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KATHLEEN A. SMYTH, PH.D.
Acting Director
Associate Professor
Division of Health Services Research
Office: Alzheimer's Center, Fairhill Center for Aging
Phone: (216) 844-6414
E-mail: kxs11@case.edu
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- Education
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Ph.D. 1984, M.S. 1986, M.A. 1973, Case Western Reserve University
- Research Interests
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Effects of dementia disease characteristics and caregiving requirements on
caregiver burden, quality of life, and resource use; use of computer mediated
communication in the provision of health and social services.
- Courses Taught
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EPBI
460: Health Research Methods I
EPBI 465:
Clinical Decision Analysis
- Professional Memberships
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Gerontological Society of America
American Public Health Association
American Sociological Association
Association for Health Services Research
- Recent Publications
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Rose, S.K., Strauss, M.E.,
Neundorfer, M.M., Smyth, K.A., and Stuckey, J.C. The Relationship
of Self-restraint and Distress to Coping Among Spouses Caring
for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Applied Gerontology,
Vol 16, Number 1, pp. 91-103, 1997
Picot, S.F., Stuckey, J.C., Humphrey, S.W., Smyth, K.A.,
and Whitehouse, P.J. Cultural Assessments and the Recruitment
and Retention of African Americans in Alzheimer's Disease Research.
Journal of Aging and Ethnicity, Vol 1, Number 1, pp. 5-18,
1996.
Stuckey, J.C., Neundorfer, M.M. and Smyth, K.A. Burden
and Well-Being: The Same Coin or Related Currency? The Gerontologist,
Vol 36, Number 5, pp. 686-693, 1996.
Smyth, K.A., Feinstein, S.J. and Kacerek, S. The Alzheimer's
Disease Support Center: Information and Support for Family Caregivers
Through Computer Mediated Communication. In, Information and
Networks for Community Health Care, P. Brennan, S.J. Schneider
and E. Tornquist, Eds., New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997.
Friedland, R.P., Smyth, K.A., Rowland, D.Y., Esteban-Santillan,
C., Koss, E., Cole, R., Lerner, A.J., Whitehouse, P.J., Petot,
G. and Debanne, S. Pre-morbid Activities are Reduced in Patients
with Alzheimer's Disease as Compared to Age- and Sex-matched Controls:
Results of a Case-Control Study. In, Alzheimer's Disease: Biology,
Diagnosis and Therapeutics, K.Iqbal, B. Winblad, T. Nishimura,
M. Takeda and H.m. Wisniewski, Eds., John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.,
1997.
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