Jim Mitchell
Professor
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University 1980
Areas of Interest: Aging, Health, Quantitative Methods
Office: Brewster A-403
Tel: 252.328.6768
E-mail: mitchellj@ecu.edu
Curriculum Vita
Research
Selected Refereed Publications:
Christopher Mansfield, Jim Mitchell & Dana E. King (2002) The doctor as God’s mechanic? Beliefs in the Southern United States. Social Science and Medicine 54(3):399-409.
Jim Mitchell, Donald Lannin, Holly Mathews & Melvin Swanson (2002) Religious beliefs and breast cancer screening, J. of Women’s Health 11:907-915.
Donald Lannin, Holly Mathews, Jim Mitchell & Melvin Swanson (2002) Impacting Cultural attitudes in African-American women to decrease breast cancer mortality, The Journal of Surgery 184:418-423.
Linda Pololi, Kay Dennis, Gloria Winn & Jim Mitchell (2003) A needs assessment of medical school faculty: Caring for the caretakers, Education in the Health Professions 23:21-29.
Mary Altpeter, Jim Mitchell & Joan Pennell (2005) Advancing social work responsiveness to health disparities: The case of breast cancer screening. Health and Social Work 30:177-272.
Jim Mitchell, Holly Mathews & Linda Mayne (2005) Differences in breast self examination techniques between Caucasian and African-American elderly women. J. of Women’s Health 14:476-484..
Jim Mitchell, Don Bradley, Jim Wilson, and R. Turner Goins (inder review) What is rural in research on aging? Definition, measurement, application and variability. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences.
Grant Proposals
Rural transformation and quality of life among older adults. Proposal for 2-year project submitted to NIA June 1, 2006, including investigators from East Carolina University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and West Virginia University.
Book Chapters
“Demographics ,” pp.9-14 in Ham, R.J., Sloane, P.D., & Warshaw, G.A., (Eds.) Primary Care Geriatrics: A Case-Based Approach. Mosby, St. Louis, 2002.
“Rural Aging” in Ekerdt (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Aging. Macmillan Reference USA, 2003.
Current Projects:
My research focus is the measurement and assessment of the role of behavioral factors that affect the use of health and community-based services among older persons, particularly in rural minority populations. This typically entails multiple-year large scale survey research projects. I have received research support from the American Cancer Society, the Kate B. Reynolds Health Care Trust, and branches of the National Institutes of Health, including the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Aging, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. I am a Founding Fellow of the UNC Institute on Aging and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education and a Fellow of the Behavioral and Social Science Section of the Gerontological Society of America. Since 1989, I have been Director of the Center on Aging, now housed administratively in the School of Medicine. I am currently the editor of the Journal of Applied Gerontology.
