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March/April 2010 Gajewski, B. J., Boyle, D. K., Miller, P. A., Oberhelman, F., Dunton, N. (2010). A multilevel confirmatory factor analysis of the Practice Environment Scale: A case study. Nursing Research, 59, 147-153. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Sinclair, V. G. & Wallston, K. A. (2010). Psychological vulnerability predicts increases in depressive symptoms in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis. Nursing Research, 59, 140-146. Pressler, S. J., Subramanian, U., Kareken, D., Perkins, S. M., Gradus-Pizlo, I., Sauve, M. J. et al. (2010). Cognitive deficits in chronic heart failure. Nursing Research, 59, 127-139. Stewart, J. L., Lynn, M. R., & Mishel, M. H. (2010). Psychometric evaluation of a new instrument to measure uncertainty in children and adolescents with cancer. Nursing Research, 59, 119-126. Abe, I. & Henly, S. J. (2010). Bullying (Ijime) among Japanese hospital nurses: Modeling responses to the Revised Negative Acts Questionnaire. Nursing Research, 59, 110-118. Hamilton, J. B., Crandell, J. L., Carter, J. K., & Lynn, M. R. (2010). Reliability and validity of the Perspectives of Support from God Scale. Nursing Research, 59, 102-109 Boyd-Seale, D., Wilkie, D. J., Kim, Y. O., Suarez, M. L., Lee, H., Molokie, R., Zhao, Z., & Zong, S. (2010). Pain barriers: Psychometrics of a 13-item questionnaire. Nursing Research, 59, 93-101. Beck, S. L., Towsley, G. L., Berry, P. H., Brant, J. M., Smith, E. M. (2010). Measuring the quality of care related to pain management: A multiple-method approach to instrument development. Nursing Research, 59, 85-92 Gouchon, S., Gregori, D., Picotto, A., Patrucco, G., Nangeroni, M., & Di Giulio, P. (2010). Skin-to-skin contacct after Cesarean delivery: An experimental study. Nursing Research, 59, 78-84. January/February 2010 Bridges, E. (2010). Facilitation of evidence-based nursing practice during military operations. Nursing Research, 59, S75-S79. SUPPLEMENT McCraw, W. M., Kelley, P. W., Righero, A. M., & Latimer, R. (2010. Improving compliance with diabetes clinical practice guidelines in military medical treatment facilities. Nursing Research, 59, S66-S74. SUPPLEMENT Yackel, E. E., McKennan, M. S., & Fox-Deise, A. (2010). A nurse-facilitated depression screening program in an Army primary care clinic: An evidence-based project. Nursing Research, 59, S58-S65. SUPPLEMENT Mark, D. D., Latimer, R. W., & Hardy, M. D. (2010). "Stars" aligned for evidence-based practice: A TriService initiative in the Pacific. Nursing Research, 59, S48-S57. SUPPLEMENT Bingham, M., Ashley, J., De Jong, M., & Swift, C. (2010). Implementing a unit-level intervention to reduce the probability of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Nursing Research, 59, S40-S47. SUPPLEMENT Whitcomb, J. J., Roy, D., & Blackman, V. S. (2010. Evidence-based practice in a military intensive care unit family visitation. Nursing Research, 59, S32-39. SUPPLEMENT Kenny, D. J. & Goodman, P. (2010). Care of the patient with enteral tube feeding: An evidence-based practice protocol. Nursing Research, 59, S22-S31. SUPPLEMENT Kenny, D. J., Richard, M. L., Ceniceros, X., & Blaize, K. (2010). Collaborating across services to advance evidence-based nursing practice. Nursing Research, 59, S11-S21. SUPPLEMENT Duong, D. N. (2010). The evidence-based practice concept: Engaging interest and participation. Nursing Research S7-S10. SUPPLEMENT Kaiser, B. L., Brown, R. L., & Baumann, L. C. (2010). Perceived influences on physical activity and diet in low-income adults from two rural counties. Nursing Research, 59, 67-75. Wyatt, G., Sikorskii, A., Wills, C. E., & An, H. S. (2010). Complementary and alternative medicine use, spending, and quality of life in early stage breast cancer. Nursing Research, 59, 58-66. Habermann, B., Broome, M., Pryor. E. R., & Ziner, K. W. (2010). Research coordinators' experiences with scientific misconduct and research integrity. Nursing Research, 59, 51-57. Kalisch, B. J., Lee, H., & Salas, E. (2010). The development and testing of the nursing teamwork survey. Nursing Research, 59, 42-50. Marshall, J. G., Cowell, J. M., Campbell, E. S., & McNaughton, D. B. (2010). Regional variations in cancer screening rates found in women with diabetes. Nursing Research, 59, 34-41. Im, E.-O., Lee, B., Chee, W., Dormire, S., & Brown, A. (2010). A national multiethnic online forum study on menopausal symptom experience. Nursing Research, 59, 26-33. Metheny, N. A., Davis-Jackson, J., & Stewart, B. J. (2010). Effectiveness of an aspiration ris-reduction protocol. Nursing Research, 59, 18-25. Schachman, K. A. (2010). Online fathering: The experience of first-time fatherhood in combat-deployed troops. Nursing Research, 59, 11-17. Ryan-Wenger, N. A., Neal, J. L., Jones, A. S., & Lowe, N. K. (2010). Accuracy of vaginal symptom self-diagnosis algorithms for deployed military women. Nursing Research, 59, 2-10. November/December 2009 Jones, R. A., Steeves, R., & Williams, I. (2009). Strategies for recruiting African American men into prostate cancer screening studies. Nursing Research, 58, 452- 456. Choi, M., Belyea, M., Phillips, L. R., Insel, K., Min, S.-K. (2009). Testing women's propensities to leave their abusive husbands using structural equation modeling. Nursing Research, 58, 435-443. Harrison, D., Loughnan, P., Manias, E., Gordon, I., & Johnston, L. (2009). Repeated doses of sucrose in infants continue to reduce procedural pain during prolonged hospitalizations. Nursing Research, 58, 427-434. Nahm, E.-S., Resnick, B., DeGrezia, M., & Brotemarkle, R. (2009). Use of discussion boards in a theory-based health web site for older adults. Nursing Research, 58, 419-426. Sikorskii, A., Wyatt, G., Victorson, D., Faulkner, G., & Rahbar, M. H. (2009). Methodological issues in trials of complementary and alternative medicine interventions. Nursing Research, 58, 444-451. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Skelly, A. H., Carlson, J., Leeman, J., Soward, A., & Burns, D. (2009). Controlled trial of nursing interventions to improve health outcomes of older African American women with type 2 diabetes. Nursing Research, 58, 410-418. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Kneipp, S. M., Kairalla, J. A., Stacciarini, J., & Pereira, D. (2009). The Beck Depression Inventory II factor structure among low-income women. Nursing Research, 58, 400-409. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Polit, D. F. & Gillespie, B. M. (2009). The use of the intention-to-treat principle in nursing clinical trials. Nursing Research, 58, 391-399. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Salsberry, P. J., Reagan, P. B., & Pajer, K. (2009). Growth Differences by age of menarche in African American and white girls. Nursing Research, 58, 382-390. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW September/October 2009 Feider, L. L. & Mitchell, P. (2009). Validity and reliability of an oral care practice survey for the orally intubated adult critically ill patient. Nursing Research, 58, 374-377. Quinn, C., Haber, M. J., & Pan, Y. (2009). Use of the concordance correlation coefficient when examining agreement in dyadic research. Nursing Research, 58, 368-373. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Rutledge, D. N., Mouttape, M., & Wood, P. B. (2009) Symptom clusters in fibromyalgia: Potential utility in patient assessment and treatment evaluation. Nursing Research, 58, 359-367. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Connor, K., McNeese-Smith, D., van Servellen, G., Chang, B., Lee, M., Cheng, E., Hajar, A., & Vickrey, B. G. (2009). Insight into dementia care management using social-behavioral theory and mixed methods. Nursing Research, 58, 348-358. Dailey, D. E. (2009). Social stressors and strengths as predictors of infant birth weight in low-income African American women. Nursing Research, 58, 340-347. Donalek, J. G. (2009). When a parent is chronically ill. Nursing Research, 58, 332-339. Kintner, E. W. & Sikorskii, A. (2009). Randomized clinical trial of a school-based academic and counseling program for older school-age students. Nursing Research, 58, 321-331. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Griffith, K. A. (2009). Biological, psychological and behavioral, and social variables influencing colorectal cancer screening in African Americans. Nursing Research, 58 312-320. Driessnack, M. (2009). Using the colored eco-genetic relationship map with children. Nursing Research, 58 304-311. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR. July/August 2009 Hsu, Y-C., & Wang, J-J. (2009). Physical, affective, and behavioral effects of group reminiscence on depressed institutionalized elders in Taiwan. Nursing Research, 58, 294-299. Gilbert, D. A. & Hayes, E. (2009). Communication and outcomes of visits between older patients and nurse practitioners. Nursing Research, 58, 283-293. Jurgens, C. Y., Hoke, L., Byrnes, J., & Riegel, B. (2009). Why do elders delay responding to heart failure symptoms? Nursing Research, 58, 274-282. Wilkins, K. & Shields, M. (2009). Employer-provided support services and job dissatisfaction in Canadian registered nurses. Nursing Research, 58, 255-263. Beck, C. T (2009). The arm: There is no escaping the reality for mothers of children with obstetric brachial plexus injuries. Nursing Research, 58, 237-245. Han, H-R., Lee, J-E., Kim, J., Hedlin, H. K., Song, H., & Kim, M. T. (2009). A meta-analysis of interventions to promote mammography among ethnic minority women. Nursing Research, 58, 246-254. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS Schilling, L., Dixon, J. K., Knafl, K. A., Lynn, M. R., Murphy, K., Dumser, S., & Grey, M. (2009). A New Self-Report Measure of Self-Management of Type 1 Diabetes for Adolescents. Nursing Research, 58, 228-236. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Kennedy, C., & Chen, J-L. (2009). Changes in childhood risk taking and safety behavior after a peer group media intervention. Nursing Research, 58, 264-273. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW May/June 2009 Liou, S.-R., & Cheng, C.-Y. (2009). Using Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index on Asian Nurses. Nursing Research, 58, 218-225. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Shin, J. H. (2009). Application of repeated measure analysis of variance and hierarchical linear model in nursing research. Nursing Research, 58, 211-217. Oeseburg, B., Wynia, K., Middel, B., & Reijneveld, S. (2009). Effects of case management for elderly chronically ill: a systematic review. Nursing Research, 58, 201-210. Gibbons, S. (2009). Theory Synthesis for self-neglect: A health and social phenomenon. Nursing Research, 58, 194-200. Pinar, R., Celik, R., & Bahcecik, N. (2009). Reliability and Construct Validity of Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II in Adult Turkish Population. Nursing Research, 58, 184-193. Conn, V. S., Hafdahl, A. R., & Brown, L. M. (2009). Meta-analysis of quality-of-life outcomes from physical activity interventions. Nursing Research, 58, 175-183. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AS WELL AS OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Lynn, M. R., Morgan, J. C., & Moore, K. A. (2009). Development and Testing of the Satisfaction in Nursing Scale (SINS). Nursing Research, 58, 166-174. Wall, B. M. (2009). Religion and Gender in a Men's Hospital and School of Nursing, 1866-1969. Nursing Research, 58, 158-165. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AS WELL AS OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Larson, E. L., Femg, Y-H, McLoughlin, J. W., Wang, S., & Morse, S. S. (2009) Effect of Intensive Education on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Upper Respiratory Infections Among Urban Latinos, Nursing Research, 58, 150-157. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW March/April 2009 Elliott, A. F. & Horgas, A. L. (2009). Effects of an analgesic trial in reducing pain behaviors in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. Nursing Research, 58, 140-145. Yates, B. C., Dodendorf, D., Lane, J., LaFramboise, L., Pozehl, B., Duncan, K., & Knodel, K. (2009). Testing an alternate informed consent process. Nursing Research, 58, 135-139. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Christie, J., O'Halloran, P., & Stevenson, M. (2009). Planning a cluster randomized trial: Methodological issues. Nursing Research, 58, 128-134. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR Ameringer, S., Serlin, R. C., & Ward, S. (2009). Simpson's Paradox and Experimental Research. Nursing Research, 58, 123-127. Bowles, K. H., Holmes, J. H., Ratcliffe, S. J., Liberatore, M., Nydick, R., & Naylor, M. D. (2009). Factors Identified by Experts to Support Decision Making for Post-Acute Referral. Nursing Research, 58, 115-122. Kang, D-H, Weaver, M. T., Park, N-J, Smith, B., McArdle, T., & Carpenter, J. (2009). Significant impairment in immune recovery following cancer treatment. Nursing Research, 58, 105-114. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Rich, S. E., Shardell, M., Margolis, D., & Baumgarten, M. Pressure Ulcer Preventive Device Use Among Elderly Patients Early in the Hospital Stay. Nursing Research, 58, 95-104. Im, E-O, Lee, S. H., Liu, Y., Lim, H-J, Guevara, E., & Chee, W. (2009). A National Online Forum on Ethnic Differences in Cancer Pain Experience. Nursing Research, 58, 86-94. Walker, S. N., Pullen, C. H, Boeckner, L., Hageman, P.A., Hertzog, M., Oberdorker, M. K. et al. (2009). Clinical Trial of Tailored Activity and Eating Newsletters With Older Rural Women. Nursing Research, 58, 74-85. January/February 2009 Whitcomb, J. J., Roy, D., & Blackman, V. S. (2010). Evidence-based practice in a military intensive care unit family visitation. Nursing Research, 59 S32-39. Schachman, K. A. (2010). Online fathering: The experience of first-time fatherhood in combat-deployed troops. Nursing Research, 59, 11-17. Chen, H-M., Clark, A. P., Tsai, L-M., & Chao, Y-F. C. (2009). Self-reported sleep disturbance of patients with heart failure in Taiwan. Nursing Research, 58, 63-71. Hobbs, J. L. (2009). A dimensional analysis of patient-centered care. Nursing Research, 58, 52-62. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR Moser, D. K., Riegel, B., McKinley, S., Doering, L. V., Meischke, H., Heo, S. et al. (2009). The Control Attitudes Scale-Revised: Psychometric Evaluation in Three Groups of Patients with Cardiac Illness. Nursing Research, 58, 42-51. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS Hoffman, A. J., von Eye, A., Gift, A. G., Given, B. A., Given, C. W., & Rothert, M. (2009). Testing a theoretical model of perceived self-efficacy for cancer-related fatigue self-management and optimal physical functional status. Nursing Research, 58, 32-41. Longo, B. (2009). The Kilauea Volcano Adult Health Study. Nursing Research, 58, 23-31. Nyamathi, A., Liu, Y., Marfisee, M., Shoptaw, S., Gregerson, P., Saab, S. et al. (2009). Effects of a nurse-managed program on Hepatitis A and B vaccine completion among homeless adults. Nursing Research, 58, 13-22. Whittemore, R., Melkus, G., Wagner, J., Dziura, J., Northrup, V., & Grey, M. (2009). Translating the diabetes prevention program to primary care: A pilot study. Nursing Research, 58, 2-12. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AS WELL AS OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW November/December 2008 Qin, R., Titler, M. G., Shever, L. L., & Kim, T. (2008). Estimating effects of nursing intervention via propensity score analysis. Nursing Research, 57, 444-452, SEE ADDITIONAL MATERIAL PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS. Wittich, W. & Southall K. (2008). Coping with extended facedown positioning after macular hole surgery. Nursing Research, 57, 436-443. Tappen, R. M. & Williams, C. L. (2008). Development and testing of the Alzheimer's disease and related dementias mood scale. Nursing Research, 57, 426-435. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Mak, S. S., Yeo, W., Lee, Y. M., Mo, K. F., Tse, K. Y, Tse, S. M., et al. (2008). Predictors of lymphedema in patients with breast cancer undergoing axillary lymph node dissection in Hong Kong. Nursing Research 57, 416-425. Novotny, N. L., & Anderson, M. A. (2008). Prediction of early readmission in medical inpatients using the probability of repeated admission instrument. Nursing Research, 57, 406-415. Willgerodt, M. A. (2008) Family and peer influences on adjustment among Chinese, Filipino, and White youth. Nursing Research, 57, 395-405. Melnyk, B. M., Crean, H. F., Feinstein, N. F., & Fairbanks, E. (2008). Maternal anxiety and depression after a premature infant's discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit. Nursing Research, 57, 383-394. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Sarna, L., Bialous, S. A., Jun, H-J, Wewers, M. E., Cooley, M. E., & Feskanich, D. (2008). Smoking trends in the nurses' health study (1976-2003). Nursing Research, 57, 374-382. September/October 2008 Lingler, J. H., Sherwood, P. R., Crighton, M. H., Song-M-K., & Happ, M. B. (2008). Conceptual challenges in the study of caregiver - Care recipient relationships. Nursing Research, 57, 367-372. Hudson, A. L., Portillo, C. J., & Lee, K. A. (2008). Sleep disturbances in women with HIV or AIDS: Efficacy of a tailored sleep promotion intervention. Nursing Research, 57, 360-366. Porter, E. J. & Lasiter, S. (2008). Reducing my risk of intrusion: An intention of old homebound women who live alone. Nursing Research, 57, 351-359. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS Anderson, L. S. (2008). Predictors of parenting stress in a diverse sample of parents of early adolescents in high-risk communities. Nursing Research, 57, 340-350. Newlin, K., Melkus, G. D., Tappen, R., Chyun, D., & Koenig, H. G. (2008). Relationships of religion and spirituality to glycemic control in black women with type 2 diabetes. Nursing Research, 57, 331-339. Cho, S-H., Hwang, J. H., & Kim, J. (2008). Nurse staffing and patient mortality in intensive care units. Nursing Research, 57, 322-330. Beeber, A. S., Thorpe, J. M., & Clipp, E. C. (2008). Community-based service use by elders wtih dementia and their caregivers: A latent class analysis. Nursing Research, 57, 312-321. Thompson, C., Dalgleish, L., Bucknall, T., Estabrooks, C., Hutchinson, A. M., Fraser, K. et al. (2008). The effects of time pressure and experience on nurses' risk assessment decisions: A signal detection analysis. Nursing Research, 57, 302-311. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS July/August 2008 Drahota, A. & Dewey, A. (2008). The Sociogram: A useful tool in the analysis of focus groups. Nursing Research, 57, 293-297. Clayton, M. F. & Pett, M. A. (2008). AMOS versus LISREL: One data set, two analyses. Nursing Research, 57, 283-292. Taunton, R. L., Piamijariyakul, U., Gajewski, B., Lee, R. H., & Bott, M. J. (2008). Care planning integrity in nursing facilities. Nursing Research, 57, 271-282. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS Gregory, K. E. (2008). Clinical predictors of necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants. Nursing Research, 57, 260-270. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Bryanton, J., Gagnon, A. J., Hatem, M. & Johnston, C. (2008). Predictors of early parenting self-efficacy: Results of a prospective cohort study. Nursing Research, 57, 252-259. Cha, E., Kim, K. H., & Burke, L. E. (2008). Psychometric validation of a condom self-efficacy scale in Korean. Nursing Research, 57, 245-251. Leifer, S. L. & Glass, L. K. (2008). Planning for mass disaster in the 1950s: Harriet H. Werley and nursing research. Nursing Research, 57, 237-244. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Beck, C. T. & Watson, S. (2008). Impact of birth trauma on breast-feeding: A tale of two pathways. Nursing Research, 57, 228-236. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. May/June 2008 Mele, N. L. (2008). Conjoint Analysis: Using a market-based research model for healthcare decision making. Nursing Research, 57, 220-224. Carpenter, J., Gajewski, B., Teel, C., & Aaronson, L. S. (2008). Bayesian data analysis: Estimating the efficacy of T'ai Chi as a case study. Nursing Research, 57, 214-219. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Budin, W. C., Hoskins, C. N., Haber, J., Sherman, D. W., Maislin, G., Cater, J. R. et al. (2008). Breast cancer: Education, counseling, and adjustment among patients and partners: A randomized clinical trial. Nursing Research, 57, 199-213. Chang, S-H., Wung, S-F., & Crogan, N. L. (2008). Improving activities of daily living for nursing home elder persons in Taiwan. Nursing Research, 57, 191-198. Stein, K. F. & Corte, C. (2008). The identity impairment model: A longitudinal study of self-schemas as predictors of disordered eating behaviors. Nursing Research, 57, 182-190. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Vandemark, L. M. & Mueller, M. (2008). Mental health after sexual violence: The role of behavioral and demographic risk factors. Nursing Research, 57, 175-181. Brewer-Smyth, K. & Burgess, A. W. (2008). Childhood sexual abuse by a family member, salivary cortisol, and homicidal behavior of female prison inmates. Nursing Research, 57, 166-174. Fredland, N. M., Campbell, J. C., & Han, H. (2008). Effect of violence exposure on health outcomes among young urban adolescents. Nursing Research, 57, 157-165. Bonomi, A. E., Kernic, M. A., Anderson, M. L., Cannon, E. A., & Slesnick, N. (2008). Use of brief tools to measure depressive symptoms in women with a history of intimate partner violence. Nursing Research, 57, 150-156. Nannini, A., Lazar, J., Berg, C., Barger, M., Tomashek, K., Cabral, H. et al. (2008). Physical injuries reported on hospital visits for assault during the pregnancy-associated period. Nursing Research, 57, 144-149. Copeland, D. A. & Heilemann, M. V. (2008). Getting "to the point": The experience of mothers getting assistance for their adult children who are violent and mentally ill. Nursing Research, 57, 136-143. March/April 2008 Houghton, C. S., Marcukaitis, A. W., Marienau, M.E.S., Hooten, M., Stevens, S. R., Warner, D. O. (2008). Tobacco intervention attitudes and practices among certified registered nurse anesthetists. Nursing Research, 57, 123-129. Jasti, S., Dudley, W. N., & Goldwater, E. (2008). SAS macros for testing statistical mediation in data with binary mediators or outcomes. Nursing Research, 57, 118-122. Burla, L., Knierim, B., Barth, J., Liewald, K., Duetz, M., & Abel, T. (2008). From text to codings: Intercoder reliability assessment in qualitative content analysis. Nursing Research, 57, 113-117. Allen, M., Iezzoni, L. I., Huang, A., Huang, L., & Leveille, S. G. (2008). Improving patient-clinician communication about chronic conditions: Description of an Internet-based nurse e-coach intervention. Nursing Research, 57, 107-112. Vincent, D., McEwen, M. M., & Pasvogel, A. (2008). The validity and reliability of a Spanish version of the Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities Questionnaire. Nursing Research, 57, 101-106. Chen, C. C-H., Wang, C., & Huang, G-H. (2008). Functional trajectory 6 months posthospitalization: A cohort study of older hospitalized patients in Taiwan. Nursing Research, 57, 93-100. Toffolo, S. R., Furtado, R. N. V., Klein, A., Watanabe, S., Andrade, L. E. Co., & Natour, J. (2008). Measurement of upper limb ulcers in patients with systemic sclerosis: Reproducibility and correlation with pain, function, and quality of life. Nursing Research, 57, 84-92. Serber, S. L., Kumar, R., Woo, M. A., Macey, P. M., Fonarow, G. C., & Harper, R. M. (2008). Cognitive test performance and brain pathology. Nursing Research, 57, 75-83. McNees, P., Meneses, K., & Su, X. (2008). Live Item Index Technique: An Intervention Research Tool. Nursing Research, 57, 69-74. January/February 2008 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SUPPLEMENT Smith, G. (2008). Charting the course for patient safety. Nursing Research, 57, S22-24. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SUPPLEMENT Talsma, A., Grady, P. A., Feetham, S., Heinrich, J., & Steinwachs, D. M. (2008). The perfect storm: Patient safety and nursing shortages within the context of health policy and evidence-based practice. Nursing Research, 57, S15-S21. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SUPPLEMENT Manojlovich, M., Barnsteiner, J., Bolton, L. B., Disch, J., & Saint, S. (2008). Nursing practice and work environment issues in the 21st century: A leadership challenge. Nursing Research, 57, S11-S14. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SUPPLEMENT Hinshaw, A. S. (2008). Navigating the perfect storm: Balancing a culture of safety with workforce challenges. Nursing Research, 57, S4-S10. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SUPPLEMENT Redman, R. W. (2008). Symposium in tribute to a nursing leader: Ada Sue Hinshaw (Guest Editorial). Nursing Research, 57, S1-S3. Mugavin, M. E. (2008). Multidimensional scaling: A brief overview. Nursing Research, 57, 64-68. Broyles, L. M., Tate, J. A., & Happ, M. B. (2008). Videorecording in clinical research: Mapping the ethical terrain. Nursing Research, 57, 59-63. Lyon, D. E., McCain, N. L., Walter, J., & Schubert, C. (2008). Cytokine comparisons between women with breast cancer and women with a negative breast biopsy. Nursing Research, 57, 51-58. Choi, M., Phillips, L. R., Figueredo, A. J., Insel, K., & Min, S.