- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Education and Military Integration
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Occupational Therapy Practice and Research
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Mentoring and Academic Development
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
VA New Jersey Health Care System
2019-2023
Fairleigh Dickinson University
2019
Boston University
2018
Hebrew SeniorLife
2018
University of Alabama
1980
ABSTRACT For the Family Practitioner, elderly patients are a highly significant group. In past, some health professionals have expressed negative attitudes toward elderly. Thus need exists to study specific factors that may influence Practice resident's willingness treat older patients. A Likert‐type questionnaire was developed utilized Thurstone‐Likert discrimination technique. Five categories were chosen for study: general attitudes, cost effectiveness, time and energy, therapeutic...
Communication between patients and providers about persistent "medically unexplained" physical symptoms (MUS) is characterized by discordance. While the difficulties are well documented, few studies have examined effective communication. We sought to determine what veterans with Gulf War Illness (GWI) perceive as most helpful communication from their providers. Veterans GWI, a type of MUS, historically had complex relationships medical Determining for particularly may help identify critical...
This study examined the relationships among meaning making, military stressor severity, and adjustment to college student service members/veterans (SSM/Vs).Participants were 128 SSM/Vs enrolled in postsecondary education from April June 2016.Participants completed online self-report rating scales of severity for their most stressful event, made that stressor, college.Regression analyses revealed stressors was associated with more positive academic, social, emotional college. Stressor not...
Medically unexplained syndromes (MUS), also termed persistent physical symptoms, are both prevalent and disabling. Yet treatments for MUS marked by high rates of patient dissatisfaction, as well disagreement between patients providers on the management symptoms. A better understanding patient-generated goals could increase collaborative goal setting promote person-centered care, a critical component treatment; yet research in this area is lacking. This paper aimed to develop typology...
Abstract Background Pain predominant multisymptom illness (pain-CMI) refers to symptom-based conditions where pain is a primary symptom. There initial evidence that health coaching may be efficacious in treating pain-CMI because it can tailored the veteran’s goals and emphasizes long-term behavior change, which indirectly impact maintaining factors of (e.g., catastrophizing, poor control, limited activity). This paper describes study protocol rationale randomized controlled trial will...