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Levels of sexual satisfaction and sexual drive in women with spinal cord injuries were examined. Eighty-four spinal cord injured (SCI) women and thirty-seven able-bodied (AB) control subjects completed the Derogatis Sexual Functioning Inventory which measured current level of sexual functioning in 10 areas: information, experience, drive, attitude, psychological symptoms, affect, gender role definition, fantasy, body image, and sexual satisfaction. When compared with AB women, SCI women had significantly lower levels of sexual satisfaction and sexual drive and significantly higher levels of psychological symptoms and negative affect. Among SCI women, sexual satisfaction decreased significantly with age. Among AB women, sexual satisfaction increased significantly with age. Married SCI women were no longer less sexually satisfied than AB women. Results support conclusions from previous self-report studies in which significant decreases in sexual satisfaction and drive were reported for SCI women. Implications for continued research on the psychological and physiological aspects of sexuality and sexual functioning in SCI women are discussed.
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Libido , Sexual Behavior , Spinal Cord Injuries/rehabilitation , Adaptation, Psychological , Adolescent , Adult , Female , Gender Identity , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Humans , Middle Aged , Personality Inventory , Sick Role , Spinal Cord Injuries/psychologyABSTRACT
Role supplementation interventions were developed to support role taking in parenting and health decision-making for adolescent parents. The prescriptive nursing interventions provided during prenatal, well child, and home visits during the first 2 years of the child's life are based on role supplementation theory. Strategies derived from role theory are integrated with assessment and intervention activities. Adolescents receive role supplementation from a primary nurse who continues to see them and their infants over the 2-year period. The role supplementation intervention is currently being tested in a longitudinal research project.
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Parents/psychology , Pediatric Nursing/methods , Psychology, Adolescent , Role , Stress, Psychological/nursing , Adolescent , Decision Making , Humans , Models, Nursing , Stress, Psychological/psychologyABSTRACT
The relationship between social support and adaptation to parenthood for first-time adolescent mothers was investigated in this descriptive correlational study. The outcomes of adaptation were defined as the synchrony of parent-infant interaction and the level of stress related to parenting. A nonprobability sample of 18 adolescent, first-time mothers who had an uncomplicated perinatal experiences and delivered healthy, term newborns were selected. Data were collected during a home interview at one month postpartum. The measure of social support was significantly related to parent-infant reciprocity. Total functional support scores were inversely, but not significantly, correlated with total scores of stress related to parenting (r = -.31). Finally, the measure of reciprocity and the measure of stress related to parenting were inversely but not significantly related.
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Mothers/psychology , Pregnancy in Adolescence , Social Environment , Social Support , Adaptation, Psychological , Adolescent , Female , Humans , Maternal Behavior , Mother-Child Relations , Obstetric Nursing , Pregnancy , Role , Stress, Psychological/diagnosis , Stress, Psychological/etiologySubject(s)
Adaptation, Psychological , Intellectual Disability , Parents/psychology , Stress, Psychological , Adult , Child, Preschool , Depression , Grief , Humans , Infant , Male , Social SupportABSTRACT
Nursing faculty are becoming increasingly concerned about the amount of stress experienced by nursing students. They will find little to guide them in the nursing literature on coping strategies utilized by nursing students or facilitating more effective coping strategies that are used by nursing students in dealing with stress and their efforts in student's behalf to facilitate more effective coping. Using the Transactional Model to conceptualize nursing students' stress experiences should enable nursing educators to: Appreciate the complexity of students' responses to stress. Identify patterns of students' coping strategies. Develop a better understanding of the importance of timing of intervention to facilitate optimal adaptation to stressful situations. Identify areas which need to be addressed in future research. Further study by nursing educators of nursing students' responses to stress is important because there is a great need to identify patterns of coping and appropriate interventions in order to facilitate effective adaptation in education programs and ultimately the work environment.
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Education, Nursing , Stress, Psychological , Adaptation, Psychological , Field Dependence-Independence , Humans , Self Concept , Transactional AnalysisSubject(s)
Cognition , Field Dependence-Independence , Students, Nursing/psychology , Female , Humans , Research DesignSubject(s)
Attitude of Health Personnel , Behavior , Parents/psychology , Professional-Family Relations , Adult , Attitude , Female , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
Fifteen Pony mares, ovariectomized during the previous summer, were randomly assigned to three seasonal treatment groups, winter, spring and summer (N = 5). At the designated season, the animals were killed and hypothalamic areas were collected and assayed by radioimmunoassay for gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) activity. The hypothalamic areas were sectioned into 54 5-mm cubes to determine the sites of GnRH storage. Maximum immunoreactive GnRH activity was located in an oblique pattern extending from the arcuate nucleus-median eminence area to the anterior hypothalamic area dorsally and anteriorly. While total hypothalamic GnRH concentrations were not significantly different among seasons (P greater than 0.05), there was a trend towards increasing concentrations in the summer season. Distribution of GnRH activity was significantly different among seasons (P less than 0.05), the change in distribution occurring in the ventral to dorsal plane, as well as anteriorly to posteriorly.
