Prevalence of acute and prodromal myocardial infarctions symptoms in adult women with confirmed diagnoses: a systematic review protocol.

Review Question/objective: The purpose of this review is to systematically review literature to determine the period of prevalence of prodromal and acute symptoms experienced by adult women diagnosed with an acute myocardial infarction (AMI).More specifically, the objective of this descriptive review is to assess the prevalence and describe the distribution of prodromal and acute symptoms experienced by adult women during an AMI event, evident in documented literature between 1994 and the present date.The specific question for this review is: how common and how are prodromal and acute symptoms of an AMI distributed in adult women diagnosed with an AMI?

Center Conducting The Review: University of Victoria and the Queen's Joanna Briggs Collaboration for Patient Safety: a Collaborating Centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute.

Patients' perception of their experience of primary percutaneous intervention for ST segment elevation myocardial infarction.

Many patients experiencing ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are currently treated with primary percutaneous intervention (PCI). This relatively new procedure has reduced the time patients with the diagnosis of STEMI spend in hospital. In this literature review we explore patients' perceptions of their experience of receiving primary percutaneous intervention (PCI) as a treatment for STEMI.

Families and heart transplantation: reversing the trajectory of end stage heart disease.

Unlabelled: Family caregiving is central in the heart transplant (HT) process.

Method: Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, study data were collected from 12 health professionals and 15 families in which one member was a HT recipient throughout three phases of the HT process.

Findings: Our interpretations suggest that family caregiving contributes to "reversing the downward trajectory" of end stage heart disease.

Grounded theory and feminist inquiry: revitalizing links to the past.

Grounded theory has served feminist research endeavors since the mid-1990s. Researchers from a variety of disciplines claim methodological compatibility and incorporate feminist principles into their grounded theory studies. This article seeks to demonstrate the epistemological affinity between feminist inquiry and grounded theory.

Lone motherhood and risk for cardiovascular disease: the National Population Health Survey (NPHS), 1998-99.

Purpose: To examine whether lone parenthood among Canadian women is associated with risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Methods: The sample was from the National Population Health Survey (NPHS) and it included 2,184 mothers (women with dependent children < 18 years of age) of whom 478 were lone (22%) and 1,706 (78%) were partnered mothers. Descriptive statistics and multiple logistic regression were undertaken with weighted data.