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RESEARCH IN NURSING & HEALTH Volume Contents 1992 Number 1 February 1992 Editorial 1 Iliness and Treatment Appraisal Processes of Healthy and Hemophilic Boys Ada Spitzer Cognitive Performance on Piagetian Tasks by Alzheimer’s Disease Patients Julia McGregor Thornbury Effects of Personal Control over Hospital Noise on Sleep Margaret Topf Psychometric Assessment of the Quality of Life Index Carol Estwing Ferrans and Marjorie J. Powers Tailoring Nursing Care to the Individual Client: Empirical Challenge of a Theoretical Concept Sarah Jo Brown “Nursing as a Way of Thinking”—Heideggerian Hermeneutical Analysis of the Lived Experience of the Returning RN Marsha L. Rather Recognizing Staff Nurse Job Performance and Achievements Mary A. Blegen, Colleen J. Goode, Marion Johnson, Meridean L. Maas, Joanne C. McCloskey, and Sue A. Moorhead Beyond Campbell and Fiske: Assessment of Convergent and Discriminant Validity Nancy K. Lowe and Nancy M. Ryan-Wenger Focus on Psychometrics Scaling Stimuli with Magnitude Estimation Paula M. Meek, Lee Sennott-Miller, and Sandra L. Ferketich Book Review Computer Software Review Manuscript Referees: 1991 Announcements VOLUME CONTENTS Number 2 April 1992 Editorial 91 Psychophysiologic and Behavioral Effects of Tactile Stimulation on Infants with Congenital Heart Disease 93 Sandra J. Weiss Evaluation of Hypertension Screening in the Hutterite Population 103 J. Howard Brunt and Edgar J. Love Quality of Life after Liver Transplant Frank D. Hicks, Janet L. Larson, and Carol Estwing Ferrans A Community-Based Inventory of Current Concerns of Impoverished Homeless and Drug-Addicted Minority Women Adeline M. Nyamathi and Jacquelyn Flaskerud The Effects of Noise Stress on Leukocyte Function in Rats Donna O. McCarthy, Mary E. Ouimet, and Jane M. Daun The Effect of Clients’ Family Structure on Nursing Students’ Cognitive Schemas and Verbal Behavior Lawrence H. Ganong and Marilyn Coleman The Consent Process and Children Marion E. Broome and Kimberly A. Stieglitz Focus on Psychometrics The Kappa Statistic for Establishing Interrater Reliability in the Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Clinical Data 153 Patricia Flatley Brennan and Bevely J. Hays Announcements 159 Number 3 June 1992 Editorial 163 Psychosocial Outcome Six Months after Heart Transplant Surgery: A Preliminary Report 165 Patricia Bohachick, Bonnie B. Anton, Powhatan J. Wooldridge, Robert L. Kormos, John M. Armitage, Robert L. Hardesty, and Bartley P. Griffith Holistic Health Patterning in Multiple Sclerosis Elsie E. Gulick and Annette Bugg VOLUME CONTENTS Interactions of Parents and Nurses with High-Risk Preterm Infants Debra B. Miller and Diane Holditch-Davis Attentional Fatigue Following Breast Cancer Surgery Bernadine Cimprich Adolescent Stress and Coping: A Longitudinal Study Maureen W. Groer, Sandra P. Thomas, and Dava Shoffner Correlates of Battering during Pregnancy Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Marilyn L. Poland, John B. Waller, and Joel Ager Parental and Family Well-Being in Families of Children with Down Syndrome: A Comparative Study Marcia Van Riper, Carol Ryff, Karen Pridham Focus on Psychometrics Psychometric Examination of Instruments Using Aggregated Data 237 Joyce A. Verran, Barbara A. Mark, and Gerri Lamb Announcements 241 Number 4 August 1992 Editorial 243 Effects of Position and Mattress Overlay on Sacral and Heel Pressures in a Clinical Population Sharon Sideranko, Andrea Quinn, Karyl