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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• RNRCT2019Las Dos Cosas Versus Exclusive Breastfeeding: A Culturally and Linguistically Exploratory Intervention Study in Hispanic Mothers Living in Kentucky.Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & PractitionersCulturally tailored peer support doubled exclusive breastfeeding rates in Hispanic mothers. However, early introduction of solids advised by other providers caused a sharp drop in exclusivity between three and six months, undermining the intervention's success.
• RNCohort2019Predictors of prolonged hospital stay in a Comprehensive Stroke Unit.Revista latino-americana de enfermagemPneumonia, urinary tract infection and malignant stroke were linked to longer stays in a stroke unit; symptomatic hemorrhagic transformation was not. This is association, not proof that prevention shortens stay.
• PTOTRNSystematic Review2020Promoting Behavioral Change in Mobile Health Interventions for Older Adults: A Scoping Review.Research in gerontological nursingMobile health interventions for adults 60 and older generally increased physical activity, medication adherence, and disease self-management. Feedback, monitoring, and goal-setting were the most common techniques used to drive these changes.
• RNOther2020Evaluation of Viruses Associated With Acute Respiratory Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities Using a Novel Method: Wisconsin, 2016‒2019.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationNasal swabs from 497 long-term care residents with respiratory symptoms found a virus in 54.8% of tested specimens. Influenza, human metapneumovirus, respiratory syncytial virus and coronavirus were common. This supports nurse-collected surveillance, not proven benefit.
• RNNarrative Review2020Managing Pain in the Setting of Opioid Use Disorder.Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management NursesManaging pain in patients with opioid use disorder means screening withdrawal and suicide risk, using multimodal analgesia, and coordinating medications for opioid use disorder. High-quality evidence is limited, but nurses can assess, educate, and plan safe discharge.
• RNQualitative2020Spousal Dementia Caregiving to Widowhood: Perceptions of Older Urban and Rural Widows.Western journal of nursing researchAll widows reported loneliness and relief after their husband's death, but rural widows had fewer resources and greater financial strain. Nurses should assess caregiver health and depression during caregiving and continue into widowhood, supporting virtual connections for rural women.
• RNSurvey2019Nursing Assistants' Use of Personal Protective Equipment Regarding Contact With Excreta Contaminated With Antineoplastic Drugs.Oncology nursing forumNursing assistants on an oncology unit inconsistently used personal protective equipment when handling chemotherapy-contaminated waste, often overreporting their own safety practices. They relied heavily on door signs to identify at-risk patients, but those signs were missing or inaccurate in many cases.
• RNOther2019Effect of foot care interventions for older adults using day care services.Nursing openIn 18 older adults attending day care, right toe-gap force, a toe strength measure, increased by 0.65 kg after combined medical foot care, five-toe socks and foot hygiene; control changed -0.35 kg. Foot flexibility and left foot changes were not clear.
• RNQualitative2019Home Care Nurses' Perspectives Regarding Health Information Management Among Older Adults.Home healthcare nowHome care nurses find it hard to get accurate health information from older adults because patients often forget details, ignore written discharge summaries, or lack computer skills. Nurses prefer printed materials and verbal repetition over patient portals, which most older adults do not use.
• OTRCT2019Attention control group activities and perceived benefit in a trial of a behavioral intervention for older adults.Research in nursing & healthIn the attention control arm of a home-based trial, older adults with daily-living difficulty often chose conversation and games. They reported perceived benefit, but this is self-report, not proof an intervention works.
• RNQualitative2019Facilitators to the continuous abuse of tramadol among the youth: A qualitative study in Northern Ghana.Nursing openTramadol abusers in Ghana started using it due to peer pressure, curiosity, or hospital prescriptions for pain. They continued using it for euphoria, energy, and sexual performance, despite experiencing vomiting, seizures, and irritability.
• RNOther2019Designing a Process Model of Home Care Service Delivery in Iran: A Mixed Methods Study.International journal of community based nursing and midwiferyA proposed Iran home-care model puts the nursing director in charge of referral, assessment, admission, care planning and coordination. It describes multidisciplinary home services, but the model was not tested for patient outcomes.
