PIKO Selects Two NAWSON Researchers for Year 4 Awards
The Center for Pacific Innovations, Knowledge, and Opportunities (PIKO) has selected its Year 4 (2024-2025) awardees, two of whom hail from the University of Hawaii at Manoa Nancy Atmospera-Walch School of Nursing (NAWSON). Dr. Katie Azama will focus her PIKO research on “Native Hawaiian(NH) and Filipino Physician and Nurse Practitioner Burnout.” Azama will employ a mixed-methods approach to analyze burnout among NH, Filipino, and White physicians and nurse practitioners at The Queen’s Medical Center. Her hope is to use the research to develop strategies to mitigate burnout and improve workplace conditions.
“I am deeply grateful to PIKO for their support and feel incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to explore this important topic,” Azama says. “Working alongside the community, I am committed to understanding factors related to burnout among NH and Filipino health care providers with the goal to develop culturally appropriate interventions.”
Dr. Kyoung Eun Lee will focus her PIKO research on “Culturally-Tailored Community-Based Prenatal Education for Filipino Immigrants.” Lee’s work will examine the acceptability and feasibility of a culturally-tailored community-based prenatal education program, specifically designed and developed for Filipino immigrant women in Hawaii, and the efficacy of the intervention to improve perinatal care disparities among them.
“Significant numbers of underserved women in Hawaii are not getting appropriate prenatal education during their pregnancy. I am so appreciative of receiving this PIKO award so that I can develop and pilot test a culturally-tailored and interactive prenatal education program in a community setting among a sample of Filipino immigrant women.” Lee says. “I hope this study helps to improve maternal-fetal health outcomes by enhancing participants’ perinatal knowledge and self-efficacy during the childbearing period.”
NAWSON has a rich history with PIKO. Dr. Gary Glauberman received a PIKO award for his research related to emergency preparedness among indigenous people in Hawaii in Year 2 of the program. In Year 3, Dr. Frankie Hale received a PIKO for her research related to NH and Pacific Islander (NHPI) and Filipino nurse wellbeing. Dr. Merle Kataoka-Yahiro is also associated with PIKO; she is one of the associate directors for the Professional Development Core.
PIKO was established with funding from the Institutional Development Award Networks of Clinical and Translational Research (IDeA-CTR) to foster the development and to facilitate the implementation of innovative and evidence-based CTR projects aimed at improving the health of indigenous and/or other underserved populations in Hawaii, including NH, Pacific Islanders and Filipinos, according to PIKO. The PIKO collaborative, which represents a partnership between the University of Hawaii (UH), Hawaii Pacific University (HPU), Chaminade University of Honolulu (CUH), and a large statewide network of 18 practice-based organizations (PBO) and other community-based organizations (CBO), will develop new and leverage existing resources to ensure real-world impact.
For more on other Year 4 awardees, please visit PIKO’s story at: https://piko.jabsom.hawaii.edu/piko-pilot-project-awardees-year-4-2024-2025/.