Psychometric evaluation of the traditional chinese version of PedsQL 3.0 cardiac module scale in adolescents with congenital heart disease: reliability, validity, measurement invariance, and adolescent-parent agreement.

Background: In recent decades, 95% of children with congenital heart disease (CHD) can survive to adolescence and adulthood. However, adolescents with CHD are prone to poorer health-related quality of life (HRQoL). It is imperative to develop a reliable and valid instrument for health professionals to monitor the HRQoL.

Development and Validation of Nurses' Well-Being and Caring Nurse-Patient Interaction Model: A Psychometric Study.

Nurses' care nurse-patient interaction (CNPI) competence is critical for improving nursing care quality. The focus is the psychological quality of nurses, which may be derived from their sense of well-being. The purpose of this study was to develop a conceptual model of nurses' well-being and their CNPI competence.

[Nurse and Patient Dispute Litigation in Independent Nursing Practice].

Background: Although medical dispute and other contentious cases involving patients and nurses have risen significantly in recent years, few studies have examined the litigation issues involved in nurse-patient disputes.

Purpose: This study was designed to explore the background, categories, and degrees of harm to patients and the judgments made by the courts.

Methods: Qualitative research was used.

Nurses' Well-Being, Health-Promoting Lifestyle and Work Environment Satisfaction Correlation: A Psychometric Study for Development of Nursing Health and Job Satisfaction Model and Scale.

Although promoting healthy work environments to enhance staff members' health and well-being is a growing trend, no empirical studies on such a model have been conducted in the nursing management field. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate measurement scales and a conceptual model of nurses' well-being, health-promoting lifestyle, and work environment satisfaction (WHS). A cross-sectional survey was conducted to develop a WHS model and Nursing Health and Job Satisfaction (NHJS) scale.

Maternal Caregiving for Children Newly Diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Traditional Chinese Mothering as the Double-Edged Sword.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the meaning of maternal caregiving in the Chinese culture for children newly diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL).

Background: Recurrence of and death associated with ALL remain the main concerns for mothers. Mothers experience guilt and anxiety towards their child's cancer.

Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Chinese Comfort, Afford, Respect, and Expect scale of caring nurse-patient interaction competence.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate the construct validity and reliability of the Chinese Comfort, Afford, Respect, and Expect scale, which can be used to determine clinical nurses' competence. The results can also serve to promote nursing competence and improve patient satisfaction.

Background: Nurse-patient interaction is critical for improving nursing care quality.

Quality of Life After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Pediatric Survivors: Comparison With Healthy Controls and Risk Factors.

Background: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has prolonged life for children with life-threatening diseases. Quality of life is an essential outcome for evaluating the long-term effects of transplantation.

Objective: The aims of this study were to compare the quality of life of children posttransplantation to that of healthy peers and explore the variables associated with the quality of life of posttransplant children.

Receipt of Life-Sustaining Treatments for Taiwanese Pediatric Patients Who Died of Cancer in 2001 to 2010: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Aggressive life-sustaining treatments have the potential to be continued beyond benefit, but have seldom been systematically/nationally explored in pediatric cancer patients. Furthermore, factors predisposing children dying of cancer to receive life-sustaining treatments at end of life (EOL) have never been investigated in a population-based study. This population-based study explored determinants of receiving life-sustaining treatments in pediatric cancer patients' last month of life.

Meshing Gears: Mothers and Their Adolescents Returning to Their Social Life After Cancer Treatment in Taiwan.

Adolescents with cancer and their parents have to deal with the challenge of returning to their pre-diagnosis social life. The purpose of this study was to describe the subjective lived experiences of Taiwanese mothers and their adolescents who had completed cancer treatment and were returning to school. Eight Taiwanese mother-adolescent dyads were recruited by purposive sampling.

Translation and validation of an instrument for measuring the suitability of health educational materials in Taiwan: suitability assessment of materials.

Background: It is essential to provide readily comprehensible health information to the public to increase healthy behaviors and improve outcomes. Researchers in English-speaking countries possess well-developed instruments to evaluate the suitability of health education materials. However, few of these instruments are available for use in Chinese-language environments.

Comparison of resilience in adolescent survivors of brain tumors and healthy adolescents.

Background: Resilience is essential for the psychological adjustment of adolescents experiencing difficulty. Comparing differences in resilience between adolescent survivors of brain tumors and healthy adolescents may help identify factors related to resilience in adolescents.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to clarify how illness impacts the normative development of adolescent survivors of brain tumors by comparing them to healthy adolescents in terms of resilience and how it is affected by various health problems.

Maternal-foetal attachment during early pregnancy in Taiwanese women pregnant by in vitro fertilization.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate maternal-foetal attachment at 9, 12 and 20 weeks gestation and to identify factors that influenced maternal-foetal attachment in Taiwanese women who conceived by in vitro fertilization.

Background: Development of maternal-foetal attachment is an important part of taking on the maternal role. However, evidence about maternal-foetal attachment after assisted conception is inconclusive.

Social-cognitive determinants of exercise behaviour among adolescents with mild congenital heart disease.

Background: Nowadays, most adolescents with mild congenital heart disease (CHD) undergo medical or surgical correction in early childhood for their congenital anomalies. There is a need to examine the determinants of exercise behaviour among adolescents (CHD) who are able to exercise.

