Lauren J Van Scoy

Datos Biográficos

ID1563053
NOMBRELauren J Van Scoy
NOMBRESLauren J
APELLIDOVan Scoy
FIRMAVAN SCOY L J
AFILIACIONESPennsylvania State University
ORCID0000-0003-0984-1474
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS13
TOTAL DE CITAS2
TOTAL COMO AUTOR13
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2013
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • The impact of a personal cancer diagnosis on adolescent and young adult cancer survivors' social connectedness

    Open AccessP Rao, Joel E Segel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2025Referencias: 36

    Adolescent/young adult cancer survivors (AYACS) are diagnosed with cancer between 15 and 39 years of age. Improving AYACS' survivorship quality is crucial-including improving social connectedness, a construct describing the quality, structure and function of social relationships. With better understanding of AYACS' social connectedness, network-based interventions can be developed to foster social health. This study explored how a personal cancer…

  • Adoption and Discontinuance of Innovation Packages

    Rachel A Smith, Jessica Gall Myrick et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2024

    The past decades have seen growing interest and application of interventions targeting the change of multiple behaviors at once. We advance this work by using the diffusion of innovations theory (DOI) to consider constellations of behaviors as innovation packages: multiple innovations that are logically related, interdependent in their use or effects, and often promoted as a set (Rogers, 2003). In addition, we embraced DOI’s focus on behavioral d…

  • The Impact of Health Communication Research on Medical and Health Professional Education and Training

    Allison M Scott, Andrew A Coolidge et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2024

    In this essay, we review how health communication scholarship has been translated into various communication skills trainings (CSTs), we present four case studies of how health communication research informed the development and implementation of specific CSTs, and we reflect on how we can productively define "impact" in looking back as well as looking forward within this line of research

  • Extending the Theory of Normative Social Behavior

    Xun Zhu, Christopher J Carpenter et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2024

    Novel, public behaviors, such as masking, should be susceptible to normative influence. This paper advances the theory of normative social behavior by considering a new set of moderators of normative influence — superdiffuser traits — and by clarifying the antecedents and consequences of exposure to collective norms. We use data from a two-wave survey of a cohort living in one U.S. county during the pandemic (N = 913) to assess normative effects …

  • Communication quality predicts patients' colorectal cancer screening behavior

    Open AccessAllison M Scott, Lauren J Van Scoy et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 34

  • Perceptions and knowledge regarding the Covid-19 pandemic between U.S. and China

    Open AccessYutang Xiong, Xingran Weng et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2022

    BACKGROUND: SARS-CoV-2, a new coronavirus first reported by China on December 31st, 2019, has led to a global health crisis that continues to challenge governments and public health organizations. Understanding COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) is key for informing messaging strategies to contain the pandemic. Cross-national studies (e.g.: comparing China to the U.S.) are needed to better understand how trans-cultural differences…

  • Longitudinal study of an emerging Covid-19 stigma

    Rachel A Smith, Xun Zhu et al.ARTICLEStigma and Health2022

  • Mixed-methods Analysis of Adults Likely versus Unlikely to Get a Covid-19 Vaccination

    Lauren J Van Scoy, Heather J Costigan et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Health Behavior2022

    Objectives: This mixed-methods study compared perspectives of those 'very likely' versus 'very unlikely' to receive a hypothetical COVID-19 vaccine. Methods: We used an explanatory, sequential, mixed- methods design to analyze quantitative data from a rural Pennsylvania sample. Of the 976 participants, 67 selected 'very unlikely' to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Responses to open-ended questions: "What worries you the most about the COVID 19 pandemic…

  • Communication Quality Analysis

    Lauren J Van Scoy, Allison M Scott et al.ARTICLECommunication Methods and Measures2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 5

    Communication Quality Analysis (CQA) is a rigorous transcript-based coding method for assessing clinical communication quality. We compared the resource-intensive transcript-based version with a streamlined real-time version of the method with respect to feasibility, validity, reliability, and association with traditional measures of communication quality. Simulated conversations between 108 trainees and 12 standardized patients were assessed by …

  • Generating a New Outcome Variable Using Mixed Methods in a Randomized Controlled Trial

    Open AccessLauren J Van Scoy, Michael J Green et al.ARTICLEJournal of Mixed Methods Research2020Referencias: 2

    The use of mixed methods research in intervention trials mostly centers around using quantitative data to assess primary outcomes and qualitative data primarily for exploratory purposes, to supplement, and/or explain quantitative findings. We describe a novel mixed methods procedure that generates an integrated outcome variable used to reexamine unexpected findings that resulted from an advance care planning interventional randomized controlled t…

  • Community-based game intervention to improve South Asian Indian Americans’ engagement with advanced care planning

    Kavita Radhakrishnan, Lauren J Van Scoy et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2017Referencias: 6

    Objective: Advance care planning (ACP) allows individuals to express their preferences for medical treatment in the event that they become incapable of making their own decisions. This study assessed the efficacy of a conversation game intervention for increasing South Asian Indian Americans' (SAIAs') engagement in ACP behaviors as well as the game's acceptability and cultural appropriateness among SAIAs. Design: Eligible community-dwelling SAIAs…

  • Low quality of dying and death in patients with septic shock as perceived by nurses and resident physicians

    Lauren J Van Scoy, Jean M Reading et al.ARTICLEDeath Studies2016

    Septic shock is a disease with both high prevalence and mortality. Few studies have evaluated the quality of dying and death (QODD) in patients with septic shock. The authors compared the QODD of patients who died of septic shock versus other causes. They prospectively collected QODD surveys from nurses and residents caring for 196 patients who died in the medical intensive care unit (ICU) at an urban, university hospital. Patients were included …

  • Factors Affecting Code Status in a University Hospital Intensive Care Unit

    Lauren J Van Scoy, Michael Sherman et al.ARTICLEDeath Studies2013

    The authors collected data on diagnosis, hospital course, and end-of life preparedness in patients who died in the intensive care unit (ICU) with '"full code" status (defined as receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation), compared with those who didn't. Differences were analyzed using binary and stepwise logistic regression. They found no differences in demographics, comorbidities, ventilator, hospital, or ICU days between groups. No-code patients …