The role of support surfaces and patient attributes in preventing pressure ulcers in elderly patients.

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：:The aim of this meta-analysis of studies of workers in the health and social care sector was to examine the relationship between interprofessional work and employee outcomes of job stress, autonomy, burnout, engagement, job satisfaction, turnover intention, and perceived service quality, and to examine the influence o...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Kaiser S,Patras J,Martinussen M

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Nicotine dependence is a complex phenomenon involving behavioral, biological, and pharmacological components that influence smoking cessation rates. The purpose of this study was to characterize the multidimensional aspects of nicotine dependence and cigarette smoking topography behaviors among Black and White women s...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Ahijevych K,Gillespie J

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：:Generalizability theory (GT), an approach to estimating measurement dependability, offers researchers the ability to assess comprehensively various sources of measurement error simultaneously. Application of GT identifies the conditions that contribute most substantially to error and offers remedies to enhance dependa...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Burns KJ

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Work redesign initiatives have transformed approaches to patient care that will require increased control of nurses over both the content and context of their practice. A secondary analysis of two studies linking perceived work empowerment with two aspects of staff nurse decisional involvement using Kanter's (1977, 19...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Laschinger HK,Sabiston JA,Kutszcher L

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：: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：:The purposes of this study were to discover the essences of the experience of waiting, to provide new knowledge about what it is like to wait, and to contribute to nursing knowledge. Participants were 12 persons who were family members or friends of persons in an adult critical care unit. The Parse research method was...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Bournes DA,Mitchell GJ

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since back injury is the largest workman's compensation claim in most industries, the relationship between selected personal characteristics and back injury in hospital nursing personnel were studied. The sample included 64 female nursing personnel, half back injured and half not. Demographic: Workers were more likely...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Owen BD,Damron CF

更新日期：1984-12-01 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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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 this research was to identify the relationships of attitudes about breast self-examination and breast cancer to the frequency of breast self-examination. The health belief model was used as a theoretical base. Likert scales were developed for the independent variables of susceptibility, seriousness, ben...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Champion VL

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：:The effect of military deployment and perceived availability and source of community support on women's acceptance of pregnancy were examined in each trimester of pregnancy at four military bases. The sample was 503 primigravida or multigravida women eligible for care in the military medical system. Military deploymen...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Weis KL,Lederman RP,Lilly AE,Schaffer J

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe parents' perspectives on research interviews with their children with single gene conditions. One hundred forty-two parents were interviewed between 2002 and 2003 in a larger study using a qualitative descriptive design. Two questions from the semi-structured interview guide were used to identify parents' ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Hadley EK,Smith CA,Gallo AM,Angst DB,Knafl KA

更新日期：2008-02-01 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 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：: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：:Despite recognition as a significant stressor in childhood cancer, illness-related uncertainty from the perspective of children remains under-studied. We tested a conceptual model of uncertainty, derived from Mishel's uncertainty in illness theory, in 68 school-aged children and adolescents with cancer. As hypothesize...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Stewart JL,Mishel MH,Lynn MR,Terhorst L

更新日期：2010-06-01 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 studied the relationships among functional performance and three symptoms--dyspnea, fatigue, and sleep difficulty--in a sample of 100 people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). All participants had an FEV(1) 60% or less of the predicted level for age, sex, and height. Consistent with the Theory of Un...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Reishtein JL

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the extent to which social support from the spouse and a health care provider (HCP) is associated with short- and long-term recovery outcomes in individuals after a cardiac illness, 93 patients were interviewed 2 months (short-term) after their event; 73 (78%) subjects responded to a follow-up questionnai...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Yates BC

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined how African-American mothers' discussions with their adolescents about sex moderated the relationship between adolescents' sex-based discussions with their friends and adolescents' involvement in sexual behaviors. The 425 African-American adolescents were 12 through 15 years of age and had participated in ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： DiIorio C,McCarty F,Denzmore P,Landis A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely thought that low staffing levels are associated with higher risk of psychiatric inpatient violence. The purpose of this study was to determine whether odds of an injurious assault are higher in months in which unit staffing levels are higher or lower relative to unit average, using a design allowing each ...

journal_title：Research in nursing & health

authors： Staggs VS

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00