Cynthia M. Cready

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book

• Dale E. Yeatts, Cynthia M. Cready, and Linda S. Noelker. (2008). Empowered Work Teams in Long-Term Care: Strategies for Improving Outcomes for Residents and Staff. 205. Baltimore, Maryland, Health Professions Press. http://www.healthpropress.com/

Book Chapter

• Rogelio Saenz, Cynthia M. Cready, and Maria Cristina Morales. (2007). Adios Aztlan: Mexican American Outmigration from the Southwest. The Sociology of Spatial Inequality. 189-213. Albany, New York, State University of New York Press. http://www.sunypress.edu/p-4445-the-sociology-of-spatial-inequa.aspx
• Dale E. Yeatts and Cynthia M. Cready. (2005). Yeatts and Cready Dimensions of Empowerment Measure. Measuring Long-Term Care Work: A Guide to Selected Instruments to Examine Direct Care Worker Experiences and Outcomes. 47-49. Washington, DC, https://aspe.hhs.gov/basic-report/measuring-long-term-care-work-guide-selected-instruments-examine-direct-care-worker-experiences-and-outcomes. https://aspe.hhs.gov/basic-report/measuring-long-term-care-work-guide-selected-instruments-examine-direct-care-worker-experiences-and-outcomes
• Fossett, Mark A., M. Therese Seibert, and Cynthia M. Cready. (1998). Ecological and Structural Determinants of Declining Labor-Force Participation of African-American Men: Evidence from Southern Non-metropolitan Labor Markets, 1940-1980. Continuities in Sociological Human Ecology. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. 317-344. New York, Springer/Plenum Publishers. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780306456107
• Fossett, Mark A., and Cynthia M. Cready. (1998). Ecological Approaches in the Study of Racial and Ethnic Differentiation and Inequality. Continuities in Sociological Human Ecology. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. 157-194. New York, Springer/Plenum Publishers. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780306456107
• Weissert, William G., Cynthia Matthews Cready, and James E. Pawelak. (1989). Home and Community Care: Three Decades of Findings. Health Care of the Elderly: An Information Sourcebook. 39-126. Newbury Park, CA, Sage.

Encyclopedia Article

• Rogelio Saenz, Cynthia M. Cready, Domenico "Mimmo" Parisi, and Clyde S. Greenless. (2008). Inequality. Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and People. 1 (2nd) 508-511. Millerton, New York, Grey House Publishing. https://greyhouse.com/encyclopedia-of-rural-america
• Saenz, Rogelio, Cynthia M. Cready, and Clyde S. Greenlees. (1997). Inequality. The Encyclopedia of Rural America, 1st Ed., Vols. 1-2. 1 (1st) 369-372. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO. https://greyhouse.com/encyclopedia-of-rural-america

