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Cruising For Truckers On Highways And The Internet: Sexual Networks And Infection Risk, Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Sevil Sönmez, Mona Shattell, Jennie Kronenfeld, Donna Smith, Sarah Stanton
Cruising For Truckers On Highways And The Internet: Sexual Networks And Infection Risk, Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Sevil Sönmez, Mona Shattell, Jennie Kronenfeld, Donna Smith, Sarah Stanton
Mona Shattell
Empirical evidence on the heterosexual partnerships of long-haul truckers suggests connections among occupational stressors, substance misuse, structural factors, and risk for sexually transmitted infections and HIV. Yet the potential risks associated with same-sex partnerships of truckers and truckchasers (men who specifically cruise for truckers) remain largely unknown. Drawing from diverse sources as well as primary and secondary data from 173 truckers and “truckchasers,” we discuss how trucking and cruising contexts, in conjunction with Internet fora, jointly create a risk-enabling environment for truckers and their sex contacts. Findings point toward an elusive but extensive sexual network that spans across the Internet …
Barriers To Truck Drivers’ Healthy Eating: Environmental Influences And Health Promotion Strategies, Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Sevil Sönmez, Mona Shattell, Robert Strack, Laura Haldeman, Victoria Jones
Barriers To Truck Drivers’ Healthy Eating: Environmental Influences And Health Promotion Strategies, Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Sevil Sönmez, Mona Shattell, Robert Strack, Laura Haldeman, Victoria Jones
Mona Shattell
This article presents an assessment of 25 trucking work settings designed to examine whether the environmental attributes of these settings influence eating patterns of truckers who are at risk for excess weight gain. Findings corroborate evidence that these work settings represent healthy food deserts. From restaurants and vending machines to the social-information environments and their surrounding communities, only meager opportunities exist for healthful eating practices. This article aims to place underserved truckers and warehousing-sector employees firmly within the discourse of workplace health promotion and calls for multistakeholder wellness strategies that encompass the intertwined risk factors linked with the transportation work …
Do Nurse Educators Feel Competent To Teach Cultural Competency Concepts?, Sharon Starr, Mona Shattell, Clifford Gonzales
Do Nurse Educators Feel Competent To Teach Cultural Competency Concepts?, Sharon Starr, Mona Shattell, Clifford Gonzales
Mona Shattell
Cultural competence has been proposed as one way to reduce health disparities in racial and ethnic minority populations. Nursing program accreditation standards mandate the inclusion of cultural competence concepts in the nursing curricula; however, are nursing educators prepared to teach culturally competency concepts and do nurse educators feel competent? The purposes of this article are to examine the literature about nurse educators' comfort with cultural competency concepts and to provide some suggestions for improvement.
Working Hard To Relax: Improving Engagement In Leisure Time Activities For A Healthier Work-Life Balance, Linda Buettner, Mona Shattell, Madeleine Reber
Working Hard To Relax: Improving Engagement In Leisure Time Activities For A Healthier Work-Life Balance, Linda Buettner, Mona Shattell, Madeleine Reber
Mona Shattell
No abstract provided.
Treatment Of Persons With Mental Illness And Substance Use Disorders In Medical Emergency Departments In The United States, Mona Shattell, Melanie Andes
Treatment Of Persons With Mental Illness And Substance Use Disorders In Medical Emergency Departments In The United States, Mona Shattell, Melanie Andes
Mona Shattell
No abstract provided.
Assertive Community Treatment And The Physical Health Needs Of Persons With Severe Mental Illness: Issues Around Integration Of Mental Health And Physical Health, Mona Shattell, Natasha Donnelly, Anna Sheyett, Gary Cuddeback
Assertive Community Treatment And The Physical Health Needs Of Persons With Severe Mental Illness: Issues Around Integration Of Mental Health And Physical Health, Mona Shattell, Natasha Donnelly, Anna Sheyett, Gary Cuddeback
Mona Shattell
BACKGROUND: Assertive community treatment (ACT) is characterized as a service delivery platform and represents an ideal setting in which mental health and physical health care can be integrated. OBJECTIVE: Little is known about the extent to which ACT integrates physical health care with mental health care or the challenges ACT teams experience. To address this gap, focus groups were conducted with five ACT teams in a Midwestern US state to explore how ACT teams address the physical health care needs of persons with severe mental illness. DESIGN: A qualitative study design was used. RESULTS: Three major themes emerged: ACT teams …