Development of the Adolescent Health Concerns Inventory.

Health concerns of adolescents are important factors to consider when developing and implementing school health education programs. In addition, an understanding of adolescent concerns compared to their teachers' and parents' beliefs about adolescents' concerns may enhance communication between adolescents and adults. Despite the need to identify the health concerns of adolescents and beliefs about them among parents and teachers, few instruments exist.

Nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs regarding organ and tissue donation and transplantation.

The acute shortage of human organs and tissues for transplantation has been attributed in part to health professionals, including nurses, for their reluctance to recognize and refer suitable candidates for donation. In 1988, nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs regarding organ and tissue donation and transplantation were assessed using a 70-item questionnaire. Respondents included 1,683 nurses employed in 62 rural and urban hospitals in the Midwest.

Tapping patient satisfaction: a strategy for quality assessment.

Participant satisfaction is an important measure of program effectiveness. In hospitals, patient satisfaction is a measure that is compatible with quality assurance. This article focuses on the revision, implementation and analysis of a patient satisfaction questionnaire that was designed as a tool for assessing the quality of non-physician encounters in a small hospital.