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

Prevention & Health Promotion

Specialties and Expertise

Awards and Honors

Indiana University Southeast Alumni Award of Excellence, 2023
Midwest Nursing Research Society Service Award, 2021
Society of Behavioral Medicine, Rural Health Policy Ambassador, Invited Expert Appointment, 2020
Council for the Advancement of Nursing Research, Duck-Hee Kang Memorial Award for Mentored Grantwriting, 2018
Midwest Nursing Research Society Health Promoting Behaviors Research Interest Group, New Investigator Award, 2018

Biography

Dr. Hardin is an assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Nursing. Her program of research is focused on chronic disease self-management, with emphasis on adolescents and young adults with obesity and associated conditions. She collaborates with an interdisciplinary team of researchers from nursing, social work, psychology, and medicine to apply patient-centered behavior change interventions to improve health behaviors, disease outcomes, and quality of life in marginalized youth. Dr. Hardin completed T32 post-doctoral training to address multiple chronic conditions at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). She was a Co-Investigator with the NHLBI U01 Ideas Moving Parents & Adolescents to Change Together study of adolescent obesity, a large multi-site randomized controlled trial. Additionally, she was a pilot study investigator with NINR P30 Self-Management Advancements through Research and Translation Center at CWRU that focused on the brain-behavior connections in adolescent management of obesity and a pilot study investigator with the NIMHD U54 Center for Reducing Health Disparities at CWRU that focused on reducing health disparities in adolescent self-management of depressive symptoms with a family-based intervention.

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