A theoretical model of resilience capacity: Drawn from the words of adult children of alcoholics.

Background: Resilience can be defined as exhibiting positive outcomes after serious threats to one's adaptation or development.

Aims: This study aimed to suggest a theoretical model of resilience capacity by validating and extending one of the existing nursing theories of resilience-the society-to-cell model developed by Szanton and Gill. To do so, we conducted a qualitative study exploring the factors and conditions influencing adaptation in children of alcoholics (i.

Falls and Social Isolation of Older Adults in the National Health and Aging Trends Study.

A longitudinal secondary analysis of 2 years of data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study was undertaken to determine the extent to which social isolation predicts falls in older adults. Social isolation during Year 1 (baseline) was operationalized as a multiple-indicator measure based on Social Network Index participation domains. Falling during the previous year was self-reported using Year 2 data.

From manageable to losing control: a grounded theory study of psychosis risk syndrome.

Aim: The purpose of this study is to develop a theoretical explanation of the prodromal schizophrenia process, or so-called psychosis risk syndrome, by describing patients' own experiences with symptoms, thoughts and feelings.

Methods: A total of 40 interviews were conducted in Taiwan. A Grounded Theory method was selected because of its demonstrated effectiveness in generating theory around dynamic and complex processes on which little is known, all of which is the case with psychosis risk syndrome.

Screening for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Civilians With Mangled Hand Injury: A Practice Enhancement Approach.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a symptom cluster of intrusion, avoidance, negative alteration in cognition, and alteration in arousal and reactivity following trauma. PTSD occurs frequently after a physical trauma such as a severe hand injury. It is often not recognized and consequently untreated.

Measuring Social Isolation in the National Health and Aging Trends Study.

The objectives of the current study were to describe the development of a social isolation measure based on Berkman and Syme's Social Network Index domains with data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study. A descriptive correlational design was used, establishing convergent and divergent validity of the measure with depression risk and well-being. Depression risk was measured with the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 and an ordinal well-being measure was developed based on measures in MIDUS-Midlife in the U.

Vulnerability, Stress, and Support in the Disease Trajectory from Prodrome to Diagnosed Schizophrenia: Diathesis-Stress-Support Model.

Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric disorder seen across the world. The goal of current research is to provide a more comprehensive understanding of prodrome, the initial period before the disease manifests as schizophrenia. Unfortunately, there is little information to comprehensively understand the indicators that later lead to schizophrenia.

Early Intervention in Schizophrenia: A Literature Review.

Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric disorder seen across the world. Recently, investigators have witnessed an upsurge in research on the potential benefits of early intervention during the prodromal stage: the sooner people start the treatment at their first psychotic episode, the better outcome on symptom relief and better functioning. This paper aims to critically review and synthesize empirical evidence published between 2005 and 2015 regarding the effectiveness of preemptive interventions on transition rate, symptom severity, depression, anxiety, and function level.

Living with appending a scarlet letter: The lifelong suffering of children of alcoholics in South Korea.

Unlabelled: Children of alcoholics (COAs) are those who have grown up with parental alcoholism. The purpose of this study was to understand the lives of Korean COAs within a Korean cultural context, influenced by Confucianism. Prior literature has extensively reported about the adverse life experiences of COAs related to their alcohol dependent parents.

Trajectories of parent-adolescent relationship quality among at-risk youth: parental depression and adolescent developmental outcomes.

Background: Although the parent-adolescent relationship has been studied intensely, predictors and consequences of changes in the quality of the relationship across time have not been examined.

Objectives: This study examined the role of parent depression on changes in the parent-adolescent relationship, defined as support and conflict, and subsequent effects of relationship change on adolescent psychosocial outcomes including risky behavior, substance use, depressive symptoms, and hopelessness.

Method: Using data from a large prevention study, the sample included 110 youth at risk for high school drop out from the control condition; the sample was 48.

Top Information Need Priorities of Older Adults Newly Diagnosed With Active Myeloma.

Prioritizing patients' information needs maximizes efficiency. This study examined the information sources and priorities in a sample of older adults newly diagnosed with symptomatic myeloma requiring immediate therapy. An association analysis of whether information needs were influenced by sociodemographic variables such as age, gender, education, marital status, and income was also conducted.

Understanding Korean Families With Alcoholic Fathers in a View of Confucian Culture.

The purpose of this study was to interpret the dynamics of Korean alcoholic family through the lens of Confucianism, using research conducted in South Korea. To gain an in-depth understanding of the family dynamics and the lived experiences of a certain alcoholic family having a specific ethnicity, health professionals must first understand the uniqueness of their own cultural bases and how those cultural components can shape dynamics of alcoholic family. Thus, we reviewed qualitative studies of Korean families with alcoholic fathers to investigate the unique characteristics of Korean alcoholic families in terms of Confucian thoughts and values and discuss how the Confucian thoughts affect family dynamics in those Korean alcoholic families.

Translation and evaluation of the Cultural Awareness Scale for Korean nursing students.

Background: To evaluate the effectiveness of a curriculum for achieving high levels of cultural competence, we need to be able to assess education intended to enhance cultural competency skills. We therefore translated the Cultural Awareness Scale (CAS) into Korean (CAS-K). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the cross-cultural applicability and psychometric properties of the CAS-K, specifically its reliability and validity.

