The meaning of illness questionnaire: reliability and validity.

abstract：:Directors of community mental health centers and superintendents of public mental health hospitals in one state were surveyed to gather data on interagency linkages. Implementation of affiliation agreements, exchange of staff training, and exchange of patient information were investigated. Affiliation agreements tende...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Worley NK,Lowery BJ

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of preference for structure and a self-directed learning (SDL) project on the SDL readiness of junior-class baccalaureate nursing students. The sample was divided into a control group consisting of two sections (N = 50) who did not conduct an SDL project, and an exp...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Wiley K

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal classes are commonly offered by hospitals with obstetrical units. To evaluate their effectiveness in one hospital, the relationship between the amount of medication used by women during labor and the birth weight of their infants following participation in one of three treatment groups was determined by a mul...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Timm MM

更新日期：1979-11-01 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:Limited data are available concerning determinants of health care service usage by low-income young children. OBJECTIVES:To explore predictors of hospitalization and emergency department (ED) use by young children of low-income families by using the Aday and Andersen Access Framework. METHODS:Low-income wo...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Polivka BJ,Nickel JT,Salsberry PJ,Kuthy R,Shapiro N,Slack C

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comprehensive study of nurse practitioners was undertaken by the University of Virginia Schools of Medicine and Nursing in the summer of 1974 to evaluate nurse practitioner training programs of the University of Virginia and to determine the effectiveness and responsibilities of nurse practitioners in various practi...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Levine JI,Orr ST,Sheatsley DW,Lohr JA,Brodie BM

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most clinical nursing research is limited to funded study periods. However, if clinical research data can be linked to population databases, researchers can study relationships between study measures and poststudy long-term outcomes. OBJECTIVES:The objective was to describe the feasibility of linking resear...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Edelman LS,Guo JW,Fraser A,Beck SL

更新日期：2013-11-01 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:Devices to lift, transfer, and reposition patients are recommended for healthcare workers' and patients' safety, but their intended use has yet to be fully realized. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to describe hospital nursing staff use of lift/transfer devices and the presence of factors at the time of...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Schoenfisch AL,Kucera KL,Lipscomb HJ,McIlvaine J,Becherer L,James T,Avent S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Colored Eco-Genetic Relationship Map (CEGRM) is a hybridized assessment tool that combines the ecomap, the family genogram, and the genetic pedigree to produce a unique, participant-generated picture of an individual's social networks, information exchange patterns, and sources of support. To date, the C...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Driessnack M

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Women who receive services from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) often stop breastfeeding earlier than recommended. Little is known about maternal background and intrapersonal variables that predict the timing of breastfeeding cessation over the 12-month postp...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Tenfelde SM,Finnegan L,Miller AM,Hill PD

更新日期：2012-03-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies have examined the potential relationship between pain and aggressive behavioral symptoms in nursing home (NH) residents with dementia as a function of resident communicative status (ability to self-report pain). OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between pain ...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Ahn H,Garvan C,Lyon D

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:Multiple cell signaling pathways are implicated in the development, progression, and persistence of cisplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy. Although advances have been made in terms of understanding specific neurotoxic mechanisms, there are few predictive factors identified that can help inform the clinicia...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Lessans S,Lassiter CB,Carozzi V,Heindel P,Semperboni S,Oggioni N,Chiorazzi A,Thompson C,Wagner M,Holden J,Rahn E,Sweatt JD,Cavaletti G,Renn CL,Dorsey SG

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential problem in the immigration of foreign nurse graduates (FNGs) to the United States is their poor incidence of success in meeting state licensure requirements. Factors responsible for the low success rate include nonfamiliarity with multiple-choice format in tests, lack of English proficiency, and anxiety....

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Aquino NS,Trent PJ,Deutsch JE

更新日期：1979-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Effective patient-clinician communication is at the heart of good healthcare and may be even more vital for older patients and their nurse practitioners (NPs). OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study were to examine 1)contributions of older patients' and NPs' characteristics and the content and relationship...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Gilbert DA,Hayes E

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to develop a human-relations-modeled staff development program and obtain an objective measure of the level of empathy of registered nurses who practiced in an acute- and chronic-care hospital. The short-term human-relations-modeled staff development program was designed specifically to as...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： LaMonica EL,Carew DK,Winder AE,Haase AM,Blanchard KH

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The infusion of amphotericin-B (AmB) often produces clinically distressing rigors and chills, which promptly abate with intravenous injection of meperidine, although its mechanism of action is unknown. OBJECTIVE:To examine the effects of meperidine on the transcription or secretion of Interleukin 1 beta (IL...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： McCarthy DO,Murray S,Galagan D,Gern JE,Hutson PR

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thematic analysis of 30 narrative accounts of bereavement revealed nine themes that included five core themes in bereavement--being stopped, hurting, missing, holding, and seeking; three meta-themes about bereavement--change, expectations, and inexpressibility; and a contextual theme--personal history. The themes we...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Carter SL

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although prior studies of inpatient maternal mortality in the United States provide data on the overall rate and trend in inpatient maternal mortality, there are no published reports of maternal mortality data stratified by timing of its occurrence across the pregnancy continuum (antepartum, intrapartum, and...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Mogos MF,Liese KL,Thornton PD,Manuck TA,OʼBrien WD Jr,McFarlin BL

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although there is evidence of the psychometric adequacy of the Interpersonal Relationships Inventory (IPRI), the scale was validated on urban North American samples and may function differently in populations that do not share urban United States attitudes toward the giving and receiving of social support. ...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Kane RT,Day C

更新日期：1999-11-01 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:Because work satisfaction of nurses is related negatively to turnover and related positively to performance, it is essential that it be assessed accurately and meaningfully. The most commonly used scales for assessment of satisfaction were developed at least 30 years ago and are not consistent with the conce...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Lynn MR,Morgan JC,Moore KA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical causal model was tested to determine the effects of stress on family functioning for four groups of parents at 8 months postpartum. High-risk women who had been hospitalized during pregnancy, their partners, low-risk women, and their partners were tested to find how predictors might differ by gender and ...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Mercer RT,Ferketich SL

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The health attitudes and behaviors of 94 mothers of preschool children were investigated by personal interview in this descriptive correlational study. Mothers were divided into two groups, depending on their compliance or noncompliance, with recommended immunizations for their children. Subjects were assessed for hea...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Rosenblum EH,Stone EJ,Skipper BE

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recruitment and retention in longitudinal studies can be challenging because the numbers of participants may not adequately reflect the targeted population. OBJECTIVES:The aim of the study was to present a replicable pathway model of recruitment via retrospective chart review and describe outcomes of the re...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Gordon JM,Proschold K,Harville C 2nd,Dutra S,Groer M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00