RESEARCH IN NURSING & HEALTH Volume Contents 1997 Volume 20/Number 1 February 1997 Editorial 1 Helping Mothers Cope with a Critically [ll Child: A Pilot Test of the COPE Intervention Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Linda J. Alpert-Gillis, Pamela B. Hensel, Regina C. Cable-Beiling, and Jeffery S. Rubenstein Effect of Support Groups with Coaching on Adaption to Early Stage Breast Cancer Nelda Samarel, Jacqueline Fawcett, and Lorraine Tulman Effects of Formal Supports on Stress Outcomes in Family Caregivers of Alzheimer’s Patients Betty Wehtje Winslow Infant Age, Context, and Family System Influences on the Interactive Behavior of Mothers and Infants with Mental Delay Patricia T. Becker, Kay F: Engelhardt, Mary F. Steinmann, and Janet Kane Breastfeeding Intention and Outcome: A Test of the Theory of Planned Behavior Karen A. Wambach Prenatal Factors and Birth Outcomes in the Public Health Service: A Rural/Urban Comparison Betty Alexy, Brenda Nichols, Mary Ann Heverly, and Laurel Garzon Nurses’ and Resident Physicians’ Perceptions of the Process of Collaboration in an MICU Judith Gedney Baggs and Madeline H. Schmitt Focus on Quantitative Methods Using Key Informant Methods in Organizational Survey Research: Assessing for Information Bias Linda C. Hughes and Sally Preski Manuscript Referees: 1996 VOLUME CONTENTS Volume 20/Number 2 April 1997 Editorial 95 Relationships Between Patient Attitudes, Subjective Norms, Perceived Control, and Analgesic Use Following Elective Orthopedic Surgery Teresa A. Pellino Contributions of Maternal Identity and Lifestyle to Young Children’s Adjustment Sally Preski and Lorraine O. Walker Pathways to Depressed Mood for Midlife Women: Observations from the Seattle Midlife Health Study Nancy Fugate Woods and Ellen Sullivan Mitchell The Effect of Protein Density of Food on Food Intake and Nutritional Status of Tumor-Bearing Rats Donna O. McCarthy, Chyi Lo, Huong Nguyen, and Denise M. Ney Effects of Family Structure Information on Nurses’ Impression Formation and Verbal Responses Lawrence H. Ganong and Marilyn Coleman Collaboration Between Local Public Health and Community Mental Health Agencies Barbara J. Polivka, Carol Kennedy, and Rosemary Chaudry Further Validation of the AIDS Attitude Scale Robin D. Froman and Steven V. Owen Focus on Qualitative Methods Interpretive Description: A Noncategorical Qualitative Alternative for Developing Nursing Knowledge Sally Thorne, Scheryl Reimer Kirkham, and Janet MacDonald-Emes Announcement Volume 20/Number 3 June 1997 Editorial 181 Test of the Health Promotion Model as a Causal Model of Construction Workers’ Use of Hearing Protection Sally L. Lusk, David L. Ronis, and Mary M. Hogan VOLUME CONTENTS Effects of Exercise on Fatigue, Aerobic Fitness, and Disease Activity Measures in Persons with Rheumatoid Arthritis Geri B. Neuberger, Allan N. Press, Herbert B. Lindsley, Ruthellyn Hinton, Perri E. Cagle, Katherine Carlson, Steven Scott, Judy Dahl, and Beth Kramer Family Srengths, Motivation, and Resources as Predictors of Health Promotion Behavior in Single-Parent and Two-Parent Families Marilyn Ford-Gilboe Personalizing Choices: Patients’ Experiences with Making Treatment Decisions Mary L. Kelly-Powell The Utility of Locus of Control for Predicting Adolescent Substance Abuse Linda Holm Bearinger and Robert William Blum Sleep, Psychological Distress, and Stress Arousal in Women with Fibromyalgia Joan L.F: Shaver, Martha Lentz, Carol A. Landis, Margaret M. Heitkemper, Dedra S. Buchwald, and Nancy F. Woods Effects of 72 Hours Sleep Deprivation on Wound Healing in the Rat Carol A. Landis and JoAnne D. Whitney Focus on Quantitative Methods Selection and Use of Content Experts for Instrument Development Joan §. Grant and Linda L. Davis Letter to the Editor 275 Announcements 277 Volume 20/Number 4 August 1997 Editorial 279 Expectant Fathers: Influence of Perinatal Education on Stress, Coping, and Spousal Relations Geraldine A. Diemer HOME Inventory and NCATS: Relation to Mother and Child Behaviors During Naturalistic Observations Esther M. Tesh and Diane Holditch-Davis VOLUME CONTENTS Predictors of the Development of Chronic Pain Carole L. White, Sandra M. LeFort, Rhonda Amsel, and Mary-Ellen Jeans Social Support Sources Among Older Women with Heart Failure: Continuity Versus Loss over Time Maureen M. Friedman PMS After 40: Persistence of a Stress-Related Symptom Pattern Nancy Fugate Woods, Martha Lentz, Ellen Sullivan Mitchell, Margaret Heitkemper, and Joan Shaver Empowerment and Staff Nurse Decision Involvement in Nursing Work Environments: Testing Kanter’s Theory of Structural Power in Organizations Heather K. Spence Laschinger, Jean Anne Sabiston, and Lia Kutszcher Line of Reasoning as a Representation of Nurses’ Clinical Decision Making Suzanne M. Narayan and Sheila Corcoran-Perry Focus on Qualitative Methods Qualitive Metasynthesis: Issues and Techniques Margarete Sandelowski, Sharron Docherty, and Carolyn Emden Announcements 373 Voiume 20/Number 5 October 1997 Editorial 375 An Educational Intervention as Decision Support for Menopausal Women Marilyn L. Rothert, Margaret Holmes-Rovner, David Rovner, Jill Kroll, Lynn Breer, Geraldine Talarczyk, Neal Schmitt, Georgia Padonu, and Celia Wills Experiences of Fatigue and Depression Before and After Low-Dose 1-Thyroxine Supplementation in Essentially Euthyroid Individuals Laura Cox Dzurec Early Family Life and Victimization in the Lives of Women Claire Burke Draucker VOLUME CONTENTS Weight Loss Methods Used by African American and Euro-American Women Diane O. Tyler, Janet D. Allan, and Francesca R. Alcozer Short-Term Regulation of Energy Intake Is Intact in Hypophagic Tumor-Bearing Rats Donna O. McCarthy Psychophysiological Response to a Laboratory Challenge in Women With and Without Diagnosed Irritable Bowel Syndrome Barbara §S. Levine, Monica Jarrett, Kevin C. Cain, and Margaret M. Heitkemper Nurses’ Job Satisfaction, Absenteeism, and Turnover After Implementing a Special Care Unit Practice Model Rhayun Song, Barbara J. Daly, Ellen B. Rudy, Sara Douglas, and Mary Ann Dyer Occupational and Nonoccupational Factors in Job Satisfaction and Psychological Distress Among Nurses Frederic H. Decker Focus on Quantitative Methods Interpreting Kappa Values for Two-Observer Nursing Diagnosis Data Mousumi Banerjee and Jane Fielding Announcements Volume 20/Number 6 December 1997 Editorial 473 Stress-Point Intervention for Parents of Repeatedly Hospitalized Children with Chronic Conditions 475 Sharon Ogden Burke, Mark H. Handley-Derry, Edith A. Costello, Elizabeth Kauffmann, and Mary C. Dillon Attention, Coping, and Activity in Children Undergoing Orthopaedic Surgery Lynda L. LaMontagne, Jean E. Johnson, Joseph T. Hepworth, and Barbara D. Johnson Living with Fibromyalgia: Sense of Coherence, Perception of Well-Being, and Stress in Daily Life Siv Séderberg, Berit Lundman, and Astrid Norberg VOLUME CONTENTS Nicotine Dependence and Smoking Topography Among Black and White Women Karen Ahijevych and Jenise Gillespie A Causal Functional Explanation of Maintaining a Dependent Elder in the Community Michele C. Clark Family Involvement in the Nursing Home: Family-Oriented Practices and Staff—Family Relationships Marie-Luise Friedemann, Rhonda J. Montgomery, Bedonna Maiberger, and A. Ann Smith Determination of Reliability and Validity in Home Monitoring Data of Pulmonary Function Tests Following Lung Transplantation Bruce R. Lindgren, Stanley M. Finkelstein, Badri Prasad, Pradyumna Dutta, Travis Killoren, Julie Scherber, Cheryl L. Edin Stibbe, Mariah Snyder, and Marshall I. Hertz Focus on Qualitative Methods Endings, Secrets, and Silences: Overreading in Narrative Inquiry Suzanne Poirier and Lioness Ayres Index to Volume 20 Announcements