Personal profile
About
The goal of Dr. Tenfelde’s program of research is to explore and test interventions to reduce symptom burden for women with pelvic floor disorders. As a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, she is interested in health promoting activities that allow individuals to be actively engaged in maintaining their own health and direct participation of the management of symptoms. Her current focus is on how yoga as a mind/body therapy may reduce symptoms of urinary incontinence and improve Quality of Life. She completed advanced training in sexual health counseling, and is interested in how changes with life events like pregnancy and aging impact sexual health and function. Dr. Tenfelde works with an interdisciplinary team for research; including Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgeons, and Urologists, Immunologists, and Public Health researchers. In 2012, she received the New Investigator Award from the Midwest Nursing Research Society Childbearing Section.
Disciplines
- Nursing
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Promoting REproductive Planning And REadiness in Diabetes (PREPARED) Study protocol: a clinic-randomised controlled trial testing a technology-based strategy to promote preconception care for women with type 2 diabetes
Bailey, S. C., Pack, A. P., Wismer, G., Calderon, N., Velazquez, E., Batio, S., Ekong, A., Eggleston, A., Wallia, A., Wolf, M. S., Schauer, J. M., Tenfelde, S., Liebovitz, D. M. & Grobman, W. A., Nov 8 2023, In: BMJ Open. 13, 11, e078282.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reducing Disparities in Postpartum Care Utilization: Development of a Clinical Risk Assessment Tool
Tenfelde, S., Joyce, C., Tell, D., Masinter, L., Wallander- Gemkow, J. & Garfield, L., Mar 1 2023, In: Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health. 68, 2, p. 179-186 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Predicting Postpartum Transition to Primary Care in Community Health Centers
Gemkow, J. W., Liss, D. T., Yang, T. Y., Padilla, R., King, P. L., Pereyra, S., Cox-Batson, S., Tenfelde, S. & Masinter, L., Nov 2022, In: American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 63, 5, p. 689-699 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Yoga for Women With Urgency Urinary Incontinence: A Pilot Study.
Tenfelde, S., Tell, D., Garfield, L., Mathews, H. & Janusek, L., Apr 1 2019, In: Female pelvic medicine & reconstructive surgery.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Musculoskeletal Pelvic Pain and Sexual Function in the First Year After Childbirth
Tenfelde, S. M., Tell, D., Brincat, C. & Fitzgerald, C. M., Nov 1 2018, In: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review