Effects of relaxation with guided imagery on surgical stress and wound healing.

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to determine if the tensing portion of progressive relaxation initiates the Valsalva response in order to establish the safety of the procedure for acutely ill cardiovascular patients. Sixty healthy adult volunteers performed fist, chest, and abdominal tensing and relaxation while their he...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Herman J

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses routinely provide care to patients in ethically challenging situations. To explore the continuum between conscientious objectors and designated staff in the provision of care to women seeking abortions, the aim of this study was to thickly describe decision-making, using abortion as the clinical context to eluc...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： McLemore MR,Kools S,Levi AJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In hospitals, nurses provide patient care around the clock, but the impact of night staff characteristics on patient outcomes is not well understood. The aim of this study was to examine the association between night nurse staffing and workforce characteristics and the length of stay (LOS) in 138 veterans affairs (VA)...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： de Cordova PB,Phibbs CS,Schmitt SK,Stone PW

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in distress within couples who have experienced the sudden death of a child were examined. Results from two independent samples (N = 50 couples and N = 60 couples) were compared. The SCL-90-R and the BSI were used to measure global psychological distress and distress in nine symptom dimensions. Paired t te...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Moriarty HJ,Carroll R,Cotroneo M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical nursing expertise is central to quality patient care. Research on factors that contribute to expertise has focused largely on individual nurse characteristics to the exclusion of contextual factors. To address this, we examined effects of hospital contextual factors and individual nurse education and experien...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： McHugh MD,Lake ET

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the relationship between maternal behavior and the stability of premature infants' physiologic responses during feeding. In a secondary data analysis, we examined relationships between quality of maternal behavior and cardiorespiratory physiology during feeding in 61 premature and 53 term infants...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Weber AM,Harrison TM

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle wasting is a prominent feature of cancer cachexia and involves decreased muscle protein synthesis and increased activity of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway of protein degradation. We report that both indomethacin and ibuprofen improved body weight and weight of the gastrocnemius muscle in tumor-bearin...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： McCarthy DO,Whitney P,Hitt A,Al-Majid S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A within-subjects, counterbalanced, repeated measures design was employed to determine the effects of gender and six different types of verbal and tactile stimuli on the arousal of 24 infants hospitalized for congenital heart disease during their first 6 months of life. Infants were systematically assigned to differen...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Weiss SJ

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purposes of this study were to examine shift-related differences in chronic fatigue and the contributions of sleep quality, anxiety, and depression to chronic fatigue among a random nationwide sample (N = 142) of female critical care nurses. Twenty-three percent of this sample met criteria for clinical depression....

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Ruggiero JS

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morbidity and mortality associated with smoking are major health problems. Nurses play an instrumental role in tobacco reduction, but their own smoking often interferes with this clinical opportunity. We conducted a grounded theory study with 23 nurses who smoked to describe how they managed the contradictions encount...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Radsma J,Bottorff JL

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypotheses that pessimists might benefit from concrete objective information based on self-regulation theory and that optimists might benefit from instruction in self-care and coping based on self-care theory, 62 patients receiving radiation therapy (RT) for prostate cancer were studied. The two experiment...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Johnson JE

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women's self-efficacy for coping with breast cancer is one of the key factors that lead to successful breast cancer survivorship. Due to the cultural stigma linked to breast cancer (e.g., breast cancer is a genetic disease), Asian Americans are known as a high-risk group within breast cancer survivors. However, health...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Im EO,Yi JS,Kim H,Chee W

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between personal control and coping effectiveness was studied in a convenience sample of 104 hospitalized spinal cord injured males. Control was conceptualized as participants' preference to control, their generalized expectation for control, and their perception of options to control. Depression was ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Ferington FE

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five subscales were derived from the Nursing Work Index (NWI) to measure the hospital nursing practice environment, using 1985-1986 nurse data from 16 magnet hospitals. The NWI comprises organizational characteristics of the original magnet hospitals. The psychometric properties of the subscales and a composite measur...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Lake ET

