[Work Environment-Mediated Job Burnout and Intention-to-Stay in Registered Nurses].

Background: Nurse engagement and retention are critical issues affecting the quality of healthcare. Although the work environment is known to affect nursing performance and patient outcomes, little is known regarding the impact of this environment on nurse burnout and future work intention, especially in non-Western settings.

Purpose: This study explored the extent to which Taiwanese nurses' perceptions of their practice environment mediates burnout levels and intention-to-stay.

Development and validation of a Dignity in Care Scale for Nurses.

Background: Maintaining patient dignity is an important aspect of nursing care. No instrument is currently available to measure nurses' behaviours for maintaining patient dignity in clinical care.

Objectives: To develop and test an instrument to measure activities nurses perform to maintain patient dignity in clinical care settings, guided by the literature and face-to-face interviews.

Primary family caregivers' observations and perceptions of their older relatives' knee osteoarthritis pain and pain management: a qualitative study.

Aim: To explore primary family caregivers' observations and perceptions of their older relatives' knee osteoarthritis pain and pain management.

Background: Osteoarthritis is one of the most common joint disorders in older people. Studies have mainly focused on spouses' or partners' perceptions of older individuals' osteoarthritis pain.

Hazardous alcohol-drinking problems among a Chinese hospital patient population.

Aim: The aims of this study were to explore: (1) the prevalence and predictors for hazardous alcohol-drinking problems; and (2) previous assessments and interventions for alcohol-drinking problems in hospitalized Chinese patients.

Background: Alcohol is legally accessible and widely used in Taiwan, but few studies have addressed alcohol-drinking problems in hospital settings.

Design: A cross-sectional design was used.

Dignity in care in the clinical setting: a narrative review.

This review aimed to explore nursing literature and research on dignity in care of inpatients and to evaluate how the care patients received in the hospital setting was related to perceived feelings of being dignified or undignified. Studies conducted between 2000 and 2010 were considered, using Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature and MEDLINE, and the search terms 'patient dignity', 'dignity in care', 'human dignity and nursing' and 'dignity and nursing ethics'. Findings revealed, from the perspectives of nurses and patients, that dignity in care in the hospital setting is seen to be influenced by physical environment, staff attitude and behaviour, organisational culture and patient independence.

Hazardous drinking problems in family members of problem-drinker patients in Chinese general hospitals.

Objective: To explore (1) the prevalence and risk factors for hazardous alcohol-drinking problems and (2) previous assessments and interventions for alcohol-drinking problems among family members of Chinese problem-drinker patients.

Method: Self-report data were collected from 517 family members of problem-drinker patients at five randomly selected general hospitals in Taiwan.

Results: Family members' prevalence of hazardous alcohol-drinking problems was 13.

Dignity in care in the hospital setting from patients' perspectives in Taiwan: a descriptive qualitative study.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore dignity in care from patients' perspectives in Taiwan.

Background: Dignity is a core element of nursing care. In nurses' clinical practice, maintaining the dignity of patients is an important issue because a lack of dignity in care can affect the health and recovery of patients.

An alcohol training program improves Chinese nurses' knowledge, self-efficacy, and practice: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Excessive alcohol use has been associated with health, social and legal problems. Helping health care providers to manage hazardous or harmful drinkers is an important worldwide issue. Alcohol is a legal and accessible substance in Taiwan and is viewed as an acceptable drink for relieving stress and enhancing socialization in Chinese culture.

Maintaining patients' dignity during clinical care: a qualitative interview study.

Aim: This article is a report of a study undertaken to understand how nurses maintain patients' dignity in clinical practice.

Background: Dignity is a core concept in nursing care and maintaining patients' dignity is critical to their recovery. In Western countries, measures to maintain dignity in patients' care include maintaining privacy of the body, providing spatial privacy, giving sufficient time, treating patients as a whole person and allowing patients to have autonomy.

The relationships among medicine symptom distress, self-efficacy, patient-provider relationship, and medication compliance in patients with epilepsy.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among medicine symptom distress, self-efficacy, patient-provider relationship, and medication compliance in patients with epilepsy. Patients with epilepsy (n=357) were recruited using convenience sampling from three medical centers in northern Taiwan. Results showed significant differences in relationships between medication compliance and the following factors: gender, employment status, comorbid chronic diseases, self-driving, daily drug dosing frequency, seizure after a missed dose, and self-efficacy.

Facilitators and barriers to intervening for problem alcohol use.

Aim: This article is a report of a study exploring nurses' perceived facilitators and barriers to conducting brief interventions for problem alcohol use.

Background: Excessive alcohol use has been associated with health, social and legal problems. Healthcare providers worldwide need help to detect and intervene with hazardous/harmful drinkers.

Brief intervention for problem drinkers in a Chinese population: a randomized controlled trial in a hospital setting.

Background: Alcohol is a legal and accessible substance in Taiwan. As excessive alcohol has been linked to health and social problems, it is necessary to develop a brief, rapid, and low-cost tool to help health care providers deal with persons in Taiwan whose alcohol consumption has become hazardous or harmful to their health.

Methods: A randomized controlled clinical trial with 6- and 12-month follow-ups was designed.

Depressive symptoms, pain experiences, and pain management strategies among residents of taiwanese public elder care homes.

The purpose of this study was to explore depressive symptoms, pain experiences, and pain self-care management strategies among residents of public elder care homes in Taiwan. Random sampling was used to recruit participants (n=200). In this sample, the prevalence of depressive symptoms was 49.