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Item The interaction between parent perceived stress and ethnicity on weight in adolescents(2015-12) Holleman, Annie Dillon; Keith, Timothy, 1952-; Carlson, CindySince obesity has a great impact on psychological and physical health, and Latino adolescents have the highest prevalence of obesity compared to adolescents of other ethnicities, there is a need to understand what contributes to this discrepancy (CDC, 2012; Must & Strauss, 1999; Ogden et al., 2014). The purpose of this study is to investigate some of the potential causes of adolescent weight and obesity; specifically how family stress and ethnicity interact to influence adolescent weight, and thus obesity. Other variables that may be involved, such as parent preferred language, parent education level, and the adolescent’s sex, are examined as well. This document proposes recruiting parent and adolescent dyads from a variety of primary care clinics around Austin when the adolescent comes in for a yearly preventive check-up. Data on parent stress, adolescent weight, adolescent ethnicity, adolescent sex, parent education level, and parent language preference are collected. These variables will be examined to investigate the hypothesis that the weight of Hispanic adolescents is more influenced by family stress (as measured by parent stress level) than the weight of adolescents of other ethnicities.Item Sleep: effect on dementia caregiver mastery, perceived stress and depression(2010-05) Simpson, Cherie Elizabeth; Carter, Patricia A.; Acton, Gayle; Becker, Heather; Lopez, Martita; Volker, DeborahCaregiving for a dementia patient is a stressful experience and can last for years. The exposure to stress over time can lead to negative health outcomes in caregivers (e.g. depression) and can decrease their ability to provide care. Caregivers need resources such as good sleep quality and mastery to have the physical, emotional, and mental energy to perform the caregiving role. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between the resources of sleep quality, mastery, and the outcomes of perceived stress, and depression in informal caregivers of community-dwelling persons with dementia (PWD). The data presented were from a cross-sectional non-experimental study with interviews conducted with 80 informal caregivers of PWD utilizing a demographic questionnaire for the caregiver, an assessment of the frequency of behavior and psychiatric symptoms (BPSD) of dementia, the Dementia Severity Rating Scale to assess the caregiver’s perception of the PWD’s cognitive and functional abilities, the Pittsburgh Sleep Questionnaire to asses the caregiver’s sleep, a combined global and domain-specific mastery instrument, the Perceived Stress Scale and the Center for Epidemiologic Depression Scale to measure outcomes. The results of this study found that male and female caregivers shared a similar caregiving experience, similar levels of mastery, depression, and stress but, female caregivers had poorer sleep than male caregivers. Caregivers experienced a higher rate of sleep disruptions by the PWD than previous studies and these disruptions were related to poorer perceived sleep quality and poor global sleep. There was a direct relationship between mastery and perceived stress, mastery and depression, sleep quality and stress, sleep quality and depression, but not a statistically significant relationship between mastery and sleep quality in this sample. Sleep quality was not found to have an indirect effect on stress or depression through mastery. The contribution of these findings to nursing knowledge is the establishment of the direct relationship between sleep quality and stress, and mastery and stress to be considered in future intervention research. Further exploration is needed to understand the relationship of mastery and sleep quality.Item The Influence of Stress and National Council Licensure Examination Results on Job Satisfaction of Nursing School Administrators in Texas(2010-12) Morgan, Jackolyn; Jones, Stephanie J.; Taylor, Colette M.; Valadez, AnaStudies of job satisfaction and stress among nursing faculty and administrators were found in the literature. There were no studies that addressed the relationship between job satisfaction based on the perceptions of stress of nursing educator administrators and pass rates on the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-RN). In addition, the literature is deficient on the job satisfaction and stress of nursing educator administrators in associate degree nursing programs at public community colleges. This study examined the influence of stress of NCLEX-RN pass rates on job satisfaction of nursing educator administrators of associate degree nursing programs at Texas community colleges. A sample of 46 community college nursing educator administrators participated. Each participant completed a demographic questionnaire, the Job Descriptive Index/Job in General (JDI/JIG) instrument to assesd job satisfaction, and the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) to assess current perceived stress levels. The study design was causal-comparative (ex post facto) and utilized descriptive and inferential statistics to analyze the data collected to address the research questions. Statistical significance was evaluated at the p = .05 level. The results of the study supported that nursing educator administrators are predominantly female in both practice and academia in the state of Texas. It did not reveal any statistically significant differences in stress levels and pass rates based on years in nursing education, educational level, and ethnicity. Statistical significance was found between job satisfaction and perceived stress, and that perceived stress predicted job satisfaction. Perceived stress was not correlated to pass rates on the NCLEX-RN, other than those programs with a NCLEX-RN pass rate between 90 - 100%. There is a shortage of qualified nurse educators in the U.S. Higher education institutions must retain their nursing educator administrators and faculty in order to help prepare new nurses. Understanding the impact of perceived stress on job satisfaction of nursing educator administrators is important to college administrators and nursing education programs. The ability to understand the stress levels involved in programs that have mandated state licensing demands will help colleges implement processes and procedures to help relieve the stress of these external demands on their nursing faculty and administrators. This will lead to working environments that are less stressful and promote higher job satisfaction.