Family Medicine

Helen E. McIlvain Ph.D.

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ACADEMIC DEGREES:
Counseling
Kansas State University
1977

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Contact Name:	Helen E. McIlvain Ph.D. Research Director
Phone Number:	402-559-5367
e-mail address:	hemcilva@unmc.edu
or
Contact Name:	Linda Ferring
Phone Number:	402-559-8085
e-mail address:	lferring@unmc.edu

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• GRANT SUPPORT (last 3 years):

McVea, K.  Teen Counselors for Smoking Cessation, National Cancer Institute
Co-Investigator:  McIlvain, HE.

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• PUBLICATIONS (last 3-5 years):

Articles:

Backer EL, McIlvain HE, Paulman PM, Raemakers RC.  The Characteristics of Successful Family Physicians in Rural Nebraska:  A Qualitative Study of Physician Interviews.  J Rural Health, accepted for publication.  

Crabtree BF, Miller WL, Tallia AF, Cohen DJ, DiCicco-Bloom B, McIlvain HE, Aita VA, Scott JG,  Gregory PB,  Stange KC, McDaniel RR.  Delivery of clinical preventive services in family medicine offices.  Ann Fam Med 2005;3:430-435. 

Backer EL, Geske JA, McIlvain HE, Minier W, Dodendorf D.  Improving female preventive health care delivery through practice change:  An Every Woman Matters study.  J Am Board Fam Pract 2005;18:401-08. 

Aita V, McIlvain HE, Backer EL, McVea, K, Crabtree B.  Patient-centered care and communication in primary care practice: What is involved?  Patient Education and Counseling, in press.  

Adams WL, McIlvain HE, Geske JA, Vandal JL.  Physicians’ Perspectives on Caring for Cognitively Impaired Elders.  The Gerontologist, in press. 

Aita V, McIlvain HE, Susman J, Crabtree B.  Using Metaphor as a Qualitative Analytic Approach to Understand Complexity in Primary Care Research.  Qualitative Health Research 2003;13(10):1419-1431. 

Adams WL, McIlvain HE, Lacy NL, Magsi H, Crabtree BF, Yenny SK, Sitorius MA. Primary Care for Elderly People: Why Do Doctors Find It So Hard? Gerontologist 2002;42(6):835-842. 

McIlvain HE, Backer EL, Crabtree BF, Lacy N. Physician attributes and the use of office-based activities for tobacco control. Family Medicine 2002;34(2):114-119. 

Jaen CR, McIlvain HE, Pol L, Phillips Jr. RL, Flocke S, Crabtree BF. Tailoring tobacco Counseling to the Competing Demands in the Clinical Encounter. Journal of Family Practice 2001;50(10):859-863.

McIlvain HE, Crabtree BF, Turner PD, Backer EL. Use of office-based smoking cessation activities in family practices. Journal of Family Practice. 2000 Nov;49(11):1025-9.

Windsor RA, Whiteside, Jr. HP, Solomon LJ, Prows SL, Donatelle RJ, Cinciripini PM, McIlvain HE. A process evaluation model for patient education programs for pregnant smokers. Tobacco Control  2000;9(Suppl III):iii29-iii35.

Scott WJ, McIlvain HE. Interactive software: An educational/behavioural approach to smoking cessation for pregnant women and their families. Tobacco Control  2000;9(Suppl III):iii56-iii57. 

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Our research division currently has four graduate assistants working with individual faculty and on the Teen Counselor grant and other pilot studies being directed by other research faculty.  We often have first year medical students during the summer after their first year to do research project in primary care, sometimes out in the rural areas of the state.

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• CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Teen Counselors for Smoking Cessation, National Cancer Institute, 2003 - 2007

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• SPECIALIZED LABORATORY/CLINICAL RESEARCH RESOURCES:

Qualitative research techniques