Effects of a communication skills training program to improve capacity to engage in advance care planning in caregivers of patients with malignant gliomas.

Background: Family and friend caregivers play a critical role in advance care planning (ACP) discussions, which are difficult but necessary to carry out patients' goals of care. This role is particularly important among caregivers of patients with malignant gliomas (MGs), who are often tasked with quickly taking responsibility for healthcare communication. We developed and evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of a virtual communication training program to equip caregivers of patients with recurrent MGs with skills to navigate ACP conversations with patients and healthcare providers.

Development of Communication Skills Training for Oncology Clinicians to Promote Inclusion of the Family Members of LGBTQ+ People with Cancer.

LGBTQ+ persons with cancer and their families consistently face discriminatory care. In addition, clinicians report inadequate population-specific knowledge and communication skills to effectively promote LGBTQ+ inclusion. To fill this gap, we designed a communication skills training based on extant literature; multidisciplinary perspectives; and patient, family, and clinician expert engagement.

Adaptation of meaning-centered psychotherapy for healthcare providers to buffer work-induced distress and improve wellbeing.

Healthcare providers (HCPs) face high rates of distress, experienced as burnout, moral distress, compassion fatigue, and grief. HCPs are also experiencing a crisis in meaning whereby distress is associated with disconnection from meaning in work and, in turn, a lack of meaning in work can further perpetuate distress for HCPs. Although scalable systems-level solutions are needed to tackle multidimensional HCP distress, it is also necessary to address HCP suffering at individual, team, and institutional levels.

LGBTQIA+ inclusion in the global health policy agenda: A critical discourse analysis of the Lancet Commission report archive.

Context: LGBTQIA+ people worldwide experience discrimination, violence, and stigma that lead to poor health outcomes. Policy plays a crucial role in ensuring health equity and safety for LGBTQIA+ communities. Given Lancet Commissions' substantial impact on health policy across domains, we aimed to determine how LGBTQIA+ communities and their care needs are incorporated throughout Lancet Commission reports and recommendations.

Applications of turning point analysis in behavioral medicine research: A systematic scoping review.

Background: Turning Point Analysis (TPA) is a methodological approach that allows scholars to retrospectively capture change over time by identifying instances of critical change (i.e., turning points) encountered across a given time period.

Meaning-centered psychotherapy training program for cancer care clinicians: Efficacy and impact of the first 5 years.

Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) is a manualized, evidence-based intervention designed to help cancer patients to find meaning and alleviate distress. Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy Training (MCPT) is a multicomponent program for cancer care clinicians that consists of didactics, group experiential learning, and role-plays with simulated patients to learn MCP and acquire skills to deliver it in real-world oncology settings. The efficacy and impact of MCPT for multidisciplinary cancer care clinicians to learn and disseminate MCP is described and evaluated.

A randomized controlled trial of a distress screening, consultation, and targeted referral system for family caregivers in oncologic care.

Objective: Distress screening is standard practice among oncology patients, yet few routine distress screening programs exist for cancer caregivers. The objective of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of Cancer Support Source-Caregiver (CSS-CG, 33-item), an electronic distress screening and automated referral program with a consultation (S + C) to improve caregiver unmet needs, quality of life, anxiety, depression, and distress relative to Enhanced Usual Care (EUC; access to educational materials).

Method: 150 caregivers of patients with varying sites/stages of cancer were randomized to S + C or EUC and completed assessments at baseline, 3-months post-baseline, and 6-months post-baseline.

Development and feasibility of a communication training to assist caregivers with advanced care planning.

Objective: Caregivers are critical in advanced care planning (ACP) discussions, which are difficult but necessary to carry out patients' goals of care. We developed and evaluated the feasibility and acceptability of a communication training to equip caregivers of patients with malignant brain tumors with skills to navigate ACP conversations.

Method: Caregivers completed a 2-h virtual training addressing and .