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M A Rose

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Empathic learning: an innovative teaching strategy to improve attitudes toward caring for persons with HIV/AIDS.

The authors conducted a pretest-posttest experimental study to explore the effect of an innovative teaching strategy ("The Circle of Life") on nursing students' knowledge, attitudes, and concerns about caring for persons with AIDS (PWAs). The students (N = 43) who participated in the intervention demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in attitudes toward PWAs. Interventions such as this one, which engage the affective response, have potential for improving attitudes toward caring for individuals with stigmatizing conditions.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
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Quality of life and coping styles of HIV-positive women with children.

This descriptive study explored the quality of life and coping methods of HIV positive women (N = 52) with children. The sample consisted of women with HIV/AIDS who answered an adapted Padilla Quality of Life Index and the Jalowiec Coping Scale. Among the psychological, physical, and social quality of life subscales, social quality of life was rated highest and the psychological scale rated the lowest. Among the three styles of coping, confrontive was used most frequently, passive and emotive less frequently. Significant relationships between coping and quality of life were examined. It is essential that nurses working with women with HIV disease be aware of their common concerns and provide effective strategies to improve quality of life such as enhancing decision making and coping skills within the context of the family unit.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
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Caregivers of children with HIV/AIDS: quality of life and coping styles.

The purpose of this study was to explore the quality of life and coping styles of caregivers of children with HIV/AIDS and to identify if there were differences between mothers and alternative caregivers in these areas. There were 54 mother-caregivers and 25 alternative caregivers in the study. The alternative caregivers scored significantly higher in each area of quality of life than the mothers, except for physical health. The mothers used passive and emotive coping significantly more than the alternative caregivers. The study concluded that caregivers provide support to children with HIV/AIDS, but they also need physical and emotional support themselves. Nurses must be aware of the importance of providing interventions for these caregivers to improve coping mechanisms, decrease stress, and thereby improve their quality of life.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of a Web-based graduate epidemiology course.

An online epidemiology course was developed, implemented, and evaluated for graduate nursing students through the collaborative efforts of nursing faculty and information, education, and instructional design staff of the library at a health sciences university. This epidemiology course is a core curriculum course for graduate nursing students. The course was piloted with 14 students (one student in Romania); the initial online offering ran concurrently with a traditional classroom section. Extensive evaluation data were collected and analyzed to compare the effectiveness of the classroom and distance-learning formats. Areas of evaluation included objective measures, such as midterm and final examination scores and content analysis comparisons, as well as subjective ratings by the students of time commitments, course objectives, technical aspects of the web-based course, areas of satisfaction or dissatisfaction, and self-confidence regarding epidemiology and computer skills. Recommendations for course development, implementation, and evaluation for similar distance-learning courses will be included.

Computer-Assisted Instruction↗
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Health promotion and risk prevention: applications for cancer survivors.

More than five million Americans with a history of cancer are alive today, creating a large population with specific healthcare needs. The nurse's role in cancer prevention and education should be extended to meet the needs of cancer survivors. The care and rehabilitation of patients with cancer should include strategies to promote new behaviors for enhancing the early detection of recurrent disease and reducing risk factors for second malignancies, as well as for other preventable diseases related to diet, exercise, and smoking. As cancer survivors incorporate new health-oriented behaviors into their lives, they may achieve a better sense of control over their health.

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