The association between neighborhood social and built environment on loneliness among young adults with cancer.

Purpose: Young adults with cancer (YAs, aged 18-39) are at increased risk of experiencing loneliness due to their unique challenges of coping with a cancer diagnosis and treatment during young adulthood. Understanding factors that impact loneliness is critical to improving survivorship outcomes for this vulnerable YA population. Neighborhoods are key determinants of health.

The utility of coping through emotional approach: A meta-analysis.

Objective: A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to examine associations between attempts to cope with stressors through the two facets of emotional approach coping (EAC; i.e., processing and expressing stressor-related emotions) and indicators of physical and mental health.

Ambiguity in cancer-related recommendations among young adults: Relationships with health behaviors and psychological distress.

Background: Young adulthood represents a sensitive period in which cancer-related lifestyle behaviors (e.g., substance use, poor physical activity) are developed and sustained into adulthood, having consequences for cancer morbidity and mortality.

Assessing health, psychological distress and financial well-being in informal young adult caregivers compared to matched young adult non-caregivers.

Young adult caregivers (YACs) are faced with the atypical challenge of providing informal (i.e. not paid) care to a family member, while simultaneously at a critical developmental stage in which many major life decisions and milestones are taking place.

Development and validation of a measure of adolescent and young adult goal-based quality of life (MAYA-GQOL).

Purpose: We developed and validated a measure assessing quality of life (QOL) through importance, attainability, and discrepancy of life goals among adolescents and young adults (AYA) with and without cancer. A specific goal-based QOL measure for AYA fills a critical gap in knowledge for AYA who are at a unique life stage, which may include shifts in priorities and goals.

Methods: Through review of our existing AYA databases on goals, the literature, and cognitive interviews we developed the MAYA-GQOL.

Trajectories of Pain Severity and Interference Among Adolescent and Young Adults With Cancer: A Microlongitudinal Study.

Objective: Cancer-related pain is a pervasive concern among adolescent and young adults (AYA) with cancer and is an emerging long-term health concern. Few studies have examined the complex contributions to pain among AYA. We aimed to fill a gap by (1) identifying subgroups of AYA with distinct patterns of pain severity and interference over time and (2) explore possible predictors of these patterns.

Sociodemographics, Health Competence, and Transition Readiness Among Adolescent/Young Adult Cancer Survivors.

Objective: Fewer than one-third of childhood cancer survivors receive follow-up from an adult provider, and adolescent and young adults (AYAs) from structurally minoritized sociodemographic groups often face health disparities that can impact transition to adult-oriented care. The primary aim of this study was to determine the relation among sociodemographic factors, cumulative effects, and transition beliefs/expectations and goals, and the moderating role of health competence beliefs in AYA survivors of childhood cancer.

Methods: A total of 195 AYAs (aged 15-29) reported sociodemographic information, completed the Transition Readiness Inventory assessing positive beliefs/expectations and goals related to transition, and completed the Health Competence Beliefs Inventory assessing health perceptions, healthcare satisfaction, cognitive competence, and autonomy.

Patient-Oncologist Therapeutic Alliance Among Young Adults with Cancer: Relationships with Meaning and Peace of Mind.

Cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment can impact how young adults make sense of their worlds and disrupt peace of mind. The patient-oncologist therapeutic alliance, built upon mutual care, respect, and trust, may foster a deeper understanding of one's illness and promote peace of mind. The study examined relationships between a comprehensive cancer-specific measure of therapeutic alliance and meaning and peace of mind among young adults with cancer ( = 56).

Cancer-Related Decision-Making Among Adolescents, Young Adults, Caregivers, and Oncology Providers.

Decision-making among adolescents and young adults with cancer (AYA) is often complex, ongoing, and multifaceted, involving caregiver and oncology provider perspectives. Engagement in decision-making against the backdrop of normative developmental processes of acquiring autonomy and gaining independence contributes to the complexity of decision-making. Semi-structured qualitative interviews from 11 AYA and caregiver dyads and eight oncology providers examined decision-making processes with specific attention to the role of shared decision-making, cognitive and emotional processes, and coping with the decision-making experience.

Peer victimization and relationships to approach and avoidance coping to health and health behaviors.

Peer victimization during high school is a common experience associated with engagement in risky health behaviors and elevated depressive symptoms. Mechanisms linking peer victimization to health outcomes remain inadequately understood. In the current study, latent class analysis was used to identify latent subclasses of college students who display similar patterns of responses to frequent peer victimization experiences during high school.

Emotional processing writing and physiological stress responses: understanding constructive and unconstructive processes.

Writing about emotions related to a life stressor is thought to promote coping via emotional processing. However, all styles of emotional processing may not be beneficial to managing stress. Such styles can include constructive (planning/problem-solving, meaning-making) and unconstructive (rumination, worry) forms.

"Empathy without sympathy": An analysis of support-related preferences among young adult cancer survivors.

Objectives: Young adult cancer survivors often experience altered social relationships which may be a result of social support networks not knowing how to effectively provide the support young adults need. This study aimed to identify and describe themes of young adults' support preferences when engaging in cancer-related conversations and examine whether psychological distress is associated with support-related preferences.

