Ivankova PhD, Nataliya

Ivankova PhD, Nataliya
Professor

Associate Scientist (C), Center for Educ Accountability , School of Education 2006 -
Associate Professor (S), Health Care Organization & Policy , School of Public Health 2008 -
Associate Professor (S), Nursing Adult / Acute Health (Retired Org) , Nursing Academic Affairs 2013 -
Associate Professor (S), Health Behavior , School of Public Health 2014 -
Professor (P), Health Services Administration , School of Health Professions 2015 -
Scholar (C), Sparkman Center for Global Health , School of Public Health 2016 -

Overview

Nataliya V. Ivankova, PhD, MPH, is Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration with a dual appointment in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She received her PhD in Administration, Curriculum, and Instruction from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) in 2004 and MPH in Epidemiology from UAB in 2014. During her doctoral studies at UNL, she worked as Research Associate and Research Projects Coordinator in the Office of Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research. Dr. Ivankova is nationally and internationally recognized for her scholarly publications addressing empirical and methodological aspects of qualitative and mixed methods research and her authorship of two books (Mixed Methods Applications in Action Research: From Methods to Community Action, 2015, Sage; and Mixed Methods Research: A Guide to the Field, 2016, Sage, co-authored with Vicki Plano Clark). As an applied research methodologist, she teaches courses in mixed methods and qualitative research, mentors doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty, and serves as a key personnel on funded projects across disciplines. She also directs a graduate certificate program in Applications of Mixed Methods Research.

Dr. Ivankova is a founding Co-editor of the Mixed Methods Research Series with Sage Publishing. She serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Mixed Methods Research and Qualitative Research Editor for the American Journal of Health Behavior. She is a section editor for qualitative and mixed methods research of the International Encyclopedia of Education (4th edition) with Elsevier. She has also provided leadership to a Special Interest Group Mixed Methods Research, Division D Measurements and Research Methodology with American Educational Research Association (AERA) and to the Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA). Currently, she is active with AcademyHealth serving on Advisory Committee for Translation and Communication Interest Group. Dr. Ivankova serves on the Board of Directors for Horizons School in Birmingham, AL (post-secondary institution for young adults with learning difficulties). During the first eighteen years of her professional career, she served as a member of the faculty and also as Dean of Admissions at the Izmail State University of Humanities in Ukraine.

