How and what staff nurses learn about the medical devices they use in direct patient care.

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to describe and examine the lifestyle physical activity behaviors (household, leisure, occupational) of older rural women. Background characteristics included demographics, environment, social support, and health. Intrapersonal characteristics included motivation and self-efficacy. The ma...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Plonczynski DJ,Wilbur J,Larson JL,Thiede K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An integrative literature review was conducted to investigate studies on adverse events reported in medical, health services, and nursing literature. The review was guided by the method proposed by Jackson (1980) and Ganong (1987). Three questions shaped the review: (a) What terms are used to denote adverse events? (b...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Kellogg VA,Havens DS

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) are immunoregulatory cytokines that mediate many aspects of the acute phase response to infection and injury. It has been hypothesized that these cytokines mediate the onset of the cachexia-anorexia syndrome with tumor growth. The anorexigenic effects of IL-1 are me...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： McCarthy DO

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Clinical judgment of psychiatric nurses was investigated using judgment analysis within the framework of social judgment theory. Nine nurses at a short-term psychiatric care facility made recommendations concerning restraint and seclusion for 80 patients described on paper in terms of 17 characteristics (cues). Nurses...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Holzworth RJ,Wills CE

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:Tailoring of client-nurse interaction to the client's individuality is a central concept in Cox's Interaction Model of Client Health behavior, and represents a specification of the term individualization of care (Cox, 1982b). In this study, the empirical adequacy of Cox's definition of tailoring was challenged by comp...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Brown SJ

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:School age children, 8 to 12 years old (N = 103), reported on the strategies they use to help them deal with stressors. Individual questionnaires contained 518 coping strategies that were sorted into 13 categories inductively derived from the content of the behaviors. Girls named significantly more social support and ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Ryan NM

更新日期：1989-04-01 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 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：:Measures of the quality of hospital postnatal nursing care were developed for an evaluative study of the benefits of combined mother-infant versus traditional separate staffing patterns. Two hundred mothers completed instruments designed to measure maternal competence, patient satisfaction, establishment of breast-fee...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Watters NE,Kristiansen CM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective, case-controlled longitudinal design, 180 preterm and fullterm infants who had been enrolled at birth participated in a comprehensive assessment battery at age 23. Of these, 149 young adults, 34 formerly full-term and 115 formerly preterm (22 healthy preterm, 48 with medical complications, 21 with neu...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Winchester SB,Sullivan MC,Roberts MB,Granger DA

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Findings are reported from a prospective study of 20 persons on the experience of providing informal care to partners or family members with HIV syndrome. In-depth, focused interviews were completed. Data were initially coded using an inductive technique and thematically analyzed. The informal care providers were foun...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Reynolds NR,Alonzo AA

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：:Perceived racial discrimination is linked to unhealthy behaviors and stress-related morbidities. A compelling body of research indicates that perceived racial discrimination may contribute to health disparities among African Americans (AAs). The purposes of this study were to describe the study protocol including data...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Nam S,Dunton GF,Ordway MR,Ash GI,Jeon S,Vlahov D,Whittemore R,Nelson LE,Sinha R,Nunez-Smith M,Granger DA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of a parent training program for promoting positive parent-child relationships was examined among families of 2-year-olds. Forty-six mothers and fathers and their toddlers were assigned to either an intervention or comparison group. Intervention group parents participated in a 10-week program that fo...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Gross D,Fogg L,Tucker S

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested a theoretical model of the relationships of hospital context, nursing unit structure, and patient characteristics to patients' perceptions of the extent to which nurses met their expectations for management of troubling symptoms. In our sample of 2,720 patients randomly selected from 278 nursing units in 143...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Bacon CT,Hughes LC,Mark BA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to determine the impact of a husband's chronic illness on the spouse's life. The sample was 76 married women, 46 whose husbands had a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and 30 whose husbands did not have a chronic illness. On a mailed questionnaire wives of COPD patients...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Sexton DL,Munro BH

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purposes of this study were to describe: (a) the frequency and correlates of behavior problems among a sample of 2- and 3-year-old children from low-income families as seen by their parents and day care teachers, (b) the degree to which parents and teachers agree about the children's behavior problems in their res...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Gross D,Sambrook A,Fogg L

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) on anxiety and perceptions of personal control over health status are evaluated in this study. After collection of baseline data, 22 hypertensive clients received relaxation training in a series of weekly group sessions followed by individual monitoring sessions over ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Pender NJ

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A postpartum measure, What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like, was administered to explore the development of maternal role for mothers (N = 76) at 1, 3, 4 1/2, and 6 months postpartum. Individual differences were relatively stable across time and accounted for much more variance than time effects. Mean scores on ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Grace JT

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we examined the association between job demands (JD), job resources (JR), and serum levels of a possible biomarker of stress, the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6). According to the buffer hypothesis of the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, we expected that job resources-defined as job aut...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Falco A,Dal Corso L,Girardi D,De Carlo A,Comar M

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：: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：:One form of consumer involvement in the health-care process pertains to the selection of a physician. Expectant parents enrolled in prepared childbirth classes were asked to evaluate, individually, the importance of issues associated with selecting an obstetrician, both before and after childbirth. The data indicated ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Brien M,Haverfield N,Shanteau J

更新日期：1983-09-01 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：: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：:We evaluated the psychometric properties of a Mandarin Chinese version of the Functional Outcomes of Sleep Questionnaire-10 (FOSQ-10) in pregnant women. A total of 228 first-trimester pregnant women participated in the study, which was conducted in an outpatient obstetric clinic at a medical center in Taipei, Taiwan. ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Tsai SY,Shun SC,Lee PL,Lee CN,Weaver TE

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00