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Introduction
Dr. Kaseweter has worked to gain extensive research experience and expertise in chronic pain, patient care, eHealth, and advanced statistical analysis. She holds a PhD in Health Psychology from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is an Adjunct Professor with the Psychology Department at UBC Okanagan. Her research is currently focused on optimizing patient and provider experience, as well as improving the collection and usability of patient-reported data.
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September 2020 - present
December 2022 - present
Thrive Health
Position
- Clinical Lead Researcher
September 2015 - October 2018
Education
September 2015 - May 2018
September 2012 - December 2014
September 2007 - May 2011
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Publications (21)
Estimates of patients' pain, and judgments of their pain expression, are affected by characteristics of the observer and of the patient. In this study, we investigated the impact of high or low trustworthiness, a rapid and automatic decision made about another, and of gender and depression history on judgments made by pain clinicians and by medical...
Background
Cervical medial branch blocks (CMBB) are used for the diagnosis of facet joint-related pain. There have been several reports suggesting that they can provide a benefit that significantly outlasts the expected duration of diagnostic blocks. We undertook this study to determine the frequency and extent of this effect in clinical practice....
Chronic widespread pain (CWP) is characterized by persistent pain across multiple body regions, often accompanied by fatigue, cognitive difficulties, and psychological distress. Background/Objectives: Affecting approximately 10% of the general population, CWP disproportionately impacts women, individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, immigr...
Background: Chronic pain is a highly prevalent and disabling condition which is often undertreated and poorly managed in the community. The emergence of COVID-19 has further complicated pain care, with an increased prevalence of chronic pain and mental health comorbidities, and burnout among physicians. While the pandemic has led to a dramatic incr...
There are numerous, well-established racial disparities in the management of pain. The degree to which these are evident at the stage of conducting clinical trials is unknown. To address this knowledge gap, we examined race-based reporting, participation of Black individuals, and the factors associated with reporting and participation in pain clini...
Chronic widespread pain (CWP) is characterized by persistent pain across multiple body regions, often accompanied by fatigue, cognitive difficulties, and psychological distress. Background/Objectives: Affecting approximately 10% of the general population, CWP disproportionately impacts women, individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, immigr...
Despite growing evidence that psychopathy entails reduced emotional processing, the relationship between psychopathic traits and third-person pain perception is poorly understood. This study directly examined perception of others' pain in a sample of male and female students (N = 105) who completed the Self-Report Psychopathy scale (SRP-III) and th...
Background & Aims
Chronic pain is a disabling, complex, and widespread condition affecting an estimated one in five Canadians (Katz et al., 2019; Polacek et al., 2020; Schopflocher et al., 2011). Due to the high prevalence, pain specialty clinics in Canada are prone to lengthy waitlists, with a median wait-time for publicly funded interdisciplinary...
Background
Chronic pain is a highly prevalent and disabling condition which is often undertreated and poorly managed in the community. The emergence of COVID-19 has further complicated pain care, with an increased prevalence of chronic pain and mental health comorbidities, and burnout among physicians. While the pandemic has led to a dramatic incre...
Identifying Barriers to Pain Care in BC, Canada
Evaluating Patients' Experiences of Waitlisted Pain Care in Canada
Parents play a vital role in the development of their children’s sexual attitudes and behaviors; however, little is known about the impact of parenting on masturbation attitudes. The present study aimed to explore the role of discussions with parents about attitudes toward masturbation. Additionally, latent profile analysis (LPA) was used to determ...
Pain has been identified as the most common reason for seeking medical care in emergency departments and yet has been found to be left widely undertreated. The pervasiveness of these visits, combined with the undertreatment of pain, can have detrimental consequences for patients and providers. As such, there is a pressing need to identify factors a...
Although psychopathic traits have long been associated with predation and violence, it is unclear how individuals high in psychopathic traits choose victims. Victim selection and violence perpetration may be facilitated by attention to, or unawareness of, distressful facial expressions. Using a novel eye-tracking paradigm, the present study aimed t...
Third-person pain refers to the components and processes engaged when an observer is confronted by another person in pain. The literature that has arisen around this topic has approached it from diverse perspectives, including behavioral theory, social perception, affective science, psychophysiology, social neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, an...
Available online xxxx Purpose: High-risk sexual offenders have been identified as a distinct group of sexual offenders due to the seriousness of their offenses, as well as their high probability of reoffending. However, high-risk sexual offenders themselves represent a complex and heterogeneous group about which relatively little is still known. Th...
Estimates of patients' pain, and judgments of their pain expression, are affected by characteristics of the observer and of the patient. In this study, we investigated the impact of high or low trustworthiness, a rapid and automatic decision made about another, and of gender and depression history on judgments made by pain clinicians and by medical...
First-person pain (the subjective sensory and affective experiences that we associate with tissue damage) motivates changes in the sufferer’s behavior that communicate the experience to others. The ability to infer features of another person’s pain by observing a sufferer’s behavior can be characterized as third-person pain. This chapter reviews re...
Studies of nonverbal behavior indicate that substantial information about personal characteristics can be found in “thin slices” – very limited samples of the behavioral stream. This concept can also be applied to samples of verbal behavior. We examined the influence of psychopathy and alexithymia characteristics in thin slices of emotional verbal...
<⁄span> Evidence of inadequate pain treatment as a result of patient race has been extensively documented, yet remains poorly understood. Previous research has indicated that nonwhite patients are significantly more likely to be undertreated for pain.
<⁄span> To determine whether previous findings of racial biases in pain treatment recommendations...
