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Distance to radiation therapy facility influences surgery type among older women with early-stage breast cancer

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Pratibha Shrestha,Quyen D. Chu,Mei-Chin Hsieh,Yong Yi,Edward S. Peters,Edward Trapido,Qingzhao Yu,Tekeda Ferguson,Xiao-Cheng Wu

Breast-conserving surgery plus radiation (BCT) yields equivalent or better survival than mastectomy for early-stage breast cancer (ESBC) women. However, nationwide mastectomy trends increased in recent decades, attracting studies on underlying causes. Prior research identified that long distance to the radiation treatment facility (RTF) was associated with mastectomy. Still, it is unclear whether such association applies to young and old ESBC women comparably. We sought to delineate such impacts by age.

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Thomas, S.M., Horswell, R., Celestin, M.D., Dellinger, A.B., Kaiser, M., Butler, M. (2010). Awareness and Implementation of the 2000 US Public Health Service Tobacco Dependence Treatment Guideline in a Public Hospital System. Population Health Management; 14(2): 79-85. 

Moody-Thomas, S., Celestin, M., Horswell, R. (2013). Use of systems change and health information technology to integrate comprehensive tobacco cessation services in a statewide system for delivery of healthcare. Open Journal of Preventive Medicine; 3: 75-83.  

Moody-Thomas, S., Celestin, M.D., Tseng, T.S., Horswell, R. (2013). Patient tobacco use, quit attempts, and perceptions of healthcare provider practices in a safety-net healthcare system. Ochsner Journal; (13)3: 367-74. 

Purcell, E.P., Mitchell, C., Celestin, M.D., Evans, K.R., Haynes, V., McFall, A., Troyer, L., Sanchez, M.A. (2013). Research to Reality (R2R) Mentorship Program: Building Partnership, Capacity, and Evidence. Health Promotion Practice; 14(3): 321-327. 

Tseng, T.S., Moody-Thomas, S., Horswell, R., Yi, Y., Celestin, M.D., Jones, K.D. (2014). Using a health informatics system to assess effect of a federal cigarette tax increase on readiness to quit among low-income smokers, Louisiana, 2009. Prev Chronic Dis;11: E52. 

Celestin, M.D., Hart, A., Moody-Thomas, S. (2014). Partnering with Health Care Systems to Assess Tobacco Treatment Practices and Beliefs among Clinicians: Evaluating the Process. Preventing Chronic Disease; 11:130277. 

Moody-Thomas, S., Nasuti, L., Yi, Y., Celestin, M.D., Horswell, R., Land, T.G. (2015). Effect of systems change and use of electronic health records on quit rates among tobacco users in a public hospital system. Am J Public Health, Vol. 105, No. S2, pp. e1-e7. 

Celestin, M.D., Tseng, T.S., Moody-Thomas, S., Yi, Y., Jones-Winn, K., Hayes, C., Guillory, D. (2016). Effectiveness of group behavioral counseling on long-term quit rates in primary health care. Transl Cancer Res;5(Suppl 5): S972S982. 

Hayes-Watson, C., Nuss, H., Tseng, T.S., Parada, N., Yu, Q., Celestin, M.D., Guillory, D., Jones-Winn, K., Moody-Thomas, S. (2017). Self-management practices of smokers with asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A cross sectional survey. COPD Research and Practice; 3(3): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40749-017-0022-0. 

Celestin, M.D., Ferguson, T., Ledford, E.C., Tseng, T.S., Carton, T.W., Moody-Thomas, S. (2018). Differences in Treating Tobacco Use across National, State, and Public Hospital System Surveys. Prev Chronic Dis;15:170575

Hayes-Watson, C., Nuss, H., Celestin, M.D., Tseng, T.S., Parada, N., Yu, Q., Moody-Thomas, S. (2018). Health beliefs associated with poor disease self-management in smokers with asthma and/or COPD. J. Asthma; 1–8. 

Kao, Y.H., Celestin, M.D., Yu, Q., Moody-Thomas, S., Jones Winn, K., Tseng, T.S. (2019). Racial and Income Disparities in Health-Related Quality of Life among Smokers with a Quit Attempt in Louisiana. Medicina (Kaunas); 55(2).

Tseng, T.S., Gross, T., Celestin, M.D., Dang, W., Young, L., Kao, Y.H., Li, M., Smith, D.L., Bok, L.R., Fuloria, J., Moody-Thomas, S. (2019). Knowledge and attitudes towards low dose computed tomography lung cancer screening and smoking among African Americans—a mixed method study. Transl Cancer Res;8(Suppl 4):S431-S442. https://doi: 10.21037/tcr.2019.04.18.

