Catherine Chesla, RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor Emeritus
Family Health Care Nursing
School of Nursing

Awards

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• 100th Anniversary Alumni Excellence Award, UCSF Alumni Association, 2015
• President (elected), International Family Nursing Association, 2013-2015
• Helen Nahm Research Lecture, University of California, San Francisco, 2013
• Excellence in Teaching-- Research Mentorship, UCSF School of Nursing, 2011
• Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair in Ethics and Spirituality, UCSF, 2008
• Distinguished Contributions to Family Nursing Research, International Family Nursing Conference, 2007
• Fellow, American Academy of Nursing, 2003

Education & Training

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• PhD School of Nursing University of California, San Francisco 1988
• Masters of Science Nursing University of Washington 1978
• BSN College of St Teresa 1974

Grants and Projects

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• CBPR with Immigrant Chinese with Diabetes, NIH, 2008-2013
• Family Processes in Chinese Americans with Diabetes, NIH, 2004-2009
• Interpretive Study of Family Caregiving Relationships, NIH, 1989-1900
• Family Care of a Schizophrenia: an Interpretive Study, NIH, 1987-1900

Publications (81)

Top publication keywords:
FamilyNursing StaffFamily HealthAcculturationStress, PsychologicalLife StyleFamily RelationsDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Nursing ResearchAdaptation, PsychologicalNursing Methodology ResearchFamily NursingAttitude to HealthSelf CareEmigrants and Immigrants

• Biculturalism in couple support for diabetes care in U.S.-born Chinese Americans.
  Research in nursing & health 2019 Chesla CA, Chun KM, Kwan CML
• System-Level Barriers and Facilitators for Foregoing or Withdrawing Dialysis: A Qualitative Study of Nephrologists in the United States and England.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2017 Grubbs V, Tuot DS, Powe NR, O'Donoghue D, Chesla CA
• Cultural Adaptation of the Group Lifestyle Balance Program for Chinese Americans.
  The Diabetes educator 2016 Chesla CA, Chun KM, Kwong Y, Gay CL, Chi HL, Gu Y, Hernandez L, Huang P, Strycker LA, Ma J
• Acculturation and bicultural efficacy effects on Chinese American immigrants' diabetes and health management.
  Journal of behavioral medicine 2016 Chun KM, Kwan CM, Strycker LA, Chesla CA
• Gender differences in factors related to diabetes management in Chinese American immigrants.
  Western journal of nursing research 2014 Chesla CA, Kwan CM, Chun KM, Stryker L
• Testing the efficacy of culturally adapted coping skills training for Chinese American immigrants with type 2 diabetes using community-based participatory research.
  Research in nursing & health 2013 Chesla CA, Chun KM, Kwan CM, Mullan JT, Kwong Y, Hsu L, Huang P, Strycker LA, Shum T, To D, Kao R, Waters CM
• Cultural Norms Shaping Research Group Interviews with Chinese American Immigrants.
  Asian American journal of psychology 2011 Kwan CM, Chun KM, Chesla CA
• "So We Adapt Step by Step": Acculturation experiences affecting diabetes management and perceived health for Chinese American immigrants.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2010 Chun KM, Chesla CA, Kwan CM
• Do family interventions improve health?
  Journal of family nursing 2010 Chesla CA

