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Research and educational resources about post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Use this Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder collection to compare research questions, settings, and nursing implications across 26 reviewed records. Start with the original source and limitations before carrying a finding into teaching or practice.
In this Israeli study of 50 adults, 32% of adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder met criteria for probable PTSD versus only 4% of typical adults. Social victimization, not general life stress, emerged as the most common..
In a study of 34 autistic adults and 66 typically developing controls, autistic adults reported more PTSD symptoms and more brooding rumination; brooding, but not reflective rumination, statistically explained part of...
This 2015 MedEdPORTAL resource describes a standardized patient case in which a trained actor portrays a PTSD flashback that escalates or de-escalates based on the nursing student's caring communication. Of 40...
A 2015 study of 200 University of Baghdad nursing students found 63.0% screened positive for some level of PTSD on an adapted Davidson Trauma Scale, with first-year students and Baghdad residents showing the highest...
In this Italian study of 69 nurses assessed in March and September 2020, anxiety, probable PTSD, and peritraumatic dissociation all rose over six months rather than easing, and personality traits like openness and...
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..
In focus groups with 15 new graduate nurses in the Greater Toronto Area, researchers found that inconsistent orientation, being forced into senior roles too early due to pandemic-era staff losses, and workplace...
In a small feasibility study, a four-week virtual stress-reduction therapy (EAET) for adults at risk of prediabetes significantly reduced perceived stress and unhealthy eating and increased exercise, while A1C showed...
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..
This scoping review of 17 studies (2014-2024) finds Afghan refugees in North America face high rates of PTSD (53.1% in one Canadian sample) and depression, shaped by gendered risk and protective factors, alongside...
In a survey of 261 New Brunswick nursing students, Generation Z learners chose nursing mainly for intrinsic and social reasons like patient contact and helping others, with motivations varying by demographic group....
A National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded research plan to study how moral injury and social and environmental factors shape substance use, mental health, and suicidality among low-wage US healthcare workers. It...
A three-year, pre-implementation study to adapt the PLIE group movement program (which builds on abilities preserved in dementia) for VA Community Living Centers and to develop and pilot remote staff training.
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 Cancer Institute R01 proposal for a 200-caregiver trial of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Caregivers (MCP-C) versus supportive psychotherapy; an earlier pilot found it feasible and helpful, but...
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.
A 2020 mixed-methods systematic review of 104 RCTs finding that psychological therapies, especially trauma-focused and phase-based approaches, are effective and acceptable post-treatment for reducing PTSD and...
Over 2021 to 2023, rural BC nurses' burnout and secondary traumatic stress rose while work-related quality of life fell.
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...
