Welcome to 'The International Journal of Psychiatric Nursing Research'
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Published since 1994 the Journal has gone from strength to strength relying on its independent non-profit profile to promote research accross the world. The IJPNR has been able to create, produce and make available a quality journal exporting research data to well over 30 countries around the world.
The name Drogoresearch.com is adapted from Saint Drogo (1105 - 1189) a Saint who was venerated for his compassion, humility and kindness to people suffering from a mental illness. One of the main aims of the Journal is to help encourage a better understanding of severe and enduring mental illness and advance good clinical standards of care by a validated reference process that disseminates and publicizes high quality psychiatric nursing research papers across the world.
The IJPNR Journal established in 1994 is one of the leading lights in publishing top quality psychiatric nursing research manuscripts and has successfully contributed to distributing in text and cyberspace forms over One Hundred high quality research papers to well over 30 different countries.
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News - 8th July 2009: from today you no longer need to login to the Journal to view whole articles.
Important News about the Journal Volume 14 Issue 1 (October 2008) will sadly be the last issue of this journal, as we have ceased publication. This web site will remain online for a further year.
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October 2008,
Volume 14, Issue 1
Article by William Whitfield No abstract for this article. more  Article by Patricia G. Fox, PhD, FAAN, Professor, Email: pfox@niu.edu (1). Karen B. Baldwin, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor (1). Jeanette Rossetti, Ed.D, RN, Assistant Professor (1). Donna J. Plonczynski, PhD, APN, RN, Assistant Professor (1). Ram Bandagi, MBBS, MS Ed (2). (1) School of Nursing, Northern Illinois, University, DeKalb, Il 60115. (2) Graduate School, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115 Vietnamese refugee women in the United States experienced violence during the Vietnam War, their escape from Vietnam and in camps of asylum. Violence experiences included witnessing massacres, being assaulted, raped and the deprivation of basic life necessities in asylum camps. Post-migration... more Article by Ellen W. Blair, APRN, CNAA, BC, Unit Director, (work) 860-545-7237 (fax) 860-545-7250, eblair@harthosp.org (1). Bonnie L. Szarek, RN, Research Nurse, (work) 860- 545-7332 (fax) 860-545-7066, bszarek@harthosp.org (2). (1) Donnelly One North, The Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital’s Mental Health Network, 200 Retreat Ave, Hartford, CT 06106. (2) Burlingame Center for Psychiatric Research and Education, The Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital’s Mental Health Network, 200 Retreat Ave., Hartford CT 06106 Background: Falls are the leading cause of serious injury and deaths among the elderly. A recent study found that psychotropic medication had the strongest relationship to a fall episode.
Objectives: To examine the relationship of psychotropic medications to falls in an inpatient... more Article by Philippe Voyer, R.N., Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at Laval University and researcher in the Center for Excellence in Aging – Research Unit in Quebec City, Canada (1). David Cohen, Professor (2). Michel Préville, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Sherbrooke University, and researcher at the Research Center of the Hôpital Charles LeMoyne (3). Marie-Eve Roussel-Roy, research assistant (4). Djamal Berbiche, senior statistician (5). Sarah-Gabrielle Béland, pharmacologist and a graduate student (6). (1) Faculty of Nursing, Laval University, Quebec City (Quebec) G1K 7P4, Telephone: (418) 656-2131 # 8799, Fax: (418) 656-7747 E-mail: Philippe.Voyer@fsi.ulaval.ca (2) School of Social Work and School of Public Health, Florida International University, 11200 S.W. 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199. (3) Centre de recherche de l'Hôpital Charles LeMoyne, Complexe St-Charles, bureau 354, tour Est1111, rue St-Charles Ouest, Longueuil (Québec) J4K 5G4. (4) Center for Excellence in Aging – Research Unit, St-Sacrement Hospital Centre, 1050, Chemin Ste-Foy, L2-24, Quebec City, QC, Canada, G1S 4L8. (5) Centre de recherche de l'Hôpital Charles LeMoyne, Complexe St-Charles, bureau 354, tour Est,1111, rue St-Charles Ouest, Longueuil (Québec) J4K 5G4. (6) Centre de recherche sur le vieillissement, Institut Universitaire de gériatrie de Sherbrooke, 1036 rue Belvedere, sud, Sherbrooke (Qc), CANADA J1H 4C4 Objectives: This study aims to examine the validity of the DSM-IV-TR substance dependence criteria for seniors using benzodiazepines (BZDs), and to assess the convergent validity of addiction symptoms against the DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of BZD substance dependence.
Methods: Descriptive... more Article by Ahmad Ghanizadeh, Assistant Professor of Child and adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Hafez Hospital, Shiraz, Iran. Telfax: +98-711-627 93 19 Email: ghanizad@sina.tums.ac.ir ; ghanizadeha@hotmail.com ADHD is the most common psychiatric disorder in psychiatrically clinical sample of children with nail biting (NB). Anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have been reporte as underlying problems of children with NB. There was not any study on possible association of nail biting (NB) and... more
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The work of Professor Juan Luis Vives (b1492) Juan Luis Vives was born in Valencia in 1492 and wrote extensive commentaries on a wide variety of... Read More 
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