The effect of structured education and phone follow-up on moderate stage Alzheimer's disease caregiving: Outcomes for patient and caregivers.

Aim: To determine the effectiveness of a caregiver education (needs tailored) and telephone follow-up intervention for caregivers of people with moderate stage Alzheimer's disease on caregiver burden, caregiving impact on life, and patients' neuropsychiatric symptoms, dependence on activities of daily living.

Methods: This quasi-experimental study sampled caregivers of people with moderate stage Alzheimer's. Caregivers in the intervention group received education and telephone follow-up over 12 weeks, while the control group received routine care.

Culturally-sensitive moral distress experiences of intensive care nurses: A scoping review.

Background: Moral distress is a phenomenon that all nurses experience at different levels and contexts. The level of moral distress can be affected by individual values and the local culture. The sources of the values shape the level of moral distress experienced and the nurses' decisions.

Mediation role of patient engagement on the association between health literacy and self-care behaviours in individuals with type 2 diabetes.

Aim: This study examined the relationship between health literacy and self-care behaviours among individuals with type 2 diabetes and whether the association is mediated by patient engagement.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted between November 2019 and September 2020. The sample consisted of 218 participants with type 2 diabetes, older than 18 years old, applying to two endocrine outpatient clinics in Turkey.

The effect of health literacy-based, health belief-constructed education on glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in people with type 2 diabetes: A randomized controlled study.

Aims: Adopting effective self-care behaviors is essential in maintaining optimal glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels. The study aimed to evaluate the effect of health literacy-based, health belief-constructed education and counseling on glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in people with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: The parallel-group, randomized controlled study was conducted between June 2019 and March 2020.

Caregivers' experiences of patients with moderate-stage Alzheimer's disease: a qualitative study.

Background: Caregivers experience challenges in the longest stage of Alzheimer disease, the moderate stage, due to all day demanded caregiving, added with neuropsychiatric symptoms, and communication difficulties. Supporting challenges of caregiving is more effective when specific needs are assessed and real-life experiences are appreciated. This study sought to explore caregivers' experiences and support needs for moderate-stage Alzheimer's disease patients.

Psychosocial Status of Turkish Families of Pediatric Cancer Patients.

In some countries, family members are not involved in routine pediatric cancer psychosocial care although it is essential. This integrative review aims to determine the extent of research on family members of pediatric cancer patients in Turkey. Four main keywords were used: parent/sibling/family, child/pediatric, cancer and psychosocial outcomes to search articles on PubMed, EKUAL, ULAKBİM, WOS databases (limited to 1997-2017).

Needs Assessment for Turkish Family Caregivers of Older Persons with Cancer: First-Phase Results of Adapting an Early Palliative Care Model.

Although palliative care is expanding globally for patients with serious illness, Turkey has not had widespread integration of early concurrent oncology palliative care. Hence, adapting and testing models of concurrent oncology palliative care for Turkish patients is imperative. Furthermore, it is critical that these care models also address the needs of family caregivers.

Attitude, source of knowledge, and supporting factors on evidence-based nursing among cardiovascular nurses: A cross-sectional descriptive study in Turkey.

Rationale, Aims, And Objectives: Cardiovascular nursing has been a rapidly growing specialty since the 1960s. Assessing cardiovascular nurses' EBN (evidence-based nursing) attitudes and beliefs and the factors supporting EBN is important to assist the training programmes in fostering EBN practice in a clinical environment. Few investigations have been conducted on EBN knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and implementation among cardiovascular nurses.

Multidimensional pruritus assessment in hemodialysis patients.

Background: Pruritus is a distressing, life-limiting symptom in chronic renal failure, affecting 40% of patients. This study aimed to determine uremic pruritus prevalence and investigate the multidimensional impact on hemodialysis patients.

Methods: This descriptive study was performed between March and June 2016.

Frailty Prevalence and Characteristics in Older Adults with Hematologic Cancer: a Descriptive Study.

Objective: This study investigated the prevalence of frailty in older patients with hematologic cancer and assessed the association between older patients' characteristics and frailty.

Methods: This descriptive study enrolled 90 older patients undergoing treatment for hematological malignancies at an oncology hospital. Frailty was assessed with the Edmonton Frailty Scale as not frail (0-4), apparently vulnerable (5-6), mildly frail (7-8), moderately frail (9-10), and severely frail (11-17).

Using Patients and Their Caregivers Feedback to Develop ENABLE CHF-PC: An Early Palliative Care Intervention for Advanced Heart Failure.

