Faculty and Staff Profile

Cheryl Dye

Educational Background

PhD Public Health
University of South Carolina 1991

MA Physical Education
Truman State University 1981

BSE Physical Education
Truman State University

Courses Taught

Introduction to Health Careers
Human Health and Disease
Determinants of Health Behavior
Health and Fitness
Health Promotion Program Planning
Health Promotion and Education Honors
Health Promotion of the Aged
Contemporary Health Issues
Fieldwork
Creative Inquiry in Public Health
Improving Population Health
Population Health Research

Profile

Dr. Dye was the first faculty member joining the newly-created Department of Public Health Sciences in 1991. Since that time, she has taught twelve courses, many of which she developed. She has received over $1.5M in funding as a Principal Investigator from National Institutes of Health (NIH), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Kellogg Foundation, Duke Endowment, USDA, and the Veteran’s Administration. As a Co-Investigator, she has received on additional $5M in research funding. Most of her funded research has focused on promoting chronic disease self-management among older adults through use of community-based Health Coaching. Her recent work has been in promoting quality of life for those with dementia and their family caregivers. Dr. Dye has provided state and university leadership for several gerontology initiatives. From 2001 to 2006 she served as Chair of the Advisory Board for the South Carolina Center for Gerontology (SCCG) which included representatives from universities and aging agencies across the state. In 2006, she collaborated with USC, MUSC, Greenville Health System (GHS), and Palmetto Health to establish the South Carolina Aging Research Network (SCARN), which facilitated inter-institutional research in gerontology. In 2006, Dr. Dye collaborated with Prisma Health to establish the CU Institute for Engaged Aging (IEA) and was appointed Director. In collaboration with SCARN members, the IEA hosted Aging Research Day in 2009, 2012, and 2015. Also in 2006, Dr. Dye collaborated with USC, GHS, and Palmetto Health to submit a proposal to establish a Center of Economic Excellence (CoEE) called SeniorSMART which was approved by the Commission on Higher Education in 2007. SeniorSMART includes three Endowed Chairs, one of which was awarded to CU. From 2012-2013, Dr. Dye represented the College of Health and Human Development and the IEA in co-sponsoring with Greenville Health System the conference "Transforming Healthcare with Compassionate Healthcare of Our Aging Community: a Focus on the Care of Aging Patients and Dementia". After serving as PI on a 2014 Governmental Affairs proposal to address veteran needs in collaboration with GHS, Upstate Warrior Solution, and IEA Faculty Associates, Dr. Dye led the same collaborators in planning and hosting the conference, "Coming Home: Key Transitions for Warriors and Families" was held on June 18, 2015 with over 120 registrants. Since 2001, Dr. Dye has served as PI on two projects funded by HRSA and a third one funded by the USDA to develop models using community-based, peer Health Coaches to mentor older adults in chronic condition self-management who reside in the rural upstate area of South Carolina. In the first project (2006 -2010), conducted with Dr. Deborah Willoughby (Nursing), use of community Health Coaches significantly reduced readmissions of Home Health patients with diabetes or cardiovascular disease. The second and third projects, Health Coaches for Hypertension Control (HCHC), focused on hypertension self-management (2009-2013; 2012-2013), were conducted with IEA Faculty Associates Dr. Joel Williams and Ms. Janet Evatt. Dr. Dye. To date (8-2024) Dr. Dye has trained Master Trainers from 18 states to disseminate Health Coaches for Hypertension Control. From 2007 to 2008, Dr. Dye collaborated with researchers at MUSC and USC on the project, "South Carolina Aging Research Network (SCARN) Infrastructure Core" funded by Health Sciences South Carolina. This 3-year study to examined stroke incidence, physician practices with post-stroke patients, and patient adherence with post-stroke and secondary stroke prevention regimens. The CU/GHS portion of the project was to develop and implement a lay health advisor program in which Health Coaches mentor post-stroke patients in rehabilitation and secondary stroke prevention. From 2007 to 2015, Dr. Dye was Principal Investigator on a subcontract with V. Hirth, PI at USC, for the project, "Palmetto State Geriatric Education Center", which was funded and renewed by HRSA. The IEA collaborated with GHS, USC School of Medicine and MUSC Center on Aging to improve the training of health professionals in geriatrics. As part of her work, Dr. Dye developed health literacy curricula and conducted trainings for healthcare providers and undergraduate students. Dr. Dye served as a Co-Investigator on the project, "Enhancing mHealth Technology in the PCMH Environment to Activate Chronic Care Patients" (R. Gimbel (PI) funded by the USAMRMC/DoD (2014-2018). As faculty lead for the Patient Activation Group, she led development of tailored health messages designed to activate patients aged 50 to 70 years to better self-manage their diabetes. In a second research agenda, Dr. Dye has collaborated with IEA Faculty Associates, USC, and GHS to improve care for those with dementia and their caregivers. In 2012, she led a team including Dr. Hiep Pham from GHS and Julie Eggert (Nursing) and Ellen Vincent (Horticulture) as well as Veronica Parker (Nursing) to develop and conduct the project, "Environmental Approaches to Increase Engagement and Reduce Dementia-Related Disordered Behaviors of Those with ADRD" funded by the Institute for Advancement of Healthcare. Results from this project revealed that exposure to participant-preferred music and nature images can reduce disordered behaviors of those with dementia She and collaborators at USC were co-investigators with PI, Dr. James Davis (GHS), on the project, "GHS-REACH: A Caregiver Coaching Intervention for High Risk Patient/Caregivers to Extend Dementia Capable Services" funded by Administration on Aging (2015-2018). She also served as a consultant to Dr. Davis on his project funded by the Duke Endowment Foundation (2014-2017) to expand and evaluate services of the GHS Memory Health Program. Dr. Dye's teaching activities have focused on improving quality of life for those with dementia and their caregivers. Through six semesters of Creative Inquiry, her students established two programs, Brain Fitness Club and Golden Corner Respite Program for those in early to mid-stage dementia in collaboration with community groups and a local Area Agency on Aging. The programs were funded by the state's Office on Aging, and employed Dr. Dye's Doctoral student, Cailtin Torrence, as a part-time Director. In addition to mentoring Public Health Sciences undergraduates and doctoral students in research benefiting older adults, Dr. Dye has served on graduate student committees in Public Health; Psychology; PRTM; Architecture Arts and Humanities; Healthcare Architecture; Nursing; Food Technology and Food; and Nutrition and Culinary Science.

Research Interests

Older adult health promotion
Chronic disease self-management
Community-based Health Coaching
Activating patients for health behavior change
Quality of life for those with dementia and their family caregivers.

Research Publications

Dye, C, Williams, J, Evatt J. (June 2023). Promoting Patient Hypertension Self-Management Behaviors with the Evidence-Based Program, Health Coaches for Hypertension Control. Journal of Hypertension. Volume 41, Supplement 3, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.hjh.0000939380.38325.dd

Rahemi Z, Cidav T, Malatyali A, Montaner O, Dye C. (2023). Racial disparities in advance care planning and end?of?life care preferences among decedents in the health and retirement study (2002?2019). Alzheimer's & dementia: the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 19(S5). DOI: 10.1002/alz.068102

Rahemi Z, Cidav T, Malatyali A, Montaner O, Dye C . (2023). Place of death among racial minority older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Alzheimer's & dementia: the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 19(S5). DOI: 10.1002/alz.06820
Rahemi Z, Malatyali A, Wiese L, Dye C. (March 2023). End-of-Life Care Planning for Diverse Individuals Across Age Groups: A Proposed Conceptual Model of Nursing. Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 38(4). DOI: 10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000705

Malatyali A, Rahemi Z, Cidav T, Dye C. (2022). Place of Death and Care Satisfaction Among the Health and Retirement Study Decedents. Innovation in Aging 6(Supplement_1):354-354. DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igac059.1401

Rahemi Z, Malatyali A, Adams SA, Dye, C. (2023). Advance Care Planning Among Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®. 40(11):1182-1189. doi:10.1177/10499091221146255

Ingram L, Dye C, Boger H, Luo Y, Hayes T. (Nov 24 2022). A Qualitative Study of Health Care Access among African American Older Adults in a Socio-Demographically Under-Resourced Region during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Public Health. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.893718. eCollection.

