• Ethical Dilemmas of Nurse Executives: A Descriptive Study 

  Camunas, Caroline

  This research was designed to describe the ethical dilemmas and to identify the facilitating and inhibiting factors perceived by nurse executives when making decisions that have ethical implications. As there has been ...

• The Relationship Among Health Locus-of-Control, Value of Health, and Health Behavior in Adolescents 

  More, Phyllis K.

  This study explores selected personality factors which may explain part of the variance in health behavior in adolescents. Theoretical and empirical evidence suggested that internal health expectancy and high value of ...

• Health-seeking Behavior and Health Services Use by Latino Men in a Rural Iowa Community 

  MacNaughton, Neil S.

  The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to describe and compare the health-seeking behavior and health services use by Latino men, linked to the meatpacking industry, within the context of the community in which they ...

• Effects of Self-esteem, Threat Appraisal, and Coping Responses on the Somatic Components of Illness: A Test of a Proposed Causal Model with Professional Women 

  Moneyham, Linda L.

  The study was designed to test a causal model of theoretical relationships among self-esteem, threat appraisal, coping responses, and the somatic components of illness with a population of professional women. The proposed ...

• Navigating Uncharted Territory: Experiences of Families When a Child has a Neurodegenerative Life Threatening Illness 

  Steele, Rose G.

  Children with neurodegenerative, life-threatening illnesses account for a significant proportion of children requiring palliative care. Most of their care is provided at home by their families. Yet, there is a paucity of ...

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