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Effect of therapeutic touch on the anxiety of 90 volunteer male and female subjects between the ages of 21 and 65, hospitalized in a cardiovascular unit of a large medical center in New York City, was examined. The dependent variable, state anxiety, was defined as a transitory emotional state of the individual at a particular point and was measured by the Self-Evaluation Questionnaire x-1, developed by Spielberger, Gorsuch, and Lushene. Subjects were administered this tool pre- and postintervention. Three matched intervention groups were formed; each subject received an individual five-minute period of intervention by therapeutic touch, casual touch, or no touch. Subjects who received intervention by therapeutic touch experienced a highly significant (p < .001) reduction in state anxiety, according to a comparison of pre–posttest means on A-state anxiety using a correlatedtratio. Subjects who received intervention by therapeutic touch had a significantly (p < .01) greater reduction in posttest anxiety scores than subjects who received intervention by casual touch or no touch.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID

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Responses—pauses, laughter, and interruptions (postulated to be communication techniques of couples with more equal power in decision making) and questions, silence time, and longer decision time (hypothesized to be communication techniques of couples in a dominant–submissive power structure)—of 68 middle-class sub-urban couples who volunteered to take the Inventory of Marital Conflicts were analyzed. Although study hypotheses were not supported, a high intercorrelation was revealed among communication variables hypothesized to be characteristic of power-sharing couples.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID

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Using a study sample of 32 community health nurses employed by the Visiting Nurse Association of Hartford, Inc., the relationship of selected attribute and environmental variables was studied, and a quantitative rating of the nurses' job performance was developed. A nonhierarchical stepwise multiple regression analysis was used to determine the relationship between job performance and the independent variables: age, education, work experience, five state board licensure examinations, job satisfaction, and leadership behavior. A principal component analysis with Varimax rotation was used to reduce the independent variables to three components: state board examinations, biographical information, and attitude toward the work environment. The raw score model produced a larger multiple correlation (p<.05) than the reduced rank model in the regression analyses. This result was due, in part, to the small sample size in relation to the number of independent variables for the raw score model. However, the rank reduction of the raw scores captured only 38 percent of the variation among the items.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID

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The best predictor of achievement in college when cognitive and noncognitive variables were tested in two classes of freshmen nursing students (1975 and 1976) at Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was the Aptitude Test for Nursing. Cognitive variables significant in 1975 were mathematics Scholastic Aptitude Test scores and high school rank, while in 1976 arithmetic formulation entered into the regression equations as did the noncognitive variable of conformity. A discrepancy was found between 1975 and 1976 predictor variables of dropping out of nursing. For the 1975 freshman class, science grade point average and the support scale of the Gordon Survey of Interpersonal Values were the best predictors of dropping out of the nursing program; in the 1976 class, nursing GPA alone was the best predictor of dropping out. Although an intercorrelation was noted between science GPA and nursing GPA, the success of predicting dropping out of nursing in relationship to science GPA and nursing GPA appeared to be unstable.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID

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Three dimensions of the quality of nurses' working life in a health maintenance organization—job satisfaction, job tension, and organizational commitment—were studied. Subjects included 50 licensed vocational nurses, 47 registered nurses, and 14 nurse practitioners. Nurse practitioners registered a statistically significant higher level of job satisfaction than RNs and LVNs; RNs registered a statistically significant higher level than LVNs. Nurse practitioners reported more job tension than RNs or LVNs, and RNs reported more than LVNs, but the differences were not significant. Differences among the groups were not significant for organizational commitment, but NPs expressed the highest level of commitment.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID