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Heidi Donovan

Heidi Donovan

Program: Biobehavioral Cancer Control

412-624-2699 donovanh@pitt.edu School of Nursing
415 Victoria Building 3500 Victoria St
Pittsburgh PA
Summary

My expertise is in symptom management and the development and testing of theoretically-guided psycho-educational interventions to improve outcomes for patients with cancer and their family caregivers. I am the co-developer of the Representational Approach (RA) to patient education, an intervention theory designed to promote behavior change to improve self-management of complex health problems. I have had sustained funding to develop and test a web-based symptom management intervention (WRITE Symptoms) based on the RA with the aim of improving symptoms, patient-health care provider communication, and quality of life among women with recurrent ovarian cancer (NR010735). I am also a Co-PI with Dr. Paula Sherwood on a 3-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating the impact of a web-based caregiver intervention (SmartCare) on biobehavioral outcomes for caregivers of patients with a primary malignant brain tumor (NR013170).

Research Interests and Keywords
  • oncology caregivers
  • Quality of Life
  • Symptom management
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