Impact and Feasibility of Information Technology to Support Adolescent Well-Being and Mental Health at School: A Quasi-Experimental Study.

Purpose: Health-related behaviors that arise during adolescence can have important, sometimes lifelong, implications on a person's health. Psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diagnoses among minors have increased, and the related depressive symptoms may negatively affect quality of life. There is great potential for information technology (IT) to benefit the area of mental health for adolescents, and schools can serve as a setting in which this can be done.

School Nurses' Perceptions, Learning Needs and Developmental Suggestions for Mental Health Promotion: Focus Group Interviews.

School nurses have a key role in promoting the mental health of adolescents at school. However, there is still a lack of comprehensive understanding of the role and experiences of school nurses as they promote mental health at schools. A qualitative research design employing focus group interviews was used.

Survival and functional outcome after prolonged intensive care unit stay.

Objective: To examine the functional outcome and costs of a prolonged illness requiring a stay in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) of 7 of more days.

Summary Background Data: The long-term benefits and costs after a prolonged SICU stay have not been well studied.

Methods: All patients with an SICU length of stay of 7 or more days from July 1, 1996, to June 30, 1997, were enrolled.

Risk of foot complications in long-term diabetic patients with and without ESRD: a preliminary study.

Objective: The purpose of this preliminary study was to generate hypotheses for future research about the relationship between ESRD and foot complications in patients with long-term diabetes.

Design: A cross-sectional prevalence study was conducted comparing a sample of long-term diabetic patients with ESRD to a sample of long-term diabetic patients without ESRD.

Sample/setting: A convenience sample of 132 patients with long-term diabetes (> 15 years), with (N = 60) and without (N = 72) ESRD, was selected from ambulatory care settings and dialysis units.