Nurses' returning to work after cancer: A focus group study.

Background: Nurses diagnosed with cancer face unique challenges when returning to work, yet there is limited understanding of their transition.

Purpose: To explore nurses' return-to-work experiences post cancer diagnosis and clarify related facilitators and challenges.

Methods: This focus group study employed a content analysis with constant comparative approach and member checking.

Examining the Relationship Between Meaningful Engagement and Well-Being Across Men and Women.

While engagement in meaningful activities is associated with well-being, the influence of gender on this relationship is unknown. The study aims to (a) examine the difference between meaningful engagement and well-being for individuals who identify as men and women and (b) explore the association between engagement and well-being in men and women. In this observational study, 256 community-dwelling individuals completed meaningful engagement and well-being measures.

A Scoping Review on Work Experiences of Nurses After Being Diagnosed With Cancer.

Problem Identification: To map key concepts underpinning work-related studies about nurses with cancer and identify knowledge gaps.

Literature Review: A search was conducted in the PubMed®, CINAHL®, and PsycINFO® databases for articles about nurses with cancer and work-related topics published through March 2023.

Data Evaluation: The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews Checklist was used to report results, and the JBI critical appraisal tools were used to assess the quality of studies.

Meaningful Engagement as a Predictor of Psychological Well-Being for Adults With Low Income.

Importance: The activities that people engage in influence their well-being. Adults with low income have limited resources, which can affect their engagement in meaningful activities. Exploring the connection between meaningful engagement and well-being is an important step in providing occupational justice for this marginalized population.

An Internet-Based Self-Management Intervention to Reduce Fatigue Among People With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

Importance: Fatigue is a chronic and distressing sequela of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Little evidence exists for the efficacy of interventions that address post-TBI fatigue.

Objective: To evaluate the preliminary efficacy of a self-management intervention (Maximizing Energy; MAX) for reducing the impact (primary outcome) and severity of fatigue on daily life, improving fatigue experience, and increasing participation compared with a health education (HE) intervention.

Promoting Routines of Exploration and Play during Mealtime: Estimated Effects and Identified Barriers.

during Mealtime (Mealtime PREP) is an intervention designed to support healthy dietary variety in children. To estimate the effects of this intervention, we recruited 20 parents and children (aged 1-5 years) with sensory food aversions to participate in a pilot study. Parents were coached to enhance daily child meals using Mealtime PREP.

Behavioral Activation Approach to Parent Training: Feasibility of Promoting Routines of Exploration and Play During Mealtime (Mealtime PREP).

Objective: Systematic approaches are needed to help parents with young children adopt healthy routines. This study examined the feasibility (home data collection, protocol adherence, intervention acceptance) of using a behavioral activation (BA) approach to train parents of children with sensory food aversions.

Method: Parents of young children (18-36 mo) were trained using the novel Promoting Routines of Exploration and Play During Mealtime intervention.

Solving fatigue-related problems with cardiac arrest survivors living in the community.

Aim: The aim was to describe fatigue-related problems reported by post-cardiac arrest adults with chronic fatigue and energy conservation strategies generated using an Energy Conservation plus Problem Solving Therapy intervention.

Methods: Following an introduction to the intervention process outlined in a Participant Workbook, participants engaged in the telephone intervention by identifying one to two fatigue-related problems. They then brainstormed with the interventionist to identify potential strategies to reduce fatigue, tested them, and either modified the strategies or moved to the next problem over three to five sessions.

An intervention for cardiac arrest survivors with chronic fatigue: A feasibility study with preliminary outcomes.

Aim: The primary aim was to examine the feasibility of recruiting and retaining participants for an Energy Conservation+Problem Solving Therapy (EC+PST) intervention delivered over the telephone, to evaluate the acceptability of the intervention, and to assess the appropriateness of the outcome measures. The secondary aim was to evaluate the preliminary intervention effect on fatigue impact, activity performance, and participation in daily activities in post-cardiac arrest (CA) adults with chronic fatigue.

Methods: This feasibility study used a prospective, pre-post experimental design.

Feasibility of a Cognitive Behavioral Intervention to Manage Fatigue in Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Pilot Study.

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility of conducting a randomized clinical trial of an Internet-based manualized intervention to teach individuals with traumatic brain injury to manage their fatigue.

Setting: Community dwelling.

Participants: Forty-one participants randomized to Maximizing Energy (MAX) intervention group (n = 20) and Health Education group (n = 21).

Simulation Strategies to Teach Patient Transfers: Self-Efficacy by Strategy.

Objective: We evaluated the effects of transfer training-after training in the classroom and in the high-technology simulation laboratory (WISER Center)-on students' perceptions of their self-efficacy for knowledge, skill, and safety in executing dependent transfers.

Method: After classroom training, occupational therapy students were randomized to three teaching groups on the basis of the amount of participation and observation opportunities provided at the WISER Center-observation dominant, participation dominant, and participation only.

Results: The participation-dominant group reported an increase in knowledge self-efficacy over time compared with the observation-dominant and participation-only groups.

Wheelchair Transfer Simulations to Enhance Procedural Skills and Clinical Reasoning.

Objective: We describe an educational intervention that involved simulation scenarios of medically complex patients to teach transfer training and promote clinical reasoning.

