Andrea L Canada

Biola University | BU · Rosemead School of Psychology

Seminary students remain unstudied in the research literature despite their eminent role in caring for the wellbeing of congregants. This study aimed to conduct baseline analysis of their family of origin health, psychological health, and physiological heath by utilizing the Biobehavioral Family Model (BBFM) as a conceptual framework for understand...

Financial stress is a growing concern for Americans. One population that is particularly susceptible to financial stress and its negative consequences are students enrolled in seminaries many of whom will graduate with large amounts of debt while entering a profession with unique financial challenges that can make repaying student loan debt a daunt...

Purpose While intimate partner violence (IPV) has been widely researched in the past several decades, there remains a need to investigate culturally specific ways to respond to IPV survivors. Clergy play a crucial role as respondents to IPV in the Korean American (KA) community, yet further investigation is needed on what variables positively influ...

Purpose The current study examined the relationships between religious resources (i.e., certainty of belief in God and attendance at religious services), religious struggle (e.g., belief that cancer is evidence of God’s punishment or abandonment), and physical and mental health-related quality of life (HRQoL), including fear of cancer recurrence (F...

The scale and scope of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina has made it one of America's deadliest natural disasters in the last 100 years. The physical destruction caused by Katrina was enormous, as was its impact on mental health. One of the common mental health outcomes associated with natural disasters are symptoms of posttraumatic stres...

The psychological impact of a traumatic event includes potentially both negative (e.g., PTSD, depression, and anxiety) as well as positive (e.g., post-traumatic growth) outcomes. The construct of self-compassion—the capacity to be compassionate towards oneself—has been associated with various psychological benefits following disasters; however, the...

Purpose • Examine the possible moderating influence of social comparison on the relationship between academic self-efficacy and perceived stress. • Further clarify the relationship between perceived stress and biomarkers of stress. Theoretical Foundation • Academic self-efficacy, or the extent to which students perceives themselves as capable of c...

Introduction: The benefits of intellectual self-reflection, an adaptive form of repetitive thought or self-focus, are currently under researched. While negative repetitive thought patters like rumination often featured in depression literature have been shown to contribute to the development and persistence of depression, intellectual self-reflecti...

Objectives: The impact of religion/spirituality (R/S) on cancer outcomes, including health-related quality of life (HRQoL), has been the topic of much investigation. Reports of the opposite, i.e., the impact of cancer on R/S and associations with HRQoL, are few. The current study sought to explore the positive and negative impacts of cancer on the...

Background Existing research indicates that religion, spirituality, or both are important to the quality of life of patients with cancer. The current study is the first to characterize trajectories of spiritual well‐being (SWB) over time and to identify their predictors in a large, diverse sample of long‐term cancer survivors. Methods The particip...

This grounded theory study investigated how single, emerging adult, evangelical Christian women develop, view, experience, and manage their sexuality in the context of competing religious influences and sociocultural influences. Twenty-four undergraduate women were interviewed about the messages they received regarding their sexuality from their fa...

This interdisciplinary study details spiritual approaches including meditation and yoga shown to be helpful in improving physical and psychological well-being. Whether a person suffers from a psychological or physical malady, such as depression, addictions, chronic pain, cancer, or complications from pregnancy, the best practice treatments likely i...

Background: Prior research on spirituality in cancer survivors has often failed to distinguish the specific contributions of faith, meaning, and peace, dimensions of spiritual well-being, to quality of life (QoL), and has misinterpreted mediation analyses with these indices. Purpose: We hypothesized a model in which faith would have a significan...

This study examined racial/ethnic differences in spiritual well-being (SWB) among survivors of cancer. We hypothesized higher levels of Peace and Faith, but not Meaning, among Black and Hispanic survivors compared to White survivors, differences that would be reduced but remain significant after controlling for sociodemographic and medical factors....

To understand the influence of cancer-related infertility on women's long-term distress and quality of life. Women diagnosed at age 40 or less with invasive cervical cancer, breast cancer, Hodgkin disease, or non-Hodgkin lymphoma were interviewed an average of 10 years later. We predicted that women whose desire for a child at diagnosis remained un...

After treatment for prostate cancer, multidisciplinary sexual rehabilitation involving couples appears more promising than traditional urologic treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED). The authors of this report conducted a randomized trial comparing traditional or internet-based sexual counseling with waitlist (WL) control. Couples were randomized...

The present study examined the associations between religion and spirituality (R/S), presurgical distress, and other psychosocial factors such as engagement coping, avoidant coping, and social support. Participants were 115 men scheduled for surgery for urologic cancer. Before surgery, participants completed scales measuring intrinsic religiosity,...

This article represents a psychologist's perspective on the case study of Doris, a middle-aged woman with metastatic breast cancer who is initially referred to Chaplain Rhonda for assistance with death anxiety. In the field of psychology, it has long been accepted that good clinical research is informed by theory. As such, Chaplain Rhonda's interve...

Preservation of fertility is important to adolescent and young adult (AYA) survivors of cancer. Many survivors will maintain their reproductive potential after the successful completion of treatment for cancer. However total-body irradiation, radiation to the gonads, and chemotherapy regimens containing high-dose alkylators can place women at risk...

Recent confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-Being (FACIT-Sp) Scale in a sample of predominantly white women demonstrated that three factors, Meaning, Peace, and Faith, represented a psychometric improvement over the original 2-factor model. The present study tested these findings...

The stress associated with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer can result in significant reductions in patient quality of life. Fortunately, numerous psychosocial interventions for patients with cancer have been found to be quite effective in assisting with such stress. Interventions, including education, stress management, coping skills training...

The 12-item Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-being Scale (FACIT-Sp) is a popular measure of the religious/spiritual (R/S) components of quality of life (QoL) in patients with cancer. The original factor analyses of the FACIT-Sp supported two factors: Meaning/Peace and Faith. Because Meaning suggests a cognitive aspect...

Evidence suggests that cancer diagnosed during adolescence and young adulthood may present considerable challenges to what would otherwise be a relatively smooth developmental trajectory, particularly in areas related to reproductive health. We created and pilot tested a two-session, individually-delivered, counseling intervention to enhance psycho...

The majority of prostate carcinoma survivors experience enduring sexual difficulties and associated distress in the years after definitive treatment. A counseling intervention aimed at improving levels of sexual satisfaction and increasing successful utilization of medical treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED) was developed and pilot-tested for b...

This study investigated the role of religion/spirituality (R/S) and coping in quality of life (QOL) in 129 women immediately prior to a course of adjuvant chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. Participants completed the COPE, the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Ovarian (FACT-O), and the Systems of Belief Inventory-15R (SBI-15R). Women averaged 5...

Although research on cancer survivors' experiences and attitudes about infertility is relatively new, existing literature suggests that only about half of men and women of childbearing age receive the information they need from their health care providers at the time of diagnosis and treatment planning. Thus, better patient education strategies are...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the role of personality in the prediction of recurrence and survival times in early-stage malignant melanoma. Sixty patients with Stage I malignant melanoma were assessed shortly after surgery and followed for 10-year outcome. Survival analyses were conducted (i.e., log-rank test and Cox proportional hazar...

The influence of psychiatric intervention on cancer outcome remains a topic of considerable debate. We previously reported the survival benefits for 68 patients with malignant melanoma 5 to 6 years following their participation in a structured psychiatric group intervention. In this article, we report the effects of the intervention on disease outc...

Recent research has further documented the need for and the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for patients with cancer and their families.Interventions have been shown to reduce emotional distress, improve quality of life, decrease cancer-related pain, lessen anticipatory nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy, improve immune paramet...

Multidrug resistance is probably the single greatest obstacle to successful systemic therapy of human cancer. We have reported that cyclosporin A (CsA) can overcome multidrug resistance and improve the efficacy of etoposide in a murine model of drug-sensitive leukemia. The combination of CsA and paclitaxel (PCL) was also significantly superior to e...

Effects of radiation on five cytokine expressing human glioblastoma cell lines were studied. In comparison to unirradiated controls, IL-1 beta and IL-6 mRNAs were generally reduced after low (LDR, 1.0 cGy/min) and very low (VLDR, 0.35 cGy/min) dose rate irradiation. In contrast, high (HDR, 200 cGy/min) and intermediate (IDR, 4.1 cGy/min) dose rates...

Includes abstract and vita with appendices. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [75]-82).