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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Examining Associations Between Social Needs and Mental Health Among Youth and Young Adults With Diabetes, Andrea Danielle Brown

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Multilevel Description of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia Among Humans, Animals, and the Environment in Miraflores, Colombia, and South Carolina, USA, Lidia Gual Gonzalez

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A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Infectious Causes of Congenital Morbidity and Mortality in Central America: TORCH, El Salvador, Mary Katherine Lynn

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Food Insecurity in Youth and Young Adults With Diabetes: Prevalence and Association With Health Behaviors, Lauren Helene Martini

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Prenatal Depression and Breastfeeding Practices Healthy Start Participants, 2019-2022, Peyton Ashleigh Mosher

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Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Risk of Liver Cancer, Longgang Zhao

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Longitudinal Relation of Dietary Quality and Hemoglobin A1C in Youth and Young Adults With Diabetes, Hope Bercaw

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Unearthing an Emerging Neglected Bacterial Disease: Evidence of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses in El Salvador, Kyndall Christian Braumuller

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Longitudinal Assessment of Hospital Utilization Among Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and Mothers with Opioid Use, Florida 1998-2018, Amanda Louise Elmore

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Extensions of Discrete Choice Experiment Theory for Public Health, Farahnaz Islam

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Trajectories, Prevention Strategies, and Health Impacts of Perinatal Depression, Sabrina Karim

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Novel Dietary Index for Gut Microbiota and Associations With Colorectal Cancer and Breast Cancer Risk, Bezawit Eyob Kase

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Rural-Urban Differences in Survival Among People With Early Onset Colorectal Cancer, Radhika Ranganathan

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The Impact of Cannabis and Alcohol Use on the Management of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, Joshua Eric Sellner

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Association Between Postpartum Weight Retention and the Dietary Inflammatory Index, Nyrobi Tyson

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Associations of the FTO Gene and Risk of Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Avery Ulrich

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Topics in Multilevel Mediation Analysis, Chung Li Wu

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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The Inflammatory Potential of Diet and its Relationship with Metabolic, Mental, and Cardiovascular Health among Childhood Cancer Survivors: The St. Jude Lifetime Cohort Study (SJLIFE), Christian Ricardo Alvarado

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Association of NSAIDs and Acetaminophen Prescriptions During Pregnancy With Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Child, Mohiuddin Ahsanul Kabir Chowdhury

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A Multilevel and Spatial Analysis of Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer in South Carolina, Deborah M. Hurley

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Utilization of Remote Sensing to Analyze AEDES Mosquito Egg Abundance With Combined Weather Variables in Two Southeastern Coastal Cities, Danielle M. Johnson

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Diabetes, Anti-diabetic Medication Use, and the Risk of Ovarian Cancer, Chantaezia Joseph

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Household Food Security, Lifestyle Factors, and Glycemic Control Among Youth and Young Adults With Diabetes, Lauren A. Reid

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Dysbiosis-Related Medications and the Association With Cognitive Decline, Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia, Nicholas Victor Resciniti

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Intersection of Maternal Disability Status, Prescription Opioid Use Before And During Pregnancy, and Adverse Birth Outcomes, Chelsea Lynes Richard

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The Current State of Health Care Facility Preparedness, Health Care Utilization, and COVID-19 Knowledge Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Malaria-Endemic Setting of Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe, Julia Grace Scott

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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An Examination Between Neighborhood Characteristics and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias and Caregiver Mental Health in South Carolina, Dana Mahmoud AlHasan

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The Impact of Psychosocial, Clinical, and Neighborhood Factors on Inflammatory Outcomes Among African American Women, Malcolm Seth Bevel

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Surveying Tuberculosis Screening Practices of South Carolina Hospital Employees, Tamara T. Carree

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Circulating Calcium, Phosphorus, and Parathyroid Hormone and Aggressive Prostate Cancer in the North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project, Brittany Crawford

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The Interaction Between Caffeine Consumption, Alcohol Use, and Amount of Sleep on Bone Health, Haley Davis-Martin

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Associations Between County-Level Socioeconomic Status and Opioid Overdose Rates in Northern New England, Samuel Godfrey

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Association Between Urinary Enterolignans as a Marker for Gut Microbiome Diversity and Depression in NHANES, Marie Knoll

