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A prospective study documenting women's experiences of combining breastfeeding and employment
This investigation explored women's perceptions of their experiences combining employment and breastfeeding. The study was based on the feminist concept of the importance of analyzing the condition of women's lives from ...
The relationship of coping and family function to outcomes of care in families of tracheostomized infants and children
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of parent coping and family function to outcome measures in terms of the rate of re-hospitalization, emergency physician utilization, and infection. Major questions ...
Effects of self-esteem, threat appraisal, and coping responses on the somatic components of illness: A test of a proposed causal model with professional women
The study was designed to test a causal model of theoretical relationships among self-esteem, threat appraisal, coping responses, and the somatic components of illness with a population of professional women. The proposed ...
When worlds collide: The meanings of work and fathering among fathers of premature infants
This interpretive phenomenological study examined the meanings, concerns, and practices of eight fathers of pre-term infants. Fathers were interviewed six to eight times over a 6 month period, beginning within a month after ...
Preferences for information and self-care, stress and coping with outpatient surgery: A descriptive correlational study
Outpatient surgery is a rapidly growing phenomena in the health care field; however, little is known about the stressful aspects of the experience of how patients cope with this type of surgery. The purposes of this ...
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 ...
Purpose in Life, Appraisal, and Coping Behaviors in Black, Hispanic, and White Anglo-Saxon Pregnant Adolescents
The purposes of this descriptive study were: (1) to identify differences in perceptions of life purpose, appraisal, and coping behaviors based on ethnicity; and (2) to describe the interrelationship of these variables, ...
The effects of resiliency on adaptation of African-American caregivers of chronically ill elderly
The purpose of this descriptive, correlational study was to determine relationships among family demands, established patterns of functioning, family resources, situational appraisal, family problem solving and coping ...
Stress and coping of caregivers to individuals with dementia
Considerable literature exists on the presence of burden among caregivers, however, it has also been discovered that individuals psychologically adapt to situations in which they are involved. The purpose of this study is, ...
As normal a life as possible: Mothers and their daughters with congenital heart disease
This study utilized qualitative descriptive methodology to examine the impact of the chronic illness, specifically congenital or acquired childhood heart disease, on the mother-daughter relationship. Many studies have ...