Topic collection
Research and educational resources about depression.
Editorial context
Use this Depression collection to compare research questions, settings, and nursing implications across 16 reviewed records. Start with the original source and limitations before carrying a finding into teaching or practice.
In a retrospective study of 120 first-time mothers, adding twice-daily light music sessions to standard postpartum care was associated with lower depression, anxiety, and stress-hormone levels, better sleep, higher...
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..
A company's funded proposal to refine and clinically test a wearable acoustic monitor that scores the risk of opioid-induced respiratory depression; it describes aims and design, not proven results.
A nurse-led, systems-focused proposal to reduce burnout by having frontline nurses redesign the work conditions that drive it; it reports aims and preliminary work, not effectiveness results.
A funded proposal for a 200-person RCT of Learning Skills Together, a self-efficacy-based online program that builds dementia caregivers' confidence; promising pilot data exist, but definitive effectiveness is unproven.
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 research programme, SUPA, developed a cognitive-behavioural therapy-based intervention to improve ART uptake and adherence among PLWH. While an underpowered RCT found no significant difference on primary MEMS...
Implantable tibial nerve neuromodulation (ITNM) represents a minimally invasive intervention for urgency urinary incontinence (UUI). This study evaluated the 3-year cost-utility of ITNM with an external wearable...
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...
