Delirium occurs in more than half of hospitalized older adults with dementia, substantially worsening outcomes. The use of multiple strategies and a local opinion leader, unit champion, has cumulative and lasting effects compared with single-strategy interventions. The purpose of this article is to describe the early barriers and facilitators to rounding with unit champions in a cluster randomi...

This study examined the effectiveness of short-term, home-based occupational therapy guided by the Occupational Therapy Intervention Process Model for improving activities of daily living [ADL] with eight frail, older adults living in assistive living. A multi-method research approach was utilized to collect both quantitative and descriptive, qualitative data in the form of a retrospective exam...

OBJECTIVE to identify the reasons and motivations why family members search treatment for the drug addicted. METHOD descriptive qualitative research, developed in 2012 and 2013, in a Drug Addicts Rehabilitation Unit of Parana State, Brazil. A total of 19 semi-structured interviews were conducted with the drug addicts' family members in treatment. The results were analyzed based on the Transth...

AIM To describe how diabetes nurses in primary care experience the process of learning to practise the person-centred counselling approach Guided Self-Determination among adults with type 2 diabetes. DESIGN A descriptive qualitative design. METHOD Data were collected in 2014-2015 by means of individual interviews with four diabetes nurses at two points in time. The data were analysed using ...

Objective: to understand the meaning of humanized care in intensive care units considering the experience of the multidisciplinary team. Method: descriptive and exploratory qualitative research. For this purpose, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 24 professionals of the heath-care team, and, after transcription, we organized the qualitative data according to content analysis. Res...

b Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto (ESEP). Porto, Portugal. ABSTRACT Objective: To understand the capitalist influence over the production of nursing knowledge according to Brazilian and Portuguese researchers. Method: Descriptive, exploratory, and qualitative research, with 17 research nurses selected using the snowball technique. Data were collected from October 2011 to November 2012 in...

the purpose of this descriptive-correlation study was to investigate effective factors on rural people participation in watershed management projects in dorod faraman & lalabad basin, kermanshah province. both qualitative and quantitative paradigms were considered in the study. the target population in quantitative section consisted all rural peoples in the dorod faraman & lalabad basin village...