A theory-based Self-Care Talk intervention for family caregiver-nurse partnerships.

Family caregivers need assistance with information, support, and advice from nurses and other health care professionals to successfully meet the demands of caregiving. Self-Care TALK (SCT) is a theory-based nursing intervention designed to improve the health and well-being of older adult spouse caregivers. The Self-Care for Health Promotion in Aging Model (S-CHPA) provides a framework for development of SCT.

Designing a Resource Guide to help promote health in caregiving.

Aim.  To describe development of a Resource Guide, one component of a theory-based intervention. The Guide contains information and ideas to illuminate caregivers' self-care knowledge as a basis for organizing and reinforcing self-care activities.

Spirituality as a component of holistic self-care practices in human immunodeficiency virus-positive women with histories of abuse.

The purpose of this article is to articulate the need for a holistic theory of self-care for women with human immunodeficiency virus that describes and interprets spirituality as a primary component. The authors propose that by conceptualizing spirituality as integral to self-care, nurses will support and educate women with human immunodeficiency virus utilizing a holistic perspective.

Relational conversation as method for creating partnerships: pilot study.

Aim: This paper reports a pilot study testing the intervention, Self-Care TALK, whose aim was to describe communication skills used by an advanced practice nurse to create partnerships with caregivers. The communication process and examples of skills used in creating partnerships are described.

Background: Decades of exploring nurse-client relationships provide a knowledge base for describing a structure and process for building partnerships.

A systematically tested intervention for managing reactive depression.

Background: Patients and family caregivers repeatedly experience reactive depression that leads to medication errors, mismanagement of chronic disease, and poor self-care. These problems place them at high-risk for malnutrition, infection, heart diseases, and psychiatric sequelae.

Objectives: A secondary data analysis compared findings across a series of studies to evaluate the acceptability, effectiveness, and cost of a therapeutic writing intervention to reduce reactive depression, a common and frequently recurring adverse symptom.

From neglect to care: a theory to guide HIV-positive incarcerated women in self-care.

Self-care was investigated in this grounded theory study of 22 HIV-positive women incarcerated in a medium security prison in the southeastern United States. Findings revealed four phases in a social-psychological process of movement from neglect of health to self-care. Phases I and II revealed five social-psychological cofactors that constrained self-care and promoted vulnerability to poor physical and emotional health over time.

Building a model of self-care for health promotion in aging.

Purpose: To synthesize knowledge about self-care in older community-dwelling people, identify essential dimensions of self-care related to health promotion and well-being in aging, and organize the findings into a literature-based, integrated model with applicability in practice, research, and education.

Organizing Construct: Self-care and health promotion. Related concepts included self-concept, self-care ability, and self-care activity.