Journal Article

• Curran, M., Cready, C., Kwon, R. (2021). The Shifting Rules of the Game: Healthcare Systems and Cross-National Attitudes about Healthcare Provision. The International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 62 (4) 311-348. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Sage.
• Alzomia, A., Cready, C.M., Andrew, S. (2019). Federal Employees' Job Satisfaction: Does Transformational Leadership Matter? The Case of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. International Journal of Public Administration. 42 (10) 810-822. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01900692.2018.1520244
• Driver, N., Cready, C.M. (2019). Nativity/Language, Neighborhoods, and Teen Pregnancy Norms among U.S. Hispanics. Women & Health. 59 (5) 496-509. Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis LTD. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03630242.2018.1500416
• Yeatts, D.E., Seckin, G., Shen, Y., Thompson, M.F., Auden, D., Cready, C.M. (2018). Burnout among Direct-Care Workers in Nursing Homes: Influences of Organizational, Work Place, Interpersonal and Personal Characteristics. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 27 (19-20) 3652-3665. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocn.14267
• Cready, C.M., Hudson, C., Dreyer, K.M. (2017). Type of Oral Solid Medication Packaging and Medication Preparation Time in Nursing Homes: A Direct Observation Study. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. 42 710-719. Wiley. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpt.12567/
• Stoddard, K., Hodge, V., Maxey, G., Tiwari, C., Cready, C.M., Huggett, D.B. (2017). Investigating Research Gaps of Pharmaceutical Take Back Events: An Analysis of Take Back Program Participants' Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Geographic Characterstics and the Public Health Benefits of Take Back Programs. Environmental Management. 59 (6) 871-884. New York, NY, Springer. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-017-0834-3
• Syeda S. Jesmin and Cynthia M. Cready. (2016). Community Influences on Married Women's Safer Sex Negotiation Attitudes in Bangladesh: A Multilevel Analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 45 (2) 383-393. New York, NY, Springer/Plenum Publishers. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-015-0572-7
• Swati Singh and Cynthia M. Cready. (2015). Microloans and Women's Freedom of Physical Mobility: Evidence from India. Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. 14 (3) 333-355. Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers. http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/15691497
• Dale E. Yeatts, Cynthia M. Cready, Xiaomei Pei, Yuying Shen, Hao Luo. (2014). Environment and Subjective Well-Being of Rural Chinese Elderly: A Multilevel Analysis. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. 69 (6) 979-989. Oxford University Press. http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/
• Yuying Shen, Dale E. Yeatts, Tianji Cai, Philip Q.Yang, and Cynthia Cready. (2014). Social Capital and Self-Rated Health among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China: A Multilevel Analysis. Research on Aging. 36 (4) 497-521. Sage. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0164027513505624
• Syeda S. Jesmin and Cynthia M. Cready. (2014). Can a Woman Refuse Sex if Her Husband Has a Sexually Transmitted Infection?: Attitudes Toward Safer Sex Negotiation among Married Women in Bangladesh. Culture, Health & Sexuality. 16 (6) 666-682. London, Routledge - Taylor and Francis Group. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691058.2014.901561
• Dale E. Yeatts, Xiaomei Pei, Cynthia M. Cready, Yuying Shen, Hao Luo, and Junxin Tan. (2013). Village Characteristics and Health of Rural Chinese Older Adults: Examining the CHARLS Pilot Study of a Rich and Poor Province. Social Science & Medicine. 98 71-78. Elsevier. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953613005066
• Tanni Chaudhuri, Dale E. Yeatts, and Cynthia M. Cready. (2013). Nurse Aide Decision Making in Nursing Homes: Factors Affecting Empowerment. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 22 (17-18) 2572-2585. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocn.12118/full
• Amy L. DeWitt, Cynthia M. Cready, and Rudy Ray Seward. (2013). Parental Role Portrayals in Twentieth Century Children's Picture Books: More Egalitarian or Ongoing Stereotypes?. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. 69 (1-2) 89-106. Springer. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-013-0285-0
