Experiences and meaningfulness of breast cancer survivorship care in improving the quality of life of immigrant women: A qualitative systematic review.

Introduction: Holistic healthcare approaches tailored to people's needs can enhance quality of life. However, needs of immigrant women in breast cancer survivorship have received little attention. Language barriers can result in significant challenges to accessing healthcare and difficulty in translating information from healthcare providers into self-management.

Truth to Action: Lived Experiences of Indigenous Healthcare Professionals Redressing Indigenous-Specific Racism.

Study Background: The experience of discrimination through stereotyping, profiling, and bias-informed care not only leads to poor access to healthcare services, but low retention rates of Indigenous health professionals (IHP). As health systems transformation evolves, a significant gap remains in supporting IHP to safely address racism, to be supported culturally to bring their authentic selves and voices to work, and to attend to one's own intellectual, physical, relational, cultural and spiritual wellness within a westernized model of care.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate the experiences of IHP working in mainstream healthcare in order to understand how their work environment impacts the delivery of cultural safe practices.

Health Literacy of Healthcare Providers and Mental Health Needs of Immigrant Perinatal Women in British Columbia: A Critical Ethnography.

Aims: This research explores how health care providers determine the mental health needs of immigrant women in the perinatal phase of childbirth. The contextual factors that affect the mental health of these women and influence their engagement with the British Columbian communities in which they reside are investigated.

Method: Using a critical ethnographic approach, eight health care providers were interviewed to gain insight into health care provider's health literacy and immigrant perinatal women's mental health.

Effectiveness of breast cancer screening interventions in improving screening rates and preventive activities in Muslim refugee and immigrant women: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Purpose: To systematically assess the effectiveness of breast cancer (BC) interventions in improving breast self-examination (BSE), clinical breast examination (CBE), mammogram screening rates, and preventive activities in Muslim refugee and immigrant women.

Design: Guided by the Health Belief Model, a mixed method systematic review and meta-analysis was performed using a sequential design.

Methods: This study followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis statement (PRISMA), the Critical Appraisal Skill Program Checklists, and the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology for systematic review and meta-analysis.

Diet Adherence among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Concept Analysis.

Objectives: To analyze the concept of diet adherence and its components in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Methods: The Walker and Avant (2011) method of concept analysis was used. Scientific databases were queried for research articles in the English language published during 2010-2020 using the search terms: compliance, adherence, treatment adherence, diet adherence, T2DM, and concept analysis.

Exploring Foot Care Conditions for People Experiencing Homelessness: A Community Participatory Approach.

Introduction: People experiencing homelessness are faced with complex challenges and are at high risk of illness due to inequities and disparities in access to health care services.

Objective: To explore the health and foot care problems related to people experiencing homelessness in British Columbia.

Methods: A community participatory research approach was used with a sample of 65 people experiencing homelessness.

Towards Equitable Health Care Access: Community Participatory Research Exploring Unmet Health Care Needs of Homeless Individuals.

Community and health services often overlook health care needs of persons experiencing homelessness, which leads to deterioration in health and increased utilization of emergency services. Since homeless people are underrepresented in health service research, little is known about their unmet health care needs, particularly in smaller cities where resources are limited. This community-based participatory research explored the experiences of small-city homeless service users (HSUs) with unmet health care needs and community service providers (CSPs) who work with them to determine barriers to health care access affecting them.

Kidney Disease-Specific Quality of Life among Patients on Hemodialysis.

Introduction: Quality of life (QoL) of hemodialysis patients can be examined in two aspects: kidney-specific quality of life and general quality of life.

Objective: To determine the QoL among patients undergoing hemodialysis, to assess patients' QoL on hemodialysis, and to determine the factors associated with QoL among hemodialysis patients in Oman.

Method: A cross-sectional study was carried out with 205 patients to measure the QoL across various demographic and clinical variables in Oman.

Capability beliefs and the intention to adopt evidence-based practices in the future among nursing students: An international study.

Background: Capability beliefs and the intention to adopt EBP in future nursing practice have been identified as strong antecedents of subsequent utilization of EBP. Despite this, a multicountry comparison may yield interesting findings that can be useful in designing empirically based and culturally tailored strategies to facilitate and enhance students' capability beliefs as well as their intentions to integrate evidence into nursing practice.

Aims And Objectives: This report sought to compare capability beliefs and intentions to adopt EBP in the future among student nurses from four countries-specifically, Oman, India, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia-and to identify specific variables that predict the intention to adopt EBP.

Predictors of postpartum depression and the utilization of postpartum depression services in rural areas in the Philippines.

Purpose: This study explored the prevalence and predictors of postpartum depression (PPD) as well as the utilization and evaluation of PPD services among postpartum women in rural areas of the Philippines.

Design And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted. One hundred sixty-five women who visited maternal facilities in the rural areas of the Central Philippines completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS).

Nursing faculty teaching characteristics as perceived by nursing students: an integrative review.

