Biography

Dr. Hendricks is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) College of Nursing. Dr. Hendricks received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2018. Throughout her PhD program, Dr. Hendricks was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar working on her dissertation study: An Exploration of the Manifestation of Parentification Among Young Carers of a Parent with Huntington’s Disease. She received her PhD in Nursing from UAB in 2021 and completed her postdoctoral training at UNMC from 2021-2023.

Dr. Hendricks has worked on studies primarily focused on caregiving, cancer survivorship, and community engagement. She is building a program of research exploring the experiences of young carers (children aged <18) in specific disease contexts, such as cancer, with the goal of improving awareness and support for this often-overlooked group of caregivers. Her current work focuses on exploring the experiences, outcomes, and unmet needs of young carers in the context of cancer to provide a foundation for future intervention development.

Research

Research Interests

• Young Carers (children <18 years old acting as caregivers)
• Parentification
• Family Caregiving
• Survivorship
• Psychosocial Oncology

Grant Support (Previous 5 years)

June 2023-June 2024
American Association of Cancer Education (AACE) READS Grant, $4,997, Hendricks, B. (P.I.)

August 2018-August 2021
Future of Nursing Scholar, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholars Program, $150,000, Meneses, K. (P.I.)

September 2019-September 2020
Research Doctoral Scholarship, Oncology Nursing Foundation, $5,000, Hendricks, B. (P.I.)

September 2019-July 2020
Graduate Traineeship in Disparities Research, Susan G. Komen National Award, $1,400, Meneses, K. /Demark-Wahnefried, W. (P.I.)

Publications

Tan, K. R., Waters, A. R., Chen, Q., Hendricks, B.A., Coombs, L. A., & Kent, E. E. (2023). Inequities Among Cancer Caregivers with Diverse Identities: A Review of the Literature and Future Directions. Current Oncology Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11912-023-01415-3

Hendricks, B.A., Vo, J.B., Dionne-Odom, J.N., & Bakitas, M.A. (2021). Parentification among young carers: A concept analysis. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-021-00784-7

Hendricks, B.A., Kavanaugh, M., & Bakitas, M.A. (2021). How far have we come? An updated scoping review of young carers in the U.S. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-021-00783-8

Dionne-Odom, J.N., Wells, R., Guastaferro, K., Azuero, A., Hendricks, B.A., Currie, E., Bechthold, A.C., Dosse, C., Taylor, R., Reed, R.D., Harrell, E.R., Gazaway, S., Engler, S., McKie, P., Williams, G., Sudore, R., Rini, C., Rosenberg, A.R., & Bakitas, M. (2022) An early palliative care telehealth coaching intervention to enhance advanced cancer family caregivers’ decision support skills: The CASCADE pilot factorial trial. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.07.023.

Dionne-Odom, J.N., Azuero, A., Taylor, R., Wells, R., Hendricks, B.A., Bechthold, A.C., Reed, R.D., Harrell, E.R., Dosse, C., Engler, S., McKie, P., Ejem, D., Bakitas, M.A., & Rosenberg, A.R. (2021). Resilience, preparedness, and distress among family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer. Supportive Care in Cancer. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-021-06265-y

Wells, R.D., Guastaferro, K., Azuero, A., Rini, C., Hendricks, B.A., Dosse, C., Taylor, R., Williams, G.R., Engler, S., Smith, C., Sudore, R., Rosenberg, A.R., Bakitas, M.A., & Dionne-Odom, J.N. (2020). Applying the multiphase optimization strategy for the development of optimized interventions in palliative care. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.11.017

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Service

Member, Membership Committee, American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS) (2023-present)

Member, American Association for Cancer Education (AACE) (2023-present)

Scholarship Reviewer, Oncology Nursing Foundation (2022-present)

Peer Reviewer, Cancer Nursing (2022-present)

Member, Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS) (2022-present)

Member, Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) (2018-present)

Member, American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS) (2018-present)

Recognition

2023 Accepted Fellow – Research Methods in Supportive Oncology (RMSO) Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care (Funded by NCI R25 CA 181000)

2022 Invited Member – Caregiving Youth Research Collaborative (CYRC) American Association of Caregiving Youth

2021 University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, Best Embodies UAB Core Value: Innovation.

2019 American Psychosocial Oncology Society, Best of the Best Poster Award.

2019 American Psychosocial Oncology Society, Best Student Poster Presentation Award.

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