Behavioral Intervention Research in Hospice and Palliative Care

• Author : George Demiris,Debra Parker Oliver,Karla T. Washington
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2018-10-12
• ISBN : 9780128144503

Behavioral Intervention Research in Hospice and Palliative Care: Building an Evidence Base sets forth research considerations and guidelines to build evidence-based interventions to improve end-of-life care. It is an in-depth introduction to implementation research and showcases how a clinical need is identified to inform an intervention. The book extensively examines the various phases of intervention research, including design, implementation, evaluation, dissemination and translation. The book focuses on methodological, ethical and practical issues. The science behind the quality of hospice and

• Author : Laura Gitlin, PhD,Dr. Sara Czaja, PhD
• Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
• Release Date : 2015-12-07
• ISBN : 9780826126597

“ I applaud [this] book for providing a much needed overview of the entire “behavioral intervention pipeline.” It fills a unique niche in its coverage of key theoretical and methodological aspects as well as its case examples and professional development considerations, which makes the content accessible and practical for a broad audience.” -Marcia Ory, PhD From the Foreword This unique text provides comprehensive coverage of one of the most neglected—yet vitally important--areas of public health research: developing, evaluating, and implementing

• Author : Safary Wa-Mbaleka,Arceli Rosario
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release Date : 2022-05-05
• ISBN : 9781529785692

Qualitative research is growing in Asia and globally. In an Asian context, this requires an awareness of a completely different set of norms, practices, and expectations than those covered by books from a western perspective. This handbook truly celebrates these differences. Spanning the full research process, from philosophy and ethics to design and methods and through data collection, management, analysis, and dissemination, it focuses specifically on the practicalities needed to conduct effective and culturally responsive research in the Asian context.

• Author : Barbosa, Belem,Filipe, Sandra,Santos, Claudia Amaral
• Publisher : IGI Global
• Release Date : 2022-03-11
• ISBN : 9781799890102

In a global and digital society, businesses are constantly being challenged by innovative and disruptive management strategies. The dramatic changes that took place in all corners of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic confirmed that companies need to update their resources and anticipate trends. The current changes introduced by digitalization offer endless innovation scenarios and strategic opportunities to companies but also demand an accurate and structured analysis of drivers, motivations, and determinants for success in this transformation. The Handbook of

• Author : Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/ PMHNP, FNAP, FAAN,Dianne Morrison-Beedy, PhD, RN, WHNP, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN
• Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
• Release Date : 2012-04-23
• ISBN : 9780826109583

2012 First Place AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in Nursing Research! "This is a resource for success and should be a part of any researcher's library."--Doody's Medical Reviews This book is a practical, user-friendly guide for health care researchers across multiple disciplines who are involved in intervention research. It provides all of the essential elements needed for understanding how to design, conduct, analyze, and fund intervention studies that are replicable and can withstand the scrutiny of the Institutional

• Author : Downs, Murna,Bowers, Barbara
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
• Release Date : 2014-09-01
• ISBN : 9780335245338

A comprehensive text on dementia care, drawn from research evidence, practice and the experience of people with dementia.

• Author : Mary Beth Flynn Makic,Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz
• Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
• Release Date : 2022-04-14
• ISBN : 9780323811170

Create individualized nursing care plans with ease and confidence! Ackley and Ladwig’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 13th Edition uses an easy, three-step system to guide you through client assessment, nursing diagnosis, and care planning. Step-by-step instructions show how to implement care and evaluate outcomes, and help you build skills in diagnostic reasoning and critical thinking. To make care planning easier, this handbook allows you to look up nursing diagnoses and care plans for more than 1450 client symptoms, as well as

• Author : Dr. Laura Gitlin, PhD,Dr. Sara Czaja, PhD
• Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
• Release Date : 2015-12-07
• ISBN : 0826126588

“I applaud [this] book for providing a much needed overview of the entire ‘behavioral intervention pipeline.’ It fills a unique niche in its coverage of key theoretical and methodological aspects as well as its case examples and professional development considerations, which makes the content accessible and practical for a broad audience.” —Marcia Ory, PhD, From the Foreword This unique text provides comprehensive coverage of one of the most neglected—yet vitally important—areas of public health research: developing, evaluating, and

• Author : Sriram Yennurajalingam,Eduardo Bruera
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2011-08-16
• ISBN : 9780190452285

This handbook provides an easily navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care. Succinct, evidence-based, topically focused content is supplemented by extensive tables and algorithms. The table of contents and balance of coverage follows the core curriculum of the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, thus meeting the educational and clinical information needs of students, residents, fellows, and nurse practitioners. An expert team of clinicians, led by world renowned Eduardo Bruera, address

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
• Release Date : 2012-12-10
• ISBN : 9781464975172

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional / 2012 Edition is a ScholarlyBrief™ that delivers timely, authoritative, comprehensive, and specialized information about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders in a concise format. The editors have built Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional / 2012 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and

• Author : Sherry M. Cummings,Nancy P. Kropf
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2013-09-13
• ISBN : 9781317990307

In the past decade, evidence based practice (EBP) has emerged as one of the most important movements to improve the effectiveness of clinical care. As the number of older adults continues to grow, it is essential that practitioners have knowledge of effective strategies to improve both the medical and the psychosocial aspects of older persons' lives. The purpose of this work is to present systematic reviews of research-based psychosocial interventions for older adults and their caregivers. The interventions presented focus

• Author : Sylvie Naar-King
• Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
• Release Date : 2016-07-06
• ISBN : 9780323446273

Almost one out of every three US children is overweight or obese, with minority youth at highest risk. There are limited efficacious pediatric obesity interventions available for clinicians, and successful weight loss trials for minority youth are rare. Even fewer interventions have been shown to significantly improve clinical health outcomes such as adiposity, blood pressure, and cholesterol level, and maintenance of behavior change over the long-term remains a challenge Translation I research in which "bench" findings are applied to the "

• Author : T. Declan Walsh,Augusto T. Caraceni,Robin Fainsinger,Kathleen M. Foley,Paul Glare,Cynthia Goh,Mari Lloyd-Williams,Juan Nunez Olarte,Lukas Radbruch
• Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
• Release Date : 2008-10-07
• ISBN : 9781437721942

As a palliative medicine physician, you struggle every day to make your patients as comfortable as possible in the face of physically and psychologically devastating circumstances. This new reference equips you with all of today's best international approaches for meeting these complex and multifaceted challenges. In print and online, it brings you the world's most comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of your field. You'll find the answers to the most difficult questions you face every day...so you can provide every patient

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1989
• ISBN : MINN:31951P00029170X

• Author : Laura B. Gordon
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2022-07-02
• ISBN : 0367168189

In this book, the author presents a behavioral-psychological perspective on intervention in health care, beginning with a definition of behavioral medicine and introducing the related issues of stress and patient compliance.