Department of Public Health and Exercise Science

Thompson CV

Education

• Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1997-1999

• Postdoctoral fellowship, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, 1995-1997

• Ph.D., Community Psychology, Georgia State University, 1995

• M.A., Community Psychology, Georgia State University, 1991

• B.A., Psychology, Georgia State University, 1989

Current Teaching

• Biostatistics (PH 3330)
• Statistical Methods in Public Health (PH 5100)

Professional Affiliations/Organizations

• American Psychological Association
• Clemson University, Adjunct Professor
• Emory University, Adjunct Professor
• Sexual Experiences Survey (SES) Collaboration
• Subject Matter Expert, National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center, Medical University of South Carolina
• Editorial Board, Journal of Family Psychology
• Editorial Board, Psychology of Violence
• Editorial Board, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Research Interests

• Risk factors and consequences of interpersonal violence
• Epidemiology of suicidal behavior
• Adverse Childhood experiences
• College student mental health

Recent Publications

Google Scholar profile

• Kettrey, H., Thompson, M.P., Marx, R., & Davis, A. (in press). Who is considered a potential victim, perpetrator, or bystander? A systematic review and meta-analysis of research evaluating gender-specific campus sexual assault prevention programs implemented in the United States. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse.
• Koss, M.P., Anderson, R., Peterson, Z., Littleton, H., Abbey, A., Kowalski, R., Thompson, M.P., Canan, S., White, J., McCauley, H., Orchowski, L., Fedina, L., Lopez, E. & Allen, C. (2024). The Revised Sexual Experiences Survey Victimization Version (SES-V):  Conceptualization, modifications, items and scoring. The Journal of Sex Research, 61, 839-867. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2024.2358407.
• Kowalski, R. & Thompson, MP. (2024). Expanding the Sexual Experiences Survey to include cyber sexual victimization. The Journal of Sex Research, 61, 897-903. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2023.2244939.
• Anderson, R.E, Peterson, Z.D., Koss, M.P., Abbey, A., Orchowski, L., Thompson, M.P., Kowalski, R., Littleton, H.L. (2024). Preliminary evidence of validity for the verbally coercive and illegal sexual exploitation modules of the Sexual Experiences Survey-Victimization. The Journal of Sex Research, 61, 922–935. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2024.2362264.
• Thompson, M.P., Hudson-Flege, M., & Hancock, K. (2024). Long-term impacts of civic engagement during emerging adulthood: A nationally-representative study. American Journal of Health Promotion. 
• Wu, S.H., Thompson. M.P., Hege, A., Christiana, R., & Tyson, J.  (2023). Physical activity is inversely associated with overall cancer risk among college students in the United States: Results from the National College Health Assessment. PLOSOne, 18, e0287129. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287129
• Kettrey, H.H., Thompson, M.P., Marx, R. & Davis, A. (2023).  Effects of campus intimate violence prevention programs on psychological and physical violence outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Experimental Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-023-09579-5
• Carbajales-Dale, P., Annan-Coultas, D., Joseph, A., Thompson, M.P., Jafarifiroozabadi, R., Limber, S., Holaday, B.,& Mihandoust, S. (2023). Using GIS to Improve Public Health Emergency Response in Rural Areas During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Case Study of South Carolina, U.S. Transactions in GIS. DOI: 10.1111/tgis.13069
• Thompson, M.P., Tyson, J.S., Hege, A., Seitz, C. (2023). COVID-related stress, risk for suicidal behavior, and protective factors in a national sample of college students. Journal of American College Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2023.2186140
• Kettrey, H.H., Thompson, M.P., Marx, R. & Davis, A. (in press). Effects of campus sexual assault prevention programs on attitudes and behaviors among American college students: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Adolescent Health.
• Wu, S., Liu, Y., Thompson, M.P., Hege, A. (in press). Food environment index is inversely associated with gastric cancer incidence in the United States. Nutrition and Cancer. https://doi.org/10.1080/01635581.2023.2178908
• Kettrey, H.H., & Thompson, M.P. (in press). Can a technology-amplified bystander effect impede the prevention of campus sexual assault? Findings from an experimental vignette study. Journal of School Violence. https://doi.org/10.1080/15388220.2022.2155831
• Sugg, M.M., Runkle, J.D., Ryan, S., Singh, D., Green, S., & Thompson, M.P. (in press). Crisis response and suicidal behaviors of essential workers and children of essential workers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Health Reports. https://doi.org/10.1177/00333549221148177
• Orchowski, L.M., Zinzow, H.M., Thompson, M.P., & Wood, S. (2023). Open pilot trial of an interactive digital application for campus sexual violence prevention. Journal of Community Psychology, 51, 1977-2000. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22985
