Nursing research
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Daytime observed emotional expressions of people with dementia.
Emotional expression among people with dementia (PWD) may inform person-centered approaches to care and improvements in dementia-related quality of life. ⋯ PWD showed a broad range of emotional expression and significant within-person variation in daytime positive and negative emotional expressions. Observed emotional display is a promising measure of psychological well-being among PWD that, if more fully understood, could guide care approaches to improve quality of life.
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Caring for families is fundamental to pediatric nursing. However, existing measures do not capture parents' experiences with family-centered nursing care. ⋯ The Family-Centered Care Scale showed initial evidence of reliability and validity among parents with hospitalized children.
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Nursing is known as an occupation with high risk of musculoskeletal injury. Nurses' perceptions about the risk of injury may have a role in preventing such injury. ⋯ Study findings indicated that most critical care nurses were concerned about their ergonomic job risks. Their risk perceptions about musculoskeletal injury risk were affected by physical work exposures, psychosocial job stressors, and experience with musculoskeletal symptoms, but not by perceived workplace safety climate. The findings underscore the need for management efforts to improve physical and psychosocial working conditions and create a safe work environment.
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Use of composite variables is a common practice, but knowledge about what researchers should consider when creating composite variables is lacking. ⋯ Each approach to creating composite variables has advantages and disadvantages that researchers should weigh carefully. With normally distributed data, composite variables provide the greatest increases in power when the original variables (that make up the composite variable) have similar associations with the outside outcome variable.