Stephanie Kelly

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• Hoying, J., Terry, A., Kelly, S., Gray-Bauer, R., & Melnyk, B. M. (2024). Comparative Outcomes of a Cognitive-Behavioral Skills Building Program on the Mental Health and Healthy Behaviors of Prenursing Students. Nurse educator.
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  Nursing students experience significantly more stress related diseases when compared to non-nursing students, and the state of their mental health can result in short-term increased attrition rates and increased nursing shortages.
• Moore, C., Kelly, S., & Melnyk, B. M. (2024). The use of mHealth apps to improve hospital nurses' mental health and well‐being: A systematic review. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 21(2), 110-119. doi:10.1111/wvn.12716
• Hoying, J., Terry, A., Kelly, S., & Melnyk, B. M. (2023). A cognitive-behavioral skills building program improves mental health and enhances healthy lifestyle behaviors in nurses and other hospital employees. Worldviews on evidence-based nursing, 20(6), 542-549.
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  Mental health outcomes in nurses have historically indicated a greater prevalence of anxiety, depression, and suicide than the general population. It is vital to provide programming for healthcare workers to gain the necessary skills to reduce burnout and improve their mental and physical health.
• Kelly, S. (2021). Psychometric Properties of the Healthy Lifestyle Beliefs Scale for Adolescents. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 35(3), 285-291.
• Kelly, S., Melnyk, B. M., & Hoying, J. (2020). Adolescents as Agents of Parental Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Change: COPE Healthy Lifestyles TEEN Program. Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners, 34(6), 575-583.
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  Obesity is a leading health crisis around the world. An intervention strategy scarcely utilized for behavior change is that of a child as change agent. The purpose of this study was to describe the impact of teens reviewing newsletters from a healthy lifestyle intervention with their parents.
• Melnyk, B. M., Kelly, S. A., Stephens, J., Dhakal, K., McGovern, C., Tucker, S., Hoying, J., McRae, K., Ault, S., Spurlock, E., & Bird, S. B. (2020). Interventions to Improve Mental Health, Well-Being, Physical Health, and Lifestyle Behaviors in Physicians and Nurses: A Systematic Review. American journal of health promotion : AJHP, 34(8), 929-941.
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  This systematic review focused on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with physicians and nurses that tested interventions designed to improve their mental health, well-being, physical health, and lifestyle behaviors.
• Hutson, E., Kelly, S., & Militello, L. K. (2018). Systematic Review of Cyberbullying Interventions for Youth and Parents With Implications for Evidence-Based Practice. Worldviews on evidence-based nursing, 15(1), 72-79.
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  Cyberbullying is a new risk factor for the well-being of pediatric populations. Consequences of cyberbullying include both physical and mental health concerns such as depression, anxiety, and somatic concerns. Adolescents who have been victims of cyberbullying and developed secondary symptoms are often recommended to visit a healthcare provider to obtain effective, evidence-based treatment. To date, no interventions exist in the healthcare setting for adolescents who are victims of cyberbullying.
• Militello, L. K., Kelly, S., Melnyk, B. M., Smith, L., & Petosa, R. (2018). A Review of Systematic Reviews Targeting the Prevention and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adolescent Populations. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 63(6), 675-687.
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  Adolescent obesity is a powerful predictor of morbidity and mortality, yet amenable to modifiable behaviors. To accurately summarize the effects of behavioral interventions on changes in adolescent body mass index and/or weight status, we assessed existing systematic reviews for reporting transparency and methodological quality.
• Kelly, S., Stephens, J., Hoying, J., McGovern, C., Melnyk, B. M., & Militello, L. (2017). A systematic review of mediators of physical activity, nutrition, and screen time in adolescents: Implications for future research and clinical practice. Nursing outlook, 65(5), 530-548.
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  Adolescents are not meeting current recommendations for daily physical activity, nutrition, and screentime which has been associated with overweight and obesity. Understanding the mediators that facilitate teens in improving their healthy lifestyle behaviors may be helpful in halting this crisis.
• Kelly, S. A., Oswalt, K., Melnyk, B. M., & Jacobson, D. (2015). Comparison of intervention fidelity between COPE TEEN and an attention-control program in a randomized controlled trial. Health education research, 30(2), 233-47.
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  Fidelity in implementing an intervention is critical to accurately determine and interpret the effects of an intervention. It is important to monitor the manner in which the behavioral intervention is implemented (e.g. adaptations, delivery as intended and dose). Few interventions are implemented with 100% fidelity. In this study, high school health teachers implemented the intervention. To attribute study findings to the intervention, it was vital to know to what degree the intervention was implemented. Therefore, the purposes of this study were to evaluate intervention fidelity and to compare implementation fidelity between the creating opportunities for personal empowerment (COPE) Healthy Lifestyles TEEN (thinking, emotions, exercise, and nutrition) program, the experimental intervention and Healthy Teens, an attention-control intervention, in a randomized controlled trial with 779 adolescents from 11 high schools in the southwest region of the United States. Thirty teachers participated in this study. Findings indicated that the attention-control teachers implemented their intervention with greater fidelity than COPE TEEN teachers. It is possible due to the novel intervention and the teachers' unfamiliarity with cognitive-behavioral skills building, COPE TEEN teachers had less fidelity. It is important to assess novel skill development prior to the commencement of experimental interventions and to provide corrective feedback during the course of implementation.
