K M Gil

Summary

Affiliation: University of North Carolina
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Daily coping practice predicts treatment effects in children with sickle cell disease
    K M Gil
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 3270, USA
    J Pediatr Psychol 26:163-73. 2001
  2. ncbi Uncertainty management intervention for older African American and caucasian long-term breast cancer survivors
    Karen M Gil
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
    J Psychosoc Oncol 23:3-21. 2005
  3. ncbi Benefits of the uncertainty management intervention for African American and White older breast cancer survivors: 20-month outcomes
    Karen M Gil
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Int J Behav Med 13:286-94. 2006
  4. ncbi Triggers of uncertainty about recurrence and long-term treatment side effects in older African American and Caucasian breast cancer survivors
    Karen M Gill
    School of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    Oncol Nurs Forum 31:633-9. 2004
  5. ncbi Daily mood and stress predict pain, health care use, and work activity in African American adults with sickle-cell disease
    Karen M Gil
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
    Health Psychol 23:267-74. 2004
  6. ncbi Daily stress and mood and their association with pain, health-care use, and school activity in adolescents with sickle cell disease
    Karen M Gil
    Department of Psychology, Davie Hall, CB 3270, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 3270, USA
    J Pediatr Psychol 28:363-73. 2003
  7. ncbi Conceptualizing and testing random indirect effects and moderated mediation in multilevel models: new procedures and recommendations
    Daniel J Bauer
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
    Psychol Methods 11:142-63. 2006
  8. ncbi Benefits from an uncertainty management intervention for African-American and Caucasian older long-term breast cancer survivors
    Merle H Mishel
    School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Psychooncology 14:962-78. 2005
  9. ncbi Optimism predicting daily pain medication use in adolescents with sickle cell disease
    Laura Pence
    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    J Pain Symptom Manage 33:302-9. 2007
  10. ncbi Daily mood as a mediator or moderator of the pain-sleep relationship in children with sickle cell disease
    Cecelia R Valrie
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
    J Pediatr Psychol 33:317-22. 2008

Research Grants

  1. DAILY STRESS, COPING, AND PAIN IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE
    Karen Gil; Fiscal Year: 2002

