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Jónsdóttir H, Halldórsdóttir BS, Ingadóttir TS. Partnership-based nursing practice framework for patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and their families-A discursive paper. J Adv Nurs 2024; 80:1370-1379. [PMID: 37921192 DOI: 10.1111/jan.15916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Revised: 09/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023]
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AIM The increase in the number of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the disease burden, has prompted concerted efforts to improve healthcare, particularly outpatient services. In line with these attempts the Partnership-Based Nursing Practice Theoretical Framework for People with COPD was developed to guide outpatient nursing care. The principal approach of the framework is a 'Dialogue' with the patients, which has four components: 'Establishing family involvement', 'Assisting living with symptoms' and 'Facilitating access to healthcare', with the primary goal being 'Enhancement of the health experience'. With new knowledge, research on the framework, and extensive experience in using it, a need arose to modify the framework to maximize its clinical utility. DESIGN Discursive paper. METHODS A narrative review and critical reflection was conducted to revise the nursing practice framework via selected literature search from 2012 to 2022, research on the framework, and the authors' reflections on the clinical experience of using the framework. RESULTS The nursing practice framework highlights capacities and possibilities that lie in the nurse-patient relationship. The overarching dialogue in the revised framework includes both patients and families. The action-related component 'Assisting living with the disease' was added to the framework to underscore the significance of attempting to understand what may lie ahead for patients and families. The other action-related components are as follows: 'Assisting living with symptoms' and 'Facilitating access to healthcare'. The primary goal remains unchanged: enhancing the 'Health experience'. CONCLUSION Using the revised nursing practice framework in outpatient care may help to enhance the lives of people with COPD and their families, particularly at advanced stages of the disease. It may have transferability to other groups of people living with progressive diseases dealing with complicated health problems, and to reduce the usage of costly healthcare resources such as hospital care. IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PROFESSION AND/OR PATIENT CARE The partnership-based nursing practice framework assumes an extension of conventional specialized respiratory service and embraces a comprehensive account for that which may influence the patient's health problems. This guidance, which holistically attends to patient-family needs of living with complicated and progressive health predicaments, is fundamental. It contributes to strengthening the disciplinary focus of nursing, interdisciplinary collaboration, person-family-centred quality nursing care and inspires research initiatives. Critical reflections and updates on nursing practice frameworks, such as this revision, are essential to advance nursing and healthcare. PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION There is no direct patient- or public contribution.
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- Helga Jónsdóttir
- Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Respiratory Section, Division of Clinical Services I, Landspitali, The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Respiratory Section, Division of Clinical Services I, Landspitali, The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Respiratory Section, Division of Clinical Services I, Landspitali, The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Bremond M, Berthelot A, Plantier L, Breton H, Pautrat M. Micro-phenomenological approach to explore the patient experience during an initial spirometry examination to diagnose COPD in general practice in France. BMJ Open 2021; 11:e049121. [PMID: 34215612 PMCID: PMC8256747 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To explore the patient experience of a spirometry test used to confirm chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnosis in patients with suspected smoking-related COPD. DESIGN This is a qualitative study, performed with open interviews in adults following a routine spirometry test to confirm COPD diagnosis. Data were analysed with a phenomenological-inspired micro-phenomenology approach. PARTICIPANTS Eligible patients were recruited through their general practitioner, 10 were interviewed. SETTING Primary care in Centre-Val-De-Loire area, France, in 2018. RESULTS Participants reported the spirometry test experience as being unfamiliar but gave meaning to the symptoms they experience. Participants expressed a desire to perform the test well and a willingness to confront their state of health. After the spirometry had been completed and the results announced, participants moved through stages of grief from their pre-spirometry self and symptom perception to a state of acceptance. Overall, participants expressed a narrative of an evolving cognitive and corporeal awareness during this spirometry experience. The verbatim quotes describe a cognitive rupture with their chronic illness usually considered as a 'way of life'. CONCLUSIONS A spirometry test goes beyond a diagnostic value, providing patients with an opportunity to gain awareness of their own state of health, reframe their breathlessness-related limitations and thus begin to accept the disease. These awareness gains may be considered as small steps towards health behavioural change. Spirometry may have educative potential and support lifestyle changes.
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- Matthieu Bremond
- Department of Education and Training Sciences, University of Tours, Tours, France
- EA7505 EES, University of Tours, Tours, France
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- EA7505 EES, University of Tours, Tours, France
- Department of Pulmonology and Functional Respiratory Exploration, CHRU Tours, Tours, France
- INSERM UMR 1100, University of Tours, Tours, France
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- Department of Education and Training Sciences, University of Tours, Tours, France
- EA7505 EES, University of Tours, Tours, France
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- EA7505 EES, University of Tours, Tours, France
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Tours, Tours, France
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Lovell N, Etkind SN, Bajwah S, Maddocks M, Higginson IJ. Control and Context Are Central for People With Advanced Illness Experiencing Breathlessness: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis. J Pain Symptom Manage 2019; 57:140-155.e2. [PMID: 30291949 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2018] [Revised: 09/24/2018] [Accepted: 09/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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CONTEXT Breathlessness is common and distressing in advanced illness. It is a challenge to assess, with few effective treatment options. To evaluate new treatments, appropriate outcome measures that reflect the concerns of people experiencing breathlessness are needed. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to systematically review and synthesize the main concerns of people with advanced illness experiencing breathlessness to guide comprehensive clinical assessment and inform future outcome measurement in clinical practice and research. METHODS This is a systematic review following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses methodology. MEDLINE (1946-2017), PsycINFO (1806-2017), and EMBASE (1974-2017), as well as key journals, gray literature, reference lists, and citation searches, identified qualitative studies exploring the concerns of people living with breathlessness. Included studies were quality-assessed using the Critical Appraisal Skills Program checklist and analyzed using thematic synthesis. RESULTS We included 38 studies with 672 participants. Concerns were identified across six domains of "total" breathlessness: physical, emotional, spiritual, social, control, and context (chronic and episodic breathlessness). Four of these have been previously identified in the concept of "total dyspnea." Control and context have been newly identified as important, particularly in their influence on coping and help-seeking behavior. The importance of social participation, impact on relationships, and loss of perceived role within social and spiritual domains also emerged as being significant to individuals. CONCLUSION People with advanced illness living with breathlessness have concerns in multiple domains, supporting a concept of "total breathlessness." This adapted model can help to guide comprehensive clinical assessment and inform future outcome measurement in clinical practice and research.
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- Natasha Lovell
- Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
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- Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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Bragadottir GH, Halldorsdottir BS, Ingadottir TS, Jonsdottir H. Patients and families realising their future with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease-A qualitative study. J Clin Nurs 2017; 27:57-64. [PMID: 28382766 DOI: 10.1111/jocn.13843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/17/2017] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To gain insight into the lived experience of learning about having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for patients and their families. BACKGROUND Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease often progresses for years. Adjustment to declining health is gradual, and the disease may have developed considerably when health care is sought and people are diagnosed. Reaching patients at early stages is necessary to delay progression of the disease. DESIGN Interpretive phenomenology. METHODS Data were collected in four family focus group interviews (N = 37) and a subsample of eight family-dyad interviews. Patients were eight men, and 14 women aged 51-68 years. Majority of the patients (n = 19) were at GOLD grades II and III, with three at grade IV. The family members were eight men, and seven women aged 29-73 years. Data were collected between June-November 2012. RESULTS Five, not mutually exclusive themes, revealed a long and arduous process of learning about and becoming diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and how unaware participants were of the imminent threat that the disease imposes on life. The themes were as follows: burden of shame and self-blame, enclosed in addiction, living in parallel worlds, realising the existence of the disease and a cry for empathy. CONCLUSIONS Learning about and realising the existence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and what it entails at present time and in the future was bleak for the participants. The patients tended to put aside the thought of being a person with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and defer actions that might halter progression of the disease, particularly to quit smoking. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE Individuals and families need support early in the disease process to realise and accept the existence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and particularly to deal with the challenges that nicotine addiction, shame and self-blame present. Increased public awareness about this enormous, but hidden, health problem is necessary.
