Childhood obesity in Taiwan: review of the Taiwanese literature.

abstract：:This study determined the in-use effects of dry-fast and traditional hand-washing surgical scrubs among operating room staff members. This is a static group comparison study with purposive sampling. A total of 156 staff members were recruited in an operating room in a medical center located in southern Taiwan. The par...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Chen SH,Chou CY,Huang JC,Tang YF,Kuo YR,Chien LY

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Older adults reap many health benefits from aerobic exercise training; however, little is known about how to monitor the training responses in older adults with Alzheimer's disease. The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the correlation of objectively measured heart rate and subjectively reported perceived exe...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Yu F,Bil K

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores illness representations within Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy Portuguese Association newspaper . A content analysis was performed of the issue data using provisional coding related to the conceptual framework of the study. All dimensions of illness representation in Leventhal's Common Sense Mo...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Novais SA,Mendes FR

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthcare systems in aging societies need to find new solutions in the provision of care and treatment of older people. Gerotechnologies play a crucial role in the "aging-in-place" process. This article offers a critical overview of gerotechnological studies and will suggest a new approach in the study of the relatio...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Rodeschini G

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Chinese culture, as a possible consequence of Confucianism, caring for the sick is considered a moral obligation of family members, while self-care is only the basis of fulfilling filial piety. This qualitative study aims to explore the self-care behavior among persons with a permanent colostomy in a Chinese cultur...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Tao H,Songwathana P,Isaramalai SA,Wang Q

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of a self-efficacy enhancement program for the cardiac rehabilitation of Thai patients who had a myocardial infarction. Sixty-six hospitalized patients of various ages and both genders were randomly assigned to either an experimental or a control group. Participants in the experimental ...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Vibulchai N,Thanasilp S,Preechawong S

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the impact of service learning on healthcare students, educators, and community partners in Ireland. Using a qualitative approach with focus groups and interviews, 38 participants' perceptions of the impact of service learning were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed. The findings in relation t...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： McMenamin R,McGrath M,D'Eath M

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to cross-culturally explore the crucial and often conflicting issues of least restrictive placement of long-term psychiatric patients in Hawaii and Japan, and the need to provide high-quality care for such patients. Policy implications are discussed. A survey instrument facilitated the compari...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Anders RL,Kawano M,Mori C,Kokusho H,Tomai J

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotional and behavioral disorders in children are school-health concerns; however, Japanese screening tools for such disorders are not yet available. We examined the association between psychosocial functioning as measured by the Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) and self-rated health within school settings. A cross-...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Okuda M,Sekiya M,Okuda Y,Kunitsugu I,Yoshitake N,Hobara T

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing students with high levels of self-esteem and a strong ego-identity maintain a level of self-integrity that enables them to participate successfully in shared group values and interests while simultaneously meeting their own needs. Self-esteem and ego-identity are associated with academic achievement, major (ar...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Choi YJ

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper investigates what the term discharge planning actually means to nurses working in the acute care environment. A qualitative approach was used for this study. Twelve volunteer registered nurses (RNs) working in a large metropolitan Victorian public hospital were interviewed. All participants stated em...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Watts R,Gardner H

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many pregnant and post-partum women experience mental health problems, but midwives are frequently ill-equipped to provide support. The purpose of this study, conducted in Melbourne, Australia, was to examine first-year Bachelor of Midwifery students' mental health literacy about post-partum women with schizophrenia, ...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： McCann TV,Clark E

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is evidence of stigmatization of patients with Alzheimer's disease, few studies have evaluated stigma among family caregivers. This study was aimed at understanding the experiences of family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease within Iran. We conducted a qualitative study using hermeneutic ph...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Navab E,Negarandeh R,Peyrovi H,Navab P

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current prototype patient classification system in China has not been updated for over six decades. In the present study, we adopted a hybrid patient classification method using both disease severity and activities of daily living scores to classify patients. The time motion approach was used to measure the direct...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Bai Y,Yao A,Song Y,Xu G

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to identify risk factors for falls among institutionalized elderly, using the standardized risk assessment tool developed by Izumi. We examined 746 patients from three types of facilities: rehabilitation wards in four general hospitals, three long-term care facilities, and three nu...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Izumi K,Makimoto K,Kato M,Hiramatsu T

