Relationship between nurses' mood at work and work engagement: Work morale as a mediator.

Aim: To determine the effect of nurses' mood at work (positive and negative) on work engagement and whether work morale mediates this relationship.

Background: Nurses' work engagement is a key research area, yet limited data regarding the relationship between nurses' mood at work and work engagement are available. Therefore, how nurses' positive or negative mood at work affects their work engagement remains unclear.

The experiences of women who quit smoking during pregnancy and how they dealt with their spouses' continued smoking.

Objective: to explore how pregnant women in Taiwan dealt with their spouses who continued to smoke and with passive smoking during their own process of quitting and abstaining.

Design: a qualitative study using an oral history approach. Data were collected via tape-recorded open-ended interviews.

Drug abuse-related accidents leading to emergency department visits at two medical centers.

Background: Drug abuse is becoming more prevalent in Taiwan, as evidenced by increasing reports of drug trafficking and drug abuse-related criminal activity, and the wide use of more contemporary illicit drugs. Consequently, drug abuse-related accidents are also expected to occur with greater frequency. However, no study has yet specifically evaluated the prevalence, pattern, and outcomes of drug abuse-related accidents among patients visiting emergency departments (EDs) in Taiwan.

Measuring professional competency of public health nurses: development of a scale and psychometric evaluation.

Aims And Objectives: To develop an instrument to measure public health nurse competencies in Taiwan and to test its psychometric properties.

Background: Core competencies for public health nursing practice have been established in the USA and elsewhere but no equivalent studies have been undertaken in Taiwan.

Design: Postal survey of self-administered questionnaire to 1534 full-time public health nurses (response rate 67.

Evaluation of the effects of a birth plan on Taiwanese women's childbirth experiences, control and expectations fulfilment: a randomised controlled trial.

Background: In many western countries, pregnant women often prepare birth plans, outlining how they would like their childbirth experiences to proceed. However there have been no experimental studies to evaluate the effect of birth plans.

Objective: The objective of this research was to evaluate the effects of birth plans on women's fulfilment of their childbirth expectations, their control over the birth process, and overall experiences.

Evaluating the effects of an Internet education programme on newborn care in Taiwan.

Aim: The objectives of this study were to evaluate an Internet education programme provided to primigravida in the third trimester of pregnancy with the aim of enhancing mothers' knowledge about newborn care and increasing their maternal confidence.

Background: Shorter hospital stays have had an impact on the traditional role of mother-baby nurses in providing education about parenting to their parturient women. Internet education is an efficient way to provide nursing instruction.

A study of community healthcare competency among public health nurses.

The purpose of this study was to explore community healthcare competency of public health nurses (PHNs) and related factors in Taiwan. A cross-sectional research design was adopted to collect data. A community healthcare competency scale for PHNs was developed by the researchers based on a review of the literature to measure PHN competency (self-assessed) and task frequency rates.

Community-based epidemiological study on breastfeeding and associated factors with respect to postpartum periods in Taiwan.

Aims: To explore the prevalence of breastfeeding in different geographical areas and identify the factors influencing breastfeeding practices during in-hospital stay and at one, four and six months postpartum in Taiwan.

Background: The national data on prevalence for breastfeeding patterns are still unknown.

Design: Community-based epidemiological survey design.