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- Gudrun H Bragadottir
- Lung Unit, Landspitali-The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Lung Unit, Landspitali-The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Lung Unit, Landspitali-The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Kosteli MC, Heneghan NR, Roskell C, Williams SE, Adab P, Dickens AP, Enocson A, Fitzmaurice DA, Jolly K, Jordan R, Greenfield S, Cumming J. Barriers and enablers of physical activity engagement for patients with COPD in primary care. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 2017; 12:1019-1031. [PMID: 28405162 PMCID: PMC5378459 DOI: 10.2147/copd.s119806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background Given that physical activity (PA) has a positive impact on COPD symptoms and prognosis, this study examined the factors that both encourage and limit participation in PA for individuals with COPD in a primary care setting from the perspective of social cognitive theory. Methods A purposive sample of 26 individuals with a range of COPD severity (age range: 50–89 years; males =15) were recruited from primary care to participate in one of four focus groups. Thematic analysis was undertaken to identify key concepts related to their self-efficacy beliefs. Results Several barriers and enablers closely related to self-efficacy beliefs and symptom severity were identified. The main barriers were health related (fatigue, mobility problems, breathing issues caused by the weather), psychological (embarrassment, fear, frustration/disappointment), attitudinal (feeling in control of their condition, PA perception, older age perception), and motivational. The main enabling factors were related to motivation (autonomous or controlled), attitudes, self-regulation, and performance accomplishments. Clinical implications When designing interventions for individuals with COPD, it is important to understand the patient-specific social cognitive influences on PA participation. This information can then inform individually tailored management planning.
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- Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
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Huch MH, Jonsdottir H. International Perspectives. Nurs Sci Q 2016. [DOI: 10.1177/08943180122108229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Mary H. Huch
- College of Nursing, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg,
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Over the past 20 years, many Newman scholars across the globe have investigated health as expanding consciousness with persons living with chronic illness. This integrative review examines the use of the concept, relationship, and its seven dimensions-health, caring, consciousness, mutual process, patterning, presence, and meaning with persons with chronic illness when engaged in health as expanding consciousness praxis. A regular and sustained pattern of publication of studies that included the seven dimensions was found. Relationships among the dimensions of a Newman praxis relationship, chronic illness, and health as expanding consciousness are discussed.
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Lee L, Connolly N. Challenging Behavior as a Rational Response to Institutional Norms: Analyzing Students’ Discourse on Behaviors Deemed Challenging. JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTIVIST PSYCHOLOGY 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2015.1102108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Klinke ME, Jónsdóttir H. Smoking addiction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Integrating neurobiology and phenomenology through a review of the literature. Chron Respir Dis 2014; 11:229-36. [PMID: 25150186 DOI: 10.1177/1479972314546764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The aim of this review is to extend professional understanding of the various mechanisms that make smoking cessation difficult for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Smoking in people with COPD is a major challenge for health care today. In spite of significant advances in knowledge about the processes of nicotine addiction, current interventions to support smoking cessation in patients with COPD are less successful than hoped for. A wealth of literature has confirmed that nicotine addiction is a powerful force and that smoking is not simply an unhealthy lifestyle or destructive behavior. However, research based on this realization is still in its infancy. To increase understanding and to develop ways of enhancing smoking cessation in patients with COPD, we review and synthesize knowledge found in neurobiology and phenomenology. We use neurobiology to explain the neurochemical changes that take place in addiction in order to substantiate phenomenological perspectives of smoking in patients with COPD. We relate the smoking experience to the concept of "affordances"-in this context "smoking affordances"-to analyze how smoking affects action possibilities in individuals with COPD. Combining these perspectives helps to illuminate the manifold and unique issues related to smoking addiction in patients with COPD.
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- Marianne E Klinke
- Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Eirberg, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Eirberg, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Luz EL, Basto ML. The opinion of patients with COPD: the process of becoming chronically sick. CIENCIA & SAUDE COLETIVA 2014; 18:2221-8. [PMID: 23896904 DOI: 10.1590/s1413-81232013000800006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2012] [Accepted: 11/14/2012] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Many earlier studies have contributed to a general understanding of the symptoms and signs of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), yet very little is known about the transition from a healthy to a chronically sick individual. The scope of this study was to understand how people live with their chronic illness, using Grounded Theory. Twenty-two participants with COPD were interviewed. Findings revealed "the basic social process" of becoming sick with COPD: The significance of living with COPD; Stages of becoming a sick individual; Strategies for management of the process used by participants. The conclusion reached is that understanding the process of "becoming sick" from the person's perspective assists nurses to develop personalized interventions with individuals suffering from COPD, focussing on the subject of care.
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- Elisabete Lamy Luz
- Departamento de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa, Portugal.
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Pooler C. Living With Chronic Lower Pulmonary Disease: Disruptions of the Embodied Phenomenological Self. Glob Qual Nurs Res 2014; 1:2333393614548762. [PMID: 28462289 PMCID: PMC5342278 DOI: 10.1177/2333393614548762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2014] [Revised: 07/22/2014] [Accepted: 07/23/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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In this article, I present a phenomenological study of individuals' experiences of living with moderate to very severe chronic lower pulmonary disease (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, or both). Phenomenology is a philosophy, distinct from descriptive or thematic research, which is useful as a foundation for scientific inquiry. In this study, I used the lens of Merleau-Ponty to understand and interpret participants' experiences of living with pulmonary disease, and the approach of van Manen for analysis. I conclude that in chronic pulmonary disease, awareness of breathing and the body is experienced in the sounds, sensations, and signals of breathing and the body, and in the experiences of the body-in-the-world. Central themes of being-in-the-world from the study describe the disruption of the embodied phenomenological self: Participants experienced slowing down, doing less, and having to stop due to shortness of breath. Both chronic and acute dyspnea were prevalent and the taken-for-granted aspects of daily activities were disrupted. Findings of this study have implications for public and patient education, and opportunities for integration of experiential aspects within nursing education and practice.
