THE INDEX

Every paper we have read

Each one summarised from the full article, not its abstract, and kept only if it speaks to physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology or nursing. Newest first.

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• RNSurvey2025Exploring Determinants of Foot Self-Care Behaviors Across Adherence Levels in Patients With Diabetic Foot Ulcer History: A Quantile Regression Approach.Nursing & health sciencesIn adults with prior diabetic foot ulcers, foot care knowledge was linked to better self-care across all adherence levels. Stigma, severe depression and social support were linked mainly at higher adherence.
• RNCohort2025Frailty, Latent Health Profiles, and Antiretroviral Therapy: Predicting Success of Skilled Nursing Facility Care in an HIV Population.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationAfter a skilled nursing stay, people with HIV who were frail or pre-frail had more days not at home over a year than robust people, especially those frail.
• RNOther2025Health Care and Health Information Access by Parents With Young Children in Regional Queensland.The Australian journal of rural healthParents in regional Queensland mostly started online searches when their child was unwell, then used GPs, phone health services, family or social media. They trusted government, hospital and GP sources, but did not search for health-promotion information.
• RNOther2025Factors Associated With Postoperative Complications Among Critical Patients Undergoing Open-Heart Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing openAfter open-heart surgery, frailty, packed red cells, vasopressor/inotrope doses and operative risk were linked to more severe 24-hour complications in 192 patients. Kidney function, inflammation and central venous pressure did not show this link in the final model.
• RNMeta-Analysis2025The Efficacy of Nurse-Delivered Psychosocial and Psychotherapeutic Interventions for Individuals With Mental Health Issues: A Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials.Scandinavian journal of caring sciencesNurse-delivered psychosocial and psychotherapeutic interventions showed improvements in depression, anxiety and quality of life in people with mental health issues. The trials varied widely in condition, intervention and duration, so this does not point to one best programme.
• RNRCT2025The e-PainSupport Digital Application for Assessing Pain and Pain Management in Home Hospice: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Western journal of nursing researchThe caregiver app bundle, which combined education, tracking, and nurse alerts, did not lower patient pain more than usual hospice care over 14 days. Caregiver medication adherence improved more than in usual care, but the main pain outcome was null.
• RNCohort2025Mammography Screening Among Women Living With HIV in the United States: A Quantitative Analysis of the Role of Health Care Empowerment.The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANACWomen living with HIV who reported being informed, committed, collaborative and engaged in their care were more likely to report a mammogram over 2 years. Tolerance of uncertainty and total empowerment were not associated.
• RNRCT2025An Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trial of the Individualized Positive Psychosocial Interaction (IPPI) Program.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationResident mood improved immediately in 59% of brief preference-based one-to-one interactions delivered by nursing home staff. There was no control group, so this does not show IPPI reduced distress versus usual care.
• RNSurvey2025Factors Associated With Dementia Worry Among Middle-Aged or Older Adults Living in a Japanese Community: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of mental health nursingAmong middle-aged or older community adults without dementia, greater worry about developing dementia was linked to greater knowledge of dementia, more bothersome symptoms, moderate or severe depression, and a parent diagnosed with dementia.
• RNMeta-Analysis2025Effectiveness of Psychosocial Interventions on Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and Quality of Life in Parents of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of RCTs.Nursing & health sciencesAcross 21 randomized trials, psychosocial interventions for parents of children with cancer reduced anxiety, depression, stress, and improved quality of life. CBT and other approaches did not differ clearly, and long-term benefit is unclear.
• RNCohort2025Clinical management and outcomes in severe COVID-19: acute respiratory distress syndrome across two waves.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S PMortality was more than double in the first wave compared with the second wave among patients with severe COVID-19 ARDS. Second-wave patients had less organ dysfunction and less invasive ventilation or hemodialysis.
• OTQualitative2025The Significance of Social Connections and Health in Relation to Loneliness Experienced by Older Adults Living at Home: A Qualitative Study.Scandinavian journal of caring sciencesSome older adults said being alone felt pleasant when daily routines let them pursue solitary activities. Others felt lonely when meaningful connections were lost or relationships felt unequal. Staying active was important, but physical and cognitive limits made this harder.
• RNQualitative2025The Role of Stigma in Help-Seeking Strategies Among African Migrants in Australia: A Qualitative Study.International journal of mental health nursingAfrican migrants described stigma delaying mental health help-seeking: fear of being called mad, communal shame, and spiritual beliefs led some to suffer silently or seek church first. Clinicians should expect late presentation and ask about stigma and spiritual beliefs.
