Lois S. Sadler, PhD, RN, FAAN

Lois Sadler

Professor, YSN and Yale Child Study Center 

Yale School of Nursing - Room 22009

email: lois.sadler@yale.edu
phone: 203-737-2561
fax: 203-785-6455

About

Lois S. Sadler is a Professor Emerita at the Yale University School of Nursing. Over her 41 years of teaching and academic leadership at the master’s, doctoral and post doctoral levels, she has taught courses in the areas of family studies, child development, pediatric health promotion, adolescent health, research methods, research ethics, intervention development, philosophy of science, and theory. Dr. Sadler received her BSN from the University of Massachusetts, her MSN from Yale University School of Nursing, and her PhD from the School of Family Studies at the University of Connecticut. She has worked clinically and as a researcher with teen parents and young families in diverse communities, school settings, and home visitation programs domestically and globally. 

Research Interests/Clinical Practice

Research Interest

Dr. Sadler’s NIH-funded research is in the areas of the transition to parenthood among adolescent parents and their families, adolescent pregnancy prevention, and evaluation of specialized support programs for young parents and their children. Her program of research, publications, and presentations include adolescent primary health care issues, community-engaged research, adolescent parenthood, home visiting, and pediatric sleep. Along with colleagues at the Yale Child Study Center, she co-founded, tested, and implemented the home visiting program, Minding the Baby®, in Connecticut, Florida, Brazil, Scotland, England, and Denmark.

Selected Publications

CNwanaji-Enwerem, U., Redeker, N. S., O’Connell, M., Barry D., Iheanacho, T., Knobf, T. M., Scheinost, D., Wang, K., Yaggi, K., Sadler, L. S. (in press). Experiences of stigma and discrimination compounded by intersecting identities among individuals receiving medication for opioid use disorder. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 

Flaherty, S.C. & Sadler, L.S. (in press). Virtual interviewing with marginalized young adult mothers: Appreciating the new norm. Public Health Nursing.

Londono Tobon, A., Condon, E.M., Slade, A., Holland, M. L., Mayes, L.C & Sadler, L.S. (in press). Participation in an attachment-based home visiting program is associated with lower child salivary C-reactive Protein levels at follow-up. Journal of Development and Behavioral Pediatrics. 

Pontoppidan, M, Thorsager, M., Friis-Hansen, M., Slade, A. & Sadler, L. S. (2022). Minding the Baby versus usual care: study protocol for a quasi-cluster-randomized controlled study in Denmark of an early interdisciplinary home-visiting intervention for families at increased risk for adversity. Trials 23, 529 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06434-2

Mencher, S.R., Weinzimer, S.A., Nally, LM, Van Name M, Nunez-Smith M, Sadler LS. (2022). Technology Utilization in Black Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Exploring the Decision-Making Process. Diabetes Technol Ther.  doi: 10.1089/dia.2021.0413. PMID: 35085444.

Pontoppidan, M, Thorsager, M., Friis-Hansen, M., Slade, A. & Sadler, L. S. (2022). Minding the Baby versus usual care: study protocol for a quasi-cluster-randomized controlled study in Denmark of an early interdisciplinary home-visiting intervention for families at increased risk for adversity. Trials 23, 529 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06434-2

Mencher, S.R., Weinzimer, S.A., Nally, LM, Van Name M, Nunez-Smith M, Sadler LS. (2022). Technology Utilization in Black Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Exploring the Decision-Making Process. Diabetes Technol Ther.  doi: 10.1089/dia.2021.0413. PMID: 35085444.

 Knudson, K., Funk, M., Redeker, N.S., Andrews, L.K., Whittemore, R. Mangi, A, & Sadler, L.S. (2021).  An unbelievable ordeal: The experiences of adult survivors treated with Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Australian Critical Care, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aucc.2021.06.010

Holland, M. L., Hutchens, B., Sadler, L. S. (2021). Encountering child abuse and neglect in home visiting: A qualitative study of visitor and supervisor experiences. Prevention Science, 22(8), 1108-1119.  doi: 10.1007/s11121-021-01223-w.

