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Families' Perceptions on Immunodeficiency Virus HIV/AIDS Phenomenon and its Impact on Family Functioning of Puerto Rican Families with Children: A Grounded Approach
The purpose of this study was to generate a detailed description of Puerto Rican families' perceptions of their experiences and processes of functioning when the HIV/AIDS phenomenon is present in the family unit. The sample ...
Social Support, Psychological and Physical States among Japanese Women with Breast Cancer
In Western cultures, it has been reported that social support has effects on health outcomes among women with breast cancer. However, little is known about social support and the effects on health outcomes among Japanese ...
Perceived Social Support, Coping, and Psychological Distress in Advanced Cancer Patients
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which perceived social support and coping mechanisms contribute to explaining psychological distress in advanced cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. The Lazarus ...
Differences in the Frequency of Use of Breast Cancer Control Methods in Black and White Women: An Application of the Health Belief Model
The purposes of this study were to describe differences in the frequency of use of breast cancer control methods (mammogram (MAM), clinical breast examination (CBE), and breast self-examination (BSE)) and health beliefs ...
Creative Thinking Ability of Women in Nursing
A nonexperimental, descriptive, correlational design was used to determine the level of creative thinking ability of 60, randomly selected, baccalaureate junior and senior female nursing students. The relationship between ...
Patients' Perceptions of Patient Education as Enablement
The efficacy of nursing interventions such as patient education from the recipient's or participant's viewpoint has been studied infrequently. This qualitative study examines perceptions of participants in childbirth ...
Southern, rural African American women's hypertension perceptions
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of adult deaths in the United States, and hypertension is a major contributing factor to the development of cardiovascular disease. Epidemiologic research reveals that cardiovascular ...
Family Experiences with Long-term Childhood Technology Dependence: An Interpretive Interactionist Approach
Increased numbers of children who are technology-dependent are now being cared for at home by parents and other caregivers. However, there is inadequate understanding of the daily lives of families who care for ...
Nursing Faculty Perceptions on Teaching Critical Thinking
(2017-11-30)
The perceptions of nursing faculty teaching critical thinking (CT) affective attributes and cognitive skills are described in this quantitative, descriptive study. The study sample consisted of nurse educators from the ...
Caring and Transformation in Oncology Nursing Administration: Paradigms of Leadership
Caring has a history of being central to nursing and has long been held to be an essential component of the clinical practice of nurses involved in direct patient care activities. While nurse administrators have been ...