{"title":"Palliative Medicine: The Importance of Sleep, Stress, and Behavior","authors":"Chasley B. Jones, R. Gatchel","doi":"10.15226/2374-8362/5/2/00158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15226/2374-8362/5/2/00158","url":null,"abstract":"With the growing research that sleep habits interact with stress and health, it is now essential to understand exactly how sleep influences stress, which contributes to a person’s overall health and wellness. This is equally important for palliative medicine care. Stress has been shown to play an active role in health, while sleep has been shown to effect levels of stress. Those who are experiencing poorer sleep, also experience more stress, which potentially leads to risk of various health concerns. Therefore, it is essential to understand the interworking relationship between stress and sleep in order to effectively maximize restorative sleep for the best health outcomes. The present article examines the relationship between stress and sleep, along with extra consideration to potential factors that could be mediating the aforementioned relationship. Gaining an understanding of these relationships may assist future research and treatment developments for sleep deficiency and resulting health consequences during palliative care.","PeriodicalId":90674,"journal":{"name":"Palliative medicine & care : open access","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74746985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Job Satisfaction and Associated Factors among Nurses Working In the Operation Theater at Government Hospitals of Eastern Ethiopia, 2017","authors":"Admasu Bg, Abdela Ad, Temamen Ty, Dagmawit Bk","doi":"10.15226/2374-8362/5/2/00157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15226/2374-8362/5/2/00157","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Job satisfaction is an essential part of nurses‘lives, influencing patient safety, productivity, performance, quality of care, retention, commitment to the organization and the profession. The aim of this study is to assess the level of job satisfaction and associated factors among nurses working in the operating theatre. Method: Institutional based cross-sectional study design was conducted and Simple random sampling method was used to obtain the study participants. Data was collected using a structured selfadministered questionnaire, entered in to EPI data version 3.1and analyzed using SPSS version20. Associations for statistical significance were assessed using the ‘chi square’ test of association. P-values less than 0.05 were considered as statistically significant. Results: The overall level of job satisfaction among nurses who work in operation theater was 48% room from the total participant 8(8.16%) of the respondents were satisfied 39 (39.8%) moderately satisfied whereas the rest 52% was dissatisfied. Type hospital was the only variable that is significantly associated with job satisfaction. Conclusion: The overall level of job satisfaction among nurses work in operation theater room was low Accordingly, working at operating room, type hospital were significantly associated with satisfaction of nurses working in the operating room .","PeriodicalId":90674,"journal":{"name":"Palliative medicine & care : open access","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79146953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephanie Myers Schim, April Hazard Vallerand, Susan M Hasenau, Sheria Grice Robinson
{"title":"Challenges to Recruitment of Urban African American Patients with Cancer Pain.","authors":"Stephanie Myers Schim, April Hazard Vallerand, Susan M Hasenau, Sheria Grice Robinson","doi":"10.15226/2374-8362/1/3/00111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15226/2374-8362/1/3/00111","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are many assumptions about recruitment of African Americans to cancer studies. The population is often characterized as older, low income, with limited education, scarce resources, and distrust of the health care system. Support systems for African Americans are reported to be centered on family and church communities. Observations made during recruitment and enrollments for a longitudinal intervention study with urban African Americans with cancer pain are presented. Majority of the subjects being recruited in this study are well educated, knowledgeable about research and very open to healthcare providers and researchers. Our population is younger than anticipated and struggling with an absence of family, faith, or community supports. They are more connected in terms of phone ownership, but often difficult to contact due to interruptions in phone service, housing insecurity and time demands related to medical care for their cancer. We conclude that familiarity with cultural patterns of a population of interest is necessary, but local and individual assessment is critical to successful recruitment to research.</p>","PeriodicalId":90674,"journal":{"name":"Palliative medicine & care : open access","volume":"1 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285356/pdf/nihms633136.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32962793","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}