Anica Ilic MSc
Research Assistant (Prof. Dr. Gisela Michel)
T +41 41 229 59 64 • Inseliquai 10, Room 209 • anica.ilic@unilu.ch
CV
Anica holds a BSc in Business Administration issued by SUPSI, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, and a MSc in Communication with major in healthcare communication and management issued by USI, the University of Southern Switzerland. In her master’s degree, Anica studied medical tourism intentions among adults living in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland, by applying the Theory of Planned Behavior. During her master’s studies and after having obtained the master’s degree, Anica worked as a research assistant at the USI Institute of Communication and Health (ICH), where she mainly collaborated at the Mediaticino2.0 project, a longitudinal study funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) that focuses on the outcomes of mobile media use on the wellbeing of adolescents. Anica started her PhD at the Department of Health Sciences and Medicine of the University of Lucerne in April 2019. She currently works in the team of Prof. Dr. Gisela Michel at the Grandparents Project, a study funded by the SNSF that investigates grandparents’ involvement and psychosocial outcomes when a grandchild is diagnosed with cancer.
Research
- Childhood cancer: family involvement, psychosocial outcomes, and late effects
- Information needs in families of children with cancer
- Quantitative research
Projects
Publications
Achievements
Contribution/presentation at a scientific conference
- Information needs among family members affected by childhood cancer: A systematic review. Poster, Swiss Public Health Conference 2020 «From Evidence to Public Health Policy and Practice», Swiss Society for Public Health and Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), Lucerne, 2020
- Recommendations for the Surveillance of Cancer-Related Fatigue in Survivors of Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancers. Poster, Swiss Public Health Conference 2020, Public Health Schweiz; SSPH+; Universität Luzern, Luzern (virtuelle Konferenz), 2020
- Post-traumatic growth in parents of long-term childhood cancer survivors and parents of the general population. Poster, 51st Annual Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), Lyon, 2019
- Post-traumatic growth in parents of long-term childhood cancer survivors compared to parents of the general population. Lecture, 33rd Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society, European Health Psychology Society, Croatian Psychological Association & its Division of Health Psychology, Dubrovnik, 2019
- Post-traumatic growth in parents of long-term childhood cancer survivors and parents of the general population. Lecture, 24th PanCare Meeting Basel, PanCare Network, Basel, 2019
- Grandparents’ involvement and psychosocial outcomes when a grand child is diagnosed with cancer: Acute and long-term outcomes. (Panel) contribution, 24th PanCare Meeting, PanCare Committee, Basel, 2019
- Post-traumatic growth in parents of long-term childhood cancer survivors and parents of the general population. Lecture, Swiss Public Health Conference, Public Health Schweiz; Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), Winterthur, 2019