Rebecca Utz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 352875 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rebecca Utz |
| PRENOMES | Rebecca |
| SOBRENOME | Utz |
| ASSINATURA | UTZ R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Utah |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Beyond Patient-Provider Relationships
Role conflict and strain occur when healthcare providers are required to cross boundaries, either voluntarily or involuntarily, to meet the needs of their dying patients. This research is an unobtrusive digital ethnography of a publicly accessible online forum for healthcare providers ( N = 242 posts); it explores the boundaries set by families and healthcare providers, and identifies how healthcare providers navigate and which circumstances requ…
Illness, Social Disadvantage, and Sexual Risk Behavior in Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood
Doing” healthcare at end-of-life
Observing how healthcare providers deal with death and dying, in terms of " doing " identity, allows us to explore how they cope with patient end-of-life (EOL) and highlights how the professional identity breaks down while managing patient death and dying. We conducted a digital ethnography of a publicly-accessible online forum for healthcare professionals. Providers' personal experiences with patient death and dying were interpreted through inte…
Sex ratios and life tables
The male/female sex ratio (SR) and its age-specific patterns vary considerably across time and place. The SR generally begins male-biased at birth and becomes female-biased later in life, but this relationship should respond to historical trends and events. Temporal trends in SRs remain largely unstudied and formal demographic relationships are not well defined. We (1) define SRs in a life table framework, (2) estimate the age at which the number…
Cancer Caregivers’ Preparedness for Loss and Bereavement Outcomes
Past studies examining the relationship between preparedness for loss and bereavement outcomes among caregivers of spouses/partners with life-limiting illness did not adequately account for preloss caregiver attributes that could potentially confound the relationship. Using a sample of spouse/partner cancer caregivers ( N = 226), we examined how preloss caregiver attributes were associated with how prepared one felt for loss and their role in the…
Coping Processes Among Bereaved Spouses
The authors investigated if an intervention based on the dual process model (vs. traditional bereavement support) enhanced oscillation between loss- (LO) and restoration-oriented (RO) coping of recently bereaved (2-6 months) spouses/partners. Participants were followed over 12 months. The authors found an increased emphasis over time on RO coping, particularly for women and those who were younger; however, no treatment effect was detected. Althou…
Parental Divorce Among Young and Adult Children
This analysis uses a middle-aged sample (age 35–84, N = 2,496) to document the long-term effects of parental divorce on the child's depressive affect and familial solidarity. Those who experienced parental divorce as a child (OR: 1.77, p < .05) or as an adult (OR: 1.82, p < .05) had a higher risk of depression compared to those whose parents are still married. Similar results were found for family solidarity, suggesting that parental divorce was …
Experiences and Early Coping of Bereaved Spouses/Partners in an Intervention Based on the Dual Process Model (DPM)
This study was designed to test the effectiveness of the Dual Process Model (DPM) of coping with bereavement. The sample consisted of 298 recently widowed women (61%) and men age 50+ who participated in 14 weekly intervention sessions and also completed before (O1) and after (O2) self-administered questionnaires. While the study also includes two additional follow-up assessments (O3 and O4) that cover up to 14-16 months bereaved, this article exa…
Sampling, Recruitment, and Retention in a Bereavement Intervention Study
This article reports on the sampling and recruitment challenges, as well as the strategies used to address them in the Living After Loss (LAL) project, a bereavement intervention study conducted in Salt Lake City and San Francisco comparing two 14-week group conditions with follow-up. We encountered three major challenges: 1) difficulty determining eligibility for some potential participants who were contacted, 2) locating and recruiting nonwhite…
A Tale of Two Counties
The “Living After Loss” study was designed to test the effectiveness of the dual process model (DPM) of coping with bereavement. In order to obtain a larger and more diverse sample we studied 328 recently widowed men and women (61%) age 50+ in two counties, Salt Lake (SL) ( n = 197) and San Francisco (SF) ( n = 131) in two states, Utah and California. This article does not report on the effects of the intervention but focuses on a comparison of t…
Humor, Laughter, and Happiness in the Daily Lives of Recently Bereaved Spouses
The positive psychology movement has created more interest in examining the potential value of experiencing positive emotions (e.g., humor, laughter, and happiness) during the course of bereavement. This study of 292 recently widowed (5-24 weeks) men (39%) and women (61%) age 50 and over examined both the perceived importance of and actual experience of having positive emotions in their daily lives and how they might impact bereavement adjustment…
The Globalization of Economic Production and International Migration
This article empirically investigates the relationship between the globalization of economic production and international migration by focusing on the case of Mexico. We describe undocumented Mexican migration to the US in the context of global economic restructuring and review previous studies. We then apply a multilevel modeling technique to retrospective data gathered by the Mexican Migration Project in order to test whether the density of man…
Doing” healthcare at end-of-life
Observing how healthcare providers deal with death and dying, in terms of " doing " identity, allows us to explore how they cope with patient end-of-life (EOL) and highlights how the professional identity breaks down while managing patient death and dying. We conducted a digital ethnography of a publicly-accessible online forum for healthcare professionals. Providers' personal experiences with patient death and dying were interpreted through inte…
Sex ratios and life tables
The male/female sex ratio (SR) and its age-specific patterns vary considerably across time and place. The SR generally begins male-biased at birth and becomes female-biased later in life, but this relationship should respond to historical trends and events. Temporal trends in SRs remain largely unstudied and formal demographic relationships are not well defined. We (1) define SRs in a life table framework, (2) estimate the age at which the number…
Coping Processes Among Bereaved Spouses
