High-density lipoprotein prevents organ damage in endotoxemia.

abstract：:Research has shown that health outcomes for urban women of Mexican descent are related to acculturation. The purpose of this research was to compare perinatal outcomes of 773 women of Mexican descent who gave birth in three rural northern California hospitals, in relation to acculturation measured three different ways...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Heilemann MV,Lee KA,Stinson J,Koshar JH,Goss G

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this article is to show that Collins and Fielder (1981) misinterpreted Beckstrand's (1978a, 1978b, 1980) thesis, and to criticize their argument against the idea that theory in nursing can be borrowed from the existing body of scientific and ethical knowledge. Collins and Fielder employed a question-beg...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Beckstrand J

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reliability of nursing observations often is estimated using Cohen's kappa, a chance-adjusted measure of agreement between observer RNs. However, use of kappa as an omnibus measure sometimes can be misleading. In a study partly designed to describe the frequency and reliability of nursing diagnoses in long-term care f...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Banerjee M,Fielding J

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument, the Preferences for Care near the End of Life (PCEOL) scale. Following a literature review and using the domain-referenced approach and a test grid, a large pool of items was generated to reflect five dimensions of preferences for care near the end o...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Gauthier DM,Froman RD

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-nine male and female adults with asthma were tested to determine the relationship between perceived response to emotional triggers of asthma and bronchoconstrictive suggestion. Subjects were told that they were inhaling a bronchoconstricting agent in four increasingly potent concentrations, when in fact the sol...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Janson-Bjerklie S,Boushey HA,Carrieri VK,Lindsey AM

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) is a powerful analytic tool, but there continue to be abuses of the method. We review assumptions and illustrate legitimate uses of ANCOVA, and summarize statistical packages' approach to the method. Finally, we consider how ANCOVA is used in contemporary nursing research. ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Owen SV,Froman RD

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Brazelton Neonatal Assessment Scale (BNAS) was administered to 19 newborns, and their fathers completed the Broussard Neonatal Perception Inventory (NPl-l); at 1 year of age, the infants' fathers and mothers completed the Perception of Baby Temperament (PBT) scale. The 19 infants were first born, full-term, and th...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Jones C,Parks P

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a cross-sectional study to examine sleep in mothers of children with epilepsy and its relation to their children's sleep. A total of 133 dyads of mothers and children with epilepsy aged 1.5-6 years were recruited between 2015 and 2018 from a children's hospital in northern Taiwan. Participating families p...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Tsai SY,Lee WT,Lee CC,Jeng SF,Weng WC

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature on older inmates' health is fragmented and insufficiently developed. In this integrative review, 21 research articles on health and older inmates were identified, critiqued, and synthesized to determine: the minimum age criterion most commonly used; health-related variables explored; health status; the ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Loeb SJ,Abudagga A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although coronary heart disease (CHD) requires a significant amount of self-care, there are no instruments available to measure self-care in this population. The purpose of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the Self-Care of Coronary Heart Disease Inventory (SC-CHDI). Using the Self-Care of Chronic ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Vaughan Dickson V,Lee CS,Yehle KS,Mola A,Faulkner KM,Riegel B

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to develop four questionnaires based on the transtheoretical model (TTM) to assess the behavior, completing a healthcare proxy (HCP). The aims were to (a) operationalize the four TTM constructs for completing a HCP and (b) evaluate the psychometric properties of the questionnaires. The que...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Jezewski MA,Finnell DS,Wu YW,Meeker MA,Sessanna L,Lee J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention, perceived risk for STDs, and self-efficacy for STD prevention were investigated as predictors of behavioral risk for STDs in 308 female college students. Perceived risk and self-efficacy predicted 19% of behavioral risk for STD; knowledge was not a predictor....

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Hale PJ,Trumbetta SL

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study purpose was to provide an in-depth description of experiences associated with loss and dying among AIDS family caregivers. Grounded theory provided the methodological framework for data collection and analysis. In-depth interviews were conducted with 53 family caregivers of persons with AIDS and included ind...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Brown MA,Powell-Cope G

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigators aimed to explore the prevalence of depressive symptoms and associated factors among older residents with intact cognitive function in nursing homes in Taiwan. A cross-sectional descriptive and correlational research design was used. A convenience sample of 178 older residents without cognitive impair...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Hu SH,Chuang YH,Ting YF,Lin KY,Hsieh CJ

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this descriptive, correlational study was to test a conceptual model of proposed relationships between physical health limitation, the sense of coherence, illness appraisal, and quality of life in a sample of 137 older women. The typical respondent was 76, widowed, with an income less than $12,000, and ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Nesbitt BJ,Heidrich SM

