Focus group interview: a research technique for informed nursing practice.

abstract：AIM:This paper reports findings of a study to examine the independent contribution of chest pain, fatigue and dyspnoea to health-related quality of life in people with chronic stable angina. BACKGROUND:People with chronic stable angina experience poorer quality of life in multiple areas including physical and emotiona...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Kimble LP,Dunbar SB,Weintraub WS,McGuire DB,Manzo SF,Strickland OL

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study aims to evaluate the effects of a community-based program entitled 'Brain Vitality Enhancement (BRAVE)' on the cognitive function, physical and mental well-being of persons with mild cognitive impairment. STUDY DESIGN:This is a parallel wait list randomized controlled trial. METHODS:The BRAVE program c...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Li PWC,Yu DSF,Siu PM,Wong SCK

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three variables were experimentally manipulated by simulation measurement using six vignettes in a completely randomized, partial hierarchical, experimental design: medical diagnosis (AIDS v. non-AIDS), sexual orientation (heterosexual v. homosexual) and intravenous drug-use history (IVDU v. non-IVDU). Following each ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Forrester DA,Murphy PA

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study to illustrate the unique relationship between role stress and job satisfaction and provide recommendations for advanced nursing practice in Taiwan. BACKGROUND:International literature has shown that work role-related stress experienced by staff nurses predicts role strain, which i...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Chen YM,Chen SH,Tsai CY,Lo LY

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the moderating effects of work overload and supervisor support on the emotional exhaustion-depressive state relationship. BACKGROUND:Burnout and depression are prevalent in human service professionals and have a detrimental impact on clients. Work overload and supervisor support are two key job dem...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Weigl M,Stab N,Herms I,Angerer P,Hacker W,Glaser J

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To systematically review the effectiveness of vinegar consumption in improving glycaemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. DESIGN:A systematic review and meta-analysis. REVIEW SOURCES:The CINAHL, Excerpta Medica database (EMBASE), Medline, PubMed, Scopus and Cochrane databases were searched in Apri...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Cheng LJ,Jiang Y,Wu VX,Wang W

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This paper presents a discussion of the learning history research method, including a description of how to conduct a learning history. Suggested applications of the method in research and clinical practice are also provided. BACKGROUND:Organizational learning has been linked to improved clinical performance and ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Lyman B,Moore C

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on utilization of hospital services by South Asian patients in the United Kingdom have consistently demonstrated levels of dissatisfaction with care in relation to meeting religious and cultural needs, although there are few studies on minority ethnic patients' utilization of acute hospital services. This stud...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Vydelingum V

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A situational analysis had demonstrated a need to help staff within an orthopaedic/trauma unit review past and plan future learning. One way of doing this is through the preparation of a portfolio. An action research project was undertaken to explore two research questions: Is the process of portfolio preparation in i...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Cayne JV

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aims of this study were to develop an understanding of the lived experience of the Post Anaesthetic Unit Recovery Nurse facilitating Advanced Directives and implications for patient-centred care. DESIGN:Interpretive phenomenological analysis. METHODS:Homogenized purposive sampling of six Registered Nurses us...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： McKinnon M,Donnelly F,Perry J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little information exists in the literature to assist the nurse in understanding people of ethnic minority group status who become hospitalized in an acute-care setting. Research on these populations has primarily centred on out-patient service utilization and on folk health practices, yet the process of becoming hosp...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Mardiros M

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This paper is a report of a study with three aims: (i) to investigate whether emotional, quantitative and physical demands have a causal, negative impact on nurses' health; (ii) to examine whether work-home interference can explain this effect, by playing a mediating role; and (iii) to test the so-called loss spir...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： van der Heijden BI,Demerouti E,Bakker AB,NEXT Study Group coordinated by Hans-Martin Hasselhorn.