Patient, Physician and Contextual Factors Are Influential in the Treatment Decision Making of Older Adults Newly Diagnosed with Symptomatic Myeloma.

Aims: To examine patient perspectives on their personal and contextual factors relevant to TDM. The second aim was to describe physician perspectives on the TDM in older adults (≥60 y.o.

Older adults newly diagnosed with symptomatic myeloma and treatment decision making.

Purpose/objectives: To describe the preferences for participation in decision making of older adult patients newly diagnosed with symptomatic myeloma and to explore the association between sociodemographic variables and decisional role preferences.

Design: Descriptive, cross-sectional design.

Setting: Participants' homes and two large academic cancer centers in Seattle, WA, and Chicago, IL.

Information Needs Priorities in Patients Diagnosed With Cancer: A Systematic Review.

Information-sharing is an integral part of cancer care. Several studies have examined the information needs of patients with various types of cancer. However, the priorities of information needs among patients with cancer have not been reported.

A journey of suffering: living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in South Korea.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis presents significant challenges for patients because of the devastating disease characteristics and the fact that there is no treatment available. In this article, we explored the illness experiences from the perspectives of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the sociocultural context of South Korea. Fifteen patients were observed and interviewed between September 2009 and July 2010 in the metropolitan area of South Korea.

Defining happiness for young adults with schizophrenia: a building block for recovery.

Purpose: Findings from this mixed methods descriptive study include a definition of happiness for young adults with schizophrenia (SCZ).

Methods: Thirteen men and women, ages 23 to 35, completed a series of three individual 1-hour interviews over 6 weeks.

Results: This definition included themes of material happiness, relational happiness, and health happiness.

Lessons learned from research with adolescents with schizophrenia and their families.

The purpose of this study is to present our experiences of conducting a randomized clinical trial of a self-management intervention for adolescents with schizophrenia and their families. Challenges and strategies of recruiting subjects; engaging families in self-management intervention; tailoring interventions for this population were discussed. Participants' comments on their experience were presented.

Development of a Korean family attitude scale: a pilot study.

Background And Purpose: This study was conducted to develop and pilot test a Korean version of the Family Attitude Scale (FAS).

Methods: We developed the Korean FAS using the translation/back-translation method. Two English monolinguals assessed its translation validity by comparing the original with a back-translated English version.

Depressive symptoms and functional impairment among amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients in South Korea.

Purpose: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease, resulting in physical and psychological distress. Little is known about the health of ALS patients in South Korea. The purpose of this study was to assess the degree of functional impairment and depressive symptoms and their interrelationships in Korean ALS patients.

Physician, patient, and contextual factors affecting treatment decisions in older adults with cancer and models of decision making: a literature review.

Purpose/objectives: To review physician, patient, and contextual factors that affect treatment decision making in older adults diagnosed with cancer, and to relate those factors to theoretical models of decision making.

Data Sources: PubMed (1966 to April 2010), PsycINFO (1967 to April 2010) and CINAHL® (1982 to April 2010) databases were searched to access relevant medical, psychological, and nursing literature.

Data Synthesis: Physician factors in treatment decisions included physician's personal beliefs and values, medical expertise, practice type, perception of lowered life expectancy, medical factors, power, and communication style.

The impact of foreign caregiving on depression among older people in Taiwan: model testing.

Aim:   This article is a report of a study of predicting the factors that influence depression in the older people in Taiwan. Background.  In 1991, Taiwan opened the labour market to foreign caregivers for the older people who needed long-term care.

Psychometric characteristics of the physical education activities scale.

Measuring adolescent perceptions of physical education (PE) activities is necessary in understanding determinants of school PE activity participation. The purpose of this study was to test initial estimates of reliability and validity of a new scale assessing high school adolescent perceptions of school PE activity with the Physical Education Activities Scale (PEAS). The 41-item visual analog scale consisted of 6 subscales: Self-Efficacy, PE Enjoyment, Personal Factors Influencing PE Participation, Behavioral Control, Barriers, and Subjective Norms that were tested on a sample (N = 90) interurban high school adolescents Grades 9-12.

Multiple informants in assessing stress and symptoms in adolescents with schizophrenia.

We used exploratory data analysis to examine parents--adolescents congruencies and discrepancies and their correlates in assessing stress and symptoms in adolescents with schizophrenia. A total of 40 adolescents diagnosed with schizophrenia and their parents were drawn from a study of self-management therapy for youth with schizophrenia. Low to moderate congruencies in stress and symptoms were reported (r = .

Electronic self-report symptom and quality of life for adolescent patients with cancer: a feasibility study.

Background: Computerized symptom and quality of life (QoL) assessment has been tested and found feasible and acceptable in outpatient settings for adult patients with cancer, but has not been used often in pediatric oncology settings in the United States.

Objective: The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the feasibility of an innovative, computerized symptom, and QoL assessment for adolescent patients who were being treated for cancer.

Methods: A convenience sample of 40 adolescent patients with cancer, who were between 13 and 20 years old and able to communicate in English, agreed to participate.