Functional trajectory 6 months posthospitalization: a cohort study of older hospitalized patients in Taiwan.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preterm birth, defined as birth before the completion of 37 weeks of gestation, is a multifactorial global epidemic with psychosocial, economic, and physical ramifications affecting the child, family, and community at large. Toxic stress-the results of exposure to adverse childhood experiences-results in cha...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Kelly MM,Li K

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A causal model based on Lazarus' (1966) cognitively oriented theory of psychological stress and coping was tested in a functionally disabled population to determine the effects of social support variables, threat appraisal, and coping responses on coping effectiveness. Social support variables (perceived availability ...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： McNett SC

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about racial differences in health status and health behaviors of older adults, especially among the oldest old. OBJECTIVES:To investigate racial differences in health status and health behaviors of African American and Caucasian older adults and to identify factors that influence health beh...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Kim JS,Bramlett MH,Wright LK,Poon LW

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since management strategies are guided by the assessment of the symptom experience, agreement between patients' and nurses' perceptions of symptoms is central to clinical management. In this study, acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients' perceptions of 41 human immunodeficiency virus-related signs and symptoms w...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Reilly CA,Holzemer WL,Henry SB,Slaughter RE,Portillo CJ

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The focus of this descriptive study was the relationship between critical thinking, educational preparation, and level of moral judgment in 79 practicing nurses. The Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal Test was used to measure critical thinking; information on the participating nurses' educational preparation wa...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Ketefian S

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared primary and team nursing in three areas: quality of care, impact on nursing staff, and cost. Eight medical units in one hospital were evaluated. The study was conducted over a four-year period utilizing three phases: one preintervention phase and two postintervention phases. The study used multiple...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Gardner K

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Self-rated health status of the Latin American immigrant population in Spain varies by gender, education and doing physical exercise. Physical activity patterns have not been described. OBJECTIVE:The aims are to describe self-reported physical activity in adult Latin American immigrants living in Seville (S...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： González-López JR,Rodríguez-Gázquez Mde L,Lomas-Campos Mde L

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some nurse-driven interventions have successfully reduced rates of healthcare-associated infections, though incidence remains unacceptably high. Bacterial contamination in patient rooms may be a source of exposure for patients and thus a target for future interventions; however, few studies have investigated...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Cohen B,Spirito CM,Liu J,Cato KD,Larson E

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Considerable debate has occurred concerning the utility of different methods of obtaining joint counts and their usefulness in predicting outcomes in persons with rheumatoid arthritis. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to compare two methods of assessing disease activity in the joints (clinician joint...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Dwyer KA,Coty MB,Smith CA,Dulemba S,Wallston KA

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the intention-to-treat (ITT) principle, which involves maintaining study participants in the treatment groups to which they were randomized regardless of postrandomization withdrawal, is the recommended analytic approach for preserving the integrity of randomization, y...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Polit DF,Gillespie BM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With a national trend toward less aggressive treatment of hospitalized terminally ill patients, families increasingly participate in decisions to withdraw life-sustaining treatment. Although prior research indicates decision making is stressful for families, there have been no psychometric reports of actual ...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Tilden VP,Tolle SW,Nelson CA,Fields J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to describe self-care actions that healthy middle-aged women perform to promote well-being. The heterogenous sample of black and white women (N = 153) ranged in age from 40 to 59. Subjects responded to a structured interview guide based on Orem's Theory of Self-Care and a developmental ch...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Hartweg DL

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stratified, prospective cohort analysis was completed on 1,203 African American, Hispanic, and white women. All women were assessed for abuse at the first prenatal visit and twice more during pregnancy. They were also assessed for risk factors of low birth weight using Institute of Medicine correlates. Prevalence of...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： McFarlane J,Parker B,Soeken K

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index has been endorsed as a gauge of the quality of the nursing practice environment by several organizations in the United States promoting healthcare quality, there is no literature describing its use in different practice settings and countries....

