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School of Nursing Faculty

Kristy Kiel Martyn, PhD, RN
Associate Professor, FNP & PNP Program Co-Coordinator

University of Michigan School of Nursing
400 North Ingalls Building
Room 3172
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0482
Telephone: (734)647-0129
FAX: (734)647-0351
kmartyn@umich.edu

Education
University of Florida, Ph.D. in Nursing Science, 1998
University of Florida, Pediatric Nursing, M.S.N., 1981
Florida State University, Nursing, B.S.N., 1978

Research Interests
Adolescent female health promotion and risk reduction:
Sexual risk avoidance
Health-risk assessment

Current Research
Sexual Risk Assessment Using Event History Calendars, MESA Center for Health Disparities Pilot Study (Principal Investigator, funded by National Institute of Nursing Research 2002-2003)

Reducing HIV Risk Among Mexican Youth Minority Supplement (funded by National Institute of Nursing Research and National Institutes of Health 2002-2004)

Research Focus:
Adolescent female health promotion and risk
reduction, sexual risk avoidance, health-risk assessment

Keywords:
Sexual risk avoidance, Event History Calendars

Currently Funded Projects:
2006-2007: Evaluation of Adolescent Sexual Risk Event History Calendars,
The Michigan Center for Health Intervention/National Institutes of Health

Recent Publications
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. Journal of 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.

Guthrie, B.J., Billings, S., Martyn, K.K., Oakley, D., & Walker, D.S. (2001). Using cognitive theory to improve nurse practitioners' anticipatory guidance with contraceptive pill users. Journal of Community Health Nursing, 18, 223-234.

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.

Last updated May 4, 2006.