Objective:: Models of early, community-based palliative care for individuals with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III/IV heart failure and their families are lacking. We used the Medical Research Council process of developing complex interventions to conduct a formative evaluation study to translate an early palliative care intervention from cancer to heart failure.

Method:: One component of the parent formative evaluation pilot study was qualitative satisfaction interviews with 8 patient-caregiver dyad participants who completed Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends Comprehensive Heartcare For Patient and Caregivers (ENABLE CHF-PC) intervention.

Translating a US Early Palliative Care Model for Turkey and Singapore.

The field of palliative care is growing in acceptance and sophistication globally. No longer considered just for patients at end-of-life, palliative care is now being incorporated early in the disease trajectory. Despite professional guidelines supporting early palliative care, there are few models that have been created that can be translated into practice cross-culturally.

Engaging patients and families to create a feasible clinical trial integrating palliative and heart failure care: results of the ENABLE CHF-PC pilot clinical trial.

Background: Early palliative care (EPC) is recommended but rarely integrated with advanced heart failure (HF) care. We engaged patients and family caregivers to study the feasibility and site differences in a two-site EPC trial, ENABLE CHF-PC (Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends Comprehensive Heartcare for Patients and Caregivers).

Methods: We conducted an EPC feasibility study (4/1/14-8/31/15) for patients with NYHA Class III/IV HF and their caregivers in academic medical centers in the northeast and southeast U.

Developing a "toolkit" to measure implementation of concurrent palliative care in rural community cancer centers.

Objective: Despite national guidelines recommending early concurrent palliative care for individuals newly diagnosed with metastatic cancer, few community cancer centers, especially those in underserved rural areas do so. We are implementing an early concurrent palliative care model, ENABLE (Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends) in four, rural-serving community cancer centers. Our objective was to develop a "toolkit" to assist community cancer centers that wish to integrate early palliative care for patients with newly diagnosed advanced cancer and their family caregivers.

Coaching Family Caregivers to Become Better Problem Solvers When Caring for Persons with Advanced Cancer.

Family caregivers of persons with advanced cancer often take on responsibilities that present daunting and complex problems. Serious problems that go unresolved may be burdensome and result in negative outcomes for caregivers' psychological and physical health and affect the quality of care delivered to the care recipients with cancer, especially at the end of life. Formal problem-solving training approaches have been developed over the past several decades to assist individuals with managing problems faced in daily life.

Associations between advanced cancer patients' survival and family caregiver presence and burden.

We conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of an early palliative care intervention (ENABLE: Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends) for persons with advanced cancer and their family caregivers. Not all patient participants had a caregiver coparticipant; hence, we explored whether there were relationships between patient survival, having an enrolled caregiver, and caregiver outcomes prior to death. One hundred and twenty-three patient-caregiver dyads and 84 patients without a caregiver coparticipant participated in the ENABLE early versus delayed (12 weeks later) RCT.

Improving the Quality of Palliative Care Through National and Regional Collaboration Efforts.

Background: The measurement and reporting of the quality of care in the field of palliation has become a required task for many health care leaders and specialists in palliative care. Such efforts are aided when organizations collaborate together to share lessons learned.

Methods: The authors reviewed examples of quality-improvement collaborations in palliative care to understand the similarities, differences, and future directions of quality measurement and improvement strategies in the discipline.

Benefits of Early Versus Delayed Palliative Care to Informal Family Caregivers of Patients With Advanced Cancer: Outcomes From the ENABLE III Randomized Controlled Trial.

Purpose: To determine the effect of early versus delayed initiation of a palliative care intervention for family caregivers (CGs) of patients with advanced cancer.

Patients And Methods: Between October 2010 and March 2013, CGs of patients with advanced cancer were randomly assigned to receive three structured weekly telephone coaching sessions, monthly follow-up, and a bereavement call either early after enrollment or 3 months later. CGs of patients with advanced cancer were recruited from a National Cancer Institute cancer center, a Veterans Administration Medical Center, and two community outreach clinics.

Older diabetic patients' attitudes and beliefs about health and illness.

Aims And Objectives: To determine older diabetic patients' attitudes and beliefs about illness and health.

Background: Prevention of metabolic complications and treatment for cardiovascular risk factors are the main aims of the care and treatment of older diabetic patients. For the effective management of diabetes, it is crucial to recognise patients' beliefs and attitudes about and behaviours towards their health and illness.

Nursing students' leadership and emotional intelligence in Turkey.

The purpose of this study was to determine nursing students' leadership and emotional intelligence. The study was conducted as a descriptive study in a nursing school in 2008. The sample comprised 69 junior and 85 senior nursing students and was based on voluntary participation.