Research Project Director
UCSF
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Kim Coleman-Phox is the project director of Dr. Epel's U01 grant, Novel Interventions to Reduce Non-homeostatic Eating, which includes the Maternal Adiposity, Metabolism and Stress (MAMAS) and Stress, Eating, and Hormones (SHE) Studies. She completed her MPH in Maternal Child Health at UC Berkeley. Her research interests include pregnancy, birth outcomes, and health disparities.
Publications
Economic Insecurities and Mental Health Among Low-Income Pregnant People in the Central Valley Region of California.
Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
The Association Between Longer Maternal Leukocyte Telomere Length in the Immediate Postpartum Period and Preterm Birth in a Predominately Latina Cohort of Mothers.
Maternal and child health journal
A randomized comparative-effectiveness study of two enhanced prenatal care models for low-income pregnant people: Engaging Mothers & Babies; Reimagining Antenatal Care for Everyone (EMBRACE).
Contemporary clinical trials
Feasibility and acceptability of chaplain decision coaching on Periviable resuscitation decision quality: A pilot study.
PEC Innovation
Psychometric assessment of the US person-centered prenatal and maternity care scales in a low-income predominantly Latinx population in California.
BMC Women's Health
"It was just one moment that I felt like I was being judged": Pregnant and postpartum black Women's experiences of personal and group-based racism during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Social science & medicine (1982)
A qualitative exploration of experiences accessing community and social services among pregnant low-income people of color during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Women's health (London, England)
Long-term effects of a prenatal mindfulness intervention on depressive symptoms in a diverse sample of women.
Journal of consulting and clinical psychology
Pregnancy-related COVID worry, depressive symptom severity, and mediation through sleep disturbance in a low-income, primarily Latinx population in California's Central valley.
Journal of psychiatric research
In pursuit of a community-informed group prenatal care model for telehealth use.
The Journal of Health Design
Risk of early birth by body mass index in a propensity score matched sample: a retrospective cohort study.
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Consideration of social determinants of health in preterm birth risk and resiliency scoring.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology
The association of COVID-19 infection in pregnancy with preterm birth: A retrospective cohort study in California.
Lancet Regional Health. Americas
Patient and provider perspectives on preterm birth risk assessment and communication.
Patient education and counseling
1061 Experiences of discrimination in low-income pregnant women.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology
653 Perceived stress among low income pregnant women in during the COVID-19 pandemic.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology
Persistent organic pollutants and maternal glycemic outcomes in a diverse pregnancy cohort of overweight women.
Environmental research
User-testing of a decision-support tool for parents facing threatened periviable delivery: The Periviable GOALS decision aid.
Patient education and counseling
Prenatal Maternal Objective and Subjective Stress Exposures and Rapid Infant Weight Gain.
The Journal of pediatrics
Bringing Statistics to Life.
Obstetrics and gynecology
Cardiovascular Disease-Related Pregnancy Complications Are Associated with Increased Maternal Levels and Trajectories of Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers During and After Pregnancy.
Journal of women's health (2002)
196: Odds of early birth by class of obesity in a propensity matched sample.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology
Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Distress, Weight Gain, and Glucose Control for Pregnant Low-Income Women: A Quasi-Experimental Trial Using the ORBIT Model.
International journal of behavioral medicine
Associations between sociodemographic characteristics and exposures to PBDEs, OH-PBDEs, PCBs, and PFASs in a diverse, overweight population of pregnant women.
Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology
Neighborhood Typology and Cardiometabolic Pregnancy Outcomes in the Maternal Adiposity Metabolism and Stress Study.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)
Prenatal Persistent Halogenated EDCs and Gestational Glucose Levels in a Racially Diverse Pregnancy Cohort of Overweight Women.
ISEE Conference Abstracts
The mindful moms training: development of a mindfulness-based intervention to reduce stress and overeating during pregnancy.
BMC pregnancy and childbirth
Novel Interventions to Reduce Stress and Overeating in Overweight Pregnant Women: A Feasibility Study.
Maternal and child health journal
Association between persistent endocrine-disrupting chemicals (PBDEs, OH-PBDEs, PCBs, and PFASs) and biomarkers of inflammation and cellular aging during pregnancy and postpartum.
Environment international
Effect of prenatal mindfulness training on depressive symptom severity through 18-months postpartum: A latent profile analysis.
Journal of clinical psychology
Maternal depressive symptoms and infant healthcare utilization: The moderating role of prenatal mindfulness.
General hospital psychiatry
Effects of pre- and postnatal maternal stress on infant temperament and autonomic nervous system reactivity and regulation in a diverse, low-income population-CORRIGENDUM.
Development and psychopathology
Effects of pre- and postnatal maternal stress on infant temperament and autonomic nervous system reactivity and regulation in a diverse, low-income population.
Development and psychopathology
Poor Sleep Quality, Psychological Distress, and the Buffering Effect of Mindfulness Training During Pregnancy.
Behavioral sleep medicine
Perinatal psychological distress as a potential modifier of the association between prenatal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (PBDEs, PCBs, and PFASs) and measures of thyroid function during pregnancy and postpartum.
ISEE Conference Abstracts
Sugary beverage and food consumption, and leukocyte telomere length maintenance in pregnant women.
European journal of clinical nutrition
Maternal diet quality during pregnancy and fetal growth outcomes: a pilot study of lower-income pregnant women.
The FASEB Journal
Sugary beverage and food consumption and leukocyte telomere length maintenance in pregnant women: a pilot study.
The FASEB Journal
Potential for a stress reduction intervention to promote healthy gestational weight gain: focus groups with low-income pregnant women.
Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
Recruitment and retention of pregnant women for a behavioral intervention: lessons from the maternal adiposity, metabolism, and stress (MAMAS) study.
Preventing chronic disease
Use of a fan during sleep and the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine
Unstudied infants: outcomes of moderately premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition