{"title":"Commentary: Fatigue and health-related quality of life in patients with multiple sclerosis.","authors":"Annie Topping","doi":"10.1177/17449871251321103","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17449871251321103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47172,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"17449871251321103"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11969476/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143796757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Help-seeking in nursing and medical students: a concept analysis.","authors":"Varha Bamine, Koji Tanaka","doi":"10.1177/17449871241268451","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17449871241268451","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The prevalence of mental health issues in healthcare students is a growing concern. However, many healthcare students do not seek help because of the strong stigma attached to mental illness. This reluctance has been extensively researched, but a clear understanding of help-seeking behaviour among healthcare students remains elusive.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To clarify the concept of help-seeking in order to develop effective strategies aimed at encouraging help-seeking behaviour in students.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Concept analysis of help-seeking behaviour among nursing and medical students in the context of mental health, based on Rodgers' evolutionary model.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Attributes: (a) consulting a healthcare professional, (b) talking to family/peers/friends and (c) self-treatment. Antecedents: (a) self-awareness, (b) relationship and previous experiences with a help-provider, (c) social perception and (d) availability of university-offered help services. Barriers: (a) barriers specific to healthcare students, (b) misconceptions about mental healthcare services, (c) negative social perception, (d) cost and (e) culture. Consequences included: positive and negative consequences.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This concept analysis aimed to fill in the gap in concept-analysis research and to provide a new conceptualisation of help-seeking by examining subjective reports. The findings of this study will contribute to implementing effective incentives aimed at encouraging help-seeking behaviour in nursing and medical students.</p>","PeriodicalId":47172,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"17449871241268451"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11924047/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143693979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virtual reality as an intervention for adult burn patients: an integrative review.","authors":"Maria Ramage, Suja P Davis","doi":"10.1177/17449871251317922","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17449871251317922","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Virtual reality (VR) allows burn patients to engage in a virtual world and can provide patients with a distraction from pain.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To assess the types of VR models available for use in the adult burn population and determine their efficacy regarding pain management and other health outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines guided this review. We searched the databases of CINAHL and PubMed to identify the peer-reviewed journals that matched the inclusion criteria. We utilised the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) quality appraisal tools to evaluate the selected studies.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The search results ended in nine studies. The types of VR identified included passive and active scenarios with a focus on natural environments. The findings of the quantitative studies indicated that VR decreased patients' pain during therapeutic interventions. In contrast, the findings of most qualitative studies revealed that VR provided distraction for patients during wound care. Regarding secondary outcomes, VR was shown to improve hand rehabilitation, anxiety and pulmonary functions.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This integrative review contributes to nursing by synthesising the evidence on VR as a non-pharmacological and complementary intervention to manage pain among adult burn patients. The implications of this review in nursing practice include consideration of staff training and technical support for practising nurses to successfully and safely implement the VR experience into their practice. Healthcare policies should delineate the best practices for VR use among burn patients to guide its implementation, funds to cover the costs of VR equipment, and equitable access to VR experience for all adult burn patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":47172,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"17449871251317922"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11924071/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143693990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary: Exploring resistance and avoidance behaviours at the research delivery, clinical practice interface: group concept mapping through a critical realist lens.","authors":"Sam Porter","doi":"10.1177/17449871251321413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17449871251321413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47172,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"17449871251321413"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11924054/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143693968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary: Help-seeking in nursing and medical students: a concept analysis.","authors":"Tom McAlear","doi":"10.1177/17449871251321399","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17449871251321399","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47172,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"17449871251321399"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11924059/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143693970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary: Virtual reality as an intervention for adult burn patients: an integrative review.","authors":"Camille Cronin","doi":"10.1177/17449871251320611","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17449871251320611","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47172,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"17449871251320611"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11924052/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143693971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joel Robert McGregor, Xavier Mills, Jamie Ung, James Roffee, Karrie Long
