Chun-Ying Chiang

• I-Shou University

This study explored the psychological processes that patients navigated when healing and recovering from depression. A grounded theory approach was used. Twenty patients who had recovered from depression participated. Four categories emerged depicting the psychological processes navigated by the participants during the recovery process: (1) accepta...

Purpose To identify associations among social functioning, depression, and quality of life in breast cancer patients. Method A cross-sectional study was conducted. A total of 180 breast cancer patients were recruited from the surgical units in southern Taiwan hospital in 2021. Path analysis was employed to analyze the relationships between backgro...

Purpose To evaluate the efficacy of logotherapy on meaning in life, depression, hopelessness, and suicide ideation in patients with depression. Design and Methods A quasi-experimental approach was used and 86 participants were recruited from a psychiatric department in Taiwan. The experimental group received logotherapy for 12 weeks. The control g...

This study explored the perceptions of meaning of life for patients with depression. A qualitative phenomenology approach was used. Patients with depression (n=20) were recruited until data saturation occurred. Findings revealed four themes all related to their value of: (1) accepting depression; (2) appreciating work (paid and non-paid); (3) embod...

Introduction: Meaning in life can be good protective factor against depression, hopelessness, and suicidal ideation. Aim: To analyse the mediating effect of meaning in life on the associations among hopelessness, depression, and suicidal ideation. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 90 patients diagnosed with depression. A stru...

Background Due to the lack of resident physicians in medical institutions, nurse practitioners must assist in clinical care. However, the quality of training courses in training hospitals is varied and, currently, there is no theory to guide nurse practitioners to complete training. Objectives To develop a theory to guide nurse practitioners to ac...

Background Nursing students voiced that they were stressed or anxious during their final year at university. Further, they articulated that their anxiety affected their academic performance as well as their motivation to work on their clinical placement. Objectives This study was designed to describe nursing graduates' perceptions of their lived e...

Aims and objectives This study was designed to explore the psychological processes experienced by nursing students caring for suicidal patients during their first psychiatric clinical practicum. Background Nursing students expressed fear when caring for patients who presented with suicidal behaviours. Yet, there is a lack of research exploring nur...

Background: Globally, cancer is the second leading cause of death. Breast cancer and gynecological cancer can damage patients' body image and lead to psychological distress, depression, and demoralization syndrome. No studies have explored the effect of logotherapy in gynecological cancer patients' psychological distress, depression, and demoraliz...

Research concerning this issue demonstrates that nursing students initially feared interacting with and caring for patients with suicidal tendencies. However, there is a lack of research, which examines the care that is provided to patients that are suicidal, by nursing students. The aim of this study was to develop a theory to guide nursing studen...

Background: Substance use is a global mental health issue. There has been limited research exploring the relationships among body, mind, and spirit well-being and the possibility of relapse across different categories of substance users. Aims: The purpose of the current path analysis was to examine the relationship between body-mind-spirit well-...

Drug abuse adversely affects the health of populations in many counties and contributes immensely to social issues. Schedule III and IV controlled drug abuse is popular in young adults. Medical education is one of the most stressful academic fields for students. The aim of this study was to compare the health differences in body, mind, and spirit a...

Many nurses in Taiwan use quantitative research for their master's thesis. However, qualitative research explores humankind in depth providing a more holistic approach relating to nursing. The purpose of this study was to explore the rationale postgraduate students used to choose the research methods for their masters' theses in Taiwan. A descripti...

Assessing the recovery ability of individuals who have attempted suicide is crucial for psychiatric health nurses. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a psychometric Suicidal Recovery Ability Scale (SRAS). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) indicated that three subscales with 15 items best fit the data. The global SRAS score showed si...

Aims and objectives: The aim of this study was to develop the Health of Body, Mind and Spirit Scale (HBMSS), which was designed to assess drug abusers' health condition. Background: Helping drug abusers to become healthy is important to healthcare professionals. However, no instrument exists to assess drug abusers' state of health. Design: A c...

