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Linda Lindsey Davis

Linda Lindsey Davis

Ann Henshaw Gardiner Distinguished Professor Emerita of Nursing
School of Nursing
linda.l.davis@duke.edu
Box 3322 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
Trent Dr, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Adapters, strugglers, and case managers: a typology of spouse caregivers.

Journal Article Qualitative health research · November 2014 Although family home care problems are frequently described in the health care literature, the ways in which families and other informal caregivers manage those problems are not often addressed. We conducted a descriptive analysis of interviews in which sp ... Full text Cite

Compassion fatigue in adult daughter caregivers of a parent with dementia.

Journal Article Issues in mental health nursing · October 2014 Adult daughters face distinct challenges caring for parents with dementia and may experience compassion fatigue: the combination of helplessness, hopelessness, an inability to be empathic, and a sense of isolation resulting from prolonged exposure to perce ... Full text Cite

Chasing the care: soldiers experience following combat-related mild traumatic brain injury.

Journal Article Military medicine · August 2014 ObjectiveOne of the most common, yet most difficult to detect injuries sustained by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan is mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Left untreated, mTBI can negatively impact soldiers' postdeployment adjustment. This r ... Full text Cite

mHealth interventions for weight loss: a guide for achieving treatment fidelity.

Journal Article J Am Med Inform Assoc · 2014 UNLABELLED: mHealth interventions have shown promise for helping people sustain healthy behaviors such as weight loss. However, few have assessed treatment fidelity, that is, the accurate delivery, receipt, and enactment of the intervention. Treatment fide ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Mobile health messages help sustain recent weight loss.

Journal Article Am J Med · November 2013 BACKGROUND: Using regulatory focus theory, an intervention of daily weight loss-sustaining messages was developed and tested for acceptability, feasibility, and efficacy on helping people sustain weight loss. METHODS: Participants (n = 120) were randomized ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

A few thoughts on measurement issues.

Journal Article Research in gerontological nursing · October 2013 Full text Cite

Finding meaning in caring for a spouse with dementia.

Journal Article Applied nursing research : ANR · August 2013 Dementia caregiving can be burdensome with many challenges, especially for spousal caregivers who are elderly and may have limited resources and chronic conditions of their own. However, it can also be an opportunity for growth and transcendence. Thematic ... Full text Cite

Development of a Theoretically Driven mHealth Text Messaging Application for Sustaining Recent Weight Loss.

Journal Article JMIR Mhealth Uhealth · May 7, 2013 BACKGROUND: Mobile phone short message service (SMS) text messaging, has the potential to serve as an intervention medium to promote sustainability of weight loss that can be easily and affordably used by clinicians and consumers. OBJECTIVE: To develop the ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Do nurse-led skill training interventions affect informal caregivers' out-of-pocket expenditures?

Journal Article Gerontologist · February 2013 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: This paper is a report of a study of the Assistance, Support, and Self-health Initiated through Skill Training (ASSIST) randomized control trial. The aim of this paper is to understand whether participating in ASSIST significantly cha ... Full text Link to item Cite

Caring for frail older adults: a theoretical and methodological agenda.

Journal Article Research in gerontological nursing · October 2012 Full text Cite

A comparative qualitative analysis of stories of spousal caregivers of people with dementia: negative, ambivalent, and positive experiences.

Journal Article International journal of nursing studies · February 2012 BackgroundCaregivers of people with dementia describe a wide spectrum of caregiving experiences, from very negative to very positive. Previous research reveals that differences exist, but how or why the experiences differ has not been well address ... Full text Cite

Advances in mediation analysis can facilitate nursing research.

Journal Article Nursing research · September 2011 BackgroundTwo recent advances in the statistical methods for testing hypotheses about mediation effects are important for nursing science. First, bootstrap sampling distributions provide more accurate tests of hypotheses about mediated effects. Se ... Full text Cite

Correlates of care relationship mutuality among carers of people with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

Journal Article Journal of advanced nursing · August 2011 AimThis paper presents findings from secondary analysis of longitudinal data on correlates of care relationship mutuality collected from 91 carers of people with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease in the control group of a randomized tria ... Full text Cite

The nature and scope of stressful spousal caregiving relationships.

Journal Article Journal of family nursing · May 2011 The caregiving literature provides compelling evidence that caregiving burden and depressive symptoms are linked with stressful care relationships, however, relational difficulties around caregiving are seldom described in the literature. This article pres ... Full text Cite

Deciding to institutionalize: why do family members cease caregiving at home?

