Instruments for Clinical Health-care ResearchMarilyn Frank-Stromborg, Sharon J. Olsen 2004 AJN BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER! This Text Facilitates Researching Clinical Concepts And Will Enhance The Focus On Linking Clinical Variable Assessments With Routine Measurement Of Everyday Clinical Interventions. With This Book, Students Will Be Able To: Review Available Instruments That Measure Select Clinical Phenomena; Review Selected Studies Employing Each Tool; Identify An Instrument’S Strengths And Weaknesses; And Develop Instruments For Cross-Cultural Research. |
Contents
Evaluating Instruments for Use in Clinical Nursing Research | 3 |
Tool Adaptation to Reduce Health Disparities | 20 |
Measurement Issues with Children and Adolescents | 33 |
Measurement Issues with the Elderly | 47 |
Measurement Issues Concerning Linguistic Translations | 56 |
Physiologic Measurement Issues | 65 |
Cultural Considerations in Research Instrumentation Development | 73 |
Measuring Function | 83 |
Measuring Family Outcomes | 352 |
Measuring Anxiety | 362 |
Measuring Depression | 376 |
Measuring Healthy Lifestyle | 401 |
Measuring SelfCare Activities | 419 |
Measuring Breast and Colorectal Cancer Screening Beliefs | 428 |
Measuring InformationSeeking Behaviors and DecisionMaking | 455 |
Measuring Alterations in Taste and Smell | 472 |
Measuring Cognitive Status | 100 |
Single Instruments for Measuring Quality of Life | 128 |
Multiple Instruments for Measuring Quality of Life | 150 |
Conceptualization and Measurement Instruments | 164 |
Measuring Coping | 200 |
Instruments to Measure Aspects of Spirituality | 229 |
Measuring Body Image | 243 |
Physiologic Psychologic and Relationship | 257 |
Measuring Dietary Intake and Nutritional Outcomes | 278 |
Measuring Sleep | 293 |
Attitudes Toward Chronic Illness | 315 |
Selecting a Tool for Measuring Cancer Attitudes | 335 |
Measuring Bowel Elimination | 487 |
Measuring Cardiac Parameters | 498 |
Measuring Physiologic Parameters in Obstetric Nursing | 512 |
Measuring Fatigue | 538 |
Measuring Mobility and Potential for Falls | 570 |
Measuring Nausea Vomiting and Retching | 583 |
Measuring Pain | 603 |
Measuring Skin Integrity | 645 |
Assessing Vaginitis | 663 |
| 683 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ability activities adults alpha coefficient anxiety assessment associated behavior body image breast cancer Cancer Nurs cancer patients chemotherapy chronic illness Clin clinical coefficient cognitive colonoscopy concept Concurrent validity construct validity content validity coping correlation Cronbach's alpha cultural depression developed diagnosis dimensions disease disorders dyspnea effects elderly evaluation examination factor analysis fatigue functional status Geriatr groups hope identified Index indicate individual instrument Internal consistency interrater reliability intervention interview Inventory Likert scale mammography measure ment method monitoring multidimensional nausea Nurs Res nursing research Oncol Nurs Forum outcomes perceived perception person physical physiologic populations predictive pressure pressure sores psychiatric Psychol psychologic psychometric Questionnaire rating scale relationship reliability and validity reported response risk sample scores screening self-care self-report sensitivity sexual sigmoidoscopy sleep social support specific spiritual subjects subscales symptoms Test-retest reliability tion tool treatment trichomoniasis vaginal variables visual analogue scale women