Aims: Nursing faculty members play a pivotal role in the achievement of nursing students' learning outcomes. A broader understanding of what constitutes effective teaching is essential in order to ensure that effective learning takes place in the clinical area. This review sought to identify the most and least effective nursing faculty characteristics as perceived by nursing students.

Predictors of evidence-based practice knowledge, skills, and attitudes among nursing students.

Problem: Evidence-based practice (EBP) competence is one of the most desirable outcomes in nursing education. Assessment of knowledge, skills, and attitudes of nursing students regarding EBP is vital in examining the extent to which current approaches to EBP teaching is effective.

Purpose: This study examined the predictors of knowledge, skills, and attitudes regarding EBP among Omani nursing students.

Perceptions of risk of coronary heart disease among people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Aims: Our aim is to assess perception of risk of developing coronary heart disease and to examine its associations with individuals' characteristics and health behaviours among Omani people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Background: Evaluating perceptions of being at risk of developing a disease may give insight into health promotion behaviours. People with diabetes are at high risk of coronary heart disease.

Self-efficacy and self-care behaviours among adults with type 2 diabetes.

Background: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) has an impact on an individuals' health and is influenced by glycemic control.

Aim: To examine the relationship between glycemic control, demographic and clinical factors on self-efficacy and self-care behaviours among adults with T2DM.

Design: A correlational, descriptive study was used.

Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening in Primary Care Settings: Attitudes and Knowledge of Nurses and Physicians.

Objective: Healthcare providers (HCPs) play a critical role in reducing colorectal cancer (CRC) related morbidity and mortality. This study aimed at exploring the attitudes and knowledge of nurses and physicians working in primary care settings regarding CRC screening.

Methods: A total of 142 HCPs (57.

Foot care behaviors among adults with type 2 diabetes.

Aim: The aim of the study was to determine factors influencing foot care behaviors among adults with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: A correlational descriptive study was conducted with a random sample of 160 adults with type 2 diabetes from the public hospital between April and July 2014.

Results: Just over 15% of the sample had a history of foot ulcers and almost 42% had numbness/tingling and pain in their feet.

An interdisciplinary approach for the management of noncarious lesions.

Miller's class III gingival recession is a common entity observed in individuals, posing a difficult situation for the clinicians to treat. Large fenestration defects with cervical abrasion compromise the esthetics resulting in poor prognosis. Obtaining predictable and esthetic root coverage has become an integral part of periodontal therapy.

Direct Sinus Lift and Immediate Implant Placement Using Piezosurgical Approach- A Case Report.

Numerous studies have shown that placement of implants in the maxillary region with resultant successful osseointegration can be achieved by the use of sinus lift procedures using piezosurgical technique. In this case report a middle aged patient had come to the outpatient department of A. J.

Health Related Quality of Life among Omani Men and Women with Type 2 Diabetes.

The aim of this study was to explore predictors of health related quality of life (HRQoL) among men and women with type 2 diabetes. This cross-sectional descriptive study consisted of a random sample of 300 adults with type 2 diabetes in a selected public hospital. Euro-QoL and Revised Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities scales were used to collect data between January and June 2010.

Effectiveness of patient navigator interventions on uptake of colorectal cancer screening in primary care settings.

Aim: Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer in the world and every year it is responsible for 610,000 deaths worldwide. The aim of this review was to examine the effectiveness of patient navigator interventions towards enhancing uptake of colorectal cancer screening in primary care settings.

Methods: Electronic databases such as PubMed, CINHAL, Google Scholar and SCOPUS were searched to retrieve articles reporting on primary studies applying any patient navigator intervention to promote uptake of colorectal cancer screening in eligible patients.

Do Perceptions of Empowerment Affect Glycemic Control and Self-Care Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes?

Background: The Arab adult with T2DM is understudied with less known facts about the perception of empowerment and its relationship with self-care and glycemic control.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which perception of empowerment by Arab adults living with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) was associated with better glycemic control and self-care management.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was led among 300 Arab adults living in Oman with T2DM in an outpatient diabetes clinic.

Contrasts in Practices and Perceived Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening by Nurses and Physicians Working in Primary Care Settings in Oman.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth most common type of cancer worldwide and it is responsible for 610,000 deaths annually, despite availability of screening tests that ensure early detection. Predictions specific to the Middle East show that this region will experience a significant increase in cancer mortality over the next 15 years. This study explored the practices and perceived barriers to CRC screening from the perspective of health care providers (HCPs) working in primary care settings in Muscat, Oman.

Perception of and satisfaction with the clinical learning environment among nursing students.

Background: Clinical nursing education provides baccalaureate nursing students an opportunity to combine cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills in the Middle East.

Objective: The aim of the paper is to assess the satisfaction with and effectiveness of the clinical learning environment among nursing students in Oman.

Design: A cross-sectional descriptive design was used.

Women's well-being and reproductive health in Indian mining community: need for empowerment.

This paper is a qualitative study of women's well-being and reproductive health status among married women in mining communities in India. An exploratory qualitative research design was conducted using purposive sampling among 40 selected married women in a rural Indian mining community. Ethical permission was obtained from Goa University.