Maternal Health
This project entails assessment of complex interactions among women’s physical (e.g., nutrition, weight, physical activity) and mental (e.g., depression and anxiety) health before, during, and after pregnancy.
Mechanisms Underlying Relations between Maternal Health and Offspring Development
This project will include modeling of relations among maternal health behaviors/indicators in relation to offspring behavior and cardiometabolic indicators from birth to 18 months of age, while considering biological (fetal stress hormone exposure) and behavioral (maternal-infant interactions) mechanisms which may account for infant outcomes.
Interdisciplinary Reciprocity Project
This project entails theory development and testing to more comprehensively model caregiver-offspring reciprocity in typically and atypically developing infants/children using a multidisciplinary framework. This project includes collaborators from Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech-Language Pathology. This will also allow for researchers and clinicians across disciplines to better understand mechanisms and pathways that link reciprocity and infant/child development in order to develop prevention and intervention strategies.
Other Collaborative Projects
Rural Health
Dr. Aubuchon-Endsley has collaborated with researchers in Developmental Psychology, Nutritional Biochemistry, Dietetics, and Human Development and Family Science at Oklahoma State University to explore how maternal iron status while breastfeeding impacts infant cognitive development in rural Oklahoma. She also worked with collaborators in Pharmacy at Idaho State University and Health West Community Health Center to explore care cascades, barriers to health access, and predictors of such barriers in patients diagnosed with Hepatitis C living in a medically underserved area.
Women’s Health
Dr. Aubuchon-Endsley has an ongoing collaboration with Idaho State University and University of North Carolina at Greensboro collaborators in Dietetics, Counseling Psychology, and Athletics to examine associations between nutrition and mental health in women athletes.
She has worked with collaborators at the University of North Texas to explore complications during labor and delivery and how this affects mental health and coping in families.
Additional collaborations with researchers at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Clinical Psychology, Dietetics, Psychiatry, Nursing, and Behavioral Medicine have aimed at understanding relations between maternal prenatal weight, psychophysiological stress indicators, and neonatal neurobehavior.
She served as a collaborator with the Women Veterans Work Group with researchers from Duke University examining mental health co-morbidities in women Veterans.
At Duke University, she has collaborated with researchers in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Internal Medicine, and Public Health at the Evidence Based Practice Center to examine screening for postpartum depression.