Publications by authors named "Yea-Ing Lotus Shyu"
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- Researchers studied how much water people with swallowing difficulties, called dysphagia, can safely swallow without choking.
- They used a special device to check swallowing abilities in nursing home residents, comparing those with and without feeding tubes.
- The study found that swallowing 3 ml and 5 ml of water is safe for testing these residents' swallowing skills.
Objective: The delivery of bad news is an unpleasant but necessary medical procedure. However, few studies have addressed the experiences and preferences of the families of school-aged children with cancer when they are informed of the children's condition. This study aimed to explore families of school-age children with cancer for their preferences and experiences of truth-telling.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Vietnam is one of the most rapidly aging countries in the world and the likelihood that someone may have dementia rises dramatically as the population ages. Although caring for persons living with dementia is important, little is known about the circumstances under which community healthcare professionals in Vietnam provide dementia care. This study aimed to describe the practice of caring for persons with dementia among community healthcare professionals in Vietnam.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Abnormal sleep duration affects recovery in older adults with hip fracture and diabetes mellitus (DM) negatively. However, the predictors of abnormal sleep duration in this population remain unknown.
Purpose: This study was designed to explore the predictors of abnormal sleep duration among older adults with hip fracture and DM within 6 months of hospital discharge.
This study examined factors associated with the intention to engage in advance care planning among persons with cognitive impairment. This cross-sectional study recruited 116 persons with cognitive impairment by convenience sampling from two teaching hospitals in Northern Taiwan from November 1, 2018, to December 31, 2020. Fewer than 50% of the participants intended to engage in advance care planning, and less than 10% signed the living will for hospice and palliative care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Little is known regarding the effects of training programs on family caregivers of older persons with mild cognitive impairment because of the significant differences in outcome variables measured in the various studies in the literature.
Purpose: This study was designed to examine the effects of an outpatient-based caregiver training program on the preparedness, health-related quality of life, and depressive symptoms of participants responsible for caring for older persons with mild cognitive impairment.
Methods: A randomized clinical trial was implemented.
Background: Robots are introduced into health care contexts to assist health care professionals. However, we do not know how the benefits and maintenance of robots influence nurse-robot engagement.
Objective: This study aimed to examine how the benefits and maintenance of robots and nurses' personal innovativeness impact nurses' attitudes to robots and nurse-robot engagement.
Aims: To examine the relationships among effort ensuring robots' smooth operation (EERSO), time pressure, missed care, and nurses' turnover intention, and how robot performance moderates such relations.
Background: Robots may reduce nurses' workload but typically still require some effort of nurses for robots' smooth operation. However, the negative impact of EERSO on nurses' workplace outcomes is unknown.
Aims: The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between psychological ownership of the nursing profession and turnover intention.
Background: There is a severe shortage of nurses worldwide. Research is needed to understand how nurses' intention to leave hospitals and the nursing profession can be alleviated.
Aims And Objectives: To test how the three components of professional commitment (i.e. affective, continuance and normative professional commitment) are associated with nurse-reported patient-centred care and care quality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to identify different trajectories of adherence to home rehabilitation for older adults with hip fracture and cognitive impairment, to examine associations between different adherence trajectories and postoperative recovery outcomes, and to explore the predictors of adherence trajectories. Group-based trajectory modeling showed two adherence trajectories: low (39.06%) and high (60.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hip fractures are one of the most serious injuries affecting older adults. Evidence-based knowledge regarding the functional status of older persons after hip fracture can provide information critical for developing effective continuous-care and rehabilitation programs.
Purpose: This study was developed to examine the post-hospital-discharge outcome measures and predictors of functional status in older adults in Indonesia after hip fracture surgery.
Aims: To ascertain how professional turnover intention impacts nurse-assessed care outcomes, including patient-centered care and care quality.
Background: Patient-centered care and care quality are critical to care outcomes. However, we do not know whether care outcomes would be improved by reducing nurses' professional turnover intention.
Aims And Objectives: To examine how the three dimensions of professional commitment impact professional capabilities improvement and five key dimensions of care quality.
Background: While professional commitment is known to retain nurses, we do not know how its three dimensions-affective, continuance and normative commitment-formulate five care quality dimensions: assurance, reliability, responsiveness, empathy and tangibles.
Design: We used a three-wave, follow-up design to follow a sample of nurse participants.
Purpose: This study explored the consistency between preferences for end-of-life care for elderly hospitalized patients and their primary caregivers and predictors of consistency.
Patients And Methods: This cross-sectional correlational study recruited 100 dyads of elderly hospitalized patients and their primary caregivers from a medical center in Central Taiwan. A structural questionnaire about preferences for seven end-of-life medical treatment options involved cardiopulmonary resuscitation, intravenous therapy, nasogastric tube feeding, intensive care unit, blood transfusion, tracheotomy, and hemodialysis.
Few studies had examined whether headaches impact emotional exhaustion among nurses, and nurses' intentions to leave the hospital (current employer) or nursing profession. To examine the impact of headaches on nurses' self-efficacy and emotional exhaustion, and nurses' intentions to leave the hospital or the profession. A cross-sectional survey design with proportional random sampling was used to collect data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Employed family caregivers are affected by job demands, which can affect quality of care provided to recipients. However, it is important to understand how job demands and the ability to reconcile employment and caregiving influence family caregivers' quality of life.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the extent to which job demands influenced quality of life for employed family caregivers of older adults with dementia in Taiwan.
Background: Hip fractures in persons with cognitive impairments represent a major public health issue in older populations that often results in poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL).
Purpose: The aim of this systemic review was to examine the changes in HRQoL in older, cognitively impaired patients with hip fracture who had received surgical treatment.
Methods: A literature search of PubMed, Scopus, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and CINAHL (EBSCO) databases was conducted for studies published up to July 2018 that addressed the issue of HRQoL in cognitively impaired patients with hip fracture after surgery.
Background: Adherence to rehabilitation is beneficial to patients with hip fracture. However, the relationships between different levels of adherence and postoperative recovery among older adults after hip fracture have not been addressed thoroughly in the literature.
Objectives: The aims of this study were to explore the trajectories of adherence to home-based rehabilitation during the 12-month period after hospital discharge and to examine the effects of adhering to prescribed home-based rehabilitation on postoperative recovery of physical functions.
Many family caregivers are also employed full- or part-time and are known to be affected by job demands. This study explored the mediating effect of job demands on the relationship between caregiving demands and caregiver health outcomes in primary family caregivers of older persons with dementia in Taiwan (N = 214). A cross-sectional design using a self-completed structured questionnaire was implemented.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: many people living with dementia remain underdiagnosed and unrecognised. Screening strategies are important for early detection.
Objective: to examine whether the Lawton's Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) scale, compared with other cognitive screening tools-the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), and the Ascertain Dementia 8-item Informant Questionnaire (AD8)-can identify older (≥ 65 years) adults with dementia.