Kristie Hadden

Associate Professor

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

faculty

Medical Humanities and Bioethics, College of Medicine

14 h-index 63 pubs 770 cited

Research Areas

Health Literacy and Information Accessibility Primary Care and Health Outcomes Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology Health disparities and outcomes Healthcare Policy and Management Health and Medical Research Impacts Interprofessional Education and Collaboration

Links

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Kristie Hadden's research focuses on understanding the impact of health literacy on health outcomes and the development and testing of interventions to improve these outcomes. She is particularly interested in interprofessional research that addresses these areas.

Hadden directs the UAMS Center for Health Literacy and has published on topics including the readability and understandability of patient materials, particularly in the context of cancer survivorship. Her work also extends to the strategic planning and impact of academic medical centers, and the design and effectiveness of health interventions in rural settings, such as a randomized pragmatic trial for improving diabetes outcomes in rural family medicine clinics.

Her scholarly contributions include 63 publications, with an h-index of 14 and 770 citations. Hadden collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Stephanie M. Gardner, Cam Patterson, Pearman D. Parker, and Milan Bimali.

Research Overview

I am faculty in the colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Public Health, and Health Professions. I am interested in interprofessional research that focuses on better understanding of how health literacy affects health outcomes and developing/testing interventions to improve those outcomes. I am also the director of the UAMS Center for Health Literacy healthliteracy.uams.edu .

Metrics

  • h-index: 14
  • Publications: 63
  • Citations: 770

Selected Publications

  • Executing a Strategic Plan and Demonstrating Impact: An Academic Medical Center’s Mid-Cycle Update (2025) DOI
  • Effectiveness of a health literacy intervention to improve diabetes outcomes in rural family medicine clinics: a randomized pragmatic trial (2024) DOI
  • Unique Responsibilities and Challenges of the Lone Academic Medical Center (2024) DOI
  • Design and Impact of a Novel Rural Hospital Alliance (2024) DOI
  • From Strategic Planning to Strategy Impact (2021) DOI
  • What’s in Between the Lines: Assessing the Readability, Understandability, and Actionability in Breast Cancer Survivorship Print Materials (2021) DOI
  • 55179 An assessment of understandability and actionability in breast cancer survivorship print materials (2021) DOI

Research Interests

health literacy; Advance Directives; Diabetes education; Informed consent; population health; health communication; patient engagement; strategy

Grants & Funding

  • Data Coordinating and Operations Center for the ECHO IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network NIH Co-Investigator
  • Health Literacy and Emergency Preparedness Programs for Medicaid Recipients in Rural Arkansas US Department of Agriculture - Pass Through: University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service Principal Investigator
  • Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH): 2017 - 2018 Supplement - Resubmission Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Co-Investigator
  • Family Based Diabetes Self-Management Education Outcomes In Comparison to Standard Diabetes Self Management Education- Resubmission Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Co-Investigator
  • How To Find Out About Your Health NIH/National Library of Medicine - Pass Through: University of North Texas Health Science Center Principal Investigator
  • PPHF 2014: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) - financed in part by Prevention and Public Health Funding FOA DP14-1419PPHF14 Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Co-Investigator
  • Patient health literacy screening in Spanish: An Informatic Approach UAMS Intramural Grant (CTSA) Principal Investigator
  • Health Literacy Intervention to Improve Diabetes Outcomes among Rural Primary Care Patients NIH Principal Investigator

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Stephanie M. Gardner University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 4 shared publications Cam Patterson University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 3 shared publications Pearman D. Parker University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 2 shared publications Milan Bimali University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 1 shared publication Sumit Shah University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 1 shared publication Mayumi Nakagawa University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 1 shared publication Jon Parham University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 1 shared publication Jennifer Gan University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 1 shared publication

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