Kristin Gates Cloyes

Kristin Gates Cloyes, PhD, MN, RN

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u0489122@utah.edu

I've come to nursing research and education after first pursuing education and work in the performing arts and media, studying to be an actor (with a concentration in Shakespearean and classical performance) and working on-air in college and commercial radio markets. In the mid 1990s after graduating from a humanities program, I became interested in human services, working as a CNA and then as a recreational therapist with people with intellectual, psychiatric and physical disabilities transitioning from institutional to community residential settings . This work led me toward the nursing field, where early on I gravitated toward psychiatric and community nursing and public health.

I earned my PhD in nursing because of my deep belief in the power and profound responsibility of knowledge production. Three overarching principles tie my research, teaching and theoretical interests together: a drive to deeply examine the ideas, assumptions and values we take for granted; a focus on social justice for those people who are systematically marginalized within dominant US cultures; and a profound respect and joy in the iterative process of teaching and learning.

My program of research is centered on identifying and addressing mental health needs and health disparities among people in underserved groups who experience serious chronic and life-limiting illness. In the past, I led a team in field research to examine elements that are essential to designing and implementing sustianable end of life care in a prison, incuding the role of inmate hospice volunteers in delivering care to fellow prisoners. I have investigated the effects of minority-related stress on mental health and chronic illness outcomes among older LGBT and African American aduts. Most recently, I have been working as a co-Investigator with our R01-funded research team (Ellington, PI) invstigating communication needs and alignment among professional hospice care team providers, family caregivers and patients receiving in home hospice services; I wrote and am leading an NIH funded supplement to this study to learn more about the needs and experiences of LGBTQ family caregivers of home hospice patients with advanced cancer. Through this work, we are developing competencies and strategies that will help guide hospice and palliative care researchers in designing and conducting more inclusive research.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Warner EL (12/15/2020). Young adult cancer caregivers' exposure to and experiences with cancer-related misinformation on social media. Cancer.
  2. Candrian C (11/21/2020). "She's dying and I can't Say we're married?" End of life care for LGBT older adults. Gerontologist.
  3. Ketcher D (11/16/2020). The Me in We dyadic communication intervention is feasible and acceptable among advanced cancer patients and their family caregivers. Palliat Med.
  4. Cloyes KG (10/19/2020). Palliative and end-of-life care for sexual and gender minority cancer survivors: A review of current research and recommendations. Curr Oncol Rep.
  5. Guo J-W (09/01/2020). Mining Twitter to explore the emergence of COVID-19 symptoms . Public Health Nurs, 37(6).
  6. Yang R (08/01/2020). Fear of Older Adult Falling Questionnaire (FOAFQ): Evidence from content validity and item response theory-graded response modeling. J Adv Nurs, 76(10).
  7. Warner EL (02/15/2020). Young adult cancer caregivers' use of social media for social support. Psychooncology, 29(7), 1185-92.
  8. Cloyes KG (02/03/2020). Hospice interdisciplinary team providers' attitudes toward sexual and gender minority patients and caregivers. Patient Educ Couns, 103(10), 2185-91.
  9. Cloyes KG Hart SE Jones AK Ellington L (02/01/2020). Where are the family caregivers? Finding family caregiver-related content in foundational nursing documents. 36, 76-84.
  10. Eaton J (01/15/2020). Certified nursing assistants as agents of creative caregiving in long term care. 15(1).
  11. Cloyes (01/01/2020). Where are the family caregivers? Addressing the absence of family caregiver-related material in foundational nursing documents. J Prof Nurs, 36(1), 76-84.
  12. Cloyes (02/01/2018). Palliative and end-of-life care (PEOL) for LGBT cancer patients and their caregivers: Considerations and recommendations for education, training and practice. Semin Oncol Nurs.
  13. Ellington L (01/01/2018). Supporting home hospice family caregivers: Insights from different perspectives. Palliative and Supportive Care.
  14. Wu (01/01/2018). Barriers and facilitators to melanoma prevention and control behaviors among at-risk children. J Community Health.
  15. Warner (01/01/2018). Acquisition of social support and linguistic characteristics of social media posts about young adult cancer. J Adolesc Young Adult Oncol.
  16. Cloyes KG (01/02/2017).
  17. Kristin G Cloyes (09/05/2016).
  18. Kristin G Cloyes (08/22/2016).
  19. Ellington L (05/02/2016).
  20. Cloyes KG (03/01/2016).
  21. Kristin G CLoyes (07/2015).
  22. Goshen L (03/2015).
  23. Kristin G Cloyes (03/2015).
  24. Somayaji D (03/2015).
  25. Reblin M (02/2015).
  26. Kristin G Cloyes (11/04/2014).
  27. Kristin G Cloyes (07/01/2014).
  28. Kathie Supiano (05/06/2014).
  29. Lori Saiki (03/15/2014).
  30. Darryl Somayaji (01/01/2014).
  31. Madden Connie (12/2012).
  32. Kristin Cloyes (02/2012).
  33. Kristin Cloyes (03/2011).
  34. Susan Matney (01/2011).
  35. (12/2010).
  36. (10/2010).
  37. (06/2010).
  38. (01/2010).
  39. (2008).
  40. (03/2007).
  41. (02/2007).
  42. (09/2006).
  43. (08/2006).
  44. (08/2005).
  45. (11/2002).
  46. (03/2000).

Book Chapter

  1. Cloyes KG (05/2015).

Conference Proceedings

  1. (04/2009).
  2. (04/2009).
  3. (04/2009).
  4. (05/2008).
  5. (04/2007).

Other

  1. Cloyes KG (03/01/2016).
  2. Cloyes KG (09/2012).
  3. (2008).
  4. Cloyes KG (06/2007).