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Table 16–5 Instrument Development Related to King’s Work

TOPIC AUTHOR(S) YEAR

Family Needs Assessment Tool Rawlins, Rawlins, and Horner 1990

Health goal attainment King 1988

Nursing Care Survey (client-consumer perceptions and Killeen 1996

responses to professional nursing care)

Sieloff-King assessment of group power within organizations Sieloff 1998

multiple systems with children, youth, and young
adults. Hanna (1993) investigated the effect of
nurse-client interactions on oral-contraceptive ad-
herence in adolescent females. Interestingly, these
studies considered personal systems (infants), in-

terpersonal systems (parents, families), and social

systems (the nursing staff and hospital environ-

ment). Clearly, a strength of King’s framework and

theory is their utility in encompassing complex set-

tings and situations.

Table 16–6 Application to Clients across the Life Span

TOPIC AUTHOR(S) YEAR

Infants

Children

Adolescents

Adults, young

Adults

Frey and Norris

Norris and Hoyer

Syzmanski

Scott

Frey

Hobdell

Frey

Steele

Hanna

Binder*

Laben, Dodd, and Sneed

Hughes

Daubenmire, Searles, and Ashton

Doornbos

Ollsson and Forsdahl

Alligood

Froman

Jones, Clark, Merker, and Palau

Kameoka

Nagano and Funashima

Rooke

Sharts-Hopko

Norris and Hoyer

Hanna

DeHowitt

Heggie and Gangar

Hobdell

1997

1993

1991

1998

1996

1995

1995

1993

1989

1981

1995

1993

1992

1991

1983

1978

1995

1996

1995

1995

1995

1995

1995

1995

1995

1994

1993

1992

1992

1992

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