Instruments for clinical health-care research

2004 AJN BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER!This text facilitates researching clinical concepts and will enhance the focus on linking clinical variable assessments with routine measurement of everyday clinical interventions. With this book, students will be able to: review available instruments that measure select clinical phenomena; review selected studies employing each tool; identify an instruments strengths and weaknesses; and develop instruments for cross-cultural research.

• Preface p. xi
• About the Authors p. xv
• Contributors p. xvii
• I Overview p. 1
• 1. Evaluating Instruments for Use in Clinical Nursing Research p. 3 Sharol F. Jacobson
• 2. Tool Adaptation to Reduce Health Disparities p. 20 Sally P. Weinrich and Marlyn D. Boyd and JoAnne Herman
• 3. Measurement Issues with Children and Adolescents p. 33 Debra P. Hymovich
• 4. Measurement Issues with the Elderly p. 47 Joyce H. Rasin
• 5. Measurement Issues Concerning Linguistic Translations p. 56 Claudette G. Varricchio
• 6. Physiologic Measurement Issues p. 65 Freda DeKeyser Ganz and Linda C. Pugh
• 7. Cultural Considerations in Research Instrumentation Development p. 73 Miyong T. Kim and Hae-Ra Han
• II Instruments for Assessing Health and Function p. 81
• 8. Measuring Function p. 83 Therese Richmond and Siew Tzah Tang and Lorraine Tulman and Jacqueline Fawcett and Ruth McCorkle
• 9. Measuring Cognitive Status p. 100 Marquis D. Foreman and Patricia E.H. Vermeersch
• 10. Single Instruments for Measuring Quality of Life p. 128 Geraldine V. Padilla and Marilyn Frank-Stromborg and Setsuko Koresawa
• 11. Multiple Instruments for Measuring Quality of Life p. 150 Anna K. Omery and Hannah Dean
• 12. Social Support: Conceptualization and Measurement Instruments p. 164 Ada M. Lindsey and Bernice C. Yates
• 13. Measuring Coping p. 200 Jo Ann Wegmann and Kimberly McClane
• 14. Measuring Hope p. 215 Martha H. Stoner
• 15. Instruments to Measure Aspects of Spirituality p. 229 Jan M. Ellerhorst-Ryan and Sharon Fish Mooney
• 16. Measuring Body Image p. 243 Julie F. Robertson
• 17. Measuring Sexuality: Physiologic, Psychologic, and Relationship Dimensions p. 257 Margaret Chamberlain Wilmoth and Angela D. Berry
• 18. Measuring Dietary Intake and Nutritional Outcomes p. 278 Nancy A. Stotts and Nancy Bergstrom
• 19. Measuring Sleep p. 293 Felissa R. Lashley
• 20. Attitudes Toward Chronic Illness p. 315 Rebecca F. Cohen
• 21. Selecting a Tool for Measuring Cancer Attitudes p. 335 Nancy Burns
• 22. Measuring Family Outcomes p. 352 Gloria Juarez and Betty R. Ferrell and Michelle Rhiner
• 23. Measuring Anxiety p. 362 Margaret S. Soderstrom and Patricia M. Grimm
• 24. Measuring Depression p. 376 Jeannie V. Pasacreta
• 25. Measuring Healthy Lifestyle p. 401 Ann Malone Berger and Susan Noble Walker
• III Instruments for Assessing Health-Promotion Activities p. 417
• 26. Measuring Self-Care Activities p. 419 Marylin J. Dodd
• 27. Measuring Breast and Colorectal Cancer Screening Beliefs and Behaviors p. 428 Susan M. Rawl and Victoria L. Champion
• 28. Measuring Information-Seeking Behaviors and Decision-Making Preferences p. 455 Caroline Bagley-Burnett
• 29. Measuring Alterations in Taste and Smell p. 472 Roberta Anne Strohl
• IV Instruments for Assessing Clinical Problems p. 485
• 30. Measuring Bowel Elimination p. 487 Kathryn K. Chambers and Susan C. McMillan
• 31. Measuring Cardiac Parameters p. 498 Susan J. Quaal
• 32. Measuring Physiologic Parameters in Obstetric Nursing p. 512 Jana Lauderdale
• 33. Measuring Dyspnea p. 523 Mary L. Scott
• 34. Measuring Fatigue p. 538 Barbara F. Piper
• 35. Measuring Mobility and Potential for Falls p. 570 Ann Marie Spellbring and Judith W. Ryan
• 36. Measuring Nausea, Vomiting, and Retching p. 583 Roxanne W. McDaniel and Verna A. Rhodes
• 37. Assessing the Oral Cavity p. 594 Sharon Ann Hyland
• 38. Measuring Pain p. 603 Deborah B. McGuire and Hee-Ju Kim and Xiaotao Lang
• 39. Measuring Skin Integrity p. 645 Barbara J. Braden and Rita A. Frantz
• 40. Assessing Vaginitis p. 663 Sue B. Davidson and Marcia M. Grant
• Index p. 683