Publications by authors named "Seyedehtanaz Saeidzadeh"
Objectives: This study examined the association between care unit work environments in long-term care (LTC) homes and trends in care aides' job satisfaction and burnout (exhaustion, cynicism, reduced professional efficacy) from 2014 to early 2020.
Design: This was a retrospective longitudinal study using data from care aide surveys collected by the Translating Research in Elder Care research program over 3 periods: September 2014-May 2015 (T), May 2017-December 2017 (T), and September 2019-March 2020 (T).
Settings And Participants: The study included 631 care aides from a stratified random sample of 84 LTC homes in 3 Canadian provinces, who participated in data collection at all 3 time points.
Objectives: Long-term care (LTC) staff may develop dissociation due to high-stress work environments and trauma exposures. This study aimed to (1) assess the prevalence of pathological dissociation in LTC home staff during the COVID-19 pandemic; (2) examine the associations of pathological dissociation with demographic characteristics, mental health, insomnia, and professional quality of life; and (3) examine whether pathological dissociation was sensitive to change following a coherent breathing intervention.
Design: We analyzed data from a pre-post breathing intervention study conducted between January and September 2022.
Background: Cancer-related distress (CRD) is widely experienced by people with cancer and is associated with poor outcomes. CRD screening is a recommended practice; however, CRD remains under-treated due to limited resources targeting unique sources (problems) contributing to CRD. Understanding which sources of CRD are most commonly reported will allow allocation of resources including equipping healthcare providers for intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: INFORM (Improving Nursing Home Care through Feedback on Performance Data) was a research intervention that equipped nursing home managers with skills to conduct local improvement projects and supported them in improving performance through modifiable elements in their units. Prior reports have found positive and sustained outcomes from INFORM intervention. In this article, the authors report findings from a formative service evaluation of INFORM as modified for implementation in real-world settings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Quality of life (QoL) of nursing home (NH) residents is critical, yet understudied, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objective was to examine whether COVID-19 outbreaks, lack of access to geriatric professionals, and care aide burnout were associated with NH residents' QoL.
Design: Cross-sectional study (July to December 2021).
Purpose: This review aims to critically evaluate the efficacy of web or mobile-based (WMB) interventions impacting emotional symptoms in patients with advanced cancer.
Method: Articles published from 1991 to 2019 were identified using PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL, and Scopus. Only interventions involving adults with advanced cancer using a WMB intervention to manage emotional symptoms were included.
Background: Symptom management is a critical aspect of comprehensive palliative care for people with advanced cancer. Web and mobile-based applications are promising e-Health modalities that can facilitate timely access to symptom management interventions for this population.
Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of web and mobile-based symptom management interventions in alleviating physical symptom burden in people with advanced cancer.
Purpose: Post-treatment head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors contend with distinct, long-term challenges related to cancer treatments that impact their day-to-day lives. Alongside follow-up cancer care, they also must be responsible for the daily management of often intrusive physical and psychological symptoms, as well as maintaining their health and a lifestyle to promote their well-being. The purpose of this study was to identify HNC survivors' approaches toward engagement in self-management activities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: People with cancer who also have multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) experience co-occurring symptoms known as symptom clusters.
Objective: To describe MCC and symptom clusters in people with cancer and to evaluate the relationships between MCCs and symptom severity, symptom interference with daily life, and quality of life (QoL).
Methods: Weekly over a 3-week chemotherapy cycle, 182 adults with solid tumor cancer receiving chemotherapy completed measures of symptom severity, symptom interference with daily life, and QoL.
Aims And Objectives: To understand how pain affects physical and mental health-related quality of life during the third trimester of pregnancy.
Background: Poor health-related quality of life during pregnancy is associated with adverse maternal foetal health outcomes such as increased risk of low-birth-weight neonates. Poor health-related quality of life is linked to pain, pain interference and anxiety in the general adult population.
Problem Identification: Self-management interventions support cancer survivors in addressing the consequences of treatment. With post-treatment survivors living longer, it is critical to know how research responds to their changing needs.
Literature Search: A comprehensive search of the CINAHL®, PsycINFO®, and PubMed® databases was performed.
Context: Family caregivers encounter many challenges when managing pain for their loved ones. There is a lack of clear recommendations on how to prepare caregivers in pain management.
Objectives: To evaluate existing interventions that support family caregivers in providing pain management to patients with all disease types.
Purpose: To describe neonatal nurses' growth measurement practices, attitudes, knowledge, bases of practice knowledge, and barriers and facilitators for changing practice; and to identify differences in practices and knowledge by nursing organization, unit type, education, and experience.
Design And Methods: A cross-sectional online survey of U.S.
Background: To the authors' knowledge, end-of-life (EOL) care outcomes among adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer who are living in poverty remain poorly understood. The primary aim of the current study was to examine the effect of poverty on EOL care for AYA patients with cancer.
Methods: The authors conducted a multisite, retrospective study of AYA patients with cancer aged 15 to 39 years who died between January 2013 and December 2016 at 3 academic sites.
Article Synopsis
- Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have changed cancer treatment but their use near the end of life is not well understood; this study investigates that.
- A retrospective analysis of 441 cancer patients who received ICIs and died between August 2014 and December 2018 showed that many received ICIs in their last days, with 67% treated in the last 90 days and 27% in the last 30 days.
- Results indicated that those receiving ICIs late in life often had poorer health status, were less likely to enter hospice care, were more likely to die in the hospital, and incurred significant treatment costs with little clinical benefit.
Objectives: To evaluate the feasibility of using a biobehavioral approach to examine symptom burden in rural residents with advanced cancer.
Sample & Setting: 21 patients with advanced lung, colorectal, or pancreatic cancer were enrolled at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Methods & Variables: Using Cleeland's cytokine-immunologic model of symptom expression, symptom burden (i.
Peripheral venous catheters (PVC) are often used to provide hydration, medications, and blood products when the length of therapy is expected to be less than 1 week. Pain and phlebitis are frequent complications of PVC. Diclofenac and EMLA have been used to minimize these adverse effects; however, conflicting results have been reported regarding which has better outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Late-stage cancer diagnoses disproportionately occur in rural residents, frequently resulting in increased need for symptom management support with minimal access to these services. Oncology Associated Symptoms and Individualized Strategies (OASIS) is an eHealth symptom self-management intervention that was developed to provide cancer symptom self-management support and address this disparity.
Purpose: To engage stakeholders about the symptom management needs and concerns of patients with advanced cancer living in rural areas.
Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the factors associated with self-care agency in postpercutaneous coronary intervention patients.
Background: Patients after percutaneous coronary intervention need to perform self-care to reduce the side effects and increase the quality of life. Self-care agency is considered to be an important factor in guaranteeing self-care actions.