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on a comprehensive nursing research and development project carried out in the psychiatric admission unit of The Mental Hospital, Keropudas, Finland. The purpose of the project was to plan, implement and evaluate the functioning of the ward in order to orient it more towards patient-centered practic...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Lepola I,Blom-Lange M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the associations between social relationships and positive perceived health among Thai older persons. The data were taken from the 2002 National Elderly Survey in Thailand. The sample of this study included 24 664 elders aged > or = 60 years. Multiple logistic regression models were employed in thi...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Thanakwang K

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to clarify the perceptions of both infertile women accessing support services from local governments related to infertility treatment and the public servants providing that assistance. This cross-sectional descriptive study surveyed 62 local government staff members who managed medical expens...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Takabayashi C,Shimada K

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current local overweight-prevention protocols are not applied as intended by Dutch child healthcare physicians and nurses. The development of a training program for these practitioners, based on the Intervention Mapping framework, with the aim of improving overweight-prevention in a child's first year, is describe...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Dera-de Bie E,Gerver WJ,Jansen M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study is a secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional survey conducted among 129 parents of preschoolers from northwest Florida, USA. It examined the multi-mediating effect of parental feeding practices and parents' perception of child's weight in the relationships of family history of disease and child'...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Park SH,Park H

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to identify difficulties experienced by Korean disaster relief workers during humanitarian aid deployment. A convenience sample of disaster relief workers aged >18 years, who had been dispatched to an overseas disaster site, were recruited; 107 relief workers completed the Humanitarian...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Kwag M,Lee O

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the experiences of parents with children/adult children in metropolitan Sydney, Australia who were living with, or had recovered from, an eating disorder. During regular team meetings, the research assistant who conducted the interviews had described her reactions which led the research team t...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Beale B,Cole R,Hillege S,McMaster R,Nagy S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the nursing procedures carried out by emergency department nurses. This descriptive study was carried out between April and September 2015 in the emergency departments of two state hospitals and one university hospital in Turkey. The study population comprised 139 emergency nurse...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Dağ GS,Bişkin S,Gözkaya M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing number of nursing subspecializations have been developed in recent decades. Topics of concern are that care is not tailored to cope with the growing number of patients with more than one chronic disease, there is an increase in co-ordination problems in the care that is provided for this group of complex pat...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Latour CH,Huyse FJ,de Vos R,Stalman WA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined the prevalence of and factors associated with insomnia in rotating-shift nurses. A two-stage, cross-sectional, hospital-based study was conducted in eastern Taiwan. Participants were randomly-sampled, rotating-shift nurses (n=661), ranging in age from 21 to 62 years, with a mean age of 31.86 (sta...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Hsieh ML,Li YM,Chang ET,Lai HL,Wang WH,Wang SC

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study defined the structural patterns of subjectivity in the perception of cesarean birth. Q methodology was used on 71 statements collected through interviews with seven persons and a literature review followed. Twenty-nine Q samples were selected and administered to 22 persons, and four types of subjectivity we...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Park CS,Yeoum SG,Choi ES

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Professional quality of life is related to psychological well-being for nurses with implications for quality patient care. This study evaluated the effectiveness of emotional regulation training on depression, anxiety and stress, and professional quality of life for intensive and critical care nurses. In this experime...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Kharatzadeh H,Alavi M,Mohammadi A,Visentin D,Cleary M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade, the concept of the "complex patient" has not only been more widely used in multidisciplinary healthcare teams and across various healthcare disciplines, but it has also become more vacuous in meaning. The uptake of the concept of the "complex patient" spans across disciplines, such as medicine, n...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Manning E,Gagnon M

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain is a stressor for intensive care unit (ICU) patients, and inadequate pain assessment has been linked to increased morbidity and mortality. One hundred and twenty patients were evaluated during three periods: (T1) 1 min before, (T2) during, and (T3) 20 min after the nociceptive procedure. For each patient, data we...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： Erden S,Demir N,Ugras GA,Arslan U,Arslan S

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing faculty who desire to expand their research portfolios will benefit from collaboration with researchers with complimentary interests from different universities across the world. International collaboration can enhance the productivity of researchers who seek to conduct studies with similar populations in diff...

journal_title：Nursing & health sciences

authors： O'Keefe LC,Frith KH,Barnby E

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00