Annual Review of Nursing Research, Volume 19, 2001 : Women's Health Research

This book demonstrates that nurses have made an important contribution to the advancement and expansion of women's health knowledge. Selecting the health issues of most importance to women, the editors have assembled leading nurse researchers to review, summarize, and critique nursing research within each area. A general overview of the field is also provided. Contributors include Angela McBride, Linda Andrist, Janice Humphreys, and Jacquelyn Campbell. Also contributing are Kathleen MacPherson and Nancy King Reame, nurse members of the original Boston Women's Health Collective, which authors OUR BODIES, OURSELVES. Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Contributors......Page 12 Part I: Introduction......Page 14 1 What We Know and How We Know It: Contributions from Nursing to Women's Health Research and Scholarship......Page 16 2 Conceptual Models for Women's Health Research: Reclaiming Menopause As an Exemplar of Nursing's Contributions to Feminist Scholarship......Page 42 Part II: Research on Women's Social Roles and Health......Page 74 3 Women As Mothers and Grandmothers......Page 76 4 Women and Employment: A Decade Review......Page 100 5 Interventions for Women As Family Caregivers......Page 138 Part III: Research on Diversity and Women's Health......Page 156 6 Lesbian Health and Health Care......Page 158 7 Immigrant Women and Their Health......Page 192 Part IV: Research on Women's Health and Illness Issues......Page 240 8 Women and Stress......Page 242 9 Sleep and Fatigue......Page 262 10 Intimate Partner Violence Against Women......Page 288 11 Health Decisions and Decision Support for Women......Page 320 12 Female Troubles: An Analysis of Menstrual Cycle Research in the NINR Portfolio As a Model for Science Development in Women's Health......Page 338 A......Page 352 C......Page 353 E......Page 354 F......Page 355 H......Page 356 I......Page 357 M......Page 358 P......Page 360 S......Page 361 V......Page 362 Z......Page 363 Contents of Previous Volumes......Page 364 Demonstrates that nurses have made an important contribution to the advancement and expansion of women's health knowledge. Selecting the health issues of importance to women, this book assembles leading nurse researchers to review, summarize, and critique nursing research within each area. It also provides a general overview of the field. This chapter reviews 60 published research reports about maintaining and improving physical function in elders.