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Electronic Cigarette Health Education Interventions, Kaitlyn Skryd

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Purpose: To determine the effective teaching strategies and interventions aimed at discontinuing the use of e-cigarettes amongst the adolescent population. This information would be useful to community health experts, healthcare providers, teachers (especially health educators), and parents.

Research Question: Will education interventions from health care providers regarding the harmful health effects of electronic cigarettes to American adolescents (aged 10-19) impact the incidence of everyday e-cigarette smokers?

Research Design: An integrative literature review was used to determine the most effective educational approaches to use towards reducing e-cigarette use in the adolescent population.

Naloxone’S Presence On The Opioid Epidemic, Karolina Ptasinski

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Abstract

Background: The opioid epidemic was a concern within the United States based upon the rising numbers of overdose deaths. Naloxone is the antidote for the adverse effects opioids have on the body, and its lack of viability varies from state to state.

Objective: The purpose of the literature reviews was to analyze the research available on naloxone’s effect during the most recent years of the opioid epidemic. It was to discover the founded effects naloxone had as a take-home drug, along with any correlation between overdose deaths and naloxone usage.

Method: An integrative literature review was used to interpret …

Advancing Transgender Health Care Curriculum Into Depaul University's School Of Nursing: An Integrative Literature Review, Israel Ferandos

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Background: Within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) group, transgender individuals are the most vulnerable, discriminated against, and underserved individuals. The unique and complex health needs of transgender individuals are pressing concerns in the healthcare field. Currently, there is a dearth in nursing curriculum regarding basic care towards transgender patients resulting to nursing students having poor knowledge and unprepared to take care for transgender patients. Method: Integrative literature review using five peer-reviewed articles. Results: Studies emphasized that nursing students have limited knowledge on LGBT issues, particularly transgender health. Topics taught about transgender health involve clinical care for gender-reassignment, psychosocial …

Prison And Its Effects On The Health Outcomes Of Hiv Positive Black Men Post Incarceration, Samuel Gaines

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Prison and its Effects on the Health Outcomes of HIV Positive Black Men Post Incarceration

Samuel T. Gaines

Faculty Sponsor: Young-Me Lee, PhD, RN

Background: With an estimation that one in three Black men will be incarcerated in their lifetime and that incarcerated Black men are five times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than their white counterparts, there is little information as to what factors affect their health outcomes post-incarceration.

Objectives: The purpose of this literature review is to use current research to explore the factors affecting the negative health outcomes of HIV positive African American men post-incarceration. …

Gender Competence And Quality Of Care, Mary E. Losacco

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Gender Competence and Quality of Care:

What is the Role of Healthcare Providers in Transgender Healthcare Disparities?

An Integrative Literature Review

Mary Losacco

Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth P. Anderson RN, PhD

Background: Unlike cisgender individuals, whose gender identities match the sexes they were given at birth, transgender individuals exhibit gender incongruence, because their gender identities differ from the sexes they were assigned at birth. Transgender individuals are still underrepresented in research and reporting, leading to obstacles in understanding possible health disparities within the community due to lack of recognition and knowledge of these issues. Early recognition by health care providers …

Examination Of The Impact Of Team Sport Participation On Adolescent Male Mental Health: An Integrative Literature Review Proposal, Alicia Ann Foster

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Examination of the Impact of Team Sport Participation on Adolescent Male Mental Health: An Integrative Literature Review Proposal

Alicia Foster

Background: In 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that depression impacts almost one in eight adolescents and young adults yearly. They further sited that the number of adolescents who experienced major depressive episodes increased nearly a third from 2005-2014. Also in 2018, the World Health Organization cited that suicide is the third largest cause of death in older adolescents, ages 15-19 years old.

Objectives: The purpose of this integrative literature review is to evaluate the …

The Influence Of Significant Screen Time On Mental Health Among Adolescents An Integrative Literature Review, Stephanie Marie Patrick, Caryn Lynn Connors

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The Influence of Significant Screen Time on Mental Health Among Adolescents

Caryn Connors and Stephanie Patrick

Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth P. Anderson RN, PhD

Background: The adolescent brain is impressionable and not fully developed, in a time when habits and possibly irreversible lifestyles has its origins. This is a crucial period in the adolescent life when educational performance and behavior can influence future promise for success and mental well-being. Anxiety and depression that is ever-present can lead to mortality and morbidity for this age group (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2012). Increased screen time >2 hours a day (tablet, …

Multiracial Health Behaviors And Disparities: An Integrated Literature Review, Elsa Chiyo Alexandra Iwai

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Multiracial Health Behaviors and Disparities:

An Integrated Literature Review

Elsa Chiyo Iwai

Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth P. Anderson RN, PhD

Background: The year 2000 was a pivotal year for multiracial individuals. Changes to the U.S. Census Bureau included acknowledging multiracial individuals. However, where multiracial individuals and healthcare intersect, the research is relatively new and limited. Multiracial individuals confound many assumptions about race. Uncertainty exists between socially constructed racial categories and populations that have evolved genetic patterns independently over time but fail to fit perfectly within categorical lines. Although social changes has raised awareness on mixed race and multiracial individuals, a deeper …

Cardiovascular Disease And Rotating Shift Nurses, Rachel Elizabeth Wilschke

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CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND ROTATING SHIFT NURSES

Rachel Wilschke

Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Aquino, PhD, RN

Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. The implications for cardiovascular disease from working rotating shifts requires further review.

Objectives: To determine how working rotating shifts impacts nurses’ cardiovascular health.

Method: An integrative literature review was conducted, searching for peer-reviewed articles published between 2008 and 2018 in the following databases: CINAHL, PubMed and ProQuest. Using the outline from Gray, Grove and Sutherland (2017), data was categorized, analyzed and synthesized in a data matrix table to organize the review.

Results: A …

Medical Alert Animals For Anaphylaxis Prevention In Patient’S With Mast Cell Diseases: An Integrative Review Of Literature, Molly Gritt

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Medical Alert Animals for Anaphylaxis Prevention in Patients with Mast Cell Diseases:

An Integrated Literature Review

Molly Gritt

Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth P. Anderson RN, PhD.

Background: Mast Cell Disease is a broad term that covers a variety of conditions that can cause many debilitating systemic symptoms. In severe cases, triggers or allergens can cause the patient to have a life-threatening reaction, anaphylaxis. Anaphylaxis is associated with poor health outcomes, including shock, hospitalizations, and expensive and sometimes invasive interventions. The current way clinicians deal with anaphylaxis is to promote the avoidance of known triggers and to pharmacologically treat the reaction when …

Risk Factors For Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (Clabsi) In Home Parenteral Nutrition (Hpn) Patients, Megan Ong

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

CLABSI, home parenteral nutrition

Examination Of Negative Coping Strategies In College Students Facing Academic Stress: An Integrative Literature Review, Emina Mujanovic

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Examination of Negative Coping Strategies in College Students Facing Academic Stress: An Integrative Literature Review

Emina Mujanovic

Research Sponsor: Elizabeth P. Anderson RN, PhD

Background: The rise in negative coping strategies including alcohol consumption, nicotine, and amphetamine drug in college students is of growing concern as students seek out means for stress reduction due to academics. The use of amphetamine drugs in particular has risen despite harmful adverse effects.

Objectives: The purpose of this integrative literature review is to identify predictors that would predispose certain individuals to using negative coping strategies such as stimulant drugs for alleviation of stress from …

Persistent Appalachian Health Disparities: An Integrative Literature Review, Richard R. Trosper

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Persistent Appalachian Health Disparities: An Integrative Literature Review

Richard Trosper

Research Sponsor: Elizabeth P Anderson RN, PhD

Background: The area surrounding the Appalachian Mountains is referred to as Appalachia. There are 420 counties in 13 states which are considered to be part of the Appalachian region (Shapiro, 2001). Despite the progress made by the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, health in Appalachia still falls far behind that of other parts of America (Widner, 1990). This disparity has been termed and utilized in research in the realm of limited health care access, different diseases, and health related problems confused with the complexity …

Effect Of Equine-Assisted Therapy (Hippotherapy) On Gross Motor, Postural Control And Performance Outcomes Of Children With Cognitive And Developmental Disabilities, Paule T. Nguendang

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Effect of Equine-Assisted Therapy (Hippotherapy) on Gross motor, Postural Control and Performance Outcomes of Children with Cognitive and Developmental Disabilities

Paule Nguendang

Research sponsor: Michelle Neuman MA, MSN, RN, PPCNP-BC

Background: Hippotherapy, which is a subset of Equine-assisted therapy, is defined as a use of horses as a therapeutic intervention for treatment of physical and psychosocial rehabilitation in children with development, cognitive and intellectual disabilities. This therapy has been used for many years to access or evaluate the treatment benefit horses have on children and adult with similar disabilities.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to explore existing literature …

Efficacy And Cost Effectiveness Of Three Cam Therapies On Wound Healing: Acupuncture, Probiotics, And Intentional Comfort Touch, Jacquelyn A. Alderson

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Efficacy and Cost Effectiveness of Three CAM Therapies on Wound Healing: Acupuncture, Probiotics, and Intentional Comfort Touch

Jacquelyn Alderson

Research Advisor: Dr. Young-Me Lee, PhD, RN

Background: Wound healing is a pervasive medical and economic issue, and increasing the speed of healing would augment financial and physical quality of life on personal and global levels. Current medical treatments can be costly and time consuming, however, so complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies may provide a way to enhance the speed and efficacy of wound healing without an excessive financial burden on the patient and the healthcare system.

Objective: …

The Effect Of Exercise On Symptoms Of Depression In Adults Diagnosed With Clinical Depression: An Integrative Literature Review, Tibil Felix

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Background: While many healthcare providers are currently looking for alternative methods such as exercise to treat depression, there are limited studies to report how exercise effects symptoms of depression in adults diagnosed with clinical depression and whether an ideal exercise prescription exists.

Objective: The purpose of this integrative literature review was to evaluate the effect of exercise on adults with clinical depression.

