Understanding Expectancies in Cancer Symptom Management (R01 Clinical Trial Required)

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) supports research on expectancy-generating factors and measures of their effects on expectancies and subsequent cancer symptom management outcomes. The research aims to understand how and why expectancy effects occur in a cancer context, elucidate their role in cancer symptom management, and identify patients, symptoms, cancer sites, and contexts in which expectancy effects can be leveraged to improve cancer outcomes. Some key points to consider: • The program is particularly interested in applications that enroll individuals and groups from populations historically underrepresented or excluded from biomedical and behavioral research. • Expectancies are defined as beliefs about future outcomes, including one's response to cancer or cancer treatment. • Expectancy effects are the cognitive, behavioral, and biological outcomes caused by expectancies. • The opportunity is open to various types of applicants, including independent school districts, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, and non-profits.