Carla L Fisher
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1562281 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carla L Fisher |
| NOMBRES | Carla L |
| APELLIDO | Fisher |
| FIRMA | FISHER C L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3903-4278 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Turning points in prognostic uncertainty across the disease trajectory for emerging and young adult caregivers of a parent with advanced cancer
Emerging and young adult caregivers (EYACs, aged 18-35) of a parent with cancer are an understudied, under-resourced, and growing caregiving population. Little is known about their experiences coping with and managing distressing uncertainty about their parent’s prognosis, which is even more distressing when their parent is living with advanced cancer. It is critical to better understand what impacts EYACs’ prognosis uncertainty as their parent’s…
Supporting Family Caregivers’ Clinical Communication Skills
C 3 PM-Dementia can be an educational tool offered by clinicians to caregivers to provide guidance on key communication strategies to enact before, during, after, and between appointments to achieve critical care goals. The model can enhance communication between caregivers and clinicians, which can promote better outcomes in both cancer and dementia care
Caring for a Parent With a Blood Cancer
This exploratory survey study used quantitative and qualitative analyses to (a) identify challenges communicating with siblings that adult child caregivers of a parent with a blood cancer encounter and (b) examine how these challenges are related to caregivers’ burden, social support, family openness, and clinical communication quality. A total of 95 caregivers with siblings participated in an online survey. We conducted a qualitative content ana…
Implementing a chatbot to promote hereditary breast & ovarian cancer genetic screening in women’s health
While chatbots can extend women's cancer risk screening access, particularly in rural regions and with college-educated women, systems-level (cost) and individual-level factors (perceived risk, misconceptions about repeating genetic testing) should be addressed to promote adoption. Women's interaction with a clinician may be a key implementation strategy for addressing these factors to personalize the screening opportunity and promote their chatb…
Parental cancer caregiving in emerging and young adulthood
While emerging and young adults are increasingly becoming caregivers to a parent diagnosed with cancer, little is known about how sibling relationships are impacted across the caregiving trajectory. To explore this, bereaved emerging and young adult caregivers (EYACs; aged 18-35) whose parent died of cancer within 1 year of diagnosis completed semi-structured interviews. Transcripts were thematically analyzed and EYACs described impacts on siblin…
A little bit different now”
Serving as a family caregiver for, and ultimately losing, a parent with advanced cancer in emerging and young adulthood has substantial, life phase-specific implications for psychosocial development. This qualitative study characterizes domains of psychosocial development impacted by cancer caregiving and parental death in this life phase. As part of a larger study, 33 bereaved emerging/young adult caregivers of parents who died following advance…
Applications of turning point analysis in behavioral medicine research
A Mixed-Method Examination of Emerging and Young Adult Cancer Caregivers’ Experiences during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Advanced cancer caregivers in emerging and young adulthood (EYACs; ages 18-35) are an understudied yet vulnerable caregiving population. The COVID-19 pandemic created new challenges for advanced cancer caregivers but also created unique contexts from which caregivers sometimes benefited. To understand how the pandemic may have positively and negatively impacted their caregiving and bereavement experiences, we examined EYACs' experiences of caring…
Make Your Family Proud”
In this study, we analyzed Disney's Encanto through the lens of identity theory using qualitative content analysis to examine how family roles and identity were communicatively constructed. Results uncovered four themes regarding the Madrigal family's role enactment (role confirmation, role disconfirmation, conformity to family identity, and identity salience of family roles). Findings capture the mutually influential, fluctuating nature of enact…
Work–life-imbalance during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study explored work–life imbalance and social support during the Spring 2020 COVID-19 shelter-in-place restrictions in the U.S. and their impact on perceived stress and depression. In addition, the study explored relationships among perceived social support from others, support-seeking behaviors, and the role of weak-tie support network preference and demographic variables in terms of perceived stress and depression. The findings indicate th…
“Going down the Rabbit Hole”
Parental alienation (PA), typically identified in divorced families, is a form of nonvoluntary family distancing wherein one parent employs maladaptive communication patterns to sever the relationship between the other parent and child(ren). This study examines the reconnection phase of PA from the alienated parent perspective, elucidating tensions salient to PA as well as enacted communication management strategies. Alienated parents who experie…
Practicing Mindfulness through mHealth Applications
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) and practices (MBPs) can promote better health outcomes. Although MBIs and MBPs were developed to be delivered in-person, mobile health (mHealth) tools such as apps have made these more accessible. Mindfulness apps (MAs) are popular among emerging adults (EAs) who have the highest ownership of smartphones and who are also at risk for distress. While adverse effects have been observed with MBIs/MBPs, this has…
Messaging preferences among Florida caregivers participating in focus groups who had not yet accepted the HPV vaccine for their 11- to 12-year-old child
