Center for Large Data Research and Data Sharing in Rehabilitation

Whole body angular momentum and its relation with clinical balance measures during different walking conditions in persons poststroke

Thomas Huck, BS
PhD Student 
Northern Arizona University

General Description

Objective:

• Determine the measures of balance, such as whole body angular momentum and toe clearance, during specific mobility tasks (e.g., self-selected walking, fastest comfortable walking, high stepping, long stepping, quick stepping) and their relationship with dynamic balance tests (Dynamic Gait Index and Berg Balance Scale) during walking in persons post-stroke

Dataset: Medical University of South Carolina Stroke Data (ARRA) (ICPSR 37122)

Modifiable Mediators of the Relationship between Diabetes and Health-related Quality of Life among Older Mexican Americans

Adam Kinney, MS
PhD Student 
Colorado State University

General Description

Objective:

• To investigate explanatory mechanisms underlying the well-established relationship between diabetes and health-related quality of life (QOL) among older Mexican Americans

Dataset: Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) Frailty Study: 2006-2009 (ICPSR 36321)

Cortisol as a Biomarker in Rehabilitation Services for Community Dwelling Older Adults

Mandi Sonnenfeld, MOT, OTR/L
PhD Student 
University of Texas Medical Branch

General Description

Objective:

• To examine the association between rehabilitation services on cortisol levels in older adults in community-dwelling older adults

Dataset: Well Elderly 2, Los Angeles, California, 2004-2008 (ICPSR 33641)

Validation of the 10-Item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale Post Stroke

Michael Williams, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor
University of Houston

General Description

Objective:

• To investigate the reliability and validity of abbreviated (10-item) Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D-10) among individuals post stroke.

Dataset: Stroke Recovery in Underserved Populations 2005-2006 [United States] (ICPSR 36422)

Patterns of health conditions associated with multiple readmissions for individuals with spinal cord injury

Alexandra Canori, DPT
PhD Student
Temple University

General Description

Objectives:

• Describe health conditions associated with multiple readmissions in individuals with spinal cord injury
• Describe health conditions that recur several times in the same participant with SCI.
• Describe prevention-related strategies that may reduce healthcare utilization after one hospital readmission following traumatic SCI

Dataset: Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Study, United States, 2007-2010 (ICPSR 36724)

Frailty as a Predictor of Life-Space Mobility Among Community Dwelling Older Mexican Americans

Jason Johnson, BS
PhD Student
University of Texas Medical Branch

General Description

Objectives:

• Understand the role of frailty and the differences between non-frail, pre-frail and frail populations.
• Understand the role of life-space mobility as an outcome measure.
• Describe the relationship between life-space mobility and frailty among a cohort of older Mexican Americans

Dataset: Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) Frailty Study: 2006-2009 (ICPSR 36321)

Mediating Role of Pain on Functional Recovery in White, Black, and Hispanic Stroke Survivors

Stephen Lau, BSOT
PhD Student
Washington University School of Medicine

General Description

Objectives:

• Understand the importance of archiving and sharing data
• Appreciate the impact and new knowledge archived data can generate through secondary data analysis
• Recognize the potential for enhancing ones early research program through the use of existing data sources

Dataset: Stroke Recovery in Underserved Populations 2005-2006 [United States] (ICPSR 36422)

Large data analysis of stroke lesion effects on subcortical volumes

Artemis Zavaliangos-Petropulu, BA
PhD Student
University of Southern California

Dataset: The Anatomical Tracings of Lesions after Stroke (ATLAS) Dataset - Release 1.1, 2017 (ICPSR 36684)

Dataset: Hispanic EPESE Frailty Study: (2006-2009)

Positive Emotion, Cognition, and Disability in Activities of Daily Living Among Older Mexican Americans

Jessica Jarvis, PhD, MT-BC
Postdoctoral Fellow
Children’s Participation in Environment Research Lab
University of Illinois at Chicago

General Description

Objectives: To determine if positive emotion modifies the relationship between cognition and Activities of Daily Living (ADL) disability status over 10 years in Mexican American adults aged 75 years and older. To describe the process of utilizing large and publicly available data sets to accelerate rehabilitation research.

Dataset: Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) Disabling Process Study (2001-2002)

Changes in cognitive ability and depression after stroke – a longitudinal study of three racial groups

Elsa Lee, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine
Mount Sina

General Description

Objectives: To examine change in cognitive abilities and depression scores after stroke across racial groups

Dataset: Stroke Recovery in Underserved Populations (2004-2008)

Effect of Polypharmacy on Cognitive Function in Community-dwelling Older Adults by Age Group

Efi Polychronopoulou, MSc
PhD Student
Division of Rehabilitation Sciences
University of Texas Medical Branch

General Description

Objectives: This study examined whether the association between polypharmacy and cognitive function in community-dwelling older adults varies with age.

Dataset: Well Elderly Study 2 (2004-2008)