Información básica

Nombre: Kathleen Tomás
Título: profesor adjunto
Institución: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Disciplina: Salud pública
Años de experiencia: 31

Investigación

Enfoque metodológico primario de la investigación:

• Actitudes
• Literatura saludable
• Minorías/población desfavorecida
• Centrado en el paciente
• Relación paciente-proveedor

Enfoque de la investigación en comunicación y salud:

• Codiseño
• Delphi y los métodos de búsqueda de consenso
• Investigación de implementación
• Microanálisis del diálogo cara a cara
• Métodos mixtos
• Estudios observacionales
• Aprendizaje y acción participativos
• Métodos cualitativos
• Diseños (cuasi) experienciales
• ECA
• Análisis de secuencia
• Revisión sistemática de la literatura.

Descripción

Tres palabras clave que describen experiencia e interés:

1. mental health
2. disability

Descripción del campo de especialización, intereses principales y temas de consulta:

I am a behavioral economist and mental health services researcher with 3 areas of expertise: 1) disparities in access to care, 2) patient self-efficacy interventions, and 3) health insurance policy. All three areas inform pharmaceutical outcomes and policy, require patient-engaged work with multidisciplinary research teams and creative data compilation to accomplish scientific breakthroughs. The combined learning in these three areas is synergistic, with the goal to improve access and quality of mental health services. My research in disparities in access includes variation in use of psychotropic medication and polypharmacy by nonclinical factors. In this work, I use novel data linkages to elucidate strategies that address racial and other disparities in access to mental health care. My work takes into account patient preferences, motivation and behavior, shared decision-making with clinicians, and mental health workforce shortage. I currently lead a PCORI project seeking to build self-efficacy in parents of youth with IDD. This study is a randomized controlled trial that will integrate qualitative and quantitative data from primary data collection and medical records to assess the comparative effectiveness of two parent interventions.

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