HPV vaccine messages, whether delivered by a clinician or via text message, will be more acceptable to caregivers if they approach HPV vaccination as the caregivers' decision, and include information from trusted sources to help caregivers make an informed choice
A Content Analysis of Social Support Messages about Environmental Breast Cancer Risk within Blogs for Mothers
Bloggers can help stimulate online conversations among their readers about a variety of health topics, including breast cancer. However, in previous studies, researchers have not specifically examined supportive messages within an online blogger community that stem from an intervention where bloggers were provided with evidence-based information about breast cancer risk that they could tailor and disseminate to their readers. In the current study…
Transitioning from active duty to military retirement
Objectives: Military retirement happens early in the lifespan presenting a unique transition that challenges chronic illness. The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that military retirees experience as they transition from active duty to military retirement that they perceive as inhibiting their ability to manage type 2 diabetes (T2DM) or pre-diabetes (preDM) and/or which increase their disease risk. Methods: Twenty veterans diagnos…
Helping Mothers and Daughters Talk about Environmental Breast Cancer Risk and Risk-Reducing Lifestyle Behaviors
Background : Mothers and daughters struggle to talk about breast cancer risk. Even less attention is paid to environmental determinants of cancer. Third-party online approaches can be helpful navigating these conversations. The aim of this study was to obtain feedback from mothers exposed to a social media intervention ("mommy bloggers") and identify their preferences for message-design approaches that could help them talk to their daughter(s) ab…
Digital Media as a Context for Dating Abuse
As the nature of interpersonal communication has shifted with the widespread use of technology, so have the possibilities for abuse. Like face-to-face abuse, digital abuse can be stressful. Digital dating abuse is an emerging form of dating violence in the United States and is thought to have serious health effects on young people. The types of coping strategies used by victims have important implications for their overall health and well-being. …
Maximizing Wellness in Successful Aging and Cancer Coping
Interpersonal communication is a fundamental part of being and key to health. Interactions within family are especially critical to wellness across time. Family communication is a central means of adaptation to stress, coping, and successful aging. Still, no theoretical argument in the discipline exists that prioritizes kin communication in health. Theoretical advances can enhance interventions and policies that improve family life. This article …
Talking About Familial Breast Cancer Risk
A hereditary cancer predisposition can rattle families, creating dysfunctional interactions. Families need assistance navigating conversations about risk. Because mothers and daughters uniquely share breast cancer experiences and risk, there is a particular need for practitioners to assist them with communication. Three focus groups were conducted with 11 mothers with an elevated cancer risk (with adolescent daughters) receiving genetic counselin…
Politeness Strategies in Imagined Conversation Openers About Eldercare
In the United States, many adult children and their aging parents reach the point when it is necessary to address future care needs of the parent. Given that the prevailing culture values independence over interdependence, discussing future care needs can be face threatening. Therefore, an examination of how adult children approach such conversations and manage face needs is an important first step toward understanding what makes these conversati…
Communication and Mental Health
The Communication Monographs Cafe is once again open for business. After stimulating conversations about social justice and public scholarship (Volume 78, Issue 2), about communication and material
A Communication Model for the Competent Delivery of Geriatric Medicine
The competent practice of geriatric medicine has become a priority within the health care system. As older adults transition from independence to dependence, the health care system must respond to a complex set of interdependent networks that the system and those who work within it may not be prepared to handle. The competent practice of geriatric medicine is dependent on the coordination of numerous health specialists, organizations, the older p…
Talking About Familial Breast Cancer Risk
A hereditary cancer predisposition can rattle families, creating dysfunctional interactions. Families need assistance navigating conversations about risk. Because mothers and daughters uniquely share breast cancer experiences and risk, there is a particular need for practitioners to assist them with communication. Three focus groups were conducted with 11 mothers with an elevated cancer risk (with adolescent daughters) receiving genetic counselin…
Maximizing Wellness in Successful Aging and Cancer Coping
Interpersonal communication is a fundamental part of being and key to health. Interactions within family are especially critical to wellness across time. Family communication is a central means of adaptation to stress, coping, and successful aging. Still, no theoretical argument in the discipline exists that prioritizes kin communication in health. Theoretical advances can enhance interventions and policies that improve family life. This article …
A Communication Model for the Competent Delivery of Geriatric Medicine
The competent practice of geriatric medicine has become a priority within the health care system. As older adults transition from independence to dependence, the health care system must respond to a complex set of interdependent networks that the system and those who work within it may not be prepared to handle. The competent practice of geriatric medicine is dependent on the coordination of numerous health specialists, organizations, the older p…
A little bit different now”
Serving as a family caregiver for, and ultimately losing, a parent with advanced cancer in emerging and young adulthood has substantial, life phase-specific implications for psychosocial development. This qualitative study characterizes domains of psychosocial development impacted by cancer caregiving and parental death in this life phase. As part of a larger study, 33 bereaved emerging/young adult caregivers of parents who died following advance…
Applications of turning point analysis in behavioral medicine research
Digital Media as a Context for Dating Abuse
As the nature of interpersonal communication has shifted with the widespread use of technology, so have the possibilities for abuse. Like face-to-face abuse, digital abuse can be stressful. Digital dating abuse is an emerging form of dating violence in the United States and is thought to have serious health effects on young people. The types of coping strategies used by victims have important implications for their overall health and well-being. …
Politeness Strategies in Imagined Conversation Openers About Eldercare
In the United States, many adult children and their aging parents reach the point when it is necessary to address future care needs of the parent. Given that the prevailing culture values independence over interdependence, discussing future care needs can be face threatening. Therefore, an examination of how adult children approach such conversations and manage face needs is an important first step toward understanding what makes these conversati…
Communication and Mental Health
The Communication Monographs Cafe is once again open for business. After stimulating conversations about social justice and public scholarship (Volume 78, Issue 2), about communication and material
A Communication Model for the Competent Delivery of Geriatric Medicine
The competent practice of geriatric medicine has become a priority within the health care system. As older adults transition from independence to dependence, the health care system must respond to a complex set of interdependent networks that the system and those who work within it may not be prepared to handle. The competent practice of geriatric medicine is dependent on the coordination of numerous health specialists, organizations, the older p…
Communication and Mental Health
The Communication Monographs Cafe is once again open for business. After stimulating conversations about social justice and public scholarship (Volume 78, Issue 2), about communication and material
Talking About Familial Breast Cancer Risk
A hereditary cancer predisposition can rattle families, creating dysfunctional interactions. Families need assistance navigating conversations about risk. Because mothers and daughters uniquely share breast cancer experiences and risk, there is a particular need for practitioners to assist them with communication. Three focus groups were conducted with 11 mothers with an elevated cancer risk (with adolescent daughters) receiving genetic counselin…
Politeness Strategies in Imagined Conversation Openers About Eldercare
In the United States, many adult children and their aging parents reach the point when it is necessary to address future care needs of the parent. Given that the prevailing culture values independence over interdependence, discussing future care needs can be face threatening. Therefore, an examination of how adult children approach such conversations and manage face needs is an important first step toward understanding what makes these conversati…
Maximizing Wellness in Successful Aging and Cancer Coping
Interpersonal communication is a fundamental part of being and key to health. Interactions within family are especially critical to wellness across time. Family communication is a central means of adaptation to stress, coping, and successful aging. Still, no theoretical argument in the discipline exists that prioritizes kin communication in health. Theoretical advances can enhance interventions and policies that improve family life. This article …
Digital Media as a Context for Dating Abuse
As the nature of interpersonal communication has shifted with the widespread use of technology, so have the possibilities for abuse. Like face-to-face abuse, digital abuse can be stressful. Digital dating abuse is an emerging form of dating violence in the United States and is thought to have serious health effects on young people. The types of coping strategies used by victims have important implications for their overall health and well-being. …
Helping Mothers and Daughters Talk about Environmental Breast Cancer Risk and Risk-Reducing Lifestyle Behaviors
Background : Mothers and daughters struggle to talk about breast cancer risk. Even less attention is paid to environmental determinants of cancer. Third-party online approaches can be helpful navigating these conversations. The aim of this study was to obtain feedback from mothers exposed to a social media intervention ("mommy bloggers") and identify their preferences for message-design approaches that could help them talk to their daughter(s) ab…
A Content Analysis of Social Support Messages about Environmental Breast Cancer Risk within Blogs for Mothers
Bloggers can help stimulate online conversations among their readers about a variety of health topics, including breast cancer. However, in previous studies, researchers have not specifically examined supportive messages within an online blogger community that stem from an intervention where bloggers were provided with evidence-based information about breast cancer risk that they could tailor and disseminate to their readers. In the current study…
Transitioning from active duty to military retirement
Objectives: Military retirement happens early in the lifespan presenting a unique transition that challenges chronic illness. The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that military retirees experience as they transition from active duty to military retirement that they perceive as inhibiting their ability to manage type 2 diabetes (T2DM) or pre-diabetes (preDM) and/or which increase their disease risk. Methods: Twenty veterans diagnos…
