Margaret Sebern
Assistant Professor
Office Phone (414) 288-3839
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Specialization

Highest Degree/School
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago

Brief Statement of Scholarly Interests
Dr. Sebern's interest is to test a specific dyadic nursing intervention, the Shared Care Dyadic Intervention, with home health care heart failure patients and their family caregivers. The goal of the dyadic intervention is to improve relationship processes used to exchange satisfactory support, improve health outcomes, and reduce the cost of heart failure care.

Additional Descriptors
The conceptual base of the Shared Care Dyadic Intervention is a construct developed in Dr. Sebern’s prior work, called Shared Care. Shared Care is a system of three relationship processes (communication, decision making, and reciprocity) used to exchange satisfactory support. Data from 3 cross-sectional studies with home health patients and their family caregivers supported relationships between components of Shared Care and mutuality, relationship quality, depression, and self-care in HF. The Shared Care Conceptual model is proposed to link social support to self-care and better health. A feasibility study supported the acceptability of the Shared Care Dyadic Intervention in home health care. This work reflects experience with over 400 home care patients and family caregivers, and suggests that augmenting process of Shared Care may improve care outcomes for both care partners.

Descriptive Titles of Courses Recently Taught

Selected Publications

Sebern M, Woda A. ( in press) Shared Care Dyadic Intervention: Outcome patterns for heart failure care partners. Western Journal of Nursing Research.

Brennan, P., Casper, G., Burke, L., Johnson, K., Brown; R., Valdez, R., Sebern., M., Perez, O., Sturgeon., (2010). "Technology-enhanced  practice for patients with chronic cardiac disease home implementation and evaluation.  Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care. 39, 6S.

Sebern, M., & Riegel, B. (2009). Shared care and self-care in family dyads managing heart failure. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 8, 97-104.

Sebern, M., & Riegel, B. (in press). Shared care and self care in family dyads managing heart failure. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Sebern, M.D. (2008). Refinement of the Shared Care Instrument-Revised: A measure of a family care interaction. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 16, (1), 43-60.

Sebern, M.D. and Whitlatch, C. (2007). Dyadic Relationship Scale: A Measure of the Impact of the Provision and Receipt of Family Care. Gerontologist, 47, (6), 741-751.

Brennan, P.F., Burke, L., Casper, G., Sebern, M., Krause, C., et al. (2006). Creating technology-enhanced practice: A university-home care-corporate alliance. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 122, 644-648.

Brennan, P.F., Burke, L, Sebern, M., Casper, G., & Murphy, J. (2006). “Wait, wait – you can’t do that!” Reflections on a Nursing Informatics Partnership, H. Park (Ed.), Proceedings, NI 2006.

Brennan, P.F., Casper, G., Burke, L., Sebern, M., Krause, C., Kossman, S., Severtson, L., Murphy, J. (In Press) Creating technology-enhanced practice: A university-home care-corporate alliance. 9th International Congress on Nursing Informatics, Seoul, Korea, June 2006.

Sebern, M.D. (2005) Psychometric evaluation of the Shared Care Instrument in a sample of home health care family dyads. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 13, (3).

Sebern, M.D. (2005) Shared care, patient and family member skills used to manage burden. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 52, (2): 170- 179.

Riegel, B, Carlson, B, Moser, DK, Sebern, M, Hicks, FD, Roland, V. (2004) Psychometric Testing of the Self-Care of Heart Failure Index. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 10 (4): 350-360.

Sebern, M.D. (1996). Explication of the construct of shared care and the prevention of pressure sores in home health care. Research in Nursing and Health, 19, 183-192

Extramural Grants or Awards

2010-2011 John A. Hartford Foundation , Faculty Learning About Geriatrics  Fellow (FLAG), MN Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing, and the University of Minnesota School of Nursing

2009 Assistant Adjunct Professor, Clinical and Translational Research Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin.

American Association Heart Failure Nurses 2008 award for best research poster presentation. Contributions of close relationships to heart failure self care. Presented at the American Association Heart Failure Nurses 4th Annual Meeting, June 26-28, 2008. Boston, MA.

John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, Scholar for 2003 Geriatric Nursing Research Scholars and Fellows Program.

Sebern, M. (2003-2005) Shared care and the quality of family dyad’s relationship. Role Principal Investigator. Funded $4,000, UW-Madison T32 Patient Centered Interventions NINR T32 NR07102.

Sebern, M. Marquette University Research Development Program (2008). Shared Care Intervention for Heart Failure Patients and Family Caregivers. Awarded $2,300

Sebern, M. Marquette University Regular Research Grant (2007). Pilot test the Shared Care Intervention to enhance supportive relationships and heart failure management in family care. Awarded $5,979.20.

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Websites for Research Collaborative

Dr. Roger Brown
http://medresearchconsult.com/index.html

Dr. Scott Adams
http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/economics/faculty/adams.cfm

 


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