Finding Their Way Back In: Family Reintegration Following Guard Deployment.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe deployed National Guard members' and their families' perceptions of their experience with family reintegration, and the causes and conditions of challenges reintegration presents after deployment.

Methods: A total of 26 National Guard members and 19 family members participated in individual (n = 22), couples (n = 6), or focus group (n = 17) interviews. In-depth interviews were used to assess needs and maximize input from military families regarding deployment-related experiences and reintegration issues.

Mammography decision making in older women with a breast cancer family history.

Purpose: This study's purpose is to describe and explain how women 55 years of age and older with a family history of breast cancer make screening mammography decisions.

Design: A qualitative design based on grounded theory. This purposeful sample consisted of 23 women 55 years of age or older with one more first-degree relatives diagnosed with breast cancer.

Reading statistics in nursing research: a self-study CD-ROM module.

A statistics CD-ROM tutorial program was developed to replace a classroom course with several self-study modules. For the CD-ROM delivery method, students were asked to complete a Likert-type questionnaire with response options similar to those used for end-of-course evaluations at the nursing school. Ratings ranged from 1 to 5, with 1 equaling outstanding and 5 equaling completely unsatisfactory.

Home environmental modification strategies used by caregivers of elders.

Although several definitions and categorizations of home environmental modification strategies exist, previous researchers have not addressed whether the conceptualizations developed by clinicians and researchers match the way families think about how they modify the home environment in order to provide care to frail elders. The aim of the analysis reported here was to describe, from the family's perspective, the home environmental modification strategies that they use. Twenty-four caregivers of community-dwelling elders with a variety of impairments were interviewed.

Feasibility of a virtual health and wellness center for the Oregon Air National Guard.

A cross-sectional survey of members was used to examine the feasibility of developing a virtual health and wellness center in the Oregon Air National Guard. The survey asked about the health behaviors members wanted to change and explored their current access to, and potential use of, the Internet to make these changes. Surveys were mailed to 1,368 members, and 521 (38%) were returned.