Collaborators

Detail Information

Publications21

  1. ncbi Daily coping practice predicts treatment effects in children with sickle cell disease
    K M Gil
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 3270, USA
    J Pediatr Psychol 26:163-73. 2001
    ..To examine the 1-month effects of a pain coping skills intervention in children with sickle cell disease (SCD)...
  2. ncbi Uncertainty management intervention for older African American and caucasian long-term breast cancer survivors
    Karen M Gil
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
    J Psychosoc Oncol 23:3-21. 2005
    ..Findings indicated that women regularly used the intervention components to deal with triggers of breast cancer recurrence and long-term treatment side effects and most women found the strategies very helpful...
  3. ncbi Benefits of the uncertainty management intervention for African American and White older breast cancer survivors: 20-month outcomes
    Karen M Gil
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Int J Behav Med 13:286-94. 2006
    ..Importantly, the 20-month outcomes also demonstrated benefits for women in the intervention condition in terms of declines in illness uncertainty and stable effects in personal growth over time...
  4. ncbi Triggers of uncertainty about recurrence and long-term treatment side effects in older African American and Caucasian breast cancer survivors
    Karen M Gill
    School of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    Oncol Nurs Forum 31:633-9. 2004
    ....
  5. ncbi Daily mood and stress predict pain, health care use, and work activity in African American adults with sickle-cell disease
    Karen M Gil
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
    Health Psychol 23:267-74. 2004
    ..Of importance, positive mood was associated with lower same-day and subsequent day pain, as well as fewer health care contacts, suggesting that positive mood may serve to offset negative consequences of pain and other illness symptoms...
  6. ncbi Daily stress and mood and their association with pain, health-care use, and school activity in adolescents with sickle cell disease
    Karen M Gil
    Department of Psychology, Davie Hall, CB 3270, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 3270, USA
    J Pediatr Psychol 28:363-73. 2003
    ..To determine the extent to which daily stress and mood are associated with pain, health-care use, and school activity in adolescents with sickle cell disease (SCD)...
  7. ncbi Conceptualizing and testing random indirect effects and moderated mediation in multilevel models: new procedures and recommendations
    Daniel J Bauer
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
    Psychol Methods 11:142-63. 2006
    ..These methods are further developed to address hypotheses of moderated mediation in the multilevel context. An example demonstrates the feasibility and usefulness of the proposed methods...
  8. ncbi Benefits from an uncertainty management intervention for African-American and Caucasian older long-term breast cancer survivors
    Merle H Mishel
    School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
    Psychooncology 14:962-78. 2005
    ..Results are discussed in terms of the importance of theory-based interventions for cancer survivors that target triggers of uncertainty about recurrence and in terms of ethnic differences in response to the intervention...
  9. ncbi Optimism predicting daily pain medication use in adolescents with sickle cell disease
    Laura Pence
    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    J Pain Symptom Manage 33:302-9. 2007
    ....
  10. ncbi Daily mood as a mediator or moderator of the pain-sleep relationship in children with sickle cell disease
    Cecelia R Valrie
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
    J Pediatr Psychol 33:317-22. 2008
    ..To investigate mood as a mediator or moderator of the pain-sleep relationship in children with sickle cell disease (SCD)...
  11. ncbi Brief report: sleep in children with sickle cell disease: an analysis of daily diaries utilizing multilevel models
    Cecelia R Valrie
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    J Pediatr Psychol 32:857-61. 2007
    ..To investigate the pain-sleep relationship in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and the influence of stress and pain medication use on this relationship...
  12. ncbi Daily stress, coping, and dietary restraint in binge eating
    Lisa M Yacono Freeman
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    Int J Eat Disord 36:204-12. 2004
    ..The current study evaluated whether psychological stress, use of specific coping strategies, and trait dietary restraint would prospectively predict binge eating episodes...
  13. ncbi Predicting negative mood state and personal growth in African American and White long-term breast cancer survivors
    Laura S Porter
    Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Ann Behav Med 31:195-204. 2006
    ..These findings suggest that cognitive processes play an important role in psychological adaptation to breast cancer survivorship. These processes are amenable to change, suggesting a logical target for intervention with this population...
  14. ncbi Daily pain and symptoms in children with polyarticular arthritis
    Laura E Schanberg
    Division of Rheumatology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    Arthritis Rheum 48:1390-7. 2003
    ....
  15. ncbi Pain, stiffness, and fatigue in juvenile polyarticular arthritis: contemporaneous stressful events and mood as predictors
    Laura E Schanberg
    Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    Arthritis Rheum 52:1196-204. 2005
    ..To analyze patterns of stress, mood, disease symptoms, and activity reduction in children with polyarticular arthritis, using a prospective daily diary method...
  16. ncbi Baseline characteristics influencing quality of life in women undergoing gynecologic oncology surgery
    Karen M Gil
    Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Akron General Medical Center, Akron, Ohio 44302, USA
    Health Qual Life Outcomes 5:25. 2007
    ....
  17. ncbi The medically underserved: who is likely to exercise and why?
    Susan Labuda Schrop
    Department of Family Medicine, Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine, USA
    J Health Care Poor Underserved 17:276-89. 2006
    ....
  18. ncbi Crisis intervention team training for police officers responding to mental disturbance calls
    Jennifer L S Teller
    Department of Sociology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 57:232-7. 2006
    ..This study examined police dispatch data before and after implementation of a crisis intervention team (CIT) program to assess the effect of the training on officers' disposition of calls...
  19. ncbi The impact of obesity and age on quality of life in gynecologic surgery
    Vivian E von Gruenigen
    University Hospitals of Cleveland, MacDonald Womens Hospital, The Ireland Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
    Am J Obstet Gynecol 193:1369-75. 2005
    ..This study was undertaken to prospectively evaluate the effect of early stage endometrial cancer, age, and obesity on quality of life (QOL)...
  20. ncbi Stages of change analysis of smokers attending clinics for the medically underserved
    Karen M Gil
    Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown 44272, USA
    J Fam Pract 51:1018. 2002
    ..To determine whether smokers at clinics providing care for the medically underserved can be characterized according to the transtheoretical stages of change model...
  21. ncbi Can sun protection knowledge change behavior in a resistant population?
    Julie E Swindler
    Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, USA
    Cutis 79:463-70. 2007
    ..Our results demonstrated that although students had an increase in knowledge, it was insufficient to change their behavior...

Research Grants4

  1. DAILY STRESS, COPING, AND PAIN IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE
    Karen Gil; Fiscal Year: 2002
    ..Improved interventions might actually help patients to prevent SCD pain, use health care more efficient, and improve the quality of their lives. ..