Kao, Y., Celestin, M.D., Walker, C.D., Yu, Q., Couk, J., Moody-Thomas, S., et al. (2019). Smoking Relapse and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus–Related Emergency Department Visits Among Senior Patients with Diabetes. Prev Chronic Dis; 16:190027. 

Luo T, Li MS, Williams D, Phillippi S, Yu Q, Kantrow S, Kao YH, Celestin M, Lin WT, Tseng TS. (2021). Using social media for smoking cessation interventions: a systematic review. Perspect Public Health. Jan;141(1):50-63. Epub 2020 Feb 20. PMID: 32077368

Kao YH, Tseng TS, Celestin MD, Hart J, Young L, Li M, Bok LR, Smith DL, Fuloria J, Moody-Thomas S, Trapido EJ. (2021) Association Between the 5As and Stage of Change Among African American Smokers Eligible for Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening. Prev Chronic Dis. 2021 Jul 15;18:E71. doi: 10.5888/pcd18.210073. PMID: 34264811; PMCID: PMC8300539.

Tseng TS, Celestin MD Jr, Yu Q, Li M, Luo T, Moody-Thomas S. Use of Geographic Information System Technology to Evaluate Health Disparities in Smoking Cessation Class Accessibility for Patients in Louisiana Public Hospitals. Front Public Health. 2021 Aug 12;9:712635. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.712635. PMID: 34476230; PMCID: PMC8406529.

Celestin Jr MD, Gee RE.  The epidemic during the pandemic: assessing the Federal Drug Administration’s efforts to curb youth smoking after passage of HR2339 by Congress. Am J Public Health. 2022;112(7):1005–1006. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306901.

Study Team

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Lead Investigator
Evrim Oral, PhD, MS
Associate Professor, Biostatistics
LSUHSC School of Public Health
2020 Gravier St., 2nd floor
(504) 568 6094
eoral@lsuhsc.edu
Co-Investigator
Edward Trapido, ScD, FACE
Associate Dean for Research & Professor
Wendell Gauthier Chair of Cancer Epidemiology
LSUHSC School of Public Health
2020 Gravier St., 3rd Floor
New Orleans, LA 70112
(504) 568 5700
Co-Investigator
Stephen Phillippi, Jr., PhD, LCSW, CCF
Professor and Program Director, Behaviroal & Community Health
LSUHSC School of Public Health
2020 Gravier St., 3rd Floor
New Orleans, LA 70112
(504) 568 5958
Consultant
Michelle B. Moore, PsyD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
LSUHSC School of Medicine
1542 Tulane Avenue, 2nd Floor
New Orleans, LA 70112
504-903-9213
Project Manager
Jessica K. Fox
Graduate student, Biostatistics
LSUHSC School of Public Health
2020 Gravier St., 2nd Floor
(504) 350 3920
jfox4@lsuhsc.edu

 

Project Evaluation Team: Faculty & Staff

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Current Team
Lead Investigator
Edward Trapido, ScD, FACE
2020 Gravier St., 3rd floor
(504) 568 5700
etrapi@lsuhsc.edu
Lead Investigator
Susanne Straif-Bourgeois, Ph.D., MPH, MS
2020 Gravier St., 3rd floor
(504) 568 5887
sstra1@lsuhsc.edu
Co-investigator
Evrim Oral, PhD
2020 Gravier St., 2nd floor
(504) 568 6094
eoral@lsuhsc.edu
Program Coordinator
Hasheemah Afaneh, MPH
2020 Gravier St., 3rd floor
(504) 568 5735
hafane@lsuhsc.edu
Former Team
Lead InvestigatorAshley Wennerstrom, PhD,MPH
2020 Gravier St., Rm 364
(504) 568 5723
awenne@lsuhsc.edu
Co-investigatorBenjamin Springgate, MD,MPH
533 Bolivar St., Rm 505
(504) 568 2351
bspri2@lsuhsc.edu
Program ManagerOlivia Sugarman, MPH
533 Bolivar St., Rm 509
(504) 568 6097
okacsi@lsuhsc.edu

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Submissions accepted through August 15, 2024 for November issue

 

Journal of the Louisiana Public Health Association is a peer reviewed publication addressing issues within the fields of public health, community health, and health education and promotion, particularly focusing on work conducted in and/or specifically relevant to Louisiana. 

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The Journal of LPHA is dedicated to the dissemination of research and best practices addressing public health issues in Louisiana and the Gulf South. 

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jLPHA promotes open access in the scientific community and accepts articles on a rolling bases all year long. Accepted manuscripts include brief reports, notes from the field, program evaluation, secondary data analysis, policy assessment, and original research. For more information, view manuscript guidelines. Articles accepted for publication require no publication or handling fee.

