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Research into the families of male prisoners has largely focused on the experience of older prisoners' wives and prisoners' children. This small-scale two-stage study collected quantitative data from 26 women (aged 18 to 24) and carried out narrative interviews focused on the lives and experiences of...
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PMID: 21877521
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HIV/AIDS conspiracy theories constitute a loosely grouped set of meanings that share the notion of secret collusion among allied parties. This paper traces one woman's etiological narrative of HIV/AIDS. Such embodied experience and cultural understanding when placed against the backdrop of current th...
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PMID: 21936263
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We feel that a broader discussion of the subject would be useful. In our short article we report the pieces written by three very positive-minded girls suffering from cancer for the journal of our Department. They show deep and severe insight disturbance....
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PMID: 21487370
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The author reflects on her personal experiences during the 2009 H1N1 influenza, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) pandemics. The roles played by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention related to pregnancy-associated influenza during the 2...
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PMID: 21419383
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The chief executive of one of London's major hospitals, Heather Lawrence, has never forgotten her nursing roots.
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PMID: 21739793
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Key informant interviews and focus groups assist in eliciting qualitative data from the community in order to develop educational programs. This article describes how an additional methodology, illustrated story maps, are used to obtain context-specific information on what African Am...
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PMID: 19608857
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The recent morbidity trends in Australia indicate a steep rise in the number of individuals living with chronic illness who rely on the assistance of mostly women carers. Consequently, supporting and promoting carers' health should be a priority to sustain their health, and ensure their ability to pr...
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PMID: 21616024
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These results presented that Buddhism and Confucianism had influence on reasons to not attempting suicide behavior as the inhibitor of suicidal ideation. In conclusion, cultural context should be considered to develop strategies for the suicide prevention in South Korean college student....
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PMID: 21706996
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I am finding some special moments that otherwise might have gone unseen or not happened at all. This article is a personal exploration of the frustrations and rewards of time necessarily spent recuperating.
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PMID: 21117528
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This column shares the lived experiences of four Master Trainers who used storytelling as the methodology for teaching TeamSTEPPS to interprofessional staff members of a large health system. TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based program that focuses on skills and behaviors that improve teamwork and commun...
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PMID: 21053802
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There is growing evidence that internalized stigma, or self-stigma, is a unique source of distress in the lives of people with severe mental illness. Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy is a structured group-based intervention aimed specifically at reducing internalized stigma and promoting...
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PMID: 21048471
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To probe medical students' narrative essays as a rich source of data on the hidden curriculum, a powerful influence shaping the values, roles, and identity of medical trainees.
In 2008, the authors used grounded theory to conduct a thematic analysis of third-year Harvard Medical School students' ref...
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PMID: 20881818
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The ideal clinical experience fosters development of psychomotor, cognitive, and affective skills while affording initial socialization into the profession. It is expected that during these experiences, nursing students will encounter illustrative exemplars of caring and professional values. The prim...
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PMID: 20954574
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The aim of this study was to show some specificity of syntax of narratives created by persons diagnosed with antisocial personality. The author attempted to verify and supplement information that persons with antisocial personality have an incapacity for emotional language. Scores of 60 prisoners wi...
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PMID: 19943191
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We seek to deconstruct the term control as used by childbearing women to better understand the issues and concepts underpinning it. Based on qualitative interviews with 101 parous women in the United States, we analyze meanings of control within the context of birth narratives. We find these meaning...
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PMID: 20579792
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Working in a remote environment provided an insight into how to engage culturally diverse Indigenous communities and an invaluable training experience....
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PMID: 20645900
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We aimed to explore, in their own words, young people's lived experience of life after transplantation. We used semistructured interviews to collect narrative data, and used a purposive sample of 14 young people in early, middle, and late adolescence, transplanted for a range of chronic, acute, and...
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PMID: 20442344
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We led four focus groups consisting of patients older than 65 years of age who had a diagnosis of cardiovascular disease and were using a prescription for cardioprotective agents, such as aspirin, anticoagulants, and/or antiplatelets. The participants' stories were retrospective accounts about physi...
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PMID: 20442345
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SUMMARY: This report describes the first Native American cancer survivor archive and lessons learned from its development. Unusual not only in its holdings, this archive project is distinct as it is led by researchers and community health advocates without professional archival development training....
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PMID: 20693728
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We propose that conscious thought is for internal processing, to facilitate downstream interaction with the social and cultural environment. Human consciousness enables the construction of meaningful, sequential thought, as in sentences and narratives, logical reasoning, counting and quantification,...
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PMID: 20658859
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Story is a creative teaching strategy that can highlight the unique and complex needs of older adults diagnosed with cancer. Story as a means for delivering educational content can enhance recall and memory of details discussed in lecture. The purpose of this article is to describe the use of story...
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PMID: 20608593
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We used a narrative intervention to promote colorectal cancer screening. Researchers have suggested that people may overestimate barriers to colorectal cancer screening. We recruited participants from the US, ages 49-60 who had never previously been screened for colorectal cancer, to read an educati...
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PMID: 20417005
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Based on in-depth life story interviews contextualised by fourteen months of fieldwork in 2003-2004 and using a person-centered ethnographic approach, this article provides a case study of an exemplary informant from Catholic West Belfast, Northern Ireland, regarding his traumatised sense of identit...
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PMID: 20378230
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This study aimed to determine if oral narrative comprehension and production measures derived in a fictional story retelling task could be used to create a profile of strengths and weaknesses in oral narrative ability (Profile of Oral Narrative Ability: PONA) in young school-aged children. The story...
