Kristy K. Martyn

Kristy K. Martyn, PhD, FNP-BC, CPNP-PC

Associate Professor

Division Chair

Division of Health Promotion and Risk Reduction (Division II)

Room 3160

University of Michigan School of Nursing
400 North Ingalls Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5482

Telephone: (734) 763-5597

Fax: (734) 647-0351

kmartyn@umich.edu

Scholarly Expertise / Activity

Interests:

Adolescent health promotion and risk reduction
Sexual risk avoidance
Health risk assessment
Qualitative research
Event history calendar

Dr. Kristy Martyn is a Family and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner who has more than twenty years of experience in primary health care and research. Her research methods are grounded theory research, event history calendar, and focus group/interviewing methods with adolescents from diverse populations. During the past ten years, Dr. Martyn has conducted extensive preliminary work to develop an event history calendar (EHC) for integrated adolescent risk behavior assessment and to examine its use with adolescents in primary health care settings. More specifically, her research - Testing a Sexual Risk Event History Calendar Intervention with Adolescents - which was recently funded by the NIH/NIMH, is a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the effect of EHC clinical assessment on sexually active adolescents’ cognitive appraisal of risk, sexual risk behavior and intentions, and quality of communication with providers. The EHC is a time-linked integrated risk history tool that has the potential for improving adolescent risk history recall and report, adolescent risk perception, and patient-provider communication, and ultimately reducing adolescent risk behavior.

Current Research Grants and Programs:

Principal Investigator: “Testing a Sexual Risk Event History Calendar Intervention with Adolescents” NIH/National Institute of Mental Health (R34) $695,250
Co-Investigator: “Mixed-Methods Study of Cigarette Smoking in Urban American Indian Communities” NIH/NCMHD (R01). Under Review.
Co-Investigator: “Smokeless Tobacco Use in American Indian Communities” NIH/NCI and NIDCR (R21) Under Review.

Teaching

Dr. Martyn teaches and guest lectures on qualitative research and adolescent health research for undergraduate and graduate students in many disciplines. Within the U-M School of nursing, she teaches the Nursing Doctoral Qualitative Research and Analysis course, has taught Advanced Nursing Theory courses, and has taught in the Family and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Programs (didactic and clinical). She has also served as committee chair, co-chair, and member on numerous NRSAs, doctoral student planning and dissertation committees (eleven since 1999), and masters nursing student scholarly projects (eighty-two since 1999) in nursing and education at the University of Michigan and Duquesne University.

Affiliations / Service

Midwest Nursing Research Society, 1999-present (Adolescent Study Section - Chair, 2002-2003; Co-Chair, 200-2002; Abstract Reviewer)
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, 1995-present (Research Committee Member; Education Committee Member; Conference Abstract Reviewer; Small Research Grants Reviewer; Conference Moderator; Representative to the American Nurses Foundation Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health (PIPPAH) Planning Committee & Immunization Task Force)
Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, 1981‑present

Notable Awards / Honors

Dorothy M. Smith Nursing Leadership Award for Excellence in Research, University of Florida College of Nursing, 2006
Representative to the American Nurses Foundation Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health (PIPPAH) Planning Task Force, National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, 2003-2006

Education

PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1998
Post-Masters, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1994
MSN, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1981
BSN, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1978

Publication Highlights

Lori, J.R., Yi, G., & Martyn, K.K., (in press, 2011). Provider characteristics desired by African-American women in prenatal care. Journal of Transcultrual Nursing, 22(2).
Freed, G.L., Dunham, K.M., Loveland-Cherry, C. J., & Martyn, K.K. (in press). Pediatric nurse practitioners in the United States: Current distribution
Lori, J.R., Majszak, C., & Martyn, K.K. (in press). Home-based life saving skills in Liberia: Acquisition and retention skills and knowledge. Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health.
Gallagher, N.A., Gretebeck, K.A., Robinson, J., Torres, E.R., Murphy, S., & Martyn, K.K., (2010). Neighborhood Factors Relevant for Walking in Older, Urban, African-American Adults. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 18, 99-115.
Martyn, K.K. (2009). Adolescent health research and clinical assessment using self-administered event history calendars. In R. Belli, F. Stafford, & D. Alwin (Eds.), Calendar and time diary methods in life course research (pp. 69-86). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Martyn, K.K., Loveland-Cherry, C., Villarruel, A.M., Gallegos Cabriales, E., Zhou, Y., Ronis, D., & Eakin, B. (2009). Mexican adolescents’ alcohol use, family intimacy, and parent-adolescent communication. Journal of Family Nursing, 15(2), 152-170. Access: http://jfn.sagepub.com/
Yi, C.H., Martyn, K.K., Salerno, J., & Darling-Fisher, C. (2009). Development and clinical use of the rapid assessment for adolescent preventive services (RAAPS) questionnaire in school- based health centers. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23(1), 2-9.
Yi, CH., Lori, J.R., Marty, K.K., (2008). Development of prenatal event history calendar with African American women. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 37(4), 464-73.
Martyn, K.K., Reifsnider, E., Barry, M.G., Treviño, M., & Murray, A. (2006). Protective processes of Latina adolescents. Hispanic Health Care International, 4(2), 111-124.
Martyn, K.K., Darling-Fisher, C., Smrtka, J., Fernandez, D., Martyn, D.H. (2006). Honoring family biculturalism: Avoidance of adolescent pregnancy among Latina girls in the United States. Hispanic Health Care International, 4(1), 15-26.
Martyn, K.K., Reifsnider, E., & Murray, A. (2006). Improving adolescent sexual risk assessment with event history calendars: A feasibility study. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 20(1), 19-26.
Martyn, K.K., & Martin, R. (2003). Adolescent sexual risk assessment. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, 8, 213-219.
Martyn, K.K., & Belli, R.F. (2002). Retrospective data collection using event history calendars. Nursing Research, 51, 270-274.
Martyn, K.K., Hutchinson, S.A., & Martin, J.H. (2002). Lucky girls: Unintentional avoidance of adolescent pregnancy among low-income African American females. Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing, 7(4), 153-161.
Martyn, K.K., & Hutchinson, S.A. (2001). Low-income African American adolescents who avoid pregnancy: Tough girls who rewrite negative scripts. Qualitative Health Research, 11, 238-256.