Regena Spratling, Ph.D.

Nursing Associate Professor

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I.  General Research Interest 

  1. Children Who Require Medical Technology
    1.  Child and adolescent experiences  
    2.  Caregiver perceptions and educational needs
    3.  Intervention development 
    4.  Health care utilization 
  2. Methodological Issues, Definitions of the Population, and Theory Development 
    1.  Methods for recruitment and data collection 
    2.  Definitions and terminology 
     –     Children who require medical technology and technology dependence 
    3.  Theoretical and conceptual analysis 
    – Resilience
    – Health literacy
  3. Care of Children with Chronic Illness and Complex Care Needs  
    a.  Tracheostomy and feeding tube care for children
    b.  Mothers of children with developmental disabilities
    c.      Hemoglobinopathies of sickle cell disease and thalassemia 

 II. Current Research Projects 

  1. Web-based Modules to Support Young Children Who Require Medical Technology 
    and Their Caregivers 
    a.  Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment: Symptom and Technology Management Resources (COPE-STAR) 
  2. The Use of Actigraphy and Videosomnography to Measure Sleep-Wake Patterns in Mothers and Their School-Aged Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Feasibility Study (Mentor; Lee- PI, nursing) 
  3. Association between Safety Perceptions and Medical Error Reporting among Nurses and Respiratory Therapists in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Mentor; Culbreath- PI, respiratory therapy) 

III.  Research Skills  

  1. Recruitment 
  2. Qualitative interviews 
  3. Development and adaptation of measures, surveys, and interview guides 
  4. Retrospective chart review and data abstraction 
  5. Integrative and systematic reviews 
  6. Web-based content and interventions 
  7. Qualitative and quantitative data analysis 

Complex chronic illness

Children and adolescents

Caregivers and families

Medical technology

Tracheostomy

Feeding tube

Technological dependence

Nursing

Advanced practice nursing

Intervention development and fidelity

Home care

Clinical guidelines and evidence-based practice

Qualitative analysis

Phenomenology

Quantitative analysis

Mixed methods

Symptom management

Data abstraction

Electronic health record

Complex care needs

Medically fragile

Systematic review

Blood donation

Sickle cell disease and thalassemia

Theory development

Resilience