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PMID: 20433337
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Government policy proposed by Lord Darzi (2009) and others has highlighted the importance of consultation with patients and carers. NHS foundation trusts have a duty to consult local populations of patients, and these include children and their parents. In this article suggestions are made about how...
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PMID: 20583642
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Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurogenetic disorder that has a 50% inheritance rate. The ability to have 100% confirmation of the illness became a reality with the discovery of the gene in 1993. The effect of confirmatory testing and the issues faced by the individual and the family fac...
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PMID: 20550076
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We found evidence for strong increases in interpretive information during adolescence, but not before. These increases were evident across different types of events, and across different subtypes of interpretive content. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for the development of...
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PMID: 20438183
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Narrative coherence and complexity have been considered as key concepts for understanding therapeutic improvement and recovery of persons with severe mental disorders. The main aim of this article is to study coherence and complexity of 18 life narratives of persons with paranoid schizophrenia by th...
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PMID: 20458197
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55 adults (84% women; 93% African American) participated in a focus group, interview, or seminar; transcripts yielded 120 story units. The most highly rated units were woven into 11 stories. The six highest rated stories/actor-storytellers were selected for presentation on the DVD. CONCLUSION: We ac...
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PMID: 19833472
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We documented 26 pregnancy outcomes among 13 homeless women (ages 18-26) and eight homeless men through interviews and participant-observation. Eight pregnancies were voluntarily terminated, three were miscarried, and fifteen were carried to term. Regardless of pregnancy outcome, street youths' narr...
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PMID: 20453382
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Family history information has emerged as an increasingly important tool for clinical care and research. While recent standards provide for structured entry of family history, many clinicians record family history data in text. The authors sought to characterize family history information within cli...
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PMID: 20442153
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We examined memory for action and descriptive elements of these scenarios. Given previous research demonstrating that readers simulate described actions preceded by 'You' from an actor's perspective, we predicted that such action statements would be better remembered than those preceded by 'He' or '...
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PMID: 19939357
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This article describes nurses' experiences during their first year after graduation, based on the qualitative content analysis of eight interviews. The results show that the nurses experienced a transition from "being a rookie," including being accepted as a member of the team and respected as a col...
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PMID: 20411891
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This article presents a narrative-based technique, which allows medical personnel to empower patients with diabetes and improve adherence.
The study was undertaken in Maccabi Healthcare Services, among 123 patients diagnosed with diabetes. Four empathic narratives wer...
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PMID: 20032167
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This article presents a narrative-based technique, which allows medical personnel to empower patients with diabetes and improve adherence.
The study was undertaken in Maccabi Healthcare Services, among 123 patients diagnosed with diabetes. Four empathic narratives wer...
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PMID: 20032167
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This article presents a narrative-based technique, which allows medical personnel to empower patients with diabetes and improve adherence.
The study was undertaken in Maccabi Healthcare Services, among 123 patients diagnosed with diabetes. Four empathic narratives wer...
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PMID: 20032167
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This article presents a narrative-based technique, which allows medical personnel to empower patients with diabetes and improve adherence.
The study was undertaken in Maccabi Healthcare Services, among 123 patients diagnosed with diabetes. Four empathic narratives wer...
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PMID: 20032167
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This article presents a narrative-based technique, which allows medical personnel to empower patients with diabetes and improve adherence.
The study was undertaken in Maccabi Healthcare Services, among 123 patients diagnosed with diabetes. Four empathic narratives wer...
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PMID: 20032167
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This article presents a narrative-based technique, which allows medical personnel to empower patients with diabetes and improve adherence.
The study was undertaken in Maccabi Healthcare Services, among 123 patients diagnosed with diabetes. Four empathic narratives wer...
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PMID: 20032167
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This article presents a narrative-based technique, which allows medical personnel to empower patients with diabetes and improve adherence.
The study was undertaken in Maccabi Healthcare Services, among 123 patients diagnosed with diabetes. Four empathic narratives wer...
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PMID: 20032167
PDF is available here.
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This article presents a narrative-based technique, which allows medical personnel to empower patients with diabetes and improve adherence.
The study was undertaken in Maccabi Healthcare Services, among 123 patients diagnosed with diabetes. Four empathic narratives wer...
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PMID: 20032167
PDF is available here.
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This article presents a narrative-based technique, which allows medical personnel to empower patients with diabetes and improve adherence.
The study was undertaken in Maccabi Healthcare Services, among 123 patients diagnosed with diabetes. Four empathic narratives wer...
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PMID: 20032167
PDF is available here.
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This article presents a narrative-based technique, which allows medical personnel to empower patients with diabetes and improve adherence.
The study was undertaken in Maccabi Healthcare Services, among 123 patients diagnosed with diabetes. Four empathic narratives wer...
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PMID: 20032167
PDF is available here.
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This article presents a narrative-based technique, which allows medical personnel to empower patients with diabetes and improve adherence.
The study was undertaken in Maccabi Healthcare Services, among 123 patients diagnosed with diabetes. Four empathic narratives wer...
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PMID: 20032167
PDF is available here.
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This article presents a narrative-based technique, which allows medical personnel to empower patients with diabetes and improve adherence.
The study was undertaken in Maccabi Healthcare Services, among 123 patients diagnosed with diabetes. Four empathic narratives wer...
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PMID: 20032167
PDF is available here.
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The present study aimed to assess the relative contribution of memory disorganization and beliefs about trauma memory in the prediction of posttraumatic stress symptoms. A sample of 95 student nurses and midwives narrated their memory of the most distressing placement related event they had experien...
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PMID: 20144524
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