Journal articleQualitative 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 ...
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Journal articleIssues 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 ...
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Journal articleMilitary 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 ...
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Journal articleJ 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 ...
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Journal articleAm 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 ...
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Journal articleApplied 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 ...
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Journal articleJMIR 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 ...
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Journal articleGerontologist · 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 ...
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Journal articleInternational 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 ...
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Journal articleNursing 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleThe 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleApplied 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 ...
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Journal articleResearch 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 ( ...
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Journal articleWestern 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleNursing 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 ...
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Journal articleBiological 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleFamily & 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleHome 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 ...
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Journal articleFamilies, 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleThe 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 ...
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Journal articleApplied 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 ...
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Journal articleThe 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 ...
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Journal articleNursing 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 ...
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Journal articleNursing 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 ...
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Journal articlePediatric 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 ...
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Journal articleNursing & 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleNursing 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 ...
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Journal articleHealth 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 ...
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Journal articleThe 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 ...
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