Laura Clarke-Steffen

Phoenix Children's Hospital · Bill Holt Pediatric Infectious Disease Clinic

Multiple and complex health, social, and environmental factors threaten the school success of children living with HIV. Little is known about interventions to overcome these threats to school success. We aimed to identify the number and types of recommendations from hospital-generated neurodevelopmental exams and school generated evaluations, Indiv...

This critique will further explore Dr Haase’s work on interventions to enhance resilience in adolescents with cancer, focusing on the clinical aspects of the Resilience Enhancement Adolescent Profile (REAP) intervention. To summarize, the REAP intervention is composed of (a) development of an individualized family and adolescent profile near the ti...

Pediatric oncology nursing would benefit from more research directed toward questions that relate to the care of children with cancer. There are many ideas and proposals that are begun but never carried to fruition. This article will detail how to assess and rework a research proposal to provide the basis for a research project that will add to the...

This article explores the meanings pediatric oncology nurses derive from their work role and describes the process by which nurses create meaning. This was a secondary analysis of data from a qualitative study that examines peak and nadir experiences and their consequences in pediatric oncology nurses. A semistructured interview was used to gather...

The purpose was to describe strategies used by the family in response to childhood cancer and to relate those strategies to two different conceptual frameworks. A longitudinal, prospective, grounded theory study was conducted with a sample of 32 members of seven families who had a child recently diagnosed with cancer. All family members 5 years and...

The purpose of this article is to identify the general methodologic and data set-specific challenges that must be overcome when attempting a secondary analysis of qualitative data. Two separate examples of secondary analyses of qualitative data sets are also described, including one unsuccessful beginning.

The purpose of this study was to explore, using grounded theory, the process experienced by parents who are dealing with the first recurrence of cancer in their child. The sample of 33 guardians (27 mothers, 1 grandmother, and 5 fathers) was drawn from three pediatric oncology settings. Data were collected through interviews, observations, and medi...

This phenomenological study examined the experience of South American mothers who brought their children to the United States for cancer treatment. Five mothers were interviewed twice about their subjective experiences. Data were analyzed using Colaizzi's method of phenomenology. Thirty-two significant statements were grouped into eight themes. The...

A subset of data from a longitudinal grounded theory study was analyzed to describe the experience families have during the period immediately surrounding the time of diagnosis of cancer in a child. A convenience sample consisted of 40 members of seven families with a child who was recently diagnosed with cancer with a favorable prognosis. All fami...

The major objective of this longitudinal, grounded theory study was to describe the family transition to living with childhood cancer, from the family's point of view, when a child is diagnosed with cancer with a favorable prognosis (long-term survival rate greater than 60%). A convenience sample consisting of 40 members of seven families with a ch...

To present a conceptualization of health care costs and to describe costs of health care in the terminal phase of childhood cancer. To present an exploratory comparison of the costs of terminal care in the hospital versus home care services, and to discuss the use of cost research in nursing practice. Telephone interviews were done approximately 16...