ISRN nursingPub Date : 2011-01-01Epub Date: 2011-06-07DOI: 10.5402/2011/567280
Eileen Gigliotti, William Ellery Samuels
{"title":"Use of averaged norbeck social support questionnaire scores.","authors":"Eileen Gigliotti, William Ellery Samuels","doi":"10.5402/2011/567280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5402/2011/567280","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Background. Averaged Norbeck Social Support Questionnaire (NSSQ) support scores remove the influence of network size variability but may unduly lower scores for participants with large networks. Objectives. To evaluate the use of averaged NSSQ scores. Method. Pearson correlations determined if averaged scores decreased as network size increased across three samples. Then, Pearson correlations between a criterion variable and both averaged and raw support scores were computed along with the resultant power to detect a true effect. Results. Neither averaged total functional support nor averaged affect and affirmation scores decreased as sample size increased. However, averaged aid scores did decrease as network size increased. Power also increased markedly in all averaged versus raw scores except in averaged aid scores. Discussion and Conclusions. Use of averaged aid scores is not recommended. Use of all other averaged scores appears acceptable.</p>","PeriodicalId":89398,"journal":{"name":"ISRN nursing","volume":"2011 ","pages":"567280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169832/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30214742","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}
ISRN nursingPub Date : 2011-01-01Epub Date: 2011-04-20DOI: 10.5402/2011/672579
Maxine Adegbola
{"title":"Genomics and pain research in sickle cell disease: an explanation of heterogeneity?","authors":"Maxine Adegbola","doi":"10.5402/2011/672579","DOIUrl":"10.5402/2011/672579","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic illness, and the major complication, pain, results in complex multidimensional problems that affect an individual's ability to maintain adequate quality of life in multiple areas. Chronic SCD pain is inadequately treated, because it is not well understood, and the degree of chronic pain, clinical presentation, and sequela complications can vary from patient to patient, even among individuals with the same SCD genotype. The reason for this variation is unknown, but the underlying cause might be genetic. Researchers have not explored the contribution of a genomic variable to the occurrence of heterogeneous chronic SCD pain. Previous research on the guanosine triphosphate cyclohydrolase (GCH1) gene suggests that in some cases, phenotypic heterogeneity in human sensitivity to pain correlates with underlying genotypic variations in the GCH1 gene. These findings imply that genotypic variations might also explain why some SCD patients experience more chronic pain than others.</p>","PeriodicalId":89398,"journal":{"name":"ISRN nursing","volume":"2011 ","pages":"672579"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3146762/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30049396","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}