Publications by authors named "W R Moyle"
Aim: To understand the steps in the decision-making process regarding pain assessment and management for people living with dementia from the perspectives and experiences of people with dementia, formal and informal carers.
Methods: A systematic review was conducted. Seven English databases were searched, including PubMed, Psychological Information Database, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Web of Science, and ProQuest, using synonyms and derivatives for "dementia", "cognitive impairment", "pain", "pain assessment", "pain management", "decision", "decision support", and "decision-making".
Article Synopsis
- Informal caregivers providing home care often face stress that can negatively impact their health-related quality of life (HRQOL).
- The study aimed to assess the impact of the Further Enabling Care at Home (FECH+) program on improving HRQOL for caregivers of older adults after hospital discharge.
- Conducted as a randomized clinical trial in Australia, caregivers in the intervention group received structured support through phone calls, while the control group only received standard care, with various outcomes tracked over 12 months.
Aim: To explore registered nurses' beliefs regarding pain assessment in people living with dementia.
Design: A descriptive exploratory qualitative study informed by the Theory of Planned Behaviour.
Methods: Online semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted from January to April 2023 with a purposive sample of 15 registered nurses caring for people with dementia.
Objectives: Personal Assistive RObot (PARO) interventions have been used to treat agitation and mood symptoms of dementia effectively. However, the effects of a PARO intervention on physiological and cognitive function are unclear. To examine the effects of a group-based PARO intervention for older adults with mild dementia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To examine the influence of social disengagement and depressive symptoms on sleep disturbance among dementia caregiving dyads and the actor-partner interdependence nature of these influences.
Design: Actor-partner interdependence model through structural equation modeling for dyadic analyses.
Setting And Participants: A total of 310 dyads of older adults with dementia and their care partners from 2 national representative studies in the United States, the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) and its companion study, the National Study of Caregiving (NSOC).