Browsing by Subjects (CINAHL) "Cognition"
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Baroreflex sensitivity during positional changes in patients with traumatic brain injury
Background and significance. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects 1.7 million Americans annually leading to significant morbidity and health care costs. An important cause of morbidity in TBI is secondary brain injury due ... -
Cognitive function in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
Background. Recent studies suggest that standard dose chemotherapy (CTX) may cross the blood-brain barrier. However, the evidence for CTX-induced cognitive impairments in breast cancer patients is inconsistent. Purposes. ... -
Correlation between the cognitive, functional and physical abilities of the elderly packing service
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015: Purpose: To assess the correlation between the cognitive, functional and physical abilities of packer elderly volunteer in two commercial brands at Saltillo, Coahuila Methods: ... -
Creativity and Cognitive Style of Creativity: A Description of Graduate Nursing Faculty and Construct Validation of the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Theory
This study utilized traditional measures of creativity and Kirton's Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI) to describe both level of creativity and cognitive style of creativity in faculty and administrators in National League ... -
Delirium assessment in the medical-surgical population: A quality improvement project
(2017-01-11)Background: Delirium is a complex syndrome that can affect many patients resulting in adverse outcomes. The use of a delirium assessment tool assists in the identification of delirium. The aim of this project was to determine ... -
Impact of category of appraisal on diabetes self-management
(2015-10-02)Subject Population: A convenience sample of adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus will be recruited from a primary care clinic in north central West Virginia. Participants must be between the ages of 20 and 64, read and ... -
Investigating chemobrain onset: A pilot study exploring the severity and onset of cognitive impairment
Background: Chemotherapy related changes in cognition fall into a cluster of symptoms commonly referred to as chemobrain. To date, nursing literature on the progression of chemobrain and tools used to describe this progression ... -
Nurses' information processing related to surveillance as an intervention in the care of stroke patients
Background. The phenomena 'failure to rescue', defined as the inability to recognize a complication and consequently to save a patient's life, has recently received much attention. Surveillance is a term describing a nursing ... -
Relationship among subjective mental workload, experience, and education of cardiovascular critical care registered nurses
Subjective mental workload was introduced for study in nursing emanating from a concern among nurses that current measures of nursing workload fail to capture the cognitive demands of patient care. Subjective mental workload ... -
The relationship between cognitive development and decision-making regarding adolescent sexual activity: Instrument development and validation
The purpose of the study was to develop and validate an instrument which measures decision making in situations which may lead to sexual activity in adolescents, and the impact of cognitive development on that process. ... -
The relationship between the abnormal electrophysiological features and the degeneration in cognition, behavior, daily functioning, and global presentation manifested by individuals with Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an increasingly prevalent neurologic disorder characterized by progressive degeneration in cognition, behavior, and daily functioning. Identification of methods designed to enhance the accuracy ... -
The relationship of stroke patients' functional and cognitive status and caregivers' resilience to caregiver burden
Currently it is estimated that 795,000 persons experience a stroke every year. Of that number up to one-third of survivors will be permanently disabled. It is neither financially feasible nor desirable to place these ...
