Showing papers in "Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing in 2006"

TL;DR: Raising awareness of the processes involved in obedient behaviour and exercising sharing of power may be helpful to midwives in asserting not only their own professional capacity to influence, but also the autonomy of the women they seek to empower.

TL;DR: The PoNDER Trial was the largest, with the longest follow-up, and provided evidence of the cost-effectiveness of the HVs role in detecting PND and offering a psychological intervention, among all the trials reviewed.

TL;DR: A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for people with moderate to severe dementia revealed relatively few well-designed studies focusing on the effectiveness, highlighting the need for further multi-centre randomised controlled trials to be undertaken on these interventions.

TL;DR: Everyday prospective memory deficits associated with excessive alcohol use in teenagers aged 16-19 years are explored, with excessive users reported significantly more everyday memory errors than low-dose controls.

TL;DR: The common sense model of health and illness behaviors may constitute a framework to study the role of mothers in determining pediatric health care use and the implications of this conceptualization for future research and clinical practice are discussed.

TL;DR: The importance of a tight monitoring to enable optimal treatment and to save patients from associated complications like prolonged stay in ICU and hospital, increased mortality, poor cognitive outcome and increased costs is demonstrated.

TL;DR: Over a decade after choice was hailed as essential to ensuring a positive maternity experience for women, there remains a lack of evidence to suggest that choice is a reality for many women accessing maternity care.

TL;DR: Examination of interactions between community midwives or health visitors and their clients around the topic of breastfeeding found the process of building knowledge over time from different sources, formal and informal, seemed to lead to practices that generally concurred with current research evidence.

TL;DR: This paper concludes by suggesting how QoL measurement can be integrated into nursing research and clinical practice and provides some pointers to the issues futureQoL studies need to address.

TL;DR: Delays in presentation delay was associated with incorrect interpretation of symptoms, minimisation of significance of signs of malignant melanoma, and outcomes from previous help seeking behaviour.

TL;DR: The need for accurate diagnosis of individuals as risk of developing alcohol related disease due to excess alcohol consumption and the combined use of clinical questionnaires and biochemical markers are discussed.

TL;DR: It was found that cultural issues should be recognised and addressed during planning and these affect various aspects of the project, including recruitment and fieldwork.

TL;DR: An evaluation of a training course designed to equip non CBT trained workers to deliver effective brief interventions as part of a stepped system of mental health care is presented.

TL;DR: The successful utilisation of hip protectors in in-patient clinical wards is dependent on the degree to which patients accept the purpose of the protector and any resultant discomfort and adverse impact on their independence.

TL;DR: This review addresses the welfare and needs identified in studies of parents and children following assisted reproductive intervention, in an attempt to determine if these are supported by the health or social care systems.

TL;DR: Close liaison between all health professionals during pregnancy and postpartum is essential for optimal management of high-risk pregnancies in women with psychotic disorders.

TL;DR: Positive outcomes attributed by directors of nursing to matron appointments appeared to outweigh negative outcomes, and there was evidence of these positive outcomes in subsequent case studies.

TL;DR: The combined use of an opinion leader, guidelines, education and a recording system had a variable affect on compliance with guidelines; opinion-leadership appeared to have the most influence over compliance.

TL;DR: In this article, the limitations of grounded theory are demonstrated by examining the application of categories that arose in an empirical study of sexuality in special hospital settings (high security psychiatric hospitals) by looking in more depth at the ways in which the categories are applied and the meanings given to them by informants.

TL;DR: Perinatal psychiatrists should be meticulous about evaluation and availability of screenings, and non-psychiatric staff must be offered adequate training on why, where, when and what kind of screenings must be established in order to obtain an effective reduction of postnatal depression.

TL;DR: The systemic complications of alcoholic liver disease primarily malnutrition, ascites, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, hepatic encephalopathy, hepatorenal syndrome and oesophageal varices will be discussed, as well as new approaches to management of these complications.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether healthcare provider satisfaction with healthcare providers influenced community-dwelling older adults' participation in preventive health maintenance activities (PHMA) and found that the majority of participants were satisfied with their healthcare providers but that finding had little influence on PHMA participation.

TL;DR: Investigation of the psychometric properties of the Life Quality Gerontological Centre Scale (LGC), a general Quality of Life instrument designed for use among older people, revealed that LGC was reasonably stable as the construct-and cross validation more or less replicated the suggested QoL factors.

TL;DR: The main strategies for screening and assessing the needs of the diverse range of socially excluded clients who come into contact with statutory and non-statutory agencies are reviewed.

TL;DR: The emergency department (ED) is a frequent provider of services to those addicted to alcohol or drugs, and which specialist services the ED needs to be able to access in order to provide a safe and high quality service to addicts in their care is reviewed.

TL;DR: This systematic review identified numerous patient outcome measures, across a range of specialisms, available for the assessment of nursing and midwifery practice in the UK.

TL;DR: One of the objectives is to test the hypothesis that eclampsia is the expression of a conflict between mother and fetus, assuming that meeting the specific nutritional needs of the fetal developing brain is a priority among humans.

TL;DR: The Alcohol Health Work intervention is described by setting the scene with a brief overview of the impact of alcohol-related health problems at accident & emergency, then describing the Paddington Alcohol Test and other alcohol screening tools, and the concomitant impact on the rest of the hospital.

TL;DR: Most institutes who entered the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) Unit of Assessment (UoA) 10 put forward several papers that are clearly not nursing in any meaningful way, so there is scope to place academics from other disciplines to increase funding for nursing, even if the rating is not improved.