A5066004376- Cancer survivorship and care
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Family Support in Illness
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Music Therapy and Health
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Pain Management and Treatment
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Scientific Research and Technology
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
VA San Diego Healthcare System
2023-2025
University of California, San Diego
2022-2025
University of Colorado Boulder
2017-2023
University of Colorado System
2022
University of California, Davis
2019
Massachusetts General Hospital
2015-2017
Harvard University
2016-2017
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2016
Pomona College
2014
Patients with incurable cancer face many physical and emotional stressors, yet little is known about their coping strategies or the relationship between strategies, quality of life (QOL), mood.As part a randomized trial palliative care, this study assessed baseline QOL (Functional Assessment Cancer Therapy-General), mood (Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale), (Brief COPE) in patients within 8 weeks diagnosis lung gastrointestinal before randomization. To examine associations QOL, mood, we used...
Individuals with advanced, incurable cancer often experience high physical and psychological symptom burden. Family friend caregivers are at risk for emotional distress.The aim of the study is to investigate interrelationship distress in patient-caregiver dyads time newly diagnosed cancer.From May 2011 July 2015, within 8 weeks diagnosis advanced lung or noncolorectal gastrointestinal cancer, 350 patients 275 family were enrolled a randomized controlled trial early palliative care....
BACKGROUND During hospitalization for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT), patients experience a steep deterioration in quality of life (QOL) and mood. To our knowledge, the impact this on patients' QOL posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after HCT is unknown. METHODS We conducted prospective longitudinal study hospitalized HCT. They assessed using Functional Assessment Cancer Therapy‐Bone Marrow Transplantation (FACT‐BMT) depression anxiety were Patient Health...
Oral therapies are increasingly common in oncology care. However, data lacking regarding the physical and psychologic symptoms patients experience, or how these factors relate to medication adherence quality of life (QoL).From December 2014 through August 2016, a total 181 adult who were prescribed oral targeted therapy chemotherapy enrolled randomized study symptom management at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. Patients completed baseline assessments with electronic pill cap,...
Background: Oral chemotherapy is increasingly used in place of traditional intravenous to treat patients with cancer. While oral includes benefits such as ease administration, convenience, and minimization invasive infusions, receive less oversight, support, symptom monitoring from clinicians. Additionally, adherence a well-documented challenge for cancer prescribed regimens. With the ever-growing presence smartphones potential efficacious behavioral intervention technology, we created...
ABSTRACT Background Overweight and obesity are critical public health concerns with relevance to U.S. military personnel, as active duty service members must meet physical fitness body composition standards. Biological sex posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis may affect members’ weight management efforts, but it is unclear what contribution each of these factors independently or in combination have on loss. Method Addressing this gap knowledge, the current study used multilevel...
The goal of this study is to assess perceptions about hospice among patients with metastatic cancer and their caregivers (i.e., family and/or friends).We conducted semi-structured interviews 16 adult a prognosis ≤12 months 7 caregivers. focused on perceptions, knowledge, information preferences hospice. Two raters coded independently (κ > 0.85). We used framework approach for data analysis.Participants showed variable gaps in understanding hospice, including who would benefit from care the...
Background: Adults with metastatic cancer frequently report anxiety and depression symptoms, which may impact health behaviors such as advance care planning (ACP). Objective: The study leveraged acceptance commitment therapy (ACT), an evidence-based approach for reducing distress improving behaviors, adapted it into a multimodal intervention (M-ACT) designed to address the psychosocial ACP needs of anxious depressed adults cancer. evaluated M-ACT's acceptability, feasibility, efficacy...
10003 Background: Early palliative care (PC) improves outcomes in patients with newly diagnosed metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and identified by clinicians as having poor prognosis, advanced cancer. We evaluated the impact of early, integrated oncology gastrointestinal (GI) Methods: randomly assigned incurable (NSCLC, small cell, mesothelioma) or GI (pancreas, hepatobiliary, gastric, esophageal) to PC (at least monthly visits PC) usual care. used Functional Assessment Cancer...
Study objectives Given the uncertainty COVID-19 has caused for individuals with prior medical conditions, we examined extent to which cancer survivors consider themselves at risk global pandemic (henceforth COVID), both in general and due their history. Additionally, evaluated whether perceived vulnerability COVID among predicts cognitive/affective behavioral responses pandemic.
104 Background: Early palliative care (PC) improves outcomes in patients with newly diagnosed metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and identified by clinicians as having poor prognosis, advanced cancer. We evaluated the impact of early, integrated oncology gastrointestinal (GI) Methods: Between 5/2/11 7/20/15, we randomly assigned incurable (NSCLC, small cell, mesothelioma) or GI (pancreas, hepatobiliary, gastric, esophageal) to PC (monthly visits PC) usual care. used Functional...
While traditional computer-mediated communication happened through transparent, passive, and neutral channels, today's channels are obscure, proactive, distorted. Social algorithms, guided by a socio-technological codependency, often bias communication, usually in pursuit of some third-party goal commercial or political nature. We propose method to derive several summary measures tests for transformational accuracy when transforming input into an output. Since dynamical flexibility social...
Self-transcendence is thought to increase well-being and implicitly promoted in contextual cognitive behavioral therapies (CCBTs). This study conceptualizes, develops, validates the first comprehensive CCBT-informed self-transcendence questionnaire. Using a theory, we propose four facets: distancing oneself from mental content, distinguishing an observer of experience that separate content experience, experiencing innate connectedness with other beings, noticing constantly changing nature...
234 Background: Patients with newly diagnosed advanced cancers who receive early palliative care (PC) integrated oncology report improvement in their quality of life (QOL) and mood. While a telephone-based psycho-educational intervention for FC decrease depression, the impact early, outpatient PC models on outcomes remains unknown. Methods: We conducted randomized trial versus alone patients incurable lung gastrointestinal FC. Eligible were relatives or friends would likely accompany patient...
10131Background: Patients with newly diagnosed advanced cancers who receive early palliative care (PC) integrated oncology report improvement in their quality of life (QOL) and mood. Whil...