Melinda S Kavanaugh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4428740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melinda S Kavanaugh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melinda S |
| FAMILY NAME | Kavanaugh |
| SIGNATURE | KAVANAUGH M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7858-9909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Assessing health-related quality of life among young carers: A cross-country comparison
“Man, This Isn’t Easy”: Exploring the Manifestation of Parentification Among Young Carers of a Parent with Huntington’s Disease
Challenges and Supports for Families of Youth with Behavioral Health Needs
The challenge of identifying young carers in the US: How State Laws Put Families at Risk for Separation
Parental and child adjustment to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Transformations, struggles and needs
Our findings imply that ALS care professionals may foster family adjustment to living with ALS, most notably through encouraging parents to engage in a dialogue with their children about the many transformations, struggles and needs imposed by ALS and teaching them how to start the dialogue
Young Carers, The Overlooked Caregiving Population: Introduction to a Special Issue
How Far Have We Come? An Updated Scoping Review of Young Carers in the U.S
Young carers and ALS/MND: Exploratory data from families in South Africa
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease (ALS/MND) remains under-resourced across much of the world, including the global south. The lack of supports for ALS/MND is underscored, given the barriers to care, stigma associated, and need for intensive, 24-hour care, primarily provided by family, including vulnerable children and youth, ‘young carers’. With little information of the care experience in ALS/MND in South Africa, this study soug…
This could be me”: Exploring the impact of genetic risk for Huntington’s disease young caregivers
I am no longer alone”: Evaluation of the first North American camp for youth living in families with Huntington's disease
It’d be nice if someone asked me how I was doing. Like, ‘cause I will have an answer ”: Exploring support needs of young carers of a parent with Huntington’s disease
This study explores the support needs of an isolated and little known caregiver population: children and adolescents aged 12–20, who provide care to a parent with Huntington’s disease (HD), often referred to as “young carers.” Stigmatizing symptoms of HD, including depression, personality change, psychosis, and involuntary movements, often leave family caregivers isolated with little support. Increasing attention is paid to the support of adult c…
Complicated Grief Symptoms in Caregivers of Persons with Lung Cancer: The Role of Family Conflict, Intrapsychic Strains, and Hospice Utilization
Guided by a stress process conceptual model, this study examines social and psychological determinants of complicated grief symptoms focusing on family conflict, intrapsychic strains, and the potential moderating effect of care quality and hospice utilization. Relying on data from 152 spouse and adult child lung cancer caregiver survey respondents, drawn from an ancillary study of the Assessment of Cancer CarE and SatiSfaction (ACCESS) in Wiscons…
Community Readiness Assessment: The Scoring Process Revisited
The Community Readiness Model is an innovative and widely embraced approach to determining a community's stage of readiness to address a particular community issue and match that stage with an appropriate intervention. The current study used this approach in five communities experiencing cancer health disparities. In each community, leaders were interviewed and their qualitative data scored to determine the community's stage of readiness. Two met…
It’d be nice if someone asked me how I was doing. Like, ‘cause I will have an answer ”: Exploring support needs of young carers of a parent with Huntington’s disease
This study explores the support needs of an isolated and little known caregiver population: children and adolescents aged 12–20, who provide care to a parent with Huntington’s disease (HD), often referred to as “young carers.” Stigmatizing symptoms of HD, including depression, personality change, psychosis, and involuntary movements, often leave family caregivers isolated with little support. Increasing attention is paid to the support of adult c…
Young carers and ALS/MND: Exploratory data from families in South Africa
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease (ALS/MND) remains under-resourced across much of the world, including the global south. The lack of supports for ALS/MND is underscored, given the barriers to care, stigma associated, and need for intensive, 24-hour care, primarily provided by family, including vulnerable children and youth, ‘young carers’. With little information of the care experience in ALS/MND in South Africa, this study soug…
I am no longer alone”: Evaluation of the first North American camp for youth living in families with Huntington's disease
Community Readiness Assessment: The Scoring Process Revisited
The Community Readiness Model is an innovative and widely embraced approach to determining a community's stage of readiness to address a particular community issue and match that stage with an appropriate intervention. The current study used this approach in five communities experiencing cancer health disparities. In each community, leaders were interviewed and their qualitative data scored to determine the community's stage of readiness. Two met…
Community Readiness Assessment: The Scoring Process Revisited
The Community Readiness Model is an innovative and widely embraced approach to determining a community's stage of readiness to address a particular community issue and match that stage with an appropriate intervention. The current study used this approach in five communities experiencing cancer health disparities. In each community, leaders were interviewed and their qualitative data scored to determine the community's stage of readiness. Two met…
Complicated Grief Symptoms in Caregivers of Persons with Lung Cancer: The Role of Family Conflict, Intrapsychic Strains, and Hospice Utilization
Guided by a stress process conceptual model, this study examines social and psychological determinants of complicated grief symptoms focusing on family conflict, intrapsychic strains, and the potential moderating effect of care quality and hospice utilization. Relying on data from 152 spouse and adult child lung cancer caregiver survey respondents, drawn from an ancillary study of the Assessment of Cancer CarE and SatiSfaction (ACCESS) in Wiscons…
It’d be nice if someone asked me how I was doing. Like, ‘cause I will have an answer ”: Exploring support needs of young carers of a parent with Huntington’s disease
This study explores the support needs of an isolated and little known caregiver population: children and adolescents aged 12–20, who provide care to a parent with Huntington’s disease (HD), often referred to as “young carers.” Stigmatizing symptoms of HD, including depression, personality change, psychosis, and involuntary movements, often leave family caregivers isolated with little support. Increasing attention is paid to the support of adult c…
I am no longer alone”: Evaluation of the first North American camp for youth living in families with Huntington's disease
This could be me”: Exploring the impact of genetic risk for Huntington’s disease young caregivers
Young carers and ALS/MND: Exploratory data from families in South Africa
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease (ALS/MND) remains under-resourced across much of the world, including the global south. The lack of supports for ALS/MND is underscored, given the barriers to care, stigma associated, and need for intensive, 24-hour care, primarily provided by family, including vulnerable children and youth, ‘young carers’. With little information of the care experience in ALS/MND in South Africa, this study soug…
Young Carers, The Overlooked Caregiving Population: Introduction to a Special Issue
How Far Have We Come? An Updated Scoping Review of Young Carers in the U.S
Parental and child adjustment to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Transformations, struggles and needs
Our findings imply that ALS care professionals may foster family adjustment to living with ALS, most notably through encouraging parents to engage in a dialogue with their children about the many transformations, struggles and needs imposed by ALS and teaching them how to start the dialogue
“Man, This Isn’t Easy”: Exploring the Manifestation of Parentification Among Young Carers of a Parent with Huntington’s Disease
Challenges and Supports for Families of Youth with Behavioral Health Needs
The challenge of identifying young carers in the US: How State Laws Put Families at Risk for Separation
Assessing health-related quality of life among young carers: A cross-country comparison
Medicine (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Family Support in Illness (11 works) · Disease (7 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (4 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)