Publications by authors named "Elizabeth V Weinfurter"

The nursing profession currently exists in the untenable position of holding social justice as a core value of the profession but operating within dominant oppressive systems of colonialism and racism. Decolonizing and Indigenizing nursing are proposed as strategies toward reconciliation; however, little is known regarding specific nursing actions toward decolonizing and Indigenizing the profession. This scoping review highlights approaches, barriers, goals, and the utility of decolonizing and Indigenizing nursing knowledge, education, research, and practice.

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Importance: Hearing loss is associated with social isolation and loneliness, which are known to negatively impact mental and cognitive health. However, high-quality evidence on the impact of hearing rehabilitation devices on social outcomes remains limited.

Objective: To assess the impact of hearing rehabilitation device use on social outcomes in adults with hearing loss.

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Background: Children, particularly those from low-income families, experience increased weight gain and food insecurity in the summer months. Summer interventions that include nutrition assistance through free or subsidized food, or money for food, are well-positioned to address food insecurity and obesity. However, there is no comprehensive review of the characteristics and findings of summer interventions that aimed to improve children's weight-related outcomes, including food security, dietary intake, physical activity, and body weight.

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Chemotherapy is a common treatment in childhood cancer but causes significant side effects, among the most notable being nausea and vomiting, known as chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). Pharmacological antiemetics and complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) have been studied separately to manage CINV, but a gap exists in understanding their use together. We aimed to investigate the potential multimodal effects of CIM and pharmacological antiemetics on CINV in pediatric oncology patients undergoing chemotherapy.

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Introduction: The recent Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health that has overruled Roe v. Wade has resulted in severe limitations of abortion access throughout the United States.

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Objective: Identifying consumer health informatics (CHI) literature is challenging. To recommend strategies to improve discoverability, we aimed to characterize controlled vocabulary and author terminology applied to a subset of CHI literature on wearable technologies.

Materials And Methods: To retrieve articles from PubMed that addressed patient/consumer engagement with wearables, we developed a search strategy of textwords and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).

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Background: Community dwelling older adults who are care dependent are highly affected by incontinence, resulting in substantial informal caregiver burden. Understanding the experiences of these caregivers is needed to develop supportive programs that reduce caregiver burden and rates of institutionalization for care recipients.

Objectives: This systematic review aimed to critically appraise and synthesize the qualitative literature on the perceptions, experiences, and consequences of informal caregivers managing incontinence in community dwelling older adults.

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Background: There has been a recent, rapid increase in the number of studies of children with medical complexity (CMC) and their families. There is a need for attention to gaps and patterns in this emerging field of study.

Objectives: The purpose of this scoping review was to identify patterns and gaps in the evidence related to classification systems, data, and outcomes in studies of CMC.

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Introduction: Because a focus on physiologic labor and birth has reemerged in recent years, care providers have the opportunity in the prenatal period to help women increase confidence in their ability to give birth without unnecessary interventions. However, most research has only examined support for women during labor. The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the research literature for information about prenatal care approaches that increase women's confidence for physiologic labor and birth and tools to measure that confidence.

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