• OTRNSurvey2019Predicting the functional independence during the recovery phase for poststroke patients.Nursing openThe largest group of stroke survivors reported low confidence in their functional independence. Confidence differed by age, rural versus urban living, recurrent stroke, and knowing their diagnosis.
• RNSystematic Review2019A systematic review of diabetes self-management education interventions for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Asian Western Pacific (AWP) region.Nursing openGroup-based diabetes education with hands-on sessions and longer contact hours improved blood sugar control more than one-to-one lecture-based approaches. However, none of the 21 studies in this review incorporated specific cultural adaptations for Asian Western Pacific patients.
• RNQualitative2019Adherence to Treatment in Patients with Chronic Diseases: From Alertness to Persistence.International journal of community based nursing and midwiferyPatients with chronic disease described treatment adherence as a journey from alertness to persistence. Feeling heard, sharing decisions, trusting providers, and gaining self-care confidence helped them keep going.
• RNQualitative2019What Are the Hemodialysis Patients' Style in Coping with Stress? A Directed Content Analysis.International journal of community based nursing and midwiferyHemodialysis patients described calming emotions, finding meaning, spiritual beliefs and social support as central to managing dialysis stress. Many felt unable to solve the illness itself, so they focused on emotional relief and relying on family, faith and seeing the good.
• RNCohort2019Complement Activation During Early Pregnancy and Clinical Predictors of Preterm Birth in African American Women.The Journal of perinatal & neonatal nursingEarly pregnancy complement markers C3a and Bb did not predict 20-week cervical length or delivery timing in 144 African American women. Prior preterm birth and Medicaid insurance were linked to shorter cervical length.
• RNSurvey2019Correlation between Supportive Care Needs of Women with Breast Cancer and Quality of Life of their Family Caregivers.International journal of community based nursing and midwiferyPatients' unmet physical needs correlated with caregivers' emotional burden and lower quality of life. Longer caregiving duration linked to worse caregiver well-being. Addressing physical symptoms supports both patients and their families.
• RNOther2019Hospital food: When nurses' and ethnic minority patients' understanding of Islamic dietary needs differ.Nursing openNurses often knew only that Muslims avoid pork and halal labels, while patients varied widely; some distrusted food even when told it was halal and barely ate.
• RNRCT2019The Effect of an Education Program Based on Illness Perception on the Lifestyle of Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.International journal of community based nursing and midwiferyTailoring metabolic syndrome education to patients' illness beliefs produced greater lifestyle improvement than routine education over five weeks. The largest change was nutrition; stress management did not change.
• RNSystematic Review2020Patients' and nurses' experiences of fundamental nursing care: A systematic review and qualitative synthesis.Journal of clinical nursingNurses and patients described clear leadership, involving patients in choices, and organisational support as central to fundamental care for hygiene, mobility, toileting and eating.
• RNCohort2020Dementia Severity Associated With Increased Risk of Potentially Preventable Readmissions During Home Health Care.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationHome health patients in the two most severe dementia categories had 30-day potentially preventable readmission rates of 12.6% and 8.8%, at the top of the 5.6% to 12.6% range. The overall rate was 7.6%.
• RNOther2019Errors in inhaler use related to devices and to inhalation technique among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary health care.Nursing open45% of 183 COPD patients using inhalers made at least one error. Device-handling errors were more common than inhalation-technique errors. Assessment needs to separate device steps from breathing technique.
• RNQualitative2019Children's own perspectives demonstrate the need to improve paediatric perioperative care.Nursing openChildren felt frightened when they did not understand what was happening, when words did not match sensations, and when procedures surprised them. They felt more secure when providers explained things in understandable language, offered small choices, and kept parents close.
• PTOTRNQualitative2019Caring for a stroke patient: The burden and experiences of primary caregivers in Uganda - A qualitative study.Nursing openUgandan stroke caregivers described sudden duties, financial strain and exhaustion. Recovery brought relief; death brought grief. They valued listening and support from staff and family, but lacked supplies, rehabilitation and follow-up.
