Male Caregivers' Stories: How They Successfully Adjust to Partners With Stroke.

Men transitioning from noncaregiver to caregiver for their partner (wife or long-term friend) with stroke may find that role unsettling. Male caregivers' success stories in caring for these partners through authors' reflections from their experience are shared. These men's stories focused on achievements: (1) gaining confidence through functional improvement; (2) nurturing success through mutually positive attitude; and (3) resuming "normal" roles.

"It makes me feel like good inside because I helped him do stuff" - Perceptions of psychological well-being in adolescents providing dementia care.

According to a 2018 report by the Alzheimer's Association, an estimated 250,000 children help support a family member with dementia, but few studies exist that describe their experience as family carers. This qualitative descriptive study sought to understand the perceived psychological well-being of adolescents who assist with providing care to family members with dementia. Eleven adolescents ages 12 to 17 caring for older non-parental family members with dementia in northwest Ohio participated in one of three focus group discussions.

State Tested Nursing Assistants' Workplace Experiences That Threaten or Support Intent to Stay.

Purpose: Over 1 million Americans utilize skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) annually. Within SNFs, State Tested Nursing Assistants (STNAs) are primary caregivers; however, low retention rates are notable and threaten patient care.

Design: A phenomenological, qualitative study was conducted to explore intrinsic factors that influence STNAs' intent to stay in their positions.

Nursing Home Staff's Perceptions of Noise Compared to Measured Noise Levels: A Descriptive Study.

A noisy environment may cause annoyance to nursing home staff and affect their ability to provide quality care to residents. The current descriptive study examined differences between staff's perceived noise levels and measured noise levels in four nursing home facilities in Ohio. Most participants (N = 90) were White females.

Perceptions of Water-related Environmental Concerns in Northwest Ohio One Year after a Lake Erie Harmful Algal Bloom.

Water is essential to human life around the world, but there are numerous threats to its quality both internationally and nationally. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to examine public perceptions of water-related environmental concerns in northwest Ohio. In fall 2015, nine focus groups on environmental health conditions were conducted with Lucas County, Ohio residents.

Male Caregivers Report Problems in Caring at Home After Spouses Survive Stroke.

STROKE is sudden and often traumatic with results that affect both the patient and family members who provide care. Approximately 40% of individuals caring for family members/friends are male. Transitioning from the noncaregiver role to caregiver can be unsettling.

Family caregivers' reports of hospitalizations and emergency department visits in community-dwelling individuals with dementia.

Individuals with dementia in the United States have higher rates of hospitalizations and emergency department visits compared to those without. This descriptive study examined the frequency of hospitalizations and emergency department visits among community-dwelling individuals with dementia, reasons for hospitalizations and emergency department visits, and caregivers' actions to prevent these events. Family caregivers ( n = 63) from education/support groups offered through Alzheimer's Association chapters in western Ohio completed a survey.

Meanings of Falls and Prevention of Falls According to Rehabilitation Nurses: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.

Purpose: Guided by Friedemann's theoretical framework, this survey explored the meaning of a fall of an institutionalized older adult or fall prevention to rehabilitation registered nurses and whether the experience changed the nurse's practice.

Design: Qualitative, descriptive survey.

Methods: A convenience sample of 742 rehabilitation nurses was asked to describe these experiences and the impact on their practice.

Qualitative analysis of a nurse's responses to stroke caregivers on a web-based supportive intervention.

Background: Approximately 800 000 people experience a stroke every year; most are cared for by unpaid family members in home settings. Web-based interventions provide 24/7 access to education/support services and have been explored in the literature with family caregivers dealing with chronic conditions. Current research into nurses' web-based interactions with caregivers in these interventions is lacking.

Information Needs of Family Caregivers of People With Dementia.

Purpose: Understanding caregiver needs is essential when caring for people with dementia. The aim of this study was to identify family caregivers' information needs as perceived by home care workers and the caregivers themselves.

Design: This study used a descriptive survey design and convenience sampling.

Usage and design evaluation by family caregivers of a stroke intervention web site.

Background: Four of five families are affected by stroke. Many caregivers access the Internet and gather healthcare information from Web-based sources.

Design: The purpose of this descriptive evaluation was to assess the usage and design of the Caring∼Web site, which provides education/support for family caregivers of persons with stroke residing in home settings.

