Faculty Bio Detail

Michelle DeCoux Hampton - RN, PhD, MS
Associate Professor
School of Nursing
Email: mhampton@samuelmerritt.edu
Program:Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN)
Telephone: 510 869-6511 x 3873
Address: 3100 Summitt St., 3rd Floor
Oakland - CA 94601

Michelle DeCoux Hampton has been a faculty member at Samuel Merritt University since 2005. Prior to taking this position she worked in a variety of inpatient and outpatient mental health programs in both administrative and direct care roles. She is an ANA certified clinical specialist in adult psychiatric and mental health nursing and completed her doctorate at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing in 2007.


Professional and Community Service and Professional Memberships:
American Nurses Association, member.
American Psychiatric Nurses Association, member.
International Society of Psychiatric Nurses, member.
American Public Health Association, member.

Research Interests:
Her research interests include ethnic disparities in service utilization mental health treatment outcomes as well as medical co-morbidity including HIV and Hepatitis C infection for African Americans with severe mental illness.

Courses Taught at Samuel Merritt University:
N129 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
N700 Evidence-Based Research Methods
N125L Health Assessment I
N126L Health Assessment II

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:
Nursing Research Center on HIV/AIDS Health Disparities, "Severe mental illness, HIV, and mental health service utilization," 2008.

National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research, HIV/AIDS Nursing Care and Prevention Training Post-doctoral Fellowship 2008-2009.

American Nurses Association, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Minority Fellowship Program 2005-2007

Research Supplement for Underrepresented Minorities, National Institutes of Health 2002-2005

James B. Grubb Scholarship recipient, Oakland, CA, 1995-1996

National Institute of Mental Health, Summer Research Training Program Fellow,1994

Professional Nurse Traineeship, University of California, San Francisco, 1994

Publications and Presentations:
Publications

Hampton, M.D., Chafetz, L., & Portillo, C. (2012). Differences in substance-related risk behavior between dual and triple diagnosed severely mentally ill adults. Mental Health and Substance Use, 5(1), 52-63.

Hampton, M.D., Chafetz, L., & White, M.C. (2010). Exploring the impact of race on mental health service utilization among African Americans and Whites with severe mental illness. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 16(2), 78-88.

Hampton, M.D., Chafetz, L., & White, M.C. (2008). Recruitment and retention of African Americans with severe mental illness in community research. Community Mental Health Journal, 45(2), 137-43.

Hampton, M.D., (2007). The role of acuity and treatment setting in the overdiagnosis of Schizophrenia in African Americans with severe mental illness. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 21(6), 327-335.

DeCoux, M. (2005). Acute versus outpatient care: The decision making process for individuals with severe mental illness. Issues in Mental Health Nursing,26(9), 935-951.

Hampton, M.D. & Chafetz, L. (2002). Factors associated with residential placement in an assertive community treatment program. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 23, 677-689.

Hampton, M.D. (1997). Dialectical behavior therapy in the treatment of persons with borderline personality disorder. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, XI(2), 96-101.

Presentations

Hampton, M.D., Chafetz, L., & Portillo, C. (2009). Current substance use behavior among severely mentally ill individuals diagnosed with HIV and HCV. Presented at the 137th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Gary, F.G., Yarandi, H., & Hampton, M.D. (2008). A road map for success: Models for educating ethnic minority nurses in substance abuse and mental health services in the United States of America. Presented at the XIV World Congress of Psychiatry Conference, , Prague, Czech Republic.

Hampton, M.D. (2008). Predictors of mental health service use among African Americans and Whites with severe mental illness. Presented at the 10th Annual Conference of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Hampton, M.D. (2007). Racial disparities in mental health service utilization among individuals with severe mental illness. Poster presentation at the International Society for Psychiatric Nurses Conference, Montreal, Quebec,Canada.

DeCoux, M. (2006). Recruitment and retention of African Americans with severe mental illness in community research. Presented at the 12th Annual Howard University, M. Elizabeth Carnegie Endowed Visiting Professorship in Nursing Research Conference, Washington, D.C.

Hampton, M.D. (2004). The healthcare decision making process for individuals with severe mental illness. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C.