University of Louisville
About Me
Dr. Prost aims to promote health and quality of life among criminal justice system stakeholders including persons who are incarcerated, their caregivers, criminal justice professionals, and administration. She pursues this aim using both quantitative and qualitative methods such as surveys and focus groups. Her future efforts include the development, implementation, and evaluation of tailored interventions aimed at enhancing quality of life among these groups.
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Research specializing in geriatrics, quality of life, and corrections
Older Adults in Kentucky State Prisons (OAK) Study
The OAK study is a two-phase, sequential mixed-method and longitudinal effort aimed at identifying and describing the 1) health, quality of life, and justice-related experiences of older adults and the 2) strengths and barriers of programming and services for older adults in Kentucky state prisons.
Quality of Life in Law Enforcement Officers: The Effects of Stress, Trauma, and Coping
Study aims include examining independent and interactive relationships among stress, trauma, adaptive and maladaptive coping, and quality of life in law enforcement officers. Study also seeks to compare self-reported quality of life in various criminal justice professions and to examine viability and factor structure of multiple short forms of the PCL-C.
Needs Assessment to Enhance Financial Well-being for Successful Re-entry
Study aims include identify and describe 1) financial wellbeing, health, and quality of life in returning citizens and 2) relationships among salient variables in an effort to construct an informational foundation for later implementation and evaluation of an intervention to increase financial wellbeing for persons facing re-entry.
Palliative Care in Prisons: Program Characteristics
Study aims relate to 1) describing palliative and end-of-life care service provision in U.S. prisons and 2) identifying patterns of access and utilization of compassionate release and geriatric/medical parole policies in U.S. corrections.
The Perception Gap in Prison Healthcare: Correlates of Patient-Caregiver Inter-rater Agreement
Study aims relate to the identification and description of the presence, magnitude, and correlates of inter-rater agreement of quality of life ratings between patients and their peer caregivers in prison healthcare settings.