Method: Scenarios were developed with practitioner input that described (1) a patient who was acutely ill, (2) a critical medical management event that occurred during a bed-to-wheelchair transfer of the patient, and (3) an occupational need. Transfer training, using the scenarios, occurred in a high-technology laboratory with SimMan(®) and a mock hospital suite.

Functional Outcomes: One Year after a Cardiac Arrest.

Objective: The study aim was to characterize the time-course of recovery in impairments, activity limitations, participation restrictions, disability, and quality of life during the first year after cardiac arrest. Secondarily, the study described the associations between the instruments used to measure each of these domains.

Methods: Measures of global disability (Cerebral Performance Category, CPC, Modified Rankin Scale, mRS), quality of life, activity limitations, participation restrictions, and affective and cognitive impairments were administered to 29 participants 1, 6, and 12 months after cardiac arrest.

Development and validation of the Cerebral Performance Categories-Extended (CPC-E).

Background: Optimizing resuscitation efforts after cardiac arrest (CA) requires valid and reliable measurements of functional outcomes. The Cerebral Performance Category (CPC), the historical "gold" standard outcome measure post-CA, lacks psychometric validation. The purpose of this study was to establish the psychometric properties of a revised CPC: the CPC-Extended (CPC-E).

Neurocognitive outcomes following successful resuscitation from cardiac arrest.

Introduction: Cardiac arrest commonly results in varying degrees of cognitive injury. Standard outcome measures used in the cardiac arrest cohort do not rigorously evaluate for these injury patterns. We examined the utility of the Computerized Assessment for Mild Cognitive Injury (CAMCI) in cardiac arrest (CA) survivors.

Evaluating capacity to live independently and safely in the community: Performance Assessment of Self-care Skills.

To determine clients' capacity for community living, occupational therapists must use measures that capture the person-task-environment transaction and compare clients' task performance to a performance standard. The Performance Assessment of Self-care Skills, a performance-based, criterion-referenced, observational tool, fulfills this purpose. In this practice analysis, using data from this tool from multiple clinical studies (N = 941), the authors describe tasks that clients from various diagnostic populations could and could not perform independently and safely.

Activities and adaptation in late-life depression: a qualitative study.

OBJECTIVE. We sought to understand activity choices of older adults when they were depressed. METHOD.

Affective state and community integration after traumatic brain injury.

Previous studies investigating the relationship between affective state and community integration have focused primarily on the influence of depression and anxiety. In addition, they have focused on frequency of participation in various activities, failing to address an individual's subjective satisfaction with participation. The purpose of this study was to examine how affective state contributes to frequency of participation and satisfaction with participation after traumatic brain injury among participants with and without a current major depressive episode.

Unique contribution of fatigue to disability in community-dwelling adults with traumatic brain injury.

Objective: To examine the unique contribution of fatigue to self-reported disability in community-dwelling adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Design: A cross-sectional cohort design.

Setting: Community dwellings.

Outcomes of a multicomponent physical activity program for sedentary, community-dwelling older adults.

This single-group repeated-measures pilot study evaluated the effects of a 10-wk, multicomponent, best-practice exercise program on physical activity, performance of activities of daily living (ADLs), physical performance, and depression in community-dwelling older adults from low-income households (N = 15). Comparison of pretest and posttest scores using a one-tailed paired-samples t test showed improvement (p < .05) for 2 of 3 ADL domains on the Activity Measure-Post Acute Care and for 6 physical-performance measures of the Senior Fitness Test.

Association between Cerebral Performance Category, Modified Rankin Scale, and discharge disposition after cardiac arrest.

Background: Cerebral Performance Category (CPC), Modified Rankin Scale (mRS) and discharge disposition are commonly used to determine outcomes following cardiac arrest. This study tested the association between these outcome measures.

Methods: Retrospective chart review of subjects who survived to hospital discharge between 1/1/2006 and 12/31/2009 was conducted.

Disability in late-life major depression: patterns of self-reported task abilities, task habits, and observed task performance.

This article describes patterns of concordance/discordance between self-reported abilities ("can do") and habits ("does do") and observed task performance of daily living tasks in three groups of older adults: late life depression with mild cognitive impairment (n=53), late life depression without mild cognitive impairment (n=64), and non-depressed, cognitively normal controls (n=31). Self-reported data were gathered by interview in participants' homes, followed by observation of task performance. Significant differences in the patterns of response were found between controls and respondents with both late life depression and mild cognitive impairment for the cognitive instrumental activities, and between the two depressed groups and controls for the physical instrumental activities.

Patterns of mild cognitive impairment after treatment of depression in the elderly.

Objectives: Late-life depression (LLD) is associated with persistent cognitive impairment in a subset of individuals. The purpose of this study was to 1) examine the frequency and characteristics of cognitive diagnoses (Mild Cognitive Impairment [MCI], dementia) among remitted elderly depressed subjects and 2) to compare the prevalence rate and correlates of cognitive diagnoses with those of comparison subjects.

Design: Crosssectional.

Neurological and functional status following cardiac arrest: method and tool utility.

Introduction: Assessing the neurological and disability status of cardiac arrest (CA) survivors is important for evaluating the outcomes of resuscitation interventions. The Cerebral Performance Category (CPC)--the standard outcome measurement after CA--has been criticized for its poorly defined, subjective criteria, lack of information regarding its psychometric properties, and poor relationships with long-term measures of disability and quality of life (QOL). This study examined the relationships among the CPC and measures of global disability and QOL at discharge from the hospital and at 1 month after CA.