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..g. working as a fire-fighter, or maintaining sexual performance or function). Few other studies have emphasised how men negotiate deviations from the hegemonic view of help-seeking...

..Instead, multiple ideas woven together led patients toward CAM use. An understanding of patients' thought processes may aid health care professionals in initiating a dialogue about decision making and potential side effects...

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..To discover the phenomenon of breastfeeding as experienced by teenage mothers...

..Professionals need to pay close attention to how they introduce noninvasive ventilation technique, putting caring concern and respect for unique needs of patients and their families at the forefront...

..These results indicate that NET is a promising approach for the treatment of PTSD for refugees living in unsafe conditions...

..Future research needs based on these propositions are outlined and encouraged...

..This pragmatic approach could prove manageable within local quality improvement projects...

..Compare the immediate affective and cognitive reactions to cancer survivor stories about mammography and breast cancer vs. a didactic, informational approach...

..Compare effects of narrative and informational videos on use of mammography, cancer-related beliefs, recall of core content and a range of reactions to the videos...

..Together, these findings call into question the usefulness of the term for measuring quality or improving maternity care and highlight other concepts which may be more fruitfully explored...

Narrative medicine is based upon physicians' awareness of patients' narration of their suffering, their hopes, and how illness has affected them. It offers a model for improving health outcomes...

..This may help the readers refigure their own life...

..reveals that the end of the process of becomin ready for consolation is consolation itself as praxis...

..The narrative accounts examined are from individuals who grew up speaking either Ojibwa or Cree (both Algonkian languages) in First Nations communities in Manitoba, Canada...

..Both Ricoeur's concept of an ethics of memory and Aristotle's virtue ethics are presented in the discussion of too little and too much treatment...

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..The nurses referred to their personal experience of giving care and also receiving care very much within a praxis perspective, while physicians referred to science and proven experience within a poiesis perspective...

..Many get married shortly after they attain menarche. This study explores the preparedness for and actual experiences of married life (inter-spousal relationship, sexual activity and pregnancy) among adolescent women...

..Behind their stories, we hear whispered accounts relating to the medical narrative about hysteria; rejections of the stereotype medical discourse of the crazy, lazy, illness-fixed or weak woman...

..The results indicate that addressing young women's concerns about fertility might be important in reproductive care...

..g., authenticity, responsibility, rewriting depression into the self), the stories people tell about their recovery, and the strategies deployed to revitalize life following depression...

..Although young people highlighted the merits of school-based information delivery, low school attendance and high drop-out rates amongst girls mean that alternative mechanisms of reaching young Pakistani women need to be identified...

..An understanding of both the structure as well as the content of patients' narratives of undiagnosed illness may contribute to the development of more effective and sensitive patient centred care...

..To evaluate the influence of two interventions on children's memory of and distress during a voiding cysto-urethrogram (VCUG, X-ray of the kidneys)...

..In palliative nursing this entails open communication about the fragility of life and approaching death. In relational narratives, answers to these ethical dilemmas are co-authored, contingent and contextual...

..We argue that a poststructuralist understanding of the language of experience in research opens up additional ways to analyze the relationship between the conduct of nursing research and cultural/political commitments...

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..First-line managers expect clinical supervision to have long-term positive effects on their work and coping. Empathy-based stories, as a method, were found suited to studies, which aim to obtaining future-oriented knowledge...

..The meaning of their experience is also an influential factor on the caring methods utilised by the patient...

..They therefore demand very high standards of themselves in their interactions with their patients. They create demands on themselves that they believe to be identical to those expected by patients...

..Directed by the nurse's secular and religious orientation, competence develops, making it possible to understand, analyze, manage, and appreciate the significance of the professional work of caring...

..Gender/cultural-specific care needs in relation to social structure, ethnohistory, and cultural context were discovered to influence the women's health/well-being as they moved through recovery...

..The findings of this study are important for cancer nursing practice as health professionals need to acknowledge the role of carers in the chemotherapy day hospital setting and facilitate their involvement in care...

..In the last theme they described the methods they used to help them cope with labour including distracting techniques, leaning on a supportive person or praying. Guidelines to help midwives overcome these problems were developed...

..Pakikisama is family unity and closeness and Utang na loob is mutual reciprocity "the give and take" and obligation in relationships...

..e., trigger event, level of physical functioning, inside and outside support systems, past patterns of decision-making). Strategies for assessing and strengthening these contextually relevant factors are discussed...

..Through the sharing of their narrative life stories, these individuals described how meaning in their lives contributed to a sense of self that allowed them to embrace life with a sense of purpose and enthusiasm...

..To explore the perspectives of teenage girls on how life contexts influenced sexuality and sexual abstinence...

..Such issues may be recognized and managed using clinical supervision in addition to academic supervision. Researcher vulnerability adds depth and complexity to human inquiry...

