Jaimi Allen
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, AR·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Breast cancer survivors are the largest group of cancer survivors. Most of them want to keep working or return to work.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Psychology
- Topics
breast cancer survivorship
employment
return to work
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Apr 2029
What they work on
- Identify differences in employment status among breast cancer survivors, including differences linked to education and income.
- Determine relationships between physical activity and work outcomes in breast cancer survivors, testing the roles of fatigue, cognition and access to exercise with structural equation modeling and mediation analysis.
- Use semi-structured interviews with breast cancer survivors to understand how physical activity relates to work life and to identify barriers, facilitators and desired features for a tailored intervention.
More about the research
A job is tied to quality of life, health insurance, sticking with treatment, recovery and financial security. Yet two common side effects of cancer and its treatment, fatigue and problems with thinking and memory, often get in the way of work. Physical activity can ease both, but survivors face barriers such as limited access to exercise opportunities, and their experiences differ by education and income. This career-development project examines how physical activity and employment are connected after breast cancer.
Why it matters
Breast cancer survivors who lose work face financial strain and worse health outcomes. Clarifying whether physical activity eases fatigue and cognitive problems that block employment could inform tailored exercise and work-life programs. These could especially help survivors with limited education or lower income stay employed and healthier.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Tarsha Jones
Florida Atlantic University, FL·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Identify factors linked to completing HBOC multigene panel testing, risk-reducing behaviors and family risk communication among 300 racially and ethnically diverse young breast cancer survivors, using a mixed-methods design.
Lynne Wagner
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC·Psychology
Test whether FoRtitude 2.0, an 8-week online program teaching cognitive behavior therapy and health management strategies with telephone coaching, reduces fear of recurrence at 3 months more than an attention control or usual care in breast cancer survivors.
William Hundley
Virginia Commonwealth University, VA·Medicine & Clinical Research
Test whether a home-based, individually tailored physical activity program plus a healthy living intervention, compared with the healthy living intervention alone, preserves peak oxygen consumption in 150 women receiving anthracycline chemotherapy for breast cancer.
The school
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences: 7 labs on PI Pages, $227M a year on research, 40 research doctorates a year.
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