Judy Arnetz

Judy Arnetz

Judy Arnetz , PhD, MPH, PT

Professor Emeritus

Biography

Judy Arnetz, PhD, MPH, PT, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Family Medicine. Her research focuses on how the health, well-being and safety of health care workers impacts the quality of patient care. She has conducted numerous studies on workplace violence toward health care workers, including several large-scale intervention studies in both hospitals and long-term care facilities. Dr. Arnetz was Principal Investigator on a recently-completed NIOSH-funded study that was the first large-scale randomized controlled intervention shown to be effective in reducing violent events and violence-related injury among hospital workers (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28045793; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28692010). Dr. Arnetz also studies the effects of patient-centered care on the work situation of physicians and nurses, as well as on treatment outcomes. Areas of research:

  • Workplace violence in the healthcare sector
  • Physician and nurse well-being and patient safety
  • Implementation science of interventions in healthcare settings
  • Mental health conditions associated with interpersonal violence and trauma

 

In the News

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Decoding Pain Relief: How Does a Coping Skills Program Impact Pain, Anxiety, and Brain Function in Children with FAPD?

Functional abdominal pain disorders (FAPD) are the most common chronic pain conditions of childhood and are made worse by co-occurring anxiety.

Family Medicine Welcomes New Associate Chair for Research

The Department of Family Medicine welcomed Dick Sadler, PhD, as it's new Associate Chair for Research. Dr. Sadler takes over for Judy Arnetz, Phd, who served as the Associate Chair for many years…

The Development of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression Symptoms in Iraqi Refugees: Associations with Acculturation and C-reactive Protein

by Jolin Yamin, MA

Refugees experience distress from pre-migration trauma, often made worse by post-migration difficulties. To develop effective interventions, risk factors for mental health…

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Risk Factors for Assault and Physical Aggression Among Medically Hospitalized Adult Patients Who Had a Behavioral Emergency Call: A Descriptive Study

Workplace violence towards healthcare workers is a serious occupational hazard in hospitals. Behavioral emergency response teams (BERTs), comprised of healthcare workers who have experience…

Complex Patients' Effect on Family Physicians: High Cognitive Load and Negative Emotional Impact

Complex patients present an increasing challenge to the health care system and family physicians play an important role in their care. We interviewed family physicians from various practice…
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Enhancing healthcare efficiency to achieve the Quadruple Aim: an exploratory study

Dr. Bengt Arnetz and his research team in collaboration with Dr. Fred Reyelts, Director of Innovative Primary Care, Mercy Health, Grand Rapids, - a subsidiary of Trinity Health with 30 million…

Perceptions of virtual primary care physicians: a focus group study of medical and data science graduate students

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, use of virtual care technologies such as telehealth have dramatically increased. The next phase, already under development, is completely virtual AI-powered…

Effects of a Workplace Violence Intervention on Hospital Employee Perceptions of Organizational Safety

by Judith Arnetz, PhD This study examined hospital employee perceptions of organizational safety following a workplace violence intervention in a large metropolitan multi-hospital system.  In 2014…

Mental Health Problems linked to Lack of PPE

In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted an online survey among Michigan nurses to gather information on their access to personal protective equipment (PPE) as well as their self…
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2020 CHM FACULTY AWARDS

Congratulations to Department of Family Medicine's Jennifer M. Edwards-Johnson, DO, Laura M. Santoro, MD, MPH, Masako Morishita, PhD, and Judith E. Arnetz, PhD, on their 2020 Faculty Awards!

Bengt Arnetz

Lifestyle and psychosocial factors associated with maintenance of normal body mass index in college students: a cross sectional study

Bengt Arnetz, MD, Chair of the Department of Family Medicine lead a group of researchers to identify lifestyle and psychosocial factors associated with maintenance of normal body mass index in…
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Family Medicine Teams Up With MSU Extension to Help With Rural Opioid Crisis

Judy Arnetz, PhD, and Courtney Goetz teamed up with researchers from MSU Extension to help rural communities fight the opioid crisis. Read more

Decreasing Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) in Rural Michigan 

Michigan State University Extension is collaborating with the MSU College of Human Medicine Family Medicine and the Health Department of Northwest Michigan, to create and deliver evidence-based…

Hospitals fight back against violence

In 2017, Judy Arnetz, PhD, and her group published what may be the first randomized, large-scale intervention study on the issue in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. …

Waterpipe Use in Adolescents is Associated with Lower Energy and Mental Well-being

Research lead by Drs. Bengt and Judy Arnetz, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Umeå in Sweden, found that in Sweden, where record few adolescents smoke cigarettes, almost 4 out…
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Physician Stress has Been Associated With Adverse Medical Outcomes

Physician stress is increasingly recognised as an overlooked yet important indicator of the quality and safety of patient care. Physicians working under acute care conditions, for example, in…