abstract：:The aim of the study was to produce data about health behaviour among men born in Northern Finland in 1966. A particular concern was to find out how well health behaviour in adolescence predicts health behaviour in adulthood. The family questionnaire on health and development was submitted in 1980 when the subjects we...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Pietilä AM,Hentinen M,Myhrman A

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared six dimensions of adult life among 39 hospitalized elders with a mean age of 72.1 years and 44 elders with a mean age of 75.7 years living in the community. The dimensions of life were physical function, work, spirituality, family, community and self concept. Multivariate analysis of variance revea...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Roberts BL,Fitzpatrick JJ

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a grounded theory study into health visiting the role of the relationship with clients was uncovered. It was found that they have a necessary enabling and mediating function for health visitors' work. Although the literature has highlighted the importance of the relationships in health visiting, the work involv...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： de la Cuesta C

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper represents some of the findings from a study of expatriate nurses working in developing countries. The aim of the study was to identify the value orientations of Western nurses and to suggest to what extent those values influenced practice. A values clarification exercise was carried out and classified with...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Parfitt B

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A person's willingness to disclose things about him or herself is an important facet of all social interaction. In professional helping relationships effective management of treatment and therapy may depend ultimately on a person's self-disclosures. Sidney Jourard claimed in 1971 that "disclosure begets disclosure". I...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Burnard P,Morrison P

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Congruence Model was used with families of indigent substance abusers. Instead of a focus on pathology, this nursing approach advocated ethnically congruent coping of families within their environment. Forty participants worked on individually chosen goals during eight structured sessions. Evaluation included goal...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Friedemann ML

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interview technique is a common method of collecting data in human research. This paper provides an example of the use of the multiple sorting technique for structuring and analysing qualitative interviews. The technique is described around a recently completed study which explored practising nurses' perception of...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Morrison P,Bauer I

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine which factors influence the perceptions of touch by elderly nursing home residents and their health caregivers. A random sample of residents (n = 100) and a convenience sample of health caregivers (n = 100) were selected from two nursing homes. The five variables of interest we...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Hollinger LM,Buschmann MB

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results from a longitudinal study of low back pain in 199 student nurses followed up for 20 months show that 37% reported back pain which lasted for at least 3 consecutive days. The first incidence peaked markedly between 9 and 12 months into training, and coincided with work on wards described by the nurses as "heavy...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Klaber Moffett JA,Hughes GI,Griffiths P

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tel Aviv University post-basic nursing program, established in 1968, was the first step of nursing academization in Israel. Since then, one-third of the nursing schools in Israel have been academized. The objectives of the present study were to document changes in the worklife of the graduates since completion of ...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Ehrenfeld M,Ziv L,Bergman R

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of lecturers (n = 47) and students (n = 110) was undertaken to explore their preferred teaching strategies, using a questionnaire based on Heron's (1977) Dimensions of Facilitator Styles (Human potential research project, University of Surrey, Guildford). Overall it was found that the students tended to prefe...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Burnard P,Morrison P

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study represents a survey of the nursing quality assurance programs in 12 hospitals in Alberta. The objectives of the study were: to identify the nature, content and costs of the programs, to determine the extent of nurse involvement in the design and operation of the programs, and the value and importance nurses...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Giovannetti PB,Ratner PA,Buchan J,Bay K,Reid D

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is based on a literature review and presents an overview of the development of nursing from vocation to a science based profession. It first addresses the start of formal nursing education in The Netherlands and then focuses on the developing academic discipline, which originated in the U.S.A. While the m...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Diepeveen-Speekenbrink JC

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging markedly influences drug use and drug effects. The purpose of this review is two-fold: (i) to examine how social, economic, and psychological factors, compliance, and prescribing patterns affect drug use in institutionalized and non-institutionalized older adults in the United States, and (ii) to illustrate how ...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Potempa KM,Folta A

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores a number of areas for research development in mental health nursing in the United Kingdom. Several potential areas are identified: historical research, policy related research, the role of mental health nurse as a provider of a therapeutic milieu, as therapist and as teacher. Academic centres are i...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Butterworth T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Community Nursing Project reports the results of a mailed questionnaire survey of the working and educational experience of 689 nurses employed outside hospitals and nursing homes in Victoria in 1985. This paper reports that part of the study relevant to their practice settings, job titles, job content and working...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Dunt DR,Temple-Smith MJ,Johnson KA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses are the largest professional group in health care. Nurses' smoking is not only important to their personal health, but also to the public's health. Analysis of smoking prevalences found among nurses in 21 countries in the period 1959-1988 shows that considerable numbers of both female and male nurses are smoker...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Adriaanse H,Van Reek J,Zandbelt L,Evers G

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses in the public and private sectors were compared with regard to occupational stress and its sources and self-reported health and well-being. While both groups reported similar high levels of stress experience, most noticeably arising from high work loads and the experience of death and dying, group differences d...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Tyler PA,Carroll D,Cunningham SE

