Lung cancer stigma predicts timing of medical help-seeking behavior.

Purpose/objectives: To examine relationships among demographic variables, healthcare system distrust, lung cancer stigma, smoking status, and timing of medical help-seeking behavior in individuals with symptoms suggestive of lung cancer after controlling for ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and social desirability.

Design: Descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational study.

Setting: Outpatient oncology clinics in Louisville, KY.

The Baptist Health Lexington evidence-based practice model: a 5-year journey.

There are numerous advantages to basing nursing practice on evidence. Improvements in the quality of patient care, better patient outcomes, decreased healthcare costs, and enhanced work satisfaction for nurses have been described in the literature. Baptist Health Lexington, a community hospital, has experienced a successful 5-year journey integrating evidence-based practice as a result of the development of the Baptist Health Lexington Evidence-Based Practice Model.

Psychometric properties of the Image of God Scale in breast cancer survivors.

Purpose/objectives: To examine the psychometric properties of the Image of God Scale (IGS) in a clinical population.

Design: Descriptive, cross-sectional.

Setting: University and community oncology practices in the southeastern United States.