Merle Kataoka-Yahiro

Merle Kataoka-Yahiro, DrPH, RNC, APRN
Associate Professor
Graduate Chair

School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2528 McCarthy Mall, Webster Hall 318
Honolulu, HI 96822
Ph: 808-956-5329, Fax: 808-956-5296
Email: merle@hawaii.edu

 

BSN, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1979; MS, Rush University, 1982;  MPH, Northwestern University, 1984; DrPH, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1991.

 

Clinical Area of Focus: parent-child

 

Dr. Kataoka-Yahiro's program of research focuses on caregiving and health outcomes with particular interest in grandparenting caregiving. This research has included describing grandparent caregiving role in ethnically diverse families, exploring grandparent caregiving role in Filipino American families, discussing issues of instrument translation in research with Asian immigrant populations, and describing Filipino American grandparents caring for their grandchildren: caregiver role, perceived, health status, and acculturation. She is currently interested in the effects of burden and resources (coping, social support) on health outcomes of ethnically diverse grandparents caring for their grandchildren.

Dr. Kataoka-Yahiro serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Nursing Education. Her published work in the area of teaching is in critical thinking, service-learning, and cultural diversity.

 

Teaching Topics: Dr. Kataoka-Yahiro teaches in the undergraduate, master's, and PhD programs.  She is responsible for courses taught in parent child nursing, health promotion and prevention, family systems in health and illness, and curriculum evaluation.

 

Recent Awards and Publications:

Kataoka-Yahiro, M., Tessier, K., Radcliffe, C., Cohen, J., & Matsumoto-Oi, D.
(2001). The learning-service community partnership model: A program evaluation.
Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 16 (6), 412-417.

 

Caulfield, R., & Kataoka-Yahiro, M. (2001). Health training needs of child care professionals. Early Childhood Education Journal, 29 (2), 119-123.

 

Kataoka-Yahiro, M., & Munet-Vilaro, F. (2002). Barriers to preventive health care for young children. Journal of the American Academy for Nurse Practitioners, 14(2), 66-71.

 

Kataoka-Yahiro, M., & Cohen, J. (2002). Marketing strategies for the learning-service community partnership model. Journal of Nursing Education, 41 (3), 1-4.

 

Kataoka-Yahiro, M., Ceria, C., & Caulfield, R. (2004). Grandparent caregiving role in ethnically diverse families. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 19 (5), 315-328.

 

Kataoka-Yahiro, M., Ceria, C. & Yoder, M. (2004). Grandparent caregiving role in Filipino American families. Journal of Cultural Diversity, 11 (3), 110-117.

 

Willgerodt, M.A., Kataoka-Yahiro, M., Kim, E., & Ceria, C. (2005). Issues of instrument translation in research with Asian immigrant populations. Journal of Professional Nursing, 21 (4), 231-239.

 

Ellerman, C., Kataoka-Yahiro, M., & Wong, L. (2006). Building of logic models: A nursing movement in the curriculum. Journal of Nursing Education, 45 (6), 220-226.