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As economic considerations increasingly drive decisions in health care, the staffing mix and nursing roles in ambulatory care are often questioned. A patient classification system that quantifies nursing activities by time and complexity can be used to assist with the difficult task of matching nursing resources with patient care needs.
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Parenteral attitudes and adjustment to epilepsy were assessed for 50 parents of children aged 6 to 14 with epilepsy. Fishbein's Expectancy-Value Model of Attitude was used to assess parental attitudes. Parental adjustment was measured both by a self-report instrument and by an independent psychosocial assessment conducted by a psychiatric social worker. The major finding was a strong positive relationship (R = .67, p less than .001) between parental attitude and adjustment for the mothers. The attitude-adjustment relationship was not significant for the fathers. In addition, parental attitudes and perception of seizure control accounted for 60% of the variance in the mothers' adjustment scores. Seizure control was significantly positively related (p less than .05) to parental adjustment.
The relationships among causal attribution, perceived control, and adjustment to lung cancer were examined in 61 outpatients who had received a diagnosis of primary lung cancer. Data were collected using a structured interview and a self-report questionnaire. Both internal and external causal attributions were significantly positively correlated with perceived control. The relationship between internal causal attribution and perceived control was stronger. No significant relationships were found between perceived control and adjustment, although both internal and external causal attributions were significantly negatively correlated with aspects of adjustment. Recommendations are made for future research.