Lisa Scarton

Assistant Professor University of Florida

  • Gainesville FL

Lisa Scarton focuses her research on reducing health disparities among American Indian populations, especially Type 2 diabetes.

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Biography

Lisa Scarton, a citizen of Choctaw Nation, is an expert on Type 2 diabetes. She focuses her research on reducing health disparities among American Indian populations through the development of culturally informed interventions delivered across multiple generations and designed to improve health outcomes for people with Type 2 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes-linked cancers.

Areas of Expertise

Health Disparities
Type 2 Diabetes

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Faculty member received $50,000 in competitive funding

University of Florida Health  online

2020-06-23

Lisa Scarton, PhD, BSN , assistant professor, was notified that she would receive $50,000 in competitive funding from the UF Health Cancer Center Cancer Population Sciences program. Her study, A Nurse-led Intervention in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Cancer and Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Feasibility Pilot Study, is timely and important for the many cancer patients with this common comorbidity. We look forward to learning more about this study.

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Back to her Roots: Scarton Works with Native American Communities to Help Prevent Diabetes

University of Florida Health  online

2017-04-19

Post-Doctoral fellow, Lisa Scarton, Ph.D., R.N., is making waves at the College of Nursing, researching the effects of diabetes in Native American populations and the impact it has on families.

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Roots of Caring

The Post  online

2017-04-14

Growing up as part of the Chocktaw Nation of Oklahoma, Lisa Scarton developed a deep desire to help and to care for others from an early age.

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Articles

Interventions for Informal Caregivers of Stroke Survivors

Rehabilitation Nursing

Janet Lopez, et al.

2022-01-01

The specific aims of this scoping review of the literature are to (1) map the current scope of literature regarding nonpharmacological interventions for informal stroke caregivers and (2) explore the degree to which racial/ethnic minority groups were represented in nonpharmacological interventions for stroke caregivers in the United States.

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Description of a training protocol to improve research reproducibility for dignity therapy: an interview-based intervention

Palliative & Supportive Care

Tasha M. Schoppee, et al.

2021-05-26

Dignity Therapy (DT) has been implemented over the past 20 years, but a detailed training protocol is not available to facilitate consistency of its implementation. Consistent training positively impacts intervention reproducibility. The objective of this article is to describe a detailed method for DT therapist training. Chochinov's DT training seminars included preparatory reading of the DT textbook, in-person training, and practice interview sessions.

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Pain, symptom distress, and pain barriers by age among patients with cancer receiving hospice care: Comparison of baseline data

Journal of Geriatric Oncology

Saunjoo L. Yoon, et al.

2021-05-07

Age group differences have been reported for pain and symptom presentations in outpatient and inpatient oncology settings, but it is unknown if these differences occur in hospice. We examined whether there were differences in pain, symptom distress, pain barriers, and comorbidities among three age groups (20–64 years, 65–84 years, and 85+) of hospice patients with cancer.

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