Understanding and harnessing psychological and social forces to improve healthcare
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Relative to the attention paid to biological forces, little attention has been spent trying to understand how psychological and social forces can be harnessed as tools for healing inside the doctor's office. By helping care teams realize that they can use biological, psychological, and social interventions to help their patients, we can expand providers' healing arsenal. In this dissertation, I design, implement, and assess four studies to help us better understand and leverage psychological and social forces in healthcare. Together, these studies demonstrate how psychological and social forces matter with placebo treatment (chapter 2), without treatment (chapter 3), with active treatment (chapter 3), and how they can be leveraged at scale (chapter 4). Findings from these studies demonstrate that: 1) patient beliefs are a previously-overlooked variable influencing the effects of open-label placebo treatments; 2) provider assurance alone can have a healing effect, even without the presence of medication or treatment; 3) instilling the mindset that minor, non-life threatening side effects are a sign that treatment is working can improve treatment experience and outcomes in children undergoing oral immunotherapy for life-threatening food allergies, and; 4) care teams are receptive to a training designed to help them harness psychological and social forces in clinical practice. Together, these studies use a variety of methods and research settings to demonstrate that psychological and social forces in the healthcare encounter can be systematically unpacked, manipulated, and studied, and then deliberately leveraged to improve healthcare. The overall goal of this research is to bring us closer to realizing the promise of the biopsychosocial model of health by underscoring the impact of psychological and social forces on patient health outcomes and implementing novel techniques for using these forces in practice.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Leibowitz, Kari Alyse |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Crum, Alia |
| Thesis advisor | Crum, Alia |
| Thesis advisor | Dweck, Carol S, 1946- |
| Thesis advisor | Zaki, Jamil, 1980- |
| Degree committee member | Dweck, Carol S, 1946- |
| Degree committee member | Zaki, Jamil, 1980- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Psychology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kari Alyse Leibowitz. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Psychology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/qx019vr3714 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Kari Alyse Leibowitz
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY).
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