Welborn, A., Gringle, M.R. & Nichols, T.R. (2025). “We were just so sad and devasted”: NICU nurses’ stories of caring for families with substance-exposed pregnancies, Nursing Inquiry, 32:e12691, https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12691
Welborn, A, Nichols, T.R., Gringle, M.R. & Lewallen, L. (2023). Neonatal intensive care nurses’ accounts of care for mothers/families with substance-exposed pregnancies: A critical discourse analysis, Journal of Advanced Nursing. DOI: 10.1111/jan.15807
Nichols, T.R., Gringle, M.R., Lee, A., & Welborn, A. (2022). “We have to keep advocating and helping and doing what we can”: Examining perinatal substance use services in the absence of integrated treatment programs, Journal of Drug Issues
Welborn, A., Lewallen, L., & Nichols, T.R. (2022). Exploration of the care-giving dynamic between NICU nurses and mothers with a substance-exposed pregnancy, Neonatal Network: The Journal of Neonatal Nursing,41(1), 11-20.
Nichols, T.R., Lee, A., Gringle, M.R., & Welborn, A. (2022). Guilt, shame, and getting past the blame: Resisting stigma through the good mothering ideal, In M. Addison, W. McGovern, & R. McGovern (Eds) Drugs Identity and Stigma, Palgrave MacMillan
Nichols, T.R., Welborn, A., Gringle, M.R., & Lee, A. (2021). Social stigma and perinatal substance use services: Recognizing the power of the good mother ideal, Contemporary Drug Problems, DOI: 10.1177/0091450920969200.
Nichols, T.R. & Gringle, M.R. (2020). The role of bias in knowledge translation: Lessons learned from a dissemination of best practices in maternal opioid use, Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 40(3), 169-175.
Simon, C. Roberts, L., Vincent, L., Koval, R., Ortiz-Adames, D., Tsinas, G., Adams, HB., Nichols, T.R. (in press). Narrative disruption: Evolving Narcofeminism Storyshare. Contemporary Drug Problems. DOI: 10.1177/00914509241296518
Nichols, T.R. & Love. H. (2019). Providing reproductive health promotion in drug treatment clinics: A formative evaluation of a pilot program, Californian Journal of Health Promotion, 17(2), 41-51.
Lavely, E., Love, H., Shelton, M. & Nichols, T.R. (2018). Methadone use and pregnancy: Lessons learned from developing a reproductive health program for women in treatment, International Journal of Childbirth Education, 33(2), 9-12.
Coley, S.L. & Nichols, T.R. (2015). Understanding factors that influence teen mothers’ doula utilization: A qualitative study, Journal of Perinatal Education, 25(1), 46-55.
Durham, D. D. & Nichols, T.R. (2009). Moms For Moms: Developing a women’s health promotion program through motherhood support groups, Health Promotion and Practice, doi:10.1177/1524839909336507
Schueren, E. & Nichols, T. (2024). Stigma reduction on reproductive health, Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning & Community-Based Research, 14(2), 15-28.
Denzongpa, K. & Nichols, T.R. (2022). Maternal health understandings and experiences of Bhutanese refugee women pre- and post-settlement: A Qualitative Case Study, Women’s Reproductive Health, 10:3, 469-486 DOI: 10.1080/23293691.2022.2142492
Chambers, B.D., Erausquin, J.T., Tanner, A.E., Nichols, T.R., & Brown-Jeffy, S. (2018). Testing the association between traditional and novel indicators of county-level structural racism and birth outcomes among Black and White women. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 5(5), 966-977.
Coley, S.L., Nichols, T.R., Rulison, K.L., Aronson, R.E., Brown-Jeffy, S.L., & Morrison, S.D. (2016). Does neighborhood risk explain racial disparities in low birth weight infants born to adolescent mothers? Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 29(2), 122-129. doi: 10.1016/j.jpag.2015.08.004
Coley, S.L. & Nichols, T.R. (2016). Race, age, and neighborhood socioeconomic status in low birth weight disparities among adolescent mothers: An intersectional inquiry, Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, 9(4), 1-16
Coley, S.L., Nichols, T.R., Rulison, K.L., Aronson, R.E., Brown-Jeffy, S.L., & Morrison, S.D. (2015). Race, socioeconomic status, and age: Exploring intersections in preterm birth disparities among teen mothers, International Journal of Population Research, doi:10.1155/2015/617907
Nichols, T.R., Brown, M., Coley, S., Kelley, A., & Mauceri, K. (2014). ‘I managed it pretty good’: Birth narratives of adolescent mothers, Journal of Perinatal Education, 23(2), 79-88.
Brown, V.A. & Nichols, T.R. (2013). Pregnant and parenting students on campus: Policy and program implications for a growing population, Educational Policy, 27(3), 499-530.
Valentine, R., Mills, R. Nichols, T. & Doyle, L. (2023). Disclosure and comfort during genetic counseling sessions with LGBTQ+ Patients: An updated assessment, Journal of Genetic Counseling, 32, 833-845. DOI: 10.1002/jgc4.1692
Thorpe, S., Tanner, A.E., Nichols, T.R., Kuperberg, A. & Payton Foh, E. (2021). Black female adolescents’ sexuality: Pleasure expectancies, sexual guilt, and age of sexual debut, American Journal of Sexuality Education, DOI: 10.1080/15546128.2021.1892995
Thorpe, S., Nichols, T.R., Tanner, A.E., Kuperberg, A. & Payton Foh, E. (2020). Relational and partner-specific factors influencing Black heterosexual women’s initiation of sexual intercourse and orgasm frequency. Sexuality and Culture,DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09780-y
Hall, W.J., Erausquin, J.T., Nichols, T.R., Tanner, A.E., & Brown-Jeffy, S. (2018). Relationship intentions, race, and gender: Student differences in condom use during hookups involving vaginal sex, Journal of American College Health
Graham, L.F., Aronson, R.E., Nichols, T.R., Stephens, C.F. & Rhodes, S. (2011). Factors influencing depression and anxiety among Black sexual minority men, Depression Treatment and Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/587984
Nichols, T.R., Gringle, M.R. & Pulliam, R. (2015). “You have to put your children’s needs and their best interests first or you’re really not a good mother”: Hegemonic motherhood and self-care practices among Black women, Journal of Women, Gender, & Families of Color, 3(2), 165-189.
Nichols, T.R. & Pulliam, R. (2015). Black mothers’ messages of pride to their adolescent daughters, in K. Craddock’s Black Motherhood(s): Contexts, Contours, and Considerations, Demeter Press
Biederman, D., Nichols, T.R. & Durham, D.D. (2010). Maternal navigational strategies: Examining mother-daughter dyads in adolescent families of color, in Journal of Family Nursing, 16, 394-421.
Nichols, T.R. (2024). Using poetic assemblage to trouble stigma associated with perinatal drug use, Contemporary Drug Problems, DOI: 10.1177/00914509241293256
Denzongpa, K., Nichols, T., Morrison, S.D. (2020). Situating positionality and power in CBPR conducted with a refugee community: Benefits of a co-learning reflective model, Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, DOI: 10.1080/14623943.2020.1733955
Nichols, T.R., Biederman, D.J., & Gringle, M.R. (2015). Using research poetics responsibly: Applications for health promotion research, International Quarterly for Community Health Education, 35(1), 5-20.