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Species | Alla SikorskiiSummaryAffiliation: Michigan State University Country: USA Publications
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Concordance between patient reports of cancer-related symptoms and medical records documentationAlla Sikorskii
Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 1317, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 44:362-72. 2012..The concordance of patient-reported cancer-related symptoms and clinician reports as documented in the medical records needs to be evaluated...- Methodological issues in trials of complementary and alternative medicine interventionsAlla Sikorskii
Department of Statistics and Probability, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
Nurs Res 58:444-51. 2009..Information on safety and efficacy of CAM therapies is needed for both patients and healthcare providers. Well-designed randomized clinical trials of CAM therapy interventions can inform both clinical research and practice... - Response analysis for multiple symptoms revealed differences between arms of a symptom management trialAlla Sikorskii
Michigan State University, Department of Statistics and Probability, College of Natural Science, A423 Wells Halls, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 62:716-24. 2009.... - Managing symptoms among patients with breast cancer during chemotherapy: results of a two-arm behavioral trialCharles W Given
Department of Family Practice, Michigan State University, B108 Clinical Center East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:5855-62. 2008.... - Deconstruction of nurse-delivered patient self-management interventions for symptom management: factors related to delivery enactment and responseCharles W Given
Department of Family Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Ann Behav Med 40:99-113. 2010..Patient and symptom factors were related to enactment strategies. Symptom responses were related to number of strategies tried by patients. Delivery and enactment of strategies were related to both patient and symptom characteristics... 
Psychometric assessment of the Adolescent Physical Activity Perceived Benefits and Barriers ScalesLorraine B Robbins
Michigan State University College of Nursing, East Lansing, MI 48824 1317, USA
J Nurs Meas 16:98-112. 2008..Both instruments were found to be reliable and valid for measuring the perceived benefits of and barriers to physical activity in middle school youth...- Establishing mild, moderate, and severe scores for cancer-related symptoms: how consistent and clinically meaningful are interference-based severity cut-points?Barbara Given
College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 35:126-35. 2008..The resulting cut-points summarize severity ratings into clinically significant and useful categories that clinicians can use to assess symptoms in their practices... - Differential symptom reporting by mode of administration of the assessment: automated voice response system versus a live telephone interviewAlla Sikorskii
Department of Statistics and Probability, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
Med Care 47:866-74. 2009..Automated voice response (AVR) systems have been used to collect patient-reported outcome data. Mode of administration of the assessment may affect patient reporting... - Symptom management for cancer patients: a trial comparing two multimodal interventionsAlla Sikorskii
College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 34:253-64. 2007..The NASM may be more effective than ATSM in retaining lung cancer patients in the intervention. Further testing of ATSM supplemented by NASM for patients with severe symptoms is warranted... - Health-related quality-of-life outcomes: a reflexology trial with patients with advanced-stage breast cancerGwen Wyatt
College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Oncol Nurs Forum 39:568-77. 2012..To evaluate the safety and efficacy of reflexology, a complementary therapy that applies pressure to specific areas of the feet... 
Mid-pregnancy levels of angiogenic markers as indicators of pathways to preterm deliveryRenée S Mijal
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 25:1135-41. 2012..To determine whether mid-pregnancy levels of angiogenic markers were associated with increased risk of preterm delivery (PTD)...- Sex differences in depressive symptoms and their correlates after mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injuryEsther Bay
College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
J Neurosci Nurs 41:298-309; quiz 310-1. 2009..Future research is needed to describe hormonal, perceptual, or brain structure differences that may account for these findings. Findings from such research will most likely to contribute to our understanding of postconcussion syndrome... - Early participant attrition from clinical trials: role of trial design and logisticsAzfar E Alam Siddiqi
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Clin Trials 5:328-35. 2008..Early identification of potential causes of attrition can help reduce patient attrition. We performed secondary analyses of two trials involving cancer patients... - Testing the effects of treatment complications on a cognitive-behavioral intervention for reducing symptom severityAlla Sikorskii
College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 32:129-39. 2006..This research begins to specify the clinical conditions under which CBIs are effective in lowering symptom severity... - Do interference-based cut-points differentiate mild, moderate, and severe levels of 16 cancer-related symptoms over time?Sangchoon Jeon
College of Nursing, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 37:220-32. 2009..Differences among interference-based severity categories were consistent over time and clinically important, and thus can be used to anchor changes in symptom severity... - Complementary and alternative medicine use, spending, and quality of life in early stage breast cancerGwen Wyatt
College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Nurs Res 59:58-66. 2010..Up to 80% of women with breast cancer use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies to improve quality of life (QOL) during treatment... - Costs of novel symptom management interventions and their impact on hospitalizationsCharles William Given
Department of Family Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 39:663-72. 2010..Although promising, the links between reductions in severity of symptoms and fewer hospitalizations remain difficult to isolate... - Intervention fidelity: aspects of complementary and alternative medicine researchGwen Wyatt
College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Cancer Nurs 33:331-42. 2010..Using our reflexology trial, we apply the first 3 points... - Effect of neutropenia on the impact of a cognitive-behavioral intervention for symptom managementBarbara A Given
