School of Public Health

Open Research and Contributor Identifier

ORCID - 0000-0002-8798-0894

Department

Applied Health Science

Education

• Indiana University - Bloomington, Postdoctoral Training, 2017

• Indiana University - Bloomington, Ph.D., 2014

• Indiana University - Bloomington, M.S., 2010

• People's Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, M.D., 2002

Background

• Developing and Testing the Opioid Rapid Response System: A Randomized Controlled Trial - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (Co-Principal Investigator)
• Feasibility of a Theory-Driven, Rurally Tailored, Family-Based, Telehealth Intervention for Childhood Obesity - A Cluster Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial; IU Center for Rural Engagement (Principal Investigator)
• Synergistic Effects of Tracking Human and Canine Activity Together: A Factorial Randomized Controlled Trial - Mars Petcare, Inc. (Principal Investigator)
• Indiana Tobacco Compliance Survey, Indiana Department of Mental Health Administration (Principal Investigator)
• National Evaluation of the Technology Transfer Centers, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Coinvestigator)
• PharmNet—Prevention of Opioid Deaths and HIV/HCV through Pharmacies, Indiana University Addiction Grand Challenge (Coinvestigator)
• Santosh Jain Endowed Memorial Award, Indiana University Graduate School (first ever recipient)
• Regional Epidemiologist, Nuwaraeliya and Ampara Districts, Sri Lanka
• Physician In Charge, Primary Care Hospital, Namaloya, Ampara, Sri Lanka
• Medical Resident, Obstetrics/Gynecology and Pediatrics, Nuwaraeliya General Hospital, Sri Lanka

Courses Currently/Recently Taught

• B366 Community Health
• H263 Personal Health
• H180 Stress Prevention and Management
• H172 International Health and Social Issues

Research Interests

• Obesity and effectiveness of obesity interventions
• Use of alcohol, tobacco, opioids, and other drugs
• Intersection of substance use behaviors and obesity
• Rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in research

Selected Publications

Articles

Jayawardene WP, Dickinson S, Agley DL. Secondary Analysis of Diverse Datasets for Identifying Obesity Intervention Candidate Schools in the Absence of Student Anthropometric Data (pedagogical article). SAGE Research Methods. 2020. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529710731

Agley JD, Jayawardene WP, Jun MC, Agley DL, Gassman RA, Sussman S, Xiao Y, Dickinson SL. Effects of the ACT OUT! Social Issue Theater Program on Social-Emotional Competence and Bullying in Youth and Adolescents: Study Protocol for a Cluster, Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols. 2020; 9(4): e17900. DOI: doi:10.2196/17900

Jayawardene WP, Carter G, Agley JD, Meyerson BE, Garcia J, Miller W. Interplay of agency, community, and attitudinal factors in uptake of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis by advanced practice nurses: A structural equation model. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 2019. DOI: 10.1111/jan.14019

Jayawardene WP, Brown AW, Dawson JA, Kahathuduwa CN, McComb B, Allison DB. Letter to the Editor: Conditioning on Study is Essential for Valid Inference when Combining Individual Data from Multiple Randomized Controlled Trials: Comment on and Request for Corrected Analyses in "School-Based Weight Management Program Curbs Summer Weight Gain among Low-Income Hispanic Middle School Students. J Sch Health. 2019; 89(1), 59-67." Journal of School Health. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/josh.12777

Childhood Obesity Intervention Studies: A Guide for Authors, Editors, Reviewers, Journalists, and Readers to Guard Against Exaggerated Effectiveness Claims. Brown AW, Altman D, Baranowski T, Bland JM, Dawson JA, Dhurandhar NV, Dowla S, Fontaine KR, Gelman A, Heymsfield SB, Jayawardene WP, Keith SW, Kyle TK, Loken E, Oakes JM, Stevens J, Thomas DM, Allison DB. Obesity Reviews. 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12923

Jayawardene WP, Lohrmann DK, Erbe RG, Torabi MR. Effects of Preventive Online Mindfulness Interventions on Stress and Mindfulness: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Preventive Medicine Reports. 2017; 5: 150-159. PMCID: PMC5199155. DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2016.11.013

Jayawardene WP, Torabi MR, Lohrmann DK. Exercise in Young Adulthood with Simultaneous and Future Changes in Fruit and Vegetable Intake. Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 2015: 1-9. PMID: 26251968. DOI: 10.1080/07315724.2015.1022268

Jayawardene WP, Lohrmann DK, YoussefAgha AH. Discrepant Body Mass Index: Behaviors Associated with Height and Weight Misreporting among US Adolescents from the National Youth Physical Activity and Nutrition Study. Childhood Obesity. 2014; 10(3): 225-233. PMID: 24828965. DOI: 10.1089/chi.2014.0002

Jayawardene WP, YoussefAgha AH. Multiple and Substitute Addictions Involving Prescription Drugs among Twelfth Graders: gateway model revisited with market basket analysis. Journal of Addiction Medicine. 2014; 8(2): 102-110. PMID: 24440894. DOI: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000000012