Work–life-imbalance during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study explored work–life imbalance and social support during the Spring 2020 COVID-19 shelter-in-place restrictions in the U.S. and their impact on perceived stress and depression. In addition, the study explored relationships among perceived social support from others, support-seeking behaviors, and the role of weak-tie support network preference and demographic variables in terms of perceived stress and depression. The findings indicate th…
“Going down the Rabbit Hole”
Parental alienation (PA), typically identified in divorced families, is a form of nonvoluntary family distancing wherein one parent employs maladaptive communication patterns to sever the relationship between the other parent and child(ren). This study examines the reconnection phase of PA from the alienated parent perspective, elucidating tensions salient to PA as well as enacted communication management strategies. Alienated parents who experie…
Practicing Mindfulness through mHealth Applications
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) and practices (MBPs) can promote better health outcomes. Although MBIs and MBPs were developed to be delivered in-person, mobile health (mHealth) tools such as apps have made these more accessible. Mindfulness apps (MAs) are popular among emerging adults (EAs) who have the highest ownership of smartphones and who are also at risk for distress. While adverse effects have been observed with MBIs/MBPs, this has…
Messaging preferences among Florida caregivers participating in focus groups who had not yet accepted the HPV vaccine for their 11- to 12-year-old child
HPV vaccine messages, whether delivered by a clinician or via text message, will be more acceptable to caregivers if they approach HPV vaccination as the caregivers' decision, and include information from trusted sources to help caregivers make an informed choice
A Mixed-Method Examination of Emerging and Young Adult Cancer Caregivers’ Experiences during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Advanced cancer caregivers in emerging and young adulthood (EYACs; ages 18-35) are an understudied yet vulnerable caregiving population. The COVID-19 pandemic created new challenges for advanced cancer caregivers but also created unique contexts from which caregivers sometimes benefited. To understand how the pandemic may have positively and negatively impacted their caregiving and bereavement experiences, we examined EYACs' experiences of caring…
Make Your Family Proud”
In this study, we analyzed Disney's Encanto through the lens of identity theory using qualitative content analysis to examine how family roles and identity were communicatively constructed. Results uncovered four themes regarding the Madrigal family's role enactment (role confirmation, role disconfirmation, conformity to family identity, and identity salience of family roles). Findings capture the mutually influential, fluctuating nature of enact…
A little bit different now”
Serving as a family caregiver for, and ultimately losing, a parent with advanced cancer in emerging and young adulthood has substantial, life phase-specific implications for psychosocial development. This qualitative study characterizes domains of psychosocial development impacted by cancer caregiving and parental death in this life phase. As part of a larger study, 33 bereaved emerging/young adult caregivers of parents who died following advance…
Applications of turning point analysis in behavioral medicine research
Caring for a Parent With a Blood Cancer
This exploratory survey study used quantitative and qualitative analyses to (a) identify challenges communicating with siblings that adult child caregivers of a parent with a blood cancer encounter and (b) examine how these challenges are related to caregivers’ burden, social support, family openness, and clinical communication quality. A total of 95 caregivers with siblings participated in an online survey. We conducted a qualitative content ana…
Implementing a chatbot to promote hereditary breast & ovarian cancer genetic screening in women’s health
While chatbots can extend women's cancer risk screening access, particularly in rural regions and with college-educated women, systems-level (cost) and individual-level factors (perceived risk, misconceptions about repeating genetic testing) should be addressed to promote adoption. Women's interaction with a clinician may be a key implementation strategy for addressing these factors to personalize the screening opportunity and promote their chatb…
Parental cancer caregiving in emerging and young adulthood
While emerging and young adults are increasingly becoming caregivers to a parent diagnosed with cancer, little is known about how sibling relationships are impacted across the caregiving trajectory. To explore this, bereaved emerging and young adult caregivers (EYACs; aged 18-35) whose parent died of cancer within 1 year of diagnosis completed semi-structured interviews. Transcripts were thematically analyzed and EYACs described impacts on siblin…
Turning points in prognostic uncertainty across the disease trajectory for emerging and young adult caregivers of a parent with advanced cancer
Emerging and young adult caregivers (EYACs, aged 18-35) of a parent with cancer are an understudied, under-resourced, and growing caregiving population. Little is known about their experiences coping with and managing distressing uncertainty about their parent’s prognosis, which is even more distressing when their parent is living with advanced cancer. It is critical to better understand what impacts EYACs’ prognosis uncertainty as their parent’s…
Supporting Family Caregivers’ Clinical Communication Skills
C 3 PM-Dementia can be an educational tool offered by clinicians to caregivers to provide guidance on key communication strategies to enact before, during, after, and between appointments to achieve critical care goals. The model can enhance communication between caregivers and clinicians, which can promote better outcomes in both cancer and dementia care
Psychology (17 obras) · Medicine (16 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Developmental psychology (8 obras) · Clinical Psychology (7 obras) · Family Support in Illness (7 obras) · Clinical Psychology (6 obras) · Qualitative research (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras)