Judith C. Hays

Journal Article · January 1, 2019 Elders are more likely to confront the death of a sibling than any other kinship bereavement. Yet we know almost nothing about the impact of sibling deaths on older adults. We used attachment theory to generate hypotheses about the impact of this life even ... Cite

The ethics of international studies.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · September 2011 Full text Cite

Clergy-laity support and patients' mood during serious illness: a cross-sectional epidemiologic study.

Journal Article Palliat Support Care · September 2011 OBJECTIVES: Religious participation is positively associated with mental health, but attendance at worship services declines during serious illness. This study assessed whether home visits by clergy or laity provide benefits to seriously ill patients who m ... Full text Link to item Cite

Megacities.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · August 2011 OBJECTIVE: Religious participation is positively associated with mental health, but attendance at worship services declines during serious illness. This study assessed whether home visits by clergy or laity provide benefits to seriously ill patients who ma ... Full text Cite

Which domains of spirituality are associated with anxiety and depression in patients with advanced illness?

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · July 2011 BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression are common in seriously ill patients and may be associated with spiritual concerns. Little research has examined how concerns in different domains of spirituality are related to anxiety and depression. OBJECTIVE: To exami ... Full text Link to item Cite

Public health nursing initiates publication of Cochrane nursing care field review summaries.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · April 2011 BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression are common in seriously ill patients and may be associated with spiritual concerns. Little research has examined how concerns in different domains of spirituality are related to anxiety and depression. OBJECTIVE: To exami ... Full text Cite

A primer on the responsibilities and abuses of scientific authorship.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · March 2011 BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression are common in seriously ill patients and may be associated with spiritual concerns. Little research has examined how concerns in different domains of spirituality are related to anxiety and depression. OBJECTIVE: To exami ... Full text Cite

Eight recommendations for writing titles of scientific manuscripts.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · August 2010 BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression are common in seriously ill patients and may be associated with spiritual concerns. Little research has examined how concerns in different domains of spirituality are related to anxiety and depression. OBJECTIVE: To exami ... Full text Cite

The DNP and PHN.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · November 2009 BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression are common in seriously ill patients and may be associated with spiritual concerns. Little research has examined how concerns in different domains of spirituality are related to anxiety and depression. OBJECTIVE: To exami ... Full text Cite

Publication ethics.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · July 2009 BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression are common in seriously ill patients and may be associated with spiritual concerns. Little research has examined how concerns in different domains of spirituality are related to anxiety and depression. OBJECTIVE: To exami ... Full text Cite

The quality and influence of the journal.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · March 2009 BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression are common in seriously ill patients and may be associated with spiritual concerns. Little research has examined how concerns in different domains of spirituality are related to anxiety and depression. OBJECTIVE: To exami ... Full text Cite

Surge capacity of public health nurses.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · September 2008 BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression are common in seriously ill patients and may be associated with spiritual concerns. Little research has examined how concerns in different domains of spirituality are related to anxiety and depression. OBJECTIVE: To exami ... Full text Cite

The daunting complexity of a data point.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · June 2008 BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression are common in seriously ill patients and may be associated with spiritual concerns. Little research has examined how concerns in different domains of spirituality are related to anxiety and depression. OBJECTIVE: To exami ... Full text Cite

Drusilla Rageu Poole 1921-1981.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · January 2008 Full text Cite

Lost in translation.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · January 2008 BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression are common in seriously ill patients and may be associated with spiritual concerns. Little research has examined how concerns in different domains of spirituality are related to anxiety and depression. OBJECTIVE: To exami ... Full text Cite

Invitation for simulations.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · March 2007 Full text Cite

Identifying, recruiting, and retaining seriously-ill patients and their caregivers in longitudinal research.

Journal Article Palliat Med · December 2006 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: In order to improve the state of science in palliative care, we must increase our ability to document the real-time experience of patients and families as they traverse the end of life. Yet, frequently, prospective measurement is impeded by dif ... Full text Link to item Cite

Incorporating a built environment module into an accelerated second-degree community health nursing course.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · September 2006 Featured Publication Environmental quality is a leading indicator of population health. Environmental health content has been integrated into the curriculum of an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program for second-degree students through development of an environmen ... Full text Cite

Sociodemographic characteristics of the neighborhood and depressive symptoms in older adults: using multilevel modeling in geriatric psychiatry.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · June 2006 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: Neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics may be important to the mental health of older adults who have decreased mobility and fewer resources. Our objective was to examine the association between neighborhood context and level of depressiv ... Full text Link to item Cite

Elementary, my dear readers.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · May 2006 Full text Cite

Clinical correlates of anxious depression among elderly patients with depression.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · January 2006 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical correlates of comorbid anxiety and depression in a sample of older patients with major depression. METHODS: 352 patients aged 59 and older with major depression were enrolled in the Study o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Teaching with an eye on the storm.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · January 2006 Full text Cite

From narrow to novice in environmental health nursing.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · July 2005 Full text Cite

A review of spiritual and religious measures in nursing research journals: 1995-1999.

Journal Article Journal of religion and health · January 2005 BackgroundA series of systematic reviews has revealed relatively high levels of interest in religion and spirituality in different nursing specialties, but not in general nursing research journals.PurposeTo identify the extent to which sp ... Full text Cite

The effects of nutrition-related factors on four-year mortality among a biracial sample of community-dwelling elders in the North Carolina piedmont.

Journal Article J Nutr Elder · 2005 Featured Publication The purpose of this epidemiological study was to estimate mortality risk associated with poor diet quality (consumption of five food groups), extremes of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, and impaired food-related activities of daily living among ... Full text Link to item Cite

Is the APOE ε4 allele a risk to person-environment fit?

Journal Article Journal of Applied Gerontology · September 1, 2004 This study uses Lawton's model of "the good life " to examine whether the Apolipoprotein E-ε4 genotype functions as a risk factor not only for specific diseases but also for a misfit between elders' personal needs and their physical and social environments ... Full text Cite

Where do continuing care retirement community residents die?

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · August 2004 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

The nurse stump.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · May 2004 Full text Cite

Spiritual turning points and perceived control over the life course.

Journal Article Int J Aging Hum Dev · 2004 Featured Publication Recent evidence indicates that spirituality and religion are associated with both physical and psychological health. Because a belief that rewards are largely determined by external forces tends to be detrimental to mental health, the idea that God can be ... Full text Link to item Cite

APOE epsilon4 as a predictor of subjective quality of life in a biracial older person community sample.

Journal Article J Aging Health · November 2003 UNLABELLED: The epsilon4 allele of apolipoprotein E (APOE) has been associated with health-related outcomes that may adversely affect quality of life (QOL) in older adults. In the absence of published information, we sought to determine whether the epsilon ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of religious practice and religious coping on geriatric depression.

Journal Article Int J Geriatr Psychiatry · October 2003 OBJECTIVE: Both religiousness and social support have been shown to influence depression outcome, yet some researchers have theorized that religiousness largely reflects social support. We set out to determine the relationship of religiousness with depress ... Full text Link to item Cite

Busy/dying.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · May 2003 Full text Cite

Competing risk of household expansion or institutionalization in late life.

Journal Article J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci · January 2003 Featured Publication OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate predictors of change in household size and institutionalization in late life. METHODS: The Duke Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly cohort (n = 3730) was assessed annually ( ... Full text Link to item Cite

Living arrangements and health status in later life: a review of recent literature.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · March 2002 Featured Publication The living arrangements of older persons play a key role in their use of formal and informal care, as well as in their health and well-being. Nurses engaged in primary care, discharge planning, and home care are strategically positioned to contribute to an ... Full text Cite

Psychosocial and clinical predictors of unipolar depression outcome in older adults.

Journal Article Int J Geriatr Psychiatry · March 2002 BACKGROUND: This study examined psychosocial and clinical predictors of depression non-remittance among a sample of initially clinically depressed elders. METHODS: Incident and prevalent unipolar depression cases (n = 166) were enrolled into the MHCRC for ... Full text Link to item Cite

Abstinence versus alcohol use among elderly rural Baptists: a test of reference group theory and health outcomes.

Journal Article Aging Ment Health · February 2002 Reference groups, such as religious groups, are thought to provide individuals with normative frameworks which set and maintain standards for them. Persons who belong to a reference group, yet do not comply with the standards of that group, i.e. non-confor ... Full text Link to item Cite

Allelic differences in the serotonin transporter-linked polymorphic region in geriatric depression.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · 2002 Previous studies have examined the role of genetic variations in the serotonin transporter-linked polymorphic region (5HTTLPR) in affective disorders. The authors studied 182 older depressed subjects and 107 elderly control subjects and obtained DNA for ge ... Link to item Cite

Patterns of religious practice and belief in the last year of life.

Journal Article The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · November 2001 ObjectivesAlthough it is frequently assumed that issues of religious faith become more salient at the end of life, there is little or no population-based empirical evidence testing this assumption.MethodsUsing data from the New Haven site ... Full text Cite

Does social support buffer functional decline in elderly patients with unipolar depression?

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · November 2001 OBJECTIVE: This study tested whether social support protects against functional decline, either generally or selectively, in the most severely depressed elderly patients undergoing treatment for major depressive disorder. METHOD: In a prospective cohort st ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Spiritual History Scale in four dimensions (SHS-4): validity and reliability.

Journal Article Gerontologist · April 2001 Featured Publication The goals of this study were to develop a valid, reliable measure of lifetime religious and spiritual experience and to assess its value in explaining late-life health. Procedures included semi-structured interviews with Duke Aging Center volunteers (n = 3 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Blood pressure and mortality risk in older people: comparison between African Americans and whites.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · April 2001 OBJECTIVES: To determine the risk from hypertension for all-cause mortality in a racially mixed sample of community-dwelling older adults. DESIGN: Baseline blood pressure was assessed between 1985 and 1986 in a sample of persons 65 years of age and older f ... Full text Link to item Cite

Preference for place of death in a continuing care retirement community.

Journal Article Gerontologist · February 2001 Featured Publication PURPOSE: To describe death-related planning and preferences for place of death among well elders in a community characterized by a low rate of hospital deaths. DESIGN AND METHODS: Cross-sectional prevalence survey of independent-living residents (n = 219) ... Full text Link to item Cite

Access to health care and self-rated health among community-dwelling older adults

Journal Article Journal of Applied Gerontology · January 1, 2001 Objective: This study examined the relationship between access to health care and self-rated health among community-dwelling persons aged 65 years and older. Data Source: The analyses were based on a sample of 2,982 participants from the Duke Established P ... Full text Cite

The epidemiology of religious coping: A review of recent literature

Journal Article International Review of Psychiatry · January 1, 2001 Studies of religious coping have increased dramatically over the past few years. This review summarizes recent findings concerning the prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of religious coping. In studies employing a wide variety of methods, religious copin ... Full text Cite

Impact of depressive symptoms on hospitalization risk in community-dwelling older persons.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · October 2000 OBJECTIVE: To determine whether depressive symptoms in older adults are associated with an increased risk for hospitalization. DESIGN: A 6 month cohort study. SETTING: Five counties in the northern Piedmont of North Carolina from the Duke University site o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Does private religious activity prolong survival? A six-year follow-up study of 3,851 older adults.

Journal Article J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci · July 2000 BACKGROUND: Previous studies have linked higher religious attendance and longer survival. In this study, we examine the relationship between survival and private religious activity. METHODS: A probability sample of elderly community-dwelling adults in Nort ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious activity, alcohol use, and depression in a sample of elderly baptists

Journal Article Research on Aging · January 1, 2000 Recent research has shown the beneficial effects of religious activity for individual health and well-being among older adults. The purpose of this article is to determine whether breaking the norms of the religious group can have deleterious consequences ... Full text Cite

Insomnia and heart disease: a review of epidemiologic studies.

Journal Article J Psychosom Res · October 1999 Since the discovery and successful treatment of sleep apnea, researchers seem to believe that the association between sleep disturbance and coronary heart disease (CHD) has been explained. To determine whether subjective nighttime sleep complaints (trouble ... Full text Link to item Cite

Does religious attendance prolong survival? A six-year follow-up study of 3,968 older adults.

Journal Article J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci · July 1999 METHODS: A probability sample of 3,968 community-dwelling adults aged 64-101 years residing in the Piedmont of North Carolina was surveyed in 1986 as part of the Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) program of the Na ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical, demographic and social characteristics of psychotic depression.

Journal Article Psychiatry Res · May 31, 1999 The goal of this study was to compare the clinical, demographic and social characteristics of psychotic and non-psychotic depression in the elderly and younger age groups. Depressed patients (n = 674) meeting DSM-III-R criteria for major depressive episode ... Full text Link to item Cite

Incidence and remission of insomnia among elderly adults in a biracial cohort.

Journal Article Sleep · May 1, 1999 OBJECTIVES: To determine the incidence and remission rates of insomnia in older adults according to race and associated risk factors in a three-year longitudinal study. METHODS: 2,971 men and women, aged 65 years and older, completed questionnaires adminis ... Link to item Cite

Disability in geriatric depression.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · 1999 The authors examined impairment in self-maintenance skills and in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) among 211 older patients with unipolar major depression. In regression models, self-maintenance impairment was associated with older age, less ... Link to item Cite

Religion, spirituality, and medicine: a rebuttal to skeptics.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 1999 Full text Link to item Cite

Symptoms of depression among community-dwelling elderly African-American and white older adults.

Journal Article Psychol Med · November 1998 BACKGROUND: Few studies have explored the variance in individual symptoms by race in older adults. METHODS: Data were analysed from the Duke site of the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE), a community sample of persons ... Full text Link to item Cite

Aging, health, and the "electronic church".

Journal Article J Aging Health · November 1998 We tested whether elders substitute religious media use for church attendance when health declines (using multidimensional disengagement theory) with data from a multiracial, population-based sample in the Bible Belt (N = 2,971). In adjusted models, 3-year ... Full text Link to item Cite

The relationship between religious activities and cigarette smoking in older adults.

Journal Article J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci · November 1998 BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between religious activities and cigarette smoking in community-dwelling older adults. METHODS: Cigarette smoking and religious activities were assessed in a probability sample of 3968 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Are sleep complaints an independent risk factor for myocardial infarction?

Journal Article Ann Epidemiol · August 1998 PURPOSE: To investigate whether subjective sleep complaints are an independent predictor of myocardial infarction (MI) in a community of older adults and to gain clues as to why the association between sleep complaints and incident MI exists. METHODS: Usin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religious activity and depression among community-dwelling elderly persons with cancer: the moderating effect of race.

Journal Article J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci · July 1998 OBJECTIVES: Research has been oriented toward elucidating the links between religion and mental health. The purpose of this article is to further our knowledge in this area by examining the effect of religious activity on depressive symptomatology among co ... Full text Link to item Cite

Suicidal behaviors in depressed men with a family history of suicide: Effects of psychosocial factors and age

Journal Article Aging and Mental Health · January 1, 1998 Effects of impaired social support and stressful life events on non-lethal suicidal behaviors were examined in a clinical sample of high-risk patients: depressed adult men with a family history of suicide or attempted suicide. All subjects (N = 79) were pa ... Full text Cite

(1998). Religion and the Survival of 1010 Hospitalized Veterans.

Journal Article Journal of Religion and Health · 1998 Cite

Social correlates of the dimensions of depression in the elderly.