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The move to one level of qualified nurse in the United Kingdom (UK) is, in part, a consequence of professionalizing strategies. Registered nurses now undertake technical work previously performed by doctors. The role of enrolled nurses, and their career intentions, have not been considered in light of these ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Iley K

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unanticipated finding of a small exploratory study of the health of never-married women in old age is discussed. Focused conversational interviews yielded evidence of the potent effect the mother-daughter relationship had in a group of women who had lived for all their adult lives in the parental home. Usually moth...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Webb C

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of a 7-day Retrospective Diary to assess peri-conceptual and mid-pregnancy alcohol consumption. BACKGROUND:Alcohol consumption among women has increased significantly and is of international concern. Heavy episodic ('binge') drinking is commonplace and is associated w...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Symon A,Rankin J,Sinclair H,Butcher G,Barclay K,Gordon R,MacDonald M,Smith L

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study to explore nurses' competence as revealed during an admission assessment. BACKGROUND:Studies of nursing competence and of models of competence have become virtually synonymous with the five-stage developmental model applied to nursing by Benner. However, the model has been critici...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Rischel V,Larsen K,Jackson K

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper demonstrates how a health authority can use personnel records of nurses' working histories as an effective tool in manpower planning. Suggestions are given as to how these histories might be analysed and interpreted. Methods described range from the use of simple summary statistics and graphical methods to ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Barry JT,Soothill KL,Francis BJ

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to identify the stressors perceived by individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to describe coping strategies used to cope with illness-related stressors and their perceived effectiveness. Data were collected from 53 patients attending a rheumatology clinic. Results revealed that pa...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Mahat G

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of nursing literature is frequently advocated as a means of maintaining competence. The purpose of this study was to compare the frequency of references to competencies in the literature with those retained for the role of first-line nurse managers by an expert panel involved in the Delphi technique. In this w...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Duffield C

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:  This article is a report on a Synergy Model-guided correlational study of the direct and indirect relations of nurse-characteristics and patient characteristics to patient satisfaction, as mediated by nurse-patient dyad bonding. BACKGROUND:  Findings from previous studies have revealed that interventions alone d...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Tejero LM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Privacy during hospitalization can be jeopardized as caring situations are often intimate. The aims of the current study were to explore patients' and nurses' attitudes towards privacy and to study whether nurses' perceptions of patients' privacy needs corresponded with the patients' own reported needs. Two questionna...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Bäck E,Wikblad K

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American Pain Society cites the failure of health care providers to routinely assess pain and pain relief as the most common reason for unrelieved pain in US hospitals. Lack of knowledge on the part of nurses about pain and its treatment is one of the major barriers to achieving comfort for those in pain. Thus, th...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Kubecka KE,Simon JM,Boettcher JH

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study conducted to elucidate experiences and perceptions of self-management of diabetes as narrated by older people diagnosed with insulin-dependent diabetes living in a rural area. BACKGROUND:Older people worldwide are disproportionately affected by diabetes and are more likely to have...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： George SR,Thomas SP

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forecasting the demand for nurses is a complex and difficult problem. However, in a climate of economic cutbacks and disadvantageous demographic trends, it is essential that adequate methods are developed to predict both the supply and demand for nurse manpower. To this end a number of methods have been constructed, p...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Devine C,McClean S,Reid N

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper reports a study of the effects of aquatic exercise on physical fitness (flexibility, strength and aerobic fitness), self-reported physical functioning and pain in adults with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee. BACKGROUND:Osteoarthritis is a common cause of disability and a primary reason for hip and kne...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Wang TJ,Belza B,Elaine Thompson F,Whitney JD,Bennett K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM OF THE STUDY:The purpose of this study, conducted as partial requirement for a Master of Nursing Studies Degree, was to explore, describe and compare the level of questions asked by clinical teachers and preceptors. BACKGROUND:Questioning is one of many teaching/learning strategies thought to facilitate the develo...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Phillips N,Duke M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case study provides a descriptive analysis of administrative, faculty and student perspectives on use of and satisfaction with Orem's Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory (SCDNT) in one baccalaureate nursing programme's curriculum elements of (a) goals and objectives, (b) materials, (c) content, (d) nursing foci, and...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Berbiglia VA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper reports a study exploring how Iranian women coped with newly diagnosed breast cancer and provides a foundation for cultural-based care. BACKGROUND:Although research has indicated that coping strategies are associated with adaptation to breast cancer, and despite the number of women with newly diagnosed ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Taleghani F,Yekta ZP,Nasrabadi AN

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A user-centred study employing focus group methodology was conducted in the United Kingdom in order to establish the key information concerns of spouses of women with breast cancer from both patients' and spouses' perspectives. Four unstructured focus group discussions were convened, three with women with breast cance...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Rees CE,Bath PA,Lloyd-Williams M

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study reported in this paper was to describe and analyse care-givers' caring relationships with patients suffering from dementia. The theoretical perspective was caring science. Data were collected through interviews with six care-givers in a ward for patients with severe dementia. From the qualitative ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Rundqvist EM,Severinsson E

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00