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The underlying philosophical assumptions associated with the current vogue for humanistic and holistic approaches to nursing have not been subjected to systematic scrutiny, laying nursing open to the charge of being anti-scientific and even irrational. This paper outlines some of these assumptions and their origins, a...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Holmes CA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three maternity hospital practices of post-partum mother-infant contact and breast-feeding promotion on the incidence and continuation of breast-feeding among 375 urban poor healthy Nicaraguan primigravid women were investigated. Infant feeding patterns were evaluated at 1 week and 4 months post-partum. Eighty-seven p...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Lindenberg CS,Cabrera Artola R,Jimenez V

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organized play is not always given a high priority in the hospitalized child's total care with the result that insufficient time is allocated to its provision in the nursing care plan. The effects of such incomplete patient care are far reaching for the immobilized child in hospital. The study was designed to determin...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Gillis AJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the usefulness of the incorporation of medical anthropology into the nursing process. It suggests that in order to plan comprehensive patient care, much more attention needs to be paid to lay concepts of illness and causation of illness. This must take place at the assessment stage. If it does not...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Littlewood J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study queried 508 persons diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) regarding what conditions made performing their work or tasks 'difficult' and 'easier'. The subjects represented four groups: employed outside the home, homemakers, unemployed, and retired. Their written responses were content analysed. Conditions r...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Gulick EE,Yam M,Touw MM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate primary and team nursing on two 45-bed geriatric units. A 2 year longitudinal study with a quasi-experimental ABA cross-over design and a staff survey, permitted comparisons of the two nursing systems on indices of patient well-being, nursing practice, staff morale and costs. ...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Wilson NM,Dawson P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research today is increasingly a very important segment of nursing and is one of the avenues for nurses in expanding their role. Nurses are now wanting to research more diverse problems and to observe clients in more than the traditional hospital systems. Gaining access to clients is not always an easy experience. In ...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Smith D

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses a questionnaire study carried out to investigate knowledge and attitudes towards sexuality among 50 trained nurses working in gynaecological and non-gynaecological wards in the U.K. Knowledge levels were low and attitudes were traditional, and the gynaecology nurses' scores showed them to be les...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Webb C

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feeding of six severely demented patients was changed from a task assignment to a patient assignment care system. Four caregivers participated in the study. Each caregiver fed her patient during 14 meals. Interviews with the caregivers after meal Nos 1, 7 and 14 revealed that this system made them feel more certai...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Athlin E,Norberg A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarizes the results of a study analyzing the social, economic and political factors affecting the nursing education system in the Federal Republic of Germany (F.R.G.). Using a hermeneutic-dialectical approach the researcher examined the circumstances surrounding the conceptualization, implementation and ...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Hedin BA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a number of epidemiological findings relating to the size of the back pain problem within nursing, its distribution across nursing specialties and the comparison of these data with other occupational groups. The extent of the problem within the nursing profession has been estimated through a numbe...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Buckle P

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper addresses the need to make evaluation part of the nurse's expanded role within the Primary Health Care system. In a social policy and decision-making context, the nurse is an intermediary between political authorities and community groups. This requires diverse, but complementary, evaluation skills. The aut...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Rovers R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the relationship between the quality of nursing care given to terminally-ill patients and their families, and selected characteristics of 210 nurses caring for terminally-ill patients. Mailed questionnaires received 90% response from nurses in a two-stage, stratified, proportionate, random sampling...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Reisetter KH,Thomas B

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the first phase of a study to assess the usefulness of the nursing process model of nursing practice, a survey was carried out in one health district to ascertain the predominant occupational ideology of clinical nurses, their perception of decision-making about individual patient care in everyday work, and their v...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Rhodes B

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As opposed to studies on the immediate psychological impact of traumatic nursing experiences, little attention has been directed to the persistence of certain long-standing hidden symptoms of trauma in some nurses. Since psychological reactions to trauma are claimed to be similar, irrespective of the source of trauma,...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Davidson P,Jackson C

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the nurse-operated antenatal clinic services in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and reports the findings of a survey of 365 women attending the Port Moresby General Hospital antenatal clinic. Only 9% of the women surveyed attended the clinic in the 1st trimester of their pregnancy, with the maj...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Marshall LB,Lakin JA

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the debate concerning the relationship between dietary fats and heart disease. The paper also addresses the questions "should nurses persuade patients with heart disease to follow a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet?", "If so, will patients be less liable to a heart attack?" and "are such recommendation...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Thompson DR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of professionalsim among any group of persons depends on the organization's success in insulating itself from or relating itself to its social context in order to retain a free hand in setting standards and policies. Both structural (i.e., training and professional organization aspects) and attitudina...

journal_title：International journal of nursing studies

authors： Nandi PK

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00