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Walters J, Cameron-Tucker H, Wills K, Schüz N, Scott J, Robinson A, Nelson M, Turner P, Wood-Baker R, Walters EH. Effects of telephone health mentoring in community-recruited chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on self-management capacity, quality of life and psychological morbidity: a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open 2013; 3:e003097. [PMID: 24014482 PMCID: PMC3773640 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To assess benefits of telephone-delivered health mentoring in community-based chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING Tasmanian general practices: capital city (11), large rural (3), medium rural (1) and small rural (16). PARTICIPANTS Patients were invited (1207) from general practitioner (GP) databases with COPD diagnosis and/or tiotropium prescription, response rate 49% (586), refused (176) and excluded (criteria: smoking history or previous study, 68). Spirometry testing (342) confirmed moderate or severe COPD in 182 (53%) patients. RANDOMISATION By random numbers code, block stratified on location, allocation by sequentially numbered, opaque and sealed envelopes. INTERVENTION Health mentor (HM) group received regular calls to manage illness issues and health behaviours from trained community health nurses using negotiated goal setting: problem solving, decision-making and action planning. CONTROL usual care (UC) group received GP care plus non-interventional brief phone calls. OUTCOMES Measured at 0, 6 and 12 months, the Short Form 36 (SF-36) and St George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ, primary); Partners In Health (PIH) Scale for self-management capacity, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression (CES-D) questionnaire, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist, Satisfaction with life and hospital admissions (secondary). RESULTS 182 participants with COPD (age 68±8 years, 62% moderate COPD and 53% men) were randomised (HM=90 and UC=92). Mixed model regression analysis accounting for clustering, adjusting for age, gender, smoking status and airflow limitation assessed efficacy (regression coefficient, β, reported per 6-month visit). There was no difference in quality of life between groups, but self-management capacity increased in the HM group (PIH overall 0.15, 95% CI 0.03 to 0.29; knowledge domain 0.25, 95% CI 0.00 to 0.50). Anxiety decreased in both groups (HADS A 0.35; 95% CI -0.65 to -0.04) and coping capacity improved (PIH coping 0.15; 95% CI 0.04 to 0.26). CONCLUSIONS Health mentoring improved self-management capacity but not quality of life compared to regular phone contact, which itself had positive effects where decline is generally expected.
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- Julia Walters
- School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- School of Medicine & Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Rocker GM, Young J, Simpson AC. Advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: more than a lung disease. PROGRESS IN PALLIATIVE CARE 2013. [DOI: 10.1179/096992609x392303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Cooney A, Mee L, Casey D, Murphy K, Kirwan C, Burke E, Conway Y, Healy D, Mooney B, Murphy J. Life with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: striving for 'controlled co-existence'. J Clin Nurs 2013; 22:986-95. [PMID: 23279604 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2012.04285.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/12/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To understand the meaning of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for people and their response to this disease. BACKGROUND COPD is a major cause of disability and death. The symptoms of COPD have the potential to impact on every aspect of a person's day-to-day life. To date most published qualitative studies have focused on the 'experience' of breathlessness and its impact on the person. Few studies have sought to 'understand' the meaning of COPD to people and their response to this disease. This study aimed to address this gap. DESIGN Straussian grounded theory guided study design. Grounded theory was considered appropriate for this study because of its focus on how people respond to and act on the problems they encounter. METHODS Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 26 people with COPD. Study participants were recruited from general practices on the western seaboard of Ireland. RESULTS Two interrelated categories were identified as contributing to 'co-existing with COPD': 'hiding' and 'battling'. 'Co-existing with COPD' was conceptualised as the core category. The potential to 'co-exist' with COPD was influenced by mediating factors. CONCLUSION The Theory of Co-existing with COPD was generated from the data. This theory explains the delicate balance people with COPD maintain to 'co-exist with COPD'. 'Controlled co-existence' enables the person to feel in control and live life to the optimum. This is a fragile balance however and the unpredictability of COPD can tip the person into 'strained co-existence' or 'uncontrolled co-existence'. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE Understanding the experience of living with COPD and the balances involved in 'co-existing with COPD' can help health professionals provide more focused and empowered client care. Enabling people to achieve 'controlled co-existence' with COPD challenges health professionals to educate people with COPD on how to effectively manage their disease.
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- Adeline Cooney
- School of Nursing and Midwifery, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
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Howard K, Berry P, Petrillo J, Wiklund I, Roberts L, Watkins M, Crim C, Wilcox T. Development of the Shortness of Breath with Daily Activities questionnaire (SOBDA). VALUE IN HEALTH : THE JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHARMACOECONOMICS AND OUTCOMES RESEARCH 2012; 15:1042-1050. [PMID: 23244806 DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2012.06.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2011] [Revised: 05/23/2012] [Accepted: 06/29/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Based on qualitative research of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the Shortness of Breath (SOB) with Daily Activities (SOBDA) questionnaire was developed as a patient-reported outcome instrument to evaluate the impact of therapy on SOB and assess how SOB affects daily activities. METHODS Development of the SOBDA questionnaire consisted of three components. First, focus groups of patients with COPD were asked to describe their experiences of SOB with daily activities. A pool of items was drafted on the basis of information from the focus groups and literature reviews, and then discussed among instrument development and clinical experts. Cognitive debriefing interviews of patients were conducted to assess the draft item pool, and their feedback was used to develop newer versions of the questionnaire. Input was also sought from the Food and Drug Administration, patients, and clinicians. RESULTS Forty patients participated in seven focus groups. The terms most often used to describe SOB were "short of breath" or "difficulty breathing." Patients were clearly able to distinguish SOB from chest congestion and wheezing, other common symptoms associated with COPD. The resulting item pool contained 37 items to assess SOB associated with everyday activities, and concept saturation was reached. Thirty-seven patients participated in the subsequent cognitive debriefing interviews. Patients found the items clear and easy to understand with relevance to their everyday experiences, and easy to use in an electronic format. CONCLUSIONS Instructions and response options to the SOBDA questionnaire were well understood by patients with COPD, and item relevance was confirmed. Prospective validation and item reduction studies are highly anticipated.
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Williams V, Bruton A, Ellis-Hill C, McPherson K. The importance of movement for people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH 2011; 21:1239-1248. [PMID: 21511979 DOI: 10.1177/1049732311405801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic respiratory disease that gives rise to symptoms of breathlessness, chronic fatigue, and cough. The impact of COPD on people's activity has been widely acknowledged, yet it appears that we know little about how individuals experience activity. We employed a grounded theory study with 18 participants with COPD to explore their dimensions of activity. We identified two core concepts that captured participants' experience of activity; these were stagnation and movement. We found fresh air to be the single most important aspect affecting participants' experience of stagnation and movement; this was linked to a changed perception of symptoms. We identified the environment as an important context influencing the experience of COPD and activity. Our stagnation-movement theory explains the experience of activity within its environmental context, and how this experience might be affected on physical, social, and psychological levels.
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- Veronika Williams
- School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom.
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People who live with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience major changes in health. Coping with the illness and caring for themselves places extensive demands on them. Thus, pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is recommended as a means to facilitate healthy transitions in everyday life with COPD. This study explores the experience of patients with COPD in terms of their transitions in health during and after PR. The research was inspired by interpretive phenomenology. Thirty-three individual qualitative interviews were conducted with eighteen patients recruited from Norwegian PR units. A thematic analysis of the interviews was performed. The interviewees described participation in PR as a time of increasing awareness of opportunities for health and well-being with strengthened hope. The year following PR was dominated by their ongoing challenge to acknowledge limitations and explore opportunities in everyday life. Continuation of healthy transitions was facilitated by peer and professional support. The study highlights the personal resources that patients with COPD have access to in order to promote their own health. The study also highlights their vulnerability during illness and rehabilitation. The findings critique time-limited PR and support the current trends towards patient-centred rehabilitation efforts that incorporate user involvement and self-management education.
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- Anne-Grethe Halding
- Faculty of Health Studies, Sogn og Fjordane University College, Førde, Norway.
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Smith MC. Integrative Review of Research Related to Margaret Newman’s Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness. Nurs Sci Q 2011; 24:256-72. [DOI: 10.1177/0894318411409421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Since 1978 when Margaret Newman first introduced her theory of health as expanding consciousness, the theory has been widely expanded upon by Newman and nursing scholars around the world. This manuscript provides an integrative review of research related to the theory of health as expanding consciousness and analyzes strengths, limitations, and directions for the future. A consistent method of praxis within a unitary, participatory worldview was found. Health as expanding consciousness praxis provides a lens for guiding and interpreting meaning and has cross-cultural appeal and utility.
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- Marlaine C. Smith
- Associate Dean and Helen K. Persson Eminent Scholar, Florida Atlantic University
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Jonsdottir H, Ingadottir TS. Health in partnership: family nursing practice for people with breathing difficulties. QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH 2011; 21:927-935. [PMID: 21429944 DOI: 10.1177/1049732311403498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Reorienting the focus of health systems to incorporate a multifaceted approach that allows for comprehensive and humane health care is pending. Using the participatory paradigm approach, we describe a study of a partnership-based family nursing practice for people with breathing difficulties. We generated data through nine conversations with eight patients accompanied by a close family member (n = 6) and one wife, 15 conversations between the authors, and through a reflective journal. Narrative data analysis was conducted. Results that reveal the meaning and experience of the family nursing practice are presented in four interlacing descriptive statements: (a) surfacing and contextualizing health problems, (b) responsiveness of services, (c) security-stability-self-direction, and (d) unified family efforts- transformation. We conclude that the conceptual framework of partnership is a useful approach to nursing practice within a nurse clinic for people with advanced breathing difficulties and their families.
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- Helga Jonsdottir
- Faculty of Nursing, University of Iceland, Eirberg, Eiriksgata 34, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Lohne V, Heer HCD, Andersen M, Miaskowski C, Kongerud J, Rustøen T. Qualitative study of pain of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Heart Lung 2011; 39:226-34. [PMID: 20457343 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2009.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2009] [Revised: 08/14/2009] [Accepted: 08/17/2009] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the pain experiences of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). SAMPLE We studied 16 patients with severe COPD. DESIGN A semistructured interview was performed to obtain information on patients' experiences with pain and the impact of pain on quality of life (QOL). Data were analyzed using the methodology of Kvale. RESULTS Three main themes emerged: incomprehensible and unbearable pain; locked in my body and shut out from the world; and the vicious COPD circle. Patients reported moderate to severe pain located primarily in the shoulders, neck, upper arms, and chest. Patients reported a number of severe symptoms occurring simultaneously, and negatively affecting each other. Vicious circles of pain, breathlessness, sleep disturbance, and anxiety were described as exerting negative effects on patients' QOL. CONCLUSION Unrelieved pain appears to be a significant problem in patients with COPD. Research is warranted to determine if pain is clustered with other symptoms, and how these symptoms affect the clinical management of COPD.
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- Vibeke Lohne
- Faculty of Nursing, Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway
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Halding AG, Heggdal K, Wahl A. Experiences of self-blame and stigmatisation for self-infliction among individuals living with COPD. Scand J Caring Sci 2011; 25:100-7. [PMID: 20534028 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2010.00796.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major health problem estimated to become the third leading cause of death and the fifth leading cause of disability by 2020. Tobacco control is the most effective protective intervention, and it serves as a key element in patient counselling. However, a focus on tobacco control may cause unintended and adverse effects to individuals who already suffer from the disease. AIM The current study aims to understand how patients with COPD experience daily life in a society with heavy emphasis on tobacco control. METHOD The design was longitudinal and descriptive. The sample included thirteen men and five women with COPD, recruited from pulmonary rehabilitation units. Data were collected by means of qualitative interviews and analysed using qualitative content analysis with search for meanings. FINDINGS The main theme was a feeling of being exiled in the world of the healthy, because of self-blame and society's stigmatisation of COPD as a self-inflicted disease. The participants experienced feelings of disgrace through subtle blame and a lack of support from their social network, health care encounters and larger society. This seemed to increase illness-related strain and a need for defensive actions. LIMITATIONS A small convenience sample, local cultural influence, the study's wide scope and lack of health professionals' views must be considered. CONCLUSION This study illuminates the challenge of how to combine health advice on smoking cessation with nonblaming psycho-social support throughout the course of COPD. An awareness of the potential for stigma, the nature of nicotine dependence and broadened causal explanations for the disease may improve the ability of caregivers to address patient strain and its negative association with coping and well-being. Dilemmas in health communication concerning COPD patients' experience of stigma and negative emotional response should be further explored.
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- Anne-Grethe Halding
- Faculty of Health Studies, Sogn og Fjordane University College, Førde, Norway.
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Hall S, Legault A, Côté J. Dying means suffocating: perceptions of people living with severe COPD facing the end of life. Int J Palliat Nurs 2010; 16:451-7. [PMID: 20871500 DOI: 10.12968/ijpn.2010.16.9.78640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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AIM The purpose of this research was to describe the perceptions of people living with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with respect to the end of life. METHOD For this descriptive exploratory qualitative study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with six participants suffering from severe COPD hospitalized in the past year following an exacerbation episode. The data were analyzed using the method developed by Miles and Huberman (2003), which comprises three main steps: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification. RESULTS The analysis yielded four themes that reflect the perceptions of participants with respect to the end of life, namely: living and seeing oneself decline, living and preparing to die, dying of COPD means suffocating, and dying in hospital surrounded by family and friends. What emerges from the study is that persons living with severe COPD wish to die without suffocating, in hospital, surrounded by family and friends, all the while hoping to go on living. CONCLUSION This study contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the end-of-life experience. It shows the importance of accompanying these persons properly towards the end of life and at the moment of dying. The study proposes a series of avenues for future research and makes recommendations for practice.
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- Sylvie Hall
- Centre hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal, Canada.
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Flanagan J. The life patterns of individuals who had been recently hospitalised for an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-9824.2010.01064.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Lindqvist G, Hallberg LRM. 'Feelings of guilt due to self-inflicted disease': a grounded theory of suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). J Health Psychol 2010; 15:456-66. [PMID: 20348366 DOI: 10.1177/1359105309353646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The aim of this grounded theory study was to illuminate the main concern of people suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and how they handle their everyday life. Data were collected through interviews with 23 people with COPD at different stages, from mild to severe. A substantive theory was generated showing that the main concern was feelings of guilt due to self-inflicted disease associated with smoking habits. This core category was related to five managing strategies termed making sense of existence, adjusting to bodily restrictions, surrendering to fate, making excuses for the smoking-related cause and creating compliance with daily medication.
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- Gunilla Lindqvist
- School of Health Sciences and Social Work, Växjö University, Sweden.