{"title":"A rapid evidence assessment on prevention and reporting in nurses experiences of workplace violence.","authors":"Joel Robert McGregor, Xavier Mills, Jamie Ung, James Roffee, Karrie Long","doi":"10.1177/17449871241310160","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17449871241310160","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Workplace violence (WPV) is a profound issue in nursing. It adversely affects the physical and emotional well-being of healthcare professionals, compromises patient safety and care quality and creates a hostile and stressful work environment leading to burnout, decreased job satisfaction and a high turnover rate among nursing staff.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>The aim of this paper is to examine prevention and reporting among nurses experiencing WPV.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A quantitative rapid evidence assessment of the literature including a search of ProQuest Central, EBSCO and Web of Science was conducted.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This rapid evidence assessment investigates two thematic areas: prevention and reporting. Each discussion section is thematically organised based on the key themes found in the literature.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Papers conclude several facilitators and barriers at personal, organisational and societal levels in their experiences of preventing and reporting WPV. Effectively preventing WPV requires organisational support through the implementation of robust training programmes and the presence of visible security staff. Addressing barriers to reporting WPV, such as inadequate training by management and nurses experiencing burnout, necessitates organisational changes. These changes should include improved education on mitigating WPV beyond high-risk setting, as well as fostering closer collaboration between security personnel and nursing staff.</p>","PeriodicalId":47172,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"17449871241310160"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11924061/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143693945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary: A rapid evidence assessment on prevention and reporting in nurses experiences of workplace violence.","authors":"Liz Deutsch","doi":"10.1177/17449871251322096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17449871251322096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47172,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"17449871251322096"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11924053/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143693950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring resistance and avoidance behaviours at the research delivery, clinical practice interface: group concept mapping through a critical realist lens.","authors":"Linda Tinkler, Steven Robertson, Angela Tod","doi":"10.1177/17449871241311536","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17449871241311536","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Clinical research drives health improvement. Perceptions of clinical research by healthcare professionals practising outwith research structures may impact relationships at the research delivery, clinical service, interface and therefore the success of research.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To establish factors generating resistance/avoidance behaviours displayed by healthcare professionals at the clinical research delivery, clinical service interface.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Group Concept Mapping from a critical realist perspective was adopted. Participants responded to an open-ended statement, then sorted, rated and interpreted the resulting dataset.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The final concept map contained 99 statements sorted into six conceptual clusters (1) '<i>We value & understand the importance of research</i>'; (2) '<i>How it should be & how we could work together</i>'; (3) '<i>Behaviours, beliefs & missed opportunities</i>'; (4) '<i>Dissonance & disengagement</i>'; (5) '<i>Time & capacity affects our ability to engage</i>' and (6) '<i>I keep thinking of ways to facilitate research as everyone's business but it is hard</i>'. Three clusters were rated most likely to generate resistance/avoidance (3, 4 and 5). Two clusters were rated most important to address (2, 5).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This paper contributes previously unheard perspectives on clinical research, indicating several factors generate resistance/avoidance behaviours. Time to engage, opportunities to support studies, improved communication between clinical research and clinical service, and improving awareness from earlier in clinical careers were considered pivotal to success.</p>","PeriodicalId":47172,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"17449871241311536"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11924056/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143693977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andy Peters, Heather Cameron, Scott Cunningham, Susan Dawkes, Jayne Donaldson, Liz Hughes, Jan Savinc, Juliet MacArthur
{"title":"Inequalities of provision of nationally funded clinical academic training awards for healthcare professionals: quantitative comparisons across the four nations of the UK.","authors":"Andy Peters, Heather Cameron, Scott Cunningham, Susan Dawkes, Jayne Donaldson, Liz Hughes, Jan Savinc, Juliet MacArthur","doi":"10.1177/17449871241291947","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17449871241291947","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>There is a common perception that investment in clinical academic training awards for healthcare professions (not medicine and dentistry) in England outweighs that in the devolved nations (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) of the United Kingdom.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>We aimed to evaluate this perception by gathering data on the number of such awards made and the level of associated expenditure by each of the nations during 2017-2022.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Freedom of Information requests were sent to government agencies that provide nationally funded clinical academic training awards in each UK nation. Data on the number of awards provided, the whole time equivalent salaries and durations applicable and the expenditures entailed in the period 2017-2022 were broken down into six levels of training, from internship through to post-doctoral. Standardised per capita comparisons were made between nations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Large differences were found between nations. Only England provided awards in all categories. Wales made the most awards per capita. Scotland invested less than a sixth of that spent by England per capita and under half of that spent by Wales or Northern Ireland.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Strategic approaches focusing on opportunities across the whole career pathway, particularly in the devolved nations, are recommended to achieve cross-national parity.</p>","PeriodicalId":47172,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"17449871241291947"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11910738/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143651406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}