• RNCohort2025Sleep Quality and Disruptive Factors in Intensive Care Units: A Comparison Between Mechanically Ventilated and Spontaneously Breathing Patients.Nursing in critical careMechanically ventilated ICU patients rated their sleep worse than spontaneously breathing patients, especially depth, falling asleep and returning to sleep. Pain and frequent vital signs disrupted ventilated patients, while nursing interventions, blood sampling, medication administration, alarms and nebuliser use disturbed others.
• RNCohort2025Efficiency of AIMS: A 4-Week Recovery Oriented Suicide Prevention Pathway.International journal of mental health nursingIn 552 people in suicidal crisis, a 4-week team pathway was entered mainly from emergency or acute care and discharged participants to community services; 6-month re-presentation was low, but no control group.
• RNSystematic Review2025Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of digital health interventions in improving hypertensive outcomes among patients with uncontrolled hypertension: A systematic review.International journal of nursing sciencesDigital health interventions for uncontrolled hypertension improved self-management and blood pressure control, reduced cardiovascular risk, and two studies showed cost-effectiveness. They worked best when combined with provider support, especially nurse feedback and consultation, rather than stand-alone.
• RNSurvey2025Determination of the Relationship Between Care Burden, Health Anxiety and Depression Levels of Caregivers of Patients Who Have Undergone Oncological Surgery.Nursing & health sciencesAmong 162 family caregivers after cancer surgery, 52% had health anxiety, 38% severe burden, and 42% mild depression. Burden, anxiety, and depression tended to rise together. Only 13.6% had received caregiving training.
• RNQualitative2025Support Networks and Care Needs: Insights From Older Vietnam-Born Australians Living With Chronic Disease.Nursing & health sciencesOlder Vietnam-born adults with chronic disease relied on family and ethnic networks, often said they had enough support, but needed Vietnamese-language health information. Ask about carer burden and language before assuming they want formal self-management programmes.
• RNMeta-Analysis2025Effectiveness of Health Promotion Programs on Blood Pressure in People With Hypertension and Prehypertension in Southeast Asian Populations: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nursing openIn Southeast Asian adults with high blood pressure, diet-based and endurance-based programmes lowered systolic pressure by 8.32 mmHg and 9.45 mmHg, but combined diet and exercise did not show systolic lowering in pooled studies.
• PTOTCohort2025Short Physical Performance Battery or Chair Stand: Which Better Predicts Disability Among High-Functioning Older Adults?Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationIn older adults who were independent and walked faster than 0.8 m/s, a chair stand time of 11.5 seconds or more or a Short Physical Performance Battery score of 11 or lower flagged higher future daily-living disability risk than common cutoffs.
• RNCohort2025Analysis of Risk Factors and Nursing Strategies for Unplanned Extubation in Children: Retrospective Cohort Study.JMIR nursingThirteen unplanned extubations occurred over six years in a pediatric surgery ward. Most happened to boys under three, during holidays, and when nurses were not at the bedside. Urinary and gastric tubes were the most common culprits.
• RNOther2025Health team practices to improve vaccination coverage of children in a favela.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S PIn a Rio de Janeiro favela, health teams used daily tracking, home searches, Saturday vaccination days, messaging and daycare visits. The report says all registered children aged 0 to 2 years had vaccination records updated, but it is not a trial.
• RNMeta-Analysis2025Effectiveness of nulliparous women's different childbirth positions during the second stage of labor: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.International journal of nursing sciencesUpright and free positions were ranked as most likely to shorten the second stage of labor in first-time mothers, compared with lithotomy. Semirecumbent and lateral positions also ranked ahead of lithotomy.
• RNOther2025The Application of a Combined Online and Offline Health Intervention Model for Assessing Parents' KAP About Testicular Torsion: A Self-Controlled Study.Nursing openParents' stated knowledge, attitudes and intentions to seek care for testicular torsion improved after a 3-month package of lectures, brochures, WeChat science videos and expert micro-videos. No control group.
• OTOther2025Development of an Assessment Tool for Vertical Accessibility in Spanish Homes.Nursing openA Spanish home accessibility scale identifies barriers in building entrances, common areas, lifts and home entry. In 156 people, its four sections produced consistent responses and matched the spaces they intended to measure.