College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Cancer 104:869-78. 2005..To address this issue, the moderating effect of neutropenia on the impact of a CBI for reducing symptom severity was evaluated among patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy... - The impact of providing symptom management assistance on caregiver reaction: results of a randomized trialBarbara Given
Michigan State University, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 32:433-43. 2006..This research offers a model for evaluating trials directed toward both members of a dyad... - Feasibility of a reflexology and guided imagery intervention during chemotherapy: results of a quasi-experimental studyGwen Wyatt
The College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Oncol Nurs Forum 34:635-42. 2007..To evaluate patient characteristics to predict selection and maintenance of a complementary therapy and the feasibility of a randomized clinical trial (RCT) of complementary therapies... - Do older adults with cancer fall more often? A comparative analysis of falls in those with and without cancerSandra L Spoelstra
College of Nursing, Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI, USA
Oncol Nurs Forum 40:E69-78. 2013..To examine whether a history of cancer increased the likelihood of a fall in community-dwelling older adults, and if cancer type, stage, or time since diagnosis increased falls... - An intervention to improve adherence and management of symptoms for patients prescribed oral chemotherapy agents: an exploratory studySandra L Spoelstra
College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Cancer Nurs 36:18-28. 2013..Use of oral chemotherapy agents to treat cancer has increased. Patients are responsible for adhering to complex regimens while managing symptoms from adverse effects of the chemotherapy... - Late-preterm birth by delivery circumstance and its association with parent-reported attention problems in childhoodNicole M Talge
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, 909 Fee Road, Room B601, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 33:405-15. 2012..The authors investigated the contributions of clinical circumstances surrounding delivery using follow-up data from the Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Health (POUCH) Study... - Life stressors and 5-HTTLPR interaction in relation to midpregnancy depressive symptoms among African-American womenJeanette M Scheid
Departments of Psychiatry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Psychiatr Genet 21:271-80. 2011..Here, we focus on African-American women (N=698). Our inquiry is motivated by racial differences in depression diagnosis/treatment, stressors, and frequency of major 5-HTTLPR alleles (S, LA, LG)... - Symptom clusters and physical function for patients receiving chemotherapyBarbara A Given
College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Semin Oncol Nurs 23:121-6. 2007..To examine the literature on symptom clusters and the impact of co-occurring symptoms on the physical function of patients with cancer during treatment... - Reliability and construct validity of the Participation in Life Activities Scale for children and adolescents with asthma: an instrument evaluation studyEileen K Kintner
Michigan State University College of Nursing, East Lansing, MI, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 6:43. 2008.... - Interventions for providers to promote a patient-centred approach in clinical consultationsFrancesca Dwamena
Department ofMedicine, Michigan StateUniversityCollege ofHumanMedicine, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Cochrane Database Syst Rev 12:CD003267. 2012..However, the impact of these interventions directly on clinical encounters and indirectly on patient satisfaction, healthcare behaviour and health status has not been adequately evaluated... - Cancer Carepartners: Improving patients' symptom management by engaging informal caregiversMaria J Silveira
Center for Clinical Management Research, Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
BMC Palliat Care 10:21. 2011..abstract:.. - Recruitment and early retention of women with advanced breast cancer in a complementary and alternative medicine trialAlla Sikorskii
Department of Statistics and Probability, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 2011:734517. 2011..Specialized techniques may be needed to ensure black women remain in the trial once consented. Women with advanced disease were likely to enter and remain in the trial despite deterioration in health... - Functional status, chronic stress, and cortisol response after mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injuryEsther Bay
College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
Biol Res Nurs 10:213-25. 2009..Longitudinal study of this phenomenon is required to understand the progression of chronic stress after traumatic brain injury... - Gender comparisons of perceived benefits of and barriers to physical activity in middle school youthLorraine B Robbins
Michigan State University College of Nursing, 422A West Fee Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Res Nurs Health 32:163-76. 2009..As boys and girls reported relatively similar benefits of and barriers to PA, nurse counseling with both groups can focus on the same information. Effort is particularly needed to increase PA among girls... - Mid-pregnancy maternal leptin levels, birthweight for gestational age and preterm deliveryMonal R Shroff
Michigan Public Health Institute, Okemos, MI, USA
Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 78:607-13. 2013.... - "Concordance between comorbidity data from patient self-report interviews and medical record documentation"William Corser
College of Nursing, Michigan State University, B500A West Fee Hall, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 8:85. 2008..The purpose of these prospectively planned analyses was to examine the concordance of comorbidity data obtained from patient self-report survey interviews and hospital medical record documentation... - Team science of nursing, engineering, statistics, and practitioner in the development of a robotic reflexology deviceGwen Wyatt
Gwen Wyatt College of Nursing Alla Sikorskii Department of Statistics and Probability and Tamara Reid Bush and Ranjan Mukherjee Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
J Soc Integr Oncol 8:14-9. 2010.... - Midpregnancy levels of angiogenic markers in relation to maternal characteristicsRenée S Mijal
Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 204:244.e1-12. 2011..The purpose of this study was to describe relations among maternal demographic and lifestyle characteristics and midpregnancy levels of angiogenic markers (soluble Fms-like tyrosine kinase-1, placental growth factor, soluble endoglin)... - Blood perfusion and transcutaneous oxygen level characterizations in human skin with changes in normal and shear loads--implications for pressure ulcer formationAbinand Anbazhagan Manorama
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon) 25:823-8. 2010..The goal of this research was to study alterations of transcutaneous oxygen levels and blood perfusion in human skin when both normal and shear loads were applied...