PI: Michelle Redmond, Ph.D., M.S. (KU Medical Center – Wichita)
Co-Investigators: Rebecca Lepping, Ph.D. (KU Medical Center), Deanna Hanson-Abromeit, Ph.D., MT-BC (KU – Lawrence)
Community Partner: Dr. Michelle Vann, Sistahs Can We Talk
Project Title: Exploring Life Course and Everyday Stressors in the Lives of Pregnant and Postpartum Women: The Role of Music Therapy as an Intervention Tool
Michelle Redmond, Ph.D., M.S., has always had an interest in women’s health and specifically looking at adverse health outcomes and how to improve them. As part of her research, she has been looking at how stress can impact women, especially African American women, and how stress, including discrimination stress, can cause negative birth outcomes.
And with literature in the public domain about music helping alleviate stress in some people, Redmond is collaborating with Rebecca Lepping, Ph.D., and Deanna Hanson-Abromeit, Ph.D., MT-B, to study whether music can help stress during pregnancy. The three met at a Kansas Birth Equity Network meeting and began looking for ways they could collaborate…
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