• RNPilot2019Are patient education and self-care advantageous for patients with head and neck cancer? A feasibility study.Nursing openTailored education and self-care added to SMS monitoring and usual radiotherapy care did not reduce pain or improve quality of life, mood, or sleep. Both groups had low pain; sleep satisfaction was better in the intervention group at week 10.
• RNPilot2019Learning from usability testing of an arts-based knowledge translation tool for parents of a child with asthma.Nursing openParents of children with asthma rated a story-based asthma eBook as clear, easy to use and relatable. It may help them discuss asthma with their child, but this small usability pilot did not test whether it improves asthma control.
• RNQualitative2019Nurses' contribution to relatives' involvement in neurorehabilitation: Facilitators and barriers.Nursing openRelatives of patients with severe traumatic brain injury described trust, presence, personalized information and time as key to involvement. Nurses' communication and ward routines could either open or close this involvement.
• RNOther2019Clinical validation of nursing diagnosis "00085 Impaired Physical Mobility" in multiple traumas victims.Revista latino-americana de enfermagemNurses identified impaired physical mobility in 111 of 126 adult multiple-trauma patients. Difficulty turning best predicted it. Altered bone structure integrity was the commonest associated condition.
• PTOTRNMeta-Analysis2019Frailty syndrome and cognitive impairment in older adults: systematic review of the literature.Revista latino-americana de enfermagemThe pooled results were mixed. Frail older adults were 1.24 times more likely to have cognitive decline in one analysis, but another analysis did not show a significant association.
• RNQualitative2019Silent voices: Family caregivers' narratives of involvement in palliative care.Nursing openBereaved family caregivers described being well informed about diagnoses but poorly involved in planning care, unprepared for dying, and unsupported after death. They wanted clear explanations and systematic follow-up.
• RNQualitative2019Reflecting a crisis reaction: Narratives from patients with oesophageal cancer about the first 6 months after diagnosis and surgery.Nursing openTen patients described a crisis reaction after curative oesophageal cancer surgery: numbness and fear at diagnosis, then focus on cure, then struggle with fatigue, weight loss, altered eating and shame about their body, before feeling quite alright at six months.
• RNOther2019Risk for suicide nursing diagnosis and its related risk factors, in psychiatric settings: A descriptive study.Nursing openIn 1,440 psychiatric nursing reports, suicide risk factors were documented 478 times, but the risk for suicide nursing diagnosis appeared only 10 times.
• RNCohort2020Optimizing Quality of Life With Cognitive Impairment: A Study of End-of-Life Care in Assisted Living.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationIn assisted living residents with cognitive impairment near end of life, cognition did not track quality of life. Psychological distress and fatigue did, and greater daily dependence also correlated.
• PTRNMeta-Analysis2020How much do hospitalized adults move? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Applied nursing research : ANRHospitalized adults spent 87 to 100 percent of a 24-hour period lying or sitting. Medical inpatients had an average standing or walking time of 70 minutes, but studies varied widely.
• RNQualitative2020Using Cards to Facilitate Conversations About Wishes and Priorities of Patients in Palliative Care.Journal of hospice and palliative nursing : JHPN : the official journal of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses AssociationPalliative care patients said cards helped them put wishes and priorities into words and choose what to discuss. Sorting was workable for many, but too hard for the most frail.
• RNCohort2020The Multidimensional Prognostic Index Predicts Falls in Older People: An 8-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study of the Osteoarthritis Initiative.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationIn older adults with knee osteoarthritis, higher baseline scores on a modified geriatric risk index were associated with more recurrent falls over 8 years, including within the first year.
• OTRNQualitative2020Residents' use and perceptions of residential care facility gardens: A behaviour mapping and conversation study.International journal of older people nursingResidents used care home gardens mainly to sit, socialise and relax, often placed there by staff. They valued sensory stimulation and memories, but struggled with long corridors, heavy doors and uneven ground. Many wished for more active tasks like gardening, which were rarely offered.
