Chang

Drs. Cynthia Salter, Judy Chang, and Dara Mendez collaborated on a qualitative analysis exploring American clinician perspectives on patient birth experiences looking at birth trauma and mistreatment. This study contributes new insight into maternity clinicians' conceptualization of patient trauma and how their descriptions of birth trauma overlap with mistreatment. Clinicians implicitly connected mistreatment with some patient experiences of birth trauma, even when they were not specifically asked about mistreatment.

Drs. Chang, Krans, and Miller held semistructured interviews with pregnant and postpartum women who have experienced opioid use disorder and intimate partner violence regarding their experiences seeking help with both issues.

Dr. Judy Chang and her team examined the prevalence or correlations of cannabidiol (CBD) use among pregnant people under the age of 22. 

Read the study here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36717004/

This World AIDS Day we want to highlight the work of Dr. Kislovskiy, Dr. Miller, Dr. Chang, and their team members who led a qualitative and community based participatory study on HIV awareness and PrEP perceptions among individuals who exchange sex.

Today is World Prematurity Day and we want to highlight the work of Dr. Judy Chang whose recent research looked at future pregnancy considerations after a premature birth of an infant requiring intensive care.

The loss of control in predicting or preventing a future preterm birth and uncertainty about their child's future medical needs resulted in:

- Participants describing their preterm birth and their infants' NICU hospitalization as traumatic and impacting plans for future pregnancies.

Dr. Dara Mendez and Dr. Judy Chang response article addresses the questions raised in “How Gentle Must Violence Against Women be in Order to not be Violent? Rethinking the Word ‘Violence; in Obstetric Settings” and concludes that naming violence is critical for describing people’s experiences of such violence and for addressing the structures and contexts that create and fuel such violence, not for judgment but for accountability and change.

Dr. Judy Chang surveyed medical student attitudes on the need for explicit consent for pelvic exams under anesthesia performed for educational purposes. Students greatly supported the need for informed consent for these and other sensitive exams.

Read more about this study here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931720421003809?via%3Dihub

Faculty members Dr. Judy Chang and Dr. Elizabeth Miller recently surveyed sexual violence advocates about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the needs and lived experiences of intimate partner violence survivors in the US.

Read more about their findings here. 

Faculty members Dr. Judy Chang and Dr. Elizabeth Miller recently published about the challenges of working with men who perpetrate partner violence. As Domestic Violence Awareness Month begins, we wanted to highlight this important work.