Measures and Influencers of Reintegration for the Stroke Patient: A Systematic Review.

BACKGROUND: Stroke survivors may experience continued difficulties with reintegration, including challenges participating in social roles and performing activities of daily living across settings (eg, home, work). This article assessed the reintegration measures currently used in this clinical population, defining factors that most influence reintegration for these persons. METHODS: A systematic review of PubMed, Scopus, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature databases explored reintegration measures and factors influencing reintegration in stroke populations.

Influence of social support on asthma self-management in adolescents.

Objective: Adolescents with asthma are influenced by peers and family. The objective was to better understand family social support and test its association with medication adherence, asthma control, and Emergency Department (ED) use.

Methods: This study is a cross-sectional secondary data analysis from a randomized controlled trial with urban adolescents from three U.

An Interprofessional Virtual Healthcare Neighborhood: Effect on Self-Efficacy and Sleep Among Caregivers of Older Adults With Dementia.

An Interprofessional Virtual Healthcare Neighborhood (VHN) was designed to deliver information, peer support, and professional guidance to caregivers of individuals with dementia. The VHN was also enhanced with an actigraphy band to monitor caregivers' sleep. The study sample comprised two groups (N = 28): caregivers participating in the VHN and those receiving usual care.

Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life of Adults With Down Syndrome.

This study examined self- and caregiver-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of 60 adults with Down syndrome (DS) using the QualityMetric Short Form-12 version 2 (SF-12v2). All HRQOL scores exceeded means and fell within one standard deviation of the SF-12v2 normative sample. Similarities between eight self- and caregiver-reported HRQOL scales were found with the exception of role physical scores (impact of health problems on typical accomplishments), which were lower when obtained by caregiver-report.

Promoting Success of Ethnic Minority and Male Students in an Accelerated, Entry-Level Master of Nursing Program: The SUSTAIN Program.

Background: Diverse health care workers are essential to meet the needs of a diverse U.S.

Population: Ethnic minorities and men are frequently underrepresented in the nursing profession and within schools of nursing.

Recruitment of older African American males for depression research: lessons learned.

Depression is projected to become the leading cause of disability and the second leading contributor to the global burden of disease in approximately 10years. Few studies have explored the signs and symptoms of depression experienced by older African American men. Therefore, a pilot study was developed with the goal of addressing this gap in knowledge.

Religiosity, self-efficacy for exercise, and African American women.

Physical inactivity among African American women persists despite health promotion efforts targeting this population. In the African American faith community, thinking patterns related to personal versus divine control over health status could affect self-efficacy beliefs and physical activity behavior. Religiosity, a determinate of self-efficacy for exercise, is influenced by culture.

Predictors of mental health, subjective burden, and rewards in family caregivers of patients with chronic liver disease.

Patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) often experience severe symptoms that cause functional impairment and necessitate assistance from a family caregiver. Few studies investigate family caregivers of patients with CLD. This descriptive correlation study described demographic characteristics, depressive and anxiety symptom levels, and prevalence of hazardous drinking, rewards, and subjective burden and explicated predictors of subjective burden and mental health status for a convenience sample of 73 family caregivers of persons with CLD.

Cultural competence and ethnic attitudes of midwives concerning Jewish couples.

Objective: To examine nurse-midwives' general cultural competence and ethnic attitudes toward Jewish couples of varying degrees of religious identification during the birth process and the relationship between background data, ethnic attitudes, and cultural competence.

Design: Descriptive, correlational study.

Setting: Academic tertiary care health facility.

Jewish laws, customs, and practice in labor, delivery, and postpartum care.

Many communities throughout the world, especially in the United States and Israel, contain large populations of religiously observant Jews. The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive, descriptive guide to specific laws, customs, and practices of traditionally, religious observant Jews for the culturally sensitive management of labor, delivery, and postpartum. Discussion includes intimacy issues between husband and wife, dietary laws, Sabbath observance, as well as practices concerning prayer, communication trends, modesty issues, and labor and birth customs.

The clinical utility of the Stress Process Model in family caregivers of liver transplant candidates.

This article describes the important relationship between theory and practice and demonstrates the application of Pearlin and colleagues' Stress Process Model to family caregivers of liver transplant candidates. Theory enhances the use of specific nursing interventions. This connection of theory to practice is especially important in the current health care environment, where the nursing shortage demands efficient and effective patient care.

Length of stay, admission types, psychiatric diagnoses, and the implications of stigma in African Americans in the nationwide inpatient sample.

African Americans purportedly have a higher prevalence of mental illnesses but are often misdiagnosed and less likely to seek treatment. Delayed treatment has been associated with the stigma related to these disorders. The demographic characteristics, length of stay, most prevalent psychiatric diagnoses, and hospital admissions of African Americans were compared to other U.