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Nihal E. Mohamed

Nihal E. Mohamed

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My post graduate training and previous research areas focused primarily on exploring social, cognitive, and affective factors influencing patients’ coping with and adjustment to cancer diagnosis and treatment. The focus of my current research is twofold: the assessment of cognitive and affective factors influencing treatment decision making and the development of applied psychosocial interventions to enhance treatment decision making, quality of life, and post-treatment healthcare among both prostate and bladder cancer patients and their family caregivers. My current research is funded by the American Cancer Society (ACS), the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Cancer Institute.

Primary Interests:

  • Attitudes and Beliefs
  • Communication, Language
  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Health Psychology
  • Interpersonal Processes
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
  • Personality, Individual Differences
  • Research Methods, Assessment
  • Sexuality, Sexual Orientation

Journal Articles:

  • Diefenbach, M. A., Mohamed, N. E., Butz, B. P., Bar-Chama, N., Stock, R., Cesaretti, J., Hassan, W., Samadi, D., & Hall S. (2012). A pilot study to examine the feasibility and preliminary outcomes of an interactive, multimedia education and decision program for early-stage prostate cancer patients. Journal of Medical Informatics Research.
  • Diefenbach, M., & Mohamed, N. E. (2007). Regret of treatment decision and its association with disease-specific quality of life following prostate cancer treatment. Cancer Investigation, 25, 1-9.
  • Iberti, C., Mohamed, N. E., Palese, M. A. (2011). A review of focal therapy techniques in prostate cancer: Clinical results for high-intensity focused ultrasound and focal cryoablation. Urologic Oncology.
  • Lavery, H. J., Levinson, A. W., Hobbs, A., Sebrow, D., Mohamed, N., Diefenbach, M., & Samadi, D. B. (2012). Baseline functional status may predict decisional regret following robotic prostatectomy. Journal of Urology, 188(6), 2213-2218.
  • Luszczynska, A., Mohamed, N. E., & Schwarzer, R. (2005). Self-Efficacy and social support predict benefit finding 11 months after cancer surgery: The mediating role of coping. Psychology, Health, and Medicine, 10(3), 365-375.
  • Mohamed, N. E., & Böhmer, S. (2004). A German translation of the Benefit Finding Scale: Adaptation and psychometric properties. Medizinische Psychologie, 13, 85-91.
  • Mohamed, N. E., & Diefenbach, M. A. (2011). Differences between African American and white men in prostate cancer treatment-related expectations, worries, and decisional conflict and regret. Journal of Urology, 185(4), Supplement, e581-e582.
  • Mohamed, N. E., & Diefenbach, M. A. (2010). Bladder cancer treatment decision making: Results of patients’ interviews. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 39, 57.
  • Mohamed, N. E, Diefenbach, M. A., Honore, H., Latini, D., Lee, C., Hassan W., Philips C., & Hall, S. (2012). Invasive bladder cancer: From diagnosis to survivorship. Advances in Urology
  • Mohamed, N. E., Diefenbach, M., Montgomery, G. H., Hall, S. J., Bovbjerg, D. H. (2011). Pre-treatment depressive symptoms and treatment modality predict post-treatment disease-specific quality of life among patients with localized prostate cancer. Urologic Oncology.
  • Schulz, U., & Mohamed, N. E. (2004). Turning the tide: Benefit finding after cancer surgery. Social Science and Medicine, 59, 653-662.
  • Schwarzer, R., Böhmer, S., Luszczynska, A., Mohamed, N. E., & Knoll, N. (2005). Dispositional self-efficacy as a personal resource factor in coping after surgery. Personality & Individual Differences, 39, 807-818.
  • Stanton A, Marcus A., Morra M, Miller S, Diefenbach M, Slevin-Perocchia R, Raich P, Fleisher L, Wen K, Vu Tran Z, Mohamed N, George R, Bright MA . (in Press) Responding to a Significant Recruitment Challenge within Three Nationwide Psycho-Educational Trials for Cancer Patients. J Cancer Survivorship
  • Wu, L. Mohamed, N. E, Diefenbach, MA. (2012). Patient and spouse beliefs about treatment control and timeline, and quality of life in prostate cancer patients. Journal of Health Psychology

Other Publications:

  • Diefenbach, M., Mohamed, N. E., Turner, G., & Diefenbach, C. (2010). Psychosocial interventions for patients with cancer. In J. M. Suls, K. W. Davidson, & R. M. Kaplan (Eds.), Handbook of Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine (pp. 462-475). New York: Guilford.
  • Mohamed, N. E., & Mayers, S. (2002). Health and globalization. In R. Schwarzer, M. Jerusalem, & H. Weber (Eds.), Health Psychology: From A to Z (pp. 349-352). Goetingen: Hogrefe.

Courses Taught:

  • Advanced Topics in Health Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Introduction to Quantitative Methods
  • Physiological Psychology
  • Survey and Research Methods

Nihal E. Mohamed
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave L. Levy Place
New York, New York 10029
United States of America

  • Phone: (212) 241-8858
  • Fax: (212) 879-3246

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