Torrence C, Madathil K, Bertrand J, Dye C, Truong K (2022). Preparing Future Health Care Workers for Interactions with People with Dementia: A Mixed Methods Study. Gerontology and Geriatrics Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02701960.2022.2042805.

Johnson, C., Friedman, D.B., Ingram, L.A., Ford, M.E., McCrary-Quarles, A., Dye, C.J., Miller, M.C., Ariyo, O., Bagasra, O., Chen, H., McCollum, Q, & Levkoff, S.E. (June 29 EPub, 2022). Reflections on Mentorship from Scientists and Mentors in an Alzheimer’s Disease Focused Research Training Program. Journal of Applied Gerontology. DOI: 10.1177/07334648221109514

Parisi M, Lane E, Dye C, Matthews R, McFall D, Bain E, Sherril W, Hipp C. (2022).Traditional and Virtual Hypertension Self-Management, Health Education Program Delivered Through Cooperative Extension, Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/jhse/.

Byrne K, Ghaiumy Anaraky R, Dye C, Ross L, Chalil Madathil K, Knijnenburg B, Levkoff S. (2021). Examining Rural and Racial Disparities in the Relationship between Loneliness and Social Technology Use Among Older Adults. Frontiers in Public Health. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.723925

Joshi R, Joseph A, Mihandoust S, Hoskins L, O'Hara S, Dye C, Chalil Madathil K (2021). Understanding key home and community environment challenges encountered by older adults undergoing total knee or hip arthroplasty. The Gerontologist. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnab025.

Pai L, Powers M, Dye C, Vincent E, Padua M (2021). Walking in Your Culture: A Study of Culturally Sensitive Outdoor Walking Space for Chinese Elderly Immigrants. Health Environments Research & Design. https://doi.org/10.1177/1937586720985885.

Damali U, Fredendall L, Miller J, DeWayne M, Dye C (2021) "Enhancing patient participation in healthcare operations through patient training and education using the theoretical lens of media synchronicity". Decision Sciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/deci.12514

Williams J, Helsel B, Reynolds C, Stephens A, Dye C, Spitler H, Nelson B and Eke R (2021). Applications of Cognitive and Social Development Theory in Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes Case Management. Journal of Pediatrics & Child Health Care. 6(1): 1036.

Mihandoust S, Joshi R, Joseph A, Chalil Madathil K, Dye C, Machry H & Wilson J (2020). Identifying Key Components of Paper-Based and Technology-Based Home Assessment Tools Using a Narrative Literature Review. Journal of Aging and Environment, DOI: 10.1080/26892618.2020.1856754

Adams E, Van Puymbroeck M, Torphy H, Helsel B, Kemper K, Dye C, Schmid A (2020). Combining Education and Therapeutic Yoga for Falls Prevention: A Pilot Study. OBM Geriatrics (Special Issue on Fall Prevention). DOI: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2001097

Dye C, Willoughby D, Aybar-Damali B, Grady C, Oran R, Knudson A (2018). “ Improving Chronic Disease Self-Management by Older Home Health Patients through Community Health Coaching”. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15(4), 660; doi:10.3390/ijerph15040660.

Parisi MA, Northcutt JK, McKendry JE, Sherrill WW, Dye CJ, Snow JZ (2018). Cooperative Extension Service: the Backbone Organization in Statewide Population Health Management. Journal of Extension.

Dye C, Helmrich G (2017). “Challenges for South Carolinian Family Caregivers and How Healthcare Providers Can Support Them”. Journal of South Carolina Medical Association. Volume 113, No. 2, Pages 41-80. May/June.

Scharett E, Chalil Madathil K, Lopes S, Rogers H, Agnisarman S, Narasimha S, Dye, C (2017). An investigation of the information sought by caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients on online peer support groups. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 20(10), 640-657.

