Palliative Care
Access and Outcomes
Randomized Trial of Specialty Palliative Care Integrated with Critical Care for Critically Ill Older Adults at High Risk of Death or Severe Disability (PROPACC)
This study combines a multicenter randomized efficacy trial with a concurrent qualitative study, to compare usual care with an early integration of specialty palliative care with the standard critical care for critically ill older adults at high risk of death or severe disability. Participants include 625 older, critically ill patients at high risk of death … Read more
Technology-Supported Behavioral Activation to Optimize Day-to-Day Quality of Life with Advanced Cancer
The aims of this project are to (1) adapt behavioral activation to help patients living with advanced cancer to optimize their daily quality of life, to be delivered primarily via smartphone, and to incorporate personalized, data-driven feedback and objective activity monitoring, and (2) examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of this adapted intervention in … Read more
The Breast Cancer Treatment Symptom Experience, Management and Outcomes According to Race (SEMOARS) Study
The Symptom Experience, Management, Outcomes According to Race Study (SEMOARS) is comparing the symptom incidence and distress, symptom reporting methods and outcomes, including the ability to receive full dose of prescribed chemotherapy between Black and White women as they proceed through chemotherapy. (Funding Source: NIM/NIMHD Grant 5R01MD01224505) Project-related publications Symptom Experience, Management, and Outcomes According … Read more
Ubuntu Pittsburgh Project (UPP): Empowering Community Leaders to Support Black Patients Living with Serious Illness in Pittsburgh
This project aims to evaluate and refine a community-level intervention designed to improve the health and quality-of-life of Black women with metastatic breast cancer. Building on pilot projects that Dr. Rosenzweig and Dr. Yu have conducted over the last two years, this project will train and empower Black lay ministers (non-ordained leaders within a church) … Read more
Understanding Oral Anticancer Medication Adherence among Patients with Multiple Myeloma
Patients with multiple myeloma, a life-threatening blood cancer, frequently experience pain and reduced quality of life. With this program of research, Dr. Belcher examines how medication adherence influences pain and quality of life over time, and how cancer-related financial hardship experienced due to cost of cancer care may influence how patients do or do not … Read more