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Vinita Vinita , PhD

Associate Professor, Communications
SALISBURY UNIVERSITY

Research Iterests

• Chronic pain management in a range of domains including cancer survivorship
• Pain acceptance and other outcome indicators
• Complementary and Alternative medicine
• Mind body approaches
• Measurement of pain outcomes including humanistic perspectives
• Patient-provider relationship
• Patient-centered communication
• Provider embodiment in integrative approaches to pain management

Research Approaches

• Qualitative
• Quantitative (cross-sectional, SEM, multiple regression)

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0040-1715

Publications

1. Agarwal, V. (2018). Reconceptualizing pain through patient-centered care in the complementary and alternative medicine therapeutic relationship. Journal of Advanced Nursing. doi:10.1111/jan.13734
2. Agarwal, V. (2018). Healing in and through the body: Complementary and alternative medicine providers’ embodiment of care. Health Communication. doi:10.1080/10410236.2018.1489201
3. Agarwal, V. (2018). Complementary and alternative medicine provider knowledge of holistic health. Frontiers in Health Communication, 3, 15. doi:10.3389/fcomm.2018.00015
4. Agarwal, V. (2018). Taking care, bringing life: A poststructuralist feminist analysis of maternal discourses of mothers and dai’s in India. Health Communication, 33, 423–432. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2016.1278492
5. Agarwal, V. (2017). Breaking boundaries: Complementary and alternative medicine practitioner communicative framing of preventive care. Qualitative Health Research, 27, 2019–2029. doi:10.1177/1049732317723891

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