Ronny Bell Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Public Health Sciences, Sleep Medicine
Department of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, NC, USA
Dr. Ronny Bell, is Professor in the Department of Public Health at East Carolina University. Formerly, he was Professor with tenure of Public Health Sciences (Department of Epidemiology and Prevention) at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 2006 – 2016, he was Director of the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity at Wake Forest, a designated Center of Excellence with the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
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Author(s): Elizabeth Mayfield Arnold, Vaughn McCall W, Andrea Anderson, Alfred Bryant and Ronny Bell
Sleep Problems, Suicidality and Depression among American Indian Youth Elizabeth Mayfield
Study background: Mental health and sleep problems are important public health concerns among adolescents yet little is known about the relationship between sleep, depressive symptoms, and suicidality among American Indian youth. Methods: This study examined the impact of sleep and other factors on depressive symptoms and suicidality among Lumbee American Indian adolescents (N=80) ages 11-18. Results: At the bivariate level, view moreĀ»