• RNQualitative2019'The hospital and everyday life are two worlds': Patients' and healthcare professionals' experiences and perspectives on collaboration in the kidney transplantation process.Nursing openKidney transplant patients saw clinicians as experts and wanted clear guidance, but hospital routines left them unprepared for daily self-care. Clinicians valued collaboration yet found it hard to share decision-making without feeling they had lost expert control.
• RNOther2019Clinical indicators of dry eye severity nursing outcome in intensive care unit.Revista latino-americana de enfermagemICU patients often showed dry eye signs. Tear production was low in 162 of 206 patients, and redness was present in 123. The study assessed signs, not whether eye care prevents them.
• SLPRNOther2019Effectiveness of an intervention with mothers to stimulate children under two years.Revista latino-americana de enfermagemAfter five-hour workshops, mothers of children under two at risk for development answered more questions correctly on a 22-item child stimulation test. Only maternal knowledge was measured, not child outcomes, and there was no control group.
• RNNarrative Review2019A review and comparison of common maternal positions during the second-stage of labor.International journal of nursing sciencesUpright and lateral positions may shorten labor and reduce pain, but squatting and sitting carry higher risks of severe tears. Lithotomy and supine positions are linked to more trauma and fetal heart issues. Midwives should prioritize patient comfort while monitoring perineal integrity closely.
• PTOTRNPilot2019Family-Centered Care During Constraint-Induced Therapy After Chronic Stroke: A Feasibility Study.Rehabilitation nursing : the official journal of the Association of Rehabilitation NursesA carepartner program given with constraint-induced therapy after stroke was feasible: all seven survivors completed 10 sessions, with no adverse events. Descriptive caregiver and survivor gains occurred, but the small single-group study cannot separate the program from therapy.
• RNQualitative2019New insights and access to resources change the perspective on life among persons with long-term illness-An interview study.Nursing openPeople with long-term illness described finding new ways to manage daily activities, relying on personal traits, family and healthcare support. Nurses can ask about these resources, medication worries and continuity of care.
• RNOther2019The Indonesian version of the Premature Infant Pain Profile-Revised: Translation and adaptation of a neonatal pain assessment.International journal of nursing sciencesThe Indonesian version of the PIPP-R pain scale agreed strongly between nurses assessing 30 neonates. However, nurses found it difficult to use because their ward lacked enough oximeters to measure oxygen saturation, a required part of the score.
• RNOther2020Wayfinding Strategies and Spatial Anxiety in Older Adults With and Without Alzheimer's Disease.Research in gerontological nursingOlder adults with early-stage Alzheimer's disease reported using fewer orientation strategies and having more spatial anxiety than controls. Anxiety was higher in both men and women with disease, not just women.
• RNPilot2020Design and Evaluation of the Electronic Patient-Generated Index.Nursing researchPatients completed an electronic quality-of-life index in under 30 seconds, but few shared it with clinicians unless they initiated the conversation themselves. Clinicians saw potential for symptom management but feared workflow disruption and struggled to interpret non-medical patient responses.
• PTOTRNSurvey2020Outcome Priorities for Older Persons With Sarcopenia.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationOlder adults with sarcopenia valued mobility most (30%), then household tasks (22%), falls (18%), fatigue (17%), and quality of life (14%). Ask which outcomes matter before setting goals.
• RNOther2020Physical Symptom Cluster Subgroups in Chronic Kidney Disease.Nursing researchPatients with mild-to-moderate kidney disease were classified into low, moderate, and high physical symptom groups. High symptom burden was linked to lower kidney function, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, peripheral artery disease, and higher depression scores.
• RNCohort2020Impact of an incentive-based prenatal smoking cessation program for low-income women in Colorado.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)Low-income women in a smoking cessation program with diaper vouchers had lower risks of preterm birth and NICU admissions than unenrolled smokers. However, the study cannot separate the effect of the vouchers from the counseling, nor rule out that enrolled women were simply more motivated to quit.