Judith Tabolt Matthews, PhD, MPH, RN, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Community Systems at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. She received her BS in nursing from the Pennsylvania State University and an MS in community health nursing, with an emphasis in gerontology, from Boston University. Dr. Matthews holds both a PhD in nursing and an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh. She has focused over the last 25 years on community health nursing practice, education, and research, with particular interest in the use of technology to support the caregiving skills and preventive health practices of family caregivers. She is currently conducting a randomized, controlled investigation funded through the National Institute of Nursing Research that is designed to evaluate the efficacy of a telephone + web-based intervention aimed at improving caregiving competence and self-preservation among novice family caregivers of stroke survivors. Dr. Matthews is also a member of the Nursebot Project, a multidisciplinary research and educational collaboration involving the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Michigan. The Nursebot Project, funded by the National Science Foundation, focuses on developing personal robotic assistants for older adults. Dr. Matthews co-teaches a project-based, robotic applications course with faculty from Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute. This course brings together students from the health sciences and students in technology to design and evaluate robotic devices to help community-residing, frail older adults and persons with disabilities sustain their independence.
Research Areas of Interest: Technology to support caregiving and preventive health
Representative Articles
Refereed
Sevick, M. A., Sereika, S., Matthews, J. T., Zucconi, S., Wielobob, C., Puczynski, S., Ahmad, S. M., & Barsh, L. F. (1994).
Home-based ventilator-dependent patients: Measurement of the emotional aspects of home caregiving.
Heart & Lung, 23(4), 269-278.
Sevick, M.A., Sereika, S., Hoffman, L. A., Matthews, J. T., & Chen, G. J. (1997).
A confirmatory factor analysis of the Caregiving Appraisal Scale for caregivers of home-based ventilator-assisted individuals.
Heart & Lung, 26(6), 430-438.
Spier, B. E., Matthews, J. T., Jack, L., Lever, J., McHaffie, E. J., & Tate, J. (2000).
Impaired student performance in the clinical setting: A constructive approach.
Nurse Educator, 25(1), 38-42.
Matthews, J. T., Dunbar-Jacob, J., Sereika, S., Schulz, R., & McDowell, B. J. (In press).
A comparison of preventive health practices among family caregivers age 50 and older.
Journal of Gerontological Nursing.
Dishman, E., Matthews, J. T., & Dunbar-Jacob, J. (In press).
Everyday health: Technology for adaptive aging. R. Pew & S. Van Hemel (Eds.). Technology for Adaptive Aging: Workshop Report and Papers. Steering Committee for the Workshop on Adaptive Aging. Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC:
The National Academies Press.
Invited
Matthews, J. T. (2002).
The Nursebot Project: Developing a personal robotic assistant for frail older adults in the community.
Home Health Care Practice & Management, 14(5), 403-405.
Conference Papers
Matthews, J. T., Thrun, S., & Dunbar-Jacob, J. (2002).
Robotic assistive technology for community-residing older adults and persons with disabilities: An inter-institutional initiative for students in the health and technology fields.
International Conference on Engineering Education 2002 (available on CD-ROM).
Pollack, M. E., Brown, L., Colbry, D., Dunbar-Jacob, J., Engberg, S., Matthews, J. T., McCarthy, C. E., Montemerlo, M., Orosz, C., Peintner, B., Pineau, J., Ramikrishnan, S., Roy, N., & Thrun, S. (2002). Pearl:
A mobile robotic assistant for the elderly.
AAAI Technical Reports Series.
Morris, A., Donamukkala, R., Kapuria, A., Steinfeld, A., Matthews, J. T., Dunbar-Jacob, J., & Thrun, S. (In press).
A robotic walker that provides guidance.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, September 14-19, 2003.
Abstracts
Burke, L. E., Ewart, C. K., Thompson, P. D., Rohay, J. M., Matthews, J., Sereika, S., & Dunbar-Jacob, J. (1995).
Psychometric evaluation of the Cholesterol-Lowering Diet Self-Efficacy Scale.
Supplement to Circulation.
Matthews, J. T., Dunbar-Jacob, J., Sereika, S., Schulz, R., & McDowell, B. J. (2000).
Predictors of adherence to preventive health practices among family caregivers.
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Supplement, S043.
Matthews, J. T., Dunbar-Jacob, J., Sereika, S., Schulz, R., & McDowell, B. J. (2000).
Responsiveness of caregiving women to persuasive strategies for improving mammography screening adherence.
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Supplement, S210.
Book Chapter
Dunbar-Jacob, J., Schlenk, E. A., Burke, L. E., & Matthews, J. T. (1998).
Predictors of patient adherence: Patient characteristics. In S. A. Shumaker, E. Schron, J. Ockene, & W. L. McBee (Eds.),
The handbook of health behavior change (2nd ed., pp. 491-511). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
Dissertation
Matthews, J. T. (1998).
Adherence to preventive health practices among family caregivers of persons receiving home health services.
Dissertation Abstracts International. |
