Exploring the patterns, practices, and experiences of military women who managed genitourinary symptoms in deployed settings.

Objective: To gain a better understanding of genitourinary (GU) health during deployment in the context of a military culture.

Design: An ethnographic study design was selected to understand how military women managed GU symptoms during deployment.

Setting: The deployed experiences were recalled from various locations around the world.

Tobacco use in the Army: illuminating patterns, practices, and options for treatment.

Tobacco use by soldiers has been prevalent throughout the 20th century. Tobacco has been seen as a "right". Additionally, tobacco was viewed as a boost to a soldier's morale and to provide comfort, while reducing stress in austere conditions.

Injuries to the cervix in sexual trauma.

Research on genital injury in sexual assault is limited and few articles have documented injuries to the cervix in sexual assault victims. This review focuses on reviewing and critically evaluating available literature on injuries of the cervix associated with rape, sexual trauma, and some other circumstances. Based on this evaluation, topics for future research are suggested.

Military tobacco use: a synthesis of the literature on prevalence, factors related to use, and cessation interventions.

Tobacco use remains the number one cause of preventable morbidity and premature death in the United States. As a result, military leaders are recognizing that tobacco can adversely affect military fitness levels, deployment readiness, and safety and can increase health care costs. Yet military members continue to use tobacco.

A theory of nonphysical suffering and trust in hospice patients.

Suffering is a complex, dynamic experience that overarches life experiences and includes physical, social, spiritual, and emotional domains. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to uncover participants' experiences of nonphysical suffering and what was helpful during this time. Eighteen patients who were chronically ill participated in this grounded theory study.

Being in tune with life: complementary therapy use and well-being in residential hospice residents.

Unlabelled: Complementary therapies are commonly used by the public. Increasingly, complementary therapies are being used in hospices for symptom management; however, little research is available on their effect on patient well-being.

Purpose: This study explores experiences of 15 hospice residents who received complementary therapies and describes the hospice cultural patterns where complementary therapies were delivered.