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Highlighted Publications

  1. Dekker, J., Sears, S. F., Åsenlöf, P., & Berry, K. (2023). Psychologically informed health care. Translational behavioral medicine, ibac105. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibac105
  1. Nunes, J.C., Baykaner, T., Pundi, K., DeSutter, K., Hills, M.T., Mahaffey, K.W., Sears, S. F., Morin, D.P., Lin, B., Wang, P. J., & Stafford, R.S., (2023). Design and development of a digital shared decision-making tool for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.  JAMIA Open, In press.
  1. Sears, S. F., Sears, J. E., & Nekkanti, R. (2022). E-Gaming Should Not Equal E-Fear. Heart rhythm, S1547-5271(22)02677-7. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.11.017
  1. Wang, P. J., Lu, Y., Mahaffey, K. W., Lin, A., Morin, D. P., Sears, S. F., Chung, M. K., Russo, A. M., Lin, B., Piccini, J., Hills, M. T., Berube, C., Pundi, K., Baykaner, T., Garay, G., Lhamo, K., Rice, E., Pourshams, I. A., Shah, R., Newswanger, P., … Stafford, R. S. (2022). A Randomized Clinical Trial to Evaluate an Atrial Fibrillation Stroke Prevention Shared Decision-Making Pathway. Journal of the American Heart Association, e8009. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.122.028562
  1. Baykaner, T., Pundi, K., Lin, B., Lu, Y., DeSutter, K., Lhamo, K., Garay, G., Nunes, J. C., Morin, D. P., Sears, S. F., Chung, M. K., Paasche-Orlow, M. K., Sanders, L. M., Bunch, T. J., Hills, M. T., Mahaffey, K. W., Stafford, R. S., & Wang, P. J. (2022). The ENHANCE-AF Clinical Trial to Evaluate an Atrial Fibrillation Shared Decision-Making Pathway: Rationale and Study Design. American heart journal, S0002-8703(22)00013-8. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2022.01.013
  1. Sears, S. F., Anthony, S., Harrell, R., Tripp, C., Bowman, J., Khan, S., & Naniwadekar, A. (2022). Managing atrial fibrillation: The intersection of cardiology, health psychology, and the patient experience. Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 10.1037/hea0001135. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001135
  1. Harrell, R., Anthony, S., Travia, K., & Sears, S. F. (2022). “Unlocking Physical Activity” During COVID-19 in Cardiac Device Patients. Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention42(4), 289–290. https://doi.org/10.1097/HCR.0000000000000710
  1. Zile, M. R., Mehra, M.R., Ducharme, A., Sears, S.F., Desai, A. S., Maisel, A., Paul., S., Smart, F., Grafton, G., Kumar, S., Nossuli, T.O., Johnson, N., Henderson, J., Adamson, P.B., Costanzo, M. R., & Lindenfeld, J. (2022). Hemodynamically-Guided Management of Heart Failure Across the Ejection Fraction Spectrum: The GUIDE-HF Trial. JACC: Heart Failure. In press.  
  1. Wang W, Gasperetti A, Sears S, et al. Subcutaneous and Transvenous Defibrillators in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy. J Am Coll Cardiol EP. null2022, 0 (0) .https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacep.2022.09.020
  1. Anthony, S., Harrell, R., Martin, C., Hawkins, T., Khan, S., Naniwadekar, A., & Sears, S. F. (2022). Fear of Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation: Translating a Cancer Fear Model to the Atrial Fibrillation Patient Experience. Frontiers in psychiatry13, 915327. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.915327
  1. Schneider, L. M., Wong, J. J., Adams, R., Bates, B., Chen, S., Ceresnak, S. R., Danovsky, M., Hanisch, D., Motonaga, K. S., Restrepo, M., Shaw, R. J., Sears, S. F., Trela, A., Dubin, A. M., & Hood, K. K. (2022). Posttraumatic stress disorder in pediatric patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and their parents. Heart rhythm19(9), 1524–1529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.06.025
  1. Sears, S. F., Huber, N. L., Nekkanti, R., Hammerle, C., Sadaf, M. I., Gehi, A., McKillop, M., Conti, J., Gunderson, B., & Burch, A. E. (2022). Does Activity Tracking Serve as a Cue to Increase Activity in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Patients?: A Randomized Pilot Study. Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention, 42(1), 64–66. https://doi.org/10.1097/HCR.0000000000000671
  1. Sears, S. F., Force, Z., Khan, S., & Nekkanti, R. (2022). Patient acceptance: Metrics, meaning, and the “missing piece” in evaluating novel devices. Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology, 33(1), 90–92. https://doi.org/10.1111/jce.15292
  1. Sall, K. E., Griffith, A. M., Midgette, E. P., Winters, A. R., Tripp, C., Nekkanti, R., & Sears, S. F. (2022). Cardiac psychology training in a rural health care setting: East Carolina Heart Institute. Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 10.1037/hea0001167. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001167
  1. Zile, M. R., Desai, A. S., Costanzo, M. R., Ducharme, A., Maisel, A., Mehra, M. R., Paul, S., Sears, S. F., Smart, F., Chien, C., Guha, A., Guichard, J. L., Hall, S., Jonsson, O., Johnson, N., Sood, P., Henderson, J., Adamson, P. B., & Lindenfeld, J. (2022). The GUIDE-HF trial of pulmonary artery pressure monitoring in heart failure: impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. European heart journal, ehac114. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac114
  1. Chung, M. K., Fagerlin, A., Wang, P. J., Ajayi, T. B., Allen, L. A., Baykaner, T., Benjamin, E. J., Branda, M., Cavanaugh, K. L., Chen, L. Y., Crossley, G. H., Delaney, R. K., Eckhardt, L. L., Grady, K. L., Hargraves, I. G., True Hills, M., Kalscheur, M. M., Kramer, D. B., Kunneman, M., Lampert, R., … Wright, J. M. (2021). Shared Decision Making in Cardiac Electrophysiology Procedures and Arrhythmia Management. Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology14(12), e007958. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCEP.121.007958
  1. Ellis, J. M., Midgette, E. P., Capiaghi, A. J., Schoemann, A. M., Sears, S. F., Kyle, B. N., Carels, R. A., & Whited, M. C. (2022). Mobile assessment of experiential avoidance, mood, stress, and attendance in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation. Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association41(12), 955–963. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001204
  1. van den Heuvel, L. M., Sarina, T., Sweeting, J., Yeates, L., Bates, K., Spinks, C., O’Donnell, C., Sears, S. F., McGeechan, K., Semsarian, C., & Ingles, J. (2022). A prospective longitudinal study of health-related quality of life and psychological wellbeing after an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in patients with genetic heart diseases. Heart rhythm O23(2), 143–151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hroo.2022.02.003
  1. Kim, YJ. Swift, DL, Houmard, JA, Wu, Q, & Sears, SF. (2022). Gender, Activity Participation, Education Levels, and Depressive Symptoms Predict Activity Participation Levels at Post-cardiac Rehabilitation. Physiotherapy Practice and Research. In press.