Research

Resistance Exercise with Peer Support for Women with PCOS using a Smart Home Video Device: Feasibility Study Guided by Self-Determination Theory. USC ASPIRE. 7/1/2023-9/30/2024.

Biopsychosocial perspectives and healthcare concerns and needs among peri-postmenopausalwomen with PCOS: A qualitative study. Sigma Global Nursing Excellence. 6/1/2023-5/31/2022.

Exploring exercise outcome expectations and barriers and facilitators to exercise of women with PCOS to identify training supports for healthy lifestyle behavior change. NIH/NINR-F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship. 11/15/2020-11/15/2021. 

Professional Service

• Society of Behavioral Medicine
• Endocrine Society
• Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society
• Emergency Nurses Association.

Professional Practice

Emergency Department 

Research Studies (Selected)

• Resistance Exercise with Peer Support with Bands/Ball and Digital Support (REPS w/BANDS), Phases I and II
• Advancing Knowledge of Exercise as Therapeutic Management for Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
• Developing Smart Technology to Detect Medication-Taking Gestures
• Virtual Home Assistant Use and Perceptions of Usefulness by Older Adults and Support Person Dyads

Publications (selected)

Wright, P. J., Corbett, C. F., Dawson, R. D., Wirth, M., & Pinto, B. M. (2023). Fitness Assessmentsof Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Prospective Process Feasibility Study. Clinical andExperimental Obstetrics & Gynecology, 50(4), 88. https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ceog5004088

Wickersham, K. E., Dawson, R. M., Everhart, K. M., Miles, H. S., Schultz, B. E., Starr, K. P., Tucker, C. M., Wright, P. J., & Jenerette, C. M. (2021). “We Have Nobody to Help Us”: Experiences of African Americans living with sickle cell  disease. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/10436596211070600

Wright, P. J., Corbet, C. F., Pinto, B. M., Dawson, R. M., & Wirth, M. D. (2021). The impact of exercise perceptions and depressive symptoms on PCOS-specific health-related quality-of-life. Women’s Health, 17, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/17455065211065865

Corbett, C.F., Wright, P. J., Jones, K., & Parmer, M.D.  (2021). Older adults’ virtual home assistant use and the influence on social isolation and loneliness: A mini-review. Frontiers in Public Health, 9(742012), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.742012

Wright, P. J., Corbett, C. F., Pinto, B., Dawson, R., & Wirth, M. (2021). Resistance training as a therapeutic management in women with PCOS: What is the evidence? International Journal of Exercise Science, 14(3), 840-854.

Corbett, C., Combs, E., Chandarana, P., Stringfellow, I., Worthy, K., Nguyen, T., Wright, P. J., Okane, J. (2021). Medication adherence reminder system for virtual home assistants: Mixed methods evaluative study. JMIR Formative Research, 5(7), e27327. https://doi.org/10.2196/27327

Nguyen, T., Combs, E.M., Wright, P. J., & Corbett, C.F. (2021). Reducing fall risks among visually-impaired older adults. Home Healthcare Now, 39(4), 186-191. (Note:  Article Selected for Continuing Education Credits).

Corbett, C.F., Combs, E.M., Wright, P.J., Owens, O.L., Stringfellow, I., Nguyen, T.P., & Van Son, C.R. (2021). Virtual home assistant use and perceptions of usefulness by older adult and support person dyads. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(3), 1113. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18031113.

Wright, P. J., Pinto, B. M., & Corbett, C. F. (2020). Balancing internal and external validity using Precis-2 and RE-AIM: Case exemplars. Western Journal of Nursing, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193945920940308

Wright, P. J., Corbett, C. F, & Dawson, R.M. (2020). Social construction of the biopsychosocial and medical experiences of women with PCOS. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 76(7), 1728-1736.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jan.14371

Shealy P. W., Lee W. J., DuBose, K. D., Kirkner, G. J., & Ainsworth, B. E. (2004). Risk factor screening and physical activity status among older South Carolinians. Journal of the SC Medical Association, 100, 299e-301e.