Assessment of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Training to Interprofessional Health-Care Students.

Substance abuse and addiction are responsible for an assortment of health and financial concerns in the United States. Tools to identify and assist at-risk persons before they develop a substance use disorder are necessary. Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) can be utilized by health-care professionals to identify those at risk to minimize health-related complications and the potential of developing a substance use disorder.

Improving the Quality of Nasal Specimen Collection for Influenza A and B Screening.

Contribution To Emergency Nursing Practice: PROBLEM: Rapid diagnosis of seasonal influenza leads to optimized clinical care and reduces the spread of infection. The collection of adequate cellular material can be facilitated by the presence of moisture in the nares. The specific aim of this project was to determine if the installation of sterile saline into the nares prior to specimen collection would improve the quality of the specimen.

Early initiation of tobacco use in adolescent girls: key sociostructural influences.

Background: An important developmental task during adolescence is ego development. Millions of adolescents choose to initiate cigarette smoking at a young age as a result of transitional conflicts during this phase of normal developmental progression. Unfortunately, the decision to use tobacco compromises both the short- and long-term health status of smokers as well as the health of those around them.

Understanding school-age obesity: through participatory action research.

Purpose: This study aimed to assess current levels of overweight (obesity) and fitness among school students using objective data.

Methods: School-based action research teams were recruited statewide by the New Hampshire Healthy Schools Coalition, the state team of the National Action for Healthy Kids Coalition. Action teams consisted of a physical education teacher, a school nurse, and a school administrator.

The lived experiences of adolescent girls' relationship with tobacco.

Purpose: Despite increased efforts to educate youth about the dangers of cigarette smoking, the percentage of teenagers who smoke continues to rise. This study was designed to explore the lived experiences of 14 adolescent girls who enrolled in a tobacco cessation program.

Design: Phenomenology.

Guns and dolls: an exploration of violent behavior in girls.

As demonstrated by several studies, there is an increase in levels of female violence. This study attempts to more fully understand the increasing phenomenon of violence in girls by exploring motivations to engage in violent behavior. The hypothesis that a girl's perceived sense of competence is influenced by social and environmental variables that motivate her to engage in violent behavior is tested.

The utility of Cox's Interaction Model to direct the assessment and prevention of adolescent aggression.

The current study of violence prevention is hampered by a lack of consensus on the definition of violence. There is, however, some agreement about the behavioral cues that may predict violent behavior such as aggression. Although it has been shown that individual-level variables (e.

Adolescent violent behavior and ego development.

The guiding hypothesis of this study was that there is an association between violence and ego development. Exploratory factor analysis was used to generate summed scales used as proxy measures for the major construct components, ego development and violence. The results of this study support the hypothesis.

The marginalization of chronically ill adolescents.

Chronic illness during adolescence adds a dimension to a developmental stage that already has the potential to be tumultuous. Consequences of marginalization that predispose well adolescents to risk behaviors such as low self-worth and feelings of isolation are compounded in the chronically ill. In the author's proposed model, it is essential that nurses promote strategies that empower chronically ill adolescents.