Dawn Aycock

PHD- Nursing, The University of Alabama at Birmingham (2012)
MSN- Adult Health Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (2004)
BSN Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas (1995)

Dr. Aycock is a registered nurse and certified adult health nurse practitioner with experience caring for adults in hospital and community-based settings. Dr. Aycock has spent the majority of her nursing career involved in clinical and nursing research. She has coordinated pharmaceutical funded analgesic clinical trials, and NIH funded studies investigating family caregivers of stroke survivors, women with migraines, and mothers of low-birth weight infants. Dr. Aycock’s focus is advancing and promoting nursing science through research, education and service.

Research Interests
Dr. Aycock’s program of research is cardiovascular disease prevention, specifically primary stroke prevention in African Americans. She focuses on helping individuals improve their understanding of stroke including personal risk of stroke and promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors (e.g. diet, physical activity, smoking cessation) to reduce stroke risk. Dr. Aycock has received grant support from GSU, the National Institute of Nursing Research and the Betty Irene Moore Nurse Fellowship Program for Nurse Leaders and Innovators to develop and test a Stroke COunseling for Risk REduction (SCORRE) intervention for African Americans aged 20-35 years.

Select Publications

Aycock, D. M. & Hayat, M. (2020). Strategies for planning and handling of missing data in nursing research. Journal of Nursing Education, 1(59): 249-255.

Aycock, D. M. (2020). Membership has its privileges: Getting active in Professional Organizations. (Editorial)Research in Nursing & Health, 43(1): 6-7.     

Aycock, D. M., Clark, P. C., Anderson, A., Sharma, D. (2019). Health perceptions, stroke risk and readiness for behavior change: Gender differences in young adult African Americans. Journal of Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities, 6(4): 821-829. doi.org/10.1007/s40615-019-00581-0

Stanfill, A., Aycock, D., Dionne-Odom, J., & Rosa, W. (2019). Strategies and resources for increasing the PhD pipeline and producing independent nurse scientists. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 51(6), 717-726.

Marchina, S., Doros, G., Modak, J., Helenius, J. Aycock, D. M. & Kumar, S. (2019). Acid-suppressive medication and risk of pneumonia in acute stroke patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Neurological Sciences, 400, 122-128.

Aycock, D. M., Hayat, M. J., Helvig, A., Dunbar, S. B. & Clark, P. C. (2018). Essential considerations in developing attention control groups in behavioral research. Research in Nursing & Health, 41(3):320-328. doi: 10.1002/nur.21870. (Certificate received from publisher for top cited article 2018-2019)

Aycock, D. M., Clark, P. C. & Araya, S. (2017). Measurement and outcomes of the perceived risk of stroke: A review. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 41(1):134-154. doi:10.1177/0193945917747856.

Aycock, D. M., Sims, T., Casseus, K., Florman, T., Gordon, P. & Spratling, R. (2017). Language Sensitivity, the RESPECT Model, and Continuing Education. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 1, 48(11):517-524. doi: 10.3928/00220124-20171017-10. (Article selected for the 2017 JCEN Most Innovative Article of the Year)

Aycock, D.M., Clark, P.C., Hayat, M. (2016). Reducing stroke risk among young adult African Americans: A feasibility study. Research in Nursing & Health, 40(2):153-164. doi:10.1002/nur.21776

Aycock, D.M., Clark, P.C., Thomas-Seaton, L., Lee, Shih-Yu, Moloney, M. (2016). Simple Tools to Facilitate Project Management in a Nursing Research Project. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 39(3):440-443.10.1177/019394591665660

Aycock, D.M. & Clark, P.C. (2016). Incongruence between perceived long-term risk and actual risk of stroke in rural African Americans. Journal of Neuroscience Nursing. 48(1), 35-41.

Aycock, D.M., Kirkendoll, K.D., Coleman, K.C., Clark, P.C., Albright, K. & Alexandrov, A.W. (2014). Family history of stroke among African Americans and its association with risk factors, knowledge, perceptions, and exercise. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 30(2): e1-6. doi:10.1097/JCN.0000000000000125

Additional Publications – https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dawn_Aycock/publications

Funding

Stroke COunseling for Risk REduction in Young Adult African American Men (SCORRE-M).
Principal Investigator. Betty Irene Moore Fellowship Program for Nurse Leaders and Innovators. Awarded $500,000. (07/01/2020-06/30/2023)
Stroke COunseling for Risk REduction (SCORRE) in Young Adult African Americans.
Principal Investigator. National Institute of Nursing Research, NIH. K01NR015494 Awarded $277,890. (09/29/2015-08/01/2019)
Stroke COunseling for Risk REduction (SCORRE) in Young Adult African Americans.
Principal Investigator. Georgia State University, Cleon Arrington Research Initiation
Grant. Awarded $20,000. (07/2014-06/2015)

Memberships

• American Academy of Nursing
• American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing Council
• Chi Eta Phi Sorority International Inc., Gamma Chi Chapter
• Preventive Cardiovascular Nursing Association
• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society, Alpha Epsilon Chapter
• Southern Nursing Research Society

Awards and Honors

• 4/2021 Visionary Leader, University of Alabama, Birmingham School of Nursing
• 10/2020 Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN)
• 05/2019 Georgia State University Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award Recipient
• 05/2016 Nursing Achievement Award, Gamma Chi Chapter of Chi Eta Phi Nursing Sorority International, Inc.
• 11/2015 Fellow in the American Heart Association (FAHA)