Psychometric Validation of an Instrument to Measure Family Coping During a Child's Hospitalization for Cancer.

Background: Families with children hospitalized for cancer treatment experience multiple, serious challenges. Family coping is a crucial moderator between family stress and family adaptation. A newly developed instrument, the Hospitalization Coping Scale (HCS), measures the effectiveness of family coping during a child's hospitalization.

Nursing students' knowledge, attitude and readiness to work for clients with sexual health concerns.

Aims: To investigate nursing students' knowledge, attitude and readiness to work for clients with sexual health concerns and to identify strategies to help students develop as they take up their role in sexual health-related care.

Background: There is an increasing global demand for improving sexual health. A better understanding of nursing students' attitude and readiness to work for clients with sexual health concerns is the beginning of this endeavour.

Evaluation of the Morse Fall Scale: applicability in Chinese hospital populations.

Background: Patient falls have been identified as a significant health problem in the general hospital patient population. The Morse Fall Scale (MFS) is an individualized criterion-referenced assessment tool designed for measuring the likelihood of patient falls in hospitals. Despite the scale has demonstrated high validity and reliability in the previous researches, this study is to provide additional validity tests to determine the applicability in the Chinese hospital population.

The symptom experience of hospitalised Chinese children and adolescents and relationship to pre-hospital factors and behaviour problems.

Purpose: To describe the symptom experience of hospitalised Chinese children and adolescents and examine the relationship of symptoms to pre-hospital factors and child behaviour.

Methods: Data were collected at two hospital sites in Hong Kong (HK) and at five hospitals in the Chinese Mainland (CM). A total of 307 hospitalised children and adolescents (ages 2-18) and their primary caregiver (e.

Factors influencing decision to breastfeed.

Background: The low prevalence and short duration of breastfeeding in international studies have highlighted the need for more investigations into the problems. International studies have identified certain factors that affect breastfeeding intentions. Due to insufficient published studies on the local breastfeeding situation, this study specifically investigated factors influencing the breastfeeding decision among primipara women in Hong Kong.

Psychosocial functioning of hospitalized Chinese adolescents and their families.

The purpose of this study was to describe behavioral and emotional problems, social competence, and family functioning of hospitalized Chinese adolescents and to compare their psychosocial functioning with normative samples of Chinese adolescents and their families. A convenience sample of 103 hospitalized adolescent patients and their families participated. Families came from geographical areas in the Chinese Mainland (5 hospitals) and Hong Kong (2 hospitals).