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SW/PSYCH
Session Type: Workshop

W12--Psychosocial Research Showcase

Thursday, October 23, 2025
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
Location:Flex A

Understanding and optimizing psychosocial wellbeing of people with CF and their caregivers remains critical to advancing CF care. This workshop highlights the top psychosocial abstracts from 2025 and was designed to feature a range of research types, populations, and topics. It will provide participants with a snapshot of cutting-edge research in CF across the lifespan.

Learning Objectives:

  • Explore how a variety of methods can be utilized in CF psychosocial research including survey, mixed-methods, cross-sectional, intervention, and use of a national dataset.
  • Describe contemporary research topics in CF across a range of populations including children, adolescents, and adults with CF as well as caregivers of people with CF.
  • Understand the psychosocial support needs of people with CF and their caregivers across different domains including academic, self-image, social support, risky behaviors, and CF complications.

Presentations:

  • 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    W12.1- Navigating school with cystic fibrosis: Perspectives of people with CF and their caregivers

    Speaker: Katelyn E. Heimbruch, MD, PhD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital

  • 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    W12.2- Caregiver perspectives on illness burden and social support needs in the context of cystic fibrosis management: A mixed-methods study

    Speaker: Manuela Sinisterra, PhD – Children’s National Hospital

  • 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    W12.3- Impact of a smoking cessation intervention on hair nicotine levels in children with CF: Results from Clinical Effort Against Smoke Exposure in CF (CEASE-CF)

    Speaker: Gabriela R. Oates, PhD – University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    W12.4- Associations among body image dissatisfaction, body esteem, mental health, and elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ ivacaftor (ETI) adherence in people with cystic fibrosis.

    Speaker: Emma Lyons – University of Colorado School of Medicine/Children's Hospital Colorado

  • 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    W12.5- Adverse association between gastrointestinal disorders and anxiety/depression among people with cystic fibrosis

    Speaker: Senthil SankaraRaman, MD – Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital