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Rosalie Corona

Assistant professor

Contact information

Phone: (804) 828-8059
E-mail: racorona@vcu.edu

Education

Ph.D. (1999) University of California, Los Angeles

Program affiliation

Health Psychology, Clinical Psychology (affiliate)

Research interests

Dr. Corona’s general area of research focuses on adolescent health promotion and risk reduction among African American and Latino youth, including youth of parents with HIV. She is specifically interested in adolescent sexual health (e.g., HIV and teen pregnancy prevention) and substance use (e.g., alcohol and tobacco use). She conducts qualitative and quantitative community-based research to identify individual, peer, family, and community risk and protective factors for Latino and African American youth sexual and substance use behavior. Dr. Corona is also involved in the development and evaluation of prevention programs aimed at strengthening family relationships and reducing youth risk behaviors.

Selected publications

Corona, R., Cowgill, B. O., Bogart, L. M., Parra, M. T., Ryan, G., Elliott, M. N., Park, S. K., Patch, J., & Schuster, M. A. (In press). A qualitative analysis of discussions about HIV in families of parents with HIV. Journal of Pediatric Psychology.

Corona, R., Turf, E. E., Corneille, M., Belgrave, F. Z., & Nasim, A. (In press). Risk and protective factors for tobacco use among 8th and 10th grade African American students in Virginia. Preventing Chronic Disease.

Corona , R., Beckett, M. K., Cowgill, B., Eliott, M. N., Murphy, D. A., Zhou, A., & Schuster, M. A. (2006). Do children know their parent’s HIV-status? Parental reports of child knowledge in a nationally representative sample. Ambulatory Pediatrics, 6, 138-144.

Corona , R., Lefkowitz, E. S., Romo, L. F., & Sigman, M. (2005). Latino American adolescents’ adjustment, maternal depressive symptoms, and the mother-adolescent relationship. Family Relations, 54, 386-399.

Schuster, M. A., Corona, R., Elliott, M. N., Kanouse, D. E., Eastman, K. L., Zhou, A. J., & Klein, D. J. (2008). Evaluation of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a new worksite based parenting programme to promote parent-adolescent communication about sexual health: Randomised controlled trial. British Medical Journal, 337, a308.

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Recent/current courses taught at VCU

Individual Tests of Intelligence, graduate level
Minority Issues in Mental Health, graduate level
Clinical Practicum, graduate level
Child Psychopathology, undergraduate level
Psychology of Abnormal Behavior, undergraduate level

Recent grants or awards

Using Media Literacy to Prevent HIV and Dating Violence among Latina Adolescents
Role: Principal Investigator (VCU Sub-contract).
Training grant for racial/ethnic minority researchers interested in studying HIV in racial/ethnic minority communities. Columbia School of Social Work HISTP, National Institutes of Health, 04/2008- 03/2009, $9,980 total costs.

Barriers and Supports to Teen Pregnancy Prevention among Latina Adolescents
Role: Principal Investigator.
Community-based qualitative study aimed at understanding the cultural, familial, and media influences on Latina adolescent sexual health. VCU Institute of Women’s Health, 05/2007-04/2009, $11,028 total costs.

Analysis of the Virginia Youth Tobacco Survey and the Community That Cares Survey to Examine Risk and Protective Factors
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Elizabeth Turf).
Secondary data analysis to identify risk and protective factors for adolescent substance use. Virginia Youth Tobacco Project, 07/2007-06/2008, $39,687 total costs.

Understanding the Context and Nature of Problems Faced by Latino Youth
Role: Principal Investigator.
Qualitative research study to better understand the problems Latino youth encounter in Richmond (e.g., inter-ethnic difficulties, exposure to drugs/alcohol, teen pregnancy) and the factors that may promote the health of Latino youth. VCU Community Engagement Award, 05/2006–08/2006, $4,132 total costs.

Keeping Latino Youth and Families Safe: Identifying Substance Use, Safety, and Other Health Needs in Richmond
Role: Principal Investigator
Community-based research project focused on identifying the health and service concerns and needs of Latino families in the greater Richmond area. Virginia Governor’s Office for Substance Abuse and Prevention (GOSAP), 03/2005–02/2006, $15,000 total costs.

Long-term Effects of a Worksite Parenting Program
Role: Co-Investigator (PI = Mark Schuster)
Ongoing evaluation of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a worksite-based program for parents to improve communication with adolescents, promote adolescent sexual health, and reduce sexual risk. National Institute of Mental Health (NIH), 5 R01 MH61202, 9/30/04-6/30/08, ~$2,733,000 total costs.