Nurses’ knowledge and perceptions of caring for a person with polycystic ovarian syndrome: Integrative review:

Sophia Miller; Mandie Foster; Rebecca Mowat; Julie Blamires

doi:10.24135/rangahau-aranga.v3i2.224

Sophia Miller
Mandie Foster Auckland University of Technology, School of Clinical Sciences, Auckland
Rebecca Mowat Auckland University of Technology, School of Clinical Sciences, Auckland
Julie Blamires Auckland University of Technology, School of Clinical Sciences, Auckland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24135/rangahau-aranga.v3i2.224

Keywords: Knowledge; Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome; Nursing

Abstract

Background: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is a condition which affects 4-20% of reproductive-aged women worldwide, yet the education, understanding and support for both healthcare staff and patients is relatively limited in comparison. This study aimed to explore nurses’ knowledge and perceptions of caring for a person living with PCOS across healthcare settings.

Methods: An integrative review guided by Whittemore and Knafl (2005) was conducted. Six electronic databases were searched: CINAHL, MEDLINE, Ovid, Scopus, PubMed and ProQuest. Included studies were critically appraised using the Joanna Briggs Institute critical appraisal tools. Inductive thematic analysis was used to generate themes, sub-themes and categories.

Results: Eleven studies involving approximately 1002 nurses were included. Three themes, eight categories and 172 codes were generated from 287 findings: (1) clinical manifestations (menstruation, reproduction, and fertility; physical presentation; and risks of PCOS), (2) management (functional lifestyle intervention; managing PCOS; diagnosis), (3) health literacy (PCOS knowledge; and sources of knowledge).

Conclusion: Deficits in the knowledge and perceptions of nurses were identified and congruent with those of other healthcare practitioners, with educational interventions proving to be beneficial to improve knowledge and understanding of PCOS. This necessitates further educational support for nurses and further development and distribution of care protocols to improve the lives of people living with PCOS.

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Mandie Foster, Auckland University of Technology, School of Clinical Sciences, Auckland

Mandie Jane Foster is a senior lecturer and emerging research scholar in children and young people’s nursing with a passion to make a difference to the holistic health and wellbeing of children and families globally. Mandie’s clinical expertise comes from a variety of specialty areas in children and young people’s nursing where she has worked for over 33 years. Mandie promotes and provides a strong child health nursing educational, and research focus as well as effective leadership and consultancy for child health practices. Mandie utilises nursing concepts and skills, applied health science, best practice and research inquiry to advance and contribute to evidence-based policy and its evaluation. Mandie further builds research capacity to equip students for life-long learning and has active engagement, collaboration and partnerships with child health research end users, clinical, teaching and policy experts within industry and organizations globally for the mutually beneficial transfer of knowledge, technologies, methods or resources to benefit public policy, healthcare services, quality of life, economy, society and the environment as well as has lead public debates on child health with achievement in and recognition of child health based research activities, knowledge and development including industry consultative work.

Mandie’s research expertise includes systematic reviews, psychometrics and translational research, tool development, child and family centred care, international collaborative research projects, child art engagement and therapy. Mandie's current research interests include children’s participation, engagement, and voices as consumers of healthcare; an international child research checklist; healthcare professionals’ experience in using child self-report measures as usual practice and international students’ experience in undertaking an English literacy program. Mandie is chair of the Auckland University of Technology Child and Youth Health Research Cluster; co-chair of the International Child and Family Centred Care Network; chair of the Australian College of Children and Young People’s Nurses Journal reference group; associate editor for the Journal of Child Health Care; Board of Director for the Australian College of Children and Young People’s Nurses; is an adjunct lecturer and research scholar for Edith Cowan University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Perth, Australia and is involved in many international collaborative research projects.

Mandie completed her doctoral study in 2013, which explored the psychosocial, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of children, parents’, and healthcare professionals within a paediatric high dependency unit in New Zealand. Mandie further completed her postdoctoral study in 2015, where a 16-item ‘Needs of Children Questionnaire’ was generated from the voices of 195 children across two countries. The ‘Needs of Children Questionnaire’ is the first psychometrically tested questionnaire in the world to successfully measure the self-reported importance and fulfilment of psycho-social, physical, and emotional needs in four domains being caring, information, activities, and relationships to evaluate if the needs rated as important by children are being met. The 16 item ‘Needs of Children Questionnaire’ advocates a collaborative inclusive approach focused on working with rather than on children to provide meaningful real time consumer feedback to direct care and is presently being evaluated for acceptability and usability among staff working at a Children’s’ Hospital in Australia.

Rebecca Mowat, Auckland University of Technology, School of Clinical Sciences, Auckland

Rebecca has been in the health industry for more than 30 years, first studying Nursing and then Osteopathy.

After years of working in many health care environments across the world including Intensive care in the United States, high dependency units in London, and most recently older persons' orthopaedic rehabilitation in New Zealand, along with being involved in private Osteopathy practice spanning 8 years. Rebecca now bring my experiences to teaching and research.

For a decade I have been sharing my love of biosciences by lecturing nurses specialising in human anatomy and pathophysiology and more recently pharmacology - Rebecca aims to make learning fun and relatable

Julie Blamires, Auckland University of Technology, School of Clinical Sciences, Auckland

Julie Blamires is a nurse lecturer and emerging research scholar in the School of Clinical Sciences. Julie’s clinical expertise comes from a variety of specialty areas in children and young people’s health, with a special interest in respiratory and rheumatology. She teaches in both the undergraduate and post graduate nursing programs and her teaching expertise and interest lies in child and youth nursing and advanced assessment and diagnostic reasoning.

Julie’s research expertise includes qualitative interviewing, systematic reviews, interpretive description methodology, child and family centred care, international collaborative research projects and child art engagement. Julie’s current research interests include children and young people’s experience of long-term illness and their participation, engagement, and voices as consumers of healthcare. Julie completed her doctoral study in 2020 which explored the experiences of young people living with bronchiectasis

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Nurses’ knowledge and perceptions of caring for a person with polycystic ovarian syndrome: Integrative review

Nurses’ knowledge of caring for a person with polycystic ovarian syndrome: Integrative review

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