• RNCase Report2025Novel application of chelator-based bone debridement for refractory skull osteonecrosis complicated by Pseudomonas aeruginosa osteomyelitis.Journal of wound careA dental EDTA chelator gel softened exposed necrotic skull bone enough for gentle curette removal. In this single case, greenish necrotic bone disappeared, exposed bone area reduced, and Pseudomonas was absent. Antibiotics were given at the same time. Later, discoloration returned in still-exposed bone.
• RNSurvey2025Psychological Symptom Risks in Spouses of Cancer Patients and Barriers to Seeking Mental Health Counselling: A Descriptive and Correlational Study.Scandinavian journal of caring sciencesSpouses of cancer patients reported high-risk depression, anxiety and somatization, yet none received psychological help despite 94.03% saying they needed it. Stigma about help within their community and lack of knowledge were the main barriers.
• PTOTRNMeta-Analysis2025Comparing nurse-led and rheumatologist-led care for rheumatoid arthritis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S PNurse-led care and rheumatologist-led care produced similar outcomes for rheumatoid arthritis patients. There was no difference in functional status, disease activity, or pain scores. Nurse-led care is a comparable option for managing stable patients, not a superior or inferior treatment.
• OTSystematic Review2025Taking a Strengths-Based Approach to Mental Health in Rural Communities: What Is the Evidence for Harnessing Strengths?The Australian journal of rural healthRural community strengths such as clubs, faith, nature and social connection were linked to better mental health, but no included study proved they caused it. Do not change care assuming these strengths work.
• RNRCT2025A Bundle of Interventions to Prevent Pressure Ulcers During Prone Position in Adult Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Results of a French Stepped-Wedge Randomized Controlled Trial.Nursing in critical careThe bundle of pressure ulcer prevention measures during prone positioning did not show a reduction in new pressure ulcers at day 7. Nurses should not assume this bundle works.
• PTOTRNOther2025Factors Associated With Falls Among Residents Living in Long-Term Care Homes in Ontario.International journal of older people nursingOntario long-term care residents who wandered, had pain or delirium, recently deteriorated in ADLs or care needs, were incontinent, or took antidepressants, antipsychotics, antianxiety medicines, hypnotics or analgesics were more likely to have fallen in the previous 30 days.
• RNRCT2025Teach-Back Communication Versus Pictorial-Based Learning on Self-Care Knowledge and Adherence, Self-Efficacy and Peristomal Skin Healing in Patients After Emergency Surgery Colostomy: A 3-Arm, Randomised, Controlled Trial.Nursing openPeristomal skin scores could not be compared because all patients had similar erythema. Teach-back and pictorial education improved self-care knowledge, adherence and self-efficacy versus routine care at follow-up.
• PTOTSLPRNSystematic Review2025Best Practice to Prevent Constipation in People Living With Dementia: A Scoping Review.International journal of older people nursingEvidence for preventing constipation in dementia is limited and low-quality. Seven studies showed mixed results: probiotics and hydration plans helped, but exercise and scheduled toileting alone did not. Most effective strategies were multicomponent, targeting diet and fluid.
• RNSurvey2025Evaluation of Satisfaction With Care in Paediatric Intensive Care Units: Swedish Parents' Perspective.Nursing in critical careParents of children in Swedish paediatric intensive care rated care highly overall. They wanted clearer daily information about who was responsible, more involvement in decisions, and better discharge preparation, especially for infants and longer stays.
• PTOTSLPRNQualitative2025Walk for Mental Well-Being as a Third Place: A Qualitative Study of the Bathurst Men's Walk and Talk.The Australian journal of rural healthRural men described a weekly walk as a place where status is left at the door. Rituals like free coffee and walking in pairs facilitated conversation, helping isolated men feel safe to share personal struggles without clinical pressure.
• RNQualitative2025Domains of Discharge Readiness for Patients After Abdominal Surgery: A Qualitative Exploratory Study.Nursing openNurses, surgeons, patients and caregivers described discharge readiness after abdominal surgery as physical stability and daily living, knowledge and family partnership, psychological acceptance, social support, and spiritual faith.
• RNSurvey2025Physical activity among Chinese pregnant women in the first trimester: A cross-sectional study.International journal of nursing sciences51.0% of 1,283 Chinese pregnant women in early pregnancy did not meet 150 minutes of weekly moderate activity. Household work and sitting filled their time; sports/exercise was minimal. First-time mothers and those with lower income or inadequate knowledge were more inactive.
• RNSurvey2025Identifying the key influencing factors of psychological birth trauma in primiparous women with interpretable machine learning.International journal of nursing sciencesPain scores above 6 and anxiety scores above 2 were linked to more psychological birth trauma in first-time mothers. Resilience scores above 20 were linked to less trauma.
• RNSystematic Review2025The Factors That Affect Sexual Safety on Adult Mental Health Inpatient Units: A Scoping Review and Content Analysis.International journal of mental health nursingConsumers and staff in adult mental health units described unsafe spaces, disbelieved reports and limited trauma training as threats to sexual safety. Women-only areas helped some feel safer, but did not alone solve it.
• RNOther2025Prevalence of central line-associated bloodstream infections in patients with cancer and subgroup analysis using propensity score matching: A nationwide multicenter study in Italy.International journal of nursing sciencesIn 174 hospitalized adults with cancer and long-term central lines, 5 had CLABSI (2.9%). The subgroup analysis was too small to show which patients are at higher risk.
• RNPilot2025Implementation of an Evidence-Based Protocol for Blood Glucose Management in Critically Ill Adult Patients: A Pilot Study.Nursing in critical careNurses' glucose-management knowledge, attitudes and behaviours improved after a pilot ICU protocol, and 61 patients spent less time hyperglycaemic with fewer glucose-related complications. The before-and-after design cannot prove the protocol caused these changes.
• RNCohort2025Association Between Preoperative Frailty Using Frailty Index-Laboratory Test and Clinical Outcomes in Older Adults Undergoing Brain Tumor Surgery.Nursing & health sciencesFrailty from routine blood tests and vital signs before brain tumor surgery was not linked to longer hospital stay, but it was linked to more 90-day readmissions and more non-home discharge, though only 8 patients had high frailty.
• RNOther2025A Mindfulness Breast Care App to reduce body image distress and stigma for breast cancer survivors: Development and preliminary quality assessment.International journal of nursing sciencesFive Chinese breast cancer survivors rated a mindfulness app 3.96 out of 5 for quality, and five others reported knowledge and emotional support. The study did not test whether the app reduced distress or stigma.
• RNPilot2025Bridging the Urban and Regional Divide in Stroke Care (BUILDS): A Novel Telestroke Unit Service.The Australian journal of rural healthTelestroke unit care was feasible and acceptable at a regional hospital: specialists reviewed admitted stroke or TIA patients within 24 hours, diagnoses were revised, and patients and staff reported comfort, learning and support.
• OTRNQualitative2025Existential Reflections Expressed by Patients in Need of Hospital Care: A Qualitative Study.Scandinavian journal of caring sciencesHospitalised patients described feeling vulnerable, stuck waiting, guilty about illness, and unsure about roles and home life. They used life stories to express what mattered and to make sense of a changed future.
• PTRNCohort2025Total Distance Walked After Hip Surgery Identifies Older Patients With Sarcopenia.Nursing & health sciencesOlder hip fracture patients who walked shorter total distances on discharge day were more likely to have sarcopenia. Sex-specific distance cut-offs may help flag probable or confirmed sarcopenia during inpatient rehabilitation.
• RNRCT2025Screening Tools in School-Based Health Centers for Children With Asthma.The Journal of school healthAsthma control did not differ significantly between intervention and control families in this 20-family pilot, but screening identified home triggers and legal concerns, and intervention families received home assessment/remediation and medical-legal referral when positive.
• RNCohort2025Exploring Willingness: What Drives Dialysis Withdrawal Decisions in Patients With End-stage Renal Disease? A Cross-sectional Study.The journal of nursing research : JNRWillingness to withdraw from dialysis rose as hypothetical prognosis worsened, but more than half of 121 hemodialysis patients still preferred to continue. Poor dialysis quality, junior high school education, and better palliative care knowledge were linked to withdrawal willingness.
• RNQualitative2025Movement Between Suffering and Health-Experience of Health During Long-Term Illness.Scandinavian journal of caring sciencesSeven people with long-term illness described health as moving between letting go and holding on, changing attitude towards life, and trusting life to carry them. They could feel healthy despite illness without needing to perform.
• RNNarrative Review2025Health information systems and tackling violence against women: a necessary dialogue.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S PBrazil's birth, hospital, outpatient, death and notification systems can reveal violence against women, but the data are fragmented. Health professionals must record suspected or confirmed violence in the national notification system.