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Kate Lorig is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has a research focus spanning medicine and health professions. Their work incorporates subfields such as general health professions, psychiatry and mental health, sociology and political science, public health, environmental and occupational health, and pharmacology.

The scientist's research topics include geriatric care and nursing homes, dementia and cognitive impairment research, family support in illness, family and disability support research, health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, health disparities and outcomes, and diabetes management and education.

Kate Lorig's publications have appeared multiple times in venues such as the Journal of Applied Gerontology, The Gerontologist, Health Education & Behavior, PsycTESTS Dataset, and Alzheimer's & Dementia.

Recent papers highlight diverse areas within health research. These include:

  • Comparison of a Single-Session Pain Management Skills Intervention With a Single-Session Health Education Intervention and 8 Sessions of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Adults With Chronic Low Back Pain, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • Effects of COVID-19 on Informal Caregivers and the Development and Validation of a Scale in English and Spanish to Measure the Impact of COVID-19 on Caregivers, 2020, Journal of Applied Gerontology
  • Development and Evaluation of the Eight-Item Caregiver Self-Efficacy Scale (CSES-8), 2020, The Gerontologist
  • Empowered Relief, cognitive behavioral therapy, and health education for people with chronic pain: a comparison of outcomes at 6-month Follow-up for a randomized controlled trial, 2024, PAIN Reports
  • Translating CDSMP to the Workplace: Results of the Live Healthy Work Healthy Program, 2020, American Journal of Health Promotion

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kate Lorig include Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Khushboo Sheth, Philip L. Ritter, Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, and Kenneth E. Covinsky.

Best Publications

  • Patient Self-management of Chronic Disease in Primary Care

    Thomas Bodenheimer;Kate Lorig;Halsted Holman;Kevin Grumbach

  • Self-management education: history, definition, outcomes, and mechanisms.

    Kate R. Lorig;Halsted R. Holman

  • Evidence suggesting that a chronic disease self-management program can improve health status while reducing hospitalization: a randomized trial.

    Kate R. Lorig;David S. Sobel;Anita L. Stewart;Byron William Brown Jr.

  • How should we define health

    M. Huber;J.A. Knottnerus;L. Green;H.E. van der Horst

  • Development and evaluation of a scale to measure perceived self-efficacy in people with arthritis.

    Kate Lorig;Robert L. Chastain;Elaine Ung;Stanford Shoor

  • Chronic disease self-management program: 2-year health status and health care utilization outcomes.

    Kate R. Lorig;Philip Ritter;Anita L. Stewart;David S. Sobel

  • Effect of a Self- Management Program on Patients with Chronic Disease

    K R Lorig;D S Sobel;P L Ritter;D Laurent

  • Outcome Measures for Health Education and Other Health Care Interventions

    Kate Lorig;Anita Stewart;Philip Ritter;Virginia González

  • Evidence suggesting that health education for self-management in patients with chronic arthritis has sustained health benefits while reducing health care costs.

    Kate R. Lorig;Peter D. Mazonson;Halsted R. Holman

  • Self-management: Enabling and empowering patients living with cancer as a chronic illness†‡

    Ruth McCorkle;Elizabeth Ercolano;Mark Lazenby;Mark Lazenby;Dena Schulman-Green

  • A Review and Synthesis of Research Evidence for Self-Efficacy-Enhancing Interventions for Reducing Chronic Disability: Implications for Health Education Practice (Part I)

    Ray Marks;John P. Allegrante;Kate Lorig

  • Patients as partners in managing chronic disease : Partnership is a prerequisite for effective and efficient health care

    Halsted Holman;Kate Lorig

  • Patient self-management: a key to effectiveness and efficiency in care of chronic disease.

    Halsted Holman;Kate Lorig

  • Osteoarthritis: new insights. Part 2: treatment approaches.

    David T. Felson;Reva C. Lawrence;Marc C. Hochberg;Timothy McAlindon

  • Capturing the Patient's View of Change as a Clinical Outcome Measure

    David Fischer;Anita L. Stewart;Daniel A. Bloch;Kate Lorig

  • Internet-based chronic disease self-management: a randomized trial.

    Kate R Lorig;Philip L Ritter;Diana D Laurent;Kathryn Plant

  • Self-Management of Chronic Disease by Older Adults: A Review and Questions for Research

    Noreen M. Clark;Marshall H. Becker;Nancy K. Janz;Kate Lorig

  • Outcomes of self-help education for patients with arthritis

    Kate Lorig;Deborah Lubeck;R. Guy Kraines;Mitchell Seleznick

  • Internet Versus Mailed Questionnaires: A Randomized Comparison

    Philip Ritter;Kate Lorig;Diana Laurent;Katy Matthews

  • Arthritis Self-Management Studies: A Twelve-Year Review

    Kate Lorig;Halsted Holman

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip L. Ritter
Philip L. Ritter Stanford University
Marcia G. Ory
Marcia G. Ory Texas A&M University
John Lynch
John Lynch University of Adelaide
Anita L. Stewart
Anita L. Stewart University of California, San Francisco
James F. Fries
James F. Fries Stanford University
Matthew H. Liang
Matthew H. Liang Brigham and Women's Hospital
David M. DeJoy
David M. DeJoy University of Georgia
Carol R. Horowitz
Carol R. Horowitz Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Sean Mackey
Sean Mackey Stanford University
Robert J. Vandenberg
Robert J. Vandenberg University of Georgia

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