Media
CJNU Radio, October 21, 2017Radio/Podcast
I was invited to speak to listeners about the type of research I am conducting in the CAreLab located at Grace Hospital.
Caring for the Caregiver
University of Manitoba ResearchLIFE Summer 2016, Volume 2, June 13, 2017Print
URL: http://umanitoba.ca/research/researchlife/media/Summer_2016_Issue.pdf
This article describes the grand opening of the CAreLab at Grace Hospital in Winnipeg. This Lab supports communication research designed to enhance students' and clinicians' empathic communication skills with patients, families, and other professional caregivers.
RN's Research Bridges the Gap between Student and Caregiver. Scope of Practice Series
College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba, June 30, 2017Online
URL: https://www.crnm.mb.ca/uploads/document/document_file_220.pdf?t=1459879866
The news journal article captures the communication research I am conducting in the CareLab with caregivers and nursing students.
New lab merges health care and communication
Metro News Canstar Community News, April 24, 2016Online
Newspaper article describing the grand opening of the CAreLab at Grace Hospital and communication research being done.
Lung cancer stigma interferes with care
CBC News Health, April 12, 2012Online
URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/lung-cancer-stigma-interferes-with-care-1.1180846
I was an invited guest to speak on my study with 304 pairs of patients with lung cancer and their family caregivers on stigma associated with the disease. This engagement was part of the report card release on cancer in Canada, Cancer Advocacy Coalition.
Clinical Research: Bringing Discoveries to the Bedside
St. Boniface Hospital Research, June 30, 2017Online
URL: http://www.sbrc.ca/lobchuk/
Website describing my research including a video recording of an interview with Greg Mackling, St. Boniface Foundation for their website, "Research Was Here".
Immigrant Filipinos as caregivers for Filipino loved ones with chronic illness in Canada.
Published by Philippine Journal of Nursing
April 9, 2017
A qualitatiave study of Filipinno family caregiver perceptions of caring for older adults in one prairie City.
Impact of patient smoking behavior on empathic helping by family caregivers in lung cancer.
Published by Oncology Nursing Forum
April 9, 2017
This is a large study with 604 patients dealing with lung cancer and their family caregivers on the impact of caregiver's thoughts and feelings toward patient smoking on caregivers' empathic helping behaviours.
Examining associations of functional deficits and mood states with empathic responses of stroke family caregivers.
Published by Journal of Neuroscience Nursing
April 9, 2017
A study of the relationships between caregiver mood states, stroke effects, and caregiver empathy.
Examining the Relationship Between Family Caregivers’ Emotional States and Ability to Empathize with Multiple Sclerosis Patients: A Pilot Study.
Published by International Journal of MS Care
April 9, 2017
This study is a replication of my graduate student's (Ms. Chen Jin) thesis project that examined the relationship among caregiver mood, disease affects, adn caregiver empathic relations with individuals dealing with multiple sclerosis.
Development of a novel empathy-related video-feedback intervention to improve empathic accuracy of nursing students: A pilot study.
Published by Nurse Education Today
April 9, 2017
A pre-post pilot study of an empathy-based video-feedback intervention and its effects on student nurse empathic understanding of family caregivers' at-risk health behaviours.
A qualitative analysis of ‘naturalistic’ conversations in a peer-led online support community for lung cancer.
Published by Cancer Nursing
April 9, 2017
This is a qualitative study of responses of patients dealing with lung cancer and their family caregivers in an on-line community bulletin board.
A study of the impact of an educational intervention on nurse attitudes and behaviours toward mobile device use in hospital settings.
Published by Journal of The Canadian Health Libraries Association
April 9, 2017
A before and after educational intervention study on nurse mobile device use at the bedside.
A comparison of affected individual and support person responses on the impact of urinary incontinence quality of life.
Published by Urology Nursing
April 9, 2017
This is a study that captured the qualitative experiences of family caregivers and individuals affected by urinary incontinence in the home care setting.
Biography
Michelle Lobchuk became a diploma-trained nurse at Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre. She obtained her University-education that led to completion of my Interdisciplinary PhD at the University of Manitoba. Based on her profound clinical experiences at the bedside, Lobchuk continued to conduct research to help clinicians, patients, and their family caregivers feel understood. She believes feeling misunderstood is one of the the most distressing experiences of being a human being. The humbling but essential process of seeking empathic understanding serves the basis for her studies targeting stigmatized conditions - such as, lung cancer, at-risk health behaviours, and urinary incontinence. In my CAreLab at Grace Hospital in Winnipeg, collaborators, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate and doctoral students join Lobcuk in building family caregiver science that demands increased attention to meet the needs of her partners in care - family caregivers in an aging population.
Recognition/Reconnaissance
Winnipeg RH Foundation Award | Professional
This institutional award is in recogntion of my outstanding contributions to scholarship and research in the health science category.
