Publications by authors named "W R Christensen"
Purpose: Health care workers exposed to traumatic events while working with patients are at risk for secondary traumatic stress (STS). Data on this phenomenon in medical students are limited. This prospective study examines the trajectory and prevalence of STS among medical students at clerkship year end.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUtilizing a randomized control design, 42 healthy adults (22.5 ± 2.8 years) participated in alternate-day modified fasting over a 12-day treatment period.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe onset of the COVID-19 pandemic commenced an era of widespread disruptions in the academic world, including shut downs, periodic shifts to online learning, and disengagement from students. In an effort to transition back to in-person learning, many universities and schools tried to implement policy that balanced student learning with community health. While academic administrators have little control over some aspects of COVID-19 spread, they often choose to use temporary shutdowns of in-person teaching based on perceived hotspots of COVID-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study aimed to discover the prevalence of school nutrition state legislation and to identify the correlates of enactment.
Design, Setting, And Participants: An online legislative database, Legiscan, was used to collect bills related to school nutrition from the US from 2010 to 2019. Bills were coded and compiled into a study database with state-level dietary variables (obesity prevalence, fruit, and vegetable intake, sugar-sweetened beverage consumption), community variables (percent White, poverty), and bill-characteristic variables (party affiliation in legislature, strength of language, party of governor, school gardens, vegetable intake, and other salient variables).