Interventions for targeted subgroups of survivors at risk for pain, suicide ideation, psychological distress, poor HRQOL
Relationship between genetics and behavior (polymorphisms associated with pain, psychological distress, cognitive outcomes)
Pathways of outcomes related to maladaptive behaviors, psychological distress, pain, and poor HRQOL
Opportunities for Proposals Using Existing Data
Status of survivors whose questionnaires have been completed by proxy
Predictors of maladaptive health risk behaviors
Role of child development in psychological, cognitive and health behavior outcomes
Opportunities for Proposals Using Future Data
Psychological distress, HRQOL, and life satisfaction in the new cohort
Opportunities for Ancillary Studies
Non-intervention research
Assessment of emotional regulation in low grade astrocytomas
Association between polymorphisms related to increased pain in cancer populations (e.g., COMT) and to psychological and HRQOL outcomes
Intervention research
Interventions targeted at subgroups with pain, high psychological distress, poor HRQOL, and suicidal ideation
Enhancing self-advocacy for seeking help for high psychological distress, poor HRQOL, and/or suicidal ideation
Benefit-finding in survivors
Pilot the development of a telephone intervention that could help survivors with emotional distress gain better medical and psychosocial care
Validation study of the BSI-18 as a screening tool compared to psychiatric diagnostic interview administered by phone
Request for Submission of Topic-specific RFA
Interventions using newer technology (internet and/or cell phones) targeting subgroups of survivors with the greatest psychological distress and poor HRQOL morbidity
Plans for longitudinal studies that can take advantage of the multiple time points in the data to examine psychological and HRQOL outcomes
For example, studies of how changes in chronic conditions are tied to changes in depression and anxiety