Research Manitoba Research Chair in Caregiver Communication | Professional
The Chair Award has provided me with research time protection and ability to support students and post doctoral research fellows in advancing family caregier science with a particular focus on interventions in empathic communication.
National Cancer Institute of Canada, Canadian Cancer Society Research Scientist Award | Professional
This personnel award is in support of developing my research program as a budding nurse scientist in the area of oncology nursing.
College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba Excellence in Professional Nursing - Research | Professional
This award is in recognition of my role in advancing knowledge in nursing practice.
Canadian Association of Nursing in Oncology/Pfizer Excellence in Nursing Research Award | Professional
This award is in recognition of my contributions toward oncology nursing research.
Canadian Association of Nursing Research Outstanding New Investigator Award | Professional
This national award is in recognition of my contributions toward nursing knowledge as a new, independent researcher.
Additional Titles and Affiliations
Associate Professor, University of Manitoba, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, College of Nursing
Past Talks
Keynote: Keeping family caregivers healthy keeps patients healthy
Centre on Aging Spring Research Symposium
University of Manitoba Bannatyne Campus, Brodie Centre
Research Grants
Nurse attitudes toward mobile device use in multi-site hospital settings
Organization: Grace Hospital Patient Care Research AwardDate: April 9, 2017
Details:
This study is designed to evaluate the impact of an educational intervention on nurse use of mobile device use at the bedside.
Heart Health Whispering: An empathy-related video-feedback intervention for nurse practitioners and cardiovascular health-risk behaviours of family caregivers.
Organization: College of Nursing Endowment Fund Research Grant in Professional Foundatons.Date: April 9, 2017
Details:
This two-arm intervention study is designed to conduct pilot evaluation of an empathy-related video-feedback intervention to bolster the empathic understanding of nurse practitioners on caregivers' health-risk behaviours for cardiovascular diseasea.
Heart Health Whispering: An empathy-related video-feedback intervention on nursing student understanding of family caregiver at-risk health behaviours.
Organization: Research Manitoba Chair fundsDate: April 9, 2017
Details:
This two-arm intervention is designed to pilot test the impact of my empathy-related video-feedback intervention on the empathic accuracy of undergraduate nursing students on caregivers' health-risk behaviours for cardiovascular disease.
Improving Empathic Accuracy through an In-Class Intervention provided via videoconferencing
Organization: Society for Personality and Social Psychology Small Research Grants ProgramDate: April 9, 2017
Details:
This intervention study is led by my post doctoral research fellow, Dr. Lisa Hoplock, to study impact of my adapted empathy-related video-feedback intervention for delivery via telehealth to rural and northern nursing students.
Informal caregivers and service needs in the WRHA Home Care Program.
Organization: The Manitoba Patient Access Network Steering Committee Call for ProposalsDate: April 9, 2017
Details:
This study is comprised of several components designed to discern family caregivers' use of the home care program's respite care program. The impetus is awareness that despite growing caregiver distress, there is limited use of the respite care program.
Intervention for family caregivers who are employed in the Canadian Workforce
Organization: Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging/ CIHRDate: April 9, 2017
Details:
The purpose of this mult-site study is to determine the scalability and adaptation of the Reitman Centre CARERS Program consisting of a psychotherapeutic group intervention to bolster the coping and problem-solving skills of caregivers dealing with dementia care in rural Manitoba and Nova Scotia.
Examining the relationship between family caregivers' emotional states and ability to empathize with individuals dealing with multiple sclerosis
Organization: Riverview Health CentreDate: April 9, 2017
Details:
This correlational study was designed to examine the relationships among caregiver mood states, effects of multiple sclerosis, and caregiver empathic helping behaviours.
Caregiver Communication Research Environment: A Naturalistic Setting for Empathic Communication
Organization: Canada Foundation for InnovationDate: April 9, 2017
Details:
Infrastructure funding to build a naturalistic setting to conduct communication studies in support of carers - professional and family.
Caregiver Communication Think Tank
Organization: CIHRDate: April 9, 2017
Details:
This meetings and dissemination grant provided funds for Dr. Lobchuk to bring together a Think Tank (2-days) caregiver researchers, graduate students, governmental and non-governmental, and lay caregivers together to discuss communication issues experienced by family caregivers at the system-, health care professional-, and patient-levels of patient care.
More information: http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/nursing/media/Final_Report_-_Research_Priority_Setting_Think_Tank.pdf
Comparison of nurse attitudes toward family care by nurses in hospital and home care program.
Organization: Grace Foundation and Winnipeg West Integrative Health & Social Services Program operating grantDate: April 9, 2017
Details:
This quantitative and qualitative study was conducted to uncover hospital and home visiting nurse attitudes toward family care.