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Research and educational resources about substance use disorder.
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Use this Substance Use Disorder collection to compare research questions, settings, and nursing implications across 21 reviewed records. Start with the original source and limitations before carrying a finding into teaching or practice.
This is a published protocol, not a completed study, describing a planned JBI-methodology scoping review that will search ten databases and grey literature for English-language research on how substance use and...
This systematic review of 26 studies (2009-2019) found that adults with autism spectrum disorder show increased, not decreased, vulnerability to substance use and substance use disorder, challenging the old assumption...
A 2022 survey of all six substance use treatment facilities in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya found severe gaps in bed capacity (174 beds for 1.1 million people), opioid medication availability (no facility stocked...
A 2025 Medicaid claims study of over 1.1 million enrollees found substance use disorder diagnoses among autistic adults without intellectual disability rose from 1.75% (2012) to 7% (2016), with adults aged 30-64 at...
In focus groups with 23 nurses and healthcare providers at a Vancouver long-term care home and hospital unit, dementia-friendly TV videos were described as helping calm distress, build connections, encourage social...
This reflective case paper traces Thompson Rivers University School of Nursing's 40-year journey from a community college to a full university, describing how faculty built a culture of scholarship using Boyer's four...
Story Based Learning (SBL) is a Canadian-developed nursing teaching model that blends narrative pedagogy, case method teaching, and problem-based learning into a circular, six-phase process for working through practice..
This Canadian Journal of Nursing Research editorial argues that platforms like X, LinkedIn, and TikTok can help nurses bridge clinical practice, research, and education, while cautioning that professionalism, data...
This narrative review of 26 studies (2013-2024) found technology use improved mental health among socially isolated immigrant older adults, but benefits depended on cultural, linguistic, and educational fit, and most...
This Canadian Journal of Nursing Research study used interpretive description to explore how RNs and RPNs in B.C. experience prescribing opioid agonist therapy after a 2020 provincial order expanded their scope. Nurses..
A funded dissemination core plans to move alcohol-use science into Indiana schools, health care settings, and communities using a participatory, equity-focused approach; it describes aims, not results.
A National Institute on Drug Abuse K23 career development proposal to adapt, refine, and pilot-test an ambulatory intensive care team model for medically complex, high-utilizing patients with opioid use disorder in a...
A NICHD K23 proposal to study the under-examined first year after discharge for infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS), aiming to quantify readmission risks and costs and to inform a home-visiting...
A think-aloud study built a five-stage cognitive learning model of how nurses develop clinical reasoning from novice to expert.
A small qualitative study found nursing and pharmacy students valued interprofessional simulation and shed stereotypes about each other.
Development of the online mindfulness-based intervention (MFU-mindful Application for Thai university students: Phase II Objectives: Phase I: (October 2025 to September 2026) 1. To develop the mindfulness-based...
This study found that Emotional Schema Therapy (EST) and differentiation training both reduced emotional divorce among women. EST was more effective than differentiation training in lowering ED rates, with significant...
This study found significant links between perfectionism, early maladaptive schemas, attachment styles, self-esteem, and body image concerns among female cosmetic surgery applicants. A model where self-esteem mediates...
This study found that pregnant women who listened to relaxing music experienced less life distress and stronger maternal-fetal attachment than a control group. The intervention involved twelve 45-50 minute sessions of...
This study found that nurses at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital had good knowledge of Failure to Rescue but moderate competence in averting it. Crucially, there was a significant link between positive...
This study found anxious-avoidant attachment styles predict higher emotional divorce in Iranian women, while spiritual intelligence predicts lower levels. Together, these factors explained significant variance in...