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Gestational Infections and Obesity: Implications for Intellectual Disability Risk, Maggie S. J. McCarter

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Optimal Pregnancy Outcomes and Subsequent Postnatal Development, Maria Sevoyan

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The Practical Advantages and Disadvantages of Laplace Regression as an Alternative to Cox Proportional Hazards Model: A Comparison via Simulation, Sydney Smith

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Intracranial Atherosclerotic Stenosis and Its Association With Inflammation and Meditarrenean Diet, Tushar Trivedi

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Prevalence Trends of Victimization among High School Students by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender – YRBSS 2009-2017, Carlos Avalos

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Identifying Predictors of Racial Disparity in Treatment and Mortality Among Patients Diagnosed with Breast Cancer in South Carolina, Oluwole Adeyemi Babatunde

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Exploring Breast Cancer Care Variation in CoC-Accredited Facilities, Sarah Grace Barron

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Extension of Risk-Based Measure of Time-Varying Prognostic Discrimination for Survival Models, Shujie Chen

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Association Between SNPs in the Vitamin D Binding Protein, Vitamin D Status, and Aggressive Prostate Cancer by Race, Diana Diaz

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An Evidence Based Rationale for Making Tick - borne Relapsing Fever a Nationally Notifiable Disease, Kyle M. Hatcher

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Disparities in Colorectal Cancer: Measuring Spatial Accessibility, Screening, and Surveillance Outcomes in South Carolina, Michele J. Josey

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Individual- and Community- Level Associations With Healthcare Utilization Among a Health System, Emergency Department Population, Carlene A. Mayfield

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Effect of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback on Sleep, Joshua Mercadel

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Adverse Birth Outcomes Among Women with Physical Disabilities: A Retrospective Cohort Study in South Carolina, Iffat Nahar

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Disparities in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in the United States: An Examination of Treatment, Survival, and Access to Care, Cassie Lewis Odahowski

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Dietary Advanced Glycation End-Products (Ages) and Breast Cancer Risk and Survival, Omonefe Opeyemi Omofuma

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Longitudinal Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms Among Youth and Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes: Predictors and Health Outcomes, Melanie Whitmire Sutherland

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The Association of Cardiorespiratory Fitness with Advancing Age Among Those With and Without Type II Diabetes, Amber Kathlyn Watson

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Role of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback in Cognitive Performance, Chronic Pain, and Related Symptoms, James P. Winstead

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes in South Carolina 2009-2015, Andrew Tyler Broadway

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Association Of Objective Measures Of Sleep And Inflammation Markers On Police Officers: A Cross-Sectional Analysis, Megan R. Buss

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Effect Modification By Stroke To The Relationship Between Tooth Loss And Cognitive Decline, Amanda Collins

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Polyp Detection During Colonoscopy Among Uninsured Patients In South Carolina, Lauren Hill

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A Longitudinal Analysis Of Shiftwork And Self-Reported Depression In A Police Cohort, Meghan Holst

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Hiv In The United States: A Spatial Examination Of Testing And Outcomes, Sazid Shameem Khan

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Chronic Conditions Profiles and Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Control Among a Diverse Sample of Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Tsion Kidanie

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Food Insecurity And Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment And Control, Alexandra N. Luttrell

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Food Acquisition And Shopping Patterns And Associations With Body Mass Index, Xiaonan Ma

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Comparative Effectiveness of Conventional and Novel Sampling Methods for the Recruitment of Sexual Minority Identified Women, Sarah M. Piperato

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Sleep, Shiftwork Adaptation, Autonomic Dysfunction, And Metabolic Syndrome, Torrance Torrance

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Analysis of Food Exposures in Foodborne Disease Outbreaks, Alecia T. Alianell

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Assessing The Relationship Between Periodontal Disease And Subsequent Inflammatory Responses And Headache Disorders, Bryn E. Davis

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Utilization Of Lung Cancer Screening And Molecular Testing To Improve Lung Cancer Outcomes, Jennifer Lynne Ersek

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Development Of An Estrogen-Related Dietary Pattern And Lifestyle Score To Examine Breast Cancer Risk In Postmenopausal Women, Mark Andrew Guinter

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Effectiveness of Community-Based EIBI Treatment: A Longitudinal Analysis of Adaptive Behavior and Language Outcomes, John Kuntz