Burns, and Robin D. Froman Preadmission Self-Instruction Effects on Postadmission and Postoperative Indicators in CABG Patients: Partial Replication and Extension Virginia Hill Rice, Marlene H. Mullin, and Patricia Jarosz The Stress Response of Mothers and Fathers of Preterm Infants Margaret Shandor Miles, Sandra G. Funk, and Mary Ann Kasper The Caregiver Reaction Assessment (CRA) for Caregivers to Persons with Chronic Physical and Mental Impairments Charles W. Given, Barbara Given, Manfred Stommel, Clare Collins, Sharon King, and Susan Franklin VOLUME CONTENTS The Organizational Environments and Services of VNAs and Hospital-Based Home Health Care Agencies Mary E. Burman Perceived Risk of Infection and Attitudes Toward Risk Groups: Determinants of Nurses’ Behavioral Intentions Regarding AIDS Patients John B. Jemmott III, Judith Freleicher, and Loretta Sweet Jemmott Divergent Productive Thinking Factors and Accuracy of Nursing Diagnoses Margaret Lunney Focus on Psychometrics Aggregating Family Data 313 Sandra L. Ferketich and Ramona T. Mercer Letters to the Editor 319 Errata 321 Announcements 322 Number 5 October 1992 Editorial 325 Patient Perceptions of Qualify of Life after Coronary Artery Surgery: Was It Worth It? 327 Kathleen B. King, Laura A. Porter, Lisa H. Norsen, and Harry T. Reis Descriptions and Perceptions of Health among Rural and Urban Adults with Multiple Sclerosis 335 Kathleen Ann Long and Clarann Weinert Self-Report of Indifference and Anxiety among Persons with Right Hemisphere Stroke Anne M. Williams An Emerging Paradigm for the Investigation of Spirituality in Nursing Pamela G. Reed Predictors of Smokeless Tobacco Use by Adolescents Marie E. Hill, Joanne S. Harrell, and Laura K. McCormick VOLUME CONTENTS Assessment of Discomfort in Advanced Alzheimer Patients Ann C. Hurley, Beverly J. Volicer, Patricia A. Hanrahan, Susan Houde, and Ladislav Volicer Validity and Reliability of Nonverbal Voice Measures as Indicators of Stressor-Provoked Anxiety Barbara F. Fuller, Yoshiyuki Horii, and Douglas A. Conner Sex-Role Orientation and Work Adaptation of Male Nurses Moshe Krausz, Peri Kedem, Ziona Tal, and Yehuda Amir Focus on Psychometrics Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) as a Method to Assess Measurement Equivalence Manfred Stommel, Sping Wang, Charles W. Given, and Barbara Given Announcements 406 Number 6 December 1992 Editorial 407 Meta-Analysis of Diabetes Patient Education Research: Variations in Intervention Effects across Studies 409 Sharon A. Brown A Coercive Interactional Style as an Antecedent to Aggression in Psychiatric Patients Eileen F. Morrison The Effect of Diet Consistency on Food Intake of Anorectic Tumor-Bearing Rats Donna O. McCarthy and Jane M. Daun Women’s Perceptions of Cesarean and Vaginal Delivery: Another Look Jacqueline Fawcett, Norma Pollio, and Ann Tully Developing the Construct of Role Integration: A Narrative Analysis of Women Clerical Workers’ Daily Lives Joanne M. Hall, Patricia E. Stevens, and Afaf Ibrahim Meleis Knowledge of, Attitudes Toward, and Barriers to Pharmacologic Management of Cancer Pain in a Statewide Random Sample of Nurses Ruth Vortherms, Patrick Ryan, and Sandra Ward VOLUME CONTENTS Meta-Analysis for Descriptive Research Nancy R. Reynolds, Gayle Timmerman, Judy Anderson, and Joanne Sabol Stevenson Focus on Psychometrics Nursing Intervention Studies Require Outcome Measures That Are Sensitive to Change: Part One Barbara J. Stewart and Patricia G. Archbold Index to Volume 15 Announcements