07/15/2025
Congratulations!
CARE Director of Caregiving and Social Systems, Dr. Ranak Trivedi, has been awarded a grant to research how to alleviate stress, loneliness, and social isolation among South Asian families managing breast cancer.
South Asian heritage and breast cancer are intersecting vulnerabilities for survivors and their family caregivers. Cultural factors that amplify stress, social isolation, and loneliness are known to affect survivors and caregivers and can inhibit breast cancer self-management. Yet, there are no dyadic behavioral interventions to address these psychosocial needs in the South Asian cultural context. The long-term goal of this research is to develop a culturally adapted behavioral intervention to support self-management among South Asian cancer survivors and their caregivers.
The study team will adapt an existing dyadic self-management intervention, called web-SUCCEED (web-based Self-care Using Collaborative Coping Enhancement in Diseases), and conduct a pilot randomized trial to assess the feasibility of recruitment, retention, randomization, and measures—as well as the acceptability of randomization and the intervention. All activities will be guided by a community advisory board comprising diverse, multilingual South Asian participants. The results will have an immediate positive impact by laying the groundwork for further intervention development and prospective observational studies to better understand the experiences of South Asians managing breast cancer — an understudied group at high risk for healthcare disparities.
Read more here: https://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/news/new-funding-announcement/sabc.html
We are pleased to announce that Stanford Psychiatry’s Ranak Trivedi, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has received a grant from the National Cancer Institute to research how to alleviate stress, loneliness, and social isolation among South Asian families managing breast c...
