Topic collection
Research and educational resources about bipolar disorder.
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Use this Bipolar Disorder collection to compare research questions, settings, and nursing implications across 18 reviewed records. Start with the original source and limitations before carrying a finding into teaching or practice.
A single-patient case study at BLUD Banjar City Hospital found that assertiveness training, delivered within an SDKI/SIKI/SLKI nursing-process framework, was associated with improved anger control in a patient with...
In a survey of 136 inpatients at a South Korean forensic psychiatric hospital, anxiety was the strongest predictor of poorer quality of life during COVID-19, outweighing depression, stress, and social support....
In a study of 4,023 nursing home residents across seven European countries and Israel, 32% had depressive symptoms but only about 47% of those residents received antidepressants; overall, 35.6% of residents used...
In a survey of 185 patients at a public psychiatric hospital in Benin, Nigeria, just over half (52.4%) were satisfied with nursing care, while privacy, responsiveness, and awareness of patient needs were the top...
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..
This Canadian Journal of Nursing Research study used interpretive description to explore how RNs and RPNs in B.C. experience prescribing opioid agonist therapy after a 2020 provincial order expanded their scope. Nurses..
An NIA-funded doctoral proposal to study how co-occurring serious mental illness shapes symptoms, care needs, and outcomes for nursing-home residents with dementia, using large MDS 3.0 data plus staff interviews. No...
A funded cohort-study protocol using linked 2016-2019 Medicare data to examine how electroconvulsive therapy relates to neuropsychiatric symptoms, geriatric syndromes, admissions, and mortality in older adults with...
A funded NIMH proposal (no results yet) plans to use 2016 to 2023 Medicaid claims data to study how mental health provider-network size, churn, panel size, and telemedicine affect access and outcomes, with a focus that..
An NIMH K23 proposal to build machine-learning models from electronic health record and claims data to estimate six-month severe mood-crisis risk in young people with bipolar disorder, and to co-design a clinical...
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.
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...
