Background: The COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease of 2019) pandemic caused major disruption to nursing research, especially qualitative research. Researchers had to overcome numerous challenges that potentially impacted the quality of the studies carried out.
Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the characteristics and quality of reporting qualitative nursing articles on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Introduction: Urinary incontinence is a major public health problem. Although, as a condition, it is well documented in the literature, there is little information on its social representations. The study of its representations could make it possible to improve the way it is handled and the treatment suffers receive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The associative network method is a technique for studying social representations of a phenomenon. Although it is little known and used, it can be widely used in nursing research, particularly to understand the representations of a population on a disease or a professional practice.
Objectives: This article aims to describe the associative network method, proposed by De Rosa in 1995, through a concrete example.
Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil
March 2023
Urinary incontinence is a major public health problem that affects nearly 9% of the world's population. Numerous studies have defined it, as well as its frequency, contributing factors, means of prevention and therapeutic approaches, but there are very few publications on its social representations. However, the literature raises that a better understanding of the social representations associated with this phenomenon could improve its management.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
December 2022
Nurses play an important role in the management of chronic diseases. Here, we discuss the components of a novel system aimed at empowering patients living with chronic diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), in a context of precariousness for patients and health personnel, including nurses. This project aimed to evaluate the impact of nursing consultation and remote monitoring on the quality of life in patients with COPD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
September 2022
Purpose: The objective of this study was to investigate the feasibility and pretest the effectiveness of an educational and telemonitoring program in a sample of Lebanese COPD patients to inform the design of a randomized study.
Patients And Methods: This study recruited a convenient sample of 15 patients from the pulmonology departments of four hospitals. Validated questionnaires were adapted to meet the context of this study in terms of adequacy, acceptability, adoption, fidelity, and cost.
Introduction: Urinary incontinence (UI) is a major public health problem. It affects many institutionalised elderly people. In the literature, the phenomenon is well defined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Lebanon has the fastest growing older adult population in the Arab region but few social resources to address their needs. No studies have explored the experience of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Lebanon.
Aims: Exploring the experiences of individuals living with COPD in Lebanon.
Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil
February 2022
Conflicts between residents' families and professionals are frequently described in nursing homes. This phenomenological study aims to describe and understand the experience, expectations and needs of residents' relatives. Forty-three interviews were conducted in six selected nursing homes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Nurses face multiple stressors that can influence their lifestyle, thus affecting their health status. Scarce are the scientific data on the nutritional status of nurses, especially during health crises. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the eating habits of hospital nurses in the context of an exceptional economic situation in Lebanon.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Health policies are currently being implemented to cope with the 37% of those affected by chronic disease and 63% of deaths worldwide. Among the proposals, there is accelerating support for greater autonomy for patients, which incorporates several concepts, including empowerment. To achieve this, develop an environment to increase an individual's capacity for action seems to be a fundamental step.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGeriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil
September 2021
Dissensions between residents' families and professionals are frequently described in nursing homes. This phenomenological study aims to describe and understand experience, expectations and needs of residents' relatives. Forty-three interviews were conducted in the 6 selected nursing homes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe multitude of national strategies used against the COVID-19 pandemic makes it necessary to review and synthesize them in order to identify potential gaps and shortcomings, and to help prioritize future control efforts. This systematic mapping review is aimed at identifying the coronavirus pandemic management strategies adopted by France, Tunisia, and Germany during the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak. A set of government websites in addition to the PubMed and Google Scholar databases were searched to identify scientific articles and institutional documents related to the national strategies of the three countries up until July 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
June 2021
Due to their frontline position to fight the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the professional and personal life of nurses was severely disrupted. To understand and describe their lived experiences and perceptions during the pandemic's first wave in France, we interviewed 49 nurses, including 16 nursing students, and 48 of their family members from June to July 2020. Using a purposeful sampling, the semi-structured interviews were scripted according to Abric's method with probing questions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn nursing homes, due to time constraints, lack of communication can influence the quality of information exchanged, which influences the outcomes of healthcare for residents. Nurses' proximity to the nursing home resident, their knowledge, and skill serve as an opportunity to communicate and facilitate patient-centered goals and improve treatment decision-making. Concepts within the cybernetic communication literature entail systemic interactive relationships that enable the sharing of knowledge and expertise.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo support reflective skills development, French nursing students write analyses of professional situations (Situation Analysis) experienced during their practice. Sixteen nursing schools in Paris have developed a common framework to support and evaluate students on these skills. The aims of the study were to assess and understand the implementation of the Situation Analysis in French nursing schools as well as their effects on students' learning.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: To date, little guidance is available to support the development of effective programs for improving self-management in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. Yet, given the global burden of this disease, it seems important to identify the components of a self-management program that are effective in terms of health outcomes for COPD patients.
Objectives: This review aims to identify effective elements of a self-management program for COPD patients, the ones that may impact quality of life, emergency visits, and rehospitalization rates.
Elderly people are the main victims of discontinuities in their treatment because they require appropriate care. The current system is no longer able to satisfactorily cover all these complex and increasingly important demands due to the lengthening of life expectancy and the profound crisis affecting health professionals. Feedback from the experience of nurses with a Master's degree in Advanced Practice in Gerontology since 2012 shows that in this new and critical context, they are a serious solution to be adopted by the legislator to meet these public health challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA better understanding of the expectations and needs of the families of nursing home residents is needed for a constructive and sustainable relationship of mutual trust. The objective of this study was to understand the expectations of families of nursing home residents described in the literature. A systematic integrative review of the literature was conducted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has a significant impact on quality of life and is costly to the health care system. It has been demonstrated that a self-management program improves quality of life, but programs are not universally available and telehealth interventions can provide home-based support, but have mixed results.
Aim: The aims of this study are to (1) assess the feasibility and acceptability of a 6 weeks' educational program related to self-management with remote monitoring for Lebanese COPD patients; (2) pre-test its impact on quality of life, emergency visits, and rate of rehospitalization, and (3) to make recommendations for a future randomized trial.