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 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 |