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to identify the dimensions underlying the reasons given by nurses for not participating in continuing education activities. Data were collected through a 50-item questionnaire mailed to a stratified random sample of nurses who had not completed any credit course since entering practice. A...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Duquette A,Painchaud G,Blais JG

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social support has emerged in the last decade as a significant health behavior and, therefore, a promising focus of theory development in nursing. Nursing's concern with health, environment, and person provides an ideal perspective from which to take the lead in research, instrument development, and theory constructio...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Tilden VP

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a quarter of chemotherapy regimens now include oral agents. Individuals living with cancer are now responsible for administering this lifesaving therapy at home by taking every dose as prescribed. One type of oral chemotherapy, tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), is the current recommended treatment for chronic my...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Yeager KA,Waldrop-Valverde D,Paul S,Bruner DW,Klisovic R,Burns E,Mason TA,Patel N,Jennings BM

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：: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：:Researchers have increasingly turned to mixed-method techniques to expand the scope and improve the analytic power of their studies. Yet there is still relatively little direction on and much confusion about how to combine qualitative and quantitative techniques. These techniques are neither paradigm- nor method-linke...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Sandelowski M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Published pain management guidelines recommend that caregivers of cancer pain patients be provided pain management education, but little is known about the utility of providing such information. This study examined recruitment and retention of cancer pain patients and caregivers for a randomized clinical trial that pr...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Ransom S,Azzarello LM,McMillan SC

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine hospital patients' perceptions of service quality in relation to four independent variables: (a) nurses' perceptions of human resource practices, (b) nurses' perceptions of autonomy in practice, (c) patient satisfaction with nursing care, and (d) patients' perceptions of organi...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Niedz BA

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to test a theoretical model of the facilitators and barriers to physical activity for Taiwanese adults with anxiety. Structural equation modeling was used to examine both one-way direct and indirect influences of 11 personal and cognitive-emotional factors on physical activity in this populat...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Ma WF,Lane HY,Laffrey SC

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:Postpartum depression (PPD) is recognized as a common maternal health problem, but few studies have investigated the postpartum mental health of refugee women. In this cross-sectional study, we investigated the prevalence of PPD symptoms and associated factors among Syrian refugee women living in north Jordan. Women (...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Mohammad KI,Abu Awad D,Creedy DK,Gamble J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses caring for elderly patients often need to select support surfaces that reduce the likelihood of pressure ulcers, but there is little information about the effectiveness of different support surfaces. This randomized trial compared two support surfaces and investigated patient attributes related to the risk of d...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Kemp MG,Kopanke D,Tordecilla L,Fogg L,Shott S,Matthiesen V,Johnson B

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We observed 173 parents bereaved by the violent death of an adolescent or young adult child. Data were collected 4, 12, 24, and 60 months postdeath. Using latent growth modeling, we examined how initial levels of mental distress and the rate of change over time are influenced by nine predictors: parents' gender, self-...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Murphy SA,Chung IJ,Johnson LC

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adequate physical activity is associated with improved sleep in adults. Such associations, however, vary greatly across studies in pediatric populations, with no studies involving infants found in the literature. This prospective observational study was designed, therefore, to examine the association between physical ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Wang YC,Chen LC,Tung YC,Lee CC,Tsai SY

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceptions and attitudes toward nursing impairment held by 1,047 registered nurses were examined. Factor analysis of the 32 Likert-type items in an original survey questionnaire revealed an underlying structure of nine dimensions characterizing attitudes toward impairment. Analyses of variance and covariance gave evi...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Hendrix MJ,Sabritt D,McDaniel A,Field B

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of 156 female undergraduate nursing students was conducted to determine the relationship between life change events and dysmenorrhea and the mediating effect of social supports on this relationship. Data were collected using the Anderson College Schedule of Recent Experience (subjects estimated personal readj...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Jordan J,Meckler JR

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00