Publications by authors named "Georden Jones"

Patients consistently rate cancer-related fatigue (CrF) as the most prevalent and debilitating symptom. CrF is an important but often neglected patient concern, partly due to barriers to implementing evidence-based interventions. This study explored what an ideal intervention for CrF would look like from the perspectives of different stakeholders and the barriers to its implementation.

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Background: ChatGPT (Open AI) is a state-of-the-art large language model that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to address questions across diverse topics. The American Society of Clinical Oncology Self-Evaluation Program (ASCO-SEP) created a comprehensive educational program to help physicians keep up to date with the many rapid advances in the field. The question bank consists of multiple choice questions addressing the many facets of cancer care, including diagnosis, treatment, and supportive care.

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Purpose: Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a debilitating symptom experienced by many cancer patients. Although guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations for screening, assessing, and managing CRF, there is limited evidence of their implementation in practice. This study aimed to explore patients', healthcare providers' (HCPs), community support providers' (CSPs) experiences and opinions on CRF guidelines and the underlying causes of CRF treatment gaps following the Knowledge-to-Action model.

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Background: Patients with chronic diseases commonly report fears of illness or symptoms recurring or worsening. These fears have been addressed from an illness-specific perspective (e.g.

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Purpose: Health anxiety (HA) is associated with reduced quality of life among individuals with chronic illnesses. However, little is known about effective interventions for reducing HA in this context. This study aimed to comprehensively review the literature on interventions for the treatment of HA in chronic illness.

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  • Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is a significant concern for cancer survivors, and this study aimed to evaluate the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory-Short Form (FCRI-SF) to establish effective clinical cut-offs for identifying those with clinically significant FCR.
  • The research comprised two studies: Study 1 involved 167 cancer survivors from Australia, where 43% were rated as having clinical FCR, while Study 2 included 40 survivors from Canada, with 25% meeting clinical criteria based on the semistructured interview for FCR (SIFCR).
  • Results indicated that a cut-off score of 22 or higher on the FCRI-SF effectively identifies clinical levels of FCR, highlighting the
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Breast and endometrial cancer survivors referred to the Wellness Beyond Cancer Program were invited to a survivorship education class. As not all survivors attended the class, this study aimed to identify socio-demographic and medical characteristics, and survivorship needs that predict attendance. A chart review was conducted on survivors who completed a needs assessment survey between 2012 and 2014 (n=144 endometrial; n=170 breast).

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Objective: The goals of the present study are (1) to identify sociodemographic and psychosocial predictors of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related stigma and (2) to examine the relationship between HPV-related stigma in predicting HPV vaccine decision-making among college males.

Participants: Six hundred and eighty college males aged 18-26 from 3 Canadian universities were recruited from September 2013 to April 2014.

Methods: Participants completed a self-report survey assessing HPV-related stigma, psychosocial predictors of HPV-related stigma, and HPV vaccine decision-making.

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Purpose: Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is a common experience for cancer survivors. However, it remains unclear what characteristics differentiate non-clinical from clinical levels of FCR. The goal of this study was to investigate the potential hallmarks of clinical FCR.

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