Participants' Experiences With a Community Based Participatory Research Produce Prescription Program: Findings From a Qualitative Study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore a food-insecure, low income, predominantly African American community's experiences with a produce prescription program (PPP).

Design: Researchers conducted 3 focus groups and 4 individual interviews with Maywood Veggie Rx (VRxM) participants asking questions about the logistics of the program while also exploring ideas around health, food, and community.

Setting: This produce prescription program took place in Maywood, Illinois which is an urban underserved community with 23.

Toxic Stress in a Mid-Sized Urban Community: An Initial Needs Assessment of Families with Children in Maywood, IL.

Background: Loyola Medical Center is located in Maywood, IL, a community that faces high rates of poverty, violence, and barriers to healthcare. These factors can contribute to toxic stress, which has been shown to negatively impact children's health.

Objectives: The goal of this project was to partner with community organizations to obtain a baseline needs assessment from families in Maywood regarding sources of toxic stress and to identify interventions of interest.

Interdisciplinary differences in needlestick injuries among healthcare professionals in training: Improving situational awareness to prevent high-risk injuries.

Background: Needlestick injuries among healthcare professionals continue to be an occupational hazard, frequently and incorrectly regarded as low-risk, and exacerbated by underreporting. We aimed to investigate rates of needlestick injury, reasons for underreporting, and how explicit announcements that patients are "high-risk" (i.e.

"We Have a Lot of Power…": A Medical School's Journey Through Its New Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Initiative.

Purpose To describe and analyze qualitatively the impact of implementing the "Stritch Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Initiative" (SDI) at the Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM), Loyola University, Chicago in 2012. The SDI is a three-step process that included: 1) opening the Stritch admissions policy to welcome DACA students to apply, 2) evaluating DACA applicants equitably with all other applicants, and 3) seeking funding to enable these students to matriculate.  Method Focus groups and in-depth interviews were conducted to explore DACA and non-DACA students' experience of the SDI on their medical school journey and the institutional culture.

"Maybe black girls do yoga": A focus group study with predominantly low-income African-American women.

Objective: To explore African American (AA) women's use of mind-body therapies, such as yoga and mindfulness, and factors that impact their experiences, observations and opinions.

Design: Focus groups were conducted to better understand how AA women perceive mind-body therapies and how to best bring these interventions into their community. Interviews were audiotaped and transcribed.