The radiology department as a sentinel in fall prevention among Filipino older adult patients.

Accidental falls are a serious yet underreported form of adverse event in hospitals. Falls account for the leading cause of injury and mortality among older adults. The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2021 reported that an estimated 64,000 individuals die annually from falls globally.

Understanding the Self-Harming Behavior of Filipino Male Detainees (32-58 Years Old): A Descriptive Phenomenology.

Self-harming behavior (SHB) has become a significant health issue among several populations, including adolescents, traumatized individuals, and persons deprived of liberty. Undoubtedly, incarceration takes a toll on inmates' mental health due to several stressful experiences while in custody. These taxing events make them vulnerable to maladaptive coping strategies, such as SHB.

Portrait of Filipino healthcare workers' discrimination experiences during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: At the core of a global health crisis, healthcare workers are tasked to perform crucial and life-threatening roles. Despite the heavy-laden responsibilities amid COVID-19 pandemic, these workers are subjected to various forms of stigma and discrimination.

Objectives: The primary intent of this paper is to investigate the existence of discrimination among healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.

Age Knows No Bounds: A Latent Content Analysis of Social Media Comments Toward Older Adults' Engagement in Sports Activities.

With the growing statistics of older adults across societies, sustaining their health and well-being through active participation in sports cannot be neglected nor overlooked. This qualitative study purports to characterize the ontology of social media comments relative to older person's engagement in sports via latent content analysis. Specifically, a set of YouTube comments ( = 7,546), extracted from select videos featuring older adults in sports ( = 62), through YouTube Data Application Programming Interface (API) Version 3, was subjected to inductive analytic procedures of content analysis.

Caeteris paribus: In search of the "Silent Professional Identity" of Filipino radiologic technologists during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The value of professional identity is an interesting territory to explore, relative to working in interprofessional teams and collaborative communities The collaborative opportunities provided to health care workers during COVID-19 pandemic is a rare opportunity to underscore the silent yet significant identity of radiologic technologists as professionals. Historically and prior to the pandemic, the role of radiologic technologists remains unfamiliar, if not unrecognized in the Philippine healthcare industry. The 'alliedness' of this health care professional group is an evolving entity that can no longer be overlooked.

A square peg in a round hole: Theory-practice gap from the lens of Filipino student nurses.

Previous studies suggest that theory-practice gap has remained to be a formidable task and a challenge to the nursing profession. While efforts to understand the nature and dynamics of theory-practice gap have been undertaken across the globe, a dearth in literature exists in the context of a developing country like the Philippines. Seemingly, no research has ventured yet to explore the theory-practice gap experiences of Filipino student nurses.

Explicating Filipino student nurses' preferences of clinical instructors' attributes: A conjoint analysis.

The role of clinical instructor in student nurses' preparation for the professional nursing practice cannot be underestimated. The extent to which such role is achieved depends highly on the instructors' ability to realize the desired qualities expected of them. While a number of empirical studies have qualitatively explored the attributes of an effective clinical instructor, no attempt has ventured yet on the power of experimental vignettes for conjoint analysis in explicating the preferences of a select group of Filipino student nurses relative to their clinical instructors' attributes.

Look Who Is Talking Now: Eliciting the Concept of Fatherhood Among Filipino Fathers Using Metaphor Analysis.

Background: Although the increased interest in investigating the dynamics of fatherhood in developed nations has been documented in the literature, its collective meaning and implications in nursing remain largely unknown in the context of East Asia, especially in developing countries such as the Philippines.

Purpose: Capitalizing on the unique power of metaphors to improve the understanding of complex and abstract ideas and to shape healthcare practices, this qualitative semiotic investigation intended to define the essence of fatherhood from the perspective of Filipino fathers.

Methods: This study focused on a group of 28 first-time and 22 second-time fathers who were recruited from the largest maternal and newborn tertiary government hospital in the Philippines.

The Ebb and Flow of Filipino First-Time Fatherhood Transition Space: A Grounded Theory Study.

Fatherhood, as a developmental process, is both a human experience and a text that needs to be read. For developing nations like the Philippines, little is known about the process undergone by first-time fathers on their transition to fatherhood, and how nurses can play a significant role in assisting them. This grounded theory study purported to conceptualize the multifaceted process of transition from the lens of Filipino first-time fathers' lived experiences.

This too shall pass: a grounded theory study of Filipino cancer survivorship.

Considering the paucity of studies dealing with the holistic aspect of the cancer experience, this grounded theory study seeks to conceptualize the process of cancer survivorship among Filipinos. Twenty-seven Filipino cancer survivors were purposively selected, and a two-part instrument, specifically robotfoto and focus group interviews, was used to gather data. The Glaserian method of grounded theory analysis was used, and extended texts were analyzed inductively via a dendrogram.

Every move counts in learning: filipino clinical instructors' scaffolding behaviors in teaching medication administration.

The role of clinical instructors in preparing student nurses for the realities and dynamics of clinical practice cannot be underestimated. Previous literature has identified scaffolding as a diagnostic tool that enables both supervisor and learner to recognize knowledge-in-waiting and knowledge-in-use (Spouse, 1998). The pivotal role of scaffolding in the teaching-learning process cannot be underestimated.

Filipino nursing students' views of their clinical instructors' credibility.

Background: Although the concept of clinical credibility has attracted the interest of some researchers in the field, it is interesting to note the substantive paucity of literature on this since the mid 1990s [Fisher, M., 2005. Exploring how nurse lecturers maintain clinical credibility.

Surfacing Filipino student nurses' perspectives of comfort and comforting viewed through metaphorical lens.

Background: Comfort has been an integral component of nursing interventions. It is also supposed that the degree to which comfort is evidenced in nursing performance depends in great measure on the way forthcoming nurses perceive the said construct during their educational training.

Objective: This study purports to describe student nurses' outlook of the words "comfort" and "comforting", through conscious doodling, and at the same time to find out instances of similarity or striking distinctions in students' perception on the said terms.