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year	Title	Altmetric
2019	Race Plays a Role in the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs of Women with Osteoporosis 2019
2019	A Formative Evaluation of Patient and Family Caregiver Perspectives on Early Palliative Care in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease across Disease Severity 2019
2019	A Video Intervention to Increase Organ Donor Registration at the Department of Motorized Vehicles. 2019
2019	Intersecting mixed methods and action research to evaluate a community-based care coordination service: Implications for designing stakeholder-informed and context-specific health services research studies. 2019
2019	Essential global health competencies for baccalaureate nursing students in the United States: A mixed methods Delphi study. 2019
2019	Cancer-related symptoms and cognitive intervention adherence among breast cancer survivors: A mixed-methods study. 2019
2019	Perceptions of a breast cancer survivorship intervention: Pearls of wisdom from young african American women 2019
2019	Development of an instrument to measure the perceived workload for certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs). 2019
2019	How family caregivers of persons with advanced cancer assist with upstream healthcare decision-making: A qualitative study 2019
2019	A Catholic sister’s experiences of leadership and ministry as a faculty member in public higher education 2019
2019	An African American Perspective on Familial Notification of Becoming a Registered Organ Donor 2019
2019	Evolution and Conceptual Foundations of Nonhospice Palliative Care 2019
2019	Gender differences in health-related quality of life in adults with cystic fibrosis: An integrative literature review 2019
2018	A quantitative appraisal of African Americans’ decisions to become registered organ donors at the driver’s license office 2018
2018	Teaching mixed methods research: using a socio-ecological framework as a pedagogical approach for addressing the complexity of the field^* 2018
2018	Adapting an Early Palliative Care Intervention to Family Caregivers of Persons With Advanced Cancer in the Rural Deep South: A Qualitative Formative Evaluation 2018
2018	Applying Mixed Methods in Action Research: Methodological Potentials and Advantages 2018
2018	Black mother's intention to vaccinate daughters against HPV: A mixed methods approach to identify opportunities for targeted communication 2018
2018	Applying mixed methods in action research: Methodological potentials and advantages 2018
2018	Theory and practice of using mixed methods in translational research: A cross-disciplinary perspective 2018
2018	Hospital vertical integration into sub-acute care: A multi case study 2018
2018	Sisters in the Sacred Grove: Catholic Women Religious as faculty members at public universities. 2018
2018	Adapting an early palliative care intervention to family caregivers of persons with advanced cancer in the rural Deep South: A qualitative formative evaluation. 2018
2018	Hospital vertical integration into subacute care as a strategic response to value-based payment incentives, market factors, and organizational factors: A multiple-case study 2018
2017	Faculty Evaluation of Undergraduate Nursing Simulation: A Grounded Theory Model 2017
2017	Faculty evaluation of undergraduate nursing simulation: A grounded theory model. 2017
2017	Gout Self-Management in African American Veterans: A Qualitative Exploration of Challenges and Solutions From Patients' Perspectives 2017
2017	Applying mixed methods in community-based participatory action research: a framework for engaging stakeholders with research as a means for promoting patient-centredness 2017
2017	Faculty perceptions about teaching online: Exploring the literature using the Technology Acceptance Model as an organizing framework. 2017
2017	Theory and process of applying mixed methods in foreign language teaching and learning research. 2017
2017	Factors Perceived to Influence the Decision for African Americans to Become Registered Organ Donors at the Department of Motorized Vehicles 2017
2017	Faculty perceptions about teaching online: Exploring the literature using the technology acceptance model as an organizing framework 2017
2016	Development of a Theory-based, Sociocultural Instrument to Assess Black Maternal Intentions to Vaccinate Their Daughters Aged 9 to 12 Against HPV 2016
2016	Benefits and challenges of teaching nursing online: Exploring perspectives of different stakeholders 2016
2016	Benefits and challenges of teaching nursing online: Exploring perspectives of different stakeholders. 2016
2016	Studying teachers’ and parents’ attitudes towards educationally underperforming adolescents – Students of general education schools 2016
2015	Exploring factors facilitating adults with spinal cord injury rejoining the workforce: A pilot study 2015
2015	Understanding and improving health education among first-time parents of infants with sickle cell anemia in alabama: A mixed methods approach 2015
2014	Understanding and improving health education among first-time parents of infants with sickle cell anemia in Alabama: A mixed methods approach 2014
2014	African American organ donor registration: A mixed methods design using the theory of planned behavior 2014
2014	Implementing Quality Criteria in Designing and Conducting a Sequential QUAN → QUAL Mixed Methods Study of Student Engagement With Learning Applied Research Methods Online 2014
2013	An analysis of methodologies that can be used to validate if a perioperative surgical home improves the patient-centeredness, evidence-based practice, quality, safety, and value of patient care 2013
2013	Patient satisfaction with anesthesia: Beauty is in the eye of the consumer 2013
2013	Teacher perceptions of principals’ leadership qualities: A mixed methods study. 2013
2013	Caregiver perceptions of the food marketing environment of African-American 3-11-year-olds: A qualitative study 2013
2012	Preparing students to practice evidence-based dentistry: A mixed methods conceptual framework for curriculum enhancement 2012
2011	Maintaining healthy behaviors following weight loss: A grounded theory approach. 2011
2011	Applying grounded theory to weight management among women: Making a Commitment to Healthy Eating 2011
2010	Teaching and learning mixed methods research in computermediated environment: Educational gains and challenges 2010
2009	Experience of sexual violence among women in HIV discordant unions after voluntary HIV counselling and testing: A qualitative critical incident study in Uganda 2009
2009	Capable, contributing, and connected: New professors find support through a peer learning community. 2009
2009	Utilizing mixed methods to assess parasocial interaction of an entertainment–education program audience 2009
2008	Virtual community and student engagement with online courses. 2008
2008	Exploring role of virtual community in student engagement with online courses. 2008
2007	Students' persistence in a distributed doctoral program in educational leadership in higher education: A mixed methods study 2007
2006	Colorectal cancer - causes and prevention: Review of current research. 2006
2006	Using Mixed-Methods Sequential Explanatory Design: From Theory to Practice 2006
2005	Collegiality and community-building as a means for sustainingstudent persistence in the computer-mediated asynchronous learning environment. 2005
2005	Preliminary model of doctoral students’ persistence in the computer-mediated asynchronous learning environment. 2005
2005	Colorectal cancer and hypercholesterolemia: Review of current research 2005
2004	A decade of innovation and success in virtual learning: A world-wide asynchronous graduate program in educational leadership and higher educations. 2004
2004	Developing a web site in primary care 2004
2004	Designing a mixed methods study in primary care 2004
2003	Distance education doctoral students: Delineating persistence variables through a comprehensive literature review. 2003
2001	First language changes and attrition in the speech of Ukrainian, Czech, and Russian immigrants to Nebraska. 2001
1995	Towards the problem of the systemic character of the language vocabulary. 1995
1995	To the problem of the equivalency of the original text and its translation. 1995
1993	Professionally-aimed teaching methods used in English class. 1993
1993	Word-stock of the original and the translated variants of a literary text. 1993
1990	Growth of motivation in teaching a foreign language. 1990
1989	Club of International Friendship in the system of international education of undergraduate students. 1989
1988	Communicative aspect of thematic words in the original and the translated variants of a literary text. 1988
1988	The systemic nature of the word-stock in the original literary text and its translation (on the example of the ideographic group “Man”). 1988
1986	Key words in the original and the translated variants of the text. 1986
1984	Semantic-stylistic characteristics of the word-stock of the novel “The Child Buyer” by J. Hersey. 1984
1984	Organization of the word-stock in the novel “My Petition for More Space” by J. Hersey. 1984
	Applying mixed methods sequential Quan ? Qual design to identify factors associated with Black mothers’ intention to vaccinate their daughters aged 9 to 12 for HPV.
	Teaching mixed methods research: Introducing a new course as a guide to the field.