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• Predictors of Psychological Distress Among Rural Family/Friend Caregivers of People Living With Dementia in the United States: Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2024 Santoyo-Olsson J, Covinsky KE, Chesla CA, Lorig K, Gallagher-Thompson D, Cheng J, Luzanilla M, Macias Romo E, Aguayo Ramirez G, Karliner L, Yank V
• Japanese and U.S. Cultural Exchange: Caring for Aging Family Members in the Community.
  Journal of family nursing 2023 Anderson JG, Chesla CA, Fukahori H, Sakka M, Honda J, Ikeda M
• Study protocol for a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of the Building Better Caregivers online workshop for rural family/friend caregivers of people living with dementia.
  Contemporary clinical trials 2022 Santoyo-Olsson J, Lorig K, Romo EM, Luzanilla M, Ramirez GA, Cheng J, Chesla C, Covinsky KE, Karliner L, Thompson DG, Fahrenwald N, Yank V
• Managing Type 2 Diabetes: Beliefs and Daily Practices in First Generation Asian Indians in the United States.
  SAGE open nursing 2022 Deol RM, Thompson LM, Chun KM, Chesla C
• Managing the tension between caring and charting: Labor and delivery nurses' experiences of the electronic health record.
  Research in nursing & health 2021 Wisner K, Chesla CA, Spetz J, Lyndon A
• Beliefs About the Causes of Type 2 Diabetes Among First-Generation Asian Indians in the United States.
  Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society 2021 Deol RM, Thompson LM, Chun KM, Chesla C
• Preventing Type 2 Diabetes Among Midlife Women: A Feasibility Study Comparing a Combined Sleep and Lifestyle Intervention With a Standard Lifestyle Intervention.
  The Diabetes educator 2020 Chesla CA, Gay C, Bauer L, Bender MS, Lee K
• The Lived Experience of Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes-Related Distress.
  Journal of gerontological nursing 2020 Hernandez L, Leutwyler H, Cataldo J, Kanaya A, Swislocki A, Chesla C
• Symptom Experience of Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetes-Related Distress.
  Nursing research 2019 Hernandez L, Leutwyler H, Cataldo J, Kanaya A, Swislocki A, Chesla C
• Shared Medical Appointments: An Innovative Model to Reduce Health Disparities Among Latinxs With Type-2 Diabetes.
  Western journal of nursing research 2019 Noya CE, Chesla C, Waters C, Alkon A
• Dialysis or Death: A Qualitative Study of Older Patients' and Their Families' Understanding of Kidney Failure Treatment Options in a US Public Hospital Setting.
  Kidney medicine 2019 Karlin J, Chesla CA, Grubbs V
• Couples' Experiences of Maternal Postpartum Depression.
  Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN 2019 O'Brien AJ, Chesla CA, Humphreys JC
• Family Involvement in Decisions to Forego or Withdraw Dialysis: A Qualitative Study of Nephrologists in the United States and England.
  Kidney medicine 2019 Grubbs V, Tuot DS, Powe NR, O'Donoghue D, Chesla CA
• The electronic health record's impact on nurses' cognitive work: An integrative review.
  International journal of nursing studies 2019 Wisner K, Lyndon A, Chesla CA
• Women's experiences when unsure about whether or not to have an abortion in the first trimester.
  Health care for women international 2018 Kjelsvik M, Sekse RJT, Moi AL, Aasen EM, Chesla CA, Gjengedal E
• Like Mother, Like Child: The Influences of Maternal Attitudes and Behaviors on Weight-Related Health Behaviors in Their Children.
  Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society 2018 Chen JL, Guo J, Esquivel JH, Chesla CA
• "It Feels More Real": An Interpretive Phenomenological Study of the Meaning of Video Games in Adolescent Lives.
  ANS. Advances in nursing science 2017 Forsyth SR, Chesla CA, Rehm RS, Malone RE
• Understanding barriers to medication, dietary, and lifestyle treatments prescribed in polycystic kidney disease.
  BMC nephrology 2017 Tran WC, Huynh D, Chan T, Chesla CA, Park M
• "I don't have to explain, people understand": Acceptability and Cultural Relevance of a Mobile Health Lifestyle Intervention for Filipinos with Type 2 Diabetes.
  Ethnicity & disease 2017 Maglalang DD, Yoo GJ, Ursua RA, Villanueva C, Chesla CA, Bender MS
• Risk factors for obesity in preschool-aged children in China.
  International nursing review 2017 Chen JL, Esquivel JH, Guo J, Chesla CA, Tang S