Methods: Young adult survivors (=35.

Contextual Predictors of Engagement in a Tailored mHealth Intervention for Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors.

Background: Despite the promise of mobile health (mHealth), engagement is often too low for durable health behavior change, and little is known regarding why certain individuals abandon mHealth tools.

Purpose: Guided by a mHealth engagement framework, we evaluated contextual predictors of objective engagement with an app for adolescents and young adults (AYA) who survived cancer.

Methods: One hundred and ten AYA survivors (M age = 20.

Acceptability and feasibility of survivorship care plans and an accompanying mobile health intervention for adolescent and young adult survivors of childhood cancer.

Background: Self-management interventions for adolescent and young adult (AYA) survivors of childhood cancer are needed. The present study reports on the acceptability and feasibility of delivering survivorship care plans (SCPs) and an accompanying app to AYA.

Procedure: AYA (n = 224) ages 15-29 who completed treatment for cancer were randomized and received a digital SCP only or an SCP plus a mobile app intended to enhance self-management.

Emotional approach coping among young adults with cancer: Relationships with psychological distress, posttraumatic growth, and resilience.

Objective: Cancer, particularly, during young adulthood, can evoke difficult emotions, interfere with normative developmental activities, and challenge coping responses. Emotion-regulating coping efforts aimed at active emotional processing (EP) and emotional expression (EE) can be beneficial to cancer adjustment and perceptions of positive growth. However, it may be that EP and EE work differently to influence well-being.

Association of Demographic and Cancer-Specific Factors on Health Behavior Recommendations Specific to Cancer Prevention and Control Among Adolescent and Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer.

Adolescent and young adult survivors of childhood cancer (AYA) are at risk for long-term health problems that are exacerbated by not meeting health behavior recommendations (e.g., exercise).

"Basically, You Had Cancer and Now You Don't": Exploring the Meaning of Being a "Cancer Survivor" Among Adolescents and Young Adult Cancer Survivors.

Survivorship experiences among adolescent and young adults (AYA) with cancer are unique and may involve a process of identity construction. This qualitative study explored AYA survivors' felt experience of being a cancer survivor focusing on the meaning of survivorship and whether identifying as a "cancer survivor" is consistent with their self-concept. Twenty-six individual semistructured interviews were conducted with AYA ( = 19.

Estradiol and Women's Health: Considering the Role of Estradiol as a Marker in Behavioral Medicine.

The sex hormone estradiol, as measured through saliva, represents a non-invasive and cost-effective approach to understanding the influence of hormonal factors on physical and psychological well-being among women. Estradiol levels dramatically change at hormonal transitions, such as puberty, menopause, and postpartum. It is at these transitions where women are at increased risk for psychological and somatic distress.

Emotional Processing Coping Methods and Biomarkers of Stress in Young Adult Testicular Cancer Survivors.

Coping through emotional processing (EP) with cancer-related circumstances can take several forms, including methods thought to be constructive (e.g., planning, meaning making) and unconstructive (e.

Sleep Quality in Young Adult Informal Caregivers: Understanding Psychological and Biological Processes.

Background: Providing informal care for a relative or friend with medical or mental needs can extol a physical burden on the caregiver, including impaired aspects of sleep quality such as suboptimal sleep duration, lengthened sleep latency, frequent awakenings, daytime sleepiness, and poor self-rated sleep quality. Diminished sleep quality can worsen the health in the caregiver, including dysregulation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) activity. Few studies have attempted to describe sleep in young adults who provide regular informal care.

Relational processes and psychological adjustment among young adults with cancer: The role of technology-related communication.

Objective: Little attention has been paid to understanding how engaging in cancer-related interpersonal exchanges via varying modes of communication influences psychological well-being among young adults with cancer. This study explored the moderating role of communication mode on the relationship of relational processes of disclosure and responsiveness with psychological well-being.

Methods: 61 young adults with cancer (M = 34.

Dental Students' Attitudes Toward Tobacco Cessation in the Dental Setting: A Systematic Review.

Many dental schools have integrated tobacco cessation into their predoctoral curricula. However, dental students' perceptions should be taken into consideration when designing those curricula. The aim of this study was to systematically review the published literature on dental students' attitudes and perceptions regarding tobacco cessation.

Cancer-Related Worry and Physical Well-Being in the Context of Perceived Stress in Young Adults with Testicular Cancer.

Uncertainty associated with cancer can foster future-focused worry and ultimately diminish physical well-being, especially among young adult survivors. Stress perceptions might exacerbate the association of worry and physical well-being. Young adults with testicular cancer (N = 171) completed measures of physical well-being, perceived stress, and future cancer-related worry.

Emotional processing during psychotherapy among women newly diagnosed with a gynecological cancer.

Objective: Our aim was to compare changes in emotional processing by women newly diagnosed with gynecological cancer enrolled in either a coping and communication skills intervention (CCI) or a supportive counseling (SC) intervention. We examined the association between in-session emotional processing and patient-rated therapeutic progress.

Method: Three therapy sessions with 201 patients were rated for the depth of emotional processing (peak and mode) during emotion episodes (EEs) using the Experiencing Rating Scale (EXP).