Int J Environ Res Public Health
July 2021
Background: The Get Outside: After School Activity Program (GO-ASAP) exemplifies how a rural community can utilize its natural resources and community partnerships to promote adolescent health.
Methods: A qualitative descriptive inquiry was conducted using convenience sampling. Data were collected from students ( = 13/2018; = 13/2019) via focus group and art-based method (2018 only) and parent ( = 6/2018) focus group.
J Child Adolesc Psychiatr Nurs
November 2018
Problem: A common clinical approach to children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is to view them through an adult-proxy report of problems. There is little evidence on how children with ADHD evaluate their life satisfaction, how their evaluations compare with unaffected children, or how their perspectives might inform clinical practice.
Methods: A parallel convergent mixed-methods design was used to interview 20 children (aged, 7-11 years) with ADHD.
J Spec Pediatr Nurs
April 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to engage children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a developmentally sensitive way to explore the children's subjective well-being. Explicitly, their life satisfaction, or what makes their life "really good." To date, little is known about the subjective life experience of children with ADHD or how incorporating children's views separate from the purview of adults and pathology might enhance our understanding or change our approach to evaluation and/or intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough nurses are increasingly expected to fulfill the role of care coordinator, the knowledge and skills required to be an effective care coordinator are not well understood. The purpose of this study was to describe the knowledge and skills required in care coordination practice using an interpretive phenomenological approach. Fifteen care coordinators from 10 programs were interviewed over a 6-month period.
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