Journal Article The Journal of neuroscience nursing : journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses · April 2010 The primary purpose of this secondary analysis was to identify common themes from the statements of caregivers who ultimately decided to institutionalize their relative with Alzheimer or Parkinson disease. Content analysis of transcripts from caregivers (n ... Cite

Barriers to mobility during hospitalization from the perspectives of older patients and their nurses and physicians.

Journal Article Journal of hospital medicine · September 2007 BackgroundLow mobility is common during hospitalization and is associated with adverse outcomes. Understanding barriers to the maintenance or improvement of mobility is important to the development of successful interventions.ObjectivesTo ... Full text Cite

Lessons learned from a Parkinson's disease caregiver intervention pilot study.

Journal Article Applied nursing research : ANR · November 2006 This article discusses the pilot test of a psychoeducational intervention designed to improve the care skills, self-health skills, and resource-acquisition skills of caregivers of adults with Parkinson's disease. It describes the intervention and discusses ... Full text Cite

Differential attrition in a caregiver skill training trial.

Journal Article Research in nursing & health · October 2006 Participant attrition in randomized trials can reduce statistical power and bias outcomes. However, elective withdrawals are seldom discussed in trial reports. We examined factors associated with elective withdrawals for the first 131 Alzheimer's disease ( ... Full text Cite

Implementing the research budget.

Journal Article Western journal of nursing research · March 2006 Reworking a reduced budget after the award and monitoring and managing the budget once funds are received are critical to the success of a research project. Few resources are available to help principal investigators and research teams deal with these comp ... Full text Cite

Nosocomial urinary tract infection: nursing-sensitive quality indicator in a Thai hospital.

Journal Article Journal of Nursing Care Quality · May 2005 The purposes of this study were to examine relationships among 3 of the American Nurses Association's 10 nursing-sensitive quality indicators: nursing hours per patient day, percentage of RNs, and nosocomial urinary tract infection (NUTI), and to identify ... Cite

Participant-centered adaptations in caregiver trials: strategies for managing confounds.

Journal Article Nursing outlook · March 2005 BackgroundRandomized trials have been criticized for being more protocol than participant-centered, with concerns raised about higher subject attrition and limited generalizability under controlled conditions. Informal caregivers are similar to ot ... Full text Cite

Biopsychological markers of distress in informal caregivers.

Journal Article Biological research for nursing · October 2004 BACKGROUND: Thirty caregiving wives participated in a study of caregiving distress and negative mood (depressive symptoms) by making diary entries on stressful caregiving situations and collecting saliva samples 4 times a day. At the end of the 7-day study ... Full text Cite

A comparison of in-home and telephone-based skill training with caregivers of persons with dementia.

Journal Article Journal of Mental Health & Aging · March 2004 The purpose of this study was to compare telephone training with in-home training for reducing family caregiver burden, distress and depression as well as improving caregivers' abilities to manage the functional decline of persons with Alzheimer's disease ... Cite

Telehealth for elders and their caregivers in rural communities.

Journal Article Family & community health · October 2002 The use of technological strategies in providing care for patients and their families at distant locations has been available since the 1950s. Today's telehealth approaches are proposed to offer considerable promise for enhanced service delivery in rural a ... Cite

Family caregiving after nursing home admission.

Journal Article Journal of Mental Health & Aging · October 2001 Although institutionalization of a cognitively impaired (CI) person is a pivotal point in family life, it is a comparatively neglected topic in the literature. The majority of family caregiving studies have defined institutionalization as an outcome and te ... Cite

Family problem-solving: Measuring the elusive concept.

Journal Article Journal of Family Nursing · August 1999 Reliable and valid approaches for measuring family-level problem solving are necessary if nurse clinicians and researchers are to identify and describe problem solving in both healthy and ill families and monitor the effects of nursing interventions on cha ... Cite

Telephone-based interventions with family caregivers: A feasibility study.

Journal Article Journal of Family Nursing · August 1998 Although telephone care has been reported with various patient populations, telephone-based interventions usually are described as part of multimethod treatments-combined with support group activities or home visits,for example-such that the separate effec ... Full text Cite

Depression in elders with dementia: Implications for home healthcare practice

Journal Article Home Healthcare Nurse · November 1997 In addition to severe cognitive decline, depressive symptoms occur in almost 50% of patients with dementia. Depressive symptoms can be treated successfully, thereby reducing clinical manifestations of coexisting dementia and improving quality of life for t ... Cite

Family conflicts around dementia home-care.

