Office Hours:Monday: 10:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Wednesday: 10:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Friday: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Specializes in:
Health and Physical Education
Shana M. Walsh, PhD, is an associate professor of Health, Physical Education, and
Recreation at Peru State College. Her area of expertise is health promotion and specifically
the adoption of healthy behaviors. Her research interests focus on improving health
and quality of life through increasing physical activity and decreasing sedentary
behavior, and the application, measurement, and evaluation of health behavior theories
to explain and predict health-related behaviors.
Before beginning a career in higher education, Shana was a public school teacher through
Teach For America (Mississippi Delta ’09 corps), and taught Spanish at the elementary
and secondary levels.
Andre, T.L., Walsh, S.M. Valladao, S., & Cox, D. (2020). Physiological and perceptual
responses to a live collegiate Esports tournament. International Journal of Exercise
Science: Vol. 13: Iss. 6, Pages 1418 - 1429. Available at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/ijes/vol13/iss6/18
Wilkerson, A.H., Bridges, C.N., Wu, C., McClendon, M.E., Walsh, S.M., Patterson, M.S.,
& Umstattd Meyer, M.R. (2019) Process evaluation of the BearStand behavioral intervention:
A social cognitive theory-based strategy to reduce occupational sedentary behavior.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Nov;61(11):927-935. doi:10.1097/JOM.0000000000001704.
Walsh, S.M., Umstattd Meyer, M.R., Morgan, G.B., Bowden, R.G, Doyle, E.I., & Gordon,
P.M. (2018) Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior to dynamic sedentariness and stress.
Health Behavior Research: Vol. 1: No. 3. doi: 10.4148/2572-1836.1022
Walsh, S.M., Umstattd Meyer, M.R., Gamble, A., Patterson, M.S., & Moore, J.B. (2017)
A Systematic Review of Rural, Theory-based Physical Activity Interventions. American
Journal of Health Behavior, 41(3): 248-258. doi: https://doi.org/10.5993/AJHB.41.3.4
Umstattd Meyer, M.R., Perry, C.K., Sumrall, J., Patterson, M., Walsh, S.M., Clendennen,
S.L., Hooker, S.P., Evenson, K.R., Goins, K.V., Heinrich, K., O’Hara Tompkins, N.,
Eyler, A.A., Jones, S., Tabak, R., & Valko, C. Physical activity-related policy and
environmental strategies to prevent obesity in rural communities: A systematic review
of the literature, 2002-2013. Preventing Chronic Disease, 13(E03). doi: 10.5888/pcd13.150406
Walsh, S.M., Umstattd Meyer, M.R., & Morgan, G.B. (2015). Why women sit: Determinants
of leisure sitting time in a female worksite population. Women’s Health Issues, 25(6):
673-679. doi:10.1016/j.whi.2015.06.012
Styck, K.M., & Walsh, S.M. (2015). Evaluating the prevalence and impact of examiner
errors on the Wechsler scales of intelligence: A meta-analysis. Psychological Assessment.
doi:10.1037/pas0000157
