Providing Sexual Health Care in Patients with Cancer: Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices

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Providing Sexual Health Care in Patients with Cancer: Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices

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Sleep-wake Disturbances: Preliminary Results from a Study among Cancer Patients during Active-phase Chemotherapy

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Sleep-wake Disturbances: Preliminary Results from a Study among Cancer Patients during Active-phase Chemotherapy

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Personal and professional pain experiences and pain management knowledge among Greek nurses

The purpose of this exploratory study was to describe Greek registered nurses' personal and professional pain experiences and to examine the relationship with their pain management knowledge. Forty-six Greek nurses provided written responses to open-ended questions about their personal and professional experiences with pain and beliefs about suffering. Reporting a personal pain experience was associated with describing a positive professional pain experience, Φ=0.44, p<0.03. The nurses vividly described their personal and professional pain experiences. One nurse wrote "...I begged to lose consciousness, in order not to feel". These compelling accounts might motivate nurses to strengthen their understanding of pain management. © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Anxiety symptoms and quality of interaction among oncology nurses: a correlational, cross-sectional study

To explore the severity of Anxiety Symptoms (AS) among Greek oncology nursing personnel, the degree of satisfaction from professional relationships, and potential association between them. Method: A descriptive cross-sectional correlational study was performed in 2 Greek Oncology Hospitals, in 72 members of nursing personnel. Hamilton Anxiety Scale was used for the assessment of AS severity and the Index of Work Satisfaction subscale "Satisfaction from Interaction" for the degree of satisfaction from professional relationships among nursing personnel (NN) and between nursing personnel and physicians (NP). Results: 11% of the sample reported clinical AS [>= 26, scale range (SR): 0-52]. Satisfaction from NN [5.10 (SD: 1.04), SR: 1-7], and NP [4.21 (SD: 0.77), SR: 1-7] professional interaction were both moderate. Statistically significantly associations were observed between clinical AS and satisfaction from NN (p= 0.014) and NP (p= 0.013) professional interaction. Conclusions: Anxiety reduction interventions and improvement of professional relationships are essentials in order to reduce oncology nurses' psychological distress