Kelly E. Tenzek

University at Buffalo, State University of New York — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

15h-index844citations50works0.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health(16), Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues(13), Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology(8), Family Support in Illness(8), Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life(5)

Publications50 total

Extending the Health Belief Model (HBM): Integrating Relational Dynamics into a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Risk Perception Framework for Women Who Have Sex with Women (WSW).
PubMed·2026
“COVID robbed me of that”: navigating final conversations and grief during the COVID-19 pandemic
Communication Quarterly·2026
“Those conversations are extremely vivid in my mind some 40+ years later. They haunt me.” investigating reconstrual, final conversations, and posttraumatic growth in a military context
Death Studies·2026
Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias in the Deaf Community: A Scoping Review
Public Health Reports·2026Open Access
Religious Traditions and Grief in the USA: When it’s Less About G-d and More About the People
Journal of Religion and Health·2025
Doctor–Patient Deprescribing Conversations: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Quality Assurance Recordings
Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology·2025
Stopping aggressive treatment or hoping for a miracle: an analysis of spiritual care messages for terminally ill patients using the National Survey of religious leaders
Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy·2025
Embracing Endings: Unveiling the Connection Between Final Conversations, the Opportunity Model for Presence, and Coping With the Death of Our Parents
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying·2024· 4 cited
Pushing the boundaries: an evaluation of the Photographs of Meaning (POM) program for pediatric palliative caregivers (PPCGs)
Journal of Applied Communication Research·2024
Electronic health record competency in graduate nurses: A grounded theory study
Nurse Education Today·2023· 8 cited
Shouts from the Void: A Mixed-Method Analysis Surrounding the Online Chronic Illness Community, NEISVoid
Health Communication·2023· 2 cited
Control Task Analysis of the Deprescription Process: A Pilot Study
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting·2023· 1 cited
Survivors’ perspectives on saying goodbye: Implications for end-of-life engagement across the lifespan and grieving process
Death Studies·2023· 5 cited
Staying connected: Alzheimer's hashtags and opportunities for engagement and overcoming stigma
Journal of Aging Studies·2023· 9 cited
Mediated depictions of mental health, chronic care and literacy: a narrative analysis of Randall’s mental health journey in the television series, This is Us
Frontiers in Psychiatry·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to develop a Deprescribing Intervention
2023Open Access
Clinician Communication in Hospice: Constructions of Reality Throughout the End-of-Life Process
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying·2022· 10 cited
Family Communication at the End of Life
Advances in linguistics and communication studies·2022· 3 cited
Difficult dialogues about death: applying risk orders theory to analyse chaplains’ provision of end-of-life care
Health Risk & Society·2022· 4 cited
Exploring Web-Based Twitter Conversations Surrounding National Healthcare Decisions Day and Advance Care Planning From a Sociocultural Perspective: Computational Mixed Methods Analysis
JMIR Formative Research·2022· 11 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Rachel M. Depner(12), Pei C. Grant(11), Kathryn Levy(9), Tahleen A. Lattimer(9), Megan E. Pailler(7), Lynda K. Beaupin(7), Jihyun Kim(5), Amy May(5), Bonnie M. Nickels(4), David J. Byrwa(4), Erin Brewer‐Spritzer(4), Mike Allen(4), Yotam Ophir(4), Hayeon Song(3), Jennifer M. Breier(3), Emily Cramer(3), Anna R. Herrman(3), Suzanne S. Sullivan(3), Emily Scheinfeld(3), Robert G. Wahler(3)