Journal Article J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci · January 1998 Featured Publication Few investigations of the social correlates of depressive symptomatology have addressed variation in the correlates across multiple dimensions of depression scales. We examined the relationships of selected social, clinical, and demographic correlates with ... Full text Link to item Cite

Age of first onset of bipolar disorder: demographic, family history, and psychosocial correlates.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · 1998 Featured Publication The literature suggests that bipolar elders with early and late onset of the disorder present with different demographic, family history, and psychosocial profiles, which are less well characterized than those for elderly unipolar patients. In this cross-s ... Link to item Cite

The relationship between religious activities and blood pressure in older adults.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 1998 OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between religious activities and blood pressure in community-dwelling older adults. METHOD: Blood pressure and religious activities were assessed in a probability sample of 3,963 persons age sixty-five years or older ... Full text Link to item Cite

Six-month outcomes for MRI-related vascular depression.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · 1998 The purpose of this paper is to estimate the relative probabilities of 6-month recovery from an index episode of major depression for subjects with and without MRI-confirmed vascular brain changes. In this cohort study, 57 depressed subjects from the Duke ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychosocial and physical correlates of chronic depression.

Journal Article Psychiatry Res · October 10, 1997 Featured Publication This study used a case-control design to address differences in psychosocial, physical and clinical profiles between subjects who presented with a chronic index episode of major depression and those who presented with a non-chronic index episode. Subjects ... Full text Link to item Cite

Memory complaint as a predictor of cognitive decline: a comparison of African American and White elders.

Journal Article J Aging Health · May 1997 Of a representative, racially mixed community sample of older adults in North Carolina, 59% of Whites and 49% of African Americans reported worsening memory. The complaint about memory was positively correlated with age, depressive symptomatology, and phys ... Full text Link to item Cite

MRI-defined vascular depression.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · April 1997 OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to characterize the clinical and demographic features of vascular depression. METHOD: They classified 89 depressed patients into two groups-those with vascular (N = 32) and nonvascular (N = 57) depression-on the basis of ex ... Full text Link to item Cite

Social support and depression as risk factors for loss of physical function in late life

Journal Article Aging and Mental Health · January 1, 1997 Poor physical function status in elders is a robust predictor of not only medical service use and institutionalization but also mortality. We assessed whether depressive symptoms and low social support would predict deficits in three domains of physical fu ... Full text Cite

Dexamethasone suppression test identifies a subset of elderly depressed patients with reduced platelet serotonin transport and resistance to imipramine inhibition of transport.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · 1997 Dysregulation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) is more common in elderly patients with depression than in younger depressed patients, and glucocorticoids are known to influence serotonergic function. Elderly depressed patients are also repo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Attendance at religious services, interleukin-6, and other biological parameters of immune function in older adults.

Journal Article Int J Psychiatry Med · 1997 OBJECTIVE: First, to examine and explain the relationship between religious service attendance and plasma Interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels, and second, to examine the relationship between religious attendance and other immune-system regulators and inflammatory ... Full text Link to item Cite

Modeling the cross-sectional relationships between religion, physical health, social support, and depressive symptoms.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · 1997 The authors examined models of the relationships between religious activities, physical health, social support, and depressive symptoms in a sample of 4,000 persons age 65 and over. Religious activity was examined first as a single composite construct and ... Link to item Cite

Global self-ratings of health and mortality: hazard in the North Carolina Piedmont.

Journal Article J Clin Epidemiol · September 1996 Featured Publication We analyzed the first 5 years of surveillance data from the Established Population for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) in the Piedmont of North Carolina (n = 4162) to estimate the effect of a global self-rating of health on survival. Covar ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sociodemographic and clinical correlates of number of previous depressive episodes in the depressed elderly.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · July 8, 1996 Age of onset has been used as a correlate of depressive symptomatology in the elderly. Examining frequency of episodes may improve our ability to make such correlations. The authors studied variations in an index presentation of depression in late life bas ... Full text Link to item Cite

Risk of napping: excessive daytime sleepiness and mortality in an older community population.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · June 1996 OBJECTIVE: To describe the demographic and health-related factors related to excessive daytime sleepiness. To estimate the risk of mortality associated with excessive daytime sleepiness independent of nightime sleep problems and other factors that limit su ... Full text Link to item Cite

Factors associated with paranoid symptoms in a community sample of older adults.

