Publications by authors named "Janet Been-Dahmen"
Purpose: Many cancer survivors, facing the consequences of their disease and its treatment, have medical and supportive aftercare needs. However, limited knowledge exists regarding the relationship between support needs and survivors' self-management skills. The study aim is to explore factors contributing to cancer survivors' self-management skills.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To develop a self-management instrument for organ transplant recipients that incorporates self-regulations skills and to determine its measurement properties.
Methods: The instrument includes concepts from social cognitive models: problem awareness, attitude, self-efficacy, motivation, social support, goal setting, goal pursuit, skills and goal affect. The measurement properties were evaluated based on the COSMIN guidelines.
Background: To support effective self-management after kidney transplantation, a holistic nurse-led self-management support intervention was developed using the Intervention Mapping approach. The primary aim was to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and fidelity of the intervention for kidney transplant recipients and professionals. The secondary aim was to explore preliminary effects on outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Optimal self-management in kidney transplant recipients is essential for patient and graft survival, reducing comorbidity and health care costs while improving the quality of life. However, there are few effective interventions aimed at providing self-management support after kidney transplantation.
Objective: This study aims to systematically develop a nurse-led, self-management (support) intervention for kidney transplant recipients.
Objectives: To provide insight into people's experiences in dealing with the consequences of head and neck cancer (HNC) in daily life and their needs for self-management support.
Sample & Setting: 13 people with HNC who were successfully treated in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Erasmus MC Cancer Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Methods & Variables: Two focus groups and six individual interviews; data were analyzed with directed content analysis.
Article Synopsis
- The study looked at the problems faced by people who received kidney transplants and how they can be better supported in managing their health.
- Kidney transplant recipients found it hard to adjust to their new lives, manage their medications, and handle their emotions related to the transplant, and they wanted more specific help from nurses.
- The researchers concluded that nurses need better training and tools to help patients with both medical advice and emotional support after their transplant.
What support is needed to self-manage a rheumatic disorder: a qualitative study.
BMC Musculoskelet Disord
February 2017
Background: Today, patients are expected to take an active role in the form of self-management. Given the burden of a rheumatic disorder, the patients cannot be expected to self-manage on their own. In order to develop self-management interventions that fit patients' needs and preferences, it is essential to examine patients' perspective on how support can be optimized.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: The aim of this study was to examine how nurse-led interventions that support self-management of outpatients with chronic conditions work and in what contexts they work successfully.
Background: Self-management could be directed at goals such as quality of life, adherence or patients' empowerment. Self-management support is an increasingly important task of nurses.
Aims: To unravel outpatient nurses' views on the role of people with chronic conditions in self-management, nurses' own support role and to establish how these views relate to nurse-led self-management interventions.
Background: Providing self-management support is a core task of nurses in outpatient chronic care. However, the concept of self-management is interpreted in different ways and little is known about nurses' views on patients' role in self-management and nurses' own support role.