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Warshawsky NE,Havens DS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the concept that a professional's awareness of concerns about her own death is helpful in the treatment of dying patients by using a fantasy of the subject's own life and death in relationship to her response to dying-patient statements. Data produced by this study supported this concept. The s...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Ross CW

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A multidisciplinary, multifaceted approach to disease management that incorporates the health system, the provider, and the patient is supported in the literature. There was a need to improve patient outcomes to meet or to exceed the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) benchmarks for the ma...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： McCraw WM,Kelley PW,Righero AM,Latimer R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Barthel Index (BI) is a frequently used measure of independence in the activities of daily living (ADLs). Item functioning of various versions of the BI have been examined using Rasch analysis. Item response theory (IRT) models for ordered polytomous responses may provide more insight into item functioni...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Liu W,Unick J,Galik E,Resnick B

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although pessimism and optimism are associated with health-related outcomes, the long-term effects of pessimism and optimism in the caregiving process are understudied, and little is known about their role in health changes over time. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether pessimism and optimism can be used as earl...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Lyons KS,Stewart BJ,Archbold PG,Carter JH,Perrin NA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:All infants exposed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prenatally, even those who do not become infected, are at risk for developmental problems because of poverty, prenatal substance abuse, and maternal illness. OBJECTIVES:The purpose was to describe the development of infants of mothers with HIV and to...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Holditch-Davis D,Miles MS,Burchinal M,O'Donnell K,McKinney R,Lim W

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the validity of the McCloskey/Mueller Satisfaction Scale (MMSS) in the West Bank, a dissimilar society and culture from the United States, where the instrument was developed. A second purpose was to measure the correlation between the MMSS total score and a single-item measure o...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Misener TR,Haddock KS,Gleaton JU,Abu Ajamieh AR

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Values of 75 graduate nursing students in one university school of nursing were compared at times of entry into the program and at the completion of one academic year of study. Gordon's Survey of Interpersonal Values and Survey of Personal Values and a questionnaire were used to collect data. The students' perceived i...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Williams MA,Bloch DW,Blair EM

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) observed on magnetic resonance images are associated with depression and increase the risk of stroke, dementia, and death. The association between physical activity and WMHs has been inconsistently reported in the literature, perhaps because studies did not account for a ...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Torres ER,Hoscheidt SM,Bendlin BB,Magnotta VA,Lancaster GD,Brown RL,Paradiso S

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methamphetamine is a commonly used illicit drug that threatens many adolescents and youth in Asian Pacific countries, contributing to the heavy burden of disease and drug-related death. Little is known about the prevalence of associated psychological problems in methamphetamine-dependent adolescents and yout...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Zhuang SM,Chen F

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Measurement of health-related quality of life (QOL) over time often yields results that may be difficult to understand. Patients may change their internal standards of QOL as a result of adaptation to deteriorating health, a phenomenon referred to as response shift. OBJECTIVES:To examine changes in internal...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Broberger E,Sprangers M,Tishelman C

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The efficacy of a nurse case-managed intervention was evaluated in subsamples of participants with one of the following characteristics: female gender, African American ethnicity, recruited from a homeless shelter, a history of military service, lifetime injection drug use, daily alcohol and drug use, poor p...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Nyamathi A,Nahid P,Berg J,Burrage J,Christiani A,Aqtash S,Morisky D,Leake B

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:: Sleep disturbance is a significant health issue in pregnant women. Although previous studies contribute to an understanding of the multifactorial nature of pregnancy-related sleep disturbance, objective measures of sleep were not included, and so data may be subject to recall and potential participant self...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Tsai SY,Kuo LT,Lai YH,Lee CN

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Event history calendars are used to collect retrospective data about events and life transitions over short and long periods of time. Event history calendars are highly structured, but flexible, approaches to interviewing respondents about past events that use their own past experiences as cues to rememberin...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Martyn KK,Belli RF

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The articles in this supplement illustrate the potential value of developing an international research agenda on the science of knowledge translation. Building on the suggestions made by the contributors to the supplement, we offer a number of topics for such an agenda. ...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Graham ID,Tetroe J

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the establishment of a data base for use when assessing body temperature in patients receiving aerosol therapy by face mask. Thirty subjects participated in two different treatment situations. Baseline temperature recordings were taken while subjects had heated aerosol administered through a st...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Yonkman CA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies about nurse staffing and patient outcomes often lack adequate risk adjustment because of limited access to patient information. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to examine the impact of patient-level risk adjustment on the associations of unit-level nurse staffing and 30-day inpatient mortality. ...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： He J,Almenoff PL,Keighley J,Li YF

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00