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언론정보학 해외저명학자 초청특강: 6/5(수) Sunny Kim(김원선 교수): Health Communication in Cancer Prevention & Survivorship: An Interdisciplinary App
일자
2024.06.05
작성자
admicr
작성일
2024-10-02
조회
140
제22회 해외저명학자 초청 특강
- 일시:6월 5일 (수) 12:30 - 14:00
- 장소: 서울대학교 64동 (IBK커뮤니케이션센터) 501호
- 강연자: Sunny Kim(김원선 교수)
- 제목: Health Communication in Cancer Prevention & Survivorship: An Interdisciplinary Approach
- 내용:Both cancer patients and their families face great challenges while dealing with diagnoses, treatments, and long-term emotional consequences of cancer after treatments end. There are continuing needs for identifying supportive care options to resolve stress-related symptoms such as emotional distress for cancer patients and caregivers. Patients undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) suffer substantial psychological impairment given the rigors and multiple sequelae of treatment. While studies have examined methods to reduce psychological distress among patients following HCT, strict infection-control protocols and the distance between transplant centers and where HCT patients live can limit patients’ ability to participate in face-to-face care. To overcome these barriers, our research team previously developed a novel remotely-delivered digital storytelling (DST) intervention that has shown preliminary efficacy of the DST compared to an information control condition, finding that anxiety and depression were reduced for those participating in the DST. While stories can create important emotions, patients need additional support to process those emotions. Observing that heart rate variability, a measure of autonomic nervous system balance (ANS), was associated with the better outcomes in response to DST, we developed an integrated DST intervention with enhancements to further support emotional processing, including heart rate variability biofeedback training, and elements that encourage social rehearsal as one anticipates the challenges of post-HCT. Heart rate variability biofeedback (HRVB) is an evidence-based, non-invasive, mHealth intervention that is designed to help people learn to self-regulate emotions using visual and/or auditory feedback to slow breath rate and focus on positive emotional contexts to improve autonomic nervous system balance. I'll present this integrated approach by combining a traditional digital storytelling intervention with heart rate variability biofeedback to produce greater reductions in psychological distress.
- 강연자 소개: Dr. Sunny Kim is a health communication scholar by degree, with extraordinary training in health communication, behavioral medicine and psychosocial oncology, and intervention research with strong quantitative and qualitative methods design and analysis skills. She is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University (ASU), and an affiliate investigator at Mayo Clinic Arizona. Her work draws from interdisciplinary and collaborative settings and spans a variety of fields such as health communication, nursing, oncology, and hematology, with an emphasis on developing and testing the efficacy of narrative-based storytelling as a psychosocial coping intervention to alleviate distress and improve emotion regulation in both cancer patients and their family caregivers. Another line of research focuses on developing and testing a digital storytelling intervention as an effective health promotion/behavior strategy (e.g., COVID-19 and HPV vaccinations). She is also investigating Heart Rate Variability (HRV) rhythms that represent positive vs. negative emotional state as an objective and neurophysiological assessment. Currently, she is serving as Principal Investigator for 6 externally and internally funded grants, including two National Institute of Health grants.
