International journal of nursing studies
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Family caregivers of older persons with dementia face negative impacts such as heightened role strain due to care receivers' incremental loss of cognitive function. Dyadic relational resources were found to protect caregivers against negative caregiving outcomes while caring for cancer patients, but had not been explored in caregivers of patients with dementia. ⋯ Dyadic relational resources may moderate the effects of role strain. These findings suggest that these dyadic relational resources should be enhanced for family caregivers of patients with dementia to ease their caregiving role strain.
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Review Meta Analysis
The effectiveness of problem-based learning on development of nursing students' critical thinking: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
The objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to estimate the effectiveness of problem-based learning in developing nursing students' critical thinking. ⋯ The results of the current meta-analysis indicate that problem-based learning might help nursing students to improve their critical thinking. More research with larger sample size and high quality in different nursing educational contexts are required.
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Controlled Clinical Trial
Integrative acupoint stimulation to alleviate postoperative pain and morphine-related side effects: a sham-controlled study.
Although it can be reduced, postoperative pain remains a problem. Acupressure with electric stimulation may be more effective for postoperative pain management than acupressure alone. ⋯ The study demonstrates that combined auricular acupressure and TEAS decreased postoperative pain, the use of equianalgesic morphine, and morphine-related side effects. IAS provides better analgesia when used in conjunction with PCA after lumbar spine surgery and can be regarded as a component of multimodal analgesia.