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Halding AG, Wahl A, Heggdal K. 'Belonging'. 'Patients' experiences of social relationships during pulmonary rehabilitation. Disabil Rehabil 2010; 32:1272-80. [PMID: 20156041 PMCID: PMC2942866 DOI: 10.3109/09638280903464471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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AIM To unpack and interpret descriptions of experiences of social relationships during pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) for people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHOD Inspired by interpretive phenomenology, individual qualitative interviews were conducted twice with 18 persons from COPD rehabilitation units in two general hospitals. Qualitative content analysis was performed. RESULTS Analysis of the interviews revealed the overarching theme of belonging. The participants emphasised social integration in rehabilitation groups as well as support from peers and health-care personnel as important dimensions of social relationships with regard to PR. Active participation in and engagement with the groups provided opportunities for patients to share their knowledge, encouraged mutual trust, and support and increased self-confidence, and motivation for self-care and further social participation. Integration in the groups and perceived support during PR made coping and adaptation easier and had a positive effect on quality of life. CONCLUSIONS Patients' perspectives on PR were strongly influenced by certain facets of social relationships, such as social integration and social support. Patients', peers' and health-care professionals' strategies to promote social support and social integration should be further explored in the future, both in different contexts and for longer periods of time.
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- Anne-Grethe Halding
- Faculty of Health Science, Sogn og Fjordane University College, Førde, Norway.
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Endo E, Takaki M, Nitta N, Abe K, Terashima K. Identifying Patterns in Partnership With Students Who Want to Quit Smoking. J Holist Nurs 2009; 27:256-65. [DOI: 10.1177/0898010109342889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Students who wanted to quit smoking were invited to partner with teachers/support persons to identify the meaningful patterns of their lives. The theoretical framework guiding the study was Newman’s theory of health as expanding consciousness from the perspective of the unitary-transformative paradigm in nursing science. Student participants shared the meaningful relationships and events of their lives with their supportive partners, and together they reflected on the patterns of the students’ lives. Two similarities among the individual patterns were found: a difficult experience in interpersonal relationships at some point in their lives and the initiation of smoking in their search for connectedness with friends. In the dialectic process, students experienced insight regarding their evolving patterns and made transformative changes in their lives, reflecting varying levels of tobacco control.
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- Emiko Endo
- Musashino University, Faculty of Nursing, Tokyo,
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- Musashino University, Faculty of Nursing, Tokyo
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- Miyazaki Prefectural Nursing University
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Recognizing health with pregnant Cambodian American women by finding meaning in relationship. ANS Adv Nurs Sci 2009; 32:322-37. [PMID: 19934838 DOI: 10.1097/ans.0b013e3181beaf9e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Late entry to prenatal care is a complex problem disproportionately affecting immigrant and refugee women living in Western-style countries. Improving the health and well-being of these women and their children is a critical need. Utilizing Newman's praxis research approach, this study explored engaging 6 Cambodian American women living with pregnancy in the process of finding meaning. Dialoguing on important events and relationship from childhood to present day, patterns of health emerged. Considering data across participants, 3 preliminary themes were illuminated. Study provides new knowledge about environmental disruptions and promoting health.
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Blumenthal JA, Keefe FJ, Babyak MA, Fenwick CV, Johnson JM, Stott K, Funk RK, McAdams MJ, Palmer S, Martinu T, Baucom D, Diaz PT, Emery CF. Caregiver-assisted coping skills training for patients with COPD: background, design, and methodological issues for the INSPIRE-II study. Clin Trials 2009; 6:172-84. [PMID: 19342470 PMCID: PMC2690229 DOI: 10.1177/1740774509102565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a progressive illness characterized by airflow obstruction and dyspnea that afflicts over 12 million people and represents a leading cause of death in the United States. Not surprisingly, COPD is often associated with emotional distress and reduced psychosocial adjustment, which can negatively impact physical functioning and impair quality of life. However, the psychosocial consequences of COPD remain largely untreated. A previous randomized trial from our research team demonstrated that coping skills training (CST) can improve pulmonary-specific quality of life among pulmonary patients awaiting lung transplant (the INSPIRE study). To date, however, no studies have examined the effects of a caregiver-assisted CST intervention in patients with COPD with less severe disease. PURPOSE INSPIRE II is a randomized clinical trial (RCT) funded by the NHLBI to evaluate the effects of telephone-based enhanced CST for patients with COPD and their caregivers compared to standardized medical care (SMC) including COPD education and symptom monitoring on medical outcomes, physical functioning, and quality of life. METHODS Six hundred COPD patients and their respective caregivers recruited from Duke University and Ohio State University will be evaluated and randomized (in a 1:1 ratio) to enhanced CST (including sessions promoting physical activity, relaxation, cognitive restructuring, communication skills, and problem solving) or to SMC. The primary outcomes include all-cause mortality, COPD-related hospitalizations/ physician visits, and quality of life. These endpoints will be measured through self-report questionnaires, behavioral measures of functional capacity (i.e., accelerometer and six minute walk test) and pulmonary function tests (e.g., FEV(1)). RESULTS This article reviews prior studies in the area and describes the design of INSPIRE-II. Several key methodological issues are discussed including the delivery of CST over the telephone, encouraging physical activity, and inclusion of caregivers as patient coaches to enhance the effectiveness of the intervention. LIMITATIONS We recognize that SMC does not adequately control for attention, support, and non-specific factors, and that, in theory, non-specific effects of the intervention could account for some, or all, of the observed benefits. However, our fundamental question is whether the telephone intervention produces benefits over-and-above the usual care that patients typically receive. The SMC condition will provide education and additional weekly telephone contact, albeit less than the attention received by the CST group. We recognize that this attention control condition may not provide equivalent patient contact, but it will minimize group differences due to attention. We considered several alternative designs including adding a third usual care only arm as well as an education only control arm. However, these alternatives would require more patients, reduce the power to detect significant effects of our primary medical endpoints, and add a significant additional expense to the cost of the study that would make such an undertaking neither scientifically or financially viable. CONCLUSIONS We believe that this novel approach to patient care in which caregivers are used to assist in the delivery of coping skills training to patients with COPD has the potential to change the way in which COPD patients are routinely managed in order to reduce distress, enhance quality of life, and potentially improve medical outcomes.
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- James A Blumenthal
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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Clancy K, Hallet C, Caress A. The meaning of living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2008.01005.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Hasson F, Spence A, Waldron M, Kernohan G, McLaughlin D, Watson B, Cochrane B. I can not get a breath: experiences of living with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Int J Palliat Nurs 2009; 14:526-31. [PMID: 19060802 DOI: 10.12968/ijpn.2008.14.11.31756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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This study aims to explore the potential for palliative care among people living with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Individual semi-structured interviews (n=13) were conducted with people who had a diagnosis of advanced COPD and were on optimal tolerated drug therapy, with their breathing volume (forced expiratory volume at less than 30%) or were on long-term oxygen therapy or non-invasion ventilation. Participants raised concerns about the uncertain trajectory of the illness and reported unmet palliative care needs with poor access to palliative care services. For most people, palliative care was associated with end of life; therefore, they were unwilling to discuss the issue. There was a wide acceptance that, medically, nothing more could be done. Findings also suggest that patients had unmet palliative care needs, requiring information and support. The research suggests the need for palliative care to be extended to all (regardless of diagnosis), with packages of care developed to target specific needs.
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- F Hasson
- University of Ulster, Institute of Nursing Research and School of Nursing, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland.
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Lomborg K, Kirkevold M. Achieving therapeutic clarity in assisted personal body care: professional challenges in interactions with severely ill COPD patients. J Clin Nurs 2008; 17:2155-63. [PMID: 18710375 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2006.01710.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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AIM AND OBJECTIVES This paper aims to present a theoretical account of professional nursing challenges involved in providing care to patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The study objectives are patients' and nurses' expectations, goals and approaches to assisted personal body care. BACKGROUND The provision of help with body care may have therapeutic qualities but there is only limited knowledge about the particularities and variations in specific groups of patients and the nurse-patient interactions required to facilitate patient functioning and well-being. For patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, breathlessness represents a particular challenge in the performance of body care sessions. DESIGN We investigated nurse-patient interactions during assisted personal body care, using grounded theory with a symbolic interaction perspective and a constant comparative method. METHODS Twelve cases of nurse-patient interactions were analysed. Data were based on participant observation, individual interviews with patients and nurses and a standardized questionnaire on patients' breathlessness. FINDINGS Nurses and patients seemed to put effort into the interaction and wanted to find an appropriate way of conducting the body care session according to the patients' specific needs. Achieving therapeutic clarity in nurse-patient interactions appeared to be an important concern, mainly depending on interactions characterized by: (i) reaching a common understanding of the patient's current conditions and stage of illness trajectory, (ii) negotiating a common scope and structuring body care sessions and (iii) clarifying roles. CONCLUSION It cannot be taken for granted that therapeutic qualities are achieved when nurses provide assistance with body care. If body care should have healing strength, the actual body care activities and the achievement of therapeutic clarity in nurses' interaction with patients' appear to be crucial. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE The paper proposes that patients' integrity and comfort in the body care session should be given first priority and raises attention to details that nurses should take into account when assisting severely ill patients.
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- Kirsten Lomborg
- Department of Nursing Science, Institute of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Odencrants S, Ehnfors M, Ehrenberg A. Nutritional status and patient characteristics for hospitalised older patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. J Clin Nurs 2008; 17:1771-8. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2008.02292.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Jonsdottir R, Jonsdottir H. The experience of women with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease of repeatedly relapsing to smoking. Scand J Caring Sci 2007; 21:297-304. [PMID: 17727541 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2007.00472.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) a smoking-related disease and repeatedly relapsing to smoking is a complicated health problem, particularly for people expected to be at the peak of their productivity in life. As the prevalence of COPD among women is on the rise devoted attentiveness must be given to women's smoking. The purpose of this study is to illuminate the experience of women with COPD of repeatedly relapsing to smoking. The study draws on interpretive phenomenology. Seven women, aged 47-65 years, selected out of convenience, were interviewed twice, shortly after being hospitalized for an exacerbation of the disease. Data were analysed into themes emphasizing commonalities and differences in the lived experience. Results illustrate the intricacies between the lung disease, which controls life of participants on a very fundamental level and smoking cigarettes, which only augments the disease. Six not mutually exclusive themes emerged with one, being caught in a spider web, overarching. Other themes were: circumstances of the relapses, shame, the excuse, ambivalence and incomplete attempts to quit. The capacity of the women participating in this study to refrain from smoking was limited and they vacillated between wanting and not wanting to stop. This suggests that for women in similar situations an exhaustive and long-term nursing care is necessary for them to be able to come to terms with what they really aspire to and to stay with that decision.
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- Rosa Jonsdottir
- Smoking Cessation Clinic A3, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Williams V, Bruton A, Ellis-Hill C, McPherson K. What really matters to patients living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? An exploratory study. Chron Respir Dis 2007; 4:77-85. [PMID: 17621574 DOI: 10.1177/1479972307078482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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There is limited published research into what really matters to people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Most previous research in this area focuses on the impact of the symptoms of COPD, rather than on the issues defined as important by patients themselves. This paper describes an exploratory study investigating what is most important to people living with COPD. A qualitative approach employing in-depth interviews with COPD patients was chosen. Thematic analysis was used to code and categorize data. Six patients with 'moderate' to 'very severe' COPD were recruited. They considered engagement in specific activities to be very important (walking, household maintenance and driving), even though these activities were mainly centred around the home environment, or within confined spaces, due to their physical limitations. This restriction led to feelings of social isolation that these patients tried to overcome through social participation (holidays, social interaction). People with COPD often experience physical restrictions, which can lead to reduced community mobility and social isolation. In this study, despite their physical limitations, these patients had a strong desire to participate and be engaged in various activities. The importance of enabling patients to 'participate' rather than just 'do' should be considered when planning and delivering patient-centred interventions across the whole spectrum of severity of COPD.
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- V Williams
- University of Southampton, School of Health Professions and Rehabilitation Sciences, UK
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Lundh L, Rosenhall L, Törnkvist L. Care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary health care. J Adv Nurs 2007; 56:237-46. [PMID: 17042803 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2006.04027.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AIM This paper is a report of a study of nurses' perceptions of caring for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. BACKGROUND Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a global health problem and the number of patients being treated with this disease in primary healthcare settings is increasing. This places new demands on the nurses involved. METHOD A phenomenographic approach was adopted, using a purposive sample. Data were generated between February and May 2003 from 20 interviews with district nurses and general nurses who cared for patients in primary healthcare settings with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. FINDINGS In most cases, nurses cared for older people with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. They described this care from two overall orientations: task and individual. The nurses' perceptions of the care of these patients were described as creating commitment and participation by establishing a good relationship with patients and supporting them in their personal care, educating patients by supplying information and knowledge in various ways, co-operation by co-operating with or referring to other caregivers, and arranging and implementing clinical examinations and treatments. CONCLUSION The type of care depended on who the patient met: either a task-oriented nurse or an individual-oriented nurse. Therefore, nursing programmes should pay special attention to the support and guidance of new and inexperienced and task-oriented nurses. Healthcare planners should take into consideration the need for individualized care when organizing care and allocating resources for chronically ill people.
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- Lena Lundh
- Tobacco Prevention, Centre of Public Health, S-118 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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AIM This paper reports a study of the experiences of older adults with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, with the aim of gaining an understanding of how the disease had affected their lives. BACKGROUND Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a major personal and public health burden and is the fifth cause of mortality worldwide. The brief encounters that healthcare professionals have with patients in hospitals, physicians' offices and other outpatient settings are insufficient to be able to truly understand the challenges that people face in the attempt to integrate a chronic illness into their lives. Previous qualitative studies on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have tended to focus on specific problems associated with the disease, such as fatigue and social isolation. METHOD A hermeneutic phenomenological study was carried out with 10 older adults who participated in a local hospital's case management or pulmonary rehabilitation programme. Data were collected by interviews in 2003. FINDINGS Three major themes were identified: Knowing What Works, Hanging On...Barely, and Losing Control-Gaining Control. The changes associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were described as increasingly challenging and even threatening to participants' current lifestyles. The impact of dyspnoea was great and invaded almost every aspect of their lives. Participants identified the most effective methods to resolve shortness of breath. CONCLUSION People with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have had extensive experience of managing their disease and are familiar with techniques that have helped them integrate the illness and symptoms into their lives. Nurses can synthesize patient knowledge with nursing knowledge to assist patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to achieve their maximum quality of life.
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- Danielle D Fraser
- Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, WellStar Health System, Marietta, Georgia 30060, USA.
