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Catherine (Kit) Chesla, RN, DNSc, FAAN
Professor
Dept. of Family Health Care Nursing
2 Koret Way, #N-431
San Francisco, CA 94143-0606
Telephone: (415) 476-4439 Fax: 415-753-2161
Email: kit.chesla@nursing.ucsf.edu
In my research I focus on the family processes in chronic illness. Personal illness understandings and everyday living with chronic illness also focus my research. I study persons and families from diverse backgrounds (African American, Chinese American, European American and Latino).
Primarily, I use interpretive phenomenology in investigating these issues, but I have also worked with a large interdisciplinary team of nurses, psychologists, physicians, and dietitians who use quantitative approaches in the study of families and chronic illness. Currently I am developing couples-focused behavioral interventions to improve health outcomes and quality of life for people with type 2 diabetes.
I recently completed a large multi-method study of the personal, family and provider factors in well-being of persons with type 2 diabetes in African-Americans and Chinese-Americans. This project continues the work of a prior study with a similar design conducted with European-Americans and Latinos. The studies combine descriptive study of a community-based sample of people with diabetes and their spouses with an interpretive study of their illness understandings and practices of living with diabetes. Preliminary work in developing interventions based on these descriptive findings is underway.
My teaching focuses on the topics of family health, chronic illness, and research methods. In the Master's program, I teach about families and health. Additionally, I teach advanced qualitative methods to doctoral students, emphasizing interpretive phenomenology as well as grounded theory, ethnography, and narrative approaches. This year a new course on the state of knowledge and research on family relationships and health will be offered.
1974, BSN, College of Saint Teresa, Winona, Minnesota
1978, MN, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
1988, DNSc, University of California, San Francisco, California
Nominated as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, 2003.
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Chesla, C. A. (1995). Hermeneutic phenomenology, An approach to understanding families. Journal of Family Nursing, 1 (1), 63-78.
Fisher, L., Chesla, C., Skaff, M. Gilliss, C., Mullan, J., Kantor, R., Lutz, C., Bartz, R. (2000). The family and disease management in Hispanic and European-American patients with Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care, 23(3), 267-272.
Chesla, C. A., Skaff, M., Bartz, R., Mullan J. & Fisher, L. (2000). Differences in personal models of diabetes in Latinos and European-Americans, Implications for clinical care. Diabetes Care, 23(12), 1780-1785.
Fisher, L., Chesla, C. A., Skaff, M. M., Gilliss, C., Kanter, R., Mullan, J. T., Lutz, C. & Bartz, R. J. (2000). Diabetes Status: A typology of disease management for Latino and Euro-American patients with type 2 diabetes. Behavioral Medicine, 26(2), 53-66.
Chesla, C. & Rungreangkulkij, S. (2001). Nursing research on family processes in chronic illness in ethnically diverse families: A decade review. Journal of Family Nursing, 7(3), 230-243.
Fisher, L., Chesla, C. A., Skaff, M., Mullan, J., Kantor, R. (2001). Contributors to depression in Latino and European American patients with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care, 24(10), 1751-1757.
Skaff, M. M., Chesla, C. A., de los Santos Mycue, V., & Fisher, L. (2002). Lessons in cultural competence: Adapting methodology for Latino participants. Journal of Community Psychology, 30(1) 305-323.
Chesla, C. A., Fisher, L., Skaff, M., Mullan, J., Gilliss, C., & Kantor, R. (2003). Family predictors of disease management after one year in Latino and European American patients with type 2 diabetes. Family Process, 42, 375-390.
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