Carma L Bylund
Biographic Data
| ID | 207744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carma L Bylund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carma L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bylund |
| SIGNATURE | BYLUND C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9335-1496 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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…
Interventions to Mitigate Implicit Racial Bias in Graduate Medical Education Trainees
Are They Important? Patients’ Communication Barriers to Discussing Online Health Information During Consultations
A minority of the patients who search for online health information report discussing or having an intention to discuss this information with their healthcare provider. Not discussing online health information inhibits the provision of patient-centered care and limits the healthcare provider’s possibility to tackle misinformation. Within the confines of the linguistic model of patient participation, we first provide an overview of barriers to dis…
Identifying locally actionable strategies to increase participant acceptability and feasibility to participate in Phase I cancer clinical trials
BACKGROUND: Recruitment of cancer clinical trial (CCT) participants, especially participants representing the diversity of the US population, is necessary to create successful medications and a continual challenge. These challenges are amplified in Phase I cancer trials that focus on evaluating the safety of new treatments and are the gateway to treatment development. In preparation for recruitment to a Phase I recurrent head and neck cancer (HNC…
Applications of turning point analysis in behavioral medicine research
Mapping Uncharted Terrain
Fostering Interdisciplinary Boundary Spanning in Health Communication
Scholarship in the field of health communication is broad, with interdisciplinary contributions from researchers trained in a variety of fields including communication, nursing, medicine, pharmacy, public health, and social work. In this paper, we explore the role of “health communication boundary spanners” (HCBS), individuals whose scholarly work and academic appointment reflect dual citizenship in both the communication discipline and the healt…
The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication
The definitive collection of topics currently being studied in the rapidly growing field of health communication The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication presents a thorough overview of a dynamic field, bringing together entries by an international panel of contributors that address a comprehensive range of recent and emerging topics. With a global and interdisciplinary focus, this timely resource addresses cutting-edge digital tech…
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
International barriers to parent-child communication about sexual and reproductive health topics
Research indicates that parent-child communication about sexual and reproductive health can improve safe sex practices among adolescents, but barriers to such communication exist. In this systematic review, we thematically synthesised qualitative data in 37 articles on parent-child sexual and reproductive health communication barriers conducted on five continents and in 19 different countries. We identified both barriers to communication and barr…
The Effects of Race and Racial Concordance on Patient-Physician Communication
Despite mixed results due to measurement heterogeneity, results of the present review highlight the importance of training physicians and patients to engage in higher quality communication with black and racially discordant patients by focusing on improving patient-centeredness, information-giving, partnership building, and patient engagement in communication processes
Oxford Textbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care
This textbook integrates clinical wisdom with empirical findings, drawing upon the history of communication science, providing a comprehensive curriculum for applied communication skills training for specialist oncologists, surgeons, nurses, psychosocial care providers and other members of the multidisciplinary team. This new edition presents a curriculum for nurses, which discusses needs of pre-registration to advanced trainees, including the ‘S…
Cancer patients’ use of the internet for cancer information and support
The rise of the internet has dramatically changed the way that patients seek cancer-related information, as well as how they discuss these topics with their healthcare providers. Patients’ increased access to web-acquired information has created a power shift in clinician–patient communication, which may either have a beneficial effect on the relationship (e.g. when patients engage in better shared decision-making) or a harmful effect (e.g. when …
Communication skills training in Arab countries
In this chapter, we describe some of the challenges present in healthcare communication in Arab countries, including: disclosure of diagnosis; working with families; and language barriers. We then focus specifically on the efforts being made in the multicultural state of Qatar to improve communication skills in healthcare. We describe the curricular approach with medical students at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, with examples of challen…
