Louise Beryl
Los Altos, California, United States
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ANTHROPOLOGIST AND UX RESEARCHER
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🔎 New Adventure Awaits! I've been selected to participate in the Open Research Initiative by Outset. The aim for #OpenResearch is to 1) demonstrate…
🔎 New Adventure Awaits! I've been selected to participate in the Open Research Initiative by Outset. The aim for #OpenResearch is to 1) demonstrate…
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2025 PELTO INTERNATIONAL AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT Nomination Deadline: October 31, 2024 Send nominations to: info@appliedanthro.org Details below Award…
2025 PELTO INTERNATIONAL AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT Nomination Deadline: October 31, 2024 Send nominations to: info@appliedanthro.org Details below Award…
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Mapping the Decision-Making Process for Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy for Breast Cancer: The Role of Decisional Resolve
Medical Decision Making
Background. Studies show adjuvant endocrine therapy increases survival and decreases risk of breast cancer recurrence for hormone receptor–positive tumors. Yet studies also suggest that adherence rates among women taking this therapy may be as low as 50% owing largely to adverse side effects. Despite these rates, research on longitudinal patient decision making regarding this therapy is scant. Objective. We sought to map the decision-making process for women considering and initiating adjuvant…
Background. Studies show adjuvant endocrine therapy increases survival and decreases risk of breast cancer recurrence for hormone receptor–positive tumors. Yet studies also suggest that adherence rates among women taking this therapy may be as low as 50% owing largely to adverse side effects. Despite these rates, research on longitudinal patient decision making regarding this therapy is scant. Objective. We sought to map the decision-making process for women considering and initiating adjuvant endocrine therapy, paying particular attention to patterns of uncertainty and decisional change over time. Methods. A longitudinal series of semistructured interviews conducted at a multispecialty health care organization in Northern California with 35 newly diagnosed patients eligible for adjuvant endocrine therapy were analyzed. Analysis led to the identification and indexing of 3 new decision-making constructs—decisional phase, decisional direction, and decisional resolve—which were then organized using a visual matrix and examined for patterns characterizing the decision-making process. Results. Our data reveal that most patients do not make a single, discrete decision to take or not take hormone therapy but rather traverse multiple decisional states, characterized by 1) phase, 2) direction, and 3) strength of resolve. Our analysis tracks these decisional states longitudinally using a grayscale-coded matrix. Our data show that decisional resolve wavers not just when considering therapy, as the existing concept of decisional conflict suggests, but even after initiating it, which may signal future decisions to forgo therapy. Conclusions. Adjuvant endocrine therapy, like other chronic care decisions, has a longer decision-making process and implementation period. Thus, theoretical, empirical, and clinical approaches should consider further exploring the new concept and measurement of decisional resolve, as it may help to improve subsequent medication adherence.
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Fostering Community Among African Migrant Christians in Massachusetts
Student Anthropologist, Journal of the National Association of Student Anthropologists
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"Backward Design" for Syllabus Development
Cultural Anthropology Online, Society for Cultural Anthropology
Teaching resource for educators teaching anthropology to help improve the development of a syllabus.
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Pedagogical Tools: Bloom's Taxonomy
Cultural Anthropology Online, Society for Cultural Anthropology
Teaching resource for educators teaching anthropology to help improve student achievement.
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Pedagogical Tools: In Class Activities
Cultural Anthropology Online, Society for Cultural Anthropology
Teaching resources for educators teaching anthropology to help student engagement in class.
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Ways with the Word in the New World: Language and Literacy Socialization among Born Again Christian African Families in Massachusetts
Ph.D. dissertation, Department of International and Transcultural Studies, Anthropology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Ethnography about how African born again Christian families living in Massachusetts use religion to find understanding, belonging, and betterment for themselves and their children.
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"Do You Remember?...I Don't Remember": Remembering and Forgetting After Thanksgiving Dinner
Journal of Anthropological Research, The Society of Anthropological Studies at Teachers College
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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French
Limited working proficiency
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Swahili
Elementary proficiency
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