Publications by authors named "K D Post"
Not out of the woods: perspectives from patients with triple-negative breast cancer.
Support Care Cancer
December 2024
Purpose: Patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) are at high risk for breast cancer recurrence and metastatic disease, yet the scholarly literature on the distress and uncertainty of this vulnerable population is limited. This study aimed to characterize the experiences of patients with TNBC and obtain feedback about the development of a supportive care intervention targeted to this population's psychosocial needs.
Methods: From 9/2021 to 2/2023, we purposefully recruited 23 patients with stage I-III TNBC who recently completed curative therapy and conducted a parallel mixed qualitative and quantitative study.
Objective: Our study aimed to expedite data sharing requests of Limited Data Sets (LDS) through the development of a streamlined platform that allows distributed, immutable management of network activities, provides transparent and intuitive auditing of data access history, and systematically evaluated it on a multi-capacity network setting for meaningful efficiency metrics.
Materials And Methods: We developed a blockchain-based system with six types of smart contracts to automate the LDS sharing process among major stakeholders. Our workflow included metadata initialization, access-request processing, and audit-log querying.
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- The study evaluated the psychometric properties of the University of California, San Diego Brief Assessment of Capacity to Consent (UBACC) in low and middle-income countries, focusing on its reliability and factor structure among 32,208 adults across Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda.
- Findings indicated that the UBACC could be represented by both two-factor and three-factor models, depending on the stratification of countries, genders, and language groups, with a three-factor model showing adequate fit overall.
- Despite showing some structural validity, the UBACC exhibited low internal consistency and discriminating abilities for many items, pointing to the need for further exploration of cultural factors affecting its effectiveness.
Grief responses range from minimal changes in functioning to debilitating, prolonged, complicated grief. The objective of the current study was to clarify the relationship between maladaptive personality characteristics, coping and situational factors associated with symptoms of complicated grief and health difficulties among bereaved individuals who had lost a loved one within the past six months to two years ( = 304; 59% male; age = 33.49, = 9.
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- The study investigates the impact of a group cognitive behavioral intervention (STRIDE) on adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy (AET) in hormone-sensitive breast cancer patients who report medication-related distress.
- With 100 participants, the results indicate that STRIDE significantly improved adherence rates over time for those encountering difficulties with AET and having strong expectations for its benefits compared to a control group.
- The findings suggest that discussions led by clinicians addressing patient perceptions about AET can enhance adherence to treatment, indicating that tailored behavioral interventions could be beneficial.