• Jennifer L. Dillman, Dale E. Yeatts, and Cynthia M. Cready. (2013). Geographic Distance, Contact, and Family Perceptions of Quality Nursing Home Care. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 22 (11/12) 1779-1782. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing LTD. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291365-2702
• Dale E. Yeatts, Cynthia Cready, James Swan, and Yuying Shen. (2010). The Perception of 'Training Availability' among Certified Nurse Aides: Relationship to CNA Performance, Turnover, Attitudes, Burnout, and Empowerment. Gerontology & Geriatrics Education. 31 (2) 115-132. Taylor & Francis. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02701961003795722
• Cready, C.M., Yeatts, D.E., Gosdin, M., Potts, H.F. (2008). CNA Empowerment: Effects of Job Performance and Work Attitudes. Journal of Gerontological Nursing. 34 (3) 26-35. Thorofare, New Jersey, SLACK Incorporated. http://www.healio.com/nursing/journals/jgn
• Dale E. Yeatts and Cynthia M. Cready. (2007). Consequences of Empowered CNA Teams in Nursing Home Settings: A Longitudinal Assessment. The Gerontologist. 47 (3) 323-339. Cary, NC, Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist
• Gertrude A. Owusu, Susan Brown Eve, Cynthia M. Cready, Kenneth Koelln, Fernando Trevino, Ximena Urrutia-Rojas, and Joanne Baumer. (2005). Race and Ethnic Disparities in Cervical Cancer Screening in a Safety-Net System. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 9 (3) 1-11. Springer. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10995-005-0004-8
• Dale E. Yeatts, Cynthia Cready, Beth Ray, Amy DeWitt, and Courtney Queen. (2004). Self-Managed Work Teams in Nursing Homes: Implementing and Empowering Nurse Aide Teams. The Gerontologist. 44 (2) 256-261. Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/geront/44.2.256
• Rogelio Saenz and Cynthia M. Cready. (2004). The Role of Human and Social Capital in Geographic Mobility and Annual Earnings among Mexican Immigrants. 1 (3) 1-32. Omaha, Nebraska, University of Nebraska at Omaha. http://jollas.org/doi/10.18085/llas.1.3.r72047704k84x874
• Cready, Cynthia M., and Mark. A. Fossett. (1998). The Impact of Desegregation on White Public School Enrollment in the U.S. Nonmetro South, 1960-1990. Social Science Quarterly. 79 (3) 664-676. Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15406237
• Cready, Cynthia M., and Rogelio Saenz. (1997). The Nonmetro/metro Context of Racial/ethnic Outmarriage: Some Differences between African Americans and Mexican Americans. Rural Sociology. 62 (3) 335-362. Hoboken, NJ, Wiley. https://www.ruralsociology.org/rural-sociology
• Albrecht, Carol Mulford, Mark A. Fossett, Cynthia M. Cready, and K. Jill Kiecolt. (1997). Mate Availability, Women's Marriage Prevalence, and Husbands' Education. Journal of Family Issues. 18 (4) 429-452. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, Inc. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jfi
• Cready, Cynthia M., Mark A. Fossett, and K. Jill Kiecolt. (1997). Mate Availability and African American Family Structure in the U.S. Nonmetropolitan South, 1960-1990. Journal of Marriage and the Family. 59 (1) 192-203. Hoboken, NJ, Wiley. https://www.ncfr.org/jmf
• Weissert, William G., and Cynthia Matthews Cready. (1989). A Prospective Budgeting Model for Home- and Community-Based Long-Term Care. Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing. 26 (1) 116-129. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, Inc.. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/29772021.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
• Weissert, William G., Jennifer M. Elston, Elise J. Bolda, Cynthia M. Cready, William M. Zelman, Phil D. Sloane, William D. Kalsbeek, Elizabeth Mutran, Thomas H. Rice, and Gary G. Koch. (1989). Models of Adult Day Care Revisited: Findings from a National Survey. The Gerontologist. 29 (5) 640-649. Cary, NC, Oxford University Press Inc. https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist
• Weissert, William G., and Cynthia Matthews Cready. (1989). Toward a Model for Improved Targeting of Aged at Risk of Institutionalization. Health Services Research. 24 (4) 485-510. Hoboken, NJ, Wiley. http://www.hsr.org/hsr/index.jsp
• Weissert, William G., and Cynthia Matthews Cready. (1988). Determinants of Hospital-to-Nursing Home Placement Delays: A Pilot Study. Health Services Research. 23 (5) 619-647. Hoboken, NJ, Wiley. http://www.hsr.org/hsr/index.jsp
• Weissert, William G., Cynthia Matthews Cready, and James E. Pawelak. (1988). The Past and Future of Home- and Community-based Long-term Care. The Milbank Quarterly. 66 (2) 309-388. John Wiley & Sons. https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/about/