This study was designed to explore Category 3 and 4 controlled drug users' perceptions of participating in health-prevention lectures. A phenomenological approach was used. Twelve participants were interviewed after completing the lectures. Findings revealed five themes (1) mixed emotions; (2) self-development; (3) finding the lectures lacked pract...

Aims and objectives: The aim of this study was to explore the factors predicting suicide recovery and to provide guidance for healthcare professionals when caring for individuals who have attempted suicide. Background: The high rate of suicide is a global health problem. Suicide prevention has become an important issue in contemporary mental hea...

Background: The suicide rate of cancer patients is high in Taiwan. Breast cancer has a high incidence rate and is the leading cause of cancer in women. There is a lack of research examining breast cancer-related depression, suicidal ideation, and quality of life. Objectives: This study evaluated the effects of muscle relaxation and therapeutic w...

Background: In Taiwan, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Most breast cancer patients are willing to receive chemotherapy and experience adverse effects and suffering during the process of chemotherapy. Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore patients' psychological process when receiving initial chemotherapy for breast c...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a type of chronic disease that requires lifelong self-care management. Regular health examinations or monitoring (i.e., adult preventive health examinations) are recommended for improving health awareness and preventing complications. Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between part...

Background The Fundamental Nursing clinical practicum is an essential module for nursing students. Some feel stress or anxiety about attending this first placement; however, evidence demonstrates that it is rare to explore the feelings of anxiety felt by the nursing students concerning their first clinical practicum. Objective This study was desig...

Accessible summary: What is known on the subject? Suicide is a global mental health issue. Taking care of suicidal individuals is a substantial challenge. Most studies emphasize the suicidal individual. Few studies have emphasized the family caregivers of suicidal individuals. No study has explored the relationship between family caregivers' carin...

Suicide caring competence is important for family caregivers to care their relatives with suicidal tendencies. The purpose of this study was to develop and test the psychometric properties of the Suicide Caring Competence Scale (SCCS) for family caregivers in Taiwan. A 20-item SCCS was tested on 165 family caregivers. Confirmatory factor analysis i...

To evaluate the short-term effects of a suicide care educational intervention on the family's ability to care, family's caring stress levels and family's attitudes towards attempted suicide. Research has demonstrated that suicide prevention educational programmes are provided mostly for professional staff and not for the family caregivers of people...

Family members lack the ability to care for suicidal relatives. Nurses have a responsibility to improve family members' ability to care for their suicidal relatives. The aims of this study were to design a suicide education programme for nurses to educate family caregivers and to evaluate the longitudinal (12months after the educational programme)...

Care provided by the families of those who have attempted suicide affects their healing and recovery process. Data on care provided by families to suicidal individuals in different areas of Taiwan are extremely limited. This study explored care provided by families living in eastern and southern Taiwan to relatives admitted to hospitals and subsequ...

This study was designed to investigate the learning outcomes of a suicide education programme for second-year student nurses in Taiwan. Research demonstrates that nurses' attitudes impact on the care provided to suicidal patients. However, evidence is sparse on promoting positive caring attitudes in nurses towards suicidal patients. A quasi-experim...

There is a dearth of evidence on the care that families provide to their relatives after they have been discharged from hospital following an attempted suicide. The aim of this study was to explore ex-patients' and family caregivers' perceptions of the care provided at home following hospital discharge. A qualitative approach using Grounded Theory...

Hypertension is known to have high rates among Chinese Americans. Identifying culturally specific interventions to reduce sedentary behavior may be effective in reducing hypertension. This study examines the effects of an 8-week walking program with and without cultural modification. The study used a 2-group, pretest and posttest, quasi-experimenta...

The electromyographic (EMG) signal is used to discriminate eight hand motions: power grasp, hook grasp, wrist flexion, lateral pinch, flattened hand, centralized grip, three-jaw chuck and cylindrical grasp. From the analysis of the PC-based control system, a three-channel EMG signal is used to distinguish eight hand motions for the short below elbo...