Shannon Speed
Shannon Speed
Assistant Professor
Director, Health Coaching Clinic
Office Location:
021 Carpenter Sports Building
Dr. Shannon Speed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Delaware. She earned her Masters in Public Administration from Old Dominion University and began her career in the Health and Wellness Industry as a Health & Wellness Director for the YMCA working in fitness instruction and personal training. Dr. Speed then went on to complete her Master of Science in Kinesiology & Public Health from Miami University, working as both an Adjunct Instructor and Assistant Director of Fitness and Wellness at Miami University. While pursuing her Ph.D., Dr. Speed worked as a Visiting Assistant Instructor in Public Health at Miami University. After completing her Ph.D., Dr. Speed subsequently spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow in the Translational Addiction Medicine Branch Lab, a co-funded lab at the National Institutes of Drug Abuse and National Institutes of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and also briefly worked for the Maryland Health Department in the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control. Her research interests include co-occurring alcohol and disordered eating patterns including drunkorexia among college students, guided by health behavior change theory. Her experience includes both quantitative and qualitative research techniques. Dr. Speed has also conducted research in areas including problematic alcohol and substance use related to bariatric surgery, generalized problematic alcohol use, other substance use, and exercise motivation and adherence.
Courses
- HBNS155 Personal Health Management: An Approach for a Lifetime
- HBNS332 Health Behavior Theory and Models
- HBNS334 Health Behavior Assessment
- HNBS490 Development of Health Promotion Programs
Speed, S., Ward, R. M., Branscum, P., Budd, K. M., Barrios, V., & Miljkovic, K. (2023). Drunkorexia and alcohol included blackouts among college students. Alcohol, 110, 51-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcohol.2023.04.004.
Farokhnia, M., Harris, J. C., Speed, S. N., Leggio, L. & Johnson, R. M. (in press). Lifetime use of alcohol and cannabis among U.S. adolescents across age: Exploring differential patterns by sex and race/ethnicity using the 2019 NSDUH data. Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports.
Herchenroeder, L., Speed, S., Ward, R.M., & Yeung, E.W. (2023). Sexual minority status and food and alcohol disturbance among college students: The moderating role of body esteem. Eating Behaviors. 49, 101745.
Speed, S., Ward, R. M., Haus, L., Branscum, P., Barrios, V., Budd, K. M., Lemons, K., & Humenay, H. (2022). A systematic review of common drunkorexia measures: Examining gender differences across scales. American Journal of Health Education.
Speed, S., & Ward, R. M. (2022). Drunkorexia and trait mindfulness among college students. American Journal of College Health. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2022.2048837.
Speed, S., Branscum, P., & Gresla, A. (2022). Comparing predictors of intention for physical activity participation between normal and overweight military spouses. American Journal of Health Education, 53(4), 248-255. doi: 10.1080/19325037.2022.2071363.
Guo, Y., Ward, R. M., Speed, S., Legreaux, S., Cefalo, J., & Miljkovic, K. (2022). Examining alcohol related norms among international and domestic students in the United States. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 1(15), 1533-2640. doi: 10.1080/15332640.2022.2091700.
Ward, R. M., Steers, M-L. N., Das, A., Speed, S., & Geyer, R. B. (2022). Applications of Social Media Research in Quantitative and Mixed-Methods Research. A. Kanekar, K. Batra, and M. Sharma (Eds.) Effective Use of Social Media in Public Health. Elsevier Publishing Group.
Oswald, B., Ward, R. M., Glazer, S., Sternasty, K., Day, K., & Speed, S. (2020). Baseline cortisol predicts drunkorexia in female but not male college students. American Journal of College Health. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2019.1705834.
Guo, Y., Ward, R. M., Speed, S. N. (2019). Alcohol-Related Social Norms Predict More than Alcohol Use: Examining the Relation between Social Norms and Substance Use. Journal of Substance Use, 258-263. doi: 10.1080/14659891.2019.1675791.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2023.101745
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