Nursing research snapshot
Assistant Professor Lynda Balneaves - Nursing - The University of British Columbia
Lynda.balneaves@nursing.ubc.ca
My areas of research expertise
- Breast cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Complementary and alternative medicine
- Psychosocial oncology
- Treatment decision making
My favoured methodology / methodologies
- Grounded theory
- Ethnography
- Survey methods
- Structural equation modelling
Areas that I am currently researching
- Treatment decision making by cancer populations
- Clinical efficacy of select complementary and alternative medicine therapies
- Risk perceptions related to natural health products
- Health behaviours of ethnocultural communities
Areas of research that are of emerging interest to me
- Nutrigenomics (role of natural health products and nutritional supplements in populations at high risk for hereditary cancer
- RCTs of natural health products in cancer populations
I am interested in collaborating with U21 colleagues in the following areas of research
- All the above
The area in which I wish to undertake a visiting scholarship
- CAM curriculum development for health professionals
- RCTs of CAM therapies
Resources/facilities currently available to me that I would like to highlight
- University travel fellowships
- International fellowships through CIHR
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