-K. (2008). Construct validity of the Korean Women's Abuse Intolerance scale. Nursing Research, 57, 40-50. Nyamathi, A., Nahid, P., Berg, J., Burrage, J., Christiani, A., Aqtash, S., Morisky, D., & Leake, B. (2008). Efficacy of nurse case-managed intervention for latent tuberculosis among homeless subsamples. Nursing Research, 57, 33-39. Bennett, J. A., Young, H. M., Nail, L. M., Winters-Stone, K., & Hanson, G. (2008). A telephone-only motivational intervention to increase physical activity in rural adults: A randomized controlled trial. Nursing Research, 57, 24-32. Lindgren, T. G., Fukuoka, Y., Rankin S. H., Cooper, B. A., Carroll, D., & Munn, Y. L. (2008). Cluster analysis of elderly cardiac patients' prehospital symptomatology. Nursing Research, 57, 14-23. Schmalenberg, S. & Kramer, M. (2008). Essentials of a productive nurse work environment. Nursing Research, 57, 2-13, November/December 2007 Ho, C-C, Clochesy, J. M., Madigan, E., & Liu C-C (2007). Psychometricc evaluation of the Chinese version of the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire. Nursing Research, 56, 441-448. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Sousa, K. H., Ryu, E., Kwok, O-M, Cook, S. W., & West, S. G. (2007). Development of a model to measure symptom status in persons living with rheumatoid arthritis. Nursing Research, 56, 434-440. Schumacher, K. L., Stewart, B. J., & Archbold, P. G. (2007). Mutuality and preparedness moderate the effects of caregiving demand on cancer family caregiver outcomes. Nursing Research, 56, 425-433. Schubert, M., Glass, T. R., Clarke, S. P., Schaffert-Witvliet, B., & De Geest, S. (2007). Validation of the basel extent of rationing of nursing care instrument. Nursing Research, 56, 416-424. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS. AN OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW IS PROVIDED AS WELL. Gaillard, T. R., Sherman, W. M., Devor, S. T., Kirby, T., & Osei, K. (2007). Importance of aerobic fitness in cardiovascular risks in sedentary overweight and obese African-American women. Nursing Research, 56, 407-415. Hertig, V. L., Cain, K. C., Jarrett, M. E., Burr, R. L., & Heitkemper, M. M. (2007). Daily stress and gastrointestinal symptoms in women with irritable bowel syndrome. Nursing Research, 56, 399-406. Resnick, B., Rogers, V., Galik, E., & Gruber-Baldini, A. L. (2007). Measuring restorative care provided by nursing assistants: Reliability and validity of the Restorative Care Behavior Checklist. Nursing Research, 56, 387-398. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Jesse, D. E. & Swanson, M. S. (2007). Risks and resources associated with antepartum risk for depression among rural southern women. Nursing Research, 56, 378-386. Hogenmiller, J. R., Atwood, J. R., Lindsey, A. M., Johnson, D. R., Hertzog, M., & Scott, Jr. J. C. (2007). Self-efficacy scale for pap smear screening participation in sheltered women. Nursing Research, 56, 369-377. September/October 2007 Schilling, L. S., Dixon, J. K., Knafl, K. A., Grey, M., Ives, B., & Lynn, M. R. (2007). Determining content validity of a self-report instrument for adolescents using a heterogeneous expert panel. Nursing Research, 56, 361-366. Amorim, L. D., Bangdiwala, S. I., McMurray, R. G., Creighton, D., & Harrell, J. (2007). Intraclass correlations among physiologic measures in children and adolescents. Nursing Research, 56, 355-360. Ngai, F-W, Chan, S. W-C, Holroyd, E. (2007). Translation and validation of a Chinese version of the Parenting Sense of Competence scale in Chinese mothers. Nursing Research, 56, 348-354. Kim, H., Capezuti, E., Boltz, M., Fairchild, S., Fulmer, T. et al. (2007). Factor structure of the Geriatric Care Environment scale. Nursing Research, 56, 339-347. Chen, C. C-H, Chyun, D. A., Li, C-Y L., & McCorkle, R. (2007). A single-item approach to screening elders for oral health assessment. Nursing Research, 56, 332-338. Bakitas, M. A. (2007). Background noise: The experience of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. Nursing Research, 56, 323-331. Artinian, N. T., Flack, J. M., Nordstrom, C. K., Hockman, E. M., Washington, O. G. M., Jen, K-L. C. et al. (2007). Effects of nurse-managed telemonitoring on blood pressure at 12-month follow-up among urban African Americans. Nursing Research, 56, 312-322. Howe, T.-H., Sheu, C.-F., Hinojosa, J., Lin, J., & Holzman, K. R. (2007). Multiple factors related to bottle-feeding performance in preterm infants. Nursing Research, 56, 307-311. Im, E.-O., Chee, W., Guevara, E., Liu, Y., Lim H.-J., Tsai, H.-M. et al. (2007). Gender and ethnic differences in cancer pain experience: A multiethnic survey in the United States. Nursing Research, 56, 296-306. July/August 2007 KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION SUPPLEMENT Estabrooks, C. A. (2007). Prologue: A program of research in knowledge translation. Nursing Research, 56, S4-S6. KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION SUPPLEMENT Graham, I. D. & Tetroe, J. (2007). Whither knowledge translation: An international research agenda. Nursing Research, 56 S86-S88. KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION SUPPLEMENT Rycroft-Malone, J. (2007). Theory and knowledge translation: Setting some coordinates. Nursing Research, 56, S78-S85. KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION SUPPLEMENT Dopson, S. (2007). A view from organization studies. Nursing Research, 56, S72-S77. KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION SUPPLEMENT Sales, A. E. (2007). A view from health services research and outcomes measurement. Nursing Research, 56, S67-S71. KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION SUPPLEMENT Bucknall, T. (2007). A gaze through the lens of decision theory toward knowledge translation science. Nursing Research, 56, S60-S66. KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION SUPPLEMENT Titler, M. G., Everett, L. Q., & Adams, S. (2007). Implications for implementation science. Nursing Research, 56, S53-S59. KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION SUPPLEMENT Midodzi, W. K., Hayduk, L., Cummings, G. G., Estabrooks, C. A., & Wallin, L. (2007). An alternative approach to addressing missing indicators in parallel datasets: Research utilization as a phantom latent variable. Nursing Research, 56, S47-S52. KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION SUPPLEMENT Adewale, A. J., Hayduk, L. Estabrooks, C. A., Cummings, G. G., Midodzi, W. K., & Derksen, L. (2007). Understanding hierarchical linear models: Applications in nursing research. Nursing Research, 56, S40-S46. KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION SUPPLEMENT Cummings, G. G., Estabrooks, C. A., Midodzi, W. K., Wallin, L., & Hayduk, L. (2007). Influence of organizational characteristics and context on research utilization. Nursing Research, 56, S24-S39. KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION SUPPLEMENT Estabrooks, C. A., Midodzi, W. K., Cummings, G. G., & Wallin, L. (2007). Predicting research use in nursing organizations: A multilevel analysis. Nursing Research, 56, S7-S23. Kim, H., Harris, M. R., Savova, G. K., Speedie, S. M., & Chute, C. G. (2007). Toward near real-time acuity estimation: A feasibility study. Nursing Research, 56, 288-294. Findorff, M. J., Wyman, J. F., Nyman, J. A., & Croghan, C. F. (2007). Measuring the direct healthcare costs of a fall injury event. Nursing Research, 56, 283-287 Richmond, T. S., Hollander, J. E., Ackerson, T. H., Robinson, K., Gracias, V., Shults, J. et al. (2007). Psychiatric disorders in patients presenting to the emergency department for minor injury. Nursing Research, 56, 275-282. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Kelly, P. J., Ahmed, A., Martinez, E., & Peralez-Dieckmann, E. (2007). Cost analysis of obtaining postintervention results in a cohort of high-risk adolescent girls. Nursing Research, 56, 269-274. Jalowiec, A., Grady, K. L., & White-Williams, C. (2007). Predictors of perceived coping effectiveness in patients awaiting a heart transplant. Nursing Research, 56, 260-268. Chang, H-J., Lin, M-F., & Lin, K-C. (2007). The mediating and moderating roles of the cognitive triad on adolescent suicidal ideation. Nursing Research, 56, 252-259. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Rossen, E. K. & Gruber, K. J. (2007). Development and psychometric testing of the relocation self-efficacy scale. Nursing Research, 56, 244-251. Riegel, B., Dickson, V. V., Goldberg, L. R., & Deatrick, J. A. (2007). Factors associated with the development of expertise in heart failure self-care. Nursing Research, 56, 235-243. Choi, H., Palmer, M. H., & Park, J. (2007). Meta-analysis of pelvic floor muscle training: Randomized controlled trials in incontinent women. Nursing Research, 56 226-234. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW May/June 2007 Nguyen, H. T., Clark, M., & Ruiz, R. J. (2007). Effects of acculturation on the reporting of depressive symptoms among Hispanic pregnant women. Nursing Research, 56, 217-223. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Marcus, M. T., Liehr, P. R., Schmitz, J., Moeller, F. G., Swank, P., Fine, M. et al. (2007). Behavioral therapies trials: A case example. Nursing Research, 56, 210-216. Liu, J-E., Mok, E., Wong, T., Xue, L., & Xu, B. (2007). Evaluation of an integrated communication skills training program for nurses in cancer care in Beijing, China. Nursing Research, 56, 202-209. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Brown, C. G., McGuire, D. B., Beck, S. L., Peterson, D. E, & Mooney, K. H. (2007). Visual graphical analysis: A technique to investigate. Nursing Research, 56, 195-201. Gurses, A. P. & Carayon, P. (2007). Performance obstacles of intensive care nurses. Nursing Research, 56, 185-194. Facione, N. C. & Facione, P. A. (2007). Perceived prejudice in healthcare and women's health protective behavior. Nursing Research, 56, 175-184. Yoos, H. L., Kitzman, H., Henderson, C., McMullen, A., Sidora-Arcoleo, K., Halterman, J. S. et al. (2007). The impact of the parental illness representation on disease management in childhood asthma. Nursing Research, 56, 167-174. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Lynn, M. R., McMillen, B. J., & Sidani, S. (2007). Understanding and measuring patients' assessment of the quality of nursing care. Nursing Research, 56,159-166. Estok, P. J., Sedlak, C. A., Doheny, M. A., & Hall, R. (2007). Structural model for osteoporosis preventing behavior in postmenopausal women. Nursing Reserach, 56, 148-158. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. March/April 2007 Hayward, K., Campbell-Yeo, M, Price, S., Morrison, D., Whyte, R., Cake, H. et al. (2007). Co-bedding twins: How pilot study findings guided improvements in planning a larger multicenter trial. Nursing Research, 56, 137-143. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Taylor-Piliae, R. E. & Froelicher, E. S. (2007). Methods to optimize recruitment and retention to an exercise study in Chinese immigrants. Nursing Research, 56, 132-136. Tsai, Y-F (2007). Self-care management and risk factors for depressive symptoms among Taiwanese institutionalized older persons. Nursing Research, 56 124-131. Sauls, D. J. (2007). Nurses' attitudes toward provision of care and related health outcomes. Nursing Research, 56, 117-123. Cote-Arsenault, D. (2007). Threat appraisal, coping, and emotions across pregnancy subsequent to perinatal loss. Nursing Research, 56, 108-116. Boyington, J. E. A., Howard, D. L., Carter-Edwards, L., Gooden, K. M., Erdem, N., Jallah, Y. et al. (2007). Differences in resident characteristics and prevalence of urinary incontinence in nursing homes in the Southeastern United States. Nursing Research, 56, 97-107. Gomez, J., Hidalgo, M. D., & Tomas-Sabado, J. (2007). Using polytomous item response models to assess death anxiety. Nursing Research, 56, 89-96. Arslanian-Engoren, C., & Engoren, M. (2007). Using a genetic algorithm to predict evaluation of acute coronary syndromes. Nursing Research, 56 82-88. Ryan, C. J., DeVon, H. A., Horne, R., King, K. B., Milner, K., Moser, D. K. et al. (2007). Symptom clusters in acute myocardial infarction: A secondary data analysis. Nursing Research, 56, 72-81. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS. AN OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW IS PROVIDED AS WELL. January/February 2007 Blomstedt, Y., Hylander, I., & Sundquist, J. (2007). Self-reported integration as a proxy for acculturation: A qualitative study. Nursing Research, 56, 63-69. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Stein, K. F., Sargent, J. T., & Rafaels, N. (2007). Intervention research: Establishing fidelity of the independent variable in nursing clinical trials. Nursing Research, 56, 54-62. Badger, T., Segrin, C., Dorros, S. M., Meek, P., & Lopez, A. M. (2007). Depression and anxiety in women with breast cancer and their partners. Nursing Research, 56, 44-53. van Herk, R., van Dijk, M., Baar, F. P. M., Tibboel, D., & de Wit, R. (2007). Observation scales for pain assessment in older adults with cognitive impairments or communication difficulties. Nursing Research, 56, 34-43. Shreffler-Grant, J., Hill, W., Weinert, C., Nichols, E., & Ide, B. (2007). Complementary therapy and older rural women: Who uses it and who does not? Nursing Research, 56, 28-33. Bennett, J. A., Lyons, K. S., Winters-Stone, K., Nail, L. M. & Scherer, J. (2007). Motivational interviewing to increase physical activity in long-term cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial. Nursing Research, 56, 18-27. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Simonson, D. C., Ahern, M. M., & Hendryx, M. S. (2007). Anesthesia staffing and anesthetic complications during cesarean delivery: A retrospective analysis. Nursing Research, 56, 9-17. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Hutchinson, M. K. (2007). The Parent-Teen Sexual Risk Communication Scale (PTSRC-III): Instrument development and psychometrics, Nursing Research, 56, 1-8. November/December 2006 Cannella, B. (2006). Mediators of the relationship between social support and positive health practices in pregnant women. Nursing Research, 55, 437-447. Lithgow, D., Nyamathi, A., Elashoff, D., Martinez-Maza, O., & Covington, C. (2006). C-Reactive protein in nipple aspirate fluid. Nursing Research, 55, 418-425. Shyu, Y. -I., Tang, W. -R., Liang, J., & Weng, L. -J. (2006). Psychometric testing of the Social Support Survey on a Taiwanese sample. Nursing Research, 55, 411-417. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Albrecht, S. A., Caruthers, D., Patrick, T., Reynolds, M., Salamie, D., Higgins, L. W., Braxter, B., Kim, Y., & Mlynarchek, S. (2006). A randomized controlled trial of a smoking cessation intervention for pregnant adolescents. Nursing Research, 55, 402-410. Ulrich, C. M., Danis, M., Ratcliffe, S. J., Garrett-Mayer, E., Koziol, D., Soeken, K. L., & Grady, C. (2006). Ethical conflict in nurse practitioners and physician assistants in managed care. Nursing Research, 55, 391-401. Beck, C. T. (2006). The anniversary of birth trauma: Failure to rescue (2006). Nursing Research, 55, 381-390. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW. Chang, Y. , Hughes, L. C., & Mark, B. (2006). Fitting in or standing out: Nursing workgroup diversity and unit-level outcomes. Nursing Research, 55, 373-380. Halm, M. A., Treat-Jacobson, D., Lindquist, R., & Savik, K. (2006). Correlates of caregiver burden after coronary artery bypass surgery. Nursing Research, 55, 426-436. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS September/October 2006 Barsevick, A. M., Dudley, W. N., & Beck, S. L. (2006). Cancer-related fatigue, depressive symptoms, and functional status: A mediation model. Nursing Research, 55, 366-372. Giurgescu, C., Penckofer, S., Maurer, M. & Bryant, F. B. (2006). Impact of uncertainty, social support, and prenatal coping on the psychological well-being of high-risk pregnant women. Nursing Research, 55, 356-365. Bakas, T., Champion, V., Perkins, S. M., Farran, C. J., & Williams, L. S. (2006). Psychometric testing of the Revised 15-item Bakas Caregiving Outcomes Scale. Nursing Research, 55, 346-355. Knauth, D. G., Skowron, E. A., & Escobar, M. (2006). Effect of differentiation of self on adolescent risk behavior: Test of the theoretical model. Nursing Research, 55, 336-345. Raymond III, D. M. & Lusk, S. L. (2006). Testing decisional balance and self-efficacy applied to workers' use of hearing protection. Nursing Research, 55, 328-335. Flanagan, N. A. (2006). Testing the relationship between job stress and satisfaction in correctional nurses. Nursing Research, 55, 316-327. Mahon, N. R., Yarcheski, A., Yarcheski, T. J., Cannella, B. L., & Hanks, M. (2006). A meta-analytic study of predictors for loneliness during adolescence. Nursing Research, 55, 308-315. Christian, B. J. & D'Auria, P. (2006). Building life skills for children with cystic fibrosis: Effectiveness of an intervention. Nursing Research, 55, 300-307. July/August 2006 TOBACCO SUPPLEMENT Bialous, S. G. (2006). Tobacco use cessation within the context of tobacco control policy: Opportunities for nursing research. Nursing Research, 55, S58-S63. TOBACCO SUPPLEMENT Malone, R. E. (2006). Nursing's involvement in tobacco control: Historical perspective and vision for the future. Nursing Research, 55, S51-S57. TOBACCO SUPPLEMENT Heath, J. & Andrews, J. (2006). Using evidence-based educational strategies to increase knowledge and skills in tobacco cessation. Nursing Research, 55, S44-S50. TOBACCO SUPPLEMENT Miller, N. H. (2006). Translating smoking cessation research findings into clinical practice: The "Staying Free" program. Nursing Research, 55, S38-S43. TOBACCO SUPPLEMENT Doolan, D. M. & Froelicher, E. S. (2006). Efficacy of smoking cessation intervention among special populations -- Review of the literature from 2000-2005. Nursing Research, 55, S29-S37. Doolan, D. M. & Froelicher, E. S. (2006). Efficacy of smoking cessation intervention among special populations: Review of the literature from 2000 to 2005. Nursing Research, 55, S29-S37. TOBACCO SUPPLEMENT Wells, M., Sarna, L., & Bialous, S. A. (2006). Nursing research in smoking cessation: A listing of the literature, 1996-2005. Nursing Research, 55, S16-S28. TOBACCO SUPPLEMENT Wewers, M. E., Sarna, L., & Rice, V. H. (2006). Nursing research and treatment of tobacco dependence. Nursing Research, 55, S11-S15. TOBACCO SUPPLEMENT Sarna, L. & Bialous, S. A. (2006). Strategic directions for nursing research in tobacco dependence. Nursing Research, 55, S1-S9. Kim, H. & Whall, A. L. (2006). Factors associated with psychotropic drug usage among nursing home residents with dementia. Nursing Research, 55, 252-258. Oka, R. K., Katapodi, M. C., Lim, J. W., Bacchetti, P., & Froelicher, E. S. (2006). Quantifying smoking cessation outcomes: The Women's Initiative for Nonsmoking Study (x): Methodological implications. Nursing Research, 55, 292-297. Parry, M. J. E., & McFetridge-Durdle, J. (2006). Ambulatory impedance cardiography: A systematic review. Nursing Research, 55, 283-291. Broberger, E., Sprangers, M., & Tishelman, C. (2006). Do internal standards of quality of life change in lung cancer patients? Nursing Research, 55, 274-282. Im, E. -O. & Chee, W. (2006). An online forum as a qualitative research method: Practical issues. Nursing Research, 55, 267-273. Santacroce, S. J. & Lee, Y. -L. (2006). Uncertainty, Posttraumatic stress, and health behavior in young adult childhood cancer survivors. Nursing Research, 55, 259-266. Bliss, D. Z., Savik, K., Harns, S., Fan, Q. & Wyman, J. F. (2006). Prevalence and correlates of perineal dermatitis in nursing home residents. Nursing Research, 55, 243-251. Chen, H-S., Sheu, J-J., Percy, M. S., Brown, E. J., & Yang, R-J. (2006). The Chinese version of the Decisional Balance Scale: Further validation. Nursing Research, 55, 225-230. Titler, M., Dochterman, J., Xie, X-J, Kanak, M., Fei, Q. et al. (2006). Nursing interventions and other factors associated with discharge disposition in older patients after hip fractures. Nursing Research, 55, 231-242. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS May/June 2006 Gigliotti, E. (2006). A confirmatory factor analysis of situation-specific Norbeck Social Support Questionnaire items. Nursing Research, 55, 217-222. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Robbins, L. B., Gretebeck, K. A., Kazanis, A. S., & Pender, N. J. (2006). Girls on the Move program to increase physical activity participation. Nursing Research, 55, 206-216. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS. AN OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW IS PROVIDED AS WELL. Keefe, M. R., Karlsen, K. A., Lobo, A. L., Kotzer, A. M., & Dudley, W. N. (2006). Reducing parenting stress in families with irritable infants. Nursing Research, 55, 198-205. Holzemer, W. L., Bakken, Suzanne, Portillo, C. J., Grimes, R., Welch, J., Wantland, D., & Mullen, J. T. (2006). Testing a nurse-tailored HIV medication adherence intervention. Nursing Research, 55, 189-197. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS Bakas, T., Pressler, S. J., Johnson, E. A., Nauser, J. A., & Shaneyfelt, T. (2006). Family Caregiving in Heart Failure. Nursing Research, 55, 180-188.AN OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW IS PROVIDED Barton, A. J., Gilbert, L., Baramee, J., & Granger, T. (2006). Cardiovascular risk in Hispanic and non-Hispanic preschoolers. Nursing Research, 55, 172-179. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Doorenbos, A., Given, B., Given, C., & Verbitsky, N. (2006). Physical functioning: Effect of behavioral intervention for symptoms among individuals with cancer. Nursing Research, 55, 161-171. Wallin, L., Estabrooks, C. A., Midodzi, W. K., & Cummings, G. G. (2006). Development and validation of a derived measure of research utilization by nurses. Nursing Research, 55, 149-160. March/April 2006 ENRS SUPPLEMENT Doran, D. M., Harrison, M. B., Laschinger, H. S., Hirdes, J. P., Rukholm, E., Sidanni, S. et al. (2006). Nursing-sensitive outcomes data collection in acute care and long-term-care settings. Nursing Research, 55 S75-S81. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS ENRS SUPPLEMENT Sakala, C. & Mayberry, L. J. (2006). Vaginal or cesarean birth? Application of advocacy organization-driven research translation model.Nursing Research, 55, S68-74. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW ENRS SUPPLEMENT Magee, T., Lee, S. M., Giuliano, K. K., & Munro, B. (2006). Generating new knowledge from existing data: The use of large data sets for nursing research.Nursing Research, 55, S50-S56. ENRS SUPPLEMENT Happ, M. B., Dabbs, A. D., Tate, J., Hricik, A., & Erlen, J. (2006). Exemplars of mixed methods data combination and analysis. Nursing Research, 55, S43-S49. ENRS SUPPLEMENT Kaufman, D., Roberts, W. D., Merrill, J., Lai, T-Y, & Bakken (2006). Applying an evaluation framework for health information system design, development, and implementation. Nursing Research, 55, S37-S42. ENRS SUPPLEMENT Eller, L. S., Lev, E. L., Gejerman, G., Colella, J., Esposito, M. , Lanteri, V. et al. (2006). Prospective study of quality of life of patients receiving treatment for prostate cancer. Nursing Research, 55, S28-S36. ENRS SUPPLEMENET Horowitz, J. A. & Cousins, A. (2006). Postpartum depression treatment rates for at-risk women. Nursing Research, 55, S23-27. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS ENRS SUPPLEMENT Erlen, J. A. & Sereika, S. M. (2006). Fidelity to a 12-week structured medication adherence intervention in patients with HIV. Nursing Research, 55, S17-S22. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS ENRS SUPPLEMENT Mahoney, E., Trudeau, S. A., Penyack, S. E., & MacLeod, C. E. (2006). Challenges to Intervention Implementation: Lessons Learned in the Bathing Persons with Alzheimer's Disease at Home Study. Nursing Research, 55, S10-S16. ENRS SUPPLEMENT Panik, A., Bokovoy, J., Karoly, E., Badillo, K., Buckenmyer, C., Vose, C. et al. (2006). Research on the frontlines of healthcare: A cooperative learning approach. Nursing Research, 55, S3 - S9. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS Leiter, M. P., Spence Laschinger, H. K. (2006). Relationships of work and practice environment to professional burnout: Testing a causal model. Nursing Research, 55, 137-147. SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS Tourangeau, A. E., Hall, L. M., Doran, D. M., & Petch, T. (2006). Measurement of Nurse Job Satisfaction Using the McCloskey Mueller Satisfaction Scale. Nursing Research, 55, 128-136. Carruth, A. K., Browning, S, Reed, D. B., Skarke, L., & Sealey, L. (2006). The impact of farm lifestyle and health characteristics: Cervical cancer screening among Southern farm women. Nursing Research, 55, 121-127. Lee, Y-S, & Laffrey, S. C. (2006). Predictors of physical activity in older adults with borderline hypertension. Nursing Research, 55, 110-120. Boyington, A. R., Jones, C. B., & Wilson, D. L. (2006). Buried alive: The presence of nursing on hospital Web sites. Nursing Research, 55, 103-109. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Larson, E. L., Dilone, J., Garcia, M., & Smolowitz, J. (2006). Factors which influence Latino community members to self-prescribe antibiotics. Nursing Research, 55, 94-102. Cummings, G. G., Hayduk, L., & Estabrooks, C. A. (2006). Is the Nursing Work Index measuring up? Moving beyond estimating reliability to testing validity. Nursing Research, 55, 82-93. Jones, E. G., Mallinson, R. K., Phillips, L., & Kang, Y. (2006). Challenges in language, culture, and modality: Translating English measures into American Sign Language, Nursing Research, 55, 75-81. January/February 2006 Holland, D. E., Harris, M. R., Leibson, C. L., Pankratz, V. S., & Krichbaum, K. E. (2006). Development and validation of a screen for specialized discharge planning services. Nursing Research, 55, 62-71. SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW McFarlane, J. M., Groff, J. Y., O'Brien, J. A., & Watson, K. (2006). Secondary prevention of intimate partner violence: A randomized controlled trial. Nursing Research, 55, 52-61. Lukkarinen, H. & Hentinen. M. (2006). Treatments of coronary artery disease improve quality of life in the long term. Nursing Research, 55, 26-33. DiIorio, C., Resnicow, K., McCarty, F., De, A. K., Dudley, W. N., Wang, D. T., & Denzmore, P. (2006). Keepin' it R.E.A.L.!: Results of a mother-adolescent HIV prevention program. Nursing Research, 55, 43-51. Hill, W., Weinert, C., & Cudney, S. (2006). Influence of a computer intervention on the psychological status of chronically ill rural women, Nursing Research, 55, 34-42. Wu, Y. Larrabee, J. H., & Putman, H. P. (2006). Caring Behaviors Inventory: A reduction of the 42-item instrument. Nursing Research, 55, 18-25. Kapella, M. C., Larson, J. L., Patel, M. K., Covey, M. K., & Berry, J. K. (2006). Subjective fatigue, influencing variables, and consequences in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Nursing Research, 55, 10-17. Lake, E. T. & Friese, C. R. (2006). Variations in nursing practice environments: Relation to staffing and hospital characteristics, Nursing Research, 55, 1-9. November/December 2005 Evaluating content validity for children's self-report instruments using children as content experts Application of the CuSum technique to evaluate changes in recruitment strategies The magnet process and the perceived work environment of nurses Multilevel modeling of a clustered continuous outcome: Nurses' work hours and burnout Effects of three groin compression methods on patient discomfort, distress, and vascular complications following a percutaneous coronary intervention procedure -- SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS The Staff Nurse Decisional Involvement Scale: Report of Psychometric Assessments -- SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS September/October 2005 Creation of a model for Independence and community-dwelling elders in the United States Culturally tailored diabetes education program for Chinese Americans: A pilot study Health disparities, social injustice, and the culture of nursing African American women, metabolic syndrome and National Cholesterol Education Program criteria - A pilot study Evaluating quality of life in children with cancer using children's self-reports and parent proxy reports Psychometric evaluation of the cultural competence assessment instrument among health care providers -- SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Psychometric properties of the Grandparent Perceptions of Family Scale Testing the theory of planned behavior to predict mammography intention Older widows' experience of home care A psychometric assessment of the H & H Lactation Scale in a sample of Thai mothers using a repeated measurement design July/August 2005 Use of time studies for determining intervention costs Predicting nosocomial bloodstream infections using surrogate markers of injury severity: Clinical and methodological perspectives Testing the psychometric properties of the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire A meta-analysis of the effect of hospital-based case management on hospital length-of-stay and readmission The effectiveness of a nursing inpatient smoking cessation program in individuals with cardiovascular disease SEE LETTER TO THE EDITOR FOR -- Dating violence in college women: Associated physical injury, healthcare usage and mental health symptoms An analytic strategy for modeling multiple-item responses: A breast cancer symptom example Efficacy of theory-based activities for behavioral symptoms of dementia May/June 2005 The impact of centering first-level predictors on individual and contextual effects in multilevel data analysis Clinical outcomes of aging in place -- SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Developing and testing a self-care intervention for older adults in caregiving roles Anger dysregulation, depressive symptoms, and health in married women and men Does it pay to pay? A randomized trial of prepaid financial incentives and lottery incentives in surveys of non-physician healthcare Profiles of self-rated health in midlife adults with chronic illnesses Family education and support interventions in heart failure: A pilot study Effects of immediate versus delayed pushing during second-stage labor on fetal well-being: A randomized clinical trial March/April 2005 Treatment Fidelity in Behavior Change Research: A Case Example -- SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Logistic Regression and Bayesian Networks to Study Outcomes Using Large Data Sets The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT): Guidelines for Reporting Randomized Trials Reducing Assaults Against Nursing Home Caregivers A Randomized Clinical Trial of an HIV-Risk-Reduction Intervention Among Low-Income Latina Women Effectiveness of a Behavioral Change Intervention in Thai Elders after Knee Replacement Structural Model for Quality of Lilfe of Patients with Chronic Cardiovascular Disease in Korea The Impact of Hospital Nursing Characteristics on 30-Day Mortality January/February 2005 Research environments that promote integrity Combining evidence in nursing research: Methods and implications Fatigue and fatigue-relieving strategies used by Hong Kong Chinese patients after hemopoietic stem cell transplantation Predictors of professional nursing practice behaviors in hospital settings Midlife women's adherence to home-based walking during maintenance Evaluating in-home training for fathers of children with autism using single-subject experimentation and group analysis methods A framework for studying the nutritional health of community-dwelling elders Mitigating the impact of hospital restructuring on nurses: The responsibility of emotionally intelligent leadership -- SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS November/December 2004 SUPPLEMENT: Shaping future directions for incontinence research in aging adults SUPPLEMENT: Prevention of urinary incontinence in adults: Population-based strategies SUPPLEMENT: Translating research on incontinence into practice SUPPLEMENT: Use of health behavior change theories to guide urinary incontinence research SUPPLEMENT: Managing incontinence using technology, devices, and products SUPPLEMENT: Urinary incontinence in men: Current status and future directions SUPPLEMENT. Patient-centered interventions: Implications for incontinence SUPPLEMENT: Future directions for incontinence research with frail elders SUPPLEMENT: Directions for future nursing research on fecal incontinence Data and safety monitoring during randomized controlled trials of nursing interventions Influence of stroke survivor characteristics and family conflict surrounding recovery on caregivers' mental and physical health Motivational interviewing as a smoking cessation intervention for patients with cancer: Randomized controlled trial Nurses' perspectives of smoking initiation, addiction, and cessation Qualitative evaluation of a school-based support group for adolescents with an addicted parent Perceived nursing work environment of critical care nurses Knowledge of symptom clusters among adults at risk for acute myocardial infarction --SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS Pessimism and optimism as early warning signs for compromised health for caregivers of patients with Parkinson's disease September/October 2004 Single-Item Graphic Representational Scales Validation of the Mobility Subscale of the Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk Self-Care Strategies and Sources of Information for HIV/AIDS Symptom Management Memory Self-Efficacy and Memory Performance Among Black and White Elders The Validity and Reliability of a Chinese Version of the Family Burden Interview Schedule Factors Contributing to Preterm Infant Engagement During Bottle-Feeding--SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS Mapping the Field: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Research Utilization Literature in Nursing Effect of Inactivity and Undernutrition After Acute Ischemic Stroke in a Rat Hindlimb Muscle Model -- SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW July/August 2004 Trier Social Stress Test : A method for use in nursing research Research partners: Two teams, one study population The minimum data set bedfast quality indicator: Differences among nursing homes Depression among Southern rural African American women: A factor analysis of the Beck Depression Inventory-II The transtheoretical model of behavior change and smokers in Southern Appalachia Inclusion of women in nursing research: 1995-2001 Treatment-seeking delay among women with acute myocardial infarction: Decision trajectories and their predictors Post-traumatic stress disorder after childbirth: The aftermath -- SEE OPEN MANUSCRIPT REVIEW May/June 2004 Lifelines: A life history methodology Older men's health: Motivation, self-ratings, and behaviors Predictors of infectious disease symptoms in inner city household Measuring leadership practices of nurses using the Leadership Practices Inventory Predictors of sexual intercourse intentions and condom use among Spanish dominant Latino youth: A test of the theory of planned behavior Psychometric evaluation of the differentiation of self inventory for adolescents Sleep is related to physical function and emotional wellbeing after cardiac surgery 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of hearing protection Presurgical risk factors for late extubation in Medicare recipients Health behaviors as mediators for the effect of partner abuse on infant birth weight Birth trauma: In the eye of the beholder Critical thinking, perceived health status, and participation in health behaviors The pain experience of children with leukemia during the first year after diagnosis The Chinese version of the PSS: PICU November/December 2003 The notion of time in symptom experiences A systematically tested intervention for managing reactive depression A cluster of symptoms over time in patients with lung cancer Effects of gender and preference for information and control on anxiety early after myocardial infarction Nursing intervention research and quality of care: Influencing the future of healthcare Predicting breast cancer-related lymphedema using self-reported symptoms Hispanic chronic disease self-management An HIV self-care symptom management intervention for African American mothers September/October 2003 HIPAA privacy regulations and nursing research Menopausal hot flash frequency changes in response to experimental manipulation of blood glucose Sense of coherence and quality of life in women with and without Irritable Bowel Syndrome The effects of therapeutic back massage on psychophysiologic variables and immune function in spouses of patients with cancer Development of behaviors in preterm infants: Relation to sleeping and waking Postpartum Depression Screening Scale - Spanish Version SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS Effectiveness of a tailored intervention to increase factory workers' use of hearing protection Evaluating the impact of case management dosage July/August 2003 Recruitment of older women: Lessons learned from the Baltimore Hip Studies --SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS United States Spanish Short-Form-36 Health Survey: Scaling assumptions and reliability in elderly community-dwelling Mexican Americans Grey 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Inventory Ethical conflict associated with managed care: Views of nurse practitioners Treatment seeking for acute myocardial infarction symptoms: Differences in delay across sex and race Theory of planned behavior-based models for breastfeeding duration among Hong Kong mothers Self-reported sleep quality and fatigue correlates with actigraphy in midlife women with fibromyalgia March/April 2003 Nurse visitation for adolescent mothers: Two-year infant health and maternal outcomes A longitudinal study of functional status and correlates following coronary artery bypass graft surgery in women Moderators of an uncertainty management intervention for men with localized prostate cancer Natural history of change in physical function in long-stay nursing home residents -- SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS Testing a theoretical model of exercise behavior for older adults --SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS The symptoms of unstable angina: Do women and men 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The effects of nurse staffing on adverse events, morbidity, mortality and medical costs January/February 2003 Using multilevel analysis in patient and organizational outcomes research Assessing publication bias in meta-analysis Measuring the frequency of contact between nursing home residents and their family and friends The relationship between the parturient's positions and perceptions of labor pain intensity Black and White men at risk for memory impairment Comparison of two measures of parent-child interaction Predicting pressure ulcer risk in pediatric patients: The Braden Q Scale Nursing homes as complex adaptive systems: Relationship between management practice and resident outcomes Anger in adolescents: Sex, ethnicity, age differences, and psychometric properties November/December 2002 Multinomial logistic regression Predictive validity of the Braden Scale among Black and White subjects From death sentence to good cancer: Couples' transformation of a prostate cancer diagnosis A Delphi study to determine informatics competencies for nurses at four levels of practice Efficacy and safety of sucrose for procedural pain relief in preterm and term neonates Impact of a psychoeducational intervention on caregiver response to behavioral problems Determinants of Medicare home healthcare service use among Medicare recipients An intervention to increase safety behaviors of abused women: Results of a randomized clinical trial September/October 2002 Using multiple imputation for analysis of incomplete data in clinical research Ancillary studies in clinical trials Publication manual of the American Psychological Association- 5th edition: A review of additions and changes in style requirements The reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Caregiver Burden Inventory Calming music and hand massage with agitated elderly The psychometric evaluation of Korean translation of the Personal Resource Questionnaire 85-Part 2 Isolation from being alive: Coping with severe nausea and vomiting of pregnancy The Concept of Health Scale: Developed for Chinese people with chronic illness Does adherence make a difference? Results from a community-based aquatic exercise program A confirmation of the factor structure of the Norbeck Social Support Questionnaire July/August 2002 Effects of behavioral interventions on disruptive behavior and affect in demented nursing home residents-- SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS The Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire: Sensitivity to differences and responsiveness to intervention intensity in a clinical population -- SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS Retrospective data collection using event history calendars Issues in protection of human subjects in internet research The mediating effect of pain and fatigue on level of functioning in older adults Tobacco: An emerging topic in Nursing Research A randomized trial of a cognitive coping intervention for acutely ill HIV-positive men Anger in early adolescent boys and girls with health manifestations May/June 2002 Burden on family members - Caring for frail elderly: A meta-analysis of interventions Clinical outcomes from low-income adults with hypertension and diabetes African American girls' smoking habits and day-to-day experiences with racial discrimination Strengths and vulnerabilities of women of Mexican descent in relation to depressive symptoms Planning a sexual health promotion intervention with homeless adolescents Relationships between psychosocial factors and abusive parenting attitudes in low-income single mothers Racial differences in the use of cardiac procedures in patients with acute myocardial infarctionSEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS Racial and socioeconomic differences in risk factors for cardiovascular disease among southern rural women March/April 2002 The Operations Manual: A mechanism for improving the research process Maintaining data integrity in randomized clinical trials Isopropyl alcohol inhalation: Alternative treatment of postoperative nausea and vomiting Reducing venipuncture and intravenous insertion pain with eutectic mixture of local anesthetic: A meta-analysis Describing an episode of home nursing care for elderly postsurgical cancer patients Explaining Mexican American workers' hearing protection use with the health promotion model Dysphoria among high-risk pregnant hospitalized women on bed rest: A longitudinal study Self-efficacy and perceived exertion of girls during exercise Health disparities among vulnerable populations: Evolution of knowledge over five decades in NR publications -- SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS January/February 2002 Tissue oxygenation, perfusion, and position in patients with venous leg ulcers Sampling Challenges in End-of-Life Research: Case-Finding for Family Informants Assessing Group Change Under Conditions of Anonymity and Overlapping Samples Examining Test-Retest Reliability: An Intra-class Correlation Approach The Pin-striped Habit: Balancing Charity and Business in Catholic Hospitals, 1865-1915 Factors Contributing to Hospital Readmission in a Hong Kong Regional Hospital: A Case-Controlled Study Factors Influencing Use of Hearing Protection Among Farmers: A Test of the Pender Health Promotion Model Acculturation, Resilience and Depression in Midlife Women from the Former Soviet Union Lifestyle Change in Type 2 Diabetes: A Process Model Carrying on: The Experience of Premature Menopause in Women with Early Stage Breast Cancer A Meta-analysis of Fall Prevention Programs For the Elderly: How Effective are They? November/December 2001 Handling missing data in nursing research with multiple imputation Conducting survey research at nursing conferences Effects of a minimal intervention to increase physical activity in women: Daily activity records Recruitment and retention of community-dwelling, aging women in nursing studies Research design and subject characteristics predicting nonparticipation in a panel survey of older families with cancer Staffing and pattern of mechanical restraint use across a multiple hospital system Effects of maternal employment and prematurity on child outcomes in single parent families Data mining methods find demographic predictors of preterm birh Ethnographic analysis of everyday ethics in the care of nursing home residents with dementia: A taxonomy September/October 2001 Founding friends: families and institution building in early 19th century Philadelphia. Patient decision-making behavior: an emerging paradigm for nursing science. Predictors of postpartum depression: an update. Changes in Ménière's disease responses as a function of the menstrual cycle. Model testing for reliability and validity of the Outcome Expectations for Exercise Scale. An adaptation of Brislin's translation model for cross-cultural research. Race and ethnicity as variables in Nursing Research, 1952-2000. Definite lines of influence: Catholic sisters and nurse training schools, 1890-1920. Oral history of Florence Downs: the early years. July/August 2001 Tightening the screws on human subjects protection. Correlates of physical activity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Supplementation with dietary fiber improves fecal incontinence. A comparison of two methods of assessing disease activity in the joints. Physical functioning of elderly cancer patients prior to diagnosis and following initial treatment. Symptom predictors of acute coronary syndromes in younger and older patients. Comparative analysis of the performance of the Postpartum Depression Screening Scale with two other depression instruments. Rhodes Index of Nausea and Vomiting--Form 2 in pregnant women. A confirmatory factor analysis. May/June 2001 Dyspnea and the affective response during exercise training in obstructive pulmonary disease. Emotional distress and activities of daily living functioning in persons with multiple sclerosis. Further validation of the Postpartum Depression Screening Scale. Reliability of homeless women's reports: concordance between hair assay and self report of cocaine use. Differences in plasma and nipple aspirate carotenoid by lactation status. Selenium and glutathione peroxidase with beta-thalassemia major. Methodological considerations in children's focus groups. Methodological considerations for grounded theory research in critical care settings. March/April 2001 Family decision-making to withdraw life-sustaining treatments from hospitalized patients. A model for predicting motor urge urinary incontinence. Attitudes toward physician-nurse collaboration: a cross-cultural study of male and female physicians and nurses in the United States and Mexico. The factorial survey: an experimental method to replicate real world problems. Reading for writing. Psychosocial nursing therapy following sudden cardiac arrest: impact on two-year survival. Effects of entorhinal cortex lesions on sensory integration and spatial learning. Attention and symptom distress in women with and without breast cancer. Heart rate variability in adolescents and adults with type 1 diabetes. January/February 2001 Gender and age differences in nurses' triage decisions using vignette patients Caregiving experiences after stroke An explanatory model of fatigue in women receiving adjuvant breast cancer chemotherapy. Effects of a submaximal exercise protocol to recondition the pelvic floor musculature Effect of sexual and physical abuse on symptom experiences in women with Irritable Bowel Syndrome Parental caregiving and developmental outcomes of infants mothers with HIV November/December 2000 It's not just research--it may be evidence. Development of a reliable and valid bedside test for bilirubin and its utility for improving prediction of feeding tube location. Family reports of barriers to optimal care of the dying. Type of social support among homeless women: its impact on psychosocial resources, health and health behaviors, and use of health services. Hemodialysis disrupts basic sleep regulatory mechanisms: building hypotheses. Dyspnea management in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency: effect of oxygen administration. September/October 2000 Preventing scientific misconduct--times have changed. Alternative technique for medication injections. Effects of surgery type and attention focus on children's coping. Hospital and emergency department use by young low-income children. Self-esteem and optimism in men and women infected with HIV. Postpartum Depression Screening Scale: development and psychometric testing. The effect of structured training on breast self-examination search behaviors as measured using biomedical instrumentation. Nonlinear components of age-related change in sleep initiation. Methodologic issues associated with secretion weight as a dependent variable in research using closed-system suction catheters. July/August 2000 The impact of two transfer techniques used during skin-to-skin care on the physiologic and behavioral responses of preterm infants. Psychometric testing of fatigue instruments for use with cancer patients. The impact of nurses' empathic responses on patients' pain management in acute care. Negative thinking mediates the effect of self-esteem on depressive symptoms in college women. A social cognitive-based model for condom use among college students. Communication of research and practice knowledge in nursing literature. Maintaining study validity in a changing clinical environment. Creation and analysis of a computerized database of interventions to facilitate adult sleep. May/June 2000 On writing. An explanatory model of health promotion and quality of life in chronic disabling conditions. A public health nursing early intervention program for adolescent mothers: outcomes from pregnancy through 6 weeks postpartum. Self-care strategies for symptom management in patients with chronic heart failure. Measuring organizational traits of hospitals: the Revised Nursing Work Index. Testing the reliability and validity of the Self-Efficacy for Exercise scale. Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in children with Type I diabetes. Concerns and risk factor modification in women during the year after coronary artery surgery. Data collection using handheld computers. Goal attainment scaling to measure individual change in intervention studies. March/April 2000 Nursing research publications on older adults. Influence of practice environment and nurse characteristics on perinatal nurses' responses to ethical dilemmas. Spiritual activities as a resistance resource for women with human immunodeficiency virus. Workplace access, negative proscriptions, job strain, and substance use in registered nurses. The energy costs of a modified form of T'ai Chi exercise. Validity of the nursing diagnosis of relocation stress syndrome. Fecal incontinence in hospitalized patients who are acutely ill. Factors differentiating dropouts from completers in a longitudinal, multicenter clinical trial. Auditing research studies. January/February 2000 Oral support measures used in feeding the preterm infant. Influence of attention and judgment on perception of breathlessness in healthy individuals and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Factors associated with participation by Mexican migrant farmworkers in a tuberculosis screening program. Gender and short-term recovery from cardiac surgery. Leadership styles across hierarchical levels in nursing departments. Preventing smoking relapse in postpartum women. Detecting and explicating interactions in categorical data. Exploring subject-related interactions in repeated measures data using three-mode principal components analysis. November/December 1999 Managed care: current perspectives. Effects of caring, measurement, and time on miscarriage impact and women's well-being. Unplanned hospital readmissions: a home care perspective. Evidence of time-dependent autonomic reinnervation after heart transplantation. An empirical test of alternate theories of anger in early adolescents. The psychometric characteristics of the IPR inventory: data from rural Western Australia. Interpersonal Relationships Inventory. The Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire: assessing cognitive ability in nursing home residents. Using the analytic hierarchy process as an alternative weighting technique to magnitude estimation scaling. A strategy for converting clinical data into research databases. Analgesic drug prescription and use in cognitively impaired nursing home residents. September/October 1999 Electronic research dissemination. Braden Risk-assessment scale for pressure ulcers. Long-term nonprogressors with HIV disease. Development and psychometric testing of the Bakas Caregiving Outcomes Scale. Development and psychometric evaluation of the Environment-Behavior Interaction Code (EBIC). Development and evaluation of the cane use cognitive mediator instrument. Do participants' reports of symptom prevalence or severity vary by interviewer gender? Practical advice for planning and conducting focus groups. July/August 1999 pH and concentration of bilirubin in feeding tube aspirates as predictors of tube placement. Predicting intentions to obtain a Pap smear among African American and Latina women: testing the theory of planned behavior. Burden experienced by caregivers of relatives with dementia in Taiwan. The effects of sense of belonging, social support, conflict, and loneliness on depression. Outcomes of a nonaversive behavior intervention in intellectually impaired individuals using goal attainment scaling. Bridging the gap between the pros and cons in treating ordinal scales as interval scales from an analysis point of view. Overlapping samples in organizational research. Item-response theory approach in scale development. May/June 1999 The core of caregiving. Caregiving effectiveness in families managing complex technology at home: replication of a model. Distress and growth outcomes in mothers of medically fragile infants. Diagnosis disclosure by family caregivers to children who have perinatally acquired HIV disease: when the time comes. Mood and blood pressure responses in black female caregivers and noncaregivers. Problem-solving counseling for caregivers of the cognitively impaired: effective for whom? Cognitive-behavioral intervention for homebound caregivers of persons with dementia. Family recruitment issues and strategies: caregiving in rural African Americans. March/April 1999 20/20 vision. Power analysis is emphasized too much in nursing research. Adult emergency visits for chronic cardiorespiratory disease: does dyspnea matter? The perimenopausal transition of Filipino American midlife women: biopsychosociocultural dimensions. Physiological responses of preterm infants to breast-feeding and bottle-feeding with the orthodontic nipple. The effects of prescribed versus ad libitum feedings and formula caloric density on premature infant dietary intake and weight gain. Methodologic principles of cost analyses in the nursing, medical, and health services literature, 1990-1996. The effects of crossed leg on blood pressure measurement. Impedance cardiography for noninvasive measurement of cardiovascular hemodynamics. Managing the informed consent process in large multicenter projects. January/February 1999 Symptom perception and evaluation in childhood asthma. Test-retest reliability of symptom-limited cycle ergometer tests in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Psychometric properties of the functional performance inventory in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Alternate child care, history of hospitalization, and preschool child behavior. The efficacy of developmentally sensitive interventions and sucrose for relieving procedural pain in very low birth weight neonates. Effects of distraction on children's pain and distress during medical procedures: a meta-analysis. Electronic publishing and nursing research. Mother-infant interaction: achieving synchrony. The Internet and nursing research. November/December 1998 Researching the world of children. The effect of a social support boosting intervention on stress, coping, and social support in caregivers of children with HIV/AIDS. Maternal interaction patterns and preschool competence in high-risk children. Women's patterns of exercise following cardiac rehabilitation. A theory of planned behavior-based structural model for breast-feeding. Quality of life in coronary artery disease. September/October 1998 About reference citations. Acknowledging sources in scholarly work. Predicting pressure ulcer risk: a multisite study of the predictive validity of the Braden Scale. Self-report and polysomnographic measures of sleep in women with irritable bowel syndrome. Differences in cortisol, a stress hormone, in women with turmoil-type premenstrual symptoms. A longitudinal causal model of cardiac invalidism following myocardial infarction. Effect of positioning on SvO2 in the critically ill patient with a low ejection fraction. The practical effects of errors in reference lists in nursing research journals. July/August 1998 Cardiovascular function during cognitive stress in men before and after coronary bypass grafts. Individualizing nighttime incontinence care in nursing home residents. Mothers with multiple sclerosis and their children: effects of fatigue and exacerbations on maternal support. Randomized trial of geragogy-based medication instruction in the emergency department. Perceived self-efficacy, functional ability, and depressive symptoms in older elective surgery patients. Fatigue in HIV-infected men receiving investigational interleukin-2. Racial differences in health status and health behaviors of older adults. Comparison of lifestyles among obese and nonobese African American and European American women in the community. Analgesic drug prescription and use in cognitively impaired nursing home residents. May/June 1998 Launching your research career through postdoctoral training opportunities. Transmural care of terminal cancer patients: effects on the quality of life of direct caregivers. Symptom and activities of daily living trajectory in multiple sclerosis: a 10-year study. Predicting pressure sore risk with the Norton, Braden, and Waterlow scales in a Hong Kong rehabilitation hospital. The relationship between psychological distress and gastrointestinal symptoms in women with irritable bowel syndrome. Parental sensitivity to infants and toddlers in dual-earner and single-earner families. Cardiovascular dysautonomia of patients with end-stage renal disease and type I or type II diabetes. Older adults and exercise: path analysis of self-efficacy related constructs. Metaphor: the language of nursing researchers. March/April 1998 Vulnerable populations: a continuing nursing focus. Depressive phenomena, physical symptom distress, and functional status among women with breast cancer. Conceptualizing vulnerable populations health-related research. The effect of a social support boosting intervention on stress, coping, and social support in caregivers of children with HIV/AIDS. Mothers' potential for child abuse: the roles of childhood abuse and social resources. Self-schemas and possible selves as predictors and outcomes of risky behaviors in adolescents. The experience of being a grandmother who is the primary caregiver for her HIV-positive grandchild. Maternal employment and parent-child relationships in single-parent families of low-birth-weight preschoolers. Commitment and communication: keys to minimizing attrition in multisite longitudinal organizational studies. January/February 1998 The effects of home nursing care for patients during terminal illness on the bereaved's psychological distress. Genetic and environmental influences on cardiovascular disease risk factors in adolescents. Meperidine attenuates the secretion but not the transcription of interleukin 1 beta in human mononuclear leukocytes. The effects of maternal psychosocial factors on parenting attitudes of low-income, single mothers with young children. Nurse staffing and patient outcomes. Vascular complications after angiography with and without the use of sandbags. Impact of a 5-minute scrub on the microbial flora found on artificial, polished, or natural fingernails of operating room personnel. Distinguishing between the stability of a construct and the stability of an instrument in trait/state measurement. Informing participants about the benefits of descriptive research. Measuring nursing governance. November/December 1997 The competitive edge. Correlates of quality of life among persons with multiple sclerosis. Coping behaviors at diagnosis and in adjustment one year later in children with diabetes. A comparison of patient and nurse ratings of human immunodeficiency virus-related signs and symptoms. Women's anger: relationship of suppression to blood pressure. Reliability and validity of breast cancer screening belief scales in African American women. Quality of life, medication use, and health care utilization of urban African Americans with asthma treated in emergency departments. Strategies for enhancing appointment keeping in low-income chronically ill clients. Strengthening experimental design by balancing potentially confounding variables across treatment groups. Data management: cleaning and checking. Longitudinal research using computerized clinical databases: caveats and constraints. September/October 1997 Leisure time activities of elementary school children. A randomized trial of early discharge and nurse specialist transitional follow-up care of high-risk childbearing women. An explanatory model of variables influencing postinjury disability. Perceptions of scientific misconduct in nursing. The process and outcome of life review psychotherapy with depressed homebound older adults. Nurse screening of low-birth-weight infants for cerebral palsy using goniometry. Analysis of needle path during intramuscular injection. To be or not to be tested for the AIDS virus. An application of hierarchical linear models to meta-analysis in nursing research. Methodological triangulation in a study of nurse retention. July/August 1997 Cardiovascular function during cognitive stress in men before and after coronary artery bypass grafts. Effect of short-duration hyperventilation during endotracheal suctioning on intracranial pressure in severe head-injured adults. The effect of environment on body site temperatures in full-term neonates. Validation of the structure for the Clinical Assessment of Confusion-A. Depressive phenomena, physical symptom distress, and functional status among women with breast cancer. Progress in the moral reasoning of baccalaureate nursing students between program entry and exit. Comparison of three methods of data collection in an urban Spanish-speaking population. Correspondence analysis: a graphical technique for examining categorical data. Where reality meets methodology in conducting nursing intervention research with women. May/June 1997 Improving dressing behavior in cognitively impaired nursing home residents. HIV-risk behaviors and mental health characteristics among homeless or drug-recovering women and their closest sources of social support. The marital relationship and health in women with chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome: views of wives and husbands. Correlates of pain-related responses to venipunctures in school-age children. The theory of planned behavior applied to cigarette smoking in African-American, Puerto Rican, and non-Hispanic white teenage females. Job satisfaction and organizational attachment of nurses holding doctoral degrees. Estimates of stability of daily wandering behavior among cognitively impaired long-term care residents. The challenge of using Likert-type scales with low-literate ethnic populations. Incorporating auxiliary variables into probability sampling designs. March/April 1997 A middle-range theory of chronotherapeutic intervention for postsurgical pain. The health practices of homeless women: a causal model. Development of an instrument to measure the cognitive structure used to understand personhood in patients. Alternate models of positive health practices in adolescents. Reciprocity, emotional well-being, and family functioning as determinants of family satisfaction in caregivers of elderly parents. Sex, age, height, and weight as predictors of selected physiologic outcomes. Toward a history of research in nursing. The ANA's Economic Security Program: the first 20 years. The Delphi method? Resubmission of a grant application: breastfeeding services for LBW infants. January/February 1997 Clinical relevance revisited. Sensitivity and reproducibility of the dual-mode actigraph under controlled levels of activity intensity. Immune responses to final exams in healthy and asthmatic adolescents. Weight, nutrition, and immune status in postpartal women. An explanatory model of functional status in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Testing theoretical explanations of mammography use. Assessment of reliability and validity of the behavioral observation record for developmental care. From limbo to legitimacy: a theoretical model of the transition to the primary care nurse practitioner role. Decentralization as a determinant of autonomy, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment among nurse managers. The effects of effleurage backrub on the physiological components of relaxation: a meta-analysis. November/December 1996 Research as a survival technique. The NEECHAM Confusion Scale: construction, validation, and clinical testing. Avoiding common mistakes in APA style: the briefest of guidelines. Videotaping: an important research strategy. Subjects, data, and videotapes. The art of advertising for research subjects. Tracing patients with myocardial infarction for a 10-year follow-up study. Alternative statistical methods to use with survival data. Verification bias: a pitfall in evaluating screening tests. Using the SAS system to perform discriminant analysis of Type A/B behavior. Lessons learned from a pilot study of biobehavioral correlates of functional status in women with breast cancer. Single-level analysis of intervention studies with hierarchically structured data: a cautionary note. Use of the Johnson-Neyman technique as an alternative to analysis of covariance. Using the Solomon Four Design. Use of a computerized digitizer tablet to score and enter visual analogue scale data. Technological advances in data entry and verification: is teleform for you? Fiscally responsible research equipment purchases: a cost-containment approach. The overemphasis on power analysis. September/October 1996 The Riveting Researcher vs. the Frugal Gourmet. Coronary risk factor modification in women after coronary artery bypass surgery. Development of an instrument to measure threat related to cardiac events. The impact of a relaxation technique on the lipid profile. Wellness motivation theory: an exploration of theoretical relevance. Increasing metamemory in older adults. The correlation of sucking behaviors and Bayley Scales of Infant Development at six months of age in VLBW infants. A meta-analysis of predictors of postpartum depression. Evolution of the American Nurses Association's position on health insurance for the aged: 1933-1965. Re: The rough and ready jackknife' (erratum) Physiological research is nursing research. Methodological issues in psychoneuroimmunology research. July/August 1996 Incremental threshold loading in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Reliability and validity of the 12-minute distance walk in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Epilepsy self-management: a test of a theoretical model. Gastric emptying and gastric-intestinal transit in rats with varying ovarian hormone status. A meta-analysis of the relationship between postpartum depression and infant temperament. Self-esteem as a mediator of the effects of stressors and social resources on depressive symptoms in postpartum mothers. Mammography in older women: one-time and three-year adherence to guidelines. The influence of stress management training in HIV disease. May/June 1996 A few facts on life. Effects of nonnutritive sucking on behavioral organization and feeding performance in preterm infants. Development of the H & H Lactation Scale. Children's preoperative coping and its effects on postoperative anxiety and return to normal activity. Coming to terms: parents' response to a first cancer recurrence in their child. Respiratory muscle strength in older adults. Stress mediation in caregivers of cognitively impaired adults: theoretical model testing. British nurses at war 1914-1918: ancillary personnel and the battle for registration. Quality of life in cardiac patient research: a meta-analysis. Use of a meta-analytic database management system. The rough and ready jackknife. Nursing, medicine, quackery, and health care reform, 1844-1994. March/April 1996 Health status of bereaved parents. Condom use and fertility among divorced and separated women. Self-transcendence and correlates in a healthy population. Methodologic mistakes in grounded theory. Re: Evaluation of a dressing to reduce nipple pain and improve nipple skin condition in breastfeeding women. Re: Nurses under fire: the World War II experiences of nurses on Bataan and Corregidor. The bottom line. Effects of muscle-strength training on the functional status of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee joint. Survival experience of chronically critically ill patients. Retention control training in the treatment of younger versus older enuretic children. The factor structure of the perception of birth scale. Toward an international measure of job satisfaction. Development and testing of the caregiver reciprocity scale. Postpartum depressed mothers' experiences interacting with their children. January/February 1996 The dimensional structure of nursing interventions. Correlates of health-promotion activities in employed Mexican American women. Factor analysis of the Ways of Coping Questionnaire for African American women. The effects of cognitive-perceptual factors on health promotion behavior maintenance. Abuse during pregnancy: associations with maternal health and infant birth weight. A longitudinal comparison of irritable and nonirritable infants. Temporal patterns of heart rate and blood pressure in elders. Evaluation of a new topical anesthetic agent: a pilot study. Affect in diabetic women during pregnancy and postpartum. Comparison of original and revised scoring systems for the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List. November/December 1995 Upheaval. Patient outcomes for the chronically critically ill: special care unit versus intensive care unit. A meta-analysis of nurse practitioners and nurse midwives in primary care. Linkages between sexual risk taking, substance use, and AIDS knowledge among pregnant adolescents and young mothers. Evaluation of a dressing to reduce nipple pain and improve nipple skin condition in breast-feeding women. Initiation and frequency of breast expression in breastfeeding mothers of LBW and VLBW infants. Firstborns' behaviors during a mother's second pregnancy. Knowing the patient: a process model for individualized interventions. An analysis of posthospitalization telephone survey data. Social support among impoverished women. Re: Motor performance correlates of functional dependence in long-term care residents. September/October 1995 Under siege--again. Nurses under fire: the World War II experiences of nurses on Bataan and Corregidor. 1976. A strategy to assess the temporal dimension of pain in children and adolescents. Nongenetic influences of obesity on risk factors for cardiovascular disease during two phases of development. The development of attachment behaviors in pregnant adolescents. Staff nurses' career development relationships and self-reports of professionalism, job satisfaction, and intent to stay. The effects of postpartum depression on maternal-infant interaction: a meta-analysis. Metamemory and depression in cognitively impaired elders. A comparison of three wound dressings in patients undergoing heart surgery. July/August 1995 Hello, I'm... Emotional distress reported by women and husbands prior to a breast biopsy. Optimism and coping with a breast cancer symptom. Salvaging self: a grounded theory of pregnancy on crack cocaine. Development and testing of the barriers to cessation scale. Coping among spouses or significant others of persons with multiple sclerosis. Workload and environmental factors in hospital medication errors. Center as haven: findings of an urban ethnography. A meta-analysis of the effects of psychoeducational care in adults with hypertension. Job satisfaction and turnover among nurses: integrating research findings across studies. May/June 1995 On small matters. Testing a model for posthospital transition of family caregivers for elderly persons. The influence of family resources and family demands on the strains and well-being of caregiving families. Rewards, costs, and coping of African American caregivers. A dyadic remediation program for care recipients with dementia. Combining behavior management and mutual goal setting to reduce physical dependency in nursing home residents. The effects of a special computer network on caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease. Perceived patient deviance and avoidance by nurses. Responses of premature infants to routine nursing interventions and noise in the NICU. The life history: a viable approach to nursing research. Conflicting agendas: Alice Fitzgerald and Philippine public health nursing. March/April 1995 Deaf and hearing parents' perceptions of family functioning. Nursing intensity as a predictor of resource consumption in public health nursing. One year in the life of a woman with premenstrual syndrome: a case study. Feasible and valid saliva collection for cortisol in transitional newborn infants. Comparing three methods of temperature taking: oral mercury-in-glass, oral Diatek, and tympanic First Temp. Hierarchical linear models: a multilevel data analysis technique. Of faults and fates. Analysis of the impact of mother-daughter relationships on the commitment to caregiving. Validity of the Creasy risk appraisal instrument for prediction of preterm labor. Nasogastric tube placement: effects on breathing and sucking in very-low-birth-weight infants. Predictors of role competence for experienced and inexperienced fathers. A longitudinal study of maternal depression and preschool children's mental health. January/February 1995 A theory of transformed parenting: parenting a child with developmental delay/mental retardation. The paradox of comfort. Health-promoting lifestyles of blue-collar, skilled trade, and white-collar workers. Structural and interpersonal impact of heterosexual assumptions on lesbian health care clients. Rx for a healthy NINR. Paternal-infant attachment of experienced and inexperienced fathers during infancy. Motor performance correlates of functional dependence in long-term care residents. Predicting Head Start parent involvement in an alcohol and other drug prevention program. A comparison of the effects of jaw relaxation and music on postoperative pain. Re: Factors associated with risk of stress urinary incontinence in women. Re: Regression analyses: what to report. Developing a measure of sense of belonging. November/December 1994 Information processing. Family caregivers of people with AIDS: negotiating partnerships with professional health care providers. Maternal employment effects on families and preterm infants at 18 months. Cognitive adaptation to stressful events during pregnancy and postpartum: development and testing of the CASE instrument. Maternal-infant attachment of experienced and inexperienced mothers during infancy. A digital test for pelvic muscle strength in women with urinary incontinence. Dietary fiber and distressing gastrointestinal symptoms in midlife women. Predicting metabolic control in diabetes: a pilot study using meta-analysis to estimate a linear model. Use of distraction with children during an acute pain experience. Discriminating types of medication calculation errors in nursing practice. Managing questionnaire data through optical scanning technology. September/October 1994 A reexamination of the association between HOME scores and income. Wanted: a few good jumblies. Examination of the factor structure of the Ways of Coping Questionnaire with clinical populations. A critical analysis of hardiness. Visual characteristics of aspirates from feeding tubes as a method for predicting tube location. Social support and well-being in adolescents: the mediating role of hopefulness. Pathologic apnea and brief respiratory pauses in preterm infants: relation to sleep state. Factors associated with risk of stress urinary incontinence in women. Infusing research into practice to promote quality care. Testing the homogeneity of correlated variances from a bivariate normal distribution. Colonizing: a measurement of the development of a profession. July/August 1994 Hitching the research wagon to theory. Functional status and the forward progress of merry-go-rounds: toward a coherent analytical framework. Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of topical nitroglycerin ointment to facilitate venous cannulation. The effect of low-intensity aerobic exercise on muscle strength, flexibility, and balance among sedentary elderly persons. Predictors of metamemory in older adults. Caregiving transitions: changes in depression among family caregivers of relatives with dementia. Physiological responses of premature infants to a painful stimulus. Blood pressure rhythms in early school-age children of normotensive and hypertensive parents: a replication study. Lesbians recovering from alcohol problems: an ethnographic study of health care experiences. A decision-analytic approach to clinical nursing. Use of debriefing techniques to prevent compassion fatigue in research teams. Research incentives: money versus gifts. May/June 1994 Regression analyses: what to report. Clinical trials revisited. Meta-analysis of physiological outcomes of hospital-based infant intervention programs. Impact of marital quality and psychological well-being on parental sensitivity. Nurse-computer interaction: staff performance outcomes. Test of the Health Promotion Model as a causal model of workers' use of hearing protection. Effects of education and support on breast self-examination in older women. Pelvic muscles during rest: responses to pelvic muscle exercise. First postoperative week activity patterns and recovery in women after coronary artery bypass surgery. Rewarming cardiac surgery patients: radiant heat versus forced warm air. The insider/outsider dilemma: field experience of a white researcher getting in a poor black community. Complications following prenatal genetic procedures. Re: Physical and emotional abuse in pregnancy: a comparison of adult and teenage women. March/April 1994 Development of the Breast-Feeding Attrition Prediction Tool. Maternal identity and role attainment: long-term relations to children's development. Effects of clarification of support expectations in prenatal couples. Determination of reading comprehension level for effective patient health-education materials. Implementation of work sampling methodology. Using the SAS system to estimate sample size and power for comparing two binomial proportions. The ghost of Tuskegee. Attachment and quality of life in older, community-residing men. Contextual factors associated with disturbing behaviors in institutionalized elders. Predictors of paternal role competence by risk status. Health-promoting behaviors of African American women. Physiologic status, coping, and hardiness as predictors of outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The meaning of stressful life experiences in nine- to eleven-year-old children: a phenomenological study. January/February 1994 Determinants of exercise and aerobic fitness in outpatients with arthritis. Intestinal transit and body weight responses to ovarian hormones and dietary fiber in rats. Differentiation of women with three perimenstrual symptom patterns. On fishing expeditions. Pain: its mediators and associated morbidity in critically ill cardiovascular surgical patients. Predictors of maternal role competence by risk status. Multidimensional predictors of success or failure with early weaning from mechanical ventilation after cardiac surgery. Drug combinations and potential for risk of adverse drug reaction among community-dwelling elderly. Coping with unplanned childhood hospitalization: effects of informational interventions on mothers and children. Artifact management in pupillometry. Milking data or meeting commitments: how many papers from one study? The ghost of Tuskegee. November/December 1993 Alternative answers. Effectiveness of pH measurements in predicting feeding tube placement: an update. The effects of hydrogen peroxide rinses on the normal oral mucosa. Cue familiarity reduces spatial disorientation following hippocampal damage. Temporal dissociation of recovery from antinociceptive and motor effects following intrathecal administration of a selective mu-opioid agonist. The effects of activity and bed rest on tissue oxygen tension, perfusion, and plasma volume. Inspiratory muscle training in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Meperidine attenuates the febrile response to endotoxin and interleukin-1 alpha in rats. Reliability of sleep diaries for assessment of sleep/wake patterns. Testing the sensitivity of a biologic assay for mutagenicity. Re: 'Challenging misperceptions about nurses' moral reasoning'. Re: Issues in methods and measurement of thermodilution cardiac output. September/October 1993 Poster update: getting their attention. What's in a name? What does the NCATS (Nursing Child Assessment Teaching Scale) measure? Further psychometric evaluation of the Spanish language health-promoting lifestyle profile. Influence of functional, urological, and environmental characteristics on urinary incontinence in community-dwelling older women. Theoretical and methodological differentiation of moderation and mediation. The applicability of sequential analysis to nursing research. Examining amount and pattern of change: comparing repeated measures ANOVA and individual regression analysis. Permuted block design for randomization in a nursing clinical trial. Systematic sampling: theory and clinical methods. To correlate or not to correlate: what is the question? Instrument format issues in assessing the elderly: the Iowa Self-Assessment Inventory. Self-as-instrument in qualitative research. Nonnutritive sucking: effects on crying and heart rate in intubated infants requiring assisted mechanical ventilation. Evaluating abstracts: preparing a research conference. Coding dummy variables and calculating the relative risk in a logistic regression. Keeping abreast of the literature electronically. Inventing nursing research. July/August 1993 The effective presentation of graphs. Someone wants to meet you. Physical and psychosocial side effects of antepartum hospital bed rest. Determination of thermoregulatory state in full-term infants. Determinants of positive health behavior in middle childhood. Effects of developmental care on behavioral organization in very-low-birth-weight infants. Self-care actions of healthy middle-aged women to promote well-being. Issues in methods and measurement of thermodilution cardiac output. Comparison of prochlorperazine and lorazepam antiemetic regimens in the control of postchemotherapy symptoms. Predictors of function among older Hispanic immigrants: a five-year follow-up. Comparison of liaison and staff nurses in discharge referrals of postpartum patients for public health nursing follow-up. Re: 'Effects of communication training on parents and young adolescents'. Re: 'Measurement of recovery from myocardial infarction using heart rate variability and psychological outcomes'. May/June 1993 An editor for all seasons. An exploration of Pender's Health Promotion Model using LISREL. Instrument refinement for breast cancer screening behaviors. Factor analysis of the Maternal Fetal Attachment Scale. Parental Stressor Scale: neonatal intensive care unit. Body image in women treated for breast cancer. Menstrual response to running: nursing implications. Gender differences in exercise determinants. Physical and emotional abuse in pregnancy: a comparison of adult and teenage women. Factors related to graduate nursing faculty scholarly productivity. Treating ordinal scales as ordinal scales. Children's Bureau: guardian of American children. March/April 1993 The development of sucking patterns and physiologic correlates in very-low-birth-weight infants. Incidence and pattern of jaundice in healthy breast-fed infants during the first month of life. The effect of regularly scheduled naps on sleep attacks and excessive daytime sleepiness associated with narcolepsy. The current generation of research proposals: reviewers' viewpoints. Comparison of factor analysis options using the Home/Employment Orientation Scale. Re: 'Predicting AIDS patient care intentions among nursing students'. Development and testing of the Mastery of Stress Instrument. Measurement of recovery from myocardial infarction using heart rate variability and psychological outcomes. Predicting alcohol use in rural children: a longitudinal study. Measurement of activity. Correlates of fatigue in older adults with rheumatoid arthritis. January/February 1993 Assessment of measures to detect preschool academic risk in very-low-birth-weight children. Re: 'The role of nursing research committees'. Effects of communication training on parents and young adolescents. Deciding on breast cancer treatment: a description of decision behavior. Replication and validation of anticipated turnover model for urban registered nurses. How to get to the point. Nurses' job satisfaction: a meta-analysis of related variables. Teetering on the edge: a substantive theory of postpartum depression. Effects of information on adaptation to cesarean birth. Assessment of postoperation pain in children and adolescents using the adolescent pediatric pain tool. Guidance for managing a research grant. November/December 1992 Persistence. Challenging misperceptions about nurses' moral reasoning. Validation of the PRQ85 social support measure for adolescents. The HOME scale: the influence of socioeconomic status on the evaluation of the home environment. Concurrent validity of a new instrument for measuring nutritive sucking in preterm infants. Instrument development: cardiac diet and exercise self-efficacy. Finishing first grade: a study of school achievement in very-low-birth-weight children. Patients' reactions to completion of adjuvant breast cancer therapy. Symptoms of preterm labor and self-diagnostic confusion. Re: 'More than skin deep' (July/August editorial) Re: 'The role of nursing research committees'. Perinatal factors and infant temperament: a collaborative approach. Standardization of the visual analogue scale. Edith Cavell: traitor or savior? September/October 1992 Nurses' perceptions of the dimensions of nursing care episodes. Much ado about nothing. A path model of type A and type B responses to coping and stress in employed black women. Model for predicting work performance among persons with multiple sclerosis. Increasing condom-use intentions among sexually active black adolescent women. Physiological and psychological variables related to functional status in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Standardization of a device to measure unsupported arm exercise endurance in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Temperature and temperature measurement after induced hypothermia. Psychiatric rehospitalization of the severely mentally ill: patient and staff perspectives. Effects of age on lump detection accuracy. Storage of research data: why, how, where? A measure of distress reaction to diarrhea in ventilated tube-fed patients. The consumer approach to recruitment of elder subjects. The demotion of Helen LaMalle. July/August 1992 Effects of group interventions on cognition and depression in nursing home residents. More than skin deep. Measurement of safe sex behavior in adolescents and young adults. A randomized trial of a health care program for first-time adolescent mothers and their infants. Determinants of career attainments of doctorates in nursing. Preventability of infant mortality in a rural community. Parental division of infant care: contextual influences and infant characteristics. Psychosocial variables, race, and intention to seek care for breast cancer symptoms. Relaxation to reduce dyspnea and anxiety in COPD patients. The role of Nursing Research Committees. Case-control design: an appropriate strategy for nursing research. May/June 1992 Faculty-student publication. Development of the Applied Liberal Education Competences Scale. Nursing care requirements and resource consumption in home health care. Systemic responses to different enteral feeding schedules in rats. Alternate explanations of loneliness in adolescents: a replication and extension study. Facilitating inactive awake states in preterm infants: a study of three interventions. Vulnerability and temperament in very low birth weight school-aged children. The lived experience of postpartum depression: a phenomenological study. Predicting AIDS patient care intentions among nursing students. Personal risking: lesbian self-disclosure of sexual orientation to professional health care providers. The clinical research center: important resource for the nurse investigator. Instrumentation in cross-cultural research. Re: 'Effectiveness of the auscultatory method in predicting feeding tube location'. Re: 'Informing the media'. Re: 'Making practice perfect'. Nurse Marjorie Heeley and the Mother's Club. March/April 1992 Fishbein's model of reasoned action and compliance behavior of hypertensive patients. After the casualties: Vietnam nurses' identities and career decisions. Opportunities for nurse researchers in clinical trials. Validity threats in scheduled semistructured research interviews. Achievement of eminent American nurses of the past: a prosopographical study. Re: 'Changes in nutritive sucking patterns with increasing gestational age'. Re: 'Pain reduction interventions during neonatal circumcision'. Caging the pushmi-pullu. Cooling effects and comfort of four cooling blanket temperatures in humans with fever. The Urine Stream Interruption Test and pelvic muscle function. Cognitive discriminants of wandering among nursing home residents. Measurement of the sensory qualities in tactile interaction. A comparison of the auscultated acceleration test and the nonstress test as predictors of perinatal outcomes. Stress and mediators: patients' perceptions of infertility treatment. Ethnicity and health among five Middle Eastern immigrant groups. January/February 1992 Caring in its proper place: race and benevolence in Charleston, SC, 1813-1930. Half a loaf is better than no bread: public health nurses and physicians in Ontario, 1920-1925. An historical perspective of Confederate nursing during the Civil War, 1861-1865. Nurses under attack: the Lewes Riot and the Society of St. Margaret. The nature of history: meditations on Clio's craft. The changing face of nursing. Aspirations unattained: the story of the Illinois Training School's search for university status. The spirituality of Florence Nightingale. Watchful vigilance: nursing care, technology, and the development of intensive care units. Research and reform: community nursing and the Framingham Tuberculosis Project, 1914-1923. November/December 1991 Re: 'Hemodynamic and oxygen transport changes following endotracheal suctioning in trauma patients'. A meta-analysis of effects of heparin flush and saline flush: quality and cost implications. Alzheimer's disease and family caregiving: critical synthesis of the literature and research agenda. AIDS family caregiving: transitions through uncertainty. Summary statements of the NIH Nursing Research Grant Applications. Measurement of quality of primary studies for meta-analysis. Randomization by cluster. Three sides of the same coin: the analysis of paired data from dyads. Triangulation: operational definitions. Canonical analysis in nursing research. The logistic regression model and the odds of testing HIV positive. Inventions and patents. Accuracy of apical pulse rate measurements in young children. September/October 1991 Making practice perfect. Coping and health outcomes in spouse caregivers of persons with dementia. Beliefs about AIDS, health, and illness in low-income white women. Maternal employment effects on family and preterm infants at three months. Choosing and using contraception: toward a theory of women's contraceptive self-care. Variation in intravaginal pressure measurements. Empowering potential: a theory of wellness motivation. Newborn behavioral performance in colic and noncolic infants. Re: 'The effect of lung hyperinflation and endotracheal suctioning on cardiopulmonary hemodynamics'. Linkages between community mental health centers and public mental hospitals. Perceived stress, trait anger, modes of anger expression, and health status of college men and women. Stress and health in low birthweight infants: a longitudinal study. Regression discontinuity design: alternative for nursing research. Lillian Wald: public health pioneer. July/August 1991 Social support needs of family caregivers of psychiatric patients from three age groups. Informing the media. Psychologic and physiologic aspects of acute dyspnea in asthmatics. Perceived well-being of persons quitting smoking. The abdomen, thigh, and arm as sites for subcutaneous sodium heparin injections. Psychosocial predictors of maternal depressive symptoms, parenting attitudes, and child behavior in single-parent families. Type A behavior in children: psychometric properties of the Matthews Youth Test for Health. Applying the theory of reasoned action to AIDS risk behavior: condom use among black women. Re: 'A review of the literature on cocaine abuse in pregnancy'. Re: 'Planning sample sizes: comparison of factor level means'. Uncertainty in illness theory: a replication of the mediating effects of mastery and coping. Pain reduction interventions during neonatal circumcision. Changes in nutritive sucking patterns with increasing gestational age. *, **, and ***: statistical nonsense at the .00000 level. Using slopes to measure directional change. Diary of a nurse. Re: 'Effectiveness of the auscultatory method in predicting feeding tube location'. May/June 1991 Values. Hemodynamic and oxygen transport changes following endotracheal suctioning in trauma patients. Endotracheal suctioning-induced heart rate alterations. Coping and adaptation in children with diabetes. Outcomes of developmentally supportive nursing care for very low birth weight infants. Acoustic discrimination of three types of infant cries. Empirical development of a middle range theory of caring. Uncertainty in gynecological cancer: a test of the mediating functions of mastery and coping. The prevalence of substance abuse among registered nurses. Self-care actions taken by older adults for influenza and colds. A model for the study of skin microcirculation. Design of a Dutch study to test preventive home visits to the elderly. Consensus denied. March/April 1991 Prevalence of cigarette smoking in Hispanic women of childbearing age. Reliability and validity of the work assessment scale for persons with multiple sclerosis. A summary of findings of a five-year comparison study of primary and team nursing. Homeostasis conservation among undergraduate nursing students. Approaches to qualitative-quantitative methodological triangulation. The death of Sadie Sachs. Re: 'Adolescent reactions to sibling death: perceptions of mothers, fathers, and teenagers'. The missing puzzle piece. A review of the literature on cocaine abuse in pregnancy. The effect of lung hyperinflation and endotracheal suctioning on cardiopulmonary hemodynamics. The sensation of pulmonary dyspnea in school-age children. An evaluation of three blood pressure methods in a stabilized acute trauma population. Comparison of tympanic and oral temperatures in surgical patients. Serial neurobehavioral assessments in preterm infants. The emergence of body temperature biorhythm in preterm infants. January/February 1991 Comparative analysis of three instruments designed to measure self-care agency. The reliability of magnitude estimation for dyspnea measurement. GI symptoms, function, and psychophysiological arousal in dysmenorrheic women. Circadian rhythms in blood pressure in school-age children of normotensive and hypertensive parents. Premature rupture of the membranes and sepsis in preterm neonates. A construction report. Factors influencing the coping effort of mothers of hospitalized children. Construct and empirical validity of the Self-As-Carer Inventory. Self-transcendence and mental health in oldest-old adults. Psychometric and descriptive perspectives of illness impact over the life span. Planning sample sizes: comparison of factor level means. Use of health diaries with children. Contract nursing 1890. January/February 1990 AIDS-related risk factors, medical diagnosis, do-not-resuscitate orders and aggressiveness of nursing care. November/December 1990 AIDS-related risk factors, medical diagnosis, do-not-resuscitate orders and aggressiveness of nursing care. Words from a Dutch aunt. Predicting health-promoting lifestyles in the workplace. Regimen compliance two years after myocardial infarction. The IPR inventory: development and psychometric characteristics. Development and psychometric properties of the Schoolagers' Coping Strategies Inventory. Quality of life as a function of HIV classification. Mediators of daily stress and perceived health status in adolescent girls. Statistical power in nursing research. Use of arterial blood for glucose measurement by reflectance. How well does expert opinion represent the generalist nurse? Three methods of random assignment: comparison of balance achieved on potentially confounding variables. Moments in nursing history 1931. Crossroads revisited. September/October 1990 Effectiveness of the auscultatory method in predicting feeding tube location. Adaptation to multiple sclerosis: the role of social support, functional disability, and perceived uncertainty. Moments in nursing history. 1893. Of exclusion and divided houses. A Spanish language version of the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile. Validation of tardive dyskinesia as measured on the Dyskinesia Identification System--Coldwater. Effects of extremity wraps to control drug-induced shivering: a pilot study. Direct and indirect blood pressure in critical care patients. Sugar and spice: similarities and sensory attributes. Re: 'Effects of waterbed flotation on indicators of energy expenditure in preterm infants'. Re: 'Use of Q-sort methodology in cross-cultural nutrition and health research'. Responses to chronic illness: analysis of psychological and physiological adaptation. Spontaneous causal searching and adjustment to abnormal Papanicolaou test results. Population or sample: design decision. Needed: a national repository of nursing research data. Assessment of the reliability and validity of biochemical measures. July/August 1990 Moments in nursing history. 