Journal Article Families, Systems & Health: The Journal of Collaborative Family HealthCare · March 1997 Investigated and categorized family conflicts around home-care for demented elders and the conflict management strategies of their primary family caregivers. Interviews were conducted with 12 caregivers (aged 41-75 yrs) of dementia patients followed in a m ... Cite

Living with loss: The stroke family caregiver

Journal Article Journal of Family Nursing · February 1997 Stroke family caregiver self-losses are the focus of this study. The data presented here were collected as part of a larger study of stress, coping, and adaptation in stroke family caregiving. Information on personal losses was derived from a series of int ... Cite

Social constructivist approaches for brief, episodic, problem-focused family encounters.

Journal Article The Nurse practitioner · August 1993 Clinicians of many health care disciplines provide health care services to the family unit. Because of the multiple perspectives that individual family members bring to the health care encounter, family-focused primary health care presents special challeng ... Cite

Instrument review: Getting the most from a panel of experts

Journal Article Applied Nursing Research · November 1992 Authors on research methods frequently recommend the use of a panel of experts to maximize the likelihood of content-valid, well-constructed data collection instruments. Figure 3 summarizes the panel review process as a series of steps, beginning with the ... Full text Cite

Mental health problems in primary care: a study of nurse practitioners' practice.

Journal Article The Nurse practitioner · October 1989 The purpose of this study was to explore whether NPs see clients for mental health problems in the primary care setting and the strategies NPs use to manage such problems. The results of a survey of 110 nurse practitioners suggest that NPs regularly encoun ... Cite

Get the most from your preceptorship program.

Journal Article Nursing outlook · August 1989 Carefully designed, systematically implemented, and comprehensively evaluated clinical preceptorship programs can expand and enhance the educational experience of baccalaureate nursing students. In addition, such programs can increase the satisfaction and ... Cite

12-hour shifts: Panacea or problem?

Journal Article Nursing Management · August 1989 Cite

Bringing degrees to staff nurses.

Journal Article Nursing management · May 1989 The purpose of this study was to explore whether NPs see clients for mental health problems in the primary care setting and the strategies NPs use to manage such problems. The results of a survey of 110 nurse practitioners suggest that NPs regularly encoun ... Cite

Assessing parents as health educators.

Journal Article Pediatric nursing · January 1989 Parental health knowledge and beliefs are critical determinants in decisions concerning health care matters of children. This article describes a data collection instrument based on Orem's Self-Care Theory that can predict the potential for health educatio ... Cite

The nursing shortage. Recruiting IRNs.

Journal Article Nursing & health care : official publication of the National League for Nursing · September 1988 The purpose of this study was to explore whether NPs see clients for mental health problems in the primary care setting and the strategies NPs use to manage such problems. The results of a survey of 110 nurse practitioners suggest that NPs regularly encoun ... Cite

Men in nursing: their contributions to the mainstream nursing literature, 1955-1985.

Journal Article Journal of nursing history : a publication of the Nursing Archives Associates at Boston University · November 1987 The purpose of this study was to explore whether NPs see clients for mental health problems in the primary care setting and the strategies NPs use to manage such problems. The results of a survey of 110 nurse practitioners suggest that NPs regularly encoun ... Cite

Convalescence and implications for nursing research.

Journal Article Image--the journal of nursing scholarship · October 1987 Cite

Lesbian stress and coping methods.

Journal Article Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services · September 1987 The purpose of this study was to explore whether NPs see clients for mental health problems in the primary care setting and the strategies NPs use to manage such problems. The results of a survey of 110 nurse practitioners suggest that NPs regularly encoun ... Cite

Professional collaboration in health care administration.

Journal Article Nursing administration quarterly · July 1983 The purpose of this study was to explore whether NPs see clients for mental health problems in the primary care setting and the strategies NPs use to manage such problems. The results of a survey of 110 nurse practitioners suggest that NPs regularly encoun ... Cite

What is a health care contract?

Journal Article Health values · June 1980 The purpose of this study was to explore whether NPs see clients for mental health problems in the primary care setting and the strategies NPs use to manage such problems. The results of a survey of 110 nurse practitioners suggest that NPs regularly encoun ... Cite

Media for an integrated nursing curriculum.

Journal Article The Journal of nursing education · October 1977 In conclussion, the media decision-making process for an integrated nursing curriculum is based upon the following steps: - An analysis of the philosophy and unifying strands in the conceptual framework of the curriculum model, - An evaluation of currently ... Cite