North Carolina's Reserve Component-connected Children: Are Our Schools Prepared to Meet Their Needs?

Children who have a parent serving in one of the military Reserve Components have access to fewer support services than their active-duty counterparts. They also have unique circumstances that need recognition by school administra-tors, nurses, and counselors. This paper suggests ways the state of North Carolina can improve support provided to these children and their parents.

Doing Your Part for National Security: Providing Quality Care to Our Military and Veterans.

Civilian health professionals can play a significant role in our national security as it relates to medical readiness of the military. Members of the Reserve Component and many Veterans receive their health care in the civilian sector, thus all North Carolina health professionals need to understand the unique issues affecting this population. This issue high-lights current challenges facing our military, their families, and our Veterans, and authors offer suggestions for provid-ing quality care to this population.

Breast cancer diagnosis and its treatment affecting the self: a meta-synthesis.

There has been a great deal of qualitative research conducted that has examined the impact of breast cancer on the Self, however, there has been little effort to analyze these findings from a meta-perspective. This study sought to fill this gap by conducting a meta-synthesis of the qualitative research on breast cancer and its treatments affecting the Self. Meta-method and meta-synthesis techniques were used to integrate findings across 30 qualitative research reports conducted between 1990 and 2003 with a total of 795 women, from several different countries.

Women's perceptions of the effectiveness of telephone support and education on their adjustment to breast cancer.

Purpose/objectives: Social support is believed to be important in helping women adjust to breast cancer. Reports have suggested limited positive effects of social support on well-being, mood disturbances, and relationships with significant others for women who receive telephone support. Women's perceptions of the role of social support in recovery, however, has had limited study.

The effect of telephone social support and education on adaptation to breast cancer during the year following diagnosis.

Purpose/objectives: To find the most effective methods of providing social support for women diagnosed with breast cancer by testing the effectiveness of a telephone social support and education intervention to promote emotional and interpersonal adaptation to breast cancer.

Design: Multisite, two-group experimental study with repeated measures.

Setting: Arkansas and New Jersey.

Overcoming: breast cancer and its effect on intimacy in middle aged African-American women.

There is a dearth of literature addressing the impact of breast cancer treatments on intimacy in African-American women. Much of what is known about living with the intimate effects of breast cancer comes from studies composed primarily of White women. Grounded theory was used to discover the personal and intimate concerns of middle-aged African-American women diagnosed with breast cancer African-American interviewers conducted interviews with 15 middle-aged African-American women.

Fatigue, weight gain, and altered sexuality in patients with breast cancer: exploration of a symptom cluster.

Purpose/objectives: To identify the symptom cluster of fatigue, weight gain, and altered sexuality caused by treatment for breast cancer.

Data Sources: Published research and literature review articles.

Data Synthesis: Fatigue, weight gain, and altered sexuality commonly occur after breast cancer chemotherapy.

The Federal Nursing Services Award. Enlisted women with breast cancer: balancing demands and expectations.

Diagnosis with breast cancer is not an automatic cause for discharge from the military. Therefore, it is important to know how this disease impacts enlisted women in the military. This study describes how enlisted women manage diagnosis and treatment within the context of their military careers.