1970. Four hundred postcards. It's always Monday. Effect of position on cardiovascular response during the Valsalva maneuver. The measurement of oxygen tension in tissue. Measurement of Type A behavior in preschoolers. Measures of social support: assessment of validity. Re: 'Multiple triangulation: applications in a program of research'. The Health-Related Hardiness Scale: development and psychometric analysis. Agonizing questioning: experiences of survivors of suicide victims. A structural model of stress, psychosocial resources, and symptomatic experience in chronic physical illness. Factors related to maternal employment status following the premature birth of an infant. Transcutaneous bilirubinometer: an instrument for clinical research. Reliability issues of the family environment scale for cross-cultural research. A protocol of safety: research on abuse of women. Nursing Research Consortium on Violence and Abuse. USPHS funds national AIDS study. Increasing the precision of data analysis: planned comparisons versus omnibus tests. May/June 1990 Diarrhea associated with tube feeding in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients. Comprehensive discharge planning for hospitalized elderly: a pilot study. Who was Alice Fisher? Accuracy counts, too. Sleep onset latency and distress in hospitalized children. Effects of waterbed flotation on indicators of energy expenditure in preterm infants. Postoperative temperature measurement. Patients' control and the information imperative: clarification and confirmation. Re: 'Coding error in 'stress process among mothers of infants' and 'longitudinal analysis of stress process among mothers of infants'. Re: 'Psychometric analysis of the family scale'. Re: 'Testing linear model assumptions: residual analysis'. Patient experiences with research in a tertiary care setting. Use of qualitative methods to enhance content validity. Innovation adoption behavior among nurses. Restlessness in the elderly: the effect of artificial lighting. Strategies to minimize attrition in longitudinal studies. Data management issues in longitudinal research. March/April 1990 Barriers to care: operationalizing the variable. Season of birth and laterality of breast cancer. Moments in nursing history 1940. Stepping in. Re: 'Integrity of Vinyl and Latex Procedure Gloves'. Adolescent reactions to sibling death: perceptions of mothers, fathers, and teenagers. Nurses' job satisfaction: a proposed measure. Treating ordinal scales as interval scales: an attempt to resolve the controversy. Focus groups: a research technique for nursing. Publish and perish. Changes in functional status after childbirth. Predictors of family functioning eight months following birth. Impact of caretaker stress on behavioral adjustment of very low birth weight preschool children. Breast-feeding problems in the first week postpartum. Predicting breast self-examination using the theory of reasoned action. Re: 'AIDS and traditional health beliefs and practices of black women'. January/February 1990 Use of the McGill Pain Questionnaire to measure pain: a meta-analysis. Laboring for relevance: expectant and new fatherhood. Uncertainty and adjustment during radiotherapy. Postterm pregnancy: effects on temperature and glucose regulation. Parental stress response to sexual abuse and ritualistic abuse of children in day-care centers. The relationship of temperament to pre- and posthospitalization behavioral responses of school-age children. The theory funding connection. A test of the Self-Help Model: learned response to chronic illness experience. Type A behavior and cardiovascular responses during verbalization in cardiac patients. A model of psychological adaptation to migration and resettlement. Seeing the importance of blindness. Factor analysis revisited. November/December 1989 New questions and new answers. Effects of age on autonomic cardiovascular responsiveness in healthy men and women. The effect of circumvaginal muscle (CVM) exercise. Effect of backrest on central venous pressure in pediatric cardiac surgery. A longitudinal analysis of stress process among mothers of infants. Development of a system for monitoring infant state behavior. Effects of aerobic interval training on cancer patients' functional capacity. Themes of grief. Re: NCNR's review process. Predictors of depression among wife caregivers. Reaction to the Diagnosis of Cancer Questionnaire: development and psychometric evaluation. Testing of an Index of Pulmonary Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis. Improving response rate to mailed questionnaires. Goldilocks and variability. Secondary data analysis: a valuable resource. Re: Use of colons in article titles. Accessing clinical agencies: the do's and don'ts. September/October 1989 Effectiveness of pH measurements in predicting feeding tube placement. Social support instruments created by nurse investigators. Visual analogue scales: measurement of subjective phenomena. Doing it again. A psychometric analysis of the Family Environment Scale. Quantifying the minimum discard sample required for accurate arterial blood gases. Re: 'Examination of a Survey Methodology: Dillman's Total Design Method'. Use of Q-sort methodology in cross-cultural nutrition and health research. The crossover design in clinical nursing research. Multiple triangulation: applications in a program of nursing research. Guidelines for integration of quantitative and qualitative approaches. Meta-analysis: appropriate tool for the integration of nursing research? Analysis of covariance in nursing research. A cautionary note on the use of stepwise regression. Causal modeling: a comparison of path analysis and LISREL. Transferring data files between microcomputer statistical packages. July/August 1989 Beta-endorphin levels during pregnancy and labor: a role in pain modulation? The effects of relaxation training on clinical symptoms: a meta-analysis. A digital test for pelvic muscle strength in older women with urinary incontinence. Psychosocial predictors of pregnancy outcomes in low-income black, Hispanic, and white women. AIDS and traditional health beliefs and practices of black women. Analysis of the Jalowiec Scale with cardiac patients' spouses. The relationship between weight gain and nutrition in pregnancy. Development of maternal-fetal attachment during pregnancy. Very low birth-weight infants: parental visiting and telephoning during initial infant hospitalization. New fathers' blood pressure and heart rate: relationships to interaction with their newborn infants. Maternal reasons for delayed prenatal care. Posturination time and specific gravity in infants' diapers. Follow-up of premature infants of low socioeconomic status. Response effects in surveys with school-age children. Longitudinal studies as intervention. May/June 1989 Integrity of vinyl and latex procedure gloves. Pain interventions with children: a meta-analysis of research. Nursing's divided loyalties: an historical case study. Managing measurement error. Glue. Digital measurement of pelvic muscle strength in childbearing women. Preexisting physical activity level and cardiovascular responses across the Valsalva maneuver. Model confirmation of the MS-Related Symptom Checklist. Re: Conversion to SI units. Neonatal sucking as a clinical assessment tool: preliminary findings. Shared values: impact on staff nurse job satisfaction and perceived productivity. Reliability of weighing procedures for preterm infants. Effects of walking on balance among elders. Methodological issues related to gerontological nursing research. QUAL: a mainframe program for qualitative data analysis. Use of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for postoperative pain. March/April 1989 Comparison of pulmonary vascular pressures based on blood volume and ventilator status. Randomized clinical trials: issues for researchers. Use of magnitude estimation for estimating the parameters of dyspnea. Effect of fetal movement, ultrasound scans, and amniocentesis on maternal-fetal attachment. Organizational integrative mechanisms and adoption of innovations by nurses. Tenure and the university reward structure. Home visits: effective or obsolete nursing practice? Contextual regression analysis. Insights from the glorious whitewasher. Urinary bladder and rectal temperature monitoring during clinical hypothermia. Re: 'Physical Restraint of the Hospitalized Elderly: Perceptions of Patients and Nurses'. Comparison of rectal, axillary, and inguinal temperatures in full-term newborn infants. A causal model of positive health practices: the relationship between approach and replication. Family caregiving for a relative with Alzheimer's dementia: coping with negative choices. A test of the health promotion model with blue collar workers. January/February 1989 Self-reported adjustment, chronic sorrow, and coping of parents of children with Down syndrome. Effects of music and imagery on physiologic and self-report of analogued labor pain. Stressors and patterns of coping in renal transplant patients. Stress process among mothers of infants: preliminary model testing. A test of two explanatory models of women's responses to battering. A meterstone. Appraisals of bereavement, coping, resources, and psychosocial health dysfunction in widows and widowers. Perceived and received support: effects on health behavior during pregnancy. An evaluation of two indirect methods of blood pressure measurement in ill patients. Interactional styles of nurse practitioners and physicians regarding patient decision making. Examination of a survey methodology: Dillman's Total Design Method. Re: 'Perceived self-care agency: a LISREL Factor Analysis of Bickel and Hanson's Questionnaire'. The potential uses of pilot work. November/December 1988 Measures to test placement of nasogastric and nasointestinal feeding tubes: a review. Maternal responses to home apnea monitoring of infants. Loneliness in early adolescents: an empirical test of alternate explanations. Hopefulness and the self-sustaining process in adolescents with cancer. Genetics or environment? Type A behavior and cardiovascular risk factors in twin children. Effect of nonnutritive sucking on behavioral state in preterm infants before feeding. Determinants of health promotion in midlife women. Self-regulation in individuals with type II diabetes. The meaning of illness questionnaire: reliability and validity. Analysis of a decade of nursing practice research: 1977-1986. Life-span developmental methods: application to nursing research. September/October 1988 Influence of a nursing intervention on regimen adherence and societal adjustments postmyocardial infarction. Nursing interventions and patient outcomes: a meta-analysis of studies. Re: 'Outcome of multiple usage of disposable syringes in the insulin-requiring diabetic'. You and I. Comparison of two teaching methods on children's knowledge of their internal bodies. Effect of stress on family functioning during pregnancy. Circadian rhythms of body temperature and activation and the well-being of older women. An attributional analysis of weight outcomes. Type A behavior and physiological cardiovascular risk factors in school-age twin children. Nurse performance: strengths and weaknesses. Structural equation models and nursing research: Part II. July/August 1988 Values in the choice of treatment: replication and refinement. Barriers: a critical review of recent literature. Effects of educational interventions in diabetes care: a meta-analysis of findings. Effect of relaxation therapy on post-myocardial infarction patients' rehabilitation. Development of a community health intensity rating scale. Stress and coping in siblings of childhood cancer patients. Anxiety, depression, and hostility in mothers of preterm infants. Stress, social support, and psychological distress of family caregivers of the elderly. Identification of stressors and use of coping methods in chronic hemodialysis patients. Relationships between role models and role perceptions of new graduate nurses. Re: 'Experiencing the research process by using statistical software on microcomputers'. Structural equation models and nursing research: Part I. Log-linear contingency table analysis: an illustration. Patient-controlled analgesia in clinical pain research measurement. May/June 1988 Effect of feeding tube properties and three irrigants on clogging rates. Maternal stresses and depressive symptoms: correlates of behavior problems in young children. A mixed method approach for using cross-sectional data for longitudinal inferences. Scientific conversation. Physical restraint of the hospitalized elderly: perceptions of patients and nurses. Observer-rated functional assessments for institutionalized elders. Transitions over the life cycle: a comparison of mothers and nonmothers. Type A behavior and cardiovascular responsivity in preschoolers. Comparisons of rectal, femoral, axillary, and skin-to-mattress temperatures in stable neonates. Circadian disruption and surgical recovery. A survey of doctorally prepared academic nurses on qualitative and quantitative research issues. Stress versus strain: a methodological critique. Is the Likert scale format culturally biased? Pragmatic aspects of establishing interrater reliability in research. March/April 1988 Microcomputer-based bibliographic searching. Psychosomatic symptoms in parents 2 years after the death of a child with cancer. Gastrointestinal symptoms and bowel patterns across the menstrual cycle in dysmenorrhea. Comparisons of cardiac output in supine and lateral positions. Use of regression diagnostics in nursing studies. Interviewer training and supervision. Developmental and temperament outcomes of sensory stimulation in healthy infants. Return of functional ability after childbirth. Postpartal anxiety and depression in mothers of term and preterm infants. Progression of labor pain in primiparas and multiparas. Social support in patients' and husbands' adjustment to breast cancer. Finding meaning: antecedents of uncertainty in illness. January/February 1988 Development of a measure of learned helplessness. Development of an instrument to measure stress in the older adult. Primiparas' prenatal concern for learning infant care. Self-reported factors influencing exercise adherence in overweight women. On babies and bathwater. Mental distress and recovery in a high-risk bereavement sample three years after untimely death. Bottle- and breast-feeding: effects on transcutaneous oxygen pressure and temperature in preterm infants. Use of the Piers-Harris Self-Concept Scale with Indian children: cultural considerations. Interrater reliability decline under covert assessment. Collaborative research and authorship credit: beginning guidelines. Reliability in category coding systems. Experiencing the research process by using statistical software on microcomputers. Development of an instrument to measure hope. Nursing research and AIDS. November/December 1987 Family adjustment to heart transplantation: redesigning the dream. Outcome of multiple usage of disposable syringes in the insulin-requiring diabetic. Using PERT to keep a nursing research project humming. The time of our lives. Toward self-integration: the recovery process of chemically dependent nurses. Use of nursing practice research findings. Menopausal stage, current life change, attitude toward women's roles, and perceived health status. Diagnostic reasoning strategies of nurses and nursing students. Footwear practices and operating room contamination. Nurses' responses to do-not-resuscitate orders in the neonatal intensive care unit. Work stress, hardiness, and burnout among hospital staff nurses. Remembering the peer in peer review. Perceived self-care agency: a LISREL factor analysis of Bickel and Hanson's questionnaire. Gynecologic age: prediction in adolescent female research. September/October 1987 A social support measure: PRQ85. Studies of nurse practitioner effectiveness. Delineation of nursing administration research priorities. Fatal flaws. Difficulty: a neglected factor in health promotion. Re: 'Adult attention to infants in a newborn nursery'. Parsimony and model confirmation of the ADL Self-Care Scale for multiple sclerosis persons. Theoretical modeling to predict physiological indicants of cardiac preventive behaviors. A meta-analysis of critical outcome variables in nonnutritive sucking in preterm infants. Patient and situational factors that affect nursing students' like or dislike of caring for patients. Relation of the feeding cycle to neurobehavioral assessment in preterm infants: a pilot study. Reliability of maximal inspiratory pressure. The microcomputer: an alternative for data analysis. Translation of quantitative measures for use in cross-cultural research. July/August 1987 The Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk. Reliability and validity of mental status questionnaires in elderly hospitalized patients. Controlled supplemental oxygenation during tracheobronchial hygiene. Re: On 'Toward a theory of nursing action: skills and competency in nurse-patient interaction'. Re: 'Spouses' body image changes during and after pregnancy: a replication and extension'. Adjustment of patients and husbands to the initial impact of breast cancer. Mexican American, nurse practitioner, and lay control group beliefs about cause and treatment of chest pain. Psychiatric inpatients' perception of the seclusion-room experience. Spousal differences in marital satisfaction during transition to parenthood. An instrument for the measurement of infant-adult synchrony. Research activities of clinical nurse researchers. Private sector support of nursing research. Discriminant analysis. Approaches to avoiding errors in data sets: a technical note. May/June 1987 Scholarly business cards. Comparison of neonatal nighttime sleep-wake patterns in nursery versus rooming-in environments. Patient management of pain medication after cardiac surgery. Dimensions of client control. Aggressiveness of nursing care for older patients and those with do-not-resuscitate orders. Children's preoperative coping: replication and extension. Differences in stress and coping findings: a reflection of social realities or methodologies? Serum indirect bilirubin levels and meconium passage in early fed normal newborns. Predictors of dyspnea intensity in asthma. The occurrence of symptoms in expectant fathers. Replicated testing of the Nursing Technology Model. A triangulation of methods and paradigms to study nurse-given wellness care. Re: 'Developmental progress in very low birth weight infants during the first year of life'. March/April 1987 Social support, threat, and coping responses and effectiveness in the functionally disabled. Profile of the well-controlled, well-adjusted hypertensive patient. Doctoral education in nursing: an assessment of quality, 1979-1984. Re: 'Off with their heads!'. Factors related to women's practice of breast self-examination. Taking sides: a response to Goodwin and Goodwin. Testing linear model assumptions: residual analysis. Multiple regression analysis with small samples: cautions and suggestions. Re: 'Stress in ICU and non-ICU nurses'. The Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile: development and psychometric characteristics. Development of the Scale of Humanistic Nursing Behaviors. On the prevalence of causal search in illness situations. Analyses of coping responses and adjustment: stability of conclusions. January/February 1987 'All a woman's life can bring': the domestic roots of nursing in Philadelphia, 1830-1885. 'A cooperative venture' in pursuit of professional status: a research journal for nursing. Nursing and politics: a forgotten legacy. The American Nurses' Association influence on federal funding for nursing education, 1941-1984. Missing data: nurses with their patients. Left carrying the bag: experiments in visiting nursing, 1877-1909. From custody to community in psychiatric nursing. A caring dilemma: womanhood and nursing in historical perspective. Sources and references for research in nursing history. Forging a research discipline. Defining nursing: a historic controversy. Thoughts on the nature of history. Clio and caring: an agenda for American historians and nursing. November/December 1986 Homogeneity of potassium chloride in small volume intravenous containers. Re: 'Toward a theory of nursing: skills and competency in nurse-patient interaction'. Relationship between percent body fat and menstrual patterns in athletes and nonathletes. Self-esteem, social support, and positive health practices. Theoretical models for studying the effect of antepartum stress on the family. Relating mothers' anxiety and perception to infant satiety, anxiety, and feeding behavior. Mothering behavior and maternal role attainment during the postpartum period. Adult attention to infants in a newborn nursery. Effect of the birth chair on duration of second stage labor and maternal outcome. Developmental resources and depression in the elderly. The D-L test of agreement: a stronger measure of interrater reliability. Randomized experiments in nursing: the quality of reporting. Determination and quantification of content validity. September/October 1986 Effects of cognitive and pharmacologic strategies on analogued labor pain. Complexity of ambulatory care: nurse practitioner and physician caseloads. Covergowns and the control of operating room contamination. Infant crying during aircraft descent. Effect of preoperative instruction on postoperative outcomes: a meta-analysis. Informational needs of recently diagnosed cancer patients. Effect of role clarity and empathy on support role performance and anxiety. Expectant fathers at risk for couvade. Initial handling of newborn infants by vaginally and cesarean-delivered mothers. The circumvaginal musculature: correlation between pressure and physical assessment. Time-series analysis in nursing research: ARIMA modeling. July/August 1986 Developmental progress in very low birth weight infants during the first year of life. Stressors associated with coronary bypass surgery. Chemically dependent nurses: the trajectory toward self-annihilation. An instrument to assess the dynamic characteristics of the circumvaginal musculature. Comparison of intramuscular injection techniques to reduce site discomfort and lesions. Effect of tachypnea on oral temperature estimation: a replication. Patient falls in the acute care setting: identifying risk factors. Spouses' body image changes during and after pregnancy: a replication and extension. Toward a theory of nursing action: skills and competency in nurse-patient interaction. The structure of problem solving in simulations. Re: 'Stress in ICU and non-ICU nurses'. Nurse practitioner-patient interactional analyses during well-child visits. On 'toward a theory of nursing action: skills and competency in nurse-patient interaction'. Three estimates of interrater reliability for nominal data. May/June 1986 Determination of normal variation in skin blood flow velocity in healthy adults. Spouses' physical and psychological symptoms during pregnancy and the postpartum. Food for thought. Validation of infant behavior identified by neonatal nurses. Temperament in very low birth weight infants. Re: Nursing practice in women's health--concept paper. Re: 'Circadian rhythms: basis for screening for fever'. Father-newborn interaction: effects of social competence and infant state. The sensations of pulmonary dyspnea. Development and testing of the circumvaginal muscles rating scale. Relationship of demographic, life-style, and stress variables to blood pressure in adolescents. Normal and overweight adults: perceived weight and health behavior characteristics. Development of a tool to measure subjective time experience. Perceived susceptibility to breast cancer and practice of breast self-examination. Evaluating validity of screening tests. Time-series designs in clinical nursing research: human issues. March/April 1986 No research versus research with compromised results: a study of validation therapy. Effects of therapeutic touch on tension headache pain. Re: 'Handwashing: ring-wearing and number of microorganisms'. Task complexity and nursing expertise as factors in decision making. Response sets in questionnaire research. Maternal role attainment and identity in the postpartum period: stability and change. Social support, stress, and health: a comparison of expectant mothers and fathers. Parent coping, a replication. Measure of attitude toward menopause using the semantic differential model. Leg volume changes with EPIC and posturing in dependent pregnancy edema. Human responses to chronic illness: physiologic and psychosocial adaptation. Variables associated with skin dryness in the elderly. January/February 1986 Color vision screening and viewing conditions: the problem of misdiagnosis. Relaxation training and response to cardiac catheterization: a pilot study. Conflicts, satisfactions, and attitudes during transition to the maternal role. Attitudes, subjective norms, and intentions to engage in health behaviors. Theoretical model testing to identify personality variables effecting preventive behaviors. Arthritis patients' self-reported affective states and their caregivers' perceptions. A new method to quantitatively describe pain behavior in infants. Here come the clones. Acute confusional states in hospitalized elderly: a research dilemma. Social support during pregnancy: a unidimensional or multidimensional construct? Development of the Nursing Career Preference Inventory. Effect of pushing techniques in birthing chair on length of second stage of labor. Re: Patient education in a public hospital. Continuous monitoring of mixed venous oxygen saturation: an instrument for research. Re: Stress in ICU and non-ICU nurses. Re: Institutional sources of articles published in 13 nursing journals, 1978-1982. Re: Physiological circadian rhythmicity in preterm infants. November/December 1985 Handedness and the laterality of breast cancer in women. Determinants of health promotion activities in nursing clinic clients. Breast massage to obtain contraction stress test. Rhythmic patterning in mother-newborn interaction. Parental network structure and perceived support after birth of first child. Predicting success in graduate clinical specialty programs. Health beliefs and practices of runners versus nonrunners. Psychometric evaluation of the Hemodialysis Stressor Scale. First trimester nausea in pregnant teenagers: incidence, characteristics, intervention. Concerns of breast-feeding mothers from birth to 4 months. Circadian rhythms: basis for screening for fever. What constitutes a publishable report of instrument development? Planning research studies: an alternative to power analysis. Dual-earner families' stress levels and personal and life-style-related variables. Nurse practitioner research: selected literature review and research agenda. September/October 1985 Major life events, daily stressors, and perimenstrual symptoms. Indicators of medical regimen adherence for myocardial infarction patients. The employment potential of hemodialysis patients. Urinary incontinence verification in elderly men. Goal setting and health risk reduction. Validity and reliability of the Collaborative Practice Scales. Medical students' views of the role of the nurse. Accuracy of self-reported measures of compliance. Effects of relaxation on anxiety in children: implications for coping with stress. Prediction of patient attrition from experimental behavioral interventions. The designs and methods of published nursing research: 1956-1983. July/August 1985 Stress in ICU and non-ICU nurses. The process of maternal role attainment over the first year. Mothers' and unrelated persons' initial handling of newborn infants. Development of the Infant Tenderness Scale. Spouse support and myocardial infarction patient compliance. Nursing students' assessments of behaviorally self-blaming rape victims. Types and sources of social support for managing job stress in critical care nursing. Predicting nurses' turnover and internal transfer behavior. Professional and bureaucratic role conceptions and moral behavior among nurses. Reliability estimates: use and disuse. Determining the market for nurse practitioner services: the New Haven experience. May/June 1985 A decision-making model for diagnosing and intervening in elder abuse and neglect. Quality of life of hearing-impaired older women. Relationship of socialization and stress to perimenstrual symptoms, disability, and menstrual attitudes. Work patterns of midlife female nurses. Comparison of professional activities of nurse doctorates and other women academics. Physiologic circadian rhythmicity in preterm infants. Oxygen uptake and cardiovascular responses in control adults and acute myocardial infarction patients during bathing. A reexamination of nursing role conceptions. The