Sleep, biological stress, and health among toddlers living in socioeconomically disadvantaged homes: A research protocol
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Healthy sleep is important to behavioral, neurobiological, and physiologic health. In older children and adults, stress biomarkers, such as cortisol and C‐reactive protein, increase when they do not practice healthy sleep habits. However, little is known about the relationships among sleep health, stress, and health outcomes among very young children living with socioeconomic adversity, a group that is particularly at risk for poor future health. The NIH‐funded study described in this protocol addresses this scientific gap to improve understanding of these relationships during a critical developmental period i...
Source: Research in Nursing and Health - October 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Monica R. Ordway, Lois S. Sadler, Craig A. Canapari, Sangchoon Jeon, Nancy S. Redeker Tags: RESEARCH PROTOCOL Source Type: research
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Source: Research in Nursing and Health - September 6, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Nan Smith ‐Blair Tags: SNRS NEWS Source Type: research
Diabetes affects everything: Type 2 diabetes self ‐management among Spanish‐speaking hispanic immigrants
This article is a report of qualitative findings of a mixed‐methods study of the relationships among knowledge, self‐efficacy, health promoting behaviors, and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) self‐management among limited‐english‐proficient recent Hispanic immigrants, a population with increased incidence of T2DM and barriers to successful T2DM management. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 30 participants, and physiological and demographic data also were collected. The participants generally attributed developing the disease to strong emotions and viewed T2DM as a serious disease. Although a majorit...
Source: Research in Nursing and Health - September 6, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Cheryl A. Smith ‐Miller, Diane C. Berry, Cass T. Miller Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Reporting and identifying child physical abuse: How well are we doing?
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Entry into the child protection system in the US begins with a child maltreatment report. Some evidence suggests that report source and child age are related to report outcomes, but there has been no national study of these relationships. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to describe the distribution of report sources for child physical abuse (CPA), and examine whether (a) the source of a report and (b) child age contribute to the likelihood of substantiation of the reported abuse. Multilevel logistic regressions were conducted using a US national sample of 204,414 children investigated for CPA in 20...
Source: Research in Nursing and Health - August 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Grace W.K. Ho, Amie Bettencourt, Deborah A. Gross Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Psychometric evaluation of the Caregiver Preparedness Scale in caregivers of adults with heart failure
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Well‐prepared informal caregivers play an important role in heart failure (HF) care, so an instrument to evaluate their preparedness to care is important. To date, HF caregiver preparedness has been rarely investigated quantitatively. The Caregiver Preparedness Scale (CPS) has been used in other chronic condition populations, but its psychometric characteristics have never been tested in HF caregivers. The purpose of this study was to test the validity and reliability of the 8‐item CPS in HF caregivers. In a convenience sample of 317 HF caregivers (72.4% female, mean age 54), we tested the CPS' factorial struc...
Source: Research in Nursing and Health - August 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Antonio Petruzzo, Marco Paturzo, Harleah G. Buck, Claudio Barbaranelli, Fabio D'Agostino, Davide Ausili, Rosaria Alvaro, Ercole Vellone Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The role of sociodemographic factors in maternal psychological distress and mother ‐preterm infant interactions
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Preterm birth has been associated with greater psychological distress and less positive mother infant interactions than were experienced by mothers of full‐term infants. Maternal and infant sociodemographic factors have also shown a strong association with psychological distress and the mother‐infant relationship. However, findings on their effects over time are limited. In this longitudinal analysis, we explored the relationship of maternal and infant sociodemographic variables (maternal age, maternal education, marital status, being on social assistance, maternal race, infant birth weight, and infant gender)...
Source: Research in Nursing and Health - August 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Kaboni W. Gondwe, Rosemary White ‐Traut, Debra Brandon, Wei Pan, Diane Holditch‐Davis Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Psychometric evaluation of a multi ‐dimensional measure of satisfaction with behavioral interventions
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Treatment satisfaction is recognized as an essential aspect in the evaluation of an intervention's effectiveness, but there is no measure that provides for its comprehensive assessment with regard to behavioral interventions. Informed by a conceptualization generated from a literature review, we developed a measure that covers several domains of satisfaction with behavioral interventions. In this paper, we briefly review its conceptualization and describe the Multi‐Dimensional Treatment Satisfaction Measure (MDTSM) subscales. Satisfaction refers to the appraisal of the treatment's process and outcome attributes....
Source: Research in Nursing and Health - August 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Souraya Sidani, Dana R. Epstein, Mary Fox Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Symptom clusters in adults with inflammatory bowel disease
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Symptoms (pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, depression, and anxiety) in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are associated with reduced quality of life. Understanding how IBD symptoms cluster and the clinical and demographic factors associated with symptom clusters will enable focused development of symptom management interventions. The study purposes were to (i) identify symptom cluster membership among adults with IBD and (ii) examine associations between demographic (age, gender, race/ethnicity, and education) and clinical factors (smoking status, time since diagnosis, medication type, IBD type, disease activity),...
Source: Research in Nursing and Health - August 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Samantha Conley, Deborah D. Proctor, Sangchoon Jeon, Robert S. Sandler, Nancy S. Redeker Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Factors associated with acceptance of pandemic flu vaccine by healthcare professionals in Spain, 2009 –2010
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The A(H1N1)pdm09 influenza virus reached pandemic level in Spain in 2009, prompting a national vaccination campaign. To avoid transmission to patients, healthcare professionals’ vaccination against pandemic influenza is crucial. The main objective of this study was to analyze factors associated with the failure by healthcare professionals to accept the pandemic vaccination in 2009. A cross‐sectional survey was conducted of healthcare professionals in seven of Spain's autonomous regions. A questionnaire was used to collect information about personal and professional details, the respondents’ flu vaccination s...
Source: Research in Nursing and Health - August 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Tania Fern ández‐Villa, Antonio J. Molina, Nuria Torner, Jesus Castilla, Jenaro Astray, Susana García‐Gutiérrez, José María Mayoral, Sonia Tamames, Ángela Domínguez, Vicente Martín, Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Challenges of finding and filling a gap in the literature
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Source: Research in Nursing and Health - August 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Margaret H. Kearney Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research
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Source: Research in Nursing and Health - July 21, 2017 Category: Nursing Tags: Author Guidelines Source Type: research
Beware of the origin of numbers: Standard scoring of the SF ‐12 and SF‐36 summary measures distorts measurement and score interpretations
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The 12‐item Short Form Health Survey (SF‐12) is a generic health rating scale developed to reproduce the Physical and Mental Component Summary scores (PCS and MCS, respectively) of a longer survey, the SF‐36. The standard PCS/MCS scoring algorithm has been criticized because its expected dimensionality often lacks empirical support, scoring is based on the assumption that physical and mental health are uncorrelated, and because scores on physical health items influence MCS scores, and vice versa. In this paper, we review the standard PCS/MCS scoring algorithm for the SF‐12 and consider alternative scoring ...
Source: Research in Nursing and Health - July 21, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Peter Hagell, Albert Westergren, Kristofer Årestedt Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
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