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Editors-in-Chief

Donna L. Williams, MS, MPH, DrPH
Associate Dean for Practice and Community Engagement
Associate Professor, Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health

Managing Editors

Martha L. Cuccia, MPH, MCHES
Instructor, Health Policy and Systems Management
LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health

Yvette Merritt, MPH
Instructor, Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health

Edward J. Trapido, Sc.D., F.A.C.E.
Associate Dean for Research
Professor and Wendell Gauthier Chair of Cancer Epidemiology
LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health

Editorial Board

Antoine Brantley, MPH
Evaluation Supervisor, STD/HIV/Hepatitis Program
Office of Public Health, Louisiana Department of Health

David J. Holcombe, MD, MSA
Regional Administrator/Medical Director
Louisiana Office of Public Health, Region 6 (Central Louisiana)

Candice A. Myers, PhD
Assistant Professor
Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Stephen Murphy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Emily Nichols, MD
Director | Medical Director
Emergency Medical Services, City of New Orleans

Stephen Phillippi, PhD
Associate Professor, Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health

Jill Rush-Kolodzey, MD, MPH, DrPH
LSUS/LSUHSC-Shreveport MPH Program

Amy Thierry, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences
Xavier University of Louisiana

Maeve Wallace, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

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Spike in use of e-cigarette device among kids concerns health experts

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NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) – A new report shows an alarming spike in the use of an e-cigarette device called JUUL. Health experts are concerned about its popularity among kids.

At first glance, you may not know the device is a vape.

“JUULs have quickly overtaken in the electronic cigarette department as the most popular brand, because these juul electronic cigarettes look like flash drives. they’re very stylish, kids love them,” said LSU Health Professor and Cancer Epidemiologist Dr. Edward Trapido.

The CDC says sales of JUULs grew more than seven-fold from 2016 to 2017.

“The biggest draws towards these devices is that they’re very pocketable. You can have it in your hand, you can hit it and have almost no smoke exhale,” Hippie Gypsy employee Adam Nashoba said.

While some say vapes are ways to wean off of smoking cigarettes, JUULs have the highest concentration of nicotine.

“They have in one JUUL pod approximately 48 milligrams of nicotine, which is about one full pack. So one pod is approximately a full pack of cigarettes,” Nashoba said.

“When you inhale nicotine, your heart races, it affects your ability to metabolize insulin. Your ability to metabolize insulin is associated with development of diabetes,” Trapido said.

Trapido says the chemical is also associated with the development of metabolic syndrome, which can lead to cancer and cardiovascular disease.

“Also, it affects the synapses in the brain, in a developing brain. So you’ve got kids whose brains are developing, and the normal associations you make when you see something or when you learn something will be distorted by the presence of nicotine,” Trapido said.

While he says kids smoking tobacco products have gone down, use of e-cigarettes is going up.

“Nicotine is addictive. It’s the most addictive substance there is. Actually, more addictive than the so-called illegal or illicit drugs. Once kids get hooked on that, it is very, very hard to get off,” Trapido said.

Just like tobacco products, you have to be over 18 to legally buy it.

“We do sell a lot of them, they’re a lot more popular than the other e-cigs nowadays, especially with younger people,” Happy Hookah employee Michael Machado said.

A representative with the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control said they are aware of this new trend, and will add e-cigarettes to their preventative educational lessons at schools.

SOURCE: http://www.fox8live.com/2018/10/17/spike-use-e-cigarette-device-among-kids-concerns-health-experts/?outputType=amp

SPH Publication: Case Study of Resilient Baton Rouge: Applying Depression Collaborative Care and Community Planning to Disaster Recovery

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The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health published on June 8, 2018 the co-authored study, Case Study of Resilient Baton Rouge: Applying Depression Collaborative Care and Community Planning to Disaster Recovery in Volume 15, Issue 6. Co-authors from the LSU Health Sciences School of Public Health include, Alexa Ramirez, MPH student, Dr. Edward Trapido, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty in Epidemiology, Dr. Stephen Phillippi, Associate Professor and Director of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences and Dr. Benjamin Springgate, Associate Professor & Faculty in Health Policy and Systems Management and in the School of Medicine. This collaborative study focused on addressing behavioral health impacts of major disasters is a priority of increasing national attention. With limited examples of implementation strategies to guide new disaster responses this case study provides an example of an effort being applied in response to the 2016 Great Flood in Baton Rouge.

