School of Nursing

Education

• DNSc, Yale University
• MPH, University of Minnesota
• MS, Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan
• BSN, Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan

External Funding

Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society Small Research Grant, 2008-2009

Indiana University School of Nursing Research Investment Fund, 2007-2008

Indiana University New Faculty Research Development Grant, 2005

Indiana Unversity Kokomo Summer Research Grant, 2003, and 2004

President's Council on International Programs, Indiana University Bloomington, 2003 

Biosketch

Dr. Shieh has a clinical certification from NCC in Inpatient Obstetric Nursing. She has studied vulnerable women in the past 10 years, including immigrant pregnant women, prenatal illicit drug users, low-income pregnant woment, and woment with chronic disabilities due to leprosy.  She invesigated maternal-fetal attachment, early maternal-infant separation, prenatal care, prenatal knowledge, and pregnancy health information seeking.  Her recent research effort is to develop prenatal education intervention for resource poor pregnant woment.  She conducted studies to examine readability and suitability of written prenatal education materials and factors (needs, barriers, self-efficacy, health literacy, and control beliefs) that influence pregnant women to find and use pregnancy health information.  She is the Maternal Child Health Section Student Authors Committee Chair for the American Public health Association and the Editorial Advisory Board member of the Journal of Community Health Nursing. She has also served as a manuscript reviewer for International Journal of Nursing Education and Scholarship and Leprosy Review.

Selected Publications

Shieh, C., & Hosei, B. (2008). Printed health information materials: Evaluation of readability and suitability. Journal of Community Health Nursing, 25(1), 73-90.

Lin, M. L., Shieh, C., & Wang, H. H. (2008). Comparison between Southeast Asian immigrant and Taiwanese pregnant women in terms of pregnancy knowledge, attitude toward pregnancy, experience of medical service experiences and prenatal care behaviors. Journal of Nursing Research, 16(2), 97-107.

Shieh, C., & Kravitz, M. (2006). Severity of drug use, initiation of prenatal care, and maternal-fetal attachment in pregnant marijuana and cocaine/heroin users. Journal of Obstetric, Neonatal, and Gynecological Nursing, 35(4), 499-508.

Shieh, C., Wang, H. H., & Lin, C.F. (2006). From contagious to chronic: A life course experience with leprosy in Taiwanese women. Leprosy Review, 77, 99-113.

Shieh, C. (2006). How one nurse turned her day-to-day experiences into research? AWHONN Lifelines, 10(5), 375-378.

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