• Spiritual Healing Practices Among Rural Postpartum Thai Women.
  Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society 2014 Elter PT, Kennedy HP, Chesla CA, Yimyam S
• Assessing the cultural in culturally sensitive printed patient-education materials for Chinese Americans with type 2 diabetes.
  Health communication 2014 Ho EY, Tran H, Chesla CA
• Psychological pain and reduced resting-state heart rate variability in adults with a history of depression.
  Psychophysiology 2014 Meerwijk EL, Chesla CA, Weiss SJ
• Parental advocacy styles for special education students during the transition to adulthood.
  Qualitative health research 2013 Rehm RS, Fisher LT, Fuentes-Afflick E, Chesla CA
• Weaving dreamcatchers: mothering among American Indian women who were teen mothers.
  Journal of advanced nursing 2013 Palacios JF, Strickland CJ, Chesla CA, Kennedy HP, Portillo CJ
• Health and psychosocial outcomes in U.S. adult patients with diabetes from diverse ethnicities.
  Current diabetes reports 2012 Naranjo D, Hessler DM, Deol R, Chesla CA
• Coming out for a third time: transmen, sexual orientation, and identity.
  Archives of sexual behavior 2012 Rowniak S, Chesla C
• Effect of culturally tailored diabetes education in ethnic minorities with type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis.
  The Journal of cardiovascular nursing 2012 Nam S, Janson SL, Stotts NA, Chesla C, Kroon L
• Embodied meanings of early childbearing among American Indian women: a turning point.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2012 Palacios J, Chesla C, Kennedy H, Strickland J
• Parent and youth priorities during the transition to adulthood for youth with special health care needs and developmental disability.
  ANS. Advances in nursing science 2012 Rehm RS, Fuentes-Afflick E, Fisher LT, Chesla CA
• Transmen: the HIV risk of gay identity.
  AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education 2011 Rowniak S, Chesla C, Rose CD, Holzemer WL
• Health communication with Chinese Americans about type 2 diabetes.
  The Diabetes educator 2011 Ho EY, Chesla CA, Chun KM
• Working with culture: culturally appropriate mental health care for Asian Americans.
  Journal of advanced nursing 2011 Park M, Chesla CA, Rehm RS, Chun KM
• Barriers to diabetes management: patient and provider factors.
  Diabetes research and clinical practice 2011 Nam S, Chesla C, Stotts NA, Kroon L, Janson SL
• Learning formative skills of nursing practice in an accelerated program.
  Qualitative health research 2010 McNiesh S, Benner P, Chesla C
• Factors associated with psychological insulin resistance in individuals with type 2 diabetes.
  Diabetes care 2010 Nam S, Chesla C, Stotts NA, Kroon L, Janson SL
• Barriers and facilitators: parolees' perceptions of community health care.
  Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care 2009 Marlow E, White MC, Chesla CA
• Challenges and struggles: lived experiences of individuals with co-occurring disorders.
  Archives of psychiatric nursing 2009 Villena AL, Chesla CA
• Cultural and family challenges to managing type 2 diabetes in immigrant Chinese Americans.
  Diabetes care 2009 Chesla CA, Chun KM, Kwan CM
• Prison experiences and the reintegration of male parolees.
  ANS. Advances in nursing science 2009 Marlow E, Chesla C
• Conducting a qualitative culture study of pediatric palliative care.
  Qualitative health research 2008 Davies B, Larson J, Contro N, Reyes-Hailey C, Ablin AR, Chesla CA, Sourkes B, Cohen H
• Translational research: essential contributions from interpretive nursing science.
  Research in nursing & health 2008 Chesla CA
• Living with chronic illness: a phenomenological study of the health effects of the patient-provider relationship.
  Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners 2008 Fox S, Chesla C
• Revisiting Confucianism as a conceptual framework for Asian family study.
  Journal of family nursing 2007 Park M, Chesla C
• Relational patterns of couples living with chronic pelvic pain from endometriosis.
  Qualitative health research 2007 Strzempko Butt F, Chesla C
• Interventions for the family with diabetes.
  The Nursing clinics of North America 2006 Cole I, Chesla CA
• Building a new world: habits and practices of healing following the death of a child.
  Journal of family nursing 2006 Gudmundsdottir M, Chesla CA