Web-based psychosocial assessment for caregivers of persons with dementia: a feasibility study.

Purpose And Design: Most of the 5.4 million Americans with dementia are cared for by family members who experience care needs and time constraints. This quasi-experimental study examined the experience of using a psychosocial assessment instrument to understand caregiver needs delivered in an interview versus a self-administered web-based format.

Linking theory with qualitative research through study of stroke caregiving families.

Purpose: This theoretical article outlines the deliberate process of applying a qualitative data analysis method rooted in Friedemann's Framework of Systemic Organization through the study of a web-based education and support intervention for stroke caregiving families.

Methods: Directed by Friedemann's framework, the analytic method involved developing, refining, and using a coding rubric to explore interactive patterns between caregivers and care recipients from this 3-month feasibility study using this education and support intervention. Specifically, data were gathered from the intervention's web-based discussion component between caregivers and the nurse specialist, as well as from telephone caregiver interviews.

Caregivers' incongruence: emotional strain in caring for persons with stroke.

Purpose: Guided by Friedemann's framework, the purpose of this study was to examine the dimensions of new family caregivers' emotional strain in caring for persons with stroke.

Method: Seventy-three caregivers who were new to that role participated in an interview every 2 weeks for a year as part of a NIH project. Of these caregivers, 36 participants were randomly assigned and had access to a Web-based intervention and its e-mail discussion.

Information needs of family caregivers of persons with cognitive versus physical deficits.

This study compared information needs of caregivers of persons with dementia with caregivers of those who received rehabilitation treatment. Caregivers were provided a 48-item survey and asked to choose their top ten information needs. Dementia caregivers' (n = 33) top needs were dealing with forgetfulness/confusion (91%) and repeating questions/actions (61%) in care recipients.

Stroke caregivers share ABCs of caring.

New stroke caregivers (N = 36) participated in a Web-based intervention that provided support and education and included exchanging e-mail messages in a discussion group. A male spousal caregiver posted a poem in his final message at the end of 1 year of participation in this discussion group. He used each letter of the alphabet to choose a word that represented a theme for what he had discovered while caring for his wife.

Caregivers' experience: bimonthly participation in a year-long research interview process.

New caregivers of stroke survivors participated in a bimonthly research interview process for a year-long intervention study. The purpose of this current project was to describe the telephone interview experience for those in the study's control group. We purposively selected 14 participants to answer a telephone survey.

The impact of a web-based caregiver intervention on the reasons stroke survivors use health care services during the first year post treatment.

Purpose: A Web-based education/support intervention for caregivers of stroke survivors was developed. A prospective, descriptive design was used to identify caregivers' reported reasons for stroke survivors' health care service use (i.e.

The effect of a Web-based stroke intervention on carers' well-being and survivors' use of healthcare services.

Purpose: We hypothesised that carers of stroke survivors who participate in the Web-based intervention, Caring approximately Web, would have higher well-being than non-Web users. We also postulated that those survivors whose carers participated in Caring approximately Web would use fewer healthcare services.

Method: A randomised, two-group, repeated measures design was used.

Spirituality expressed by caregivers of stroke survivors.

Thirty-six caregivers of stroke survivors who are new to that role participate in a Web-based support and education intervention over the course of a year. The authors use a secondary analysis of a total of 2,148 e-mail messages that these caregivers posted to the intervention's discussion group. Rigorous content analysis is used to analyze the narrative data coded to spirituality (n = 230 e-mails).

Emotional support, physical help, and health of caregivers of stroke survivors.

Guided by Orem's self-care deficit nursing theory, the purpose of this descriptive comparative study was to examine the emotional support, physical help, and health of caregivers of stroke survivors. Seventy-three caregivers from the Midwest participated in a parent study that examined their experience of caring during the first 12 months after stroke. Caregivers were randomized to an online intervention of support and education (n = 36 Web users) or a control group (n = 37 non-Web users).

Two sides to the caregiving story.

Purpose: This descriptive study examined problems and successes that a sample of 73 adult caregivers new to the role expressed in the first year of caring for stroke survivors. Data were collected from May 2002 to December 2005.

Method: Bimonthly, trained telephone interviewers asked the participants open-ended questions to elicit their experience in caregiving.