Our paper, led by RA Shannon Desbiens, focused on examining relationships between aspects of the built environment on patterns of health behaviors important for cancer-risk among healthy emerging young adults … Read More
Dr. Darabos and Shannon were in Chicago, IL this month presenting our work on social networks among adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer at the Society for Behavioral Medicine … Read More
Our paper, led by RA Sean McHugh, focused on examining relationships between self-esteem, cancer-related distress, and functional well-being in a sample of young adults with cancer has been published in … Read More
Dr. Darabos presented a poster entitled, Talking about Cancer with your Social Networks: Understanding the Composition of Social Networks within Cancer-Related Discussions at the Society for Affective Science conference earlier this … Read More
Dr. Darabos presented a poster entitled, Longitudinal changes in social network structure and composition among adolescents and young adults with cancer at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Close Relationships … Read More
Conference season and science dissemination is upcoming! Here is where the Social Health Lab will be presenting our work in 2026! Society for Personality and Social Psychology: Chicago, … Read More
Our paper focused on cancer-related illness perceptions and causal attributions has been published in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship. Study Design: In this study we surveyed 69 adolescent and young adults with … Read More
Dr. Darabos has been awarded an Early Career Investigator-Initiated Grant from the American Institute for Cancer Research. Stemming from our prior research on associations between the social and built environment … Read More
Dr. Darabos has received a 5-year Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the National Cancer Institute. The National Cancer Institute Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) supports early career state … Read More
Our qualitative paper focused on young adult couples coping with cancer has been published in Psycho-Oncology. Study Design: In this study we interviewed 15 young adult couples coping with cancer to … Read More