Dr. Shelley Johns’s patient-oriented research primarily focuses on testing integrative mind-body interventions to reduce cancer- related fatigue and associated symptoms for post-treatment cancer survivors and improving adaptive coping and quality of life for adults with advanced-stage cancer and their family caregivers.
Areas of Focus:
- Symptom Management Research.
Dr. Johns is a board-certified clinical health psychologist.
Expertise:
- symptom management in post-treatment cancer survivors
- health psychology
- palliative care research
Dr. Johns conducts patient-oriented research testing behavioral interventions to: (1) reduce cancer-related fatigue and associated symptoms for post-treatment cancer survivors; and (2) improve adaptive coping and quality of life for adults with advanced-stage cancer and their family caregivers.
Active Projects:
- Reaching Our Colleagues: A Formative Study to Evaluate Approaches for Enhancing Wellness Among Health Care Providers at IU Health
- Telephone Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Intervention for Caregivers (TACTICs) of Adults with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Fatigue Interference in Advanced Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients and Caregiver Burden.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Fatigue Interference in Metastatic Breast Cancer.
Clinical Interests:
- Behavioral Oncology
- Assessment/Treatment of Cancer-related Symptoms
- Palliative Care
- Mindfulness-Based Interventions
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
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