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To uncover dimensions of nurses' personal experiences of cancer survivorship. DESIGN Interpretive, phenomenologic. SETTING Metropolitan area in the northeastern United States. SAMPLE 25 RNs diagnosed with cancer. Average age was 50 years, and 20 participants were less than five years from initial diagnosis. METHODS Interviews. Analysis using methodology of Newman (1994, 1999) and Van Manen (1990). MAIN RESEARCH VARIABLES Nurses' personal experiences of cancer survivorship. FINDINGS Themes of the nurses' personal experiences of survivorship included the shock of becoming a patient and multifaceted dimensions of the treatment experience, including time, coordinating their own care, the struggle to maintain normalcy, uncertainty, nonclinical self-care strategies, and encounters with caring and uncaring providers. Participants identified the need for supportive relationships both in personal and professional arenas throughout the survivorship process. The cancer experience became an opportunity for change in priorities. CONCLUSIONS Although nurse cancer survivors experience similar personal vulnerabilities to those of non-nurses, their vulnerabilities often are affected by their knowledge of the healthcare process and content of care with which they are most familiar. They also are affected by what they know is at stake. This particular insider vulnerability is not cited often in research literature and, therefore, is not recognized as a particular type of need that should be addressed in cancer survivorship. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING Nurse patients need providers to be sensitive to their information and support needs, which may vary because of their professional experiences and personal resources. Findings suggest that nurse patients may need supportive approaches that target their unique vulnerabilities.
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Picard C, Agretelis J, DeMarco RF. Nurse Experiences as Cancer Survivors: Part II—Professional. Oncol Nurs Forum 2007; 31:537-42. [PMID: 15146219 DOI: 10.1188/04.onf.537-542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To uncover dimensions of nurses' professional experiences of cancer survivorship. DESIGN Interpretive, phenomenologic. SETTING Metropolitan area in the northeastern United States. SAMPLE 25 RNs diagnosed with cancer. Average age was 50 years, and 20 participants were less than five years from initial diagnosis. METHODS Interviews. Data were analyzed using the methodology of Newman (1994, 1999) and VanManen (1990). MAIN RESEARCH VARIABLES Nurses' professional experiences of cancer survivorship. FINDINGS Professional experiences of cancer survivorship fell into five themes: (a) role ambiguity, (b) a deepening level of compassion for patients and others, (c) self-disclosure as a therapeutic intervention, (d) becoming an advocate for change, and (e) volunteerism. CONCLUSIONS Cancer survivorship was a factor in reshaping participants' clinical practice. Experiencing the role of the patient affirmed the necessity of compassionate care for these participants. Nurses experienced a deepening level of compassion for patients and used self-disclosure as a therapeutic intervention. During and shortly after treatment, role ambiguity (being both patient and nurse) could cause difficulties. Nurses took action to change their clinical environment through their influence on colleagues and the healthcare system and by working through other organizations to improve patient care. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING Nurse cancer survivors can benefit from the support of colleagues and healthcare providers and an appreciation of the challenge of being both a professional and a patient. The invitation for dialogue as they return to work may help with the challenges of role ambiguity as nurse cancer survivors. Based on this study, nurses value the opportunity to enhance care environments with their two-world knowledge through compassionate care, disclosure, advocacy, and volunteering, and coworkers need to appreciate each nurse's unique response to this potentially life-changing process. Nurses in all settings can learn from their cancer survivor colleagues who have been the recipients of care to reflect on their own clinical practice in the areas of advocacy, sensitivity to patient concerns, and care experiences.
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- Carol Picard
- Department of Nursing, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, USA.
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Rosa KC. A Process Model of Healing and Personal Transformation in Persons With Chronic Skin Wounds. Nurs Sci Q 2006; 19:349-58. [PMID: 16982723 DOI: 10.1177/0894318406292829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Utilizing Newman’s research as praxis process, this research examined the patterns of those living with chronic skin wounds. Ten men and 8 women, primarily of retirement age and living with chronic skin wounds for a year or more, reflected upon important relationships and life events during two in-depth interviews and a self-expressive drawing. Emerging from each participant’s pattern was the link among human development, expanding consciousness, and processing a serious physical threat. Considering data across participants, five themes emerged from the data with evolution of a process model of wholistic healing that has implications for advanced nursing practice.
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- Katherine C Rosa
- Department of Nursing, School of Health and Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
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Neill J. Exploring Underlying Life Patterns of Women With Multiple Sclerosis or Rheumatoid Arthritis: Comparison With NANDA Dimensions. Nurs Sci Q 2005; 18:344-52. [PMID: 16210750 DOI: 10.1177/0894318405280368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In Newman’s theory, disease is one of many manifestations of underlying pattern and its existence provides meaningful information about person-environment interactions. Underlying patterns manifest differently over time, so clues to their understanding can be found within life stories. Further interpretation subsequent to illustrating expanding consciousness for seven women living with multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis suggested six underlying patterns expressed in theoretical terms as energy~fatigue, giving~receiving, rejecting~accepting, vulnerability~resilience, control~release, and being silent~speaking out. Discussion and comparison with the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association’s dimensions for assessment of human response patterns illustrates how nurses caring for women could identify and use underlying patterns in practice.
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- Jane Neill
- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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Neill J. Health as Expanding Consciousness: Seven Women Living With Multiple Sclerosis or Rheumatoid Arthritis. Nurs Sci Q 2005; 18:334-43. [PMID: 16210749 DOI: 10.1177/0894318405280366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The meaning of health as expanding consciousness is explored through stories of seven women who developed multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis during their lives. Using Newman’s hermeneutic-dialectic approach, unstructured interviews were conducted over a 2-year period. Analysis and interpretation of narratives concerning person-environment interactions revealed turning points and separate choice points before four new ways of living including finding simple pleasures, being positive, gaining self-control, and self-differentiation, were found. Support for Newman’s stages of expanding consciousness and more comprehensive descriptions of self-transcendence in space and time are presented. Implications for theory development and theory-guided practice are offered.
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- Jane Neill
- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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Odencrants S, Ehnfors M, Grobe SJ. Living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Part I. Struggling with meal-related situations: experiences among persons with COPD. Scand J Caring Sci 2005; 19:230-9. [PMID: 16101851 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2005.00345.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Reduced nutritional intake with low and decreased body weight can be a component of normal ageing. There is, however, also a greater risk for reduced nutritional intake within certain diagnoses, especially for chronic diseases. Malnutrition in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is caused by many factors. The relationship between COPD and low values of body mass index (BMI) is a known independent risk for mortality. For optimal support and care with special focus on nutritional status and interventions, caregivers need more knowledge about the meal-related situations (i.e. shopping for food, cooking and eating) of COPD patients. The aim of this study was to describe experiences of meal-related situations as viewed from the individual's perspective. The sample included eight women and five men with COPD recruited from five primary health clinics. The participants' average age was 68.9 years, with values of forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV(1) percentage) ranging from 18 to 69 and BMI values from 15 to 40. A descriptive design with qualitative interviews and self-reported diaries were used and the data were later analysed using content analysis. Findings showed consistency between informants' COPD, nutritional status and descriptions of experiences in meal-related situations. Findings were disease-specific but were also found to be general- and age-related. Respondents described physical influences and positive and negative feelings in their meal-related situations. Feelings of dependence, level of activity, transport of food, having company or being alone, appetite, hunger and need of time were also mentioned. Most research reports reduced nutritional status from a medical perspective. To our knowledge, no study has reported the positive and negative feelings that arise when eating in persons with COPD. Malnutrition for persons with COPD is not only caused by eating difficulties: eating is an integral part of social situations as shown in this study.
