Informations de base

Nom: Kathleen Thomas
Titre: professeur agrégé
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Discipline: Santé publique
Des années d'expérience: 31

Recherche

Approche méthodologique principale de recherche :

• Attitudes
• Littératie en santé
• Minorités / population défavorisée
• Centré sur le patient
• Relation patient-prestataire

Axes de recherche en communication et santé :

• Co-conception
• Delphi et méthodes de recherche de consensus
• Recherche sur la mise en œuvre
• Microanalyse du dialogue face à face
• Méthodes mixtes
• Études d'observation
• Apprentissage et action participatifs
• Méthodes qualitatives
• Conceptions (quasi-)expérientielles
• ECR
• Analyse de séquence
• Revue systématique de la littérature

Description

Trois mots-clés décrivant l’expertise et l’intérêt :

1. mental health
2. disability

Description du domaine d'expertise, des intérêts majeurs et des sujets de consultation :

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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