..The breadth of these findings may lead to greater insights into the nursing care of children with asthma...

..The focus of attention in this article is to describe the theme of introductory engagement by way of a storied phenomenological text...

..They felt caught and tried to escape. The experience of illness as narrated by children can lead to a richer understanding and influence the way we care for paediatric patients...

..In this article, the findings of the research will be presented and implications for health and social service providers will be addressed, including recommendations for programming and policy...

..The aim of this study was to explore the content of individual acts of nursing care and to discuss how these context-specific acts relate to the concept of caring...

..The strategies can be used in a functional or dysfunctional way; e.g. dysfunctional coping was present when there was a lack of human support and boundary demarcation...

..Finding ways to translate and communicate workplace health information so it is accessible and useable by employers to direct decision making is a key role for occupational health nurses...

..The objective was to give a voice to parents in order to develop new understandings of their experience leading to more appropriate clinical decision-making...

..This study reveals a need for healthcare staff to understand the next of kin's narrated meaning of changes when a family member has a progressive disease...

..Results suggest that various elements found on personal home pages are being used by a limited number of young patients with cancer for self-expression, information access, and contact with peers...

..Secondary prevention is important in preventing new cardiovascular events after acute myocardial infarction (AMI)...

..This study sought to explore the nurses' experience of a day hospital chemotherapy service in an acute general hospital in Northern Ireland and how this compared with their experience of working in an inpatient setting...

..The importance of professionals taking the whole person and their situation into account when meeting the fear is underlined...

..Tobacco control interventions for youth must be designed to respond to and incorporate multiple smoking identities...

..A need exists to relieve some of the suffering that accompanies pain in these women and their families. Based on the study's findings, several treatment strategies are recommended...

..Results are hoped to provide valuable information for health professionals to understand how mothers of autistic adolescents connect with others and with their self-identity during middle age...

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..Background. There are known risks associated with moving persons with dementia from home to an institution, but little is known about how they experience being in psycho-geriatric units...

..The struggle to deal with these contradictory factors led to the simultaneous resistance and acceptance of feelings of competence...

..The e-mail discussion data presented here highlight the importance of increased awareness of addressing spirituality in nurse-client encounters and designing interventions to support the caregivers...

..The interviews revealed that the follow-up visit was seen as an important way of learning what had happened and why during the period of critical illness...

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..This information will lead to more relevant interventions and better outcome instruments for use with this population...

..The results are considered in relation to relevant themes in the extant literature...

..Knowledge of patients' experiences of chronic sorrow should be included in the education for neuroscience nurses. Furthermore, it is necessary to develop support interventions for patients with chronic sorrow and their families...

..In conclusion, the experience of psychiatric inpatient care could be interpreted and understood from former patients' narratives as a struggle for dignity in the face of discrimination and rejection...

..The aim was to illuminate the meaning of women's experiences of living with urinary incontinence (UI)...

..The aim of the present study was to describe the relatives' experience concerning older family members living in special housing facilities...

..The aim of this paper is to report on the insights of newly qualified Irish nurses into their preparation for registration as general nurses and to develop insights into the postregistration experience...

..cachexia has a detrimental effect on quality of life and is an indicator of poor prognosis. The meanings people attach to their lived experiences of cachexia are unknown...

..Participants detailed learning from the encounters and reflected with great insight on themselves and their practice. Identifying the learning potential of nurse-patient encounters can contribute to change in clinical practice...

..A need for modifying the institutional culture surrounding seclusion and transforming nursing practices are discussed as are future research endeavours...

..The number of older first-time mothers has increased significantly during the past 30 years. The purpose of this study was to create a phenomenologic text explicating the experience of older, first-time mothering during the first year...

..Future expectations consistently included support from the fathers of their unborn children. Implications for nursing practice and further research are discussed...

..This reflection shares the experiences of one family and highlights the importance of communication among family members and also between family and staff. The article suggests a number of lessons for practitioners...

..The paradoxes represent a struggle between body and mind, between bodily experiences and intellectual understanding, and have important implications for how we communicate with patients about fatigue...

..The findings further indicate the potential in narrative methods to identify important issues in comprehensive cancer care...

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..One conclusion drawn from our study is that nurses and midwives need to be aware of women's complex experiences with abortions in order to support and empower women who seek an abortion...

..They also show how nurses can play a critical role in optimizing the power of the story in the patient's journey towards physical and psychological healing...

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..The state of uncertainty concerning the outcome for the critically ill person was difficult to cope with. The partners wanted to hope, even though the prognosis was poor...

..The purposes of this study were to explore the lived experiences of spiritual suffering and the change mechanism in healing processes among Taiwanese patients with terminal cancer...

..To analyse the experience from the point of view of women who have suffered domestic violence. To identify factors related to continuing or resolving the problem...

..This study examined the cultural attribution of distress in the Chinese, the special role of the family in distress and the specific emotional reactions within distress dictated by culture...

