JoAnne Banks-Wallace

PhD, RN

Associate Professor of Nursing
S324 MU Sinclair School of Nursing
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211
E-Mail: Banks-WallaceJ@missouri.edu
Phone: (573) 882-0283
Fax: (573) 884-4544

Research Description: Community Health & Women's Health. Storytelling as a research tool, therapeutic intervention for groups and communities, culturally-based women's health promotion in community settings. Exercise Among African-American Women

Nursing Specialty: Community-based health promotion

Interest Area: Storytelling as research tool, therapeutic intervention for groups and communities, culturally-based women's health promotion in community settings

JoAnne Banks-Wallace, PhD, RN, is an associate professor of nursing and women's studies at the MU Sinclair School of Nursing. Her most recent grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), is on Walk the Talk: A Nursing Intervention for Black Women. The study focuses on physical inactivity, which places more
people at risk of coronary heart disease than any other single factor. This study proposes to develop and pilot a culturally consistent nursing intervention to promote walking among sedentary hypertensive African-American women. The primary aim is to measure the effect of a culture-based intervention on problem solving, social support, general physical activity and walking behavior. Banks-Wallace has been with the School of Nursing since 1996. She completed her MN in 1988 and her PhD in 1994 at the University of Washington. Her area of expertise is in the development of storytelling and other culture-based interventions to promote health behavior change among women.

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