Method: An integrative literature review was used. The tidal model of mental health as proposed by Dr. Phil Barker and Poppy Buchanan-Barker was used as a basis for this review. The keywords “clinical depression, exercise, adults, depression treatments, …

Sexual Health Education & Effective Promotion Strategies Within The Lgbtq+ Community, Madison Outlaw

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Background: Given the high risk and vulnerability of LGBTQ+ individuals to experience a lack of education and effective health promotion with regard to sexual health, there is a lack of literature review on health promotion programs targeting these individuals combined with the consideration for the unique barriers faced by LGBTQ+ populations.

Objective: The purpose of this integrative literature review is to explore the barriers to sexual health education for LGBTQ+ individuals and to identify the most effective strategies for sexual promotion within the LGBTQ+ population by evaluation of current published research.

Methods: An integrative literature review was utilized to evaluate …

Factors Associated With Follow Up Care Use After Sexual Assault, Samantha Rifkin

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Background: Sexual assault, particularly rape, is considered to be the most severe form of trauma with long term health consequences. Of the estimated 9.3 to 43 percent of victims who seek initial medical care post assault, only 10 to 50 percent attend follow-up care. Objectives: The purpose of this integrated literature review is to identify factors directly and indirectly associated with sexual assault and rape victims attending follow up care. Methods: Peer review articles from 1998 to 2018 were selected from CINAHL, Cochrane Library, ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source, and PubMed. After examining 98 initially retrieved studies for inclusion …

Strategies To Decrease Depression From Social Isolation Among The Elderly Population, Erin Gallagher, Megan Russ

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Strategies to Decrease Depression from

Social Isolation Among the Elderly Population

Erin Gallagher and Megan Russ

Faculty Sponsor: Christina Lattner, DNP, APRN, AGNP-C, ANP-BC

Background: The lack of social interaction among the elderly population has been directly linked with higher rates of morbidity related to diabetes, arthritis, cancer, and heart disease, thus leading to higher rates of mortality.

Objectives: This comprehensive literature review selected a variety of social interactions to present to the elderly population to examine if an increase in socialization will decrease the depressive symptoms felt during social isolation.

Method: An integrative literature review of both qualitative and …

Barriers To Identification Of Domestic Violence Victims In Lgbtq Populations, Jill Sears

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Background: Clinicians perceptions of domestic violence victims in the LGBT community when presenting in the Emergency Department environment creates barriers to timely identification.

Objectives: A literature review examined clinician’s perceptions of domestic violence in the LGBT compared to heterosexuals and how those perceptions create barrier to identification of victims.

Method: An integrative literature review was conducted utilizing four databases including: Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health (Cinnahl) Complete, Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Source, Psychinfo, and PubMed. Key search words used and included “domestic violence”, “intimate partner violence”, “gay”, “homosexual”, “lesbian”, “LGBT”, “LGBTQ”, “perceptions”, “same-sex”, “identification”, “barriers”.

Results: Clinician …

Provider Barriers To Delivery Of Quality Transgender Healthcare, Suthiratana Bhudvanbhen-Jung

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Provider Barriers to Delivery of Quality Transgender Healthcare

Background: Transgender encompasses anyone who does not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. Due to the previous DSM-IV Gender Identity Disorder diagnosis, transgender was considered a pathology. The 2013 DSM-V switch to Gender Dysphoria depathologized the transgender identity. Subsequently, transgender care is now covered by insurance and considered part of expected patient care when before it was not covered. This research study focuses on provider reported barriers to trans healthcare over patient reported, though some patient reports were used in conjunction with provider perspective.

Objective: The objective of this …

Current Use Of Muscle Relaxants And Laryngeal Mask Airways: A Survey Of Anesthesia Providers’ Knowledge And Beliefs For Best Practice, Claritess Sarangay, Amber Muhlhan

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Current Use of Muscle Relaxants and Laryngeal Mask Airways: A Survey of Anesthesia Providers’ Knowledge and Beliefs for Best Practice

Amber Muhlhan, BSN, RN, DNP Candidate and Claritess Sarangay, BSN, RN, DNP Candidate

Faculty Sponsor: Julia Feczko CRNA, DNP- Chair and Pamela Schwartz, CRNA, DNP

Background: Current clinical studies have shown that muscle relaxant use has beneficial effects with laryngeal mask airways; however, knowledge and beliefs differ regarding this practice amongst anesthesia providers.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the knowledge and beliefs of anesthesia providers about muscle relaxant use with laryngeal mask airways before and after …

Personality Traits, Perceived Stress, And Coping Mechanisms Of Emergency Department Nurses, Brittany Knipp

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

No abstract provided.

Mesenchymal Stem Cells As An Alternative To Knee Replacement Surgery, Michelle Villegas-Downs

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Knee osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease that causes disability and persistent pain. Currently, treatment modalities for osteoarthritis focus on pain reduction and symptom management, but do little to address disease modification. Presently, the treatment of choice for knee osteoarthritis is total knee replacement surgery. Total knee replacement surgery carries significant risks and does not guarantee improvement in joint pain or function. In the last decade, advances in regenerative medicine have proposed the use of mesenchymal stem cells as a treatment strategy for joint preservation, cartilage regeneration and improved joint function in patients with osteoarthritis. The aim of this integrative literature …