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Jonsdottir H, Litchfield M, Pharris MD. The relational core of nursing practice as partnership. J Adv Nurs 2004; 47:241-8; discussion 249-50. [PMID: 15238117 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2004.03088_1.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Consideration of the relational core of nursing has gained significance in today's health systems, where the work of nurses is dominated by technologically-driven, prescriptive, and outcome-oriented approaches. This has led to disregard for individual experiences of living life with diverse health conditions. AIM The aim of this paper is to articulate the relational core of nursing practice as partnership. DISCUSSION The relational core of nursing practice is explicated as a process of professional partnership, focusing on the evolving dialogue between nurse and patient. In partnership, the dialogue is open, caring, mutually responsive and non-directive. The nurse attends to that which is of concern to patients in relation to their health predicaments and the meaning in the health experience unfolds. Nurse and patient reach insight that represents more useful ways of comprehending and acting on their health predicaments. CONCLUSIONS Partnership represents theoretically-driven practice that invites nurses to meet patients where they are in understanding their health predicaments and what can be done about them. As such, partnership strengthens the resolve of nurses to resist the pressures of contemporary health service delivery to provide a technical form of practice and it protects the relational core of a fully professional practice.
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Modern health care has increasingly focused on prescriptive, outcomes-oriented, and cost-effective practices concomitantly obscuring the humanness of the health experience. A reconsideration of partnership between nurse and client as the core of the discipline might call nurses back to what is essential to nursing: a caring relationship centered on that which is meaningful as health. This article points to the significance of the relational nature of partnership, differentiating its features and form from the prevalent understanding associated with prescriptive interventions to achieve predetermined goals and outcomes. The meaning of partnership is presented as nursing practice as it unfolds: a process of nurse and client relationship through which the caring presence of the nurse becomes integral to the health experience of the client as the potential for action. Exemplars provide illustration of this emerging view in practice and research. The article is intended to contribute to the expanding dialogue on nursing practice, inviting discussion of the relevance of partnership in different health systems.
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- Helga Jonsdottir
- Faculty of Nursing, University of Iceland, Eirberg, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Schmidt BJ, Brauer DJ, Peden-McAlpine C. Experiencing health in the context of rheumatoid arthritis. Nurs Sci Q 2003; 16:155-62. [PMID: 12728834 DOI: 10.1177/0894318403251791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to explicate the health experience of persons with rheumatoid arthritis who manifest a strong sense of well-being. Five women and three men participated in unstructured interviews in order to answer the research question, What are the subplots that emerge in the descriptions of health given by persons with rheumatoid arthritis? A hermeneutic method was used to analyze the transcripts. Three subplots emerged: (a) The evolving--not knowing and then knowing something, but never really knowing, (b) the reframing, and (c) the relational fugue. The findings, including creation of healing spaces and an evolving relationship with assistive devices, provide evidence of turning points in the health process and are suggestive of a strong sense of well-being as a manifestation of a reorganized pattern.
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- Betty J Schmidt
- Park Nicollet Health Services, Methodist Hospital, St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
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Toms J, Harrison K. Living with Chronic Lung Disease and the Effect of Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Physiotherapy 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s0031-9406(05)60512-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The author describes a method of cooperative inquiry into a family's experience of the sudden death of a child. Through the praxis method based on Newman's health as expanding consciousness, family members had an opportunity, individually and together, to explore the impact of this experience on subsequent family life over three generations. Members were given transcripts of all dialogues for further reflection. All writings were shared with all family members. Both process and content of the inquiry will illustrate the shared and unique ways in which this loss was expressed over time. Implications of the mode of inquiry will be discussed.
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- Carol Picard
- Graduate Nursing Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, Boston, USA
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Neill J. Transcendence and transformation in the life patterns of women living with rheumatoid arthritis. ANS Adv Nurs Sci 2002; 24:27-47. [PMID: 12699275 DOI: 10.1097/00012272-200206000-00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Considering personal life stories as the context for health transitions can enhance understanding of what is meaningful in living with chronic illness. Informed by Margaret Newman's theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness, this interpretive study described the life patterns of three women with rheumatoid arthritis as a process of expanding consciousness. The women's stories revealed transcendence of self-boundaries and personal transformation as new ways of living, including "simple pleasures" and "being positive." Through understanding life patterns within caring nursing partnerships, transitions in an entire life story can be appreciated as complex processes involving transcendence and transformation.
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- Jane Neill
- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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Pharris MD. Coming to know ourselves as community through a nursing partnership with adolescents convicted of murder. ANS Adv Nurs Sci 2002; 24:21-42. [PMID: 11890193 DOI: 10.1097/00012272-200203000-00005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This research applies Newman's hermeneutic-dialectic method of pattern recognition to the lives of 12 adolescent males convicted of murder who were invited to be co-investigators in the process of understanding patterns of meaningful relationships and experiences in their lives. Comparison of the 12 life patterns revealed a strikingly similar experience of interactions with the community and yielded insight into community pattern. The process of pattern recognition was found to be transformative. This article proposes a unitary-transformative process of community pattern recognition for nurses and communities interested in understanding complex community dynamics and engaging in healthy transformations.
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Jonsdottir H, Jonsdottir G, Steingrimsdottir E, Tryggvadottir B. Group reminiscence among people with end-stage chronic lung diseases. J Adv Nurs 2001; 35:79-87. [PMID: 11442685 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01824.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Reminiscence is a process of recalling long-forgotten memorable experiences and events through verbal interaction between the person eliciting memories and one or more persons. Reminiscence is considered an effective treatment for various groups of people, particularly the elderly. AIM This paper describes an intervention study on group reminiscence intervention for people with end-stage chronic lung diseases. The following hypotheses were proposed: (1) Depression in people with end-stage chronic lung diseases will decrease after participating in a reminiscence group. (2) Self-esteem in people with end-stage chronic lung diseases will increase after participating in a reminiscence group. (3) People with end-stage chronic lung diseases will report increased well-being after participating in a reminiscence group. METHODS The research design was quasi-experimental, using Beck Depression Inventory and Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Survey pre- and posttreatment, in addition to conducting semistructured interviews after the treatment was finished and qualitatively evaluating outcomes of selected nursing diagnosis. A total of 12 patients participated, 10 women (mean age 70 years) and two men (mean age 86 years). The treatment was provided by two nurses to a group of patients dwelling at a long-term unit for people with end-stage lung diseases located in Iceland. A total of 13 group meetings were held, with 5-8 participants each time. Each group meeting had a preselected focus. It started with a short period of relaxation followed by a selected reading from a biography or from Icelandic literature and then the group discussion started, focusing on the topic of the day. RESULTS The first two hypotheses were not supported. The following themes support the third hypothesis: (a) enjoyment, (b) feeling well and (c) closeness and affirmation of self and others. CONCLUSIONS The purpose of the study was partly achieved. Although hypotheses one and two were not supported, the third was supported by the qualitative results, which clearly demonstrated that participation in the intervention increased well-being.
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- H Jonsdottir
- University of Iceland, and Project Manager, University Hospital-Vífilsstadir, Iceland.
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