Papers Related to New Measurement Development by Dr. Schwartz in Collaboration with Other Scientists

  1. Schwartz CE, Daltroy L, Brandt U, Friedman R, and Stolbach L. A psychometric analysis of the Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale. Psychological Medicine 1992;22:203-210.
  2. Polonsky WH, Anderson BJ, Lohrer PA, Welch G, Jacobson AM, Aponte JE, and Schwartz CE. Assessment of diabetes-related distress. Diabetes Care 1995;18(6):754-760.
  3. Schwartz CE, Coulthard-Morris L, Zeng Q, and Retzlaff P. Measuring self-efficacy in people with multiple sclerosis: A validation study. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 1996;77: 394-398.
  4. Shapiro DH, Schwartz CE, and Astin J. Controlling ourselves, controlling our world: Psychology's role in understanding positive and negative consequences of seeking and gaining control. American Psychologist 1996; 51:1213-1230.
  5. Schwartz CE, Peng CK, Lester N, Daltroy L, and Goldberger A. Self-Reported coping behavior in health and disease: Assessment with a card sort game. Behavioral Medicine 1998;24(1):41-44.
  6. Schwartz CE, Brotman S, LaRocca N, and Lee H. Patient perception of quality of care provided by specialists and generalists. Multiple Sclerosis 1998;4:426-432.
  7. Schwartz CE, Mathias S, Pasta D, Colwell H, Rapkin B, Genderson MW, Henning J. A comparison of two approaches for assessing patient importance weights to conduct an Extended Q-TWiST analysis. Quality of Life Research 1999;8(3):197-207.
  8. Schwartz CE, Vollmer T, Lee H, and the North American Research Consortium on MS. Reliability and Validity of Two Self-report Measures of Impairment and Disability for MS. Neurology 1999;52:63-70.
  9. Schwartz CE, Wheeler, HB, Hammes B, Basque N, Edmunds J, Reed G, Ma Y, Li L, Tabloski P, Yanko Y, and the UMass End-of-Life Working Group. Early Intervention in Planning End-of-Life Care with Ambulatory Geriatric Patients: Results of a Pilot Trial. Archives of Internal Medicine 2002;162:1611-1618.
  10. Schwartz CE, Lennes I, Hammes B, Lapham C, Bottner W, and Ma Y. Honing an advance care planning intervention using qualitative analysis: The Living Well Interview. J Palliative Medicine 2003; 6(4):593-603.
  11. Schwartz CE, Mazor K, Rogers JH, Ma Y, and Reed G. Validation of a new measure of Concept of a Good Death. J Palliative Medicine 2003;6(4):575-583.
  12. Schwartz CE, Merriman M, Reed G, and Hammes B. Measuring patient treatment preferences in end-of-life care research: Applications for advance care planning interventions and response shift research. J Palliative Medicine 2004; 7(2):233-245.
  13. Mazor K, Schwartz CE, and Rogers JH. Development and testing of a new instrument for measuring concerns about dying in healthcare providers. Assessment 2004; 11(3):230-237.
  14. Schwartz CE, Merriman M, Reed G, Ma Y, and Byock I. Evaluation of the Missoula-VITAS Quality of Life Index - Revised: Research tool or clinical tool? Journal of Palliative Medicine 2005: 8 (1): 121-135.
  15. Schwartz CE, Welch G, Santiago-Kelley P, Bode R, Sun X. Computerized adaptive testing of diabetes impact: A feasibility study of Hispanics and non-Hispanics in an active clinic population. Quality of Life Research 2006; 15:1503-1518.
  16. Becker J, Schwartz CE, Saris-Baglama R, Kosinski M, Rose M, Bjorner JB. The Pain Impact Questionnaire (PIQ-6™): Advancing measurement using IRT and computerized methods. Pain Medicine, 2006;8(S3):S129-S144.
  17. Teschendorf B, Schwartz C, Ferrans CE, O'Mara A, Novotny P, Sloan J. Caregiver role stress: When families become providers. Cancer Control: Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center, 2007, 14(2): 183-189.
  18. Schwartz CE, Keyl P, Bode R, Marcum J. Helping others shows differential benefits on health and well-being for male and female teens. Journal of Happiness Studies, 2009; 10(4):431-448.
  19. Schwartz CE, Martha JF, Kowalski P, Wang DA, Bode R, Li L, Kim DH. Prospective evaluation of chronic pain associated with posterior autologous iliac crest bone graft harvest and its effect on postoperative outcome. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:49 (29 May 2009).
  20. Schwartz CE, Quaranto B, Bode R, Finkelstein JA, Glazer PA. The health benefits of helping others for male and female lumbar spine patients. (Under review.)