The authors investigated if an intervention based on the dual process model (vs. traditional bereavement support) enhanced oscillation between loss- (LO) and restoration-oriented (RO) coping of recently bereaved (2-6 months) spouses/partners. Participants were followed over 12 months. The authors found an increased emphasis over time on RO coping, particularly for women and those who were younger; however, no treatment effect was detected. Althou…
The Globalization of Economic Production and International Migration
This article empirically investigates the relationship between the globalization of economic production and international migration by focusing on the case of Mexico. We describe undocumented Mexican migration to the US in the context of global economic restructuring and review previous studies. We then apply a multilevel modeling technique to retrospective data gathered by the Mexican Migration Project in order to test whether the density of man…
Humor, Laughter, and Happiness in the Daily Lives of Recently Bereaved Spouses
The positive psychology movement has created more interest in examining the potential value of experiencing positive emotions (e.g., humor, laughter, and happiness) during the course of bereavement. This study of 292 recently widowed (5-24 weeks) men (39%) and women (61%) age 50 and over examined both the perceived importance of and actual experience of having positive emotions in their daily lives and how they might impact bereavement adjustment…
The Globalization of Economic Production and International Migration
This article empirically investigates the relationship between the globalization of economic production and international migration by focusing on the case of Mexico. We describe undocumented Mexican migration to the US in the context of global economic restructuring and review previous studies. We then apply a multilevel modeling technique to retrospective data gathered by the Mexican Migration Project in order to test whether the density of man…
Experiences and Early Coping of Bereaved Spouses/Partners in an Intervention Based on the Dual Process Model (DPM)
This study was designed to test the effectiveness of the Dual Process Model (DPM) of coping with bereavement. The sample consisted of 298 recently widowed women (61%) and men age 50+ who participated in 14 weekly intervention sessions and also completed before (O1) and after (O2) self-administered questionnaires. While the study also includes two additional follow-up assessments (O3 and O4) that cover up to 14-16 months bereaved, this article exa…
Sampling, Recruitment, and Retention in a Bereavement Intervention Study
This article reports on the sampling and recruitment challenges, as well as the strategies used to address them in the Living After Loss (LAL) project, a bereavement intervention study conducted in Salt Lake City and San Francisco comparing two 14-week group conditions with follow-up. We encountered three major challenges: 1) difficulty determining eligibility for some potential participants who were contacted, 2) locating and recruiting nonwhite…
A Tale of Two Counties
The “Living After Loss” study was designed to test the effectiveness of the dual process model (DPM) of coping with bereavement. In order to obtain a larger and more diverse sample we studied 328 recently widowed men and women (61%) age 50+ in two counties, Salt Lake (SL) ( n = 197) and San Francisco (SF) ( n = 131) in two states, Utah and California. This article does not report on the effects of the intervention but focuses on a comparison of t…
Parental Divorce Among Young and Adult Children
This analysis uses a middle-aged sample (age 35–84, N = 2,496) to document the long-term effects of parental divorce on the child's depressive affect and familial solidarity. Those who experienced parental divorce as a child (OR: 1.77, p < .05) or as an adult (OR: 1.82, p < .05) had a higher risk of depression compared to those whose parents are still married. Similar results were found for family solidarity, suggesting that parental divorce was …
Coping Processes Among Bereaved Spouses
The authors investigated if an intervention based on the dual process model (vs. traditional bereavement support) enhanced oscillation between loss- (LO) and restoration-oriented (RO) coping of recently bereaved (2-6 months) spouses/partners. Participants were followed over 12 months. The authors found an increased emphasis over time on RO coping, particularly for women and those who were younger; however, no treatment effect was detected. Althou…
Cancer Caregivers’ Preparedness for Loss and Bereavement Outcomes
Past studies examining the relationship between preparedness for loss and bereavement outcomes among caregivers of spouses/partners with life-limiting illness did not adequately account for preloss caregiver attributes that could potentially confound the relationship. Using a sample of spouse/partner cancer caregivers ( N = 226), we examined how preloss caregiver attributes were associated with how prepared one felt for loss and their role in the…
Sex ratios and life tables
The male/female sex ratio (SR) and its age-specific patterns vary considerably across time and place. The SR generally begins male-biased at birth and becomes female-biased later in life, but this relationship should respond to historical trends and events. Temporal trends in SRs remain largely unstudied and formal demographic relationships are not well defined. We (1) define SRs in a life table framework, (2) estimate the age at which the number…
Illness, Social Disadvantage, and Sexual Risk Behavior in Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood
Doing” healthcare at end-of-life
Observing how healthcare providers deal with death and dying, in terms of " doing " identity, allows us to explore how they cope with patient end-of-life (EOL) and highlights how the professional identity breaks down while managing patient death and dying. We conducted a digital ethnography of a publicly-accessible online forum for healthcare professionals. Providers' personal experiences with patient death and dying were interpreted through inte…
Beyond Patient-Provider Relationships
Role conflict and strain occur when healthcare providers are required to cross boundaries, either voluntarily or involuntarily, to meet the needs of their dying patients. This research is an unobtrusive digital ethnography of a publicly accessible online forum for healthcare providers ( N = 242 posts); it explores the boundaries set by families and healthcare providers, and identifies how healthcare providers navigate and which circumstances requ…
Psychology (10 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Developmental psychology (5 obras) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (5 obras) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (5 obras) · Psychiatry (5 obras) · Migration, Health and Trauma (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras)