All Outputs (147)

Evaluating a brief intervention for mealtime difficulty on older adults with dementia (2022)
Journal Article
Rehman, S., Likupe, G., McFarland, A., & Watson, R. (2022). Evaluating a brief intervention for mealtime difficulty on older adults with dementia. Nursing Open, https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1293

Aims and objective: To test a spaced retrieval intervention using spaced retrieval to alleviate mealtime difficulties in older people with dementia. Design: A single-case study design. Setting: Nursing Homes in North Central England, United Kingdom.... Read More about Evaluating a brief intervention for mealtime difficulty on older adults with dementia.

Clarivate listed nursing journals in 2020: What they publish and how they measure use of social media (2021)
Journal Article
Watson, R., Younas, A., Rehman, S. A., & Ali, P. A. (2021). Clarivate listed nursing journals in 2020: What they publish and how they measure use of social media. Frontiers of Nursing, 8(4), 429-436. https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2021-0043

Objectives: To investigate what the most common types of articles that nursing journals purport to publish are and what they actually publish. And to investigate the extent to which academic nursing journals listed by Clarivate track alternative metr... Read More about Clarivate listed nursing journals in 2020: What they publish and how they measure use of social media.

Development and validity testing of a type 1 diabetes resource for 10-19-years old adolescents in China (2021)
Journal Article
Zhao, X., Hilton, A., Watson, R., & Chen, Y. (in press). Development and validity testing of a type 1 diabetes resource for 10-19-years old adolescents in China. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2021.03.029

Purpose: This phase 1 study aimed to develop a Type 1 diabetes (T1DM) educational resource for adolescents (10–19 years) in China, and to test its validity for improving diabetes knowledge, self-efficacy and adherence. Design and methods: This phase... Read More about Development and validity testing of a type 1 diabetes resource for 10-19-years old adolescents in China.

An international e-Delphi study to identify core competencies for Italian cardiac nurses (2021)
Journal Article
Bagnasco, A., Barisone, M., Aleo, G., Watson, R., Catania, G., Zanini, M., …Sasso, L. (2021). An international e-Delphi study to identify core competencies for Italian cardiac nurses. European journal of cardiovascular nursing : journal of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Nursing of the European Society of Cardiology, 20(7), 684-691. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvab003

Aims The management of cardiovascular patients requires increasingly competent nursing professionals. In Italy, there are no specific postgraduate courses focused on specialist cardiac skills development for nurses. To develop such courses, content i... Read More about An international e-Delphi study to identify core competencies for Italian cardiac nurses.

Spousal violence: a Mokken scaling analysis of attitudes of South Asian men and women (2020)
Journal Article
Ali, P., & Watson, R. (in press). Spousal violence: a Mokken scaling analysis of attitudes of South Asian men and women. Violence and Victims, 35(5), 656-673. https://doi.org/10.1891/VV-D-18-00043

Attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV) are usually explored by asking participants to respond to some statements describing various instances or situations. Currently, we do not know if responses to such questions or statements are random,... Read More about Spousal violence: a Mokken scaling analysis of attitudes of South Asian men and women.

Nurses’ perceptions of caring activities in nursing (2020)
Journal Article
Akansel, N., Watson, R., Vatansever, N., & Özdemir, A. (in press). Nurses’ perceptions of caring activities in nursing. Nursing Open, https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.653

Aim This study aimed to determine nurses’ perceptions of caring activities in nursing. Design A descriptive study design. Methods A Turkish translation of the 25‐item version of the Caring Dimensions Inventory was completed by 260 nurses wor... Read More about Nurses’ perceptions of caring activities in nursing.

Twenty-five years of the EdFED scale: a useful scale for measuring mealtime difficulty in older people with dementia (2020)
Journal Article
Watson, R. (2020). Twenty-five years of the EdFED scale: a useful scale for measuring mealtime difficulty in older people with dementia. Nursing standard : official newspaper of the Royal College of Nursing, 35(10), 52-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-

The 'EdFED' is the Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia (EdFED) scale. 'Ed' points to where the scale was developed-Edinburgh University-and 'FED' is shorthand for 'feeding'. Finding a meaningful acronym is always challenging, but this one seems... Read More about Twenty-five years of the EdFED scale: a useful scale for measuring mealtime difficulty in older people with dementia.