Communicating with children when a parent is dying
Concerns about dependent children are prominent, and distressing, for parents diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Helping parents feel prepared to talk with children about their illness and possible death, at any stage of illness, has the potential to alleviate distress in both parents and children. This chapter provides a summary of how children at different ages understand and respond to a death, and offers suggestions about how clinicia…
Communication of a schizophrenia diagnosis
BACKGROUND: Transparent diagnostic communication is considered best practice for clinicians. However, while patients expect to receive a schizophrenia diagnosis from their psychiatrist, research suggests mental health clinicians are often reluctant to provide this information to patients. AIM: This study examines the perceptions of people with schizophrenia surrounding the communication of this diagnosis. METHODS: A generic qualitative methodolog…
‘We didn’t have a clue’
BACKGROUND: Despite widespread acceptance of the principle that patients should be informed about their diagnosis, many clinicians are reluctant to provide a diagnosis of schizophrenia. This study examines family caregivers' experiences of the communication of a schizophrenia diagnosis and related information. METHODS: A generic qualitative methodological approach was used. In all, 13 family caregivers were recruited in regional New South Wales, …
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…
Patient preferences for shared decisions
Parent-Child Perceptions of Parental Behavioral Control Through Rule-Setting for Risky Health Choices During Adolescence
This study of 164 parent-child dyads compared perceptions of the rule-setting processes during the child's adolescence surrounding reported rules for the risky health domains of sexual activity, alcohol use, and tobacco use. Two kinds of rules were identified: abstinence rules and contingency rules. Tobacco use was largely dominated by abstinence rules, whereas sexual activity and alcohol featured both abstinence and contingency rules. Parents pe…
Medical Student Attitudes Toward Communication Skills Training and Knowledge of Appropriate Provider-Patient Communication
Drawing upon Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives as a theoretical framework, this study examines attitudes toward communication skills training, knowledge of appropriate provider-patient communication, and confidence communicating with patients between first-year and fourth-year medical students at a large medical school in the southern United States. The study findings indicate that fourth-year medical students do not differ from first-ye…
Mothers' Trait Verbal Aggressiveness and Child Abuse Potential
Child physical abuse is a serious societal problem that communication scholars have been slow to address. This study explores whether a mother's trait verbal aggressiveness (VA) is associated with her risk for child physical abuse. Participants were 42 women in predominately low-income families recruited from two social service agencies in a major metropolitan area. Participants completed Infante and Wigley's (1986) Verbal Aggressiveness Scale (V…
Mothers' child abuse potential as a predictor of maternal and child behaviors during play‐time interactions
This paper explores the effect of mothers' child abuse potential on maternal and child behaviors during play‐time interactions. Forty‐two mothers participated in a 10‐min play period followed by a clean‐up task along with one of their children (range=3–8 years old), after which they completed Milner's () Child Abuse Potential (CAP) Inventory. Mothers' behaviors were coded using a 21‐category scheme, which was collapsed into five behavioral cluste…
The Everyday Interplay between Family Relationships and Family Members' Health
Family Communication Environments and Rule-Based Social Control of Adolescents' Healthy Lifestyle Choices
To describe further the contribution of family interaction to adolescent members' health, 164 parent-college student child dyads completed questionnaires regarding perceptions of Family Communication Environment (FCE), healthy lifestyle rules in the family during the child's adolescence, and child compliance with those rules. Families higher in Expressiveness reported lower child compliance to rules, lower parent articulation of rules, and lower …
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…
Mothers' Trait Verbal Aggressiveness and Child Abuse Potential
Child physical abuse is a serious societal problem that communication scholars have been slow to address. This study explores whether a mother's trait verbal aggressiveness (VA) is associated with her risk for child physical abuse. Participants were 42 women in predominately low-income families recruited from two social service agencies in a major metropolitan area. Participants completed Infante and Wigley's (1986) Verbal Aggressiveness Scale (V…
Ethnic Diversity and Family Stories
Family stories have received increased attention in multiple disciplines during the last 2 decades. However, research examining family story differences among ethnically diverse families has been limited. Using a case study method, this study investigated the differences in family stories among three families of different ethnicities: European American, Mexican American, and African American. The research focused on the functions of family storie…
