Valentyn Fournier

• Ph.D. in Psychology
• PostDoc Position at Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont

Objectives Traditionally, the literature investigating patient‐reported outcomes in relation to cancer survival focused on negative factors such as distress. Meta‐analyses in this field have provided a clear identification of negative affect that reduce cancer survival (e.g., depression). Nevertheless, positive psychological factors and especially...

Objective Conspiracy beliefs (CBs) can have substantial consequences on health behaviours by influencing both conventional and non‐conventional medicine uptake. They can target powerful groups (i.e. upward CBs) or powerless groups (i.e. downward CBs). Considering their repercussions in oncology, it appears useful to understand how CBs are related t...

Background Digital health technologies have expanded tremendously in the last two decades, creating an emerging research and clinical field. They are regarded as cost‐effective, and their use in healthcare is prioritized by many countries. However, the constant evolution of these technologies has led to an abundance of related literature. Thus, we...

The literature has reported inequality in access to both medical and psychosocial supportive care in oncology for which digital health technologies may be a suitable solution. Given attitudes could influence acceptability of such tools, this pre-registered qualitative study aimed to investigate patients’ and survivors’ attitudes toward digital psyc...

Cancer is an important issue and a model topic for misinformatfion researchers. The present research experimentally investigates the effect of cancer-related conspiracy beliefs and misinformation on oncology treatment intentions in a cancer-free population. In three pre-registered studies (N total = 1020), participants were asked to put themselves...

Purpose. Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is the only curative treatment in multiple myeloma (MM) but is associated with toxicities that impact quality of life (QoL). This study aimed (1) to describe the levels and evolution of QoL scores of newly diagnosed MM patients who received upfront tandem autologous + nonmyeloablative all...

Introduction Approximately one-quarter of Canadians experience chronic pain, a debilitating condition often necessitating opioid use, which raises concerns regarding dependency and overdose risks. As an alternative, we developed the HYlaDO program (Hypnose de la Douleur, hypnosis of Pain in French), a novel self-hypnosis approach for chronic pain m...

[English abstract below] - Introduction - En oncologie, le suivi des recommandations médicales est un prédicteur important de la survie et de la qualité de vie des patients. Il a été observé chez des patients à bon pronostic que le recours aux médecines complémentaires et alternatives était associé à un refus des traitements conventionnels et à une...

Personalized medicine (PM) is increasingly becoming a topic of discussion in public health policies and media. However, there is no consensus among definitions of PM in the scientific literature and the terms used to designate it, with some definitions emphasizing patient-centered aspects and others emphasizing biomedical aspects. Furthermore, term...