Kelly M. Trevino, PhD
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Psychological Health in Aging and Illness

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Dyadic communication intervention to increase patient advance care planning​​ (American Cancer Society)
Purpose: To develop and evaluate a communication-based intervention (Talking About Cancer, TAC) that includes distress management techniques to improve advanced cancer patients’ and caregivers’ prognostic understanding. 



​Evaluation of an anxiety intervention for older adults with cancer and informal caregivers of older adults with cancer (NIA and AFAR; K23 AG048632)
Purpose: To develop and evaluate a psychological intervention (Managing Anxiety from Cancer, MAC) for anxiety in older adults with cancer and their primary informal caregivers



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​Improving older adult cancer patients’ access to psychological services: Convening older adults, family members, oncology providers, researchers (AFAR)

Purpose: To convene older adults with cancer (OACs) and their caregivers, oncology providers, and researchers to identify implementation strategies for psychological interventions for OACs.  More information




Using a web-based platform (Patient Activated Learning System, Dr. Monika Safford) to improve distress management and knowledge of advance care planning in community based and racial/ethnic minority cancer patients (Weill Cornell Medicine) 
Purpose: To 
identify the needs of racially diverse cancer patients for distress management techniques and information on advance care planning (ACP); 2) develop online modules containing resources to meet these distress management and ACP information needs using the existing infrastructure of the web-based Patient Activated Learning System (PALS); and 3) examine the feasibility, usability, and acceptability of the distress management and ACP PALS modules


A study to evaluate perception and understanding of management decisions among patients with B-cell lymphoma 
Purpose: To assess treatment and illness understanding, distress, and quality of life over time in patients with advanced B-cell lymphomas 

Illness understanding and quality of life in indolent lymphoma patients: A longitudinal examination 

Purpose: To examine trajectories of distress and psychosocial predictors of illness and treatment understanding and treatment decisions in newly diagnosed indolent lymphoma patients

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Trevino, K.M.,
Healy, C., Canin, B., Moran, S., Trochim, W.M., Martin, P., Pillemer, K., Sirey, J., Reid, M.C. (in press).  Bridging the gap between aging research and practice: A new strategy for enhancing the consensus workshop model. Journal of Applied Gerontology.

Trevino, K.M., Healy, C., Martin, P., Canin, B., Pillemer, K., Sirey, J., & Reid, M.C. (2018).  Improving implementation of psychological interventions to older adult patients with cancer: Convening older adults, caregivers, providers, researchers.  Journal of Geriatric Oncology, 2018 May 11. pii: S1879-4068(18)30031-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 29759913.

Shen, M.J., Trevino, K.M., & Prigerson, H.G. (2018). The interactive effect of advanced cancer patient and caregiver prognostic understanding on patients’ completion of do-not-resuscitate orders.  Psycho-oncology, 2018 Apr 2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 29611241.

Trevino, K.M., Litz, B., Papa, A., Maciejewski, P.K., Lichtenthal, W., Healy, C., & Prigerson, H.G.  (2018).  Bereavement challenges and their relationship to physical and psychological adjustment to loss.  Journal of Palliative Medicine, 21(4), 479-488. PMID: 29182478. PMID: PMC5867503.

Trevino, K.M., Prigerson, H.G., & Maciejewski, P.K. (2018). Advanced cancer caregiving as a risk for major depressive episodes and generalized anxiety disorder. Psychooncology, 27(1), 243-249. doi: 10.1002/pon.4441. PMID: 28426918, PMCID: PMC5746474.​

Maggiore, R., Zumsteg, Z., BrintzenhofeSzoc, K., Trevino, K.M., Gajra, A., Korc-Grodzicki, B., Epstein, J., Bond, S.M., Parker, I., Kisk, J.A., Murphy, B., & VanderWalde, N.A. (2017). The older adult with locoregionally advanced oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma:  Knowledge gaps and future direction in assessment and treatment.  Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, 98, 868-883. 

Park, C.L., Masters, K.S., Salsman, J.M., Wachholtz, A., Clements, A.D., Salmoirago-Blotcher, E., Trevino, K., & Wischenka, D.M. (2017).  Advancing our understanding of religion and spirituality in the context of behavioral medicine.  Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 40(1), 39-51. doi: 10.1007/s10865-016-9755-5. PMID: 27342616. PMCID: PMC5183527. 

Trevino, K.M., 
Zhang, B., Shen, M.J., & Prigerson, H.G. (2016).  Accuracy of advanced cancer patients’ life expectancy estimates: The role of race and source of life expectancy information.  Cancer, 122(12), 1905-12. doi: 10.1002/cncr.30001.

Trevino, K.M., Martin, P., & Prigerson, H.G.  (2016). Evaluating Quality Metrics for the Care of Blood Cancer Patients Near Death.  Journal of Clinical Oncology.  DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2016.68.8911

Trevino, K.M., Naik, A.D., & Moye, J. (2016).  Perceived and actual change in religion/spirituality in cancer survivors: Longitudinal relationships with distress and perceived growth.  Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 8(3), 195-205.

Prigerson, H.G. & Trevino, K.M.  (2015).  The antidepressant effect of hospice: Need for a more potent prescription.  JAMA Internal Medicine. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.1726

Trevino, K.M., Maciejewski, P.K., Epstein, A.S., Prigerson, H.G. (2015). The lasting impact of the therapeutic alliance: Patient-oncologist alliance as a predictor of caregiver bereavement adjustment.  Cancer. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29505

Fasciano, K., Souza, P., Braun, I. & Trevino, K.M.  (2015).  An innovative website for meeting the emotional and supportive care needs of young adults coping with cancer. Journal of Adoloescent and Young Adult Oncology, 4(1), 44-49.

Trevino, K.M., Abbott, C.H., Fisch, M.J., Friedlander, R.J., Duberstein, P., & Prigerson, H.G. (2014).  Patient-oncologist alliance as protection against suicidal ideation in young adults with advanced cancer.  Cancer.  DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28740

Trevino, K.M., Balboni, M., Zollfrank, A., Balboni, T., & Prigerson, H.G. (2014).  Negative religious coping as a correlate of suicidal ideation in patients with advanced cancer.  Psychooncology. doi: 10.1002/pon.3505

Trevino, K.M., & Prigerson, H.G.  (2014).  Effect of communication training on patient, family, and healthcare provider outcomes: Missing Links.  Evidence Based Medicine.  doi: 10.1136/eb-2014-101720.

Trevino K.M., Fasciano K., & Prigerson H.G.  (2013).  Patient-oncologist alliance, psychosocial well-being, and treatment adherence in young adults with advanced cancer.  Journal of Clinical Oncology, 1, 1683-1689. 

Trevino K.M., Maciejewski P.K., Fasciano K., Partridge A., Kacel B., Block S.D., & Prigerson H.G.  (2012).  Coping and psychological distress in young adults with advanced cancer.  Journal of Supportive Oncology, 10, 124-130. 
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