Parent-Child Perceptions of Parental Behavioral Control Through Rule-Setting for Risky Health Choices During Adolescence
This study of 164 parent-child dyads compared perceptions of the rule-setting processes during the child's adolescence surrounding reported rules for the risky health domains of sexual activity, alcohol use, and tobacco use. Two kinds of rules were identified: abstinence rules and contingency rules. Tobacco use was largely dominated by abstinence rules, whereas sexual activity and alcohol featured both abstinence and contingency rules. Parents pe…
Applications of turning point analysis in behavioral medicine research
Ethnic Diversity and Family Stories
Family stories have received increased attention in multiple disciplines during the last 2 decades. However, research examining family story differences among ethnically diverse families has been limited. Using a case study method, this study investigated the differences in family stories among three families of different ethnicities: European American, Mexican American, and African American. The research focused on the functions of family storie…
Mothers' child abuse potential as a predictor of maternal and child behaviors during play‐time interactions
This paper explores the effect of mothers' child abuse potential on maternal and child behaviors during play‐time interactions. Forty‐two mothers participated in a 10‐min play period followed by a clean‐up task along with one of their children (range=3–8 years old), after which they completed Milner's () Child Abuse Potential (CAP) Inventory. Mothers' behaviors were coded using a 21‐category scheme, which was collapsed into five behavioral cluste…
The Everyday Interplay between Family Relationships and Family Members' Health
Family Communication Environments and Rule-Based Social Control of Adolescents' Healthy Lifestyle Choices
To describe further the contribution of family interaction to adolescent members' health, 164 parent-college student child dyads completed questionnaires regarding perceptions of Family Communication Environment (FCE), healthy lifestyle rules in the family during the child's adolescence, and child compliance with those rules. Families higher in Expressiveness reported lower child compliance to rules, lower parent articulation of rules, and lower …
Medical Student Attitudes Toward Communication Skills Training and Knowledge of Appropriate Provider-Patient Communication
Drawing upon Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives as a theoretical framework, this study examines attitudes toward communication skills training, knowledge of appropriate provider-patient communication, and confidence communicating with patients between first-year and fourth-year medical students at a large medical school in the southern United States. The study findings indicate that fourth-year medical students do not differ from first-ye…
Mothers' Trait Verbal Aggressiveness and Child Abuse Potential
Child physical abuse is a serious societal problem that communication scholars have been slow to address. This study explores whether a mother's trait verbal aggressiveness (VA) is associated with her risk for child physical abuse. Participants were 42 women in predominately low-income families recruited from two social service agencies in a major metropolitan area. Participants completed Infante and Wigley's (1986) Verbal Aggressiveness Scale (V…
Parent-Child Perceptions of Parental Behavioral Control Through Rule-Setting for Risky Health Choices During Adolescence
This study of 164 parent-child dyads compared perceptions of the rule-setting processes during the child's adolescence surrounding reported rules for the risky health domains of sexual activity, alcohol use, and tobacco use. Two kinds of rules were identified: abstinence rules and contingency rules. Tobacco use was largely dominated by abstinence rules, whereas sexual activity and alcohol featured both abstinence and contingency rules. Parents pe…
Patient preferences for shared decisions
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…
Communication of a schizophrenia diagnosis
BACKGROUND: Transparent diagnostic communication is considered best practice for clinicians. However, while patients expect to receive a schizophrenia diagnosis from their psychiatrist, research suggests mental health clinicians are often reluctant to provide this information to patients. AIM: This study examines the perceptions of people with schizophrenia surrounding the communication of this diagnosis. METHODS: A generic qualitative methodolog…
‘We didn’t have a clue’
BACKGROUND: Despite widespread acceptance of the principle that patients should be informed about their diagnosis, many clinicians are reluctant to provide a diagnosis of schizophrenia. This study examines family caregivers' experiences of the communication of a schizophrenia diagnosis and related information. METHODS: A generic qualitative methodological approach was used. In all, 13 family caregivers were recruited in regional New South Wales, …
Oxford Textbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care
