Education

T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Case Western Reserve University
PhD, University of Louisville
Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Louisville
MSN, University of Louisville
BSN, Indiana University Southeast

Research Areas

Health & Community Systems

Specialties and Expertise

Awards and Honors

Indiana University Southeast Alumni Award of Excellence, 2023
Midwest Nursing Research Society Service Award, 2021
Council for the Advancement of Nursing Research, Duck-Hee Kang Memorial Award, 2018
Midwest Nursing Research Society Health Promoting Behaviors Research Interest Group, New Investigator Award, 2018

Biography

Dr. Hardin’s program of research is focused on adolescent depression and associated conditions. She has completed a series of studies that build towards the development and testing of interventions to prevent or manage major depression in youth. Dr. Hardin has led interdisciplinary teams of researchers from nursing, social work, psychology, public health, and medicine to apply patient-centered behavior change interventions to improve health behaviors, disease outcomes, and quality of life in youth.

Media Features

Tackling Youth Depression. Interview with Health K. Hardin, PhD, RN, in an article about her study of an intervention to prevent depression in youth. https://nursing.iu.edu/news-events/vital-signs/2024/2024-11-faculty-feature-dr-heather-hardin.html

Publications

Hardin, H. K., Bender, A. E., Killion, C. M., & Moore, S. M. (2023). Materials and methods for recruiting systematically marginalized youth and families for weight-management intervention trials: Community stakeholder perspectives. Family & Community Health, 46(1), 13-27. https://doi.org/10.1097/FCH.0000000000000352

McVoy, M., Hardin, H. K., Fulchiero, E., Briggs, F., Caforio, K., Neudecker, M., Sajatovic, M. (2023). Mental health comorbidity and youth onset type 2 diabetes: A systematic review of the literature. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 58(1): 37-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/00912174211067335

Griggs, S., Al-Kindi, S. Hardin, H., Irani, E., Rajagopalan, S., Crawford, S., Hickman, R. L. (2023). Socioeconomic deprivation and cardiometabolic risk factors in individuals with type 1 diabetes: T1D Exchange Clinic Registry. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 195, 110198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2022.110198

Hardin, H. K., Bender, A. E., Killion, C. M., & Moore, S. M. (2022). Strategies to engage systematically marginalized youth and their families in research using high-tech methods. Advances in Nursing Science, 10.1097. https://doi.org/10.1097/ANS.0000000000000421

Hardin, H. K., Bender, A., Speck, B. J., & Hermann, C. P. (2021). An integrative review of adolescent trust in the healthcare provider relationship. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 77(4): 1645-1655. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14674

Hardin, H. K., Lee, D., Alchami, H. K., & Jones, S. M. (2021). Unmet health need and barriers to health care among adolescents living in a rural area. Children’s Health Care, 50(1), 108-123. https://doi.org/10.1080/02739615.2020.1833333

Hardin, H. K., Moore, S. M., Moore, S., & Uli, N. (2021). Associations between trust of healthcare provider and body mass index in adolescents. Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, 44(3): 197-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694193.2020.1783028

Hardin, H. K., Alchami, H. K., & Connell, A. (2020). Depressive symptoms and trust of healthcare provider in rural adolescents: Relationships and predictors. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 42(3): 208-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2020.1789783

Moore, S. M., Borawski, E. A., Love, T. E., Jones, S., Casey, T., McAleer, S., Thomas, C., Adegbite-Adeniyi, C., Uli, N. K., Hardin, H. K., Trapl, E. S., Plow, M., Stevens, J., Truesdale, K. P., Pratt, C. A., Long, M., Nevar, A. (2019). Two family interventions to reduce BMI in low-income urban youth: A randomized trial. Pediatrics, 143(6), e20182185. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2018-2185

Hardin, H. K., Speck, B. J., McCarthy, V. L., & Crawford, T. N. (2018). Diminished trust of health care providers, risky lifestyle behaviors, and low use of health services: A descriptive study of rural adolescents. Journal of School Nursing, 34(6), 458-467. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059840517725787

Moore, S., Komton, V., Adegite-Adeniyi, C., Dolanski, M., Hardin, H. K., & Borawski, E. (2018). Development of the Systems Thinking Scale for Adolescent Behavior Change. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 40(3), 375-387, https://doi.org/10.1177/0193945917697219

Heerman, W., Jaka, M., Berge, J., Trapl, E., Sommer, E., Samuels, L., Jackson, N., Haapala, J., Kunin-Batson, A., Olson-Bullis, B., Hardin, H., Sherwood, N., Barkin, S. (2017). The dose of behavioral interventions to prevent and treat childhood obesity: A systematic review and meta-regression. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity; 14: 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-017-0615-7