Click here to read the full article published on  June 8, 2018 – http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061208

Attached Picture Title: The US Coast Guard rescuing Baton Rouge residents following the floods

(Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture – https://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/28429216433/)

LSU SPH Welcomes ACE to its 35th Annual Meeting in New Orleans

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The American College of Epidemiology (ACE) is an organization of epidemiologists that serves the interests of the profession and its members through advocating for issues pertinent to epidemiology, a credential-based admission and promotion process, sponsorship of scientific meetings, publications and educational activities, and recognizing outstanding contributions to the field. As official host, the LSU Health Sciences School of Public Health welcomes the members of ACE to its 35th Annual Meeting. The meeting is being held in New Orleans, LA from Sunday, September 24 to Tuesday, September 26, 2017. We also welcome Dr. Harold Feldman, President of the American College of Epidemiology and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and the members of 2017 Program Committee. Dr. Edward Trapido,  is this year’s Program Chair for the 35th ACE Annual Meeting and the Associate Dean for Research at LSU Health Sciences School of Public Health. As host of this year’s meeting, Dr. Elizabeth Fontham, the Founding Dean welcomed 250 attendees to the Meeting. Visit ACE for more information or click here for more info on this meeting.

Pictured below: From left, Dr Harold Feldman, President of the American College of Epidemiology, Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and Dr. Edward Trapido,  Program Chair for the 35th ACE Annual Meeting and the Associate Dean For Research at LSU School of Public Health.

LSU Research Finds Association of Enduring Consequences of Disaster Exposure on Depressive Symptoms in Women

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Research at LSU School of Public Health indicates that the severity of the stress response to experiencing disaster depends on individual exposure and background stress prior to the event. Published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology on June 27, 2017, this current research explores individual-level exposure to disaster, neighborhood environmental characteristics, and their independent and combined associations with depressive symptoms in women.

According to Dr. Symielle A. Gaston, alumni of the LSU School of Public Health Epidemiology program and currently an ORISE Postdoctoral Participant at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has indicated, “the objective of the current study was to assess if the association between exposure to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (DHOS) and depressive symptoms varied by neighborhood characteristics. To date, there is limited research on the interaction between neighborhood environmental stress and experiencing an oil spill, and their effects on depression.” The findings were jointly published with faculty from the LSU School of Public Health; Dr. Julia Volaufova, in Biostatistics, Drs. Edward S. Peters, Tekeda F. Ferguson, Edward J. Trapido, Ariane L. Rung from Epidemiology and Dr. William T. Robinson from Behavioral & Community Health Science. Authorship also includes Dr. Nicole Nugent, from the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Human Behavior Brown University Warren Alpert School of Medicine.

The analysis included female residents from two waves of the Women and Their Children’s Health Study. It included 889 women from Wave I and 737 women from Wave II all from an area highly affected by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. The results indicate that both physical and environmental exposure to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill was associated with increased depressive symptoms only among women living in areas with physical disorder and that   exposure to the DHOS remained associated with depressive symptoms over time. The findings from this study support the enduring consequences of disaster exposure on depressive symptoms in women and identify potential targets for post-disaster intervention based on residential characteristics.

To read more about the LSU School of Public Health WaTCH Study or this publication click here.

Dr. Symielle Gaston, SPH Alum ’16

 

LSU Examines the Role of Social Ties after Deepwater Horizon

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Dr. Ariane Rung, associate professor of epidemiology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans, School of Public Health, is the lead author of an article published online ahead of print in Social Science and Medicine.  The article,  “Untangling the disaster-depression knot: The role of social ties after Deepwater Horizon”, discusses whether social capital and social support mediate the effects of exposure to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on depression among women.

Data for the analysis come from the first wave of data collection for the Women and Their Children’s Health Study, a longitudinal study of the health effects of women exposed to the oil spill in southern Louisiana, USA. Women were interviewed about their exposure to the oil spill, depression symptoms, structural social capital (neighborhood organization participation), cognitive social capital (sense of community and informal social control), and social support. Structural equation models indicated that structural social capital was associated with increased levels of cognitive social capital, which were associated with higher levels of social support, which in turn were associated with lower levels of depression. Physical exposure to the oil spill was associated with greater economic exposure, which in turn was associated with higher levels of depression. When all variables were taken into account, economic exposure was no longer associated with depression, and social support and cognitive social capital mediated the effect of economic exposure on depression, explaining 67% of the effect. Findings support an extension of the deterioration model of social support to include the additional coping resource of social capital. Social capital and social support were found to be beneficial for depression post-oil spill; however, they were themselves negatively impacted by the oil spill, explaining the overall negative effect of the oil spill on depression. A better understanding of the pathways between the social context and depression could lead to interventions for improved mental health in the aftermath of a disaster.

Co-authors of the study include Drs. Symielle Gaston, Edward Trapido, Edward Peters and William Robinson.

To read more about the study go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953617300485