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Research and educational resources about anxiety disorders.
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Use this Anxiety Disorders collection to compare research questions, settings, and nursing implications across 17 reviewed records. Start with the original source and limitations before carrying a finding into teaching or practice.
In a survey of 93 school nurses, most respondents viewed anxiety as their students’ leading mental health concern. Most also reported using neither a formal screening tool nor an intervention protocol, and most wanted...
A two-patient nursing case study found that progressive muscle relaxation, delivered in two 20-30 minute sessions over two days, was associated with a 30.34% mean reduction in anxiety scores (Zung Self-Anxiety Rating...
In a survey of 788 nursing interns, 24.7% screened positive for anxiety and 10.5% for depression; psychological resilience partially mediated (53.9%) the protective link between social support and fewer negative...
This reflective case paper traces Thompson Rivers University School of Nursing's 40-year journey from a community college to a full university, describing how faculty built a culture of scholarship using Boyer's four...
Story Based Learning (SBL) is a Canadian-developed nursing teaching model that blends narrative pedagogy, case method teaching, and problem-based learning into a circular, six-phase process for working through practice..
Six Western Canadian nurse practitioners described navigating uncertainty, their own assumptions, ethical conflict, rigid health systems, and efforts to include patients and families when making cancer treatment...
A funded NHLBI proposal to develop and pilot 'Cardiac Fears Treatment,' an exposure-based therapy for PTSD after cardiac events. It lays out aims and a small staged trial but reports no results yet.
A National Institute on Aging R01 proposal to study social connectedness and isolation in nursing home residents using large linked datasets, including a COVID-19 'natural experiment.' It sets out questions to answer,...
A funded qualitative study protocol that will interview about 16 hospital dementia care triads (nurse, patient, caregiver), guided by an implementation framework, to describe dementia friendly care and identify what...
A think-aloud study built a five-stage cognitive learning model of how nurses develop clinical reasoning from novice to expert.
A small qualitative study found nursing and pharmacy students valued interprofessional simulation and shed stereotypes about each other.
School nurses face escalating job demands driven by increasing student health complexity, chronic condition management, and expanding public health responsibilities. Often serving as the sole healthcare professional...
This study found that Emotional Schema Therapy (EST) and differentiation training both reduced emotional divorce among women. EST was more effective than differentiation training in lowering ED rates, with significant...
This study found significant links between perfectionism, early maladaptive schemas, attachment styles, self-esteem, and body image concerns among female cosmetic surgery applicants. A model where self-esteem mediates...
This study found that pregnant women who listened to relaxing music experienced less life distress and stronger maternal-fetal attachment than a control group. The intervention involved twelve 45-50 minute sessions of...
This study found that nurses at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital had good knowledge of Failure to Rescue but moderate competence in averting it. Crucially, there was a significant link between positive...
This study found anxious-avoidant attachment styles predict higher emotional divorce in Iranian women, while spiritual intelligence predicts lower levels. Together, these factors explained significant variance in...
