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Living with HIV disease: A phenomenological study of a group of older Black/African American women
Black/African American women are disproportionately affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. The purpose of this study was to gain an in-depth understanding of the experiences of a group of lower socioeconomic, ... -
Living with lung cancer: Receptivity and preferences for risk-reducing behavior change among African-American families
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015: Purpose: Evidence exists that the diagnosis of a serious disease such as cancer provides substantial motivation for some patients to stop smoking and embrace risk-reducing ... -
Living with Permanent Colostomy: A Phenomenological Study
(2017-10-05)Living and growing old without impairment is what everybody wants to achieve. But some things may turn out on what we least expected. The impact of having impairment in patient's life is a multifaceted phenomenon and ... -
Local to Global: Incorporating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Into Chapter Programming
(2017-10-23)Sigma Theta Tau International holds Economic and Social Council Special consultative status with the United Nations. This presentation assists STTI chapter leaders in incorporating United Nations Sustainable Development ... -
Logistic regression for predicting early postpartum depressive symptoms in Japanese first-time mothers aged 35 and over
(2014-11-17)Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014: Purpose: Currently, Japan is showing a trend towards later childbearing. In 2006, 5.6% of women giving birth were first-time mothers at age 35 and over (1); this increased to ... -
Logistic regression of admissions data to identify predictors of success in a BSN program
(2016-09-16)Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: Retrospective analysis demonstrated that use of this model would have eliminated 38.75% of the students who were ultimately not successful in the nursing program, while ... -
Loneliness, quality of life, and health-related hardiness among older HIV+/AIDS farmers in China
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Purpose and Backgrounds: This study investigates loneliness, quality of life, and health-related hardiness among 64 HIV+ older (49 - 67) farmers in Hubei, China. HIV infection ... -
Long term care home residents' experiences with socially assistive technologies and the effectiveness of these technologies: A mixed methods systematic review protocol
To document the experiences of LTC residents with the use of socially assistive technologies and the effectiveness of these technologies in decreasing depression, loneliness, and social isolation in LTC settings. -
Long-term care buyout: Leadership styles through the transition
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: Change of ownership in a Long Term Care Facility can be a difficult situation. With a strong Nurse Leader in charge, this transition can be buffered by the use of different ... -
Long-term effect of the self-management, comprehensive coping strategy program on quality of life in patients with advanced breast cancer treated with high dose chemotherapy
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Due to treatment advances, women with breast cancer have improved survival rates. Longer survival has created a need for coping interventions to assist stress reduction and long term symptoms and improve quality ... -
The long-term effects of a suicidal education intervention for family members of the suicidal patients
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the longitudinal (one year after education) effects of a suicide care education intervention on the suicidal family's caregivers. Methods: A quasi-experimental approach ... -
Long-term effects of oral contraceptives
How does long-term use of oral contraceptives in females affect their future general health versus females who have never been prescribed oral contraceptives? -
Long-term impact of study abroad in undergraduate nursing education on RN nursing practice
(2017-07-20)Purpose: Study abroad experiences often have a significant impact on the lives of university students. This impact is not always understood in terms of learning outcomes, lived experience perspectives, or the impact it has ... -
The long-term multidimensional impact of persistent multisite pain on physical and psychological disability, and mortality in community-dwelling older adults
Persistent multisite pain is highly prevalent, affecting 25-43% of community-dwelling older adults. Although existing evidence suggests that persistent multisite pain is associated with physical and psychological disability, ... -
Long-term opiate cessation: The nurse's role as patient advocate
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Sunday, September 18, 2016: Opioid addiction is a national epidemic with overdoses accounting for more than 28,000 deaths among young adults each year. In 2011 alone, over 488,000 ED visits were the ... -
Longevity at the Bedside: Exploring Why Nurses Stay
Nursing is the largest workforce in healthcare. Little focus has been given to why experienced nurses remain at the bedside in a single acute care setting for ten years or more. The lack of information regarding why nurses ... -
Longitudinal associations between hearing loss, vision loss, and dual sensory loss and cognitive decline
The audience will gain a good understanding of the longitudinal relationship between vision loss, hearing loss, and cognitive decline as people grow older. The audience will also gain a good understanding of the dataset ... -
Longitudinal evaluation of a prenatal mentoring program for decreasing maternal anxiety in a military sample
(2017-07-18)Purpose: A relationship exists between prenatal maternal anxiety to pregnancy complications, poor birth outcomes and infant/childhood cognitive delays.1-3 Traditionally, high-risk groups of young, unmarried, ... -
A longitudinal perspective of professional quality of life and intention to stay among perinatal registered nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The purpose of this study is to examine the professional quality of life and intention to stay in the current job and nursing profession among perinatal nurses since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. -
A longitudinal study of body weight loss in patients receiving radiotherapy for head/neck cancers
(2017-07-18)Purpose: 1. to describe body weight change over time in patients receiving RT for head neck cancer. 2. to explore the influence of mucositis and nutritional support on weight change over time. Metho ...
