Associate Professor
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Dr. Leutwyler has extensive research and clinical experiences working with adults with serious mental illness, and her research focuses on identifying factors associated with poor physical health among adults with schizophrenia and conducting interventions to promote physical health among adults with serious mental illness. Currently, Dr. Leutwyler is the PI of a TRDRP-funded pilot 2-arm RCT to examine the feasibility and potential efficacy of a game-based group physical activity intervention, along with cessation counseling and pharmacotherapy, to increase successful smoking cessation in smokers with serious mental illness.
Publications
Social and environmental factors during the smoking cessation process: The experiences of adults with serious mental illnesses.
Schizophrenia research
A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Multicomponent Smoking Cessation Intervention for Adults with Serious Mental Illness.
Games for health journal
Music-Based Interventions for Symptom Management in Critically Ill, Mechanically Ventilated Adults: A Scoping Review of the Literature.
Journal of integrative and complementary medicine
The Whole Package: A Multi-Component Smoking Cessation Intervention for Adults With Serious Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study.
Tobacco Use Insights
Associations of Systemic Inflammation and Senescent Cell Biomarkers with Clinical Outcomes in Older Adults with Schizophrenia.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF SMOKING CESSATION IN MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER ADULTS WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESSES.
Innovation in Aging
Social connections as determinants of cognitive health and as targets for social interventions in persons with or at risk of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders: a scoping review.
International psychogeriatrics
Role Identity Transition: A Conceptual Framework for Being the Spouse of a Person With Early Onset Dementia.
Journal of gerontological nursing
Review of Major Social Determinants of Health in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Psychotic Disorders: I. Clinical Outcomes.
Schizophrenia bulletin
Sociodemographic and Social Network Characteristics Influenced Feelings of Loneliness in Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
International psychogeriatrics
The Epidemiology of Smoking in Older Adults: A National Cohort Study.
Journal of general internal medicine
A Group Videogame-Based Physical Activity Program Improves Walking Speed in Older Adults Living With a Serious Mental Illness.
Innovation in Aging
Telephone based smoking cessation intervention for adults with serious mental illness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tobacco Use Insights
Group-Based Smoking Cessation Program for Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness.
Innovation in Aging
Group-Based Smoking Cessation Program for Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness.
Innovation in Aging
Education Mediates Racial Disparities in Cognitive Impairment Among Older Adults With Schizophrenia.
Clinical gerontologist
Impact of exergames on psychiatric symptoms in older adults with serious mental illness.
Aging & mental health
The Lived Experience of Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes-Related Distress.
Journal of gerontological nursing
Tools You'll Have for the Rest of Your Life: A Qualitative Evaluation of a Fitness and Vocational Training Program for Substance Use Recovery.
Substance use & misuse
Symptom Experience of Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetes-Related Distress.
Nursing research
"Looking Forward": a qualitative evaluation of a physical activity program for middle-aged and older adults with serious mental illness.
International psychogeriatrics
Play provides social connection for older adults with serious mental illness: A grounded theory analysis of a 10-week exergame intervention.
Aging & mental health
Impact of a Pilot Videogame-Based Physical Activity Program on Walking Speed in Adults with Schizophrenia.
Community mental health journal
Serum BDNF Is Positively Associated With Negative Symptoms in Older Adults With Schizophrenia.
Biological research for nursing
A review of the literature on symptom clusters in studies that included oncology patients receiving primary or adjuvant chemotherapy.
Journal of clinical nursing
Case management helps prevent criminal justice recidivism for people with serious mental illness.
International journal of prisoner health
Stability of Symptom Clusters in Patients With Breast Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy.
Journal of pain and symptom management
Differences in symptom clusters identified using symptom occurrence rates versus severity ratings in patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy.
European journal of oncology nursing : the official journal of European Oncology Nursing Society
A Qualitative Study Exploring Community Yoga Practice in Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
Characteristics associated with inter-individual differences in the trajectories of self-reported attentional function in oncology outpatients receiving chemotherapy.
Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
The Impact of a Videogame-Based Pilot Physical Activity Program in Older Adults with Schizophrenia on Subjectively and Objectively Measured Physical Activity.
Frontiers in psychiatry
The Impact of a Videogame-Based Pilot Physical Activity Program in
Older Adults with Schizophrenia on Subjectively and Objectively
Measured Physical Activity
Frontiers in psychiatry
Associations between cytokine genes and a symptom cluster of pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and depression in patients prior to breast cancer surgery.
Biological research for nursing
Adherence to a Videogame-Based Physical Activity Program for Older Adults with Schizophrenia.
Games for health journal
Cytokine gene associations with self-report ratings of morning and evening fatigue in oncology patients and their family caregivers.
Biological research for nursing
Association between schizophrenia symptoms and neurocognition on mobility in older adults with schizophrenia.
Aging & mental health
Cytokine candidate genes predict the development of secondary lymphedema following breast cancer surgery.
Lymphatic research and biology
Identification of patient subgroups and risk factors for persistent arm/shoulder pain following breast cancer surgery.
European journal of oncology nursing : the official journal of European Oncology Nursing Society
Variations in potassium channel genes are associated with breast pain in women prior to breast cancer surgery.
Journal of neurogenetics
Physical activity and sedentary behaviour in outpatients with schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation
Associations between cytokine gene variations and severe persistent breast pain in women following breast cancer surgery.
The journal of pain : official journal of the American Pain Society
Associations of schizophrenia symptoms and neurocognition with physical activity in older adults with schizophrenia.
Biological research for nursing
Differences in morning and evening fatigue in oncology patients and their family caregivers.
European journal of oncology nursing : the official journal of European Oncology Nursing Society
"It's good for me": physical activity in older adults with schizophrenia.
Community mental health journal
Medication adherence among older adults with schizophrenia.
Journal of gerontological nursing
Videogames to Promote Physical Activity in Older Adults with Schizophrenia.
Games for health journal
"We're not just sitting on the periphery": a staff perspective of physical activity in older adults with schizophrenia.
The Gerontologist
Games for Health Journal
Video Games to Promote Physical Activity in Older Adults with Schizophrenia.
The impact of symptomatology on response to a health promoting intervention among older adults with schizophrenia.
The Diabetes educator
Older adults with schizophrenia finding a place to belong.
Issues in mental health nursing
Understanding physical health of older adults with schizophrenia: building and eroding trust.
Journal of gerontological nursing