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C E Bailey

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PubMed2000

A content analysis of research in family therapy journals.

In order to assess trends in family therapy research, empirical articles (N = 195) from three family therapy journals over a 5-year period were coded for several variables: authorship, external funding, methodology, sample, purpose, cost effectiveness, use of therapeutic model, and topic. Results indicated that a large pecentage of research in these journals focused on nonclinical issues and used nonclinical samples. Authors were affiliated with a wide variety of disciplines and reported low levels of external funding for their research. While a majority of the studies used quantitative methods, there appeared to be a growing number of studies using qualitative methods. Implications of these findngs are discussed in light of research reviews over the past two decades.

Family Therapy↗
PubMed1997

Enhancing ethical decision making in sexuality and AIDS education.

Traditionally, sexuality education has consisted of teaching adolescents about human anatomy, reproduction, and sexually transmitted diseases. Most sexuality and AIDS education curricula have emphasized neither the relational aspects nor the ethical meaning of sexual behavior. However, current guidelines for comprehensive sexuality education from the National Guidelines Task Force acknowledge the ethical dimensions of sexuality. This paper advocates providing sexuality and AIDS education in a way that helps adolescents explore the ethical meaning of their sexual behavior. Principles from Rest's model of moral development are presented as one example of an ethical framework that could inform sexuality and AIDS education curricula. Rest describes four internal processes that produce moral behavior: moral sensitivity, moral judgment, moral motivation, and moral character. For each of these processes, illustrative questions and activities are suggested here which can be used by sexuality and AIDS educators to facilitate discussions with adolescents about the ethical meaning and implications of their sexual behavior.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1994

The technique of visceral packing: recommended management of difficult fascial closure in trauma patients.

Since 1986, we have cared for 17 patients whose abdomen could not be closed because of bowel edema and loss of abdominal wall compliance. These patients were managed by a technique of visceral packing with the intestines kept in place by a combination of rayon cloth, gauze packs, and retention sutures. This packing was changed in the operating room under general anesthesia until the edema was sufficiently resolved to allow for closure. Two patients died within 24 hours of operation from irreversible shock. The remaining 15 patients had their fascia successfully closed with an average of two additional anesthetics. There was one case of fasciitis associated with the development of an intra-abdominal abscess and one patient died of late sepsis. There was no early postoperative ventilatory compromise or acute oliguric renal failure. Other direct complications have been minor with no enterocutaneous fistulae, dehiscence, or incisional hernia. Visceral packing of posttraumatic abdominal wounds circumvents expected complications of intraperitoneal hypertension and enhances the chance for survival. Its ease and low morbidity also lends itself to a wide variety of other uses.

Abdominal Injuries↗
PubMed1992

A comparison of gastrostomy techniques in patients with advanced head and neck cancer.

Patients with advanced head and neck carcinomas often suffer from impaired deglutition and require prolonged enteral feedings during therapy. This retrospective study analyzed 75 patients managed with three different gastrostomy techniques. Thirty patients received a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy; 28 patients had an open tube gastrostomy using a Foley or Malecot catheter through a purse-string stay suture; and 17 patients received an open-tube gastrostomy with a 1-cm Dacron-cuffed Silastic catheter enclosed in a 3-cm Witzel tunnel with the cuff buried in the subperitoneal pocket. The complication rate for 100 days of tube use was 0.21 for cuffed Silastic gastrostomy, 0.35 for open tube gastrostomy, and 1.41 for the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy group. We conclude that the cuffed Silastic gastrostomy technique is superior in this patient population.

Enteral Nutrition↗