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 74 end-stage renal disease outpatients on dialysis completed on of seven forms of the Depression Adjective Check List (DACL) (Lubin, 1981) once a month over a 12-month period. Patient cooperation in filling out the DACL was 95%, indicating patient's acceptance of this fairly unobtrusive instrument. The dist...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Numan IM,Barklind KS,Lubin B

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this naturalistic study was to compare values held by 36 white and 31 black women related to body size, and to identify factors that influence these values and linkages between body size values and weight management activities. Black women of lower SES were significantly different from black women of hi...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Allan JD,Mayo K,Michel Y

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with heart failure (HF) typically live in the community and are cared for at home by family caregivers. These caregivers often lack supportive services and the time to access those services when available. Technology can play a role in conveniently bringing needed support to these caregivers. The purpose o...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Hirschman KB,Bowles KH,Garcia-Gonzalez L,Shepard B,Walser TJ,Thomas GL,Stawnychy MA,Riegel B

更新日期：2020-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Addressing consumer needs requires the development of a valid means of specifically measuring pregnant women's satisfaction with prenatal care. This study's purpose was to develop items for, to pilot-test, and to examine the structural validity of the Patient Expectations and Satisfaction with Prenatal Care (PESPC) in...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Omar MA,Schiffman RF,Bingham CR

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specification of variables that reflect organizational processes can add an important dimension to the investigation of outcomes. However, many contextual variables are conceptualized at a macro unit of analysis and may not be amenable to direct measurement. In these situations, proxy measurement is obtained by treati...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Hughes LC,Preski S

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to test how patients' psychiatric diagnoses would affect nursing care for medical problems. Sixty nurses were randomly assigned to three groups in this posttest-only experiment. Control group nurses read a vignette describing a man admitted with a possible myocardial infarction (MI). Nonpsychot...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： McDonald DD,Frakes M,Apostolidis B,Armstrong B,Goldblatt S,Bernardo D

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A self-regulation theory of how patients cope with events that occur during physical illness that has received substantial support from research is described. The theory challenges some traditional thinking about providing patients information and patients' emotional responses to threatening health care events. The us...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Johnson JE

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the structure of nursing care and patient satisfaction is examined after equalizing the quantity and quality of nursing staff. An all-registered-nurse model of primary nursing is compared to team nursing. The nursing competency scores of registered nurses (as measured by the Slater scale) on t...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Shukla RK,Turner WE 3rd

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood pressure norms are presented for 1,522 white, healthy, nonsmoking, normotensive 18 to 22-year-old men and women as a function of age and parental hypertension. Age effects were observed for diastolic blood pressure among males only. Parental hypertension was related to higher systolic and diastolic blood pressur...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Hahn WK,Brooks JA,Hite R

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the relationship between sexual assault and gynecological health symptoms (e.g., pelvic pain, painful intercourse) in a sample of predominately African American female veterans. Those who had been sexually victimized experienced significantly more frequent gynecological health symptoms than those who had n...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Campbell R,Lichty LF,Sturza M,Raja S

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the recorded content of two experimental nursing interventions used in a hypertensive-education program. One intervention was characterized as deliberative or high indirect, the other as task-centered or low indirect. A total of 4,149 nurse-patient interaction units...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Powers MJ,Murphy SP,Wooldridge PJ

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Content experts frequently are used in the judgment-quantification stage of content validation of instruments. However, errors in instrumentation may arise when important steps in selecting and using these experts are not carefully planned. The systematic process of choosing, orienting, and using content experts in th...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Grant JS,Davis LL

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this analysis was to identify the association between incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD), its most important etiologic factors (incontinence and moisture), and pressure ulcers (PUs). A systematic review and meta-analysis were performed. We searched Medline, Embase, CINAHL, Web of Science, and the Coch...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Beeckman D,Van Lancker A,Van Hecke A,Verhaeghe S

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development and testing of the Chronic Pain Experience Instrument (CPEI) were initiated to address the need for a valid and reliable instrument for the accurate clinical assessment of, as well as for the empirical investigation of, the chronic pain experience, that is, the personal response to living with nonmalignant...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Davis GC

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effects of an audiotape series employing Relaxation with Guided Imagery (RGI) on the psychophysiologic stress response and wound healing in surgical patients. Twenty-four patients undergoing cholecystectomy were randomly assigned to either RGI or control (quiet perio...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Holden-Lund C

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00