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    Towards a decision support system for health promotion in nursing

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    Authors
    Caelli, K.
    Downie, Jill
    Caelli, T.
    Date
    2003
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Caelli, Kate and Downie, Jill and Caelli, Terry. 2003. Towards a decision support system for health promotion in nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing 43 (2): 170-180.
    Source Title
    Journal of Advanced Nursing
    DOI
    10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02691.x
    Faculty
    School of Nursing and Midwifery
    Division of Health Sciences
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    Caelli K., Downie J. & Caelli T. (2003) Towards a decision support system for health promotion in nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing 43(2), 170 180

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    http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02691.x

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25116
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    • Curtin Research Publications
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    Aims. This study was designed to investigate what type of models, techniques and data are necessary to support the development of a decision support system for health promotion practice in nursing. Specifically, the research explored how interview data can be interpreted in terms of Concept Networks and Bayesian Networks, both of which provide formal methods for describing the dependencies between factors or variables in the context of decision-making in health promotion.Background. In nursing, the lack of generally accepted examples or guidelines by which to implement or evaluate health promotion practice is a challenge. Major gaps have been identified between health promotion rhetoric and practice and there is a need for health promotion to be presented in ways that make its attitudes and practices more easily understood. New tools, paradigms and techniques to encourage the practice of health promotion would appear to be beneficial. Concept Networks and Bayesian Networks are techniques that may assist the research team to understand and explicate health promotion more specifically and formally than has been the case, so that it may more readily be integrated into nursing practice.Methods. As the ultimate goal of the study was to investigate ways to use the techniques described above, it was necessary to first generate data as text. Textual descriptions of health promotion in nursing were derived from in-depth qualitative interviews with nurses nominated by their peers as expert health promoting practitioners.Findings. The nurses in this study gave only general and somewhat vague outlines of the concepts and ideas that guided their practice. These data were compared with descriptions from various sources that describe health promotion practices in nursing, then examples of a Conceptual Network and a representative Bayesian Network were derived from the data.Conclusions. The study highlighted the difficulty in describing health promotion practice, even among nurses recognized for their expertise in health promotion. Nevertheless, it indicated the data collection and analysis methods necessary to explicate the cognitive processes of health promotion and highlighted the benefits of using formal conceptualization techniques to improve health promotion practice.

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