Health Self-Determinism Index. Patient education in a public hospital. Validity, reliability, and neither. Handwashing: ring-wearing and number of microorganisms. March/April 1985 A theoretical model of support network conflict experienced by new mothers. Development of a tool for diagnosing changes in concern about exercise: a means of enhancing compliance. Ethical decision making in a bureaucratic context by senior nursing students. Emerging content in nursing: an analysis of dissertation abstracts and titles: 1976-1982. The unification model in nursing: a study of receptivity among nurse educators in the United States. The telephone survey: a procedure for assessing educational needs of nurses. Identification of postdisaster bereavement risk predictors. Emotional symptoms and physical health in bereaved parents. Attributional analysis of chronic illness outcomes. Network structure, social support, and psychological outcomes of pregnancy. Effect of the birth chair on duration of second stage labor, fetal outcome, and maternal blood loss. January/February 1985 Role of diets in modifying gastrointestinal neurotransmitter enzyme activity. The impact of arthritis on quality of life. Physical attractiveness and nurses' perceptions of pediatric patients. Adherence to health care regimens among elderly women. Infant and preschool well-child care: master's- and nonmaster's-prepared pediatric nurse practitioners. Employment, family roles, and mental ill health in young married women. Forecasting for nursing policy: a news-based image approach. Cost savings as an indicator of successful nursing intervention. Predicting success in graduate clinical specialty programs. Smoking behavior of nurses in western New York. Approaches to cleaning data sets: a technical comment. Extraordinary attributes. Coronary bypass. Nursing's divided house--an historical view. November/December 1984 Presentation of research findings: the poster session. Appraisal of values in the choice of treatment. Color vision testing to assist in diagnosis of digoxin toxicity. Effect of nursing interventions on nutritional and performance status in cancer patients. The effects of parenteral nutrition on food intake and gastric motility. Stress-coping response to genitourinary carcinoma in men. Mean arterial pressure readings: variations with positions and transducer level. Health policy and NIH: implications for nursing research. Institutional sources of articles published in 13 nursing journals, 1978-1982. On the consequences of overturning turnover: a study of performance and turnover. Analgesic medication for elderly people post-surgery. Monitoring intracranial pressure. Qualitative vs. quantitative research or qualitative and quantitative research? September/October 1984 Self-report and psychophysiological effects of five pain-coping strategies. Progressive relaxation training in cardiac rehabilitation: effect on psychologic variables. Interaction between personal sleep-wake rhythms and psychiatric hospital rest-activity schedule. The relationship between social support and self-care practices. Promoting awareness: the mother and her baby. Coping in hospitalized children: an analysis of published case studies. Effects of an undergraduate research course on cognitive development. Re: Therapeutic touch. Temporal experience and bed rest: replication and refinement. Use of a dental irrigating device in the treatment of decubitus ulcers. Testing for experimental effects in the pretest-posttest design. July/August 1984 Evaluation of the Denver Developmental Screening Test as applied to African children. Stress-buffering effects of social support on maternal discipline. A comparison of perceptions of problematic behavior by six minority groups and mental health professionals. Value orientations as an assessment tool in cultural diversity. The Metro-Manila Developmental Screening Test: a normative study. Transitional newborn infants in a hospital nursery: from first oral cue to first sustained cry. Development of the Chronicity Impact and Coping Instrument: Parent Questionnaire (CICI:PQ). Consensus about the marital relationship during transition to parenthood. Expectation and attainment of nursing careers. Incentives for nurse employment. Increasing efficiency and precision of data analysis: multivariate vs. univariate statistical techniques. Patients on hemodialysis. May/June 1984 Efficiency of automated literature search mechanisms. Physiological effects of human/companion animal bonding. Morale and perceived control in institutionalized elderly. Depression as an explanation for decreased subjective time in the elderly. Alterations in circadian excretion of urinary variables and physiological indicators of stress following surgery. Preadmission self-instruction booklets, postadmission exercise performance, and teaching time. The measurement of clinical pain. Psychometric assessment of the Jalowiec Coping Scale. Effectiveness of health promotion interventions. A conceptual explanation of risk-reduction behavior and intervention development. Knowledge of medical terminology among hospital patients. Evaluating change using noninterval data. March/April 1984 The relation of selected psychosocial variables to single status of adult women during pregnancy. The effect of type of thermometer and length of time inserted on oral temperature measurements of afebrile subjects. Internal psychometric characteristics of the quality patient care scale. The use of power estimation in nursing research. Cerebrovascular status of severe closed head injured patients following passive position changes. Children's locus of control beliefs as predictors of preoperative coping behavior. Clean vs. sterile tracheotomy care and level of pulmonary infection. Re: Meta-analysis. Metatheory, methodology, and practicality: issues in research uses of Rogers's science of unitary man. Parental attitude and adjustment to childhood epilepsy. Head nurse leadership style with staff nurse burnout and job satisfaction in neonatal intensive care units. Early appraisal of coronary revascularization on quality of life. January/February 1984 The use of client-advisory groups in research. Therapeutic and physical touch: physiological response to stressful stimuli. Therapeutic touch: is there a scientific basis for the practice? Collaborative nursing research: anatomy of a successful consortium. Clinical evaluation of three techniques for administering low-dose heparin. Nursing's search for scientific knowledge. Duration of pain condition and physical pathology as determinants of nurses' assessments of patients in pain. Effects of nongynecological surgery on the menstrual cycle. Effects of modeling and information on reactions to pain: a childbirth-preparation analogue. November/December 1983 Effects of biofeedback-aided relaxation on the psychological stress symptoms of college students. Parents' perception of uncertainty concerning their hospitalized child. Development and temperament in very low birth weight infants--the second year. Nursing, maternal postures, and fetal position. Helping and nursing models. The research tradition of nursing: an emerging issue. Job satisfaction among recent graduates of schools of nursing. Core-12: a controlled study of the impact of 12-hour scheduling. Learning style preferences of baccalaureate nursing students. A comparison of oral and rectal temperature measurement on patients receiving oxygen by mask. A statistical tale of significance. Some methodological issues in chronic illness research. The process of theory analysis. September/October 1983 An instrument for theory and research development using the behavioral systems model for nursing: the cancer patient. Part II. A meta-analytic analysis of effects of psychoeducational interventions on length of postsurgical hospital stay. The Chronicity Impact and Coping Instrument: Parent Questionnaire. Effects of information on postsurgical coping. Subjective appraisal of psychological well-being and self-reports of menstrual and nonmenstrual symptomatology in employed women. Stress and coping among hospice nurses: test of an analytic model. Determining the market for Family Nurse Practitioner services: the Seattle experience. Labor force participation among registered nurses and women in comparable occupations. Univariate statistical models for meta-analysis. Preparing an abstract of a nursing study. Nursing theory. What's going on here. July/August 1983 An instrument for theory and research development using the behavioral systems model for nursing: the cancer patient. Part I. Relationship of psychosocial and perinatal variables to perception of childbirth. Parents' perceptions of their newborn following structured interactions. Infant behavior and the transition to parenthood. Biofeedback training for reduced respiratory rate in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a preliminary study. A comparison of four treatments to prevent and control breast pain and engorgement in nonnursing mothers. Communication patterns of health teaching and information recall. Quantifying nursing needs in home health care. Sleep behaviors of older persons. Relationship between incidence of phlebitis and frequency of changing IV tubing and percutaneous site. Single subject research. May/June 1983 Development of a screening program for tardive dyskinesia: feasibility issues. Isabel Maitland Stewart's philosophy of education. Role differentiation between nurse and physician: implications for nursing. Energy expenditure during leg exercise programs. An exploratory investigation of causal thinking of arthritics. Communication variables and voice analysis of marital conflict stress. The process of theory analysis: an examination of the nursing theory of Dorothea E. Orem. Television news coverage of nurse strikes: a resource management perspective. Effects of a self-directed learning project and preference for structure on self-directed learning readiness. Why patients follow through on referrals from the emergency room and why they don't. Breast examination. Temperature analysis. Lifting techniques. Potential sources of type I error and possible solutions to avoid a galloping alpha rate. March/April 1983 Assessing the job performance of nursing home staff. Nurses' attitudes toward dimensions of nursing practice. Co-workers and hospital staff's work attitudes: individual difference moderators. Small-scale administration of instruments and procedures. The impact of end-stage renal disease. An exploration of paternal-fetal attachment behavior. Prepared childbirth and marital satisfaction during the antepartum and postpartum periods. Identifying procedural components for analogue research of labor pain. Models of helping and coping in childbirth. Use of Rogers's conceptual system in research: comments. An exploration of the relationships between cognitive style, interpersonal needs, and the eudaimonistic model of health. Retention of a folk-healing practice (matiasma) among four generations of urban Greek immigrants. January/February 1983 Women's perceptions of vaginal and cesarean deliveries. The effects of holding the newborn at delivery on paternal bonding. Attitudes toward women in menopause: a Vignette approach. Anxiety, critical thinking and information processing during and after breast biopsy. The choice between hospital and home care for terminally ill children. The use of predictive modeling to test nursing practice outcomes. Further development of the Norbeck Social Support Questionnaire: normative data and validity testing. The relationship of weight loss, locus of control, and social support. Role selection by nurses: managerial interests and personal attributes. Nursing education and job effectiveness. Holter monitoring: a method for nursing research. Dispensing medications. November/December 1982 The effect of structured and unstructured pre-operative teaching: a replication. Nursing procedures and alterations in transcutaneous oxygen tension in premature infants. Three phases of father involvement in pregnancy. The relationship of self-disclosure, interpersonal dependency, and life changes to loneliness in young adults. The validity of health risk appraisal. Knowledge and beliefs about breast cancer and breast self-examination among athletic and nonathletic women. Cool and heated aerosol and the measurement of oral temperature. The world of nursing on prime time television, 1950 to 1980. The effect of nursing care modalities and shift assignments on nurses' work experiences and job attitudes. Temperature measurement in a clinical setting. Reasons nurses participate in self-study continuing education programs. Time series analysis: an alternative for nursing. September/October 1982 Sleep-awake patterns following cerebral concussion. The effect of oxygen administration on oral temperature assessment. Parent coping behaviors, parent functioning, and infant temperament characteristics. Temperature monitoring in the neonate: a comparison of axillary and rectal temperatures. Sexual functioning, health beliefs, and compliance with high blood pressure medications. Two approaches to the management of long-term psychiatric outpatients in the community. Time as an index of expanding consciousness with age. Facilitators and inhibitors of the emergency nurse practitioner role. New baccalaureate graduates' perceptions of organizational conflict. Role orientation and role strain of clinical nurse faculty in baccalaureate programs. Professional autonomy among senior nursing students in diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate nursing programs. Meta-analysis. Small sample size. July/August 1982 Effects of information about a threatening procedure on patients' expectations and emotional distress. Hypertension knowledge in a Hispanic community. Disconfirmation in dysfunctional communication. Effects of lifting techniques on energy expenditure: a preliminary investigation. Using different body positions to reduce discomfort from dorsogluteal injection. Construction of a scale to measure load, power, and margin in life. A patient satisfaction measure as a criterion to evaluate primary nursing. Assessing family functioning across three areas of relationships. The challengers, interactors and mainstreamers: second step education and nursing roles. GUTS: teaching assertiveness skills by stimulation and gaming. Choosing and using a statistical consultant. Nursing students' attitudes toward sexually active older persons. A diffusion survey of coronary precautions. The effect of relaxation on postoperative muscle tension and pain. May/June 1982 Development of a health attitude scale. The relationship of health beliefs, health locus of control, and self concept to the practice of breast self-examination in adult women. Psychological correlates of blood pressure: a closer examination of hostility, anxiety, and engagement. The effect of oxygen inhalation on oral temperature. External pneumatic intermittent compression for treatment of dependent pregnancy edema. Health problems encountered by nurse practitioners and physicians. A Patient Satisfaction Instrument: precision by replication. Nursing philosophy and nursing research: in apposition or opposition? The phenomenological approach in nursing research. The effect of medication distribution systems on medication errors. The Pink Sheet Syndrome. Self concept and health beliefs. Clinica estimation of the renal threshold for glucose in persons with diabetes mellitus. March/April 1982 Developmental trends and behavioral styles in very low birth weight infants. Blood pressure, stress, and mental health. Acceptance of ostomy and the visitor role in a self-help group for ostomy patients. Stress identification and coping patterns in patients on hemodialysis. Experienced personal control and quality of life in late-stage cancer patients. Low-cost research: a project on a shoestring. Maternal attachment behavior and the mother's self-concept: the effect of early skin-to-skin contact. Perception of parents' behavior and children's general fearfulness. Measurement of the nurse organizational climate of neonatal intensive care units. Cancer as crisis: the critical elements of adjustment. January/February 1982 Factors in a woman's decision to undergo genetic amniocentesis for advanced maternal age. Learning needs of cancer patients: a comparison of nurse and patient perceptions. Sensory information, behavioral instructions and coping with sensory alteration surgery. A comparison of the anxiety-reducing potential of two techniques of bathing. Reducing post-catheterization bladder dysfunction by reconditioning. Compliance: an interactionist approach. A study of construct validity: simultaneous as a measure of nurse practitioners' problem-solving skills. Informed consent of special subjects. Determinants of staff nurses' perceptions of autonomy within different clinical contexts. Resources for graduate education: a report of a survey of forty states in the Midwest, West, and Southern regions. The measurement of change in nursing research: statistical considerations. The effect of preoperative intervention on delirium in cardiac surgical patients. November/December 1981 Factors that affect patient compliance with psychiatric follow-up therapy after hospital discharge. Self-concept and health beliefs in compliant and noncompliant hypertensive patients. Financial incentive and labor supply of married professional nurses. Young children's ability to conserve facial identity when facial emotion varies. Anxiety and complications in patients on hemodialysis. Maternal compliance in immunization of preschoolers as related to health locus of control, health value, and perceived vulnerability. Maternal response to their chronically ill infants' attachment behavior of crying. Attitudinal correlates of employee theft of drugs and hospital supplies among nursing personnel. Bereavement crisis intervention for widows in grief and mourning. Health impact of a nurse midwife program. The grounded theory approach in nursing research. A practical guide to political effectiveness. The case of federal funding for nursing research. Publishing cooperative research. Nurses, physicians, and pharmacists: their knowledge of hazards of medications. Relationship between an ascending musical stimulus program and activity levels of hyperactive children: a pilot study. The National Research Service Awards with emphasis on the mentor relationship. September/October 1981 The Neonatal Perception Inventory: a review. An evaluation of the use of the Denver Developmental Screening Test. The measurement of uncertainty in illness. The Nurse Practitioner Rating Form. Part II: methodological development. Development of a tool for the measurement of maternal attachment during pregnancy. Misconceptions and limitations of locus of control and the I-E scale. Health risk appraisal: process, problems, and prospects for nursing practice and research. Health risk appraisal: some methodologic considerations. The intraclass correlation as a measure of interrater reliability of subjective judgments. Life events scaling: clinical methodological issues. Instrumentation: the next step. The development of an instrument to measure social support. The PRQ--a social support measure. July/August 1981 Stress, social support, and the transition to fatherhood. Single custodial fathers and the parent-child relationship. Preferences of hospitalized adolescents for information providers. Moving the patient in bed: effects on intracranial pressure. Effectiveness of teaching in the rehabilitation of patients with chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Friendship patterns and altruistic behavior in preadolescent males and females. The Nurse Practitioner Rating Form. Part I: Conceptual development and potential uses. Measuring adjustment in chronically ill clients in community mental health care. An assessment of the Psychological Mental Health Index. Structure vs. people in primary nursing: an inquiry. Nursing process, student attributes, and teaching methodologies. Toward an explanatory model of nursing performance. Methodology corner: know thy data. May/June 1981 An instrument for assessing and classifying patient by type of care. Communicating clinical nursing issues through the newspaper. A validation study: simulations as a measure of nurse practitioners' problem-solving skills. Effect of information on emotional responses during barium enema. Trace anesthetic vapors in hospital operating-room environments. Sex-role identity and perception of professional self in graduates of three nursing programs. How nursing students' reactions to rape victims are affected by a perceived act of carelessness. Moral reasoning and moral behavior among selected groups of practicing nurses. Open-closed mindedness, intolerance of ambiguity and nursing faculty attitudes toward culturally different patients. Employment patterns among newly hired hospital staff nurses: comparison of nursing graduates and experienced nurses. Clarification of the database concept. Critical care nursing stress: the findings revisited. March/April 1981 Measuring moral judgment in nursing dilemmas. Predicting nurses' charting behavior based on Fishbein's model. Methodological considerations in using videotape to establish rater reliability. A theoretical framework for nursing research in child abuse and neglect. Self-reported climacteric symptoms as a function of the relationships between marital adjustment and childrearing stage. Enhancing reciprocity between mother and neonate. Self-esteem changes in hospitalized school-age children. Critical thinking, educational preparation, and development of moral judgment among selected groups of practicing nurses. Interpersonal communication as perceived by nurse educators in collegial interactions. Reciprocy and helicy used to relate mEGF and wound healing. A theoretical framework for studying factors that impact on the maternal role. January/February 1981 Stress and coping in hypertensive and emergency room patients. Diagnosing boredom and confusion. The Institutional Review Board: a case study of no-risk decisions in health-related research. Research program development in a tertiary care setting. Nurse involvement in Institutional Review Boards: the service setting perspective. Committee evolution in a medical center. Effect of therapeutic touch on anxiety level of hospitalized patients. Communication patterns and conflict in marital dyads. Selected correlates of job performance of community health nurses. Prediction of freshman students' success in a baccalaureate nursing program. Measurement properties of clinical simulation tests: hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Nurses' quality of working life in an HMO: a comparative study. Parametric statistics and ordinal data: a pervasive misconception. November/December 1980 Safety first. Effect of restricted mobility and dominance on perceived duration. Movement therapy with the aged. A psychosocial screening tool for ambulatory health care clients: a pilot study of validity. Patients' and spouses' causal explanations of a myocardial infarction. Relationship of sodium bicarbonate to intraventricular hemorrhage in premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome. Responses to life events as predictors of suicidal behavior. Dropouts from nursing education: path analysis of a national sample. Values of baccalaureate nursing students in secular and religious schools. Factors influencing adolescents' perceptions of life change events. An investigation of nursing student self-concept levels: a pilot survey. Rubella on a university campus: an evaluation of case immunity histories. September/October 1980 Effects of diet temperature on tolerance of enteral feedings. Wielding Occam's razor. Engagement-involvement and blood pressure change: a methodological inquiry. Use of automobile restraining devices for infants. A hard hand-positioning device to decrease wrist and finger hypertonicity: a sensorimotor approach for the patient with nonprogressive brain damage. Attitude change as a motivational factor in producing behavior change related to implementing primary nursing. Sex-role identity and image of nursing of females at two levels of baccalaureate nursing education. Changing breast self-examination behavior. Paternal attachment behavior as related to presence at delivery and preparenthood classes: a pilot study. Mechanisms responsible for the sustained fall in arterial oxygen tension after endotracheal suctioning in dogs. Effect of teaching on primiparas' perceptions of their newborn. Three-minute time interval when using an oral mercury-in-glass thermometer with or without J-temp sheaths. An exploratory study of body image dimensionality. July/August 1980 Nursing research: out of the past and into the future. Knowledge for practice: directions for the future. Strategies to promote nursing research. Summary of 'Knowledge for practice' conference group discussions. Lamaze method of childbirth. Pronominalization: a linguistic facet of the maternal-paternal sensitive period. Reducing devices for pressure sores with respect to nursing care procedures. Obesity: locus of control, body image, weight loss, and age-at-onset. Financial incentive and labor supply of married professional nurses: an economic analysis. Knowledge-informed behavior and the nursing culture: a preliminary study. Hemodialysis regimen compliance and social environment: a panel analysis. Preventive health practices of generic baccalaureate nursing students. Teaching research at the undergraduate level. Research preparation in baccalaureate nursing education. Confidentiality pledge for research grant staff. Research Q & A: writing articles. May/June 1980 Perceptions