Stephanie Sivell

Stephanie's current position is Marie Curie Research Associate for the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Centre in the Wales Cancer Trials Unit, Cardiff University. Alongside this, Stephanie is pursuing a PhD by published works looking at women’s surgery choices for early breast cancer and the implications for designing decision support interventions in reference to an extended Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Common Sense Model of Illness Representations (also known as the self-regulatory model). As part of this work we have developed, field-tested and evaluated a web-based decision intervention to support women newly diagnosed with early breast cancer (stage I or II), who have been given the choice between breast conserving surgery with radiotherapy (lumpectomy) or mastectomy as their primary therapeutic treatment (BresDex: www.bresdex.com). The design and evaluation of BresDex has been guided by the extended Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Common Sense Model of Illness Representations.

View Stephanie Sivell's researcher bio on the Cardiff University website