Rate My Professor Natalie Kruzliakova

Her expertise lies in health literacy, nutrition counseling, and medical nutrition therapy. Research specializations include decreasing the effects of low health literacy, improving organizational health literacy, quality improvement in healthcare, health literacy competencies for health professions students, nutrition education, community-based participatory research among health disparate populations, and dissemination and implementation of nutrition-related behavior change interventions. Kruzliakova has authored 12 peer-reviewed research manuscripts, including Kružliaková N, Estabrooks P, You W, Hedrick V, Porter K, Kiernan M, Zoellner J. The relationship between the Stanford Leisure Time Exercise Questionnaire and the Godin Leisure-Time Exercise Questionnaire among rural intervention participants of varying health literacy status. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 2018;15(4):269-278; and Porter K, Alexander R, Kružliaková N, Perzynski K, Zoellner J. Using the Clear Communication Index to Improve Materials for Behavioral Intervention. Health Communication. 2018:1-7. She contributed to NIH-funded grants as a graduate research assistant at Virginia Tech, such as SIPsmartER: A nutrition literacy approach to reducing sugar-sweetened beverages (R01 CA154364-01). At Ball State University, she has been awarded external grants from the Indiana Minority Health Coalition, Indiana State Department of Health, and Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. She has taught courses including Medical Nutrition Therapy 1 and 2, and Health Counseling, and presented at Society of Behavioral Medicine annual meetings on topics like organizational health literacy.