Fidelity challenges while implementing an intervention aimed at increasing eating performance among nursing home residents with cognitive decline: A multicentre, qualitative descriptive study design (2020)
Journal Article
Palese, A., Achbani, B., Hayter, M., & Watson, R. (in press). Fidelity challenges while implementing an intervention aimed at increasing eating performance among nursing home residents with cognitive decline: A multicentre, qualitative descriptive study design. Journal of clinical nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15507

Aims and objectives To increase the knowledge on fidelity challenges in intervention studies promoting eating independence in residents with cognitive decline living in nursing homes (NHs). Background A few studies have documented to date factor... Read More about Fidelity challenges while implementing an intervention aimed at increasing eating performance among nursing home residents with cognitive decline: A multicentre, qualitative descriptive study design.

Writing for Wikipedia (2020)
Journal Article
Watson, R. (2020). Writing for Wikipedia. Nurse Author & Editor, 30(3), Article 6

Predicting needlestick and sharps injuries in nursing students: Development of the SNNIP scale (2020)
Journal Article
Bagnasco, A., Zanini, M., Catania, G., Watson, R., Hayter, M., Dasso, N., …Oriani, R. (2020). Predicting needlestick and sharps injuries in nursing students: Development of the SNNIP scale. Nursing Open, 7(5), 1578-1587. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.540

© 2020 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Aim: To develop an instrument to investigate knowledge and predictive factors of needlestick and sharps injuries (NSIs) in nursing students during clinical placements. Design: Ins... Read More about Predicting needlestick and sharps injuries in nursing students: Development of the SNNIP scale.

What nursing home environment can maximise eating independence best among residents with cognitive impairment? Findings of a secondary analysis (2020)
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Palese, A., Gonella, S., Grassetti, L., Longobardi, M., De Caro, A., Achil, I., …Watson, R. (2020). What nursing home environment can maximise eating independence best among residents with cognitive impairment? Findings of a secondary analysis. Geriatric Nursing, 41(6), 709-716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2020.03.020

To explore the influence of the Nursing Home (NH) environment on eating independence while taking into account individual and nursing care factors, was the aim of the study. A secondary analysis was performed based on data collected in a multicentre... Read More about What nursing home environment can maximise eating independence best among residents with cognitive impairment? Findings of a secondary analysis.

Title: A cross sectional multisite exploration of Italian paediatric nurses' reported burnout and its relationship to perceptions of clinical safety and adverse events using the RN4CAST@IT-Ped (2020)
Journal Article
Bagnasco, A., Dasso, N., Rossi, S., Timmins, F., Watson, R., Aleo, G., …Sasso, L. (2020). Title: A cross sectional multisite exploration of Italian paediatric nurses' reported burnout and its relationship to perceptions of clinical safety and adverse events using the RN4CAST@IT-Ped. Journal of advanced nursing, 76(8), 2072-2081. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14401

Aim To explore Italian paediatric nurses’ reported burnout and its relationship to their perceptions of safety and adverse events. Design A cross‐sectional study using the RN4CAST@IT‐Ped database with a web‐based survey design. Methods The R... Read More about Title: A cross sectional multisite exploration of Italian paediatric nurses' reported burnout and its relationship to perceptions of clinical safety and adverse events using the RN4CAST@IT-Ped.

Getting more men into nursing: an urgent priority (too little, too late) (2020)
Journal Article
Thompson, D. R., Quinn, B., & Watson, R. (2020). Getting more men into nursing: an urgent priority (too little, too late). Journal of nursing management, 28(7), 1463-1464. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13021

Despite calls for increased investment in nursing, there is a global shortfall of 9 million nurses and midwives needed to deliver and sustain universal health coverage. The Nursing Now campaign run in collaboration with the World Health Organization... Read More about Getting more men into nursing: an urgent priority (too little, too late).

Mealtime difficulty in older people with dementia (2019)
Journal Article
Rehman, S., Likupe, G., & Watson, R. (2019). Mealtime difficulty in older people with dementia. Wikijournal of Medicine, 6(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.15347/wjm/2019.006

Aim: To evaluate the evidence published in systematic reviews on the effectiveness of interventions aimed at alleviating mealtime difficulties in older people with dementia. Background: Older people with dementia gradually lose their self-care abilit... Read More about Mealtime difficulty in older people with dementia.