Book

Year	Title	Altmetric
2015	Mixed Methods Research A Guide to the Field 2015
2014	Mixed Methods Applications in Action Research From Methods to Community Action 2014
2009	Students' Persistence A Mixed Methods Study of a Distributed Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership in Higher Education 2009

Chapter

Year	Title	Altmetric
2019	Designing integrated mixed methods action research studies. 2019
2019	Foundations and approaches to mixed methods research 2019
2016	Foundations and approaches to mixed methods research.. 305-336. 2016
2015	Mixed methods research and analysis.. 63-81. 2015
2013	Addressing challenges of conducting quality mixed methods studies in higher education. 133-153. 2013
2010	Emerging trends in the utilization of integrated designs in social, behavioral, and health sciences.. 581-611. 2010
2009	Mixed methods. 135-161. 2009
2008	A sample mixed methods proposal: An instructors’ resource. 2008
2007	Foundations and approaches to mixed methods research.. 253-282. 2007
2007	Online higher education programs: New challenges, new frontiers, new learning, and new scholarship.. 77-97. 2007
1988	Interrelation of ideographic groups of words in the original and the translated variants of a literary text (based on the analysis of the novels by J. Hersey). 1988

Research Overview

Dr. Ivankova is an applied qualitative and mixed methods research methodologist with a special interest in integrating mixed methods with community-based participatory and action research approaches in the context of translational research and implementation science. She has served as methodologist, co-investigator, mentor and consultant on multiple funded projects addressing the issues of health disparities, chronic pain management, cancer survivorship, organ donation, patient satisfaction, and health care organizational performance at UAB and beyond.

Investigator On

Adapting MultiPLe Behavior Interventions that eFfectively Improve (AMPLIFI) Cancer Survivor Health awarded by National Cancer Institute/NIH/DHHS 2018 - 2023

Adapting MultiPLe Behavior Interventions that eFfectively Improve (AMPLIFI) Cancer Survivor Health - ADI Core awarded by National Cancer Institute/NIH/DHHS 2018 - 2023

CITY Health II - The Center for the Study of Community Health awarded by National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promo./CDC/DHHS 2014 - 2019

Performance of High Medicaid Nursing Homes-Contextual and Management Factors awarded by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/DHHS 2014 - 2019

UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) (3 Linked Awards UL1, KL2, TL1) awarded by National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences/NIH/DHHS 2015 - 2019

Post Coital DNA Recovery in Minority Couples awarded by National Institute of Justice/Department of Justice 2015 - 2019

Adapting Interventions for Young African American Breast Cancer Survivors awarded by American Cancer Society, Inc. 2015 - 2017

Increasing African American Organ Donation: Donor Registration and Family Consent awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS 2012 - 2016

Development of an HIV Prevention Game for African American Rural Adolescents awarded by National Institute of Nursing Research/NIH/DHHS 2012 - 2015

Teaching Overview

Dr. Ivankova teaches graduate level courses in philosophy of science, mixed methods and qualitative research. She directs an online graduate certificate program in Applications of Mixed Methods Research at UAB. She mentors doctoral students and junior faculty and conducts research workshops for national and international audiences.