International Journal of Nursing Studies

BACKGROUND: Trauma has a well-established link with poor health outcomes. Adverse experiences in mental health inpatient settings contribute to such outcomes and should impact service design and delivery. However, there is often a failure to fully address these experiences. OBJECTIVE: To describe the spectrum of negative experiences that people identify while they are inpatients in adult mental health services. DESIGN: Qualitative systematic review of the international literature...

BACKGROUND: China's 'Internet Plus' nursing services, which are Uber-style home care services with an 'online application, offline service' approach, have been evolving over the past five years. Registered nurses' preference for these Uber-style Internet Plus nursing services are crucial for improving human resource management and service efficiency, yet research in this area remains scarce. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore registered nurses' preferences for Uber-style Internet Plus nursing services and provide optimization recommendations from a supply-side perspective...

BACKGROUND: Assessment of signs and symptoms in hospitalized children presents unique challenges due to the children's age-related differences, such as vital signs and the broad range of medical conditions that affects children. Early detection of clinical changes in children is crucial to prevent deterioration, and while standardized tools exist, there is a growing recognition of the need to consider subjective factors based on experienced nurses' knowledge and intuition. OBJECTIVE: To explore which signs and symptoms, apart from vital signs, that trigger nurses' concern regarding deterioration of hospitalized children and adolescents...

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BACKGROUND: People living with HIV often face challenges related to quality of life, mental health, and social support. Nurse-led self-care interventions have been proposed as a means to address these issues, but their overall effectiveness needs systematic evaluation. OBJECTIVES: To systematically review and meta-analyze the effectiveness of nurse-led self-care interventions on quality of life, social support, depression, and anxiety among people living with HIV...

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BACKGROUND: Obstetric violence involves the mistreatment, disrespect, and abuse of birthing people and the problem has been recognized in healthcare systems worldwide. Obstetric violence is a gendered, sex-specific form of violence against women that is a public health problem and a violation of human rights. There are an unknowable number of online posts and social media messages that describe obstetric violence experiences. There are no known studies about self-published experiences of obstetric violence in the US maternity care system...

BACKGROUND: The deterioration of executive function is a hallmark of cognitive aging. Reports indicate that signs of decline in executive function begin to emerge as early as middle age. Aerobic exercise improves executive function in healthy middle-aged and older adults, but the optimal exercise prescription variables are still unclear. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of aerobic exercise on executive function of healthy middle-aged and older adults and explore the dose-response relationship and moderators...

BACKGROUND: Nurses play a crucial role in encouraging nursing home resident's activity and independent functioning. However, nurses often take over tasks unnecessarily, which can deprive resident's remaining abilities. The Function-Focused Care philosophy offers guidance for developing programs that support nurses to optimize activity and independence of older people. However, such programs developed internationally have demonstrated inconsistent effects. Lessons have been gathered to improve future programs, which led to the development of the 'SELF-program': a holistic, interactive and theory-based program that aims to improve activity encouragement behavior of nurses and indirectly to optimize self-reliance of nursing home residents...

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BACKGROUND: Parental cancer conditions significantly impact the physical, social, and emotional well-being of minor children. Effective illness-related communication is crucial for both parents and their children to mitigate these effects. OBJECTIVE: To systematically summarize the characteristics and effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving illness-related communication between parents with cancer and their minor children. DESIGN: A systematic review...

BACKGROUND: Shortages of nurses are one of the biggest challenges healthcare systems face around the world. Given the wide range of contexts and individuals working in nursing, a 'one-size-fits-all' retention strategy is unlikely to be effective. Knowing what matters most to nurses at different career stages would help employers and policy-makers who want to enhance nurse retention to design tailored strategies. OBJECTIVE: To review and synthesise findings from recently published literature on the push-pull factors influencing nurses' decisions at the micro level, to enter and stay (or leave) at key career stages (i...

BACKGROUND: Transitioning to parenthood is a stressful period that makes parents more prone to depression and anxiety. Mobile application-based interventions and chatbots could improve parents' well-being across the perinatal period. Hence, the Parentbot - a Digital healthcare Assistant was developed to support parents across the perinatal period. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of the Parentbot - a Digital healthcare Assistant in improving parenting self-efficacy (primary outcome), stress, depression, anxiety, social support, parent-child bonding, and parenting satisfaction (secondary outcomes) among parents across the perinatal period...

BACKGROUND: Hazardous drugs are inherently toxic and present a potential occupational exposure risk to nurses and midwives. Hazardous drugs require special handling to minimise the risk of exposure and adverse health effects. Although the use of hazardous drugs in oncology services is well recognised, they are also used in other healthcare areas where nurses and midwives may be unaware there is a risk. OBJECTIVE: To investigate what nurses and midwives know and do about their occupational exposure to hazardous drugs, and what factors affect their knowledge and practice...

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to determine the effectiveness of layperson-based interventions in sustaining exclusive breastfeeding and to identify the optimal characteristics of such layperson-led strategies for promoting exclusive breastfeeding. METHODS: A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted using a comprehensive search in seven electronic databases from their inception to January 2024. Two independent reviewers assessed the risk of bias using version 2 of the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool for randomized trials...

BACKGROUND: Asthma is a prevalent chronic disease affecting school-age children, with substantial psychosocial implications for children and their parents. OBJECTIVES: This review aimed to synthesise current evidence on the effects of psychosocial interventions for families of school-age children with asthma and investigate the optimal features of effective interventions. METHODS: Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Web of Science Core Collection, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Google Scholar, CNKI, and Wanfang Data were searched from inception to November 2023...

BACKGROUND: Cancer-related fatigue is the most common symptom of subjective and persistent nature in cancer patients, which almost runs through the whole process of disease and treatment and rehabilitation, seriously affects the effect of anti-tumor treatment and reduces the quality of life of patients. Non-pharmacological management is one of the key links to relieve cancer-related fatigue, however, there are many types of non-pharmacological management and the related guidelines do not recommend the optimal nursing program for cancer-related fatigue...

OBJECTIVE: To systematically review literature from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) investigating the effectiveness of electronic monitoring device informed interventions on adherence and clinical outcomes in children and adolescents with chronic conditions. STUDY DESIGN: A systematic review was conducted. An electronic literature search covering studies, with no pre-specified starting date up to June 2024, was performed in Medline, EMBASE, Web of Science, Cochrane and Trials databases was conducted...

BACKGROUND: Combined art activities can improve the neural network function within various brain regions involved in emotions, cognition, and behavior, thereby preventing or reversing cognitive decline. However, few studies have systematically examined its effects. Furthermore, the impact of nurse-led art-based cognitive intervention on cognitive and psychological health is unclear. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of a nurse-led staged integral art-based cognitive intervention in older adults on the Alzheimer's disease spectrum...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the efficacy of targeted palliative care interventions on depression, quality of life and caregiver burden in informal caregivers of advanced cancer patients, along with the consequences of various intervention types. DESIGN: This study performed a comprehensive review and a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. METHOD: An extensive search was carried out across eight databases, namely, PubMed, Embase, CLNAHL, PsyclNFO, Cochrane, VIP, CNKI, and WANFANG, spanning from the inception of the library to May 4, 2024...