Condon, E.M., Londono Tobon, A., Jackson, B., Holland, M.L., Slade, A., Mayes, L., & Sadler, L.S. (2021). Maternal Experiences of Racial Discrimination, Child Indicators of Toxic Stress, and the Minding the Baby® Early Home Visiting Intervention. Nursing Research. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNR.0000000000000529

Condon, E. M., Holland, M.L., Slade, A., Redeker, N., Mayes, L. & Sadler, L.S. (2021). Examining mothers’ childhood maltreatment history,    parental reflective functioning, and the long-term effects of the Minding the Baby® home visiting intervention. Child Maltreatment. Doi: 1077559521999097

Novick, G., Womack J. A. & Sadler, L. S. (2020). Beyond Implementation: Sustaining Group Prenatal Care and Group Well‐Child Care. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmwh.13114

Condon, E. M., Holland, M.L., Slade, A., Redeker, N., Mayes, L. & Sadler, L. (2019). Associations between maternal experiences of discrimination and biomarkers of toxic stress in school-aged children. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 23, 1147–1151https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-019-02779-4

Sadler, L.S., Banasiak, N., Canapari, C., Crowley, A.A., Fenick, A., O’Connell, M., Ordway, M.R., Sude, L, Trevino, S. & Redeker, N.S. (2020). Sleep perspectives from multiethnic community parents, pediatric providers and childcare providers. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 41, 540-549. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000799

Condon, E.M., Holland, M.L., Slade, A., Redeker, N., Mayes, L.C. & Sadler, L.S. (2019). Maternal adverse childhood experiences, family strengths, and chronic stress in children. Nursing Research, 68, 189-199. 

Slade, A., Holland, M.L., Ordway, M.R., Carlson, E., Jeon, S., Close, N., Mayes, L.C. & Sadler, L.S. (2019). Minding the Baby®: Enhancing parental reflective functioning and infant attachment in an attachment-based, interdisciplinary home visiting program. Development and Psychopathology,  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579418001463

Ordway, M. R., Holland, M, Slade, A., Close, N. Mayes, L.C. & Sadler, L.S. (2018). A home visiting parenting program and child obesity: A randomized trial. Pediatrics, 141, e20171076

Condon, E. & Sadler, L.S. (2018). Toxic stress and vulnerable mothers: A multilevel framework of  stressors and strengths. Western Journal of Nursing Research. doi: 10.1177/0193945918788676

Reitblat, L., Whittemore, R., Weinzimer, S. A., Tamborlane, W. & Sadler, L. S. (2016). Life with Type 1 Diabetes: Views of Hispanic Adolescents and Their Clinicians. The Diabetes Educator, 42, 408-417.

Sadler, L.S., Novick, G. & Meadows-Oliver, M. (2016). “Having a baby changes everything”: Reflective functioning in pregnant adolescents. Journal of Pediatric Nursing. doi: 10.1016/j.pedn.2015.11.011. PMC4862914

Sadler, L.S., Slade, A., Close, N., Webb, D., Simpson, T., Fennie, K. & Mayes, L. C. (2013). Minding the Baby®: Enhancing reflectiveness to improve early health and relationship outcomes in an interdisciplinary home visiting program. Infant Mental Health Journal, 34, 391-405. PMCID: PMC3774299.

Sadler, L. S., Larson, J., Bouregy, S., LaPaglia, D.,  Bridger, L., McCaslin, C. & Rockwell, S. (2012).  Community-university partnerships in community-based research. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education and Action, 6, 463-469. DOI: | 10.1353/cpr.2012.0053 PMC3579553

Sadler, L. S., Newlin, K., Spruill, I.J. & Jenkins, C. (2011). Beyond the medical model: Interdisciplinary programs of community-engaged research. Clinical and Translational Science, 4, 285-297. PMCID: PMC3197706, NIHMS324311