Group-randomized trial of tailored brief shared decision-making to improve asthma control in urban black adults.

Aims: To assess the intervention effects of BREATHE (BRief intervention to Evaluate Asthma THErapy), a novel brief shared decision-making intervention and evaluate feasibility and acceptability of intervention procedures.

Design: Group-randomized longitudinal pilot study.

Methods: In total, 80 adults with uncontrolled persistent asthma participated in a trial comparing BREATHE (N = 40) to a dose-matched attention control intervention (N = 40).

Shared decision-making in the BREATHE asthma intervention trial: A research protocol.

Aim: To evaluate the preliminary effectiveness of the BRief Evaluation of Asthma THerapy intervention, a 7-min primary care provider-delivered shared decision-making protocol that uses motivational interviewing to address erroneous asthma disease and medication beliefs.

Design: A multi-centre masked two-arm group-randomized clinical trial.

Methods: This 2-year pilot study is funded (September 2016) by the National Institute of Nursing Research.

Measuring fear of falling among high-risk, urban, community-dwelling older adults.

Fear of falling (FOF) creates a psychological barrier to performing activities for many older adults. The negative impact of fear of falling increases risk of curtailment of activities, future falls, and injury. The specific aim for this study was to investigate the relationship between two fear of falling measures used in clinical research, the FOF Likert scale and Falls Self Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I).

Changes in clinical conversations when providers are informed of asthma patients' beliefs about medication use and integrative medical therapies.

Objectives: To explore whether patient's personal beliefs about inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) and integrative medicine (IM) are discussed at routine primary care visits for asthma.

Background: Negative medication beliefs and preferences for IM can be salient barriers to effective asthma self-management.

Method: A qualitative analysis of transcripts from 33 audio-recorded primary care visits using conventional content analysis techniques.

A model for preventing serious traffic injury in teens: or "keep those teenagers out of our ICU!".

Traffic crashes are the leading cause of injury, disability, and death in the youth of the United States. Risky driving, behind-the-wheel behaviors when operating a motor vehicle in a manner that may lead to harm or injury to oneself or others, contributes to the human and economic cost of risky driving. An acute or critical care hospitalization provides an ideal opportunity for nurses to initiate prevention strategies with parents and teens to reduce risky driving.