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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"self-care agency"”.
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Assessment of self-care agency in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
The problem of the study was to determine if self-care agency is related to recidivism, or frequency of hospitalization. Dorothea Orem's Theory of Self-Care provided propositions upon which the study was based. The descriptive correlational research design utilized a nonprobability, purposive …
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Factors Related to Self-Care Agency and Self-Care Practices of Obese Adolescents
… (BCFs)--perceived health status (PHS), perceived self-efficacy (PSE), family satisfaction (FS), and life events (LE)--and the self-care agency (SCA) and self-care practices (SCP) among obese adolescents. The relative predictive strength of each BCF in relation to the outcome variables was also …
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The relationship between self-care agency, self-care, and health in the pregnant adolescent
… relationship between basic conditioning factors, self-care agency, self-care, and health in pregnant adolescents, 14-19 years. Prenatal adolescent clinics at two research sites were used to select 100 volunteer adolescents by convenience nonprobability sampling. The mean age of the adolescents in …
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Effects of Health Promotion on Exercise of Self-care Agency in Independent Older Adults
… of health promotion sessions on exercise of self-care agency in independent older adults was investigated in this study. Dorothea Orem's model of self-care nursing served as the theoretical framework. The nonprobability sample consisted of fourteen independent older adults living in an …
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The Association of Health Literacy with Self-care Agency in Older Adults in Jamaica
… in this country - are health literacy and self-care. The purposes of this study were to (a) generate health literacy profile data with the newly-developed Health Literacy Questionnaire for community-dwelling older adults in Jamaica and (b) determine whether relationships exist among aspects …
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Relationship Between Self-Care Agency, Self-Care Practices, and Body Mass Index Among Nursing Professionals
… study is to investigate the relationship between self-care agency (SCA), self-care practices (SCP), and Body Mass Index (BMI) among Registered Nurses (RNs) living in an urban South Dakota county. These specific constructs and their relationships have not been researched among nursing …
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Relationships Between and Among the Power of Self-Care Agency, Perceived Structural Empowerment and Psychological Empowerment in Nurse Managers in Acute Care Hospitals with Magnet Designation
… In today’s dramatically changing healthcare environment, the nurse manager’s role in an acute care hospital is critical to meet the increasing patient care demands and the goals of the organization. The literature provides consensus that optimal nurse manager role behaviors are essential …
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Cancer related fatigue and self-care while undergoing chemotherapy: patients' perspectives
… and measure CRF and determine the most effective self-care strategies used to combat CRF in a cohort of patients with a diagnosis of cancer (breast cancer, colorectal cancer, Hodgkin’s and Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma) 2). To explore self-care agency and its relationship to CRF. Method: A mixed methods …
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An Exploration Of The Relationships Among Demographics, Risk Factors, Perceived Self-Efficacy, And Fall Prevention Behaviors In Community-Dwelling Thai Older Adults
… Although fall prevention requires significant self-care abilities, insufficient knowledge exists about how to prevent falls in Thai community settings or the predictors of fall prevention behaviors among Thai Older adults. </p> <p>Purpose: Orem's Self-Care Theory was used: 1) to examine the …
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Perceived opportunity for and preference in decision-making of hospitalized men and women
Orem developed a nursing theory of self-care and described the concept of self-care agency as the ability for engaging in self-care which evolves through the course of everyday living. Self-care agency is divided into a power and a decision-making component. To test the decision-making or …
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Factors Related to Resilience Abilities and Self-Care Practices in Adolescents
… of perceived health status, perceived self-efficacy, resilience abilities, self-care agency and self-care practices in adolescents and (2) to evaluate a revised measure, The Solem Adolescent Resilience Abilities Scale (SARAS-R). Orem's self-care theory was used as the theoretical …
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Falls And Hospitalized Cancer Patients
… this study used Dorothea Orem's theory of self-care (Orem, 2001), and Albert Bandura's (2001), social cognitive theory to determine if factors such as age, gender, health state, healthcare system factors, self-care agency, and self-care impact falls.</p> <p>Design: case-control with …