Dr. Barbara Giambra, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, is an Assistant Professor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati (USA). Dr. Giambra studies the effects of communication between healthcare providers and the families of children with complex chronic conditions. Dr. Giambra seeks to understand the effects of caregiver-clinician communication on family management and child and family outcomes, and ways to modify communication behaviors to enhance outcomes. Through this work, Dr. Giambra has developed the Theory of Shared Communication and has utilized several instruments, including the Family Management Measure (FaMM), Parent Perception of Uncertainty Scale (PPUS), PedsQL, PROMIS 25, PROMIS Global Health and the Global Family Quality of Life Scale. Dr. Giambra was awarded a K23 grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2018.
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