, 4(85).
doi:10.12688/openreseurope.17159.2
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Smith, C. E., Mu, C. X., Venetto, A., Khan, A., Lee, S., & Small, B. J. (2024). Be present now, sleep well later: Mindfulness promotes sleep health via emotion regulation. Health Psychology. doi:10.1037/hea0001373
Tran, J. T., Rigg, K. K., Galea, J. T., & Kosyluk, K. A. (2024). Examining the effects of digital stories to address mental illness and sexual and gender minority-related stigma. Journal of Homosexuality, 1–18. doi:10.1080/00918369.2024.2368204
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Gerald Imaezue, PhD (CSD)
Adaptive Recursive Self-feedback for Improving Speech Production in Patients with Chronic Aphasia
Sponsor: Center for Smart Use of Technologies to Assess Real-world Outcomes (C-STAR), Shirley Ryan Ability Lab
5/1/2024-4/30/2025
Total Award Amount: $37,500
Stroke and aphasia impact millions globally, creating significant disease burdens. For stroke survivors with aphasia (SwA), linguistic differences and a shortage of speech-language pathologists hinder access to effective care. Utilizing cognitive self-feedback mechanisms shared across cultures could improve aphasia recovery and access to care. This study investigates the use of recursive self-feedback, an innovative procedure that relies solely on offline self-feedback loops to enhance goal-directed task performance.
Building on research showing impaired real-time feedback in SwA, recursive self-feedback allows users more time to engage compensatory cognitive processes for error detection and correction. Previous studies demonstrated that mobile health-based recursive self-feedback procedures improved sentence and spontaneous speech production in SwA. This study aims to optimize recursive self-feedback for facilitating SwA’s production of naturalistic spontaneous speech tasks of varying complexity within real-world settings. The study may lead to an adaptive procedure for personalized aphasia care, regardless of SwA's linguistic preferences.
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