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Selected AbstractsA temporary home to nurture health: lived experiences of older nursing home residents in TaiwanJOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING, Issue 14 2008Hsiu-Hsin Tsai PhD Aim., This study explored the lived experiences of older nursing home residents in Taiwan. Background., With more long-term care institutions in Taiwan, older people are more often placed in nursing homes than in the past. Increased understanding of their lived experience is essential to assess residents' needs and determine the effectiveness of nursing interventions. Design., A qualitative design was used to gain a deeper understanding of the lived experiences of older nursing home residents in Taiwan. Methods., Focus groups, followed by in-depth interviews, were used to gather information from 33 older residents at eight nursing homes in northern Taiwan. Participants were asked to describe what was important to them and what impressed them most in their daily lives in the nursing home. Participants (24 females and nine males) were on an average 75·3 years old. Verbatim transcripts of audiotaped focus groups and interviews were analysed by thematic analysis via ATLAS.ti software. Results., The core theme of older residents' nursing home experience was ,a temporary home to nurture health'. This core theme was reflected in participants' descriptions of their overall life in the nursing home as a temporary experience to nurture their health. Their everyday experience was characterised by four subthemes: highly structured lifestyle, restricted activities, safety concerns and social interactions. Relevance to clinical practice., Our findings may enhance policy makers' and healthcare providers' understanding of the lived experience of older nursing home residents, thus guiding the evaluation and development of nursing home services to improve residents' lives. For example, residents with the same characteristics could be placed in the same room or same floor, thus increasing their interactions with other residents. Residents' interactions with family members could also be developed using the Internet or mobile telephones. [source] Emotional processing in the treatment of psychosomatic disordersJOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 5 2006Patricia Coughlin Della Selva Research has supported a hypothesis that was clinically suggested decades ago: that those who have functional disorders exhibit significant deficits in emotional processing. Studies have systematically documented that patients who habitually repress their emotions simultaneously suppress their immune response, rendering them vulnerable to physical illness and early death. Conversely, those who are encouraged to experience and express their feelings demonstrate improvement in immune function, physical condition, and psychological well-being. This article describes a psychotherapy designed to interrupt defensive processes and facilitate the direct experience of previously disavowed feelings in the treatment of patients who have physical ailments. Verbatim transcripts from the treatment of a woman who had a life-threatening illness illustrate the therapeutic techniques designed to facilitate emotional processing and restore health. Data from 14 years of follow-up interviews reveal a sustained remission in her disease. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol: In Session 62: 539,550, 2006. [source] A Military Challenge to Managing Feminine and Personal HygieneJOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS, Issue 4 2001Diane Wind Wardell PhD PURPOSE To examine the personal remembrances of a group of military women concerning their experiences with hygiene issues during service in a hostile environment. DATA SOURCES Verbatim transcripts of focused interviews from 33 women who had been deployed to combat or the field were subjected to content analysis. Questions related to the womens' experiences in cleansing the body, collecting menses waste, and protecting against genitourinary infection in a hostile environment. CONCLUSIONS Management of personal hygiene needs was often difficult and consumed a great deal of time. Hygiene issues affected women's attitudes, practice, work, morale and coping. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE By understanding the hygiene needs and practices of military woman changes can be made that have the potential to affect health promotion and disease prevention strategies for all women. [source] FEDERAL RESERVE TRANSCRIPT PUBLICATION AND REGIONAL REPRESENTATIONCONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC POLICY, Issue 2 2010ELLEN E. MEADE This article looks at disagreement within the Federal Reserve's monetary policy committee, the Federal Open Market Committee or FOMC, following a change in transparency practices taken in 1993 to publish verbatim transcripts of FOMC meetings. Other literature has examined the effects of opening the FOMC's deliberations to public view and provided empirical evidence that the publication of transcripts made policymakers less willing to voice disagreement with the chairman's policy proposal. This article adds to that work by examining whether regional variables are important to the analysis and whether the transcription effects are robust to the inclusion of regional variables. The results indicate that transcription effects are indeed robust, regardless of the regional indicator used, and that larger Federal Reserve districts may be more likely to voice agreement with a given policy proposal. (JEL E42, E58, E65, F33) [source] Patients' perceptions of nursing care in the hospital settingJOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING, Issue 4 2003Lee A. Schmidt PhD RN Background., Patient satisfaction and patient satisfaction with nursing care data are routinely collected as an indicator of the quality of services delivered. Despite the widespread collection and reporting of these data, the theoretical basis of patient satisfaction and patient satisfaction with nursing care remains unclear. Without a clear theoretical base, interpretation of patient satisfaction findings is hampered and the entire line of patient