The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Quality of Life in Patients With Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis
This study was designed as a descriptive, consecutive survey of pre-arthroplasty patients due to hip and knee OA. Data were collected by the Personal Information Form, Western Ontario and McMaster Universities (WOMAC) Index, and EQ-5D-5L quality-of-life scale. Logistic regression was used to determine the risk factors of CAM usage; 74.4% of the patients used CAM methods. The most frequently used methods of CAM were biologically based herbal therapies. All patients indicated that they did not disclose CAM methods they used to their physicians. The median EQ-5D-5L index value of the patients was 0.08 and the median WOMAC sco...
Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - October 20, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: FEATURES Source Type: research
Living Through COVID-19: A Family Experience
Through qualitative inquiry grounded in story theory, this study described the impact of COVID-19 on a 5-member family. Using conventional content analysis, 8 themes were abstracted and organized around the story plot of being exposed, facing the challenge, and moving to resolution. Findings offer an approach for holistic nursing practice. (Source: Holistic Nursing Practice)
Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - October 20, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: FEATURES Source Type: research
Essential Oils Can Mitigate Adverse Effects of Prolonged Masking in the Hospital Setting
Adverse symptoms of prolonged masking were reported by personnel. A drop of essential oil was added to the mask to mitigate these effects and significantly lessened symptoms. Symptoms declined by almost half, including anxiety, nausea, and indigestion. This simple intervention can mitigate adverse effects of prolonged masking in the hospital setting. (Source: Holistic Nursing Practice)
Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - October 20, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: FEATURES Source Type: research
The Effects of Spiritual Care on Fatigue and Pain among Patients with Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
This study aimed at assessing the effects of spiritual care (SC) on fatigue and pain among patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy. This randomized controlled trial was conducted in 2018. Participants were 145 patients with cancer consecutively recruited from a large-scale public hospital in Zanjan, Iran, and randomly allocated to an intervention (n = 72) group and a control (n = 73) group through block randomization. Participants in the intervention group received SC for 3 days. The Fatigue Severity Scale and a visual analog scale were, respectively, used for fatigue and pain assessments before and after the study int...
Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - October 20, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: FEATURES Source Type: research
Nursing Shortage: The Perfect Storm
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Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - October 20, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: FROM THE EDITOR Source Type: research
Stress and Anxiety Reduction Effects of a Reiki Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Employees in Lima, Peru
Evidence has been found of how the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has increased stress and anxiety indicators. Against this background, the present research aims to determine the effect of a distance Reiki intervention program on stress and anxiety during the period of isolation due to COVID-19 among people working in the city of Lima, Peru. The related hypothesis was that distance Reiki would generate a reduction in stress and anxiety levels. It was a quasiexperimental design with pre- and posttests, with nonprobabilistic purposive sampling. In total, 28 employees participated (12 in the experimental group a...
Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - August 28, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: FEATURES Source Type: research
Mindfulness as an Antidote to Burnout for Nursing and Support Staff in an Oncological Intensive Care Unit: A Pilot Study
We set out to implement a pilot mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) to alleviate burnout, stress, anxiety, and depression in nursing and support staff of an oncological intensive care unit. We created an 8-week personalized yoga therapy MBI for nurses and patient care technicians in an oncological intensive care unit. Validated self-report scale tools were used to measure burnout, stress, anxiety, and depression in the intervention and control groups (Institutional Quality Improvement Registry no. 296, 2018). Changes in scores from baseline to postintervention were evaluated between groups. Forty-five staff, 21 in the con...
Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - August 28, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: FEATURES Source Type: research
A Holistic Approach to Reduce Firearms Injury Risks
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Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - August 28, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: PARTING THOUGHTS... Source Type: research
Integrative Pain Solutions, Part 3: Chronic Pain and Evidence-Based Nonpharmacologic Strategies
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Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - August 28, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: INTEGRATIVE HEALTH PRACTICES Source Type: research
Empowering Nurses to Provide Humanized Care in Canadian Hospital Care Units: A Qualitative Study
Previous studies have reported a conflict between nurses' motivation to provide humanized care and practical requirements impeding them from doing so. This exploratory descriptive qualitative study aimed to explore nurses' perspectives on humanized care, the challenges they face, and, most importantly, their recommendations to overcome these barriers. Semistructured individual interviews were conducted with 17 auxiliary and registered nurses working in various health care units in a Canadian hospital. Participants demonstrated a good understanding of what humanized care covers and entails. They also described it as the ver...
Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - August 28, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: FEATURES Source Type: research
Compassion Fatigue in Oncology Nurses in Turkey: A Qualitative Study
Nurses working in oncology clinics, where terminal patients are frequently cared for, face the risk of compassion fatigue, and, therefore, it is important to understand their experiences of this condition. Accordingly, this study aimed to identify compassion fatigue among nurses working in oncology clinics. The findings led to the identification of 5 themes: empathy, sadness, despair, depersonalization, and not suffering from death. (Source: Holistic Nursing Practice)
Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - August 28, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: FEATURES Source Type: research
Living With Cardiovascular Disease: Existential Meaning of Lifestyle Change
This study aims at exploring the perspectives of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) on the existential meaning of lifestyle change as an evidence base for spiritual care by nurses and other health professionals. This study has been carried out within the paradigm of phenomenological caring sciences. The sample of 18 participants was purposively selected. Data consisted of in-depth interviews among adults with an episode of CVD. Data analysis of transcribed audio recordings was done using the method of Reflective Lifeworld Approach. For patients with CVD, changing one's lifestyle is an experience of transition in se...
Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - August 28, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: FEATURES Source Type: research
The Effect of Massage and Progressive Relaxation Exercises on Pain Intensity and Menstrual Symptoms in Students With Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Randomized Controlled Trial
A total of 97 female students, 50 in the intervention group and 47 in the control group, were included in this pretest-posttest design randomized controlled study. Massage and progressive relaxation exercises are self-administered practices that are easy to adopt, with no side effects, and have beneficial effects on pain, sweating, fatigue, and gastrointestinal and central nervous system signs. So, it can be asserted that when applied together, massage and progressive relaxation exercises could be more effective in reducing menstrual symptoms than applying them separately. (Source: Holistic Nursing Practice)
Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - August 28, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: FEATURES Source Type: research
The Effects of Yoga on Pregnancy, Stress, and Anxiety in Infertile Individuals: A Systematic Review
It is believed that practicing yoga has a healing effect on reproductive organs and increases blood circulation. The aim of the present study was to systematically evaluate the results of previous studies on the effects of practicing yoga on infertility problems, depression caused by infertility, and pregnancy outcomes. This literature review was conducted from July through August 2020 from the following sources: Cochrane, Science Direct, Scopus, Medline, Complementary Index, and Google Scholar for the international data; Turkish Academic Network and Information Center, and the Council of Higher Education Thesis Search Dat...
Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - August 28, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: FEATURES Source Type: research
Effect of Sleep Hygiene Education on Sleep Quality in Patients With Liver Transplantation
This study aimed to determine the effects of sleep hygiene education on sleep quality in liver transplant patients. In the literature, the efficacy of various pharmacological methods for reducing poor sleep quality associated with liver transplant patients and studies on nonpharmacological methods are limited. This study was conducted using a quasiexperimental design with a pre- and posttest, and a control group. When the power analysis was made, a sample size with 5% double-sided significance, 95% confidence interval, and 95% ability to represent the population was calculated to have a total of 100 liver transplant patien...
Source: Holistic Nursing Practice - August 28, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: FEATURES Source Type: research
