Gayenell Magwood
University of South Carolina-Columbia, SC·Public Health & Epidemiology
Chronic diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease cause more illness and early death in rural areas. Rural life adds stresses that make these conditions harder to manage, including distant health care, social isolation and money worries.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Social Science
- Topics
rural health
chronic disease
diabetes
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jun 2027
What they work on
- Refine the iCINGS FAM intervention through interviews and focus groups with rural community stakeholders, so that it fits individual, family, community and social needs for managing illness as a dyad.
- Test in a randomized controlled trial of 250 rural patient-carepartner dyads whether nurse- and community health worker-delivered iCINGS FAM improves quality of life compared with monthly general health promotion.
- Measure the intervention's effects on symptoms, dyadic confidence and social support in patients with chronic conditions and their informal carepartners.
- Identify individual- and family-level factors linked to quality of life and health outcomes in a subset of 50 dyads, such as economic stability, food security and social isolation, and explore community-level influences.
More about the research
Family members who act as informal carepartners carry much of the daily support, and their own health and quality of life can suffer too. This research treats the patient and the carepartner as one unit, called a dyad. It asks whether supporting the dyad together can improve health for both people.
Why it matters
Rural adults living with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and stroke, along with their family caregivers, could benefit from a practical, telehealth-supported program run by nurses and community health workers. If the program works, it could improve quality of life for both partners. It could also show which social needs, such as food security or isolation, health programs should target in rural communities.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
University of South Carolina-Columbia: 22 labs on PI Pages, $277M a year on research, 425 research doctorates a year.
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