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M Senten

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PubMed1998

Developing a supportive-educative program for patients with advanced heart failure within Orem's general theory of nursing.

Recovery from heart failure and coping with the effects of this serious condition has a major impact on the self-care demand of patients with heart failure. To prevent potential self-care deficits, education and support are important issues in nursing care. The purpose of this article is to describe the development of a supportive-educative program that is designed to enhance self-care abilities of patients with heart failure. To structure nursing care for these patients and their families in a consistent systematized way, Orem's general theory of nursing is used as a frame of reference.

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PubMed1993

Validity testing of the Dutch translation of the appraisal of the self-care agency A.S.A.-scale.

The purpose of this study was translation and construct validity testing of the appraisal of the self-care agency ASA-scale. This scale measures operability of self-care agency. The original English version of the scale was translated into Dutch. Subsequently the Dutch version was retranslated into English and compared with the original for semantic and cross-cultural differences. Construct validity of the translated scale was tested on 140 elderly in the Netherlands. The scale was administered to 40 randomly selected patients of a nursing home, 30 residents of a personalized care facility, 30 residents of a service flat and 40 randomly selected elderly who lived independently in the adjacent community. As hypothesize, mean ASA scores of the four groups of elderly differed significantly. The less dependent on institutionalized nursing care the higher the operability of the self-care agency scores of the elderly.

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