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Sara Carmel is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research spans psychology, social sciences, and medicine, with a focus on clinical psychology, health, general health professions, demography, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their work addresses a variety of main topics including:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • COVID-19 and mental health
  • Palliative care and end-of-life issues
  • Grief, bereavement, and mental health
  • Aging and gerontology research
  • Health and wellbeing research
  • Retirement, disability, and employment

Recent notable publications by Sara Carmel include:

  • "Open communication between caregivers' and terminally ill cancer patients about illness and death: The role of gender - A correlational study," 2020, European Journal of Oncology Nursing
  • "Cognitive decline among European retirees: impact of early retirement, nation-related and personal characteristics," 2021, Ageing and Society

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sara Carmel have been:

  • Yaacov G. Bachner (9 coauthored publications)
  • Ella Cohn-Schwartz (5 coauthored publications)
  • Norm O'Rourke (3 coauthored publications)
  • Shimon Amar (3 coauthored publications)
  • Aya Biderman (3 coauthored publications)

Common venues where Sara Carmel commonly publishes include:

  • Healthcare
  • European Journal of Oncology Nursing
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Ageing and Society
  • BMC Family Practice

Best Publications

  • Health and Well-Being in Late Life: Gender Differences Worldwide

    Sara Carmel

  • CHANGES IN KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, AND WORK PREFERENCES FOLLOWING COURSES IN GERONTOLOGY AMONG MEDICAL, NURSING, AND SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS

    Sara Carmel;Julie Cwikel;David Galinsky

  • Compassionate-empathic physicians: Personality traits and social-organizational factors that enhance or inhibit this behavior pattern

    Sara Carmel;Seymour M. Glick

  • Are religion and religiosity important to end-of-life decisions and patient autonomy in the ICU? The Ethicatt study

    Hans-Henrik Bülow;Charles L. Sprung;Mario Baras;Sara Carmel

  • Satisfaction with hospitalization: A comparative analysis of three types of services

    Sara Carmel

  • The will to live: gender differences among elderly persons.

    Sara Carmel

  • Life events, sense of coherence and health : gender differences on the kibbutz

    Sara Carmel;Ofra Anson;Arie Levenson;Dan Y. Bonneh

  • Wishes regarding the use of life-sustaining treatments among elderly persons in Israel: an explanatory model.

    Sara Carmel;Elizabeth Mutran

  • Relationships Among Self-perception of Aging, Physical Functioning, and Self-efficacy in Late Life.

    Hava Tovel;Sara Carmel;Victoria H Raveis

  • Life-sustaining treatments: what doctors do, what they want for themselves and what elderly persons want.

    Sara Carmel

  • Trait-anxiety and sense of coherence: a longitudinal study.

    Sara Carmel;Judith Bernstein

  • Open communication between caregivers and terminally ill cancer patients: the role of caregivers' characteristics and situational variables.

    Yaacov G Bachner;Sara Carmel

  • The role of age and an expanded Health Belief Model in predicting skin cancer protective behavior

    Sara Carmel;Esther Shani;Lior Rosenberg

  • Gender differences in physical health and psychosocial well being among four age-groups of elderly people in Israel.

    Sara Carmel;Judith H. Bernstein

  • Trait anxiety, sense of coherence and medical school stressors, observations at three stages

    Sara Carmel;Judith Bernstein

  • Home death--the caregivers' experiences.

    Yoram Singer;Yaacov G. Bachner;Pesach Shvartzman;Sara Carmel

  • Fear of Death, Mortality Communication, and Psychological Distress Among Secular and Religiously Observant Family Caregivers of Terminal Cancer Patients

    Yaacov G. Bachner;Norm O'Rourke;Sara Carmel

  • Physician–parent communication as predictor of parent satisfaction with child development services

    Aharon Galil;Yaacov G. Bachner;Joav Merrick;Hagit Flusser

  • The will-to-live and survival at old age: Gender differences

    Sara Carmel;Orna Baron-Epel;Galia Shemy

  • Maintaining Successful Aging: The Role of Coping Patterns and Resources

    Hava Tovel;Sara Carmel

  • Coping with Recent Life Events: The Interplay of Personal and Collective Resources

    Ofra Anson;Sara Carmel;Arieh Levenson;Dan Y. Bonneh

  • The will to live and death-related decline in life satisfaction.

    Sara Carmel;Amit Shrira;Dov Shmotkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Norm O'Rourke
Norm O'Rourke Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Perla Werner
Perla Werner University of Haifa
Félix Neto
Félix Neto University of Porto
Dov Shmotkin
Dov Shmotkin Tel Aviv University

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