A5024505243- Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Infant Health and Development
- Diabetes Management and Education
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Spinal Cord Injury Research
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Acute Kidney Injury Research
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
Center for Occupational Research and Development
2023-2025
VA Heart of Texas Health Care Network
2023-2025
Central Texas Veterans Health Care System
2024-2025
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2016-2024
Vanderbilt University
2016-2024
Acute kidney injury (AKI) survivors are at risk for chronic disease, recurrent AKI, and cardiovascular disease. The transition from hospital to ambulatory care is an opportunity reduce these sequelae by launching self-care plans through effective patient education. How well AKI informationally prepared apply kidney-specific unknown. purpose of this study was identify awareness disease-specific knowledge among survivors.We performed a cross-sectional survey AKI-related in 137 patients with...
Background and objectives Incidence of ESKD is three times higher in black Americans than whites, CKD prevalence continues to rise among Americans. Community-based kidney disease screening may increase early identification awareness at risk, but it challenging implement. This study aimed identify participants’ perspectives community screening. The Health Belief Model provides a theoretic framework for conceptualization these optimization activities. Design, setting, participants, &...
Self-efficacy, or perceived competence, has been identified as an important factor in self-management behaviors and health outcomes patients with chronic disease. Measures of self-efficacy are currently available for multiple forms One established measure is the 8-item Perceived Medical Condition Self-Management Scale (PMCSMS). This study investigated use PMCSMS samples a disease to develop abbreviated version scale that could be more readily used clinical contexts large population cohort...
Social–emotional expertise (SEE) represents a synthesis of specific cognitive abilities related to social interactions, and emphasizes the timing synchrony behaviors that contribute overall social–emotional ability. As step toward SEE construct validation, we conducted three experiments develop self-report measure captured key elements our conceptualization SEE. In Experiment 1, generated tested 76 items for The resultant 25-item scale is reliable, test–retest: r(80) = .82, p < .001,...
Introduction: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter complications reduce quality of life and increase risks for hospitalizations, unplanned transitions to haemodialysis death. Patient PD management is crucial safe, sustained PD. perspectives on strategies living with using a may inform efforts complications, individual patient modality persistence, thus overall home prevalence. Methods: We interviewed 32 adult patients in Nashville, Tennessee. Qualitative analyses included (1) isolation themes,...
Nausea is a somatic sensation typically associated with the need to vomit in order remove toxin from body. When nausea occurs absence of specific structural cause or toxin, it classified as functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGID). Functional was newly recognized 2016 FGID children and little known about its prevalence, course patient experiences. co-occurring abdominal pain childhood has been long-term risk for anxiety ongoing symptoms into young adulthood. However, few studies have...
Increasing home dialysis prevalence is an international priority. Many patients start peritoneal dialysis, then transition to hemodialysis after complications. New strategies are needed support modality persistence. Health mindset refers individual belief about capacity change improve health. Mindset was measured in a cross-section of 101 adult from April 2019 June 2020. The Scale administered characterize the continuum fixed vs. growth with respect literacy and health self-efficacy were...
Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) are commonly used for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage renal (ESRD). Patients often lack an understanding potential risks benefits ESAs, despite government mandated education on this topic. Decision aids tools discuss important information in health care settings. To address knowledge gap, we designed study evaluate effectiveness a novel ESA decision aid at promoting informed shared making (ISDM) between...
Social interactions have long been a source of lay beliefs about the ways in which psychological constructs operate. Some most enduring to become common originated from research focused on social-emotional processes. "Emotional intelligence" and "social are now mainstream notions, stemming their appealing nature depiction popular media. However, empirical attempts at quantifying quality social not nearly as successful measures individual differences such skills, theory mind, or...
Military experiences that violate one's sense of right and wrong (i.e., potentially morally injurious events [PMIEs]) may result in moral injury, characterized by shame, guilt, demoralization, self-condemnation, social withdrawal. The objective this study was to examine gender-related differences the rate reporting PMIEs.