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Louise Sharpe is a researcher affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their work spans multiple fields centered around medicine and psychology, with a particular focus on clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, oncology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and pediatrics, perinatology and child health.

Their research topics broadly cover cancer survivorship and care, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, pain management and placebo effects, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, death anxiety and social exclusion, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Sharpe's significant publication contributions include:

  • Testing a model of fear of cancer recurrence or progression: the central role of intrusions, death anxiety and threat appraisal, 2020, Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • Fear of progression in chronic illnesses other than cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of a transdiagnostic construct, 2022, Health Psychology Review
  • Health-Related Quality of Life in Children, Adolescents, and Adults With a Fontan Circulation: A Meta-Analysis, 2020, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Towards a Stepped Care Model for Managing Fear of Cancer Recurrence or Progression in Cancer Survivors, 2021, Cancer Management and Research
  • Are fear of cancer recurrence and fear of progression equivalent constructs?, 2022, Psycho-Oncology

Frequent coauthors in Sharpe's work include:

  • Rachel E. Menzies
  • Ben Colagiuri
  • Jemma Todd
  • Joanne Shaw
  • Phyllis Butow

Sharpe has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues in their record are:

  • Pain
  • Psycho-Oncology
  • Journal of Pain
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Psychosocial Oncology Research and Practice

The body of work combines rigorous analysis of psychological factors affecting patients with chronic and serious illnesses, especially cancer survivors, and broadens into other related healthcare topics. Their focus on cognitive and emotional aspects, including fear, anxiety, and quality of life, intersects with studies on pain and rehabilitation.

Best Publications

  • Multimorbidity and depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Jennifer R. Read;Louise Sharpe;Matthew Modini;Blake F. Dear

  • A reformulated cognitive-behavioral model of problem gambling. A biopsychosocial perspective.

    Louise Sharpe

  • Post-treatment sexual adjustment following cervical and endometrial cancer: a qualitative insight.

    I. Juraskova;P. Butow;R. Robertson;L. Sharpe

  • Anxiety and depressive disorders in people with epilepsy: A meta-analysis

    Amelia J. Scott;Louise Sharpe;Caroline Hunt;Milena Gandy

  • Cognitive bias modification: A review of meta-analyses.

    Emma B. Jones;Louise Sharpe

  • Towards a cognitive-behavioural theory of problem gambling

    Louise Sharpe;Nicholas Tarrier

  • Understanding the process of adjustment to illness.

    Louise Sharpe;Leah Curran

  • Effect of Psychological Intervention on Fear of Cancer Recurrence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

    Nina M Tauber;Mia S O'Toole;Andreas Dinkel;Jacqueline Galica

  • Pathways to youth homelessness.

    Claudine Martijn;Louise Sharpe

  • The relationship between available support, unmet needs and caregiver burden in patients with advanced cancer and their carers.

    Louise Sharpe;Phyllis Butow;Claire Smith;David McConnell

  • Attentional bias towards threatening stimuli in children with anxiety: A meta-analysis.

    Joanne Dudeney;Louise Sharpe;Caroline Hunt

  • Fear of cancer recurrence: a theoretical review and novel cognitive processing formulation

    Joanna E Fardell;Belinda Thewes;Belinda Thewes;Jane Turner;Jemma Gilchrist

  • The course of depression in recent onset rheumatoid arthritis: the predictive role of disability, illness perceptions, pain and coping.

    Louise Sharpe;Tom Sensky;Tom Sensky;Simon Allard

  • A blind, randomized, controlled trial of cognitive-behavioural intervention for patients with recent onset rheumatoid arthritis: preventing psychological and physical morbidity.

    L. Sharpe;T. Sensky;N. Timberlake;B. Ryan

  • Randomized Trial of ConquerFear: A Novel, Theoretically Based Psychosocial Intervention for Fear of Cancer Recurrence

    Phyllis N Butow;Jane Turner;Jemma Gilchrist;Louise Sharpe

  • The relationship between body image disturbance and distress in colorectal cancer patients with and without stomas

    Louise Sharpe;Deepa Patel;Stephen Clarke

  • A meta-analysis of the relationship between anxiety and attentional control.

    Ran Shi;Louise Sharpe;Maree Abbott

  • The Relationship Between Death Anxiety and Severity of Mental Illnesses

    Rachel E. Menzies;Louise Sharpe;Ilan Dar‐Nimrod

  • The Pain Course: a randomised controlled trial examining an internet-delivered pain management program when provided with different levels of clinician support.

    Blake F. Dear;Milena Gandy;Eyal Karin;Lauren G. Staples

  • Anxiety in youth with asthma: A meta-analysis.

    Joanne Dudeney;Louise Sharpe;Adam Jaffe;Adam Jaffe;Emma B. Jones

  • Selective attention to pain-related information in chronic musculoskeletal pain patients.

    Mohsen Dehghani;Louise Sharpe;Michael K Nicholas

  • The Efficacy of Motivational Interviewing in Adults With Chronic Pain: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review

    Dion Alperstein;Louise Sharpe

Frequent Co-Authors

Phyllis Butow
Phyllis Butow University of Sydney
Belinda Thewes
Belinda Thewes University of Sydney
Michael K. Nicholas
Michael K. Nicholas University of Sydney
Milena Gandy
Milena Gandy Macquarie University
Barbara Mullan
Barbara Mullan Curtin University
Ben Colagiuri
Ben Colagiuri University of Sydney
Blake F. Dear
Blake F. Dear Macquarie University
Laurie A. Miller
Laurie A. Miller Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Afaf Girgis
Afaf Girgis University of New South Wales
Jane Turner
Jane Turner University of Queensland

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