Nursing - Seattle: Recent submissions
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Improving Cryptococcal Meningitis Outcomes: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Cryptococcal Meningitis Program in Rural Uganda
University of Washington ABSTRACT Improving Cryptococcal Meningitis Outcomes: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Cryptococcal Meningitis Program in Rural Uganda Abigail Link Chair of the Supervisory Committee Danuta Kasprzyk, ... -
FROM GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE TO TRANS-AFFIRMING CARE: Trans Youth Discourses of Healthcare Access
Transgender youth in the United States face intersecting forms of societal marginalization and discrimination that places them at higher risk for disparate health outcomes compared to their cisgender peers. Access to care ... -
Pediatric Hospital Falls: Patient Risk Assessment and Associated Parent Characteristics
Background: Falls account for approximately 42% of adverse events reported in hospitalized children. These falls can result in patient injury which can increase hospital length of stay (LOS) and costs of care and decrease ... -
Green Exercise for Older Adults: Scoping Review, Implementation, and Perceived Restorativeness
Green exercise, or exercise performed in a natural environment, has additional health benefits than exercise alone (Barton, Bragg, Wood, & Pretty, 2016). However, older adults may experience barriers to getting outside ... -
Parental stress in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Purpose: The purpose of this dissertation is to address parental experiences and responses to their child hospitalization in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). There are three papers in this dissertation, all of ... -
Testing the mediating effects of self-efficacy on physical and psychological outcomes following an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
Purpose/Aims: Approximately 100,000 persons with heart failure or cardiac arrhythmias receive an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) each year in the U.S. Post-ICD implant recovery requires multiple lifestyle ... -
Culturally-Adapted Translation, Psychometric and Predictive Validation of the Reported Edmonton Frail Scale-Thai version (REFS-Thai)
Abstract Background: Frailty, a geriatric syndrome, results in increasing vulnerability, disability, and adverse health outcomes in older adults. In order to provide better care, early detection is the best approach to ... -
Describing, Measuring, and Testing a Model of Illness-Related Concerns among Children Experiencing Maternal Breast Cancer
Background: Maternal cancer is a substantial source of stress for children. Children of diagnosed mothers are at heightened risk for depression, anxiety, withdrawal, and worrying. To best support these children, it is ... -
Cultural Considerations among Family Caregivers in Palliative and Hospice Care
Persisting caregiving burden causes health problems among family caregivers. In this diverse, global society, culturally sensitive care for both patients and their family has been emphasized. Exploring interactions of ... -
A study to determine the attitudes held and opinions expressed by obstetricians and gynecologists relative to the expanded roles of health care providers in maternal and infant care
(1976)Perceptions of a general economic need to provide lower cost medical services have resulted in large part from the extraordinary increase in physician's fees that has occurred since World War II. From 1950 to 1972, physician's ... -
Itching and Parental guilt: Parent Responses to Children's Symptoms Following Unintentional Burn Injuries
Background: Unintentional burn injury can be a traumatic and stressful event for the affected children and their parents. Young children experience persistent itching and emotional distress associated with the injury. ... -
A Socioecological Exploration of County-Level Toddler Immunization Completion
There is wide variation among county-level toddler immunization completion, which ranges from 26% to more than 90%. The cause of this variation is unclear and reflects our limited understanding of the factors that affect ... -
Exploring the Mechanisms of a Family-Centered Behavioral Intervention for Behavioral Sleep Problems in Young Children
Purpose: The purpose of this dissertation is to address the paucity of knowledge about predictive and causal (both direct and mediating) parent-driven pathways to parent sleep practices in the context of a family with a ... -
The Association Between Early Mobilization Intervention and the Development of Pressure Injuries in the Intensive Care Unit
Critically ill patients in ICU settings have a higher rate of PIs than other patients. These patients are at increased risk due to severe physiological instability and immobility. Immobility is one of the major risk factors ... -
Telemental Health Treatment of Patients Diagnosed with Anxiety Disorders
Background. A prominent rationale for telemental health (TMH) adoption is that TMH can help overcome treatment barriers; however, TMH adoption has progressed more slowly than expected and questions about its utility persist. ... -
Evidence-Based Public Health: Using Data Visualization for Improving the Understanding of Data and Information
Despite the potential value of data visualization for improving understanding of data in a manner that results in better decision-making in health and healthcare, there is little understanding of its applications in public ... -
Developing New Prognostic Models for Predicting Outcomes in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Globally, the annual incidence rate of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in all ages is 349 per 100,000 person-years. The incidence of TBI varies across regions, populations, regulations, and health systems; but in general, the ... -
Informatics Intervention for Self-Management of Pain after TBI
The occurrence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post injury recovery are major public health concerns in the United States (Taylor et al., 2017). The number of TBI related emergency department visits, hospitalizations ... -
Accelerated Intermittent Theta-Burst Stimulation: Future Paradigms in Neuropsychiatric Disorder Treatment
Background: Accelerated intermittent theta-burst stimulation (aiTBS) is a novel form of non-invasive repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), used in treatment resistant depression (TRD). A recent release of ... -
Inequity in Healthcare Delivery: Barriers Faced by the Newly Released Inmate
A disparity in health care exists for individuals accessing primary care following incarceration. Whether due to the myriad of barriers that inhibit people from establishing new care with providers, or the poor perceptions ...