Magazine/Trade Publication

• Dale Yeatts, Cynthia Cready, Jennifer Dillman, and Sonia Oviedo. (2008). The Power of Influence and Respect. FutureAge. American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (now Known as LeadingAge). http://www.leadingage.org/

Reprinted Article

• William G. Weissert, Cynthia Matthews Cready, and James E. Pawelak. (2005). The Past and Future of Home- and Community-based Long-term Care. The Milbank Quarterly. 83 (4) 71. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0009.2005.00434.x/full

Research Report

• Nazir, S., Cready, C.M. (2020). The C-Section Epidemic in Pakistan, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics Working Paper No. 176. PIDE Working Paper No. 176 20. Islamabad, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics. https://pide.org.pk/research/the-c-section-epidemic-in-pakistan/
• Saenz, Rogelio, and Cynthia M. Cready. (1997). The Southwest-Midwest Mexican American Migration Flows, 1985-1990, Michigan State University Julian Samora Research Institute Research Report # 20.. (20) 13. East Lansing, MI, The Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University. https://jsri.msu.edu/publications/research-reports

Technical Report

• Cready, Cynthia M., and John K. Thomas. (1995). Agricultural Conservation Beliefs and Practices in the Texas Rice Belt. Technical Report No. 95-2.. (95-2) 51. College Station, TX, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Rural Sociology, Texas A&M University.
• Fossett, M.A., Cready, C.M. (1994). Assessing the Role of Compositional Differences in Comparative Analyses of Inequality. Texas Population Research Center Paper No. 13.16. 78. Austin, TX, University of Texas at Austin, Texas Population Research Center.
• Burby, Raymond J., Janice A. Higgins, Edward J. Kaiser, Cynthia L. Matthews, and Maria N. Stanco. (1982). Saving Energy in Residential Development: A Report for Local Government. 60. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Center for Urban and Regional Studies.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Contract

• Cready, C.M. (Principal), Dreyer, K.M. (Supporting), "Effect of Packaging on Timeliness of Oral Medication Preparation in the Skilled Nursing Community Setting: A Pilot Study," sponsored by Symbria, Private, $8347 Funded. (2015 - 2015).
• Cready, C.M. (Principal), Dreyer, K.M. (Supporting), "Research Design for Observational Pilot Study: Effect of Packaging on Timeliness of Oral Medication Preparation in the Skilled Nursing Community Setting," sponsored by Symbria, Private, $5872 Funded. (2014 - 2014).
• Cready, C.M. (Principal), Dreyer, K.M. (Supporting), "Effect of Packaging on Timeliness of Oral Medication Preparation in the Skilled Nursing Community Setting: A Pilot Study," sponsored by Symbria, Private, Funded. (2015 - 2015).
• Cready, C.M. (Principal), Dreyer, K.M. (Supporting), "Research Design for Observational Pilot Study: Effect of Packaging on Timeliness of Oral Medication Preparation in the Skilled Nursing Community Setting," sponsored by Symbria, Private, Funded. (2014 - 2014).

Fellowship

• Cready, C.M. (Principal), "1999 Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education," sponsored by Spencer Foundation, Private, $20000 Funded. (1999 - 2000).

Grant - Research

• Yeatts, D.E. (Principal), Cready, C.M. (Co-Principal), Yang, C. (Supporting), "Collaboration between Faculty at Zhejiang University and UNT: Factors ...," sponsored by Charn Uswachoke International Development Fund, University of North Texas, $6000 Funded. (2013 - 2013).
• Yeatts, D.E. (Principal), Cready, C.M. (Co-Principal), "Phase II: "Empowering Nursing Home Staff: Measuring the Impact of Self-Managed Work Teams"," sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, Private, $167654 Funded. (2004 - 2007).
• Yeatts, D.E. (Principal), Cready, C.M. (Co-Principal), "Phase I: "Employee Empowerment in Nursing Homes: Development and Impact of Self-Managed Work Teams," sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, Private, $189142 Funded. (2002 - 2004).
• Yeatts, D.E. (Principal), Cready, C.M. (Co-Principal), "Phase II: "Empowering Nursing Home Staff: Measuring the Impact of Self-Managed Work Teams"," sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, Private, Funded. (2004 - 2007).

Sponsored Research

• Catalano, D.E. (Principal), Brookes, J. (Co-Principal), Cready, C.M. (Supporting), "Long-term Training Grant in Rehabilitation Counseling," sponsored by Rehabilitation Services Administration, Federal, $1125875 Funded. (2015 - 2020).
• Catalano, D.E. (Principal), Brookes, J. (Co-Principal), Cready, C.M. (Supporting), "Long-term Training Grant in Rehabilitation Counseling," sponsored by Rehabilitation Services Administration, Federal, Funded. (2015 - 2020).