Jill Gromer-Thomas

Florida State University | FSU · College of Social Work

Caribbean health research has overwhelmingly employed measures developed elsewhere and rarely includes evaluation of psychometric properties. Established measures are important for research and practice. Particularly, measures of stress and coping are needed. Stressors experienced by Caribbean people are multifactorial, as emerging climate threats...

As a component of the American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment (ACHA-NCHA), 649 university students in Barbados completed the Flourishing Scale (FS; Diener, 2010) in academic year 2021-22. The mean FS score was 42.97 (SD = 8.82). No sex or gender differences in FS scores were observed. A confirmatory factor analysis (C...

Ego-resiliency is a relatively stable personality trait characterized by the ability both to rebound from negative experiences and to adapt to demands of life, . . . .the Caribbean, climate threats make resiliency at the individual and community levels a central public health concern (Maas Cortés et al., 2020).

The attitudes of medical students toward transgender people have important implications for the future quality of healthcare for Caribbean transgender patients. This paper examined the attitudes and beliefs of Caribbean medical students toward transgender people, provides psychometric evaluation of a promising instrument, and considers implications...

Th e provision of multiple services in one-stop centers is a promising but understud-ied trend in social services for people experiencing homelessness, many of whom also struggle with mental health issues. One-stop centers theoretically remove many barriers to care, but the eff ects of this have not been studied. Th is work describes one innovative...

Sexual assault on college campuses occurs at high rates, but disclosure to formal on-campus resources remains low. This study used a mixed methodological survey to explore demographic and social characteristics of students who formally reported their assaults and those who did not and examined barriers to formal disclosure. Responses revealed that...

This study sought to establish support for research and clinical use of the Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10) with university students in Barbados. The instrument was administered to undergraduate student volunteers (N = 415, 75% women, mean age = 25.2). Other instruments administered included the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck, Steer,...

This study sought to establish support for research and clinical use of the Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10) with university students in Barbados. The instrument was administered to undergraduate student volunteers (N = 415, 75% women, mean age = 25.2). Other instruments administered included the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck, Steer,...

The article evaluates the effectiveness of a 5-year social norms sexual violence prevention marketing campaign designed specifically for men on a large public university in the Southeastern United States. From 2010 through 2014, 4,158 men were asked about their self-reported attitudes, beliefs, and behavior related to sexual violence as well as the...

Objective: To establish psychometric data in support of research and clinical use of the Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10) in Barbados. Methods: The Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10; Cohen, Kamarck, & Mermelstein, 1983) was administered to undergraduate student volunteers (n = 415, 75% women, mean age = 25.2). Other instruments administered inclu...

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore perceptions of job seeking from women experiencing homelessness. Participants (N = 9) were interviewed at a transitional housing facility in North Florida. Thematic analysis found several manifest and latent themes related to stigma, barriers, and perseverance. The findings of this study sup...

Criminal justice culture values traditional masculinity, which has led to adverse workplace experiences for officers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT). This study used focus group data to explore the workplace experiences of 10 law enforcement and 4 corrections officers in the US who attended an LGBT criminal justice con...

This project evaluates the utility of an innovative one-stop center that provides multiple services under one roof to people experiencing poverty and homelessness. A pragmatic, mixed-methods approach was used to collect information about the people who receive services at the center, the types of services they receive, their level of satisfaction w...

This study describes the development and immediate effects of a school-based, cross-age (high school), peer-led, targeted intervention to reduce and prevent the onset of major depression among girls ages 13-15 attending a rural middle school in Northern Florida. The intervention, Talk ‘n’ Time, is based on cognitive behavioral and positive youth de...

Background and Purpose: Sexual functioning is an important aspect of living that is often ignored by health and human service professionals, in part due to personal discomfort. Sex-positive human services have been proposed to relate with positive client outcomes such as the acknowledgment and resolution of sexual concerns, but definitions of sex-p...

The purpose of this article is to present an innovative, culturally and age-appropriate design and implementation of an intervention with at-risk youths in a rural community. This article discusses the use of a participatory action research model to develop and inform a culturally adapted intervention to reduce depressive symptoms and prevent the o...

The level of sexual prejudice on university campuses has implications for the health and well-being of gay and lesbian students, and research on sexual prejudice in the Eastern Caribbean is extremely limited. This study assesses the individual attitudes of 251 Barbadian students toward lesbian and gay people using two psychometric inventories. It a...

Purpose: People experiencing acute or severe psychosis in the United States do not typically have access to alternatives to standard practice. To provide people with psychotic symptoms meaningful choices in treatment, alternative approaches should be evaluated for potential integration into the mental health service system. The need-adapted and ope...

Objectives: To extend a previously presented work on attitudes toward gay and lesbian people, assess medical student attitudes, and investigate correlates of sexual orientation stigma found in the initial sample among future providers, including religiosity and gender. Methods: Participants (n = 66, 79% women, mean age = 21.9) were administered th...

Purpose: People experiencing acute or severe psychosis in the United States do not typically have access to alternatives to standard practice. To provide people with psychotic symptoms meaningful choices in treatment, alternative approaches should be evaluated for potential integration into the mental health service system. The need-adapted and ope...