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E Freeman

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Implications of the community education and practice project.

A key feature of the Community Education and Practice (CEP) Project (UKCC, 1991) was the recognition that nurses should be appropriately trained if they choose to work in the community. The University of Central England (UCE) in Birmingham has developed a Diploma in Professional Studies in Nursing (Community Health Studies) course in order to fulfil this goal.

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Unilateral spatial neglect: new treatment approaches with potential application to occupational therapy.

Unilateral spatial neglect is one of the most common symptoms of stroke. It has important implications for occupational therapy because of its clinical manifestations, which include problems with activities of daily living, mobility, and reading. This article reviews neurophysiological theories pertaining to unilateral spatial neglect and focuses on two new treatment approaches with potential application to occupational therapy practice. Both approaches--constraint-induced therapy and partial visual occlusion--involve a form of restraint of the less affected side. These approaches are discussed in the context of current neurophysiological theories and the application to occupational therapy treatment for neglect.

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British general practitioners' attitudes toward abortion.

CONTEXT: Women in Great Britain may obtain abortions only if they meet certain criteria and the procedure is approved by two physicians. Since seeing a general practitioner is typically a woman's first step toward obtaining an abortion, these doctors' attitudes about the procedure are very important. METHODS: In 1999, a random sample of 702 general practitioners participated in a mailed survey regarding their attitudes toward abortion and the British Abortion Act. RESULTS: Four in five respondents considered themselves broadly prochoice, and three in five believed that the current law should be liberalized to give women the right to obtain an abortion without regard as to reason. Three-quarters of doctors favored government provision of free abortions, and one-quarter thought that the current law places an unreasonable burden on general practitioners. However, physicians' opinions about whether the abortion decision should be the woman's alone depended on the pregnancy's gestation, and three-fifths of respondents said that the law was appropriate. Among doctors who were broadly antiabortion, one-fifth favored women's right to choose, and two-thirds supported the current law; however, nearly half opposed government funding of abortion services, and one-quarter did not feel that physicians need to reveal their antiabortion stance to patients. CONCLUSIONS: Although Great Britain's abortion law is more restrictive than those in many other developed countries, general practitioners have largely positive attitudes toward women's access to abortion and toward the existing law. Their occasionally contradictory views, however, suggest that some areas are potentially problematic.

Abortion, Legal↗
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Difficult choices.

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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
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Potential correlates of self-care and symptom distress in homosexual/bisexual men who are HIV seropositive.

Although treatment of HIV infections is possible, anecdotal data and research suggest that infected homosexual and bisexual men are developing sets of HIV-specific self-care behaviors that they believe will maintain their health or delay progressive disease. However, little is known about frequent use of HIV self-care in relationship to symptom distress or other factors commonly assessed by nurses. These deficits limit the ability of healthcare providers to intervene appropriately. Consequently, the following repeated-measures study retrospectively examined correlates of HIV self-care in 162 outpatients who were attending a major healthcare facility in San Francisco, CA. Standard and HIV-specific instruments created for the study were used in data collection. Results suggest that the men increased their use of 35 of 81 HIV self-care behaviors once they became aware of being HIV seropositive (p less than 0.001). Frequent use of HIV self-care behaviors was related to several variables, including previous patterns of self-care (p less than 0.001), and AIDS diagnosis (p less than 0.01), and a locus of control (LOC) indicator (e.g., the statement "What happens to me is beyond my control") (p less than 0.001). Symptom distress also was related to several variables, including selected LOC and quality-of-life (QOL) indicators, mood states, and recent diagnosis of selected AIDS-related diseases (p less than 0.01). Collectively, these results suggest that taking self-care and selected psychosocial histories will allow nurses to identify ambulatory patients with HIV infections who need intensive care.

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