• Communication and information needs about complementary and alternative medicine: a qualitative study of parents of children with cancer 

      Stub, Trine; Quandt, Sara A.; Kristoffersen, Agnete Egilsdatter; Jong, Miek; Arcury, Thomas A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-08)
      Background: Many parents choose support such as Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for themselves and their children who have cancer. The aim of this paper is to describe, how parents who have children with cancer communicated with conventional health care providers about CAM, and what types and sources of information they would like to receive about CAM when the child was ill.<p> <p>Method: ...
    • Communication and information needs about complementary and alternative medisine: a qualitative study of parents of children with cancer 

      Stub, Trine; Quandt, Sara A.; Kristoffersen, Agnete E.; Jong, Miek C.; Arcury, Thomas A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-08)
      Background - Many parents choose support such as Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for themselves and their children who have cancer. The aim of this paper is to describe, how parents who have children with cancer communicated with conventional health care providers about CAM, and what types and sources of information they would like to receive about CAM when the child was ill.<p> <p>Method ...
    • Conventional and complementary cancer treatments: where do conventional and Complementary providers seek information about these modalities? 

      Stub, Trine; Quandt, Sara A.; Arcury, Thomas A.; Sandberg, Joanne C.; Kristoffersen, Agnete Egilsdatter (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-14)
      <p><i>Background</i>: Both conventional health care providers and complementary therapists treat cancer patients. To provide effective treatment, both types of providers should to be familiar with their own as well as alternative types of treatment. Our aim was to compare how conventional health care providers (oncology doctors, oncology nurses, family physicians) and complementary therapists ...
    • Musculoskeletal injury symptoms among hired Latinx child farmworkers in North Carolina 

      Quandt, Sara A.; Arnold, Taylor J.; Talton, Jennifer W.; Miles, Christopher Owen; Mora, Dana Catalina; Arcury, Thomas A.; Daniel, Stephanie S. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-18)
      Background - Although children 10–17 years can be hired to work in agriculture, little research has addressed possible musculoskeletal injuries. Children may be at particular risk for these injuries because of the repetitive and load bearing nature of work tasks. Existing research relies on child workers to self-report musculoskeletal injuries.<p> <p>Methods - In 2017, 202 Latinx child farmworkers ...
    • Structural Vulnerability and Occupational Injury Among Latinx Child Farmworkers in North Carolina 

      Arnold, Taylor J.; Arcury, Thomas A.; Quandt, Sara A.; Mora, Dana Catalina; Daniel, Stephanie S. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-13)
      Children as young as ten-years-old can legally work as hired farm labor in the United States. In North Carolina, many hired children are part of the Latinx farmworker community. Agriculture is a hazardous industry, and child workers experience high rates of injury, illness, and mortality. As part of a community-based participatory research study, we draw from thirty in-depth interviews with Latinx ...
    • Supportive care for cancer-related symptoms in pediatric oncology: a qualitative study among healthcare providers 

      Mora, Dana Catalina; Jong, Miek; Quandt, Sara A.; Arcury, Thomas A.; Kristoffersen, Agnete Egilsdatter; Stub, Trine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-04-03)
      Background The aim of this study is to gain insight into the clinical experiences and perceptions that pediatric oncology experts, conventional healthcare providers, and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers in Norway, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States have with the use of supportive care, including CAM among children and adolescents with cancer.<p> <p>Methods ...