• Melnyk, B. M., Jacobson, D., Kelly, S. A., Belyea, M. J., Shaibi, G. Q., Small, L., O'Haver, J. A., & Marsiglia, F. F. (2015). Twelve-Month Effects of the COPE Healthy Lifestyles TEEN Program on Overweight and Depressive Symptoms in High School Adolescents. The Journal of school health, 85(12), 861-70.
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  We evaluated the 12-month effects of the COPE (Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment) Healthy Lifestyles TEEN (Thinking, Emotions, Exercise, Nutrition) program versus an attention control program (Healthy Teens) on overweight/obesity and depressive symptoms in high school adolescents.
• Kelly, S. (2014). ). Improving Physical Activity, Mental Health Outcomes, and Academic Retention of College Students with Freshman 5 to Thrive: COPE/Healthy Lifestyles.. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 26(6), 314-322.
• Kelly, S. (2014). Outcomes and Feasibility of a Manualized Cognitive-Behavioral Skills Building Intervention:Group COPE for Depressed and Anxious Adolescents in School. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, 27(1), 3-13.
• Kelly, S. (2014). Relationships among factors related to Body Mass Index, Healthy Lifestyle Beliefs and Behaviors and Mental Health Indicators for Youth in a Title 1 School.. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 28(3), 234-240.
• Kelly, S. (2013). Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in High School Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 45(4), 407-415.
• Kelly, S. (2013). The COPE healthy lifestyles TEEN randomized controlled trial with culturally diverse high school adolescents: baseline characteristics and methods.. Contemporary clinical trials, 36(1), 41-53.
• Kelly, S. (2012). Predicting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Adolescents: A test of the Information, Motivation, and Behavioral Skills Model. Research in Nursing & Health, 35, 146-163.
• Militello, L. K., Kelly, S. A., & Melnyk, B. M. (2012). Systematic review of text-messaging interventions to promote healthy behaviors in pediatric and adolescent populations: implications for clinical practice and research. Worldviews on evidence-based nursing, 9(2), 66-77.
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  Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors are major public health problems. Promoting positive behavior change is an ongoing challenge that warrants innovative solutions. Mobile phone use is becoming widespread across populations and merits further exploration as a strategy to promote wellness and reduce health disparities.
• Kelly, S. (2011). The Relationships among Body Size, Biological Sex, Ethnicity and Healthy Lifestyles in Adolescents. Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing, 16(3), 199-206.
• Kelly, S. A., Melnyk, B. M., Jacobson, D. L., & O'Haver, J. A. (2011). Correlates among healthy lifestyle cognitive beliefs, healthy lifestyle choices, social support, and healthy behaviors in adolescents: implications for behavioral change strategies and future research. Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners, 25(4), 216-23.
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  The foundation for healthy lifestyle behaviors begins in childhood. As such, the relationships among cognitive beliefs, healthy lifestyle choices, and healthy lifestyle behaviors in adolescents have been explored. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationships among cognitive variables, social support, and healthy lifestyle behaviors in adolescents.
• Kelly, S. (2010). Translating the Evidence-Based NICU COPE Program for Parents of Premature Infants into Clinical Practice: Impact on Nurses’ Evidence-Based Practice and Lessons Learned. Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing, 24(1), 74-80.
• Kelly, S. (2009). Improving mental health, healthy lifestyle choices and physical health of Hispanic adolescents with the school based COPE/Healthy Lifestyles TEEN program: A randomized controlled pilot study.. Journal of School Health, 79(12), 575-584.
• Kelly, S. (2009). The Relationship of Perceived and Actual Weight in a Sample of Minority Adolescents. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 26(4), 474-480.
• Kelly, S. A., & Melnyk, B. M. (2008). Systematic review of multicomponent interventions with overweight middle adolescents: implications for clinical practice and research. Worldviews on evidence-based nursing, 5(3), 113-35.
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  Being overweight is a global epidemic that occurs in more than 10% of school-aged children (age 5-17) worldwide. The rate of adolescents being overweight continues to rise despite numerous public health campaigns and programs to increase awareness and modify unhealthy lifestyle patterns.
• Kelly, S. (2007). The COPE Healthy Lifestyles Teen Program: Feasibility of and Lessons Learned from an After School Group Intervention with Overweight Adolescents.. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 21(5), 315-322.
• Kelly, S. (2006). Mental Health Correlates of Healthy Lifestyle Attitudes, Choices & Behaviors in Overweight Teens.. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 20(6), 401-406.

Poster Presentations

• Kelly, S. (2024, Fall). Self-Care Behaviors for Prelicensure Nursing Students: Baseline Findings . Arizona Nurses Association meeting.
• Kelly, S. (2024, Spring). Use of Integrative Self-Care to Promote Resilience and Mental Health in Nursing Students . Creating Health Work Environments. Washington DC: Sigma Theta Tau.