Diana Wilkie

Professor University of Florida

Gainesville FL

Diana Wilkie has devoted her research program to cancer pain and sickle cell disease management, palliative care and end-of-life issues.

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Biography

Diana Wilkie, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, has devoted her research program to cancer pain and sickle cell disease management, palliative care and end-of-life issues. She also specializes in the use of informatics to promote patient-centered care, support big data science and develop biobehavioral therapies for cancer pain. She has created a tablet-based pain report system that allows a patient to describe their pain and recently completed a randomized clinical trial testing the effects of computerized pain tools on pain control for cancer patients receiving hospice care. Diana’s research is also dedicated to eliminating health disparities.

Areas of Expertise

Cancer Pain

Palliative Care

End-of-Life Issues

Media Appearances

National Cancer Institute Awards $16 million Grant to Establish a Cancer Health Equity Center

Onco'Zine online

2018-10-26

Led at University of Florida by program directors Folakemi T. Odedina, PhD. and Diana Wilkie, PhD, RN, FAAN, the new Health Equity Center, called the Florida-California Cancer Research, Education and Engagement or CaRE,2, will bring together researchers from Florida and California.

Acupuncture could ease women's vulvar pain

EurekAlert! online

2017-10-11

The women will receive two treatments per week for five weeks. Thirteen needles will be used at various points on the body; none in the genitalia, Schlaeger said. Prior to the start and at the end of the study, the women's vulvar discomfort will be recorded using a computerized pain reporting tool developed by former UIC and current University of Florida nursing professor Diana Wilkie.

Diana Wilkie works to bring palliative care to forefront

University of Florida Health online

2016-06-22

Diana Wilkie firmly believes that palliative care isn’t only for people with life-threatening illnesses. While some associate palliative care primarily with end-of-life care, she says it should be available to anyone suffering from pain.

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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.

Multidimensional Pain Characteristics in Older Adults with Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers

Advances in Wound Care

Junglyun Kim, et al.

2021-07-23

Pain affects wound healing, treatment, and quality of life because it has significant impacts on physical, psychological, and social wellbeing. Despite the fact that more than half of chronic venous leg ulcer (CVLU) patients experience mild to moderate pain, the multidimensional characteristics of CVLU pain are not well documented.

Prevalence, Predictors and Correlates of Religious and Spiritual Struggles in Palliative Cancer Patients

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Annelieke Damen, et al.

2021-04-26

Religion and spirituality (r/s) are important resources in coping with cancer. However, there are aspects of r/s, such as religious and spiritual struggles, found to be associated with poorer outcomes. A new measure has been adapted from the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale (RSS) to assess r/s struggles: the RSS-14. This concise measure allows for the assessment of multiple types of r/s struggles for people from different religious backgrounds or none.