of problematic behavior by Appalachians, mental health professionals, and lay non-Appalachians. Relationship of parent-child communication to child's exploratory behavior and self-differentiation. Oral temperature differences in relation to thermometer and technique. Male adolescents' concern about a physical examination conducted by a female. Role transformation of special care unit nurses: a comparative study. Nursing science in transition. Update on nursing research in the West. Developing and implementing collaborative nursing education research in the South. Nursing research and regionalization in the Midwest. March/April 1980 Selected reflections on quality of medical care evaluation in the 1980s. An evaluator's perspective. Developing instruments for measurement of criteria: a clinical nursing practice perspective. A research perspective. Perspective on evaluation from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Establishing priorities for evaluation and evaluation research: a nursing perspective. A total health care system perspective. Future direction for evaluation and evaluation research in health care: the nursing perspective. Evaluation research: assessment of nursing care. Interrelated issues in evaluation and evaluation research: a researcher's perspective. An evaluator's perspective. Determining study topics. Establishing valid and reliable criteria: a researcher's perspective. Re: 'institutional sources of articles published in the American Journal of Nursing, Nursing Outlook, and Nursing Research'. Relationship of findings of clinical research and development of criteria: a researcher's perspective. A nursing service administrator's perspective. New JCAH standard on quality assurance. Information management in quality assurance. January/February 1980 Women's knowledge about the menopause. Effectiveness of a self-instructional module in human sexuality counseling. Best laid plans: pre- and postpartum comparison of self and spouse in primiparous Lamaze couples who share delivery and those who do not. Effect of structured preparation for transfer on patient anxiety on leaving coronary care unit. Effect of experience on nurses' responses to dying and death in the hospital setting. Predictive strategies in diagnostic tasks. A total for comparing the perceptions of problematic behavior by psychiatric professionals and minority groups. Comparison of graduating AD and baccalaureate nursing students' characteristics. An ordinal evaluation of the consumer participation process in community health programs. A behavioral checklist to measure dependence and independence. Changing nursing students' attitudes toward alcoholic patients: examining effects of a clinical practicum. The status of minority nurses in Wisconsin. Modifications in nursing student attitudes as measured by the EPPS: a significant reversal from the past. November/December 1979 Creativity in science: what it's all about. Prone immersion physical exercise therapy in three children with cystic fibrosis: a pilot study. Health care workers' role conceptions and orientation to family-centered child care. Prenatal education evaluation. Family nurse practitioners: perceived competencies and recommendations. Nurse practitioner employment, unemployment, reemployment. Reasons nurses participate in continuing education. A survey of health needs of older adults in northwest Johnson County, Iowa. Interpersonal trust and empathy in nurse-nurse relationships. Electronic fetal monitoring: implications for obstetrical nursing. Screening for glaucoma: a comparison of ophthalmoscopy and tonometry. Development of a sexual knowledge inventory for elderly persons. September/October 1979 Effect of cranberry juice on urinary pH. Effect of a teaching program on knowledge and compliance of cardiac patients. Effect of positioning of postoperative fractured-hip patients as related to comfort. Statistical reporting: how accurate? How appropriate? Comparison of primiparas' perceptions of vaginal and cesarean births. Prenatal nipple conditioning for breastfeeding. Rape: the process of recovery. Attitudes of psychiatric nurses toward same sex orientations. Re: 'Competence of Nursing Graduates in Technical, Communicative, and Administrative Skills'. Re: 'Relationship between Length of Time and Contamination in Open Intravenous Solutions'. Measures of transactional analysis ego states for nurses. Nursing staff attitudes toward the geriatric nurse practitioner student. Concerns of final semester baccalaureate nursing students. Blocked- and integrated-content baccalaureate nursing programs: a comparative study. Insider-out: the health worker as researcher. Effect of family preparation on the state anxiety level of the CCU patient. Nurses' knowledge of glycosuria testing in diabetes mellitus. July/August 1979 My manuscript--myself. Type A (coronary-prone) behavior and transient blood pressure change. Institutional sources of articles published in the American Journal of Nursing, Nursing Outlook, and Nursing Research. Use of vignettes to elicit responses toward broad concepts. Holistic care in a cancer care center. Children's fears: a review of the literature with implications for nursing research and practice. Predicting student attrition in a baccalaureate curriculum. Changes in life goals as related to success in a nursing leadership role. Tracheal suctioning: a tool for evaluation and learning needs assessment. Defining nursing assignment patterns. The preoperational child's reaction to immunization. Cognitive, affective, and transfer of learning consequences of computer-assisted instruction. May/June 1979 Effects of resuscitation for patients with metastatic cancers and chronic heart disease. Whose responsibility? Whose rights? Nursing research Centers. Duration experience for bed-confined subjects: a replication and refinement. Relationship between nurse counseling and sexual adjustment after hysterectomy. Level of activation, body temperature, and interpersonal conflict in family relationships. Use of reality orientation with aging confused patients. Ego defensiveness, open-closed mindedness, and nurses' attitude toward culturally different patients. Cognitive-affective consequences of grading versus nongrading of formative evaluations. A follow-up study of the reliability and validity of the motor activity rating scale. Use of a decision tree to improve accuracy of diagnosis. Nurses' propensity to risk. March/April 1979 Effect of positioning on discomfort from intramuscular injections in the dorsogluteal site. Information structures: an analysis of nursing performance. Factors related to foreign nurse graduates' test-taking performance. Promoting creativity in nursing education. What guidelines should be followed in critically evaluating research reports? Effectiveness of a comprehensive health program for the well-elderly by community health nurses. The language of touch. Re: 'effect of negative pressure on tracheobronchial trauma'. Cross-cultural study of initial visits to psychiatric outpatient clinics. Relationships of processes of care to patient outcomes. Relationship of psychological factors in pregnancy to progress in labor. Effect of clinical settings on the utilization of nurse practitioners. January/February 1979 Mental health patient assessment record: interobserver reliability. Topical application of insulin in decubitus ulcers. Situational stress and temporal changes in self-report and vocal measurements. Nursing activities and acute confusional states in elderly hip-fractured patients. A study of older adults attending a program on human sexuality: a pilot study. Myocardial infarct stress-of-transfer inventory: development of a research tool. Effect of free time the day prior to mastery testing on nursing students' scores. A work of thought: creating the Eastern Conference on Nursing Research. Attitudes and intentions of baccalaureate nursing students toward the elderly. Professional development of nurse practitioners as a function of need motivation, learning style, and locus of control. Antecedents of nursing school attrition: attitudinal dimensions. November/December 1978 Onward and upward: a report from the publisher. Nursing care of oncology patients receiving chemotherapy. Evaluating the performance of nurses: a multidimensional approach. Status consistency and nurses' expectations and perceptions of role performance. Development of a research tool: Patient Indicators of Nursing Care. Relationship between length of time and contamination in open intravenous solutions. What are some successful strategies for negotiating field research in community agencies? Relaxation technique to increase comfort level of postoperative patients: a preliminary study. September/October 1978 A causal model of nursing education and state board examination scores. Quo vadis. Women with cured breast cancer a study of mastectomy patients in North Carolina. Personality profile of pediatric nurse practitioners associated with role change. Baccalaureate nursing students' identification with the women's movement. Relationship between loss of auditory and visual acuity and social disengagement in an aged population. Masculinity and femininity in nursing. A methodologic framework to study nurse-patient communication. Generalized expectancy, situational perception, and morale among institutionalized aged. Survey of doctoral programs in U.S.A. conducted by AACN. Registration and voting participation of four faculty groups. How is the topic of protection of human subjects taught in undergraduate and graduate nursing research courses? July/August 1978 Nursing research centers on the rise. Using nursing research findings to meet the needs of grieving spouses. Impact of a management-oriented course on knowledge and leadership skills exhibited by baccalaureate nursing students. Evening telephone call management by nurse practitioners and physicians. Death and dying: selected attitudes of Minnesota's registered nurses. ODWIN expansion program: a study in success. Self-actualization and the baccalaureate nursing student's response to stress. The nurse practitioner: role, physician utilization, patient acceptance. Comparison of manifest needs of nurses and physicians in primary care practice. Effect of negative pressure on tracheobronchial trauma. H+ back diffusion and peptic activity related to ulcerogenesis following thermal injury. May/June 1978 Abstracts--keys to the literature. Cardiac rehabilitation: a patient education program. Conceptual systems of undergraduate nursing students as compared with university students at large and practicing nurses. Increasing nurses' person-centeredness. Sex-role stereotyping in assessments of mental health made by psychiatric-mental health nurses. Methodologic dilemmas in tapping the concept of patient needs. The BOEL test as a screening device for otitis media in infants. Values and value changes of graduate nursing students: their relationship to faculty values and to selected educational factors. Cognitive and affective consequences of formative evaluation in graduate nursing students. What problems are encountered in using patients' charts as sources of data for research? Relaxation training as a nursing intervention versus pro re nata medication. March/April 1978 How nursing administrators view conflict. A patient classification system by level of nursing care requirements. Applying ethical standards to nursing practice. Re: 'evaluation of developmental health counseling: healthfulness of self-support behavior'. Nurses' satisfaction with their work situation. Competence of nursing graduates in technical, communicative, and administrative skills. Epistemologic constraints to the development of a theory of nursing. How do problems encountered in the preliminary stage of research affect a study? Archives--historical researcher's treasures. Birth without violence: a medical controversy. Faculty influence on nursing students' preferences for practice. Effect of basic preventive health practices and mass media on the practice of breast self-examination. January/February 1978 Role supplementation: an empirical test of a nursing intervention. Type A behavior pattern and hypertension among inner-city black women. Educational program evaluation: the University of Vermont family nurse practitioner program. Relationship of patient-nurse activity to intracranial pressure variations: a pilot study. Open-mindedness, rigidity, and the tendency to change inferences among psychiatric nursing staff: a pilot study. Core competencies of masters-prepared nurses. State borad examinaions and associate degree program effectiveness. Expectations and perceptions of the curricular leadership role of administrators role of administrators of nursing education units. Nurses' personal death concerns and responses to dying-patient statements. Problem-orientation: an experimental study to test its heuristic value. Regulation of appetite during total parenteral nutrition. November/December 1977 Nursing research beyond national boundaries. Get wise, organize. Preexisting correlates of hospital stress. Nurse perceptions of patient characteristics. Alcoholic cardiomyopathy: a nursing approach. Faculty consensus as a socializing agent in professional education. Relationship of perceived empathy to nurses' communication. Predicting infant apgar scores. Nursing students' attitudes toward death. A statistical method for development of subconcepts in nursing. Effectiveness of a programmed instruction module on oral contraceptives. Nurse encounters with dying and nondying patients. Research Q & A: the acceptability of using parametric inferential procedures for analysis of ordinal data. A comparative study of authorship and subject matter of articles in Nursing Research. Retrospect and prospect. Nursing research-the road ahead. September/October 1977 Effect of specific teaching techniques on cognitive learning, transfer of learning, and affective behavior of nurses in an in-service education setting. Evaluation of a VNA mental health project. Not for nurse researchers only. Conceptualization: knowledge and logic guiding empirical research. Ethics of nursing research: profile, principles, perspective. Legal concerns of nursing research. Documented clinical experiences of primary care RN students: a preliminary report. Job satisfaction and mobility of nursing educators in baccalaureate and higher degree programs in the West. Do graduates of technical and professional nursing programs differ in practice? Nurse role conception. Evaluation of developmental health counseling: healthfulness of self-support behavior. How can statistics be introduced effectively into the undergraduate nursing curriculum? July/August 1977 Behavior analysis for nursing of somatic disorders. Health care professionals' role expectations and patient needs. U.S. Public Health Service's contribution to nursing research--past, present, future. Nursing research in the Veterans Administration. Weavers of scientific patient care: development of nursing research in the U.S. Armed Forces. Nursing research of governmental agencies--federal and interstate. Regional action and nursing research in the South. Research programs and projects of WCHEN. Early evening administration of sleep medication to the hospitalized aged: a consideration in rehabilitation. An approach to social science research. What are p-values? How are they calculated? How are they related to levels of significance? May/June 1977 The ANA and research in nursing. Fallibilities, fragments, and frames: contemplation on 25 years of research in medical--surgical nursing. The status of community health nursing research. Research in the field of psychiatric nursing: 1952-1977. We've come a long way, but what of the direction. Research programs of the National League for Nursing. Maternal--child nursing research: review of the past and strategies for the future. Toward a nursing gerontology. Salute to Nursing Research. What is the relationship between the development and utilization of a taxonomy and nursing theory? The American Nurses' Foundation's contributions to research in nursing. A quarter century of trial and editors: the people who made Nursing Research possible. Research: an international perspective. March/April 1977 Validation of questionnaires on physical function. Florence Nightingale: reformer, reactionary, researcher. Differential utility of predictors in graduate nursing education. Limiting intrusion-social control of outsiders in a healing community: an illustration of qualitative comparative analysis. Psychologic impact on nursing students of participation in abortion. Women's health beliefs about breast cancer and breast self-examination. Stressful life events and coping methods in mental-illness and -wellness behaviors. Teaching strategies: a microteaching project for nurses in Virginia. Avenues for reporting research. One integrated curriculum: an empirical evaluation. Relationship among prospective parents' locus of control, social desirability, and choice of psychoprophylaxis. January/February 1977 Drug-drug interactions among residents in homes for the elderly: a pilot study. A systems approach to the development and evaluation of a minicourse for nurses. An overview of nursing research in the United States. Nursing research: reflection of values. Distractions at nurses' stations during intershift report. A study of illness referral in a Spanish-speaking community. The student's perception of his creativity. Death experience and death anxiety among nurses and nursing students. What has been the impact of the social and biologic sciences and mental health on the development of nursing research? Nursing research and the humanities. November/December 1976 Nurses under fire: the world war II experience of nurses on Bataan and Corregidor. The American Academy of Nursing and Research. Preliminary investigation of the reliability and validity of a tool for the assessment of body position and motor activity. Changes in nursing students' stereotypic attitudes toward old people. Health needs of the elderly. How does a nurse interested in research identify a researchable question? Effect of nursing reassurance on patient vocal stress levels. Empathy training as the major thrust of a staff development program. Children's retention of dental hygiene instruction. Report of a pilot study. September/October 1976 Field testing the nursing quality monitoring methodology: phase II. Florence Nightingale and the Salisbury incident. ANA Convention highlights the need for historical research. Nursing behaviors in bereavement: an exploratory study. Orientation of senior nursing students toward access to contraceptives. Perceived dimensions of job satisfaction for staff registered nurses. Patients with hypertension: a study of manifest needs with self-actualization. Values of male nursing students. Disease-related learning and disease control in diabetics as a function of locus of control. Relationship of sex role identity to occupational image of female nursing sutdents. Effect of pulse palpation on cardiac arrhythmia in coronary care patients. What is oral history? What are the advantages and disadvantages of oral history? How can it be used in nursing history? July/August 1976 In beginning research courses nursing students often display anxiety and negative reactions. How may these be circumvented or corrected? Effect of Prepodyne as a perineal cleansing agent for clean catch specimens. Editorial: What happens to your manuscript? Effect of acquisition of knowledge on self-evaluation and the relationship of self-evaluation to perception of real and ideal self-concept. Community health nurses' preferences for systems of protection. Role, function, and decision making in community mental health. Instructional change in health care education. Letter: 'Preparation of the breasts for breastfeeding'. The process of clinical judgment in nursing practice: the component of personality. Movement tempo and the experience of time. Evaluation of a written simulation format for clinical nursing judgment: a pilot study. Sexuality of nurses: correlations of knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. Predictive value of selected admission criteria for graduate nursing education. Faculty and student perceptions of effective classroom teaching in nursing. May/June 1976 How Army nurses became officers. Editiorial: Rejection can be a challenge! Attitudes toward alternative models of unions and professional associations. An experimental nursing study: a behavior modification approach to nursing therapeutics in body positioning of spinal cord-injured patients. Human sexuality course evaluation. Patient responses to being transferred during hospitalization. Changing perceptions of organizational communication: can short-term intervention help? Doctoral programs for nurses:trends, questions, and projected plans. Part i: trends, questions, and issues on doctoral programs. The subjective aspects of coronary care. Letter: Quality of nursing research studies. Professional autonomy and the work satisfaction of nursing educators. Letter: Preparation of the breast for breastfeeding. Research Q and A What is preproposal? What are its component parts? Is it an effective instrument in assessing funding potential of research ideas? March/April 1976 Decision making about patient care. How does the doctorally prepared nurse develop into a productive researcher? Registered nurses' opionions on an extended role concept. The collaborative process in generating a nursing research study. An alcoholism training program: its effect on trainees and faculty. Factors that influence attraction and retention of qualified nurse educators. Relationship between nurses' opinions about mental illness and experience. Editorial: Research councils on the state level. Nurse practitioner management of common respiratory and genitourinary infections, using protocols. Social and psychologic influences on employment of married nurses. Relationship of staff development activity to opinions about mental illness. Clinical signs associated with the amount of tracheobronchial secretions. January/February 1976 Clean technique for intermittent self-catheterization. The quasi-rational element in conflict. Reestablishing self-feeding in a nursing home resident. Patients' dependence and independence levels on the prehospitalization-postdischarge continuum. Selected National League for Nursing achievement test scores as predictors of state board examination scores. Effect of cigarette smoking on postural muscle tremor. Nursing students' knowledge about diabetes mellitus. Willingness of psychiatric nurses to assume the extended role. Selected factors associated with professional attitude of baccalaureate nursing students. A cross-validation study for predictors of scores on state board examinations. Utilization of reinforcement contracts to increase written evidence of the nursing assessment. Letter: Re: 8-4 Research. Letter: Re: 'Effect of brief training on mental health knowledge and attitudes of nurses and nurses' aides in a general hospital'. Topical application of insulin in the treatment of decubitus ulcers: a pilot study. Research Q and Q. Is there an optimal sample size for research involving human subjects? Is there a rule of thumb that might be used in determining sample size? November/December 1975 Editorial: The Journal's contribution to research in nursing. Altering children's distress behavior during orthopedic cast removal. Delphi survey of priorities in clinical nursing research. Relationship among health habits, social assets, psychologic well-being, life change, and alterations in health status. Preparation of the breast for breastfeeding. Research Q and A. Heroines of '98: female Army nurses in the Spanish-American war. Candida albicans in women. September/October 1975 Editorial: The invisible university. Extra tactile stimulation of the premature infant. Patient attitudes toward nursing interventions. A hospital stress rating scale. Nursing assessment and care plan statements. Effect of simulation gaming on attitudes toward mental illness. Measurement of Nursing Work Load Using Head Nurses' Perceptions. Development of a patient-completed admission questionnaire and its comparison with the nursing interview. Comparing the body-systems and conceptual approaches to nursing education. What is the difference between a research grant and a research contract, and how is information obtained on the contract approach? Analysis of nurse-doctorates: data collected for the International Directory of Nurses with Doctoral Degrees. Letter: The nursing archives at the national library of medicine. July/August 1975 A clinical nursing study: failure to thrive in a child with Down's syndrome. Evaluation of nursing care in terms of process and outcome: issues in research and quality assurance. Role insufficiency and role supplementation: a conceptual framework. The impact of a professional baccalaureate degree program. Factors contributing to child abuse. Direct tape access as an adjunct to learning. Developing a computer program to assist the nursing process: phase I-from systems analysis to an expandable program. Pediatric surgical patients' and parents' stress responses and adjustment as a function of psychologic preparation and stress-point nursing care. Letter: Historical materials in Nursing. May/June 1975 The public health nurse in mental health follow-up care. Financial assistance for nursing research--past and present. 8-4 research. Part II: DESIGNING NURSING RESEARCH--EIGHT POINTs of encounter. The special nurse research fellow: characteristics and recent trends. The methodology of historical research: a brief introduction. Research for a practice professional.