Publications by authors named "R K Middle Elswick"
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- Nurse well-being is essential for providing safe health care, especially in challenging fields like nephrology, yet rising burnout levels may be connected to loneliness.
- The study utilized a mixed-methods approach to assess burnout and loneliness among nephrology nurses nationwide, measuring both and identifying correlations.
- Although burnout rates were low in the sample (n = 217), they were positively linked to loneliness, with qualitative interviews highlighting various factors like organizational pressures, peer support, and work environment affecting their experiences.
Introduction: Most people with Parkinson's disease (PD) will experience gait problems. Previous studies demonstrated improved gait and balance after vibration stimulation was applied to the feet of PD patients. However, not all study participants showed improvement, perhaps due to sub-optimal vibration stimulus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA family history of substance problems is a well-known risk factor for substance use and use disorders; however, much of this research has been conducted in studies with predominantly White subjects. The aim of this study was to examine the associations between family history density of substance problems and drug use, risk for drug use disorder, and prescription drug misuse in a sample of African American adults. Results indicate that family history density of substance problems increased the risk for all drug outcomes in the full sample.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The purpose of this study was to explore the reliability and construct validity of the EPDS-US.
Methods: To enhance the perinatal mental health screen, we adapted the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Screen (EPDS) for application in the United States, and evaluated reliability and construct validity of the EPDS-US in a sample of 100 postpartum individuals. We explored reliability by estimating internal consistency of the scale and evaluating concurrent validity with correlations to the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7); and construct validity using factor analysis and discriminant validity with correlations to the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS).
Objective: This study examined how frontline nurse managers (FLNMs) perceive and experience formal and informal social support and how personal factors and social support relate to their transformational leadership (TL) behaviors.
Background: Ineffective leadership by FLNMs is associated with costly outcomes. Evidence suggests that leadership development is a function of personal and social factors; however, a better understanding of this process is needed.