Decision Making

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Redefining parental identity: caregiving and schizophrenia.

When parents try to assume responsibility for an ill adult-child with schizophrenia, the law, mental health practitioners, and often the ill person reject their right to do so. Consequently, these parents regard themselves as disenfranchised, i.e., ...
P Jane Milliken, Herbert C Northcott (Qual Health Res, 200301)
redefining-parental-identity-caregiving-schizophrenia.asp

432.

Limit-setting and decision-making in the management of aggression.

BACKGROUND: Several published research studies have suggested that inpatient aggression against nursing staff may be directly precipitated by common nurse-patient interactions. This study sought to examine the structure of nurses judgements in situations ...
Trevor Lowe, Nigel Wellman, Richard Taylor (J Adv Nurs, 200301)
limit-setting-decision-making-management-aggression.asp

433.

Competitive spillovers across non-profit and for-profit nursing homes.

The importance of non-profit institutions in the health care sector has generated a vast empirical literature examining quality differences between non-profit and for-profit nursing homes. Recent theoretical work has emphasized that much of this ...
David C Grabowski, Richard A Hirth (J Health Econ, 200301)
competitive-spillovers-across-non-profit-profit-nursing-homes.asp

434.

Rethinking positive and negative aspects of alcohol use: suggestions from a comparison of alcohol expectancies and decisional balance.

OBJECTIVE: Few studies have compared similar alcohol-related constructs such as alcohol expectancies and decisional balance: two conceptualizations of the positive and negative aspects of alcohol. The purpose of this study was to compare these constructs ...
Seth M Noar, Robert G Laforge, Jason E Maddock, Mark D Wood (J Stud Alcohol, 200301)
rethinking-positive-negative-aspects-alcohol-suggestions-comparison.asp

435.

Telephone nurses experience of problems with telephone advice in Sweden.

By telephoning a healthcare call centre, individuals in Sweden can consult a nurse to discuss medical problems and health care accessibility, and to receive professional information on how to find their way about the health care system. The aim of the ...
Anna Carin Wahlberg, Elisabet Cedersund, Regina Wredling (J Clin Nurs, 200301)
telephone-nurses-experience-problems-telephone-advice-sweden.asp

436.

A consideration of neuropsychologically normal schizophrenia.

Neuropsychological deficits are considered by many to be core features of schizophrenia. However, about 20% of patients with schizophrenia appear to have normal neuropsychological function. This study investigates this subgroup by comparing a ...
Daniel N Allen, Gerald Goldstein, Erin Warnick (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200301)
consideration-neuropsychologically-normal-schizophrenia.asp

437.

The impact of reader skill on phonological processing in visual word recognition.

There has been much debate about the role of phonology in reading. This debate has been fuelled, in part, by mixed findings for phonological effects in lexical decision tasks. In the present research we investigated the impact of reader skill on three ...
Sara J Unsworth, Penny M Pexman (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200301)
impact-reader-skill-phonological-processing-visual-word-recognition.asp

438.

Development and testing of the theory of collaborative decision-making in nursing practice for triads.

BACKGROUND: Although nurses depend heavily on informal family caregivers to provide care to clients and to be involved in care planning and decision-making, no nursing theories that include the client, the caregiver, and the nurse were available to guide ...
Joanne M Dalton (J Adv Nurs, 200301)
development-testing-theory-collaborative-decision-making-nursing.asp

439.

Decision support software for dementia diagnosis and management in primary care: relevance and potential.

Dementia, which affects a large and growing number of older people, presents particular challenges to primary care. There is an acknowledged need to develop interventions that address practitioners needs for information and guidance regarding the ...
S Turner, S Iliffe, M Downs, M Bryans, J Wilcock, T Austin (Aging Ment Health, 200301)
decision-support-software-dementia-diagnosis-management-primary-care.asp

440.

Category learning deficits in Parkinsons disease.

Sixteen patients with Parkinsons disease (PD), 15 older controls (OCs), and 109 younger controls (YCs) were compared in 2 category-learning tasks. Participants attempted to assign colored geometric figures to 1 of 2 categories. In rule-based tasks, ...
F Gregory Ashby, Sharon Noble, J Vincent Filoteo, Elliot M Waldron, Shawn W Ell (Neuropsychology, 200301)
category-learning-deficits-parkinson-s-disease.asp