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The moderating effect of religion on death distress and quality of life among Christian cancer patients in the United States with Muslim cancer patients in Saudi Arabia
Cancer is an illness that knows no international boundaries. There are more than eight million global cancer deaths each year. A life-threatening diagnosis generates significant emotional problems for many patients across ...
Theory of quality of life of stroke survivors (TQLOSS)
This study tested a theoretical model of quality of life of stroke survivors derived from King's conceptual framework for nursing. The model proposed that stroke survivors' perceptual integrity (cognition), social support, ...
The relationship between patients' perceived quality of life, expectations of nursing care, and level of satisfaction with nursing care
The objective of this research was to identify the relationship between preadmission patient characteristics and patient satisfaction with nursing care. The two characteristics studied were perceived quality of life and ...
Physical and emotional health among caregivers of heart failure patients
Caregiving has been associated with negative psychological and physical consequences for years (Molloy, Johnston, & Witham, 2005). Some research indicates that caregivers with higher perceived control may experience ...
Life balance in nurse educators: A mixed methods study
The topic of nurse educator life balance is significant to the nurse educator community, which is facing a national nurse faculty shortage, challenges in producing enough new nurses, and a continuing shortage of nurses. ...
Heart failure family caregivers: Psychometrics of a new quality of life scale and variables associated with caregiver outcomes
The number of patients with chronic heart failure (HF) is at an all-time high and the incidence is expected to increase as our population ages. HF patients experience impaired cognition, exertional shortness of breath, and ...
Simulated presence use for quality of life maintenance and reduction of symptoms of distress in persons living with dementia in long-term care
Background: Nursing home residents with dementia often have an array of neuropsychiatric symptoms, including dementia-related agitation. It is theorized that many of these agitation symptoms occur due to unmet psychosocial ...
Supporting hope in midlife cancer survivors: Intervention workshop
Problem: Cancer patients lack information and support needed to make the transition to survivorship. This problem was addressed by testing a psycho-educational group intervention, the Mid-Life Directions Workshop, for its ...
The experience of being aware of disease status in women with recurrent ovarian cancer: A phenomenological study
Background: In the United States, each year about 22,440 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, the deadliest gynecological cancer - with an estimated 14,080 deaths each year. Patients with recurrent ovarian cancer have ...
Quality of life among children with physical disabilities
A triangulated descriptive research design was used to examine the relationships between quality of life (QOL), health status and physical disability among children between the ages of 8 and 15. A non-random sample (N = ...