Janet A Deatrick

..These themes are contrasted to clinical, parental, and ethical perspectives from the literature to make recommendations for further research emphasizing the concerns of families...

..The purpose of this article is to present the Family Management Styles Framework as a tool that is useful in both clinical practice and research for assessing families who have children with cancer, including those with brain tumors...

..A unique perspective is presented through collaboration between a nursing school and a center for health disparities research...

..In this report, 2 hypothetical, contrasting case studies of family management are used to illustrate family management within the context of brain tumor survivors...

..An example analysis is presented on the development of scales to measure how parents caring for a child with a chronic condition view their family's management of that condition...

..Points of intervention should focus on families, with attention to parental figures in the home and overall family functioning...

..Thus, it is recommended that IFC be reported as standard practice reflecting the fact that a family dyad is more than just the aggregate of two individuals. Moreover, not accounting for IFC can affect the conclusions...

..Self-care was defined as an active, cognitive process in which persons engage for the purpose of maintaining their health (maintenance) and managing symptoms (management)...

..Implications for practice include the possibility of providing evidence-based culturally competent care to families of children with cancer...

..Children evaluated potential food options based on their hunger level, food preferences, time pressure and activity prioritization, food preparation effort and skills, and expected physical consequences of food...

..Future directions for research and clinical care for this vulnerable group of survivors are discussed...

..Self-care is vital for successful heart failure (HF) management. Mastering self-care is challenging; few patients develop sufficient expertise to avoid repeated hospitalization...

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..Our findings suggest opportunities for developing and testing tailored interventions to promote CPAP use...

..To adapt ethnically appropriate radio and newspaper messages in order to increase information-seeking and recruitment to the high-risk Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment Program (PRAP) using input from focus groups...

..This paper reports development of the Family Management Measure (FaMM) of parental perceptions of family management of chronic conditions...

..In the feasibility portion of this study, parents were able to complete the questionnaires with no negative feedback provided...

..To describe symptoms, self-care for symptoms, and lay consultations of African American women later diagnosed with a likelihood of preterm labor (PTL)...

..Youth face trauma that can cause posttraumatic stress (PTS)...

..To understand if patient-provider race-concordance is associated with improved health outcomes for minorities...

..Based on the evidence, nurses can incorporate selected strategies into nursing care to promote effective mothering during the first years of a child's life...

..Content validity testing has been completed on the FMS Survey. Future plans include full-scale field testing of remaining psychometric properties...

..These patterns of decision-making affect how parents and children communicate with health professionals and influence the effectiveness of health care providers interactions with the family related to the decision-making process...

..FMSs were constructed through typifying how these dimensions differed across families. Understanding FMSs can aid health care providers as families are assessed and interventions are planned...

..Each barrier is described, and specific strategies are suggested based on the empirical literature. In some instances, the coauthors' experiences are also shared...

..To identify attributes of home care agencies described by nurses as important to their professional practice and job satisfaction...

..A program like the SNRI can be successful in widening the research pipeline, in imparting knowledge, and in fostering positive attitudes as well as in improving research skills...

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