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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 ...
Psychological and immunological correlates of surviving breast cancer: Influence of children
Positive outcomes, such as greater meaning in life, have been identified in cancer survivors. A pilot study identified that presence or absence of children may be an important contributor to the observed high variances on ...
The evaluation of neuroendocrine measures in women with irritable bowel syndrome
Background. Increased cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of stress mediators, such as corticotropin releasing factor (CRF), norepinephrine (NE) and Substance P (Sp) have been reported to be abnormal in several ...
The process of recovering in women who have been depressed
Women are twice as likely as men to suffer from depression and one woman in four is likely to suffer from a serious depressive episode at some time in her life (Wood, 1989). Literature abounds on the treatment of depression ...
An ethnography study of HIV positive midlife Black women
Black women, ages 45 and older, are disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In 2001, Black women comprised 11% of all older women in the United States; however, they accounted for more than 50% of AIDS cases ...
Perceptions of future and advance care planning for Japanese women with early stage gynecological and breast cancer
Advance care planning (ACP) is the process that allows individuals to choose a path of care in the event that they are unable to make a decision for themselves. The concept of advance care planning is much broader than ...
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 ...
How Latinas come to know about AIDS and AIDS prevention
By the year 2000, Latinos will become the largest minority group in the United States. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is occurring at a disproportionately high rate among Latinos. As care-giver and health ...
Factors That Influence Contraceptive Decision-making in African American Women, an Intergenerational Perspective
African American women represent a unique group of women in the United States and have a long history of lack of reproductive freedom. Slavery and forced procreation, sterilization abuses, the Eugenics movement, and federally ...
The relationship of self-efficacy, social support, self-esteem, and hope with sex related health promotion behaviors in HIV-infected and uninfected women
The Sex Related Health Promotion Behaviors Model (SRHPBM), suggesting a positive relationship between self-efficacy, social support, self esteem, hope, and sex related health promotion behaviors, was used in this descriptive ...