Elswick Lab

Virginia Commonwealth University

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Richmond · United States

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NIH R01 · 2024

A Randomized Controlled Trial using a Heuristic Tool To Improve Symptom Self-Management in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer

PROJECT SUMMARY Approximately 90,000 adolescents and young adults (AYAs) are diagnosed with cancer yearly in the United States. AYAs with cancer experience multiple co-occurring and related symptoms from their disease and treatment that adversely affect their day-to-day lives and are difficult to self-manage. Because undermanaged symptoms reduce quality of life and increase symptom severity and distress, effective person-centered symptom self-management (SS-M) is imperative for AYAs with cancer. A major barrier, however, is a lack of effective symptom self-management interventions that are tailored to this population. The proposed study addresses this gap by testing an intervention designed…

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