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This study investigated relationships between alcohol and drug abuse by adolescents and frequency of religious service attendance in the south-east United States. Data obtained from surveys of 217 adolescents, age 12-19 years, was analysed. The adolescents included participants from both clinical and non-clinical settings. Results from both groups showed that, as attendance at religious services increased, alcohol and drug abuse decreased. Spirituality is a concept that warrants further study to determine if its inclusion in treatment programs could enhance recovery or drastically reduce recidivism.
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Adolescent Behavior , Psychology, Adolescent , Religion and Psychology , Substance-Related Disorders/psychology , Adolescent , Case-Control Studies , Child , Christianity , Female , Humans , Male , Self Concept , Southeastern United States , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
The computer age is here! However, many nurses are not using available computer technology. As the uses of computers increase in work, home, and community settings, nurses need to "keep up with the times." This article provides the gastroenterology nurse with a historical perspective on computer technology, some basic information on computers and computer resources, and encourages the nurse to become computer literature. Gastroenterology nurses need to use computer technology to enhance patient care.
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Computer Literacy , Computer User Training , Gastroenterology , Specialties, Nursing/education , Attitude to Computers , Computer User Training/methods , Humans , Internet , Microcomputers , Needs Assessment , Professional CompetenceABSTRACT
Over the past decade, nursing has identified the significance of self-esteem in maintaining wellness among adolescents. Low self-esteem has been linked to numerous adolescent risk behaviors such as smoking, drug use, and sexual activity. Adolescents engaging in these risk behaviors may have subsequent health problems, such as alcohol and drug addiction, as well as teen pregnancy. Present treatment modalities for low self-esteem have not been optimally effective. Nursing needs to examine adolescent self-esteem within the discipline of nursing and develop its own prevention and intervention strategies. Guided by the Roy Adaptation Model, our study used a descriptive, correlational design and examined the self-report of self-esteem on age group, gender, exercise participation, smoking, parental alcohol usage, depression, and anger in a nonclinical, community sample of adolescents aged 12-19.
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Psychology, Adolescent , Self Concept , Adaptation, Psychological , Adolescent , Adult , Alcoholism/psychology , Anger , Child , Child of Impaired Parents/psychology , Depression/psychology , Exercise/psychology , Female , Humans , Male , Models, Nursing , Models, Psychological , Pregnancy , Smoking/psychology , Substance-Related Disorders/psychology , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
Although self-esteem is an important concept, nursing has only begun to focus on the significance of self-esteem as a mechanism for achieving wellness among adolescents, and as a variable for targeted intervention. Nursing studies identifying self-esteem as the primary focus of their research in an adolescent population seeking treatment in mental health settings are scarce. The Roy Adaptation Model's Theory of a Person as an Adaptive System was used to guide this descriptive, correlational study. Research examined the self-report of self-esteem on age, gender, smoking, exercise, depression, anger, and parental alcohol use in a sample of adolescents ages 12-19 years who were being treated in an outpatient mental health setting.
