Djin Tay

Djin Tay, PhD

Languages spoken: Mandarin Chinese

Academic Information

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Academic Office Information

Djin.Tay@nurs.utah.edu

Research Interests

  • Floriculture
  • Decision Making
  • Hospice Care
  • Advance Care Planning
  • Family Caregiving
  • Family Adaptation to Chronic Illness

Dr. Tay is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the College of Nursing. Dr Tay's primary research interest is to address the goal of patient-centered, family oriented care by optimizing patients and their families' medical decision making during serious illness. Specifically, Dr. Tay is interested to examine how patient and family factors influence medical decisions and the spillover effects of these decisions throughout the trajectory of illness and bereavement. Dr. Tay's research spans qualitative, mixed methods, and quantitative approaches, and her past and ongoing research includes intervention development, community-based participatory research, dyadic studies, and population-level datasets.

Research Statement

Dr. Tay is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the College of Nursing. Dr Tay's primary research interest is to address the goal of patient-centered, family oriented care by optimizing patients and their families' medical decision making during serious illness. Specifically, Dr. Tay is interested to examine how patient and family factors influence medical decisions and the spillover effects of these decisions throughout the trajectory of illness and bereavement. Dr. Tay's research spans qualitative, mixed methods, and quantitative approaches, and her past and ongoing research includes intervention development, community-based participatory research, dyadic studies, and population-level datasets.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Lin J (10/29/2021). Intergenerational decision making: The role of family relationships in medical decision making. Med Decis Making, 6.
  2. Whitehead P (10/06/2021). A scoping review of nurse-led advance care planning. Nurs Outlook, 70, 96-118.
  3. Tay DL (09/12/2021). What contextual factors account for anxiety and depressed mood in hospice family caregivers? Psychooncology, 31, 316-325.
  4. Tay D L (09/01/2021). Emotional expression in conversations about advance care planning among older adult home health patients and their caregivers. Patient Educ Couns.
  5. Tay DL Ornstein KA Meeks H Utz RL (08/27/2021). Evaluation of Family Characteristics and Multiple Hospitalizations at the End of Life: Evidence from the Utah Population Database. J Palliat Med, 25(3), 376-387.
  6. Guo JW (06/16/2021). Patterns of stress and support in social support networks of in-home hospice cancer family caregivers. J Soc Pers Relat, 38, 3121-3141.
  7. Kristensen M (04/06/2021). Reconstructing family networks of decedents: A nationwide register-based study. Palliat Med, 35, 1652-1662.
  8. Tay D L (03/03/2021). ‘I feel all alone out here’: Analysis of audio diaries of bereaved hospice family caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Hosp Palliat Nurs.
  9. Tay DL, Ellington L, Towsley GL, Supiano K, Berg CA (2020). Evaluation of a Collaborative Advance Care Planning Intervention among Older Adult Home Health Patients and Their Caregivers. J Palliat Med, 23(9), 1214-1222.
  10. Cloyes KG, Tay DL, Iacob E, Jones M, Reblin M, Ellington L (2020). Hospice interdisciplinary team providers' attitudes toward sexual and gender minority patients and caregivers. Patient Educ Couns.
  11. Harris KL, Tay D, Kaiser D, Praag A, Rutkoski H, Dixon BL, Pinzon LM, Winkler JR, Kepka D (2019). The perspectives, barriers, and willingness of Utah dentists to engage in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine practices. Hum Vaccin Immunother, 16(2), 436-444.
  12. Kepka D, Rutkoski H, Pappas L, Tay DL, Winkler JR, Dixon B, Velazquez A, Pinzon LM (2019). US oral health students' willingness to train and administer the HPV vaccine in dental practices. Prev Med Rep, 15, 100957.
  13. Rutkoski H, Tay DL, Dixon BL, Pinzon LM, Mooney R, Winkler JR, Kepka D (2019). A Multi-state Evaluation of Oral Health Students' Knowledge of Human Papillomavirus-Related Oropharyngeal Cancer and HPV Vaccination. J Cancer Educ, 35(5), 1017-1025.
  14. Guo JW, Tay DL, Litchman ML (2019). Hashtags and heroes: perceptions of nursing on Twitter following a high profile nurse arrest. J Prof Nurs, 35(5), 398-404.
  15. Kepka D, Bodson J, Lai D, Sanchez-Birkhead AC, Davis FA, Lee D, Tavake-Pasi F, Napia E, Villalta J, Mukundente V, Mooney R, Coulter H, Stark LA (2018). Diverse caregivers' HPV vaccine-related awareness and knowledge. Ethn Health, 26(6), 1-16.
  16. Kepka D, Bodson J, Lai D, Sanchez-Birkhead A, Villalta J, Mukundente V, Tavake-Pasi F, Davis FA, Lee D, Napia E, Mooney R, Coulter H, Stark LA (2018). Factors Associated with Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Among Diverse Adolescents in a Region with Low Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Rates. Health Equity, 2(1), 223-232.
  17. Warner EL, Bodson J, Mooney R, Lai D, Samadder NJ, Kepka D (2017). Latinas' Colorectal Cancer Screening Knowledge, Barriers to Receipt, and Feasibility of Home-Based Fecal Immunochemical Testing. J Immigr Minor Health, 20(4), 981-990.
  18. Lai D, Cloyes KG, Clayton MF, Doyon K, Reblin M, Beck AC, Ellington L (2018). WE'RE THE EYES AND THE EARS, BUT WE DON'T HAVE A VOICE: PERSPECTIVES OF HOSPICE AIDES. J Hosp Palliat Nurs, 20(1), 47-54.
  19. Lai D, Bodson J, Warner EL, Ayres S, Mooney R, Kepka D (2017). Younger Age and Health Beliefs Associated with Being Overdue for Pap Testing among Utah Latinas who were Non-Adherent to Cancer Screening Guidelines. J Immigr Minor Health, 19(5), 1088-1099.
  20. Lai D, Bodson J, Davis FA, Lee D, Tavake-Pasi F, Napia E, Villalta J, Mukundente V, Mooney R, Coulter H, Stark LA, Sanchez-Birkhead AC, Kepka D (2016). Diverse Families' Experiences with HPV Vaccine Information Sources: A Community-Based Participatory Approach. J Community Health, 42(2), 400-412.
  21. Dingley, C E, Clayton, M, Lai, D, Doyon, K, Reblin, M, Ellington, L (2016). Caregiver activation and home hospice nurse communication in advanced cancer care. Cancer Nurs, 40(5), E38-50.
  22. Lai D, Ding Q, Bodson J, Warner EL, Kepka D (2015). Factors Associated with Increased HPV Vaccine Use in Rural-Frontier U.S. States. Public Health Nurs, 33(4), 283-94.
  23. Warner, E L, Lai, D, Carbajal-Salisbury, S, Garza, L, Bodson, J, Mooney, K, Kepka, D (2015). Latino parents' perceptions of the HPV vaccine for sons and daughters. J Community Health, 40(3), 387-94.
  24. Warner EL Lai D Carbajal-Salisbury S Garza L Bodson J Mooney K Kepka D (06/01/2015). Latino Parents' Perceptions of the HPV Vaccine for Sons and Daughters. J Community Health, 40, 387-94.
  25. Chen, HC, McAdams-Jones, Tay, D L, Packer, JM (2012). The impact of service-learning on students’ cultural competence. Teach Learn Nurs, 7(2), 67-73.

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