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Caregiving By Teens For Family Members With Huntington Disease, Janet Williams, Lioness Ayres, Janet Specht, K. Sparbel, M. Klimek
Caregiving By Teens For Family Members With Huntington Disease, Janet Williams, Lioness Ayres, Janet Specht, K. Sparbel, M. Klimek
Lioness Ayres
The purpose of this report is to describe caregiving by teens for family members with Huntington disease (HD). Thirty-two teens in HD families in the United States and Canada participated in focus groups from 2002 to 2005 in a study to identify concerns and strategies to manage concerns. An unexpected finding was 24 (77%) described caregiving activities. Descriptive analysis of caregiving statements identified themes of Tasks and Responsibilities, Subjective Burden, Caregiving in Context of Personal Risk for HD, and Decisional Responsibility. Teens took an active part in nearly all aspects of care with the exception of contacting health care providers …
Explanations Of Risk In Families Without Identified Mutations For Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer, Anne Ersig, Lioness Ayres, D. Hadley, L. Koehly
Explanations Of Risk In Families Without Identified Mutations For Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer, Anne Ersig, Lioness Ayres, D. Hadley, L. Koehly
Lioness Ayres
Purpose: Genetic testing for hereditary forms of cancer does not always identify a causative mutation. Little is known about personal or family response to these indeterminate results when a hereditary form of cancer is suspected. This study explored thoughts about and responses to risk for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) when a family member has received indeterminate genetic test results. Design: In this qualitative study, data were gathered from index cases who received indeterminate genetic test results through a longitudinal study offering genetic counseling and testing for HNPCC. First-degree relatives of these indeterminate index cases were also invited to participate …
Narratives Of Family Caregiving: Four Story Types, Lioness Ayres
Narratives Of Family Caregiving: Four Story Types, Lioness Ayres
Lioness Ayres
RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS: This study used a combination of across-case, thematic analysis and within-case, narrative analysis to develop a typology of stories for family caregivers. Both researchers and clinicians can benefit from interpretive methods that offer access s into the processes and products of making meaning though stories. It is often easier to see the possibilities for reinterpretation from outside a story than from within it. It may be that nurses will also be uniquely able to help clients who are in the process of "getting the story straight" to find new, more sustaining meanings and even to live more happily ever …
Focus On Qualitative Methods. "Not As Bad As It Could Have Been": Assessing And Mitigating Harm During Research Interviews On Sensitive Topics, K. Kavanaugh, Lioness Ayres
Focus On Qualitative Methods. "Not As Bad As It Could Have Been": Assessing And Mitigating Harm During Research Interviews On Sensitive Topics, K. Kavanaugh, Lioness Ayres
Lioness Ayres
OBJECTIVE: NA. DESIGN: NA. SETTING: NA. POPULATION: NA. INTERVENTIONS: NA. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): NA. RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS: Nurse investigators insist that their research not inflict needless suffering on participants during any phase of a study. When a study involves a sensitive topic such as loss, such suffering is of particular concern. Evaluating the impact of sensitive research simply by looking at decontextualized comments made throughout the interview may provide misleading data about participants' responses to a study. The importance of assessment of risk from psychological distress during all phases of the study cannot be minimized. Knowing strategies that researchers can use to …
'I'M Like You': Establishing And Protecting A Common Ground In Focus Groups With Huntington Disease Caregivers... With Review By Spencer L, Janet Williams, Lioness Ayres, L. Spencer
'I'M Like You': Establishing And Protecting A Common Ground In Focus Groups With Huntington Disease Caregivers... With Review By Spencer L, Janet Williams, Lioness Ayres, L. Spencer
Lioness Ayres
Focus group research reflects content contributed by participants and the influence of interactions among participants. Analysis of interactions provides insights into focus group dynamics and the contextual meaning of focus group topics. The aim of this report is to analyse interactions that establish or protect a common ground in focus groups of family members caring for adults with Huntington disease (HD). HD tends to stigmatise persons with the disease, as well as their families. Thus, many of the topics in these groups were sensitive. Establishing a common ground was of paramount importance to group members. Participants used interactional processes that …
Virtual Text And The Growth Of Meaning In Qualitative Analysis, Lioness Ayres, S. Poirier
Virtual Text And The Growth Of Meaning In Qualitative Analysis, Lioness Ayres, S. Poirier
Lioness Ayres
OBJECTIVE: NA DESIGN: NA SETTING: NA POPULATION: NA INTERVENTIONS: NA MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): NA RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS: The virtual text, whose roots extend into the ground of both artistic and aesthetic texts, gives rise to analysis that flourishes in the light of rigorous scrutiny. The virtual text serves to describe the linkage between the research interview and the research report. We construct the virtual text from its artistic origins in the interview transcript and its aesthetic origins in the mind of the researcher. Nurses whose research of practice includes the elicitation, analysis, or transmission of stories may find reader-response theory useful in …