Gimbel R, Shi L, Williams J, Dye C, Chen L, Crawford P, Shry E, Griffin S, Jones K, Sherrill W, Truong K, Little J, Edwards K, Rempola M, Moss, J (2017). “Enhancing mHealth Technology in the Patient Center Medical Home Environment to Activate Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Multi-site Feasibility Study Protocol. JMIR Res Protoc. 6(3) http://www.researchprotocols.org/2017/3/e38/.

Damali U, Miller J, Fredendall L, Moore D, Dye C (2016). “Co-creating Value through Customer Training and Education in a Healthcare Service Design”. Journal of Operations Management. 47-48. 80-97.

Dye C, Williams J, Evatt JH (2016). “Activating Patients for Sustained Chronic Disease Self-Management: Thinking Beyond Clinical Outcomes”. Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. DOI:10.1177/2150131915626562. http://jpc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/2150131915626562v1.pdf?ijkey=hP830irxs1F50mH&keytype=finite

Pan X, Lee Y, Dye C, Theriot S (2016). Financial Care for Older Adults with Dementia: Characteristics of Adult Children Caregivers (IJAHD-16-0065) The International Journal of Aging and Human Development. DOI: 10.1177/0091415016685327.

Dye C, Williams J, Evatt JH. Activating Patients for Sustained Chronic Disease Self-Management: Thinking Beyond Clinical Outcomes. Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. 2016. DOI:10.1177/2150131915626562.

Damali U, Miller J, Fredendall L, Moore D, Dye C. "Enhancing patient participation through training and education: Media synchronicity theoretic view". Journal of Service Management. 2017. (JOSM-02-2016-0048.R2)

Dye C, Helmrich G. “Challenges for South Carolinian Family Caregivers and How Healthcare Providers Can Support Them”. Journal of South Carolina Medical Association. Volume 113, No. 2, Pages 41-80. May/June, 2017.

Scharett, E., Chalil Madathil, K., Lopes, S., Rogers, H., Agnisarman, S., Narasimha, S. & Dye, C. An investigation of the information sought by caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients on online peer support groups. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. (In Press, 8-2017).

Gimbel R, Shi L, Williams J, Dye C, Chen L, Crawford P, Shry E, Griffin S, Jones K, Sherrill W, Truong K, Little J, Edwards K, Rempola M, Moss, J. “Enhancing mHealth Technology in the Patient Center Medical Home Environment to Activate Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Multi-site Feasibility Study Protocol. JMIR Res Protoc. 6(3) 2017.http://www.researchprotocols.org/2017/3/e38/.

Pan X, Lee Y, Dye C, Theriot S. Financial Care for Older Adults with Dementia: Characteristics of Adult Children Caregivers (IJAHD-16-0065) The International Journal of Aging and Human Development. Accepted with revisions. (8-2016).

Eggert J, Dye C, Vincent E, Parker V, Pham H, Daily S, “Effects of Viewing a Preferred Nature Image and Hearing Preferred Music on Engagement, Agitation and Mental Status in Persons with Dementia”. Open Medicine. DOI: 10.1177/2050312115602579. 2015. http://smo.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/3/0/2050312115602579.pdf?ijkey=rmBm89is3CtiUVs&keytype=finite

Wennberg A, Dye C, Streetman-Loy B, Pham H. “Alzheimer’s patient familial caregivers: A review of burden and interventions”. Health & Social Work. DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlv062. 2015.

Dye, CJ, Williams JE, Evatt JH. “Improving Hypertension Self-Management with Community Health Coaches”. Health Promotion Practice. DOI:10.1177/1524839914533797. 2014.

Dye CJ, Williams, JE, Kemper KA, McGuire F. " Impacting Mediators of Change for Physical Activity among Elderly Food Stamp Recipients”. Educational Gerontology. 38:788-798, 2012.

Dye CJ, Willoughby F, Battisto D. Advice from Rural Elders: What it Takes to Age in Place. Educational Gerontology. 37: 1-20, 2011.