Journal Article Gerontologist · February 1996 Symptoms of paranoia were found in 9.5% of a community sample of older adults in North Carolina. In cross-sectional analyses, these symptoms were associated most strongly with black race, lower income and education, less exercise, and more depressive sympt ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sleep complaints in older adults: a racial comparison.

Journal Article J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci · September 1995 BACKGROUND: Sleep complaints have been reported in epidemiologic studies to be more frequent in late life, among females, among the physically impaired, and among persons experiencing psychiatric disorders. To date, however, no studies have reported a raci ... Full text Link to item Cite

Black-white and urban-rural differences in stability of household composition among elderly persons.

Journal Article J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci · September 1995 Featured Publication The dynamic nature of household composition in a population of elderly persons, with particular focus on Black-White and urban-rural differences, is described in this study. The Duke EPESE is a stratified, random household sample (N = 4,162) of elderly per ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical and phenomenological comparisons of late-onset and early-onset depression.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · May 1995 OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the relationship between age at onset of first depressive episode and clinical features in elderly depressed patients. METHOD: They used data on age at onset and clinical features in 246 elderly depressed patients treated at ... Full text Link to item Cite

The course of psychological distress following threatened and actual conjugal bereavement.

Journal Article Psychological medicine · November 1994 Featured Publication We measured multiple dimensions of distress among spouses (N = 440) of patients hospitalized for serious illness or elective surgery and compared the course of distress over 2 years of follow-up among five groups according to whether and when spouses were ... Full text Cite

Past personal history of dysphoria, social support, and psychological distress following conjugal bereavement.

Journal Article Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · July 1994 Featured Publication ObjectiveThis study describe the course and risk factors of psychological distress following bereavement, controlling for factors often omitted from studies of grief: psychiatric history, social support, and coping choices of the bereaved.Part ... Full text Cite

CES-D: cutpoint or change score?

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · March 1993 Full text Link to item Cite

Florence Nightingale and the India sanitary reforms.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · September 1989 After the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale persisted in researching the health conditions of British troops throughout the Empire. Undaunted by geographic limitations, she surveyed and publicized data that documented the mismanagement of living conditions ... Full text Cite

Beyond the windshield: scavenging community data.

Journal Article Nurse educator · May 1989 Faculty developed a scavenger hunt game to introduce baccalaureate and generic registered nurse (RN) students to the concept of community in a brief, interactive, and challenging way. The game enabled students to examine community structures and processes. ... Full text Cite

Voices in the record.

Journal Article Image--the journal of nursing scholarship · January 1989 Featured Publication In spite of its centrality to the work of nursing, documentation of care (charting) has received a cookbook approach in the professional literature, in schools of nursing and in health care institutions. This article uses the controversies surrounding the ... Full text Cite

High-technology and hospice home care. Strange bedfellows.

Journal Article The Nursing clinics of North America · June 1988 Featured Publication Technologic advances are changing hospice home care. A case study explores the clinical dilemmas and illustrates the educational and research agendas required to resolve them. ... Cite

Patient symptoms and family coping. Predictors of hospice utilization patterns.

Journal Article Cancer nursing · December 1986 Featured Publication Cite

Hospice policy and patterns of care.

Journal Article Image--the journal of nursing scholarship · January 1986 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Nursing management of chronic pain.

Journal Article Journal of Neurosurgical Nursing · 1982 Cite

Determinants of Poor Self-Rated Health in Late Life.

Journal Article Am J Geriatr Psychiatry The authors examined the determinants of poor self-rated health by use of data from the Duke University site of the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE). Study participants were community residents, 65 years of age or ol ... Full text Link to item Cite