Anica Ilic MSc
Research Assistant (Prof. Dr. Gisela Michel)
T +41 41 229 59 64 • Inseliquai 10, Room 209 • anica.ilic@unilu.ch
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Anica Ilic holds a BSc in business administration from SUPSI, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, and a MSc in communication with major in health communication and management from USI, the University of Southern Switzerland. During and after her master studies, she 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. For her master’s thesis, she studied medical tourism intentions by applying the Theory of Planned Behavior. Anica started her PhD at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine of the University of Lucerne in April 2019. She collaborates as research assistant in several research projects within the team of Prof. Dr. Gisela Michel and as teaching assistant in the Master’s program in Health Sciences.
Research
The research focus of Anica Ilic is health communication. Her main research topics are information needs and information seeking in the context of health hazards and life-threatening situations.
Projects
Publications
- Roser, K., Baenziger, J., Ilic, A., Mitter, V. R., Mader, L., Dyntar, D., … Sommer, G. (2023). Health-related quality of life before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study. Quality of Life Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-023-03414-0
- Ilic, A., Roser, K., Sommer, G., Baenziger, J., Mitter, V. R., Mader, L., … Michel, G. (2022). COVID-19 Information-Seeking, Health Literacy, and Worry and Anxiety During the Early Stage of the Pandemic in Switzerland: A Cross-Sectional Study. International Journal of Public Health, 67, 1604717 ff. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7113369
- Christen, S., Roser, K., Mulder, R. L., Ilic, A., Lie, H. C., Melblom, A. V., … Michel, G. (2020). Recommendations for the Surveillance of Cancer-Related Fatigue in Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors: A Report from the International Late Effects of Childhood Cancer Guideline Harmonization Group. Journal of Cancer Survivorship, 14 (6), 923–938. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4282886
Achievements
- Understanding caregivers’ decision to vaccinate childhood cancer survivors against COVID-19. Poster, International Symposium on Late Complications after Childhood Cancer (ISLCCC) 2023, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Atlanta (GA), 2023
- Evaluation of educational materials aiming at promoting follow-up care attendance among adolescent and young adult childhood cancer survivors applying the Health Belief Model. (Panel) contribution, 4th PanCare Educational Day, PanCare Network, Torino, 2022
- Talking to children about their cancer or not? A systematic review on parents’ and healthcare providers’ preferences for information disclosure to children with cancer. (Panel) contribution, 27th PanCare Meeting, PanCare Network, Torino, 2022
- Information needs among family members affected by childhood cancer: A systematic review. (Panel) contribution, International Cancer Survivor Symposium, Inselspital Bern; University of Bern; University of Lucerne, Bern (webinar), 2022
- Health-related quality of life before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland. Lecture, Swiss Public Health Conference (SPHC): COVID-19 and the public health management of pandemics, Swiss Society for Public Health; Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+); Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, 2021
- To know or not to know? Health literacy and COVID-19 information-seeking behavior. (Panel) contribution, Swiss Public Health Conference (SPHC): COVID-19 and the public health management of pandemics, Swiss Society for Public Health; Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+); Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, 2021
- Quality of the partner relationship during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Panel) contribution, Swiss Public Health Conference (SPHC): COVID-19 and the public health management of pandemics, Swiss Society for Public Health; Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+); Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, 2021
- Childcare increased substantially for parents during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic in Switzerland. Lecture, Swiss Public Health Conference, The Swiss Society for Public Health and the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), Bern, 2021
- Post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lecture, Swiss Public Health Conference (SPHC): COVID-19 and the public health management of pandemics, The Swiss Society for Public Health and the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), Bern, 2021
- Recommendations for the Surveillance of Cancer-Related Fatigue in Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors: A Report from the International Late Effects of Childhood Cancer Guideline Harmonization Group. Lecture, 25th PanCare Meeting, PanCare, Utrecht (virtuelle Konferenz), 2021
- Information needs among family members affected by childhood cancer: A systematic review. Poster, 25th PanCare meeting, Princess Máxima Center, Utrecht (online), 2021
- 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
- COVID-19 information-seeking, health literacy, and worry and anxiety during the early stage of the pandemic in Switzerland: A cross-sectional study. Presentation, Research Seminar in Health Sciences, Department of Health Sciences and Medicine, Lucerne, 2022
- Information needs in childhood cancer: A systematic review of the literature on relatives of childhood cancer patients and survivors. Presentation, Research Seminar in Health Sciences, Department of Health Sciences and Medicine, Lucerne, 2020