Faculty Directory
Tam H. Nguyen
Associate Professor and Strakosch Family Faculty Fellow in Community Health
Tam H. Nguyen
Ph.D., M.S.N./M.P.H., RN
Contact
Maloney Hall 359
Telephone: 617-552-3669
Email: tam.nguyen@bc.edu
Education
- B.S.N., University of Maryland
- M.S.N./M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University
- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests
Health promotion/disease prevention; chronic disease management; vulnerable/hard to reach populations; community-based participatory research; psychometrics
Expertise
- Diabetes
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Health Equity Minority Health
- Public Health
Selected Publications
- Sáinz-Ruiz, P. A., Sanz-Valero, J., Gea-Caballero, V., Melo, P., Nguyen, T. H., Suárez-Máximo, J. D., & Martínez-Riera, J. R. (2021). Dimensions of Community Assets for Health. A Systematised Review and Meta-Synthesis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(11), 5758. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18115758
- Melo, P., Sousa, M. I., Dimande, M. M. M., Taboada, S., Nogueira, M. A., Pinto, C., … Martínez-Riera, J. R. (2020). Descriptive Study of Children’s Nutritional Status and Identification of Community-Level Nursing Diagnoses in a School Community in Africa. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(17) 6108. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17176108
- Estrem, H. H., Pados, B. F., Park, J., Thoyre, S., McComish, C., & Nguyen, T. (2020). The Impact of Feeding on the Parent and Family Scales (Feeding Impact Scales): Development and Psychometric Testing. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 29(3). DOI: 10.1891/JNM-D-20-00008
- Tran, T. V., Nguyen, T. H., & Chan, K. T. (2016). Developing Cross-Cultural Measurement in Social Work Research and Evaluation (2nd ed., Vol. 2nd, pp. 1–199). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
- Kim, K. B., Kim, M. T., Lee, H. B., Nguyen, T. H., Bone, L. R., & Levine, D. (2016). Community health workers as counselors/case managers in a self-help diabetes management program. American Journal of Public Health, 106(6), 1052-1058. DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303054
- Nguyen, T. H. (2015). Modern measurement approaches to health literacy scale development and Refinement: Overview, current uses, and next steps. Journal of Health Communication, 20(sup2), 112–115. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2015.1073408
- Kim, M. T., Kim, K. B., Huh, B., Nguyen, T. H., Han, H. R., Bone, L. R., & Lavine, D. (2015). The Effect of a community-based self-help intervention: Korean Americans with Type 2 Diabetes. American Journal of Preventive Health, 49(5), 726–737. DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2015.04.033
- Nguyen, T. H., H. J. Park, Han, H. R., Chan, K., Paasche-Orlow, M., Haun, J., Kim, M. T. (2015). State of the science of health literacy measures: Validity implications for minority populations. Patient Education and Counseling. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2015.07.013
- Nguyen, T. H., Nguyen, T. N., Fischer, T., Ha, W., & Tran, T. V. (2015). Type 2 diabetes among Asian Americans: Prevalence and prevention. To appear in World Journal of Diabetes, 6(4), 543-547. DOI: 10.4239/wjd.v6.i4.543
- Han, H. R., Huh, B., Kim, M. T., Kim, J., & Nguyen, T. H. (2014). Development and validation of the assessment of health literacy in breast and cervical cancer screening. Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives, 19, 267-284. DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2014.936569