Browsing by Sigma Chapters "Alpha Lambda"
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Active learning strategies for course enhancement: Monitoring adverse event reporting in Twitter
(2017-06-21)The purpose of this pre-test/post-test experimental study was to evaluate the impact of active learning strategies designed to appeal to six student learning styles: competitive, collaborative, avoidant, participant, ... -
Adapting a vaccine administration process for COVID-19 in a federally qualified health center
As COVID-19 vaccines were being developed, the project team used quality improvement tools such as FMEA and process mapping to create a new COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedure at a Federally Qualified Health Center. ... -
Addressing compassion fatigue of a family caregiver of adolescents in a mental health setting: A practice change project
Family members who care for adolescents with a mental health disorder (AMHD) have yet to be recognized as an at-risk population for developing Compassion Fatigue (CF). The project introduced the concept of CF and the ... -
Adult daughters' relationships with their institutionalized mothers
A qualitative research design using grounded theory methodology was used to study adult daughters' relationships during the transitional period following their mothers' institutionalization in a nursing home. The central ... -
Aggression in South Korean middle school students
(2014-11-17)Purpose: Aggressiveness is a behavioral and emotional response made on purpose for the sake of destroying or damaging other persons or things (Kim & Kim, 2007). Currently South Korean society suffers from violent and ... -
Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior to understand energy drink consumption behaviors in college students
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015: Purpose: College students consume energy beverages (i.e., energy drinks and energy shots) to fight fatigue, heighten concentration, and promote weight loss, raising conceRNabout ... -
The association of perceived stress to physical and affective health outcomes in sickle cell disease
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016: Purpose: Pain is a major complication of sickle cell disease (SCD). Stress is known to trigger acute pain crisis or intensify chronic pain in patients with SCD.De, 2005, 1 ... -
Attitudes of Gratitude: Innovative Strategies in Improving Health and Wellness
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Your attitude plays a large role in determining whether you can feel grateful in spite of life's challenges. According to gratitude researcherRobert Emmons, gratitude is just ... -
Behavioral intervention with maternal participatory guidance improves preterm infant outcomes
(2017-07-25)Purpose: This completed randomized controlled trial of 198 premature infants born at 29-34 weeks gestation and their mothers examined the impact of the H-HOPE (Hospital to Home: Optimizing the Preterm ... -
Blood pressure and restorative sleep intensity are altered by chronic daytime sleep disruption in rats
There is a serious need to develop preventative strategies reducing night-shift workers' risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke. I developed an animal model of disrupted sleep and found when rats had abnormal sleep ... -
Building global nursing research capacity from efficacy to implementation in Malawi: Sustaining a 20-year collaboration
This presentation describes a 20-year collaboration between two colleges of nursing in the USA and Malawi. We have had continuous research funding throughout. Our experiences in building research capacity and promoting ... -
Creating a collaborative academic culture for successful scholarship in nursing faculty
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: Pursuit of tenure is an arduous task. Expectations for tenure include achieving excellence in teaching, service, and scholarship. While different schools have varying ... -
Development and pilot testing of a social media-based educational sexual health intervention
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015: The purpose of this project was to develop and determine the impact of a social media educational intervention on sexual health among 18-24 year olds residing in a Midwestern ... -
Development of a postpartum preeclampsia video to promote patient education
Women's postpartum health has had increasingly poor outcomes. Antepartum and intrapartum care has continued to be a focus of improve yet postpartum follow up care continues be an area for improvement. The aims of this ... -
Development of an instrument to measure quality of nurses' worklife
This study reports the development process and factor structure of a questionnaire to measure quality of nursing work life for registered nurses in hospital settings. Included is information on item generation, content ... -
Dimensions of racial identity as predictors of physical activity in midlife African American women
Physical inactivity leads to serious health consequences, particularly for midlife African American (AA) women. Midlife African American (AA) women are less physically active and have higher obesity-related morbidity and ... -
Distributive Justice and Social Policy: A Case Study
This research focused on explicating the conceptions of just distribution of resources underlying one example of health policy. The policy used as a case study was federal funding of home health care under Medicare, during ... -
Effect of a drinker identity on smoking-related information processing and behavior
(2016-10-14)Purpose: Drinking and smoking frequently co-occur in undergraduate students. A drinker identity − a valued identity related to alcohol consumption behaviors − predicts high levels of alcohol use and alcohol ... -
Effectiveness of cultural competence educational intervention on patient and health professional outcomes: A systematic review
(2017-07-27)This study was to assess the effectiveness of cultural competence education for health professionals on patient and health professional outcomes; to identify an effective way to educate health professionals. -
Effectiveness of group-visits in a women's lifestyle physical activity program for African-American women
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015: Purpose: Theoretically-based group physical activity interventions have shown to be the most effective means of increasing physical activity in minority populations. Primary ...