Promoting physical activity in women during breast cancer therapy: A mixed methods evaluation of a nursing counselling intervention Physical activity is associated with improved quality of life in women during breast cancer treatment. However, how physical activity behaviour of patients changes in the first months after the start of the treatment and what role nursing counselling can play has not yet been sufficiently investigated. To observe differences in physical activity behaviour in women with breast cancer at the time of the initiation of the therapy and six months later, and to explore patients' and health professionals' perspective on a nursing counselling intervention on physical activity.
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September 2021
Background And Purpose: The Reconceptualized Uncertainty in Illness Theory (RUIT) includes the concept of "probabilistic thinking" intending to explain the positive reappraisal of uncertainty in chronic illness. However, the description of the concept is vague, thereby limiting the understanding of the theory. Thus, the aim was to develop a theoretical definition of probabilistic thinking in order to increase the explanatory value of RUIT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: RobotReviewer is a machine learning system for semi-automated assistance in risk of bias assessment. The tools's performance in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the field of nursing remains unknown. We aimed therefore to evaluate the agreement in risk of bias assessment between RobotReviewer and human reviewers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The authors reviewed educational interventions for improving literature searching skills in the health sciences.
Methods: We performed a scoping review of experimental and quasi-experimental studies published in English and German, irrespective of publication year. Targeted outcomes were objectively measurable literature searching skills (e.