Dr. Shiyanbola was invited to be one of the faculty at the Health Equity Leadership Institute in June 2018.
The Wisconsin State Journal interviewed Dr. Shiyanbola to discuss her research focused on improving medication adherence among African Americans and veterans with diabetes.
Dr. Shiyanbola has received a Collaborative Health Equity Research (CHER) pilot grant award via the UW-Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR).
The community-engaged project is entitled, “Feasibility and Acceptability of a Pilot Culturally Specific Educational-Behavioral Intervention for African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes.” The goal of this project is to utilize patient and community stakeholders to design and determine the feasibility and acceptability of an educational-behavioral intervention focused on addressing culturally informed illness and medication beliefs, self-efficacy, and medication adherence among African Americans with type 2 diabetes. Read the story.
Dr. Shiyanbola has received a 2018 UW-Madison Graduate School Fall Competition grant.
This project titled ‘Predictors of Changes in Medication Adherence Overtime among Black patients with Diabetes: A Mixed Methods Study’ will use a longitudinal and mixed methods approach to determine changes in adherence overtime among Blacks with diabetes, examine the role of key psychosocial and interpersonal factors on changes in medication adherence, and explore why adherence changed.
Dr. Shiyanbola (PI) and collaborators, Dr. Pigarelli (UW-Madison Pharmacy Practice ), Dr. Smith (Family Medicine), and Dr. Unni (Roseman University) have received a two-year grant from the MERCK Investigator-Initiated Studies Program (Patient Engagement, Diversity, and Health Literacy Track).
The grant funds a randomized controlled trial mixed methods study to develop, conduct, and assess the impact of a health literacy tailored patient education/medication counseling program to improve clinical outcomes in patients with diabetes by addressing negative illness and medication beliefs and enhancing patient’s self-efficacy and medication adherence.