Joan Shaver

Biographic Data

ID3995161
NAMEJoan Shaver
GIVEN NAMESJoan
FAMILY NAMEShaver
SIGNATURESHAVER J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Illinois Chicago
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Teaching Interprofessional Leadership Excellence to Advanced Practice Nursing Students

    Patricia Daly, Sara J Edmund et al.ARTICLEJournal of Nursing Education2025

    BACKGROUND: To strengthen holistic health care delivery, influential interprofessional (IP) leadership skills are crucial for nurse practitioners (NPs) working within typical disease-focused practice settings. To build competencies, an IP leadership learning protocol (ILLP) was developed using an evidence-informed conflict resolution self-study and patient-care video conference (PCVC) for family NP students, which was later adapted for psychiatri…

  • Menopausal Transition Symptoms in Midlife Women Living With Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue

    JoEllen Wilbur, Joan Shaver et al.ARTICLEHealth Care For Women International2006

    We aimed to determine how menopausal transition symptoms cluster across 216 midlife women with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndromes (FMS/CFS), or both and subsequently to compare symptom factor severity scores by menopausal status among these women and compare symptom reporting with prior community-based samples of women without obvious illness. We designed a cross-sectional telephone survey of 216 women aged 35 to 55, diagnosed with FMS/CFS, …

  • Stress Exposure, Psychological Distress, and Physiological Stress Activation in Midlife Women With Insomnia

    Joan Shaver, Joan L F Shaver et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2002

    Objective The objective of this study was to describe perceived and polysomnograhic (PSG) sleep patterns and determine whether stress exposure, psychological distress, and physiological stress activation differed among midlife women with psychophysiologic-type (PP-type) or subjective only-type (SO-type) insomnia or no insomnia. Methods Women had their sleep monitored, collected urine samples, and completed questionnaires in a week-long field stud…

  • Stress Exposure, Psychological Distress, and Physiological Stress Activation in Midlife Women With Insomnia

    Joan Shaver, J L F ShaverARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2002

    OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to describe perceived and polysomnograhic (PSG) sleep patterns and determine whether stress exposure, psychological distress, and physiological stress activation differed among midlife women with psychophysiologic-type (PP-type) or subjective only-type (SO-type) insomnia or no insomnia. METHODS: Women had their sleep monitored, collected urine samples, and completed questionnaires in a week-long field st…

  • Stress, support, psychological states and sleep

    Open AccessVirginia M Paulsen, Joan L Shaver et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1991Cited by: 1References: 32

  • Gastrointestinal function during the menstrual cycle

    Linda Simmons, Margaret Heitkemper et al.ARTICLEHealth Care For Women International1988

    Gastrointestinal (GI) complaints (e.g., diarrhea, constipation) are common complaints of women perimenstrually and during pregnancy. The present study looked at the relationship between menstrual cycle phase, daily stool number and consistency over two months, and intragastric pressure changes during fasting and in response to a liquid bolus at two points in the menstrual cycle. The seven subjects, ages 25 to 44, who participated in the study als…