Research

Our lab focuses on the study of pain, specifically low back pain and cancer-related pain.

It is important to help patients manage their pain and functions by themselves. Our lab focuses on the study of appropriate self-management strategies for patients.

Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand health information needed for health-related decision making. Our lab focuses on how to improve patients' health literacy and reduce the health literacy demand of healthcare settings.

Our lab incorporates a biopsychosocial model, which is an inter-disciplinary model looking at the interconnection between biology, psychology, and socio-environmental factors, into self-management research. The model examines how these aspects play a role in topics ranging from health prevention to chronic condition management.