Racial differences in health status and health behaviors of older adults.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although it is well-recognized that hospitalization often precipitates functional decline in older patients, there have been few studies to examine these functional changes carefully over multiple points in time. OBJECTIVE:To describe functional trajectory during and 6 months posthospitalization and to asce...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Chen CC,Wang C,Huang GH

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To discover if psychiatric patients who received follow-up care in the home by public health nurses could assume a functional role in the family. and in the community to a greater extent than similar patients who did not receive home care, a sample of all chronic undifferentiated and paranoid schizophrenics who had be...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Keener ML

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Financial stress is associated with higher prevalence of metabolic abnormalities and cardiovascular disease, but the extent to which this association differs by type of metabolic abnormalities or gender is unclear. OBJECTIVES:The study aims were to: (a) examine the association between financial stress and t...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Kuo WC,Oakley LD,Brown RL,Hagen EW,Barnet JH,Peppard PE,Bratzke LC

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that there will be a significantly greater increase in the rate of healing of decubitus ulcers in subjects who receive topical insulin therapy than in subjects who receive other forms of therapy, a pilot study was conducted, utilizing a two-group before and after design. Decubitus ulcers of six ...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Van Ort SR,Gerber RM

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A causal model based on Pender's (1987) Health Promotion Model was tested to evaluate Pender's hypothesis that demographic and biological characteristics affect health-promoting behaviors indirectly through three mediating cognitive-perceptual variables. A sample of 3,025 noninstitutionalized adults completed a teleph...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Johnson JL,Ratner PA,Bottorff JL,Hayduk LA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This qualitative field research explored and described the process of recovery for chemically dependent nurses. Data collection methods included participant observation in a chemically dependent nurses' self-help group for one year and in-depth interviews with 20 chemically dependent nurses who were in the process of ...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Hutchinson SA

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postpartal weight loss, nutritional intake, and immune status were examined in 65 women. Although 80% of the women lost weight and were not overweight by the 4th postpartal month, the majority had diets that were inadequate in fat content (> or = 30% of calories from fat) or protein content (< or = 12% of calories fro...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Gennaro S,Fehder WP,York R,Douglas SD

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Black-White disparities in adolescent health are widespread and thought to be explained, in part, by exposure to chronic stress. Cortisol assayed from hair is increasingly recognized as a valid and reliable measure for chronic physiological stress, but the feasibility of collecting hair among large probabili...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Ford JL,Boch SJ,McCarthy DO

更新日期：2016-05-01 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:Nurses have always had an interest in the relationships among families, clinicians, and healthcare institutions. This case study of the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early 19th century Philadelphia examines the historical roots of these relationships. METHODS:Data sources are archival documents about the...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： D'antonio P

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty nursing students were administered the Opinions about Mental Illness (OMI) scale. Students whose scores fell above the median on authoritarianism and social restrictiveness were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental subjects' scores on authoritarianism and social restrictiveness ...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Godejohn CJ,Taylor J,Muhlenkamp AF,Blaesser W

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case mix of patient caseloads of nurse practitioners (NPs), faculty attending physicians (F/MDs), and resident housestaff in an inner-city teaching hospital was examined. Social and demographic variables as well as diagnoses, medications, risks, and functional status were used to define complexity. Charts of 111 p...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Diers D,Hamman A,Molde S

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An emphasis on precision health (PH) has stimulated precision medicine studies to focus on the interplay of biological, behavioral, and environmental factors with disease risks, treatments, prognoses, and outcomes affecting health disparities. It is imperative, as well, that improving health equity among und...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Menon U,Ashing K,Chang MW,Christy SM,Friberg-Felsted K,Rivas VG,Gwede CK,Lu Q,Meade CD,Sly J,Wang M,Yanez B,Yeary K,Yi JC,Alcaraz KI

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The hidden nature of brain injury means that it is often difficult for people to understand the sometimes challenging behaviors that individuals exhibit. The misattribution of these behaviors may lead to a lack of consideration and public censure if the individual is seen as simply misbehaving. OBJECTIVE:Th...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Linden MA,McClure J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The processes family members of heart transplant recipients use to manage the unpredictability evoked by the need for and receipt of heart transplantation were explored. Twenty family members were theoretically sampled using the grounded theory approach. Three separate family support groups, each of 12 weeks duration,...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Mishel MH,Murdaugh CL

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Today, when nurses are expected to manage large stores of data while providing precision care to individuals or groups of patients, it seems more important than ever that we understand the nature of nursing. Recently, there has been a renewed interest in examining what nursing is and how a clear understandin...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Green C

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genesis of the JCAH standard on quality assurance is described, application of the standard in hospitals is outlined, and expectations of the standard's influence on patient care are presented. ...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Egelston EM

更新日期：1980-03-01 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:Raising a child with a disability (CWD) in the home is increasing across the globe. Because of caregiver burden and the complexity of care, there is growing concern for typically developing sibling (TDS) outcomes. OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to examine whether caregiver burden, parenting style, and s...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Platt C,Roper SO,Mandleco B,Freeborn D

更新日期：2014-07-01 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

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: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：BACKGROUND:Mexican American workers are vulnerable to noise-induced hearing loss, the most common occupational disease in the United States. OBJECTIVES:The purpose was to test the applicability of the Health Promotion Model to Mexican American workers' use of hearing protection devices. METHOD:A correlational descrip...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Kerr MJ,Lusk SL,Ronis DL

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI), a self-report questionnaire, is designed to measure the experience and expression of anger. Reliability and validity of the STAXI have been well established among African and European Americans aged 13 years and older. However, little is known of the use of...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Reyes LR,Meininger JC,Liehr P,Chan W,Mueller WH

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical basis for the diagnosis of nursing problems, centered on the concepts of role insufficiency and role supplementation, is offered. Role insufficiency is anticipated and experienced by clients during role transitions with developmental, situational, and health-illness implications. The conceptual basis of ...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Meleis AI

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Occupational stress is commonly observed among staff in intensive care units (ICUs). Sociodemographic, organizational, and job-related factors may lead to burnout among ICU health workers. In addition, these factors could modify the balance between efforts done and rewards perceived by workers; consequently,...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Padilla Fortunatti C,Palmeiro-Silva YK

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which demographic variables and attachment predicted quality of life in community-dwelling older men. The subjects were 100 men aged 58 to 84 (M = 68.4). Hierarchical regression revealed that two demographic variables, plus the attachment variable, accounted for...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Rickelman BL,Gallman L,Parra H

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social support is an important factor to consider in understanding the grief process. However, existing measures of social support fail to account adequately for the unique characteristics of grief experienced by healthcare workers in relation to the deaths of patients or nursing home residents. OBJECTIVE:T...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Anderson KA,Ewen HH,Miles EA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of several measures of social support on three health behavior practices during pregnancy--abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, and caffeine--were explored. Both specificity of support and the distinction between perceived and received support were examined. The sample consisted of 529 pregnant women who c...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Aaronson LS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports the development of the NEECHAM Confusion Scale for rapid and unobtrusive assessment and monitoring of acute confusion. The scale was tested in two samples (N = 168 and 258, respectively) of elderly patients hospitalized for acute medical illness. Internal consistency and interrater reliability of ...

journal_title：Nursing research

authors： Neelon VJ,Champagne MT,Carlson JR,Funk SG

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00