An international cross-cultural study of nursing student's perceptions of caring (2019)
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Pajnkihar, M., Kocbek, P., Musović, K., Tao, Y., Kasimovskaya, N., Štiglic, G., …Vrbnjak, D. (2020). An international cross-cultural study of nursing student's perceptions of caring. Nurse education today, 84, Article 104214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2019.104214

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Background: Single studies suggest that nursing students perceive caring as more an instrumental than expressive behaviour and indicate some differences between caring perceptions in junior and senior nursing students. However, th... Read More about An international cross-cultural study of nursing student's perceptions of caring.

A path analysis on the direct and indirect effects of the unit environment on eating dependence among cognitively impaired nursing home residents (2019)
Journal Article
Palese, A., Grassetti, L., Bressan, V., Decaro, A., Kasa, T., Longobardi, M., …Watson, R. (2019). A path analysis on the direct and indirect effects of the unit environment on eating dependence among cognitively impaired nursing home residents. BMC health services research, 19(1), 775. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4667-z

BACKGROUND: This study aims to estimate the direct and indirect effects of the unit environment alongside individual and nursing care variables on eating dependence among residents who are cognitively impaired and living in a nursing home. METHOD: A... Read More about A path analysis on the direct and indirect effects of the unit environment on eating dependence among cognitively impaired nursing home residents.

R you ready? Using the R programme for statistical analysis and graphics (2019)
Journal Article
Štiglic, G., Watson, R., & Cilar, L. (in press). R you ready? Using the R programme for statistical analysis and graphics. Research in Nursing and Health, https://doi.org/10.1002/nur.21990

© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. For conducting research, nurses typically use commercial statistical packages. R software is a free, powerful, and flexible alternative, but is less familiar and used less frequently in nursing research. In this paper,... Read More about R you ready? Using the R programme for statistical analysis and graphics.

Measuring the therapeutic properties of nursing home environments in the Italian context: findings from a validation and cross-sectional study design (2019)
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Palese, A., Decaro, A., Bressan, V., Marin, M., Achil, I., Hayter, M., & Watson, R. (in press). Measuring the therapeutic properties of nursing home environments in the Italian context: findings from a validation and cross-sectional study design. Annali di Igiene, 32(2), 117-131. https://doi.org/10.7416/ai.2020.2236

BACKGROUND: The social and the physical features of the nursing home (NH) environment can offer a therapeutic support capable of maximising residents' physical and cognitive functions. A total of 23 instruments evaluating the therapeutic properties o... Read More about Measuring the therapeutic properties of nursing home environments in the Italian context: findings from a validation and cross-sectional study design.

Comparing questionnaires across cultures: Using Mokken scaling to compare the Italian and English versions of the MOLES index (2019)
Journal Article
Aleo, G., Bagnasco, A., Watson, R., Dyson, J., Cowdell, F., Catania, G., …Sasso, L. (2019). Comparing questionnaires across cultures: Using Mokken scaling to compare the Italian and English versions of the MOLES index. Nursing Open, 6(3), 1022-1028. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.297

Aim The aims of this study were: i) to translate the MOLES index from English to Italian and to compare the two versions using non-parametric item response theory. Design A online survey was used to gather data. Methods Forward and back-translation w... Read More about Comparing questionnaires across cultures: Using Mokken scaling to compare the Italian and English versions of the MOLES index.

Gastroesophageal cancer patients need earlier palliative intervention - Using data to inform appropriate care (2019)
Journal Article
Lee, A., Khulusi, S., & Watson, R. (2019). Gastroesophageal cancer patients need earlier palliative intervention - Using data to inform appropriate care. European journal of oncology nursing, 40, 126-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon.2019.04.004

Purpose To evaluate demographics of survival in patients with gastroesophageal cancer so that it informs nursing practice. Method Data on 2215 patients diagnosed with gastroesophageal cancer who presented to a specialist referral centre between the... Read More about Gastroesophageal cancer patients need earlier palliative intervention - Using data to inform appropriate care.