Aims: The aims of this study were to examine determinants of exercise among adolescents with mild CHD, including personal beliefs about exercise, interpersonal influences on exercise, and availability of physical environments for exercise, based on social-cognitive theory.

An evaluation of disease knowledge in dyads of parents and their adolescent children with congenital heart disease.

Background: Congenital heart disease (CGHD) can be considered a chronic disease for many patients. To adopt a healthy lifestyle and to avoid complications, patients with CGHD and their parents need to have good knowledge of the heart defect and its consequences.

Objective: The aims of this study were to evaluate patient and parental knowledge of CGHD and to explore the related factors of their respective disease knowledge.

Using standardized patient with immediate feedback and group discussion to teach interpersonal and communication skills to advanced practice nursing students.

Background: Interpersonal and communication skills (IPCS) are essential for advanced practice nursing (APN) in our increasingly complex healthcare system. The Standardized Patient (SP) is a promising innovative pedagogy in medical and healthcare education; however, its effectiveness for teaching IPCS to graduate nursing students remains unclear.

Objectives: We examined the effectiveness of using SP with SP feedback and group discussion to teach IPCS in graduate nursing education.

Measuring knowledge of patients with congenital heart disease and their parents: validity of the 'Leuven Knowledge Questionnaire for Congenital Heart Disease'.

Background: Patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) and their parents need to have sufficient knowledge on their condition, treatment, medication, and preventive measures. The Leuven Knowledge Questionnaire for Congenital Heart Disease (LKQCHD) was developed to comprehensively measure the level of knowledge in patients with CHD.

Aims: This study aimed to translate the LKQCHD into Chinese and to test its validity to be used in patients with CHD and their parents.

Effects of maternal confidence and competence on maternal parenting stress in newborn care.

Aim: This paper is a report of a correlational study of the relations of maternal confidence and maternal competence to maternal parenting stress during newborn care.

Background: Maternal role development is a cognitive and social process influenced by cultural and family contexts and mother and child characteristics. Most knowledge about maternal role development comes from western society.

Exercise behavior in adolescents with mild congenital heart disease.

Background And Research Objectives: Most children with congenital heart disease (CHD) are expected to survive to adolescence and adulthood owing to medical advances and care management. These adolescents need to be well informed about their exercise capacity and take greater personal responsibility for their exercise behavior as they mature. The aims of this study were to compare the amount and intensity of exercise engaged in by male and female adolescents with mild CHD while on summer vacation and during the academic semester and to determine the extent to which their exercise behavior met cardiologists' recommendations, based on New York Heart Association functional classification.

From limitation to mastery: exercise experience for adolescents with mild congenital heart disease.

Aim: To describe the subjective experience of engaging in exercise for adolescents with mild congenital heart disease (CHD).

Background: Most children with mild CHD are now expected to survive to adolescence and even into adulthood. With early intervention, cardiopulmonary function and exercise capacity in most are comparable to those of normal peers.

Knowledge of using acetaminophen syrup and comprehension of written medication instruction among caregivers with febrile children.

Aim: This article aims to explore caregivers' knowledge of acetaminophen and comprehension of written medication instructions about acetaminophen syrup when administered to febrile children.

Background: Fever is one of the most common problems about which primary caregivers seek medical advice for their children. Administration of acetaminophen is the most common form of treatment for febrile children.

Pediatric end-of-life care for Taiwanese children who died as a result of cancer from 2001 through 2006.

Purpose: Patterns of aggressive end-of-life (EOL) care have not been extensively explored in a pediatric cancer population, especially outside Western countries. The purpose of this population-based study was to examine trends in aggressive pediatric EOL cancer care in Taiwan.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study that used administrative data among 1,208 pediatric cancer decedents from 2001 through 2006.

R1 version, self-concept in Taiwanese adolescents with congenital heart disease.

Background:   The objectives of this study were to evaluate and compare differences in self-concept between male and female adolescents with congenital heart disease, and to compare the self-concepts of these adolescents to that of the general adolescent population using normative data.

Methods:   A total of 300 adolescents, 143 male and 157 female, from two medical centers in Taiwan completed the Tennessee Self-Concept Scales and the scores of male and female subjects were compared. The scores of adolescents with congenital heart disease were also compared with normative data of healthy Taiwanese adolescents.

Lived experience of epilepsy from the perspective of children in Taiwan.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of school-aged children with epilepsy in Taiwan.

Background: Epilepsy affects many people worldwide, especially school-aged children, but few studies have examined children's viewpoints of their experiences with epilepsy.

Design: An exploratory, phenomenological interview design was used.

Clinical applicability of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF) to mothers of children with asthma in Taiwan.

Aims: This study examined the clinical applicability of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale brief version (WHOQOL-BREF) to mothers of children with asthma in Taiwan.

Background: The WHOQOL-BREF scale has been culturally adapted for Taiwan and applied to a variety of ill and healthy subjects in hospitals and the community and to the general population in the 2001 National Health Interview Survey in Taiwan. Its application to explore the QOL of mothers of children with asthma in Taiwan allows future cross-population comparisons.