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Terrance L. Albrecht

Terrance L. Albrecht

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
53
Citations
12386
World Ranking
2284
National Ranking
1106

Overview

Terrance L. Albrecht is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas intersecting social sciences, medicine, and health professions. Their scholarly work addresses topics such as patient-provider communication in healthcare, ethics in clinical research, health systems including economic evaluations and quality of life, social media in health education, racial and ethnic identity research, social and intergroup psychology, and economic and financial impacts of cancer.

Albrecht's main fields of study include social sciences with eight publications, medicine with seven, and health professions with seven as well. Subfields of interest include general health professions, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, public health, environmental and occupational health, and health in general.

Frequent publication venues for Albrecht's work include Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, Cancer Control, Journal of Clinical Oncology, JAMA Oncology, and Cancer Medicine. This suggests a consistent engagement with journals focused on oncology and cancer research as well as public health topics.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics within clinical communication and cancer research. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Willingness to Discuss Clinical Trials Among Black vs White Men With Prostate Cancer" (2020), published in JAMA Oncology
  • "Examining the dynamic nature of nonverbal communication between Black patients with cancer and their oncologists" (2020), published in Cancer
  • "Nonverbal Synchrony: An Indicator of Clinical Communication Quality in Racially-Concordant and Racially-Discordant Oncology Interactions" (2022), published in Cancer Control
  • "Addressing multilevel barriers to clinical trial participation among Black and White men with prostate cancer through the PACCT study" (2022), published in Cancer Medicine
  • "Moderators of the effects of perceived racism and discrimination on cancer-related health behaviors among two samples of African Americans" (2022), published in Social Science & Medicine

Albrecht frequently collaborates with researchers including Louis A. Penner, Lauren M. Hamel, Susan Eggly, Mark Manning, and Robert Moulder. These collaborations appear multiple times, indicating ongoing research partnerships particularly centered around communication, oncology, and health disparities.

Best Publications

  • Communicating social support

    Terrance L. Albrecht;Mara B. Adelman

  • Disparities and distrust: The implications of psychological processes for understanding racial disparities in health and health care

    John F. Dovidio;Louis A. Penner;Terrance L. Albrecht;Wynne E. Norton

  • Understanding Communication Processes in Focus Groups

    Terrance L. Albrecht;Gerianne M. Johnson;Joseph B. Walther

  • Physician Referral for Fertility Preservation in Oncology Patients: A National Study of Practice Behaviors

    Gwendolyn P. Quinn;Susan T. Vadaparampil;Ji Hyun Lee;Paul B. Jacobsen

  • Barriers to Clinical Trial Enrollment in Racial and Ethnic Minority Patients With Cancer.

    Lauren M. Hamel;Louis A. Penner;Terrance L. Albrecht;Elisabeth Heath

  • Aversive racism and medical interactions with Black patients: A field study

    Louis A. Penner;John F. Dovidio;Tessa V. West;Samuel L. Gaertner

  • Social Support and Life Stress: New Directions for Communication Research.

    Terrance L. Albrecht;Mara B. Adelman

  • Social Support, Social Networks, and Health

    Terrance L. Albrecht;Daena J. Goldsmith

  • The Effects of Oncologist Implicit Racial Bias in Racially Discordant Oncology Interactions

    Louis A. Penner;John F. Dovidio;Richard Gonzalez;Terrance L. Albrecht

  • Communication of social support: Messages, interactions, relationships, and community.

    Brant Raney Burleson;Terrance L. Albrecht;Irwin G. Sarason

  • Influence of Clinical Communication on Patients' Decision Making on Participation in Clinical Trials

    Terrance L. Albrecht;Susan S. Eggly;Marci Elizabeth Joy Gleason;Felicity W.K. Harper

  • Facilitating talk about new ideas: The role of personal relationships in organizational innovation

    Terrance L. Albrecht;Bradford ‘J’ Hall

  • The crisis of cancer: psychological impact on family caregivers

    Christina G. Blanchard;Terrance L. Albrecht;John C. Ruckdeschel

  • Patient-physician communication barriers regarding fertility preservation among newly diagnosed cancer patients.

    Gwendolyn P. Quinn;Susan T. Vadaparampil;Bethany A. Bell-Ellison;Clement K. Gwede

  • Discussing Bad News in the Outpatient Oncology Clinic: Rethinking Current Communication Guidelines

    Susan Eggly;Louis Penner;Terrance L. Albrecht;Rebecca J.W. Cline

  • Strategic Physician Communication and Oncology Clinical Trials

    Terrance L. Albrecht;Christina Blanchard;John C. Ruckdeschel;Michael Coovert

  • Racial attitudes, physician–patient talk time ratio, and adherence in racially discordant medical interactions

    Nao Hagiwara;Louis A. Penner;Richard Gonzalez;Susan Eggly

  • Information seeking during "bad news" oncology interactions: Question asking by patients and their companions.

    Susan Eggly;Louis A. Penner;Meredith Greene;Felicity W.K. Harper

  • The Role of Social Support in Adaptation to Cancer and to Survival

    Christina G. Blanchard;Terrance L. Albrecht;John C. Ruckdeschel;Charles H. Grant

  • Communicating about innovation in networks of three U.S. organizations.

    Terrance L. Albrecht;Vickie A. Ropp

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis A. Penner
Louis A. Penner Wayne State University
Jeffrey W. Taub
Jeffrey W. Taub Wayne State University
John F. Dovidio
John F. Dovidio Yale University
Sean Phipps
Sean Phipps St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Richard Gonzalez
Richard Gonzalez University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Samuel L. Gaertner
Samuel L. Gaertner University of Delaware
Suzanne M. Miller
Suzanne M. Miller Fox Chase Cancer Center
Melissa M. Franks
Melissa M. Franks Purdue University West Lafayette
Christopher J. Trentacosta
Christopher J. Trentacosta Wayne State University
Irwin G. Sarason
Irwin G. Sarason University of Washington

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