satisfaction research is of questionable validity. It has been suggested that, to understand patient satisfaction, patient perceptions of their care must first be understood. Aim., The aim of this study was to discover patients' perceptions of the nursing care they receive in the hospital setting. Method., Grounded theory method was used in this study of eight medical,surgical patients recently discharged from an academic medical centre in the south-eastern United States of America (USA). Participants were interviewed and the verbatim transcripts analysed using the constant comparative method. Findings., Four categories of patient perceptions of their nursing care emerged from the data. ,Seeing the individual patient' captures the unique nature of the nursing care experience for each patient. ,Explaining' represents the informal explanations given by nursing staff as they provide care. ,Responding' refers to both the character and timeliness of nursing staff's responses to patient requests or symptoms. ,Watching over' represents the surveillance activities of nursing staff. Conclusions., The categories identified in this study may be used in efforts to further develop a formal theory of patient satisfaction with nursing care. These categories should also be tested with patients possessing a wider range of characteristics, to assess the transferability of the findings. [source] Latino farmworker perceptions of the risk factors for occupational skin disease,AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE, Issue 6 2006Thomas A. Arcury PhD Abstract Background Farmworkers in the US constitute a medically underserved population at substantial risk for numerous environmental and occupational health problems. Most US farmworkers are Latino. Skin disease is one health problem to which farmworkers are particularly vulnerable. Interventions to reduce skin disease must be adapted to farmworkers' understanding of such disease, including their beliefs or knowledge of risk factors for skin disease. Methods Structured by the Explanatory Models of Illness framework, this analysis uses a qualitative design based on in-depth interviews with 30 Latino farmworkers (6 females, 24 males) to determine beliefs and perceptions of the causes of common occupational skin diseases in this population. Computer assisted, systematic procedures are used to analyze the verbatim transcripts of these interviews. Results Skin disease is a major concern among farmworkers because it affects work, social interaction, and other aspects of their lives. Farmworker beliefs and perceptions of skin disease causation can be integrated into a general model in which perceived risk factors include sun and heat, chemicals, plants, insects, moisture, hygiene, and contagion. Each of these factors is moderated by the individual's personal susceptibility to that cause. The interaction or combination of two or more factors is thought to amplify their individual effects. Conclusions The farmworker model of skin disease causation suggests important content for health education to reduce skin disease among farmworkers. Am. J. Ind. Med. 2006. © 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Conceptualization and sources of costs from breast cancer: Findings from patient and caregiver focus groupsPSYCHO-ONCOLOGY, Issue 5 2005Sophie Lauzier Assessment of economic burden of breast cancer to patient and family has generally been overlooked in assessing the impact of this disease. We explored economic aspects from the perspective of women and their caregivers. Focus groups were conducted in 3 Quebec cities representing urban and semi-urban settings: 3 with 26 women first treated for non-metastatic breast cancer in the past 18 months, and 3 with 24 primary caregivers. We purposefully selected participants with different characteristics likely to affect the nature or extent of costs. Thematic content analysis was conducted on verbatim transcripts. Costs of breast cancer could be substantial, but were not the most worrisome aspect of the illness during treatments. Some costs were considered unavoidable, others depended on ability to pay. Costs occurred over a long period, with long term impact, and were borne by the whole family and not just the woman. Principal cost sources discussed were those associated with accessing health care, wage losses, reorganization of everyday life, and coping with the disease. This study provided deeper understanding of cost dynamics and the experience of costs among Canadian women with non-metastatic breast cancer, whose treatment and medical follow-up costs are borne through a system of universal, publicly funded health care. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Neonatal jaundice and scientific fraud in 1804ACTA PAEDIATRICA, Issue 10 2002TWR Hansen In 1785 the University of Paris issued a prize challenge: "Describe neonatal jaundice and distinguish between those circumstances in which jaundice needs professional help and those in which one only needs to await the course of nature." The prize was awarded to Jean Baptiste Timothée Baumes for a paper, published as a pamphlet in 1788, in which he described 10 jaundiced neonates and discussed his theories on the causes and mechanisms. In a revised edition published in 1806 Baumes accused François Bidault of plagiarism in his 1804 thesis submitted for the MD degree at the University of Paris. Herein, Baumes'1788 original is compared with Bidault's thesis as well as Baumes'1806 revision. It is clear beyond doubt that the 10 cases discussed by Bidault were the same as those Baumes had published 16 y earlier. Parts of Bidault's descriptions and discussions were verbatim transcripts of Baumes'original. However, Bidault had economized with paper, ink and effort by significantly reducing the overall length of Baumes'original. In his second edition Baumes denounced Bidault in strong terms and suggested that the University of Paris take strong action to punish him for his dishonesty. Unfortunately, university records from that period are incomplete, and it is not clear what, if anything, was done about the matter. Baumes had a very distinguished career and achieved a great reputation as both a teacher and clinician. [source] | ||||||||||