This textbook integrates clinical wisdom with empirical findings, drawing upon the history of communication science, providing a comprehensive curriculum for applied communication skills training for specialist oncologists, surgeons, nurses, psychosocial care providers and other members of the multidisciplinary team. This new edition presents a curriculum for nurses, which discusses needs of pre-registration to advanced trainees, including the ‘S…
Cancer patients’ use of the internet for cancer information and support
The rise of the internet has dramatically changed the way that patients seek cancer-related information, as well as how they discuss these topics with their healthcare providers. Patients’ increased access to web-acquired information has created a power shift in clinician–patient communication, which may either have a beneficial effect on the relationship (e.g. when patients engage in better shared decision-making) or a harmful effect (e.g. when …
Communication skills training in Arab countries
In this chapter, we describe some of the challenges present in healthcare communication in Arab countries, including: disclosure of diagnosis; working with families; and language barriers. We then focus specifically on the efforts being made in the multicultural state of Qatar to improve communication skills in healthcare. We describe the curricular approach with medical students at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, with examples of challen…
Communicating with children when a parent is dying
Concerns about dependent children are prominent, and distressing, for parents diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Helping parents feel prepared to talk with children about their illness and possible death, at any stage of illness, has the potential to alleviate distress in both parents and children. This chapter provides a summary of how children at different ages understand and respond to a death, and offers suggestions about how clinicia…
The Effects of Race and Racial Concordance on Patient-Physician Communication
Despite mixed results due to measurement heterogeneity, results of the present review highlight the importance of training physicians and patients to engage in higher quality communication with black and racially discordant patients by focusing on improving patient-centeredness, information-giving, partnership building, and patient engagement in communication processes
International barriers to parent-child communication about sexual and reproductive health topics
Research indicates that parent-child communication about sexual and reproductive health can improve safe sex practices among adolescents, but barriers to such communication exist. In this systematic review, we thematically synthesised qualitative data in 37 articles on parent-child sexual and reproductive health communication barriers conducted on five continents and in 19 different countries. We identified both barriers to communication and barr…
Fostering Interdisciplinary Boundary Spanning in Health Communication
Scholarship in the field of health communication is broad, with interdisciplinary contributions from researchers trained in a variety of fields including communication, nursing, medicine, pharmacy, public health, and social work. In this paper, we explore the role of “health communication boundary spanners” (HCBS), individuals whose scholarly work and academic appointment reflect dual citizenship in both the communication discipline and the healt…
The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication
The definitive collection of topics currently being studied in the rapidly growing field of health communication The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication presents a thorough overview of a dynamic field, bringing together entries by an international panel of contributors that address a comprehensive range of recent and emerging topics. With a global and interdisciplinary focus, this timely resource addresses cutting-edge digital tech…
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
Mapping Uncharted Terrain
Are They Important? Patients’ Communication Barriers to Discussing Online Health Information During Consultations
A minority of the patients who search for online health information report discussing or having an intention to discuss this information with their healthcare provider. Not discussing online health information inhibits the provision of patient-centered care and limits the healthcare provider’s possibility to tackle misinformation. Within the confines of the linguistic model of patient participation, we first provide an overview of barriers to dis…
Identifying locally actionable strategies to increase participant acceptability and feasibility to participate in Phase I cancer clinical trials
BACKGROUND: Recruitment of cancer clinical trial (CCT) participants, especially participants representing the diversity of the US population, is necessary to create successful medications and a continual challenge. These challenges are amplified in Phase I cancer trials that focus on evaluating the safety of new treatments and are the gateway to treatment development. In preparation for recruitment to a Phase I recurrent head and neck cancer (HNC…
Applications of turning point analysis in behavioral medicine research
Medicine (19 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (4 works)