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Socially Assigned Race, Reactions to Perceived Racial Discrimination and Type II Diabetes Mellitus, Jourdyn A. Lawrence

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Early Life Factors And Health Outcomes In Children And Mothers, Olubunmi Olufunke Orekoya

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The Association between Sexual Risk Behaviors of Latinos and HIV Knowledge in South Carolina, Danielle Nicole Sill

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Effects of a Mindfulness Based Intervention on Diurnal Cortisol in Cancer Survivors, Susannah Small

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Association of Gestational Weight Gain during Twin Gestations and Adverse Maternal Outcomes, Kerry Spillane

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The Impact of Autoimmune Disease on Breast Cancer Survival, Samantha Truman

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Association between Diabetes and Cancer in Indian and US Populations using Longitudinal Study Design, Shraddha S. Vyas

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Trends in Gestational Weight Gain in South Carolina, 2004 - 2015, Marilyn Elizabeth Wende

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A Possible Mechanism For Leptin’s Role In Lung Function Independent Of Body Mass Index: Investigating Leptin’s Genotype, DNA, Methylation, And Serum Protein Levels, Mitra Yousefi

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Marginal Structural Cox Model for Survival Data with Treatment-Confounder Feedback, Yanan Zhang

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Inflammatory Potential of Diet And Pancreatic Cancer Risk: Interaction And Mediation Analysis In Two Prospective Cohorts, Jiali Zheng

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Sleep Disorder Trends, Epigenetic Markers, And Genetic Variation Of Circadian Genes In Adenomatous Polyp Formation, Melannie Alexander

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The Association Between Physical Activity And Serum Immunoglobulin G (IGG) Antibodies Against Periodontal Bacteria, A. Paige Anderson

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Score Test Derivations and Implementations for Bivariate Probability Mass and Density Functions with an Application to Copula Functions, Roy Bower

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Depression Among Pregnant Latinas In South Carolina, Andrew Fogner

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The Influence Of Prenatal And Early Life Factors On BMI Z Scores And The Risk Of Being Obese In Early Childhood, Junxiu Liu

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Relationships Of Chronotype, Social Jetlag, Sleep, Physical Activity And Diet With Mood, Perceived Stress, Obesity, Blood Pressure And Prostate Cancer, Daria M. McMahon

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Progesterone-Only Oral Contraceptive Pill, Breast Cancer, Heart Disease, and Stroke, Marsha Ema Samson

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The Influence of Fine Particulate Matter on Inflammatory Bowel Disease In South Carolina: An Ecological Analysis, Joshua Eric Sellner

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Influence of Thyroid Disorders On Pregnancy Outcomes, Brittany Sullivan

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Influence Of Built Environment On Physical Activity Outcomes Among African Americans In Community-Based Obesity Intervention Studies, Amanda Sue Thomas

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The Reflected-Shifted-Truncated-Gamma Distribution for Negatively Skewed Survival Data with Application to Pediatric Nephrotic Syndrome, Sophia D. Waymyers

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Spatio-Temporal Analysis Of The Occupational Fatal Victimization Of Law Enforcement Officers In The US, Xueyi Xing

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Sample Size Calculation For PH Mixture Cure Model, Yihong Zhan

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Environmental Exposures And Childhood Pulmonary Function, Pallavi Prakash Balte

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Individual- and Neighborhood-Level Determinants of Emergency Department Utilization Among Patients with Diabetes in South Carolina, Charity B. Breneman

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Soil Arsenic and Lead Concentrations and Preterm Birth: Investigating Racial Disparities, Sources, Neighborhood Effects, and Spatial Patterns, Pamela Harley Thornton Davis

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Diagnostics and Model Selection for Generalized Linear Models and Generalized Estimating Equations, Chelsea Boquet Deroche

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Food Security Status And Life Events Among Households With Children In The Midlands Of South Carolina, Erin Rebekah Drucker

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Genetic and Epigenetic Variations in Asthma and Wheeze Illnesses, Todd M. Everson

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Geographic Accessibility to Health Services and Neonatal Mortality Among Very Low Birthweight Infants in South Carolina, Portavia Featherstone

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Longitudinal Association between Television Watching, Computer Use and Meal Frequency and Risk Markers in Diabetes among Youth with Diabetes, Chao Li