Browsing by Level of Evidence "Cross-Sectional"
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Access to care of adults with chronic illness
This study investigated the relationship of chronic illness and access to health care in adults responding to the 1986 National Access to Health Care Survey. Access to care was defined as actually entering the health system ... -
Acculturation, self-efficacy and breastfeeding behaviors in a sample of Hispanic women
Breastfeeding confers immunological, physiological and psychological benefits for the infant and mother as well as social and economic benefits to the nation. The United States Department of Health and Human Servcies (HHS), ... -
Acuity-based staffing in long term care: Does it influence quality?
Background. Long-term care settings have frequently been targeted as environments prone to deficiencies in quality and resultant negative effects on resident safety. The use of minimum nurse staffing ratios has been proposed ... -
Adaptation to chronic pain: Religious and non-religious coping in Judeo-Christian elders
The purpose of this cross-sectional, correlational study was to examine the relationships between chronic pain, the use of religious and non-religious coping, and the health outcomes of functional ability, depression, and ... -
Adolescent Motherhood: The Human Agency Perspective
The purpose of this study was to develop and test a causal model a priori. The mediating influence of self-esteem in the relationship among the sociocultural variables of race, social status and family relationships, ... -
Adolescents' responses to single mothers' chronic physical illness
The purpose of this study was to describe selected concepts of adolescents living with a single, chronically physically ill mother and to examine the self-concept of these adolescents and the relationship of the self-concept ... -
Adult postoperative open-heart patients: Anemia and 30-day hospital readmission
Background/Rationale. In 2013 alone, more than 4% (3.9 million) of patients discharged from a hospital were readmitted. Anemia following a surgical procedure is associated with early hospital readmission. Purpose/Aims. ... -
Assessing the influences on rural women's reproductive life plans: A cross-sectional descriptive study
Rural women’s unique personal, social, cultural, and economic characteristics influence their health care decision-making processes. To assess the influences on rural women and their Reproductive Life Plans, a ... -
Association between burnout, DNA methylation, and work environment among interprofessional clinical and non-clinical staff
Purpose: About 35-54% of nurses and physicians in the U.S. suffer from burnout. Currently, there is a lack of an objective biologic measure of burnout. This study will assess the feasibility of using DNA methylation (DNAm) ... -
Association between nursing work environment and the perception of care quality and patient safety in a university hospital
This study evaluates the nursing work environment and the number of patients seen per shift, in inpatient units of a university hospital in southern Brazil, and to verify the association with the quality of care and patient ... -
Barriers and facilitators to the completion of advance directives in healthy, non-healthcare employed adults aged 45-65
Background: The Patient Self-­‐Determination Act -­‐-­‐ passed in 1991 -­‐-­‐ requires staff in health care facilities -­‐-­‐ such as skilled nursing facilities, hospitals, home health services ... -
BE RESILIENT: Examining the relationship between staff nurse incivility and undergraduate nursing students' sense of belonging to the nursing profession
Background: Sense of belonging is essential for nursing students to develop and grow within the nursing profession. Unfortunately, incivility threatens the sense of belonging in nursing students. Purpose: The purpose of ... -
The biopsychosocial model of metabolic syndrome among U.S. adults
Background: The Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of medical disorders (obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and insulin/resistance/glucose intolerance) that characteristically occur together in individuals. The ... -
Breast cancer-related lymphedema and rural/small town survivors' return to work
The aim of this study is to describe the interactions between survivors living with BCRL in rural counties and their occupation and work environment. -
A brief nursing workload scale: Development and evaluation
Growth of price competition among hospitals has renewed interest in nursing workload measures as administrative aids to control personnel costs. Nurse administrators use workload estimates primarily to justify daily staffing ... -
Caregiver burden and its relationship to health-related quality of life of spouses of coronary artery bypass patients
Background. With today's aging population and short hospitalizations, patients recovering after coronary artery bypass (CAB) surgery rely on family assistance, usually from their spouse. While caregiving may be meaningful, ... -
Chronically ill children's mothers' perceptions of environmental variables
Environments play a critical role in supporting families, ameliorating isolation, promoting group values, and providing resources (Garbarino, 1976). For families with a chronically ill child the role of the environment is ... -
Clinical factors that influence nurse responsiveness in activating rapid response services
This study advances the understanding of essential clinical knowledge skillsets that nurses need to identify and respond to early signs of patient deterioration. The identification of critical thinking and assessment skills ... -
The cognitive development and perceptions about nursing as a profession of baccalaureate nursing students
Baccalaureate nursing programs purport to prepare nurses who have a professional view of nursing and of the nurse and who are capable of making independent nursing decisions, dealing with the uncertainty of many nursing ... -
Compassion fatigue among family caregivers of individuals with end-state heart failure
Background: Compassion fatigue is a phenomenon identified in family caregivers. Heart failure is a public health crisis, affecting over six million people in the United States. The need for family caregivers, and the need ...