• Gutowski, E., Freitag, S., Zhang, S., Thompson, M., & Kaslow, N. (2023). IPV, legal systems and barriers for African American women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38, 1279-1298.
• Ennis, N., Rheingold, A., Zinzow, H., Thompson, M., Gilmore, A., Kilpatrick, D., & Hahn, C. (in press). Women’s behavioral coping responses during sexual assault: Association with posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and the moderating role of alexithymia" Violence Against Women.
• Thompson, M.P., & Kingree, J.B. (2022). Adverse childhood experiences, sexual victimization, and suicide ideation and attempts: A longitudinal path analysis spanning 22 years. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 92(3), 302–309. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000613
• Swartout, K.M., deHeer, B.A., Thompson, M.P., Zinzow, H.M., & Brennan, C.L. (2022). A cross-disciplinary review of empirical studies addressing repeat versus time-limited sexual violence perpetration. In L.M. Orchowski & A. Berkowitz (Eds.), Engaging boys and men in sexual assault prevention: Theory, research, and practice (pp. 411-422). Elsevier.
• Bonar, E.E., DeGue, S., Abbey, A., Coker, A.L., Lindquist, C.H., McCauley, H.L., Miller, E., Senn, C.Y., Thompson, M.P., Ngo, Q.M., Cunningham, R.M., & Walton, M.A. (2022). Prevention of sexual violence among college students: Current challenges and future directions. Journal of American College Health. 70(2), 575-578. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2020.1757681
• Walsh, K., Sarvet, A.L., Wall, M., Gilbert, L., Santelli, J., Khan, S., Thompson. M.P., Reardon, L., Hirsch, J.S. Mellins, C.A., (2021). Prevalence and correlates of sexual assault perpetration and ambiguous consent in a representative sample of college students. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36.
• Thompson, M.P., Zinzow, H.M., Kingree, J.B., Pollard, L.E., Goree, J., Hudson-Flege, M., & Honnen, N.G. (2021). Pilot trial of an online sexual violence prevention program for college athletes. Psychology of Violence, 11(1), 92–100. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000290
• Walsh, K., Choo, T., Wall, M., Hirsch, J.S., Ford, J., Wilson, P.A., Santelli, J.S., Gilbert, L., Thompson, M.P., Khan, S., Mellins, C.A. (2020). Repeat sexual victimization during college: Prevalence and psychosocial correlates" Psychology of Violence, 10, 676-686.
• Sianko, N., Kunkel, D., Thompson, M.P., Small, M.A., & McDonell, J.R. (2019). Trajectories of dating violence victimization and perpetration among rural adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48, 2360-2376.
• Huynh, H.V., Limber, S.P., Gray, C.L., Thompson, M.P., Wasonga, A.I et al (2019). Factors affecting the psychosocial well-being of orphan and separated children in five low- and middle-income countries: Which is more important, quality of care or care setting? PLoS ONE 14(6): e0218100. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218100
• Zinzow, H.M., Thompson, M.P., Fulmer, C., Goree, J., & Evinger, L. (2020).  Evaluation of a brief suicide prevention training program for college campuses. Archives of Suicide Research, 24, 82-95, DOI: 10.1080/13811118.2018.1509749
• Brennan, C. L., Swartout, K. M., Goodnight, B. L., Cook, S. L., Parrott, D. J., Thompson, M. P., Newins, A. R., Barron, S., Carvalho, J., & Leone, R. M. (2019). Evidence for multiple classes of sexually-violent college men. Psychology of Violence, 9, 48–55. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000179
• Kingree, J.B., & Thompson, M.P. (2020). Sorority membership and sexual victimization: An examination of potential mediators of the association. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 35, 5834-5852. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0886260517723745
• Gilbert, L., Sarvet, A.L., Wall, M., Walsh, K., Reardon, L., Wilson, P., Santelli, J., Khan, S., Thompson, M.P., Hirsch, J.S., & Mellins, C.A. (2019). Deconstructing situational contexts associated with incapacitated and non-incapacitated sexual assault incidents among undergraduate women. Journal of Women’s Health, 28, 185-193.
• Zinzow, H.M., & Thompson, M.P. (2019). Beliefs about consent and sexual assault perpetration in a longitudinal study of college men. Violence and Victims, 34, 548-565. Doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.

Current Projects

• Principal Investigator. Impacts of Social Determinants of Health and COVID-19 Pandemic Factors on Suicide Risk among Youth. R16 funded by the National Institutes of Health (2023-2027).
• Principal Investigator. Civic Engagement, Health, and Community: A Nationally-Representative Study on the Long-term Impacts of Civic Engagement during Emerging Adulthood. AmeriCorps (2022-2025).
• Co-Investigator. Health Equity Data Consortium. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (2023-2024).
• Co-Investigator. Understanding the increased vulnerability to sexual violence of college students who are LGBTQ+ women to better inform prevention and intervention efforts. Appalachian State University-University Research Council (2023).
• Co-Investigator. App State Public Health Program. AmeriCorps (2022-2025). 
• Co-Investigator. Repository and benchmarking dashboard for campus climate data on sexual misconduct. NSF (2022-25).