Nicole Enlow

Nicole Enlow
Nemours Children’s Health System

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Nicole Ruppe is a postdoctoral research fellow at Nemours Children's Health. Her primary research interest involves examining risk and protective factors that contribute to family adjustment to pediatric chronic medical conditions. She is particularly interested in research investigating child and family psychosocial adjustment to chronic illness, as well as factors that promote the health and well-being of families, especially among underserved families.
Additional affiliations
Position
  • Predoctoral Clinical Psychology Resident
February 2015 - July 2017
Nemours Children’s Health System
Position
  • Project Manager
Education
August 2017 - May 2020
Oklahoma State University
Field of study
  • Psychology
August 2017 - August 2023
Oklahoma State University
Field of study
  • Clinical Psychology

Publications

Publications (18)
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There is limited literature examining the longitudinal stability of depressive symptoms for individuals with asthma, or how religiosity/spirituality relates to depressive symptoms across time. The present study aimed to identify the stability of and the longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and R/S across multiple developmental peri...
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Background: College students experience increased responsibility for healthcare transition. They are at increased risk for depressive symptoms and cannabis use (CU), potentially modifiable predictors of successful healthcare transition. This study investigated how depressive symptoms and CU related to transition readiness, and if CU moderated the a...
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Objective: Individuals with asthma experience increased depressive symptoms, which is associated with deleterious health outcomes. No studies have examined depressive symptom trajectories among individuals with asthma despite increased risk. This study expanded prior literature by identifying the following: (1) depressive symptoms trajectories for...
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Objective: American Indian peoples (AIs) have high smoking rates and cardiovascular risk factor burden. The present study aimed to (a) investigate latent smoking classes across adolescence and adulthood, (b) investigate adolescent predictors of smoking classes, and (c) assess how smoking class is related to adult cardiovascular risk in a sample of...
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Objectives: This study investigated whether select social determinants of health and worries about COVID-19 resource losses mediated the relations between four parent groups: [1) non-Hispanic White (NHW) parents of children with asthma; 2) Black, Indigenous, or other Persons of Color (BIPOC) parents of healthy children; 3) BIPOC parents of childre...
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Objective: This cross-sectional study quantified differences in 1) social determinants of health (SDOH) and perceived changes in SDOH during COVID-19 and 2) COVID-19 psychosocial impacts across four groups: 1) non-Hispanic White (NHW) parents of children with asthma, 2) Black, Indigenous, or other People of Color (BIPOC) parents of healthy children...
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Objective: To better understand mechanisms influencing health in African Americans (AAs), the aims of this study were (a) to identify longitudinal cigarette smoking classes among AAs across adolescence and into young adulthood; (b) to identify risk factors for smoking and how cardiometabolic health in adulthood differs by smoking class; and (c) to...
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There is a paucity of data on nicotine and cannabis use among young adults (YAs) with asthma. This study aimed to do the following among YAs with asthma: (1) describe YAs’ active and passive exposure to nicotine and cannabis; (2) identify latent classes of active use of nicotine and cannabis; and (3) explore predictors of class membership (i.e., de...
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The objective of this systematic review was to assess the relationship between pain (frequency/intensity/duration, impairment, coping) and emotional functioning in pediatric Sickle Cell Disease, and evaluate the state of the literature. Studies were included if they met each of the following criteria: (a) primarily pediatric sample of youth or youn...
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Objective: Families of youth with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) can face psychosocial adversity including emotional distress, functional impairments, and sociodemographic risk factors. Systematic screening of psychosocial risk can identify families who may benefit from further assessment and evidence-based care. The Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT)...
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Families coping with sickle cell disease (SCD) often face heightened psychosocial risk factors, and research in pediatric SCD has often focused more on this area than resiliency factors. The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of family resiliency in SCD based on caregiver perspectives. A secondary qualitative analysis was conducte...
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Asthma is the most prevalent chronic medical condition among youth. Youth with asthma have higher rates of anxiety, depression, behavioral difficulties, and similar or higher rates of engaging in deleterious health behaviors (e.g., tobacco and marijuana use) compared to youth without asthma. Further, some families struggle with managing their child...
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Objective: This study examined psychosocial distress and substance use in young adults with asthma (A), obesity (O), comorbid asthma and obesity (AO), or neither (controls). Participants: Eight hundred eighty-one young adults were included in the A, O, AO, or control group. Methods: ANCOVA and logistic regression analyses were performed to compare...
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Purpose: Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with chronic medical conditions are at risk for reduced health- related quality of life (HRQoL). Recent research on AYAs without chronic medical conditions found that greater health care management skills were related to higher HRQoL. In addition, grit, an intrapersonal strength, has been linked to great...
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Objective: To examine the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their relationship with psychological distress among adolescents/young adults (AYAs) with and without pediatric chronic medical conditions (CMC). Methods: A matched sample of AYAs with and without a CMC (n = 484, Mage = 19.48, 77.7% female) completed online measures of...
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There were 2 related objectives of this qualitative study focused on caregivers of children with sickle cell disease (SCD): (1) to assess caregiver perspectives on the acceptability and utility of the Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT) as a screener of family psychosocial risk in pediatric SCD and (2) to examine caregiver perspectives on psychosoci...
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Objective: Psychosocial risk screening is an important initial step in delivering evidence-based care. This qualitative descriptive study identified how multidisciplinary pediatric oncology health-care providers perceive psychosocial risk screening to identify factors in uptake and implementation. Methods: A script guided digitally recorded (tra...

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