When she went to sleep on July 27, 2022, McKayla wasn't worried about the storm that was raging outside her trailer in southeastern Kentucky. Intense storms came frequently in summer. While the creek ...

Appalachia—a region that stretches from Mississippi to New York—has historically been recognized as a socially and economically disadvantaged part of the United States, and growing evidence suggests ...

Appalachia has a legacy of making the most with limited resources, but there's one thing that there's no way to stretch: sleep. Researchers at the University of Kentucky, in partnership with ...

Clinically significant insomnia, elevated OSA risk, and insufficient sleep duration were markedly higher in rural Appalachian “hotspot” counties than national benchmarks, indicating a potential public ...

Independent reporting you can trust. May was Mental Health Awareness Month, but in Appalachia, mental health isn’t a monthly conversation. Mental health challenges are a present reality shaped by the ...

Story from The Conversation by Kristina P. Brant, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, Penn State. When she went to sleep on July 27, 2022, McKayla wasn’t worried about the storm that was raging ...

In Appalachia, mental health challenges are a present reality shaped by the conditions of everyday life. At Christian Appalachian Project (CAP), we see mental health needs firsthand in the families ...