..SUBJECTS: Thirty-six internal medicine residents and ten practicing internists. INTERVENTION: A 20-minute slide/narration educational program, which covered diagnostic criteria for open-angle glaucoma, normal and abnormal optic disc ..

..The extent to which different language sampling contexts affected expressive language in each diagnostic group was also examined...

..Observation was also undertaken at both nursing homes to enhance the understanding of the residents' narration. The participants' concern in relation to quality of life emerges in the following main themes: (i) Securing the ..

..The author describes the features of each narration and provides some examples...

..e. in the ways in which he reads and retells Jensen's story. Freud 's narration not only expresses identification with Zoe, the female protagonist, but also idealizes her 'therapeutic' conduct,..

..He cleverly accomplished this through the narration of Assistant Surgeon George Dedlow, who loses all four extremities by amputation.

..marks a shift from structural conceptualization to process conceptualization characterized by attention to, and narration of, the analyst's as well as the analysand's subjective experience and contribution to the clinical interaction...

..In contrast, deficits in auditory-verbal working memory, syntax and vocabulary comprehension, and narration of picture-books without an opportunity to preview them are all specific to the adolescent group with Down ..

..These themes manifest themselves through the content of the child's play and narration of his actions...

..This work of "translation" did not take place with interpretation dresses, but as a repeated narration of dreams and nightmares, apparently mine yet, actually, deeply belonging to him...

..Accounts of symptoms and illness experience are therefore highly dependent on the social context of narration. Psychiatric nosology and the process of clinical assessment must consider the ways in which psychopathology is ..

..The act of narration is associated with the shame caused by the abuse and neglect that is an integral part of this story...

This project focuses on the characteristics of audio narration for understanding multimedia in eHealth by seniors and others, using cancer prevention as the subject matter...

..Then elements of a proposed explanatory model of the ST intervention, including transportation, identification, self-identity and reciprocal support factors, will be tested for mediation effects on outcomes. ..

..sentence structure in utterance formulation will be conducted, elaborating the experimental investigations of narration, vocabulary acquisition, and prior discourse priming on the basis of outcomes in the current grant period...

..sentence structure in utterance formulation will be conducted, elaborating the experimental investigations of narration, vocabulary acquisition, and prior discourse priming on the basis of outcomes in the current grant period...

..One group participates in a series of tasks that focus on child-parent narration, negotiation, instruction in negotiation, and negotiation assessments...

..since the easy-to-use touch screen operation obviates the need for technical skills while the graphics and narration mitigate the need for reading skills...

..In particular, information will be presented only in oral format, either in narration or as conversations between women about their experiences with breast cancer, about their struggles to find ..

..options;3) finalize web design and complete programming of text screens and integration of video and audio narration;4) evaluation of the program's effectiveness;and 5) finalization and implementation of the ..

..The studies proposed here will explore infants' responses to one type of ID input: ID narration, that is, ID speech that accompanies ongoing action...

..The segments will be presented in richly produced Public Radio style, drawing on narration, explanations by medical experts, anecdotal accounts by patients who have adopted these self-care practices, ..

..family/caregivers to create/display personalized video channels with old photographs of AD patients, music, and narration; as a reminiscence therapy for Alzheimer's...

..The specific aims of the study are to identify differences in pragmatic skills in conversation and narration that are syndrome specific to FXS or DS and determine the extent to which co-morbidity between FXS and autism ..

..The specific aims of the study are to identify differences in pragmatic skills in conversation and narration that are syndrome specific to FXS or DS and determine the extent to which co-morbidity between FXS and autism ..

..The specific aims of the study are to identify differences in pragmatic skills in conversation and narration that are syndrome specific to FXS or DS and determine the extent to which co-morbidity between FXS and autism ..

..The specific aims of the study are to identify differences in pragmatic skills in conversation and narration that are syndrome specific to FXS or DS and determine the extent to which co-morbidity between FXS and autism ..

..Experiential learning will be encouraged through interactive software featuring animation, voice-over narration, music, and audio effects...

..The program will include interaction, animation, video, graphics and narration to create a media-rich learning environment...

..scripts that are tailored to the characteristics of young adult Caucasian males; (c) produce video segments and narration; (d) write programming code for the interactive program, prepare and assemble video segments; and (e) use a ..

..The EHDI Resources will include English and Spanish narration, incorporate a wide range of accessibility features, and be distributed in three formats, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and ..

..Story Sharing promises to offer a new caring intervention for NAs as they develop empathic and mutual care relationships that recognize the uniqueness and dignity of each resident. ..

..Our ultimate goal is to determine whether in vivo delivery of RGC survival factors together with substances that mimic electrical activity will promote axonal regeneration after injury. ..

..Understanding how myelination is regulated may suggest new ways of enhancing remyelination after injury or diseases such as optic neuritis and Multiple Sclerosis. ..