• Family nursing: challenges and opportunities: the hand that feeds us: strings and restrictions on funding for family nursing research.
  Journal of family nursing 2005 Chesla CA
• Nursing science and chronic illness: articulating suffering and possibility in family life.
  Journal of family nursing 2005 Chesla CA
• Accommodating type 2 diabetes in the Chinese American family.
  Qualitative health research 2005 Chesla CA, Chun KM
• Family and disease management in African-American patients with type 2 diabetes.
  Diabetes care 2004 Chesla CA, Fisher L, Mullan JT, Skaff MM, Gardiner P, Chun K, Kanter R
• Disease management advice provided to African-American and Chinese-American patients with type 2 diabetes.
  Diabetes care 2004 Fisher L, Skaff MM, Chesla CA, Chun KM, Mullan JT, Kanter RA, Gardiner PS
• Patient-appraised couple emotion management and disease management among Chinese American patients with type 2 diabetes.
  Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) 2004 Fisher L, Chesla CA, Chun KM, Skaff MM, Mullan JT, Kanter RA, Gardiner PS
• Parents' perspectives of asthma crisis hospital management in infants and toddlers: an interpretive view through the lens of attachment theory.
  Journal of pediatric nursing 2003 Koenig K, Chesla CA, Kennedy CM
• Family predictors of disease management over one year in Latino and European American patients with type 2 diabetes.
  Family process 2003 Chesla CA, Fisher L, Skaff MM, Mullan JT, Gilliss CL, Kanter R
• Psychological morbidity of Thai families of a person with schizophrenia.
  International journal of nursing studies 2002 Rungreangkulkij S, Chafetz L, Chesla C, Gilliss C
• Contributors to depression in Latino and European-American patients with type 2 diabetes.
  Diabetes care 2001 Fisher L, Chesla CA, Mullan JT, Skaff MM, Kanter RA
• Smooth a heart with water: Thai mothers care for a child with schizophrenia.
  Archives of psychiatric nursing 2001 Rungreangkulkij S, Chesla C
• Differences in personal models among Latinos and European Americans: implications for clinical care.
  Diabetes care 2000 Chesla CA, Skaff MM, Bartz RJ, Mullan JT, Fisher L
• The family and disease management in Hispanic and European-American patients with type 2 diabetes.
  Diabetes care 2000 Fisher L, Chesla CA, Skaff MM, Gilliss C, Mullan JT, Bartz RJ, Kanter RA, Lutz CP
• Disease management status: a typology of Latino and Euro-American patients with type 2 diabetes.
  Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.) 2000 Fisher L, Chesla CA, Skaff MA, Gilliss C, Kanter RA, Lutz CP, Bartz RJ
• Resolving disease management problems in European-American and Latino couples with type 2 diabetes: the effects of ethnicity and patient gender.
  Family process 2000 Fisher L, Gudmundsdottir M, Gilliss C, Skaff M, Mullan J, Kanter R, Chesla C
• The family and type 2 diabetes: a framework for intervention.
  The Diabetes educator 1998 Fisher L, Chesla CA, Bartz RJ, Gilliss C, Skaff MA, Sabogal F, Kanter RA, Lutz CP
• Growing up with congenital heart disease: the dilemmas of adolescents and young adults [see comment].
  Cardiology in the young 1998 Tong EM, Sparacino PS, Messias DK, Foote D, Chesla CA, Gilliss CL
• The dilemmas of parents of adolescents and young adults with congenital heart disease.
  Heart & lung : the journal of critical care 1997 Sparacino PS, Tong EM, Messias DK, Foote D, Chesla CA, Gilliss CL
• Breakdown in the nursing care of families in the ICU.
  American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 1997 Chesla CA, Stannard D
• Reconciling technologic and family care in critical-care nursing.
  Image--the journal of nursing scholarship 1996 Chesla CA
• Caregiving demands of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
  Journal of community health nursing 1993 Martinson IM, Chesla C, Muwaswes M
• The phenomenology of knowing the patient.
  Image--the journal of nursing scholarship 1993 Tanner CA, Benner P, Chesla C, Gordon DR
• When qualitative and quantitative findings do not converge.
  Western journal of nursing research 1992 Chesla CA
• From beginner to expert: gaining a differentiated clinical world in critical care nursing.
  ANS. Advances in nursing science 1992 Benner P, Tanner C, Chesla C
• Parents' illness models of schizophrenia.
  Archives of psychiatric nursing 1989 Chesla CA