Browsing by Level of Evidence "Grounded Theory"
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Adolescent Female Substance Abuse: Risk and Resiliency Factors
Alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) abuse is a major social and health concern for adolescent females. For the first time, female use patterns are converging with male patterns among U.S. adolescents. Despite evidence ... -
Adolescent victims' experiences with cyberbullying: A grounded theory study
The purpose of this study was to construct a Grounded Theory that explains the processes involved in cyberbullying from the perspectives of those who have been victimized. A Constructivist Grounded Theory approach was used ... -
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 ... -
African-American, Hispanic, and Caucasian Parents' Perception and Management of Chronically Ill Children in the Home
Advances in technology and knowledge have contributed to a growing population of children with chronic illness. Nurses caring for chronically ill children and their families in the home environment have witnessed a rapid ... -
Application of the Transtheoretical Model of Change to the Smoking Behavior of Men During Their Partner's Pregnancy
This study describes the smoking behavior and selected characteristics of men during their partner's pregnancy. Constructs of the transtheoretical model of behavior change were used to describe socio-demographic characteristics ... -
Brokering student well-being: Understanding the work of school health administrators
Background: Despite a well-documented need for school health programs (SHPs) among school children who have chronic conditions, require medically complex interventions at school, or experience socio-emotional health issues, ... -
Building a Social Identity: Peer - to - Peer Sexual Harassment in Adolescents
Peer-to-peer sexual harassment is pervasive in secondary schools and is responsible for a number of health effects such as sleeplessness, loss of self-esteem and depression, as well as other negative educational and social ... -
Concept and Process of Attaining and Maintaining Health for a Selected Vietnamese Immigrant Population
Nursing theorists have proposed that health is a concept central to nursing, yet the concept is surrounded by confusion and ambiguity because the word has had varying interpretations applied to it over time by both ... -
Coping with Acute Myocardial Infarction
This study examined how acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients cope during the first three days of illness. Although the ability of patients to cope has been previously studied, there has been little investigation of ... -
Cultural Discovery in Nursing Practice: The Experience of Nurses Who Work with Vietnamese
The purpose of this investigation was to generate a substantive theory of cultural discovery among nurses who work with Vietnamese. A grounded theory approach involving dimensional analysis was employed. A purposive sample ... -
A Description of the Maternal Decision-making Process Regarding Circumcision
Mothers, as dependent-care agents for their child, must make multiple decision concerning the health care of the child. One of the first decisions that must be made by mothers of male children is a decision for or against ... -
Determinants of health service utilization: A secondary analysis of the comprehensive multi-level nursing practice model for rural Hispanics
Rural Hispanic communities in America face socioeconomic barriers that are costly in terms of morbidity and mortality. Explication of the community qualities that influence healthcare utilization of rural Hispanic populations ... -
Differences between the earth and the sky: migrant parents' views of nurse-led child health services in the UK
Migrating between countries necessitates movement and adjustment between systems of healthcare which differ in provision. Children of migrant parents use most types of healthcare services less than local children, with ... -
The Early Socialization Process of Critical Care Nurses: Implications for Administration, Education, and Practice
Critical care nurses provide care to the most ill patients in hospital settings; yet, little is known about the processes by which critical care nurses are socialized into their roles. The purpose of this study was to ... -
Empowering young adults: The adolescent insight development model
Quality of life and ease of reintegration into the family and the community are particularly important for the adolescent or young adult with mental illness. Such rehabilitation has long been focused on empowerment, partly ... -
Enduring: The Experience of Hospitalized Elderly Patients
The number of elderly hospitalized patients is increasing dramatically. Yet, the hospitalization experience of the elderly is not well understood. The purpose of this study was to explore the hospitalization process as ... -
Evolving Self-care Among Individuals with Schizophrenia and Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes mellitus is more common among individuals with schizophrenia compared to the general population, yet little is known about their diabetic self-care. This grounded theory study was conducted to identify the process ... -
The Experience of Families When a Child is Diagnosed with Cancer with a Favorable Diagnosis
The major objective of this longitudinal, descriptive study was to describe the family transition to living with childhood cancer, from the family's point of view, when a child is diagnosed with cancer with a favorable ... -
The Experience of Recurrent Breast Cancer: A Case Study
The purposes of this study were to describe, in-depth, the experience of recurrent breast cancer and to explore methodologies consistent with a conceptual orientation based in the Complex Nonlinear Dynamical Systems ... -
The Experience of Violence and Help-seeking Among Mothers of Adult Chronically Mentally Ill Individuals
Mothers of mentally ill adults are frequently primary caretakers. If mentally ill individuals become violent, mothers are most often victims. In their role as primary caretakers, mothers are knowledgeable regarding their ...
