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Using chamomile for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (2013)
Journal Article
Smith, G. D. (2013). Using chamomile for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome. Gastrointestinal Nursing, 11(8), 11-12. https://doi.org/10.12968/gasn.2013.11.8.11

The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for the management of gastrointestinal symptoms is becoming increasingly popular across the world. Several herbal remedies have been claimed to improve the symptoms associated with irritab... Read More about Using chamomile for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome.

Content validity of the Chinese version of resilience scale for older people (2013)
Journal Article
Yang, F., Smith, G. D., & Liu, X. (2014). Content validity of the Chinese version of resilience scale for older people. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 23(13-14), 2077-2079. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12349

Aims and objectives To forward- and backward-translate the English version ofthe Resilience Scale for use in Chinese older people and toaddress the equivalence of the content validity of theChinese and English versions of this scale

Inflammatory bowel disease in older people (2013)
Journal Article
Smith, G. D. (2013). Inflammatory bowel disease in older people. Gastrointestinal Nursing, 11(6), 31-35. https://doi.org/10.12968/gasn.2013.11.6.31

The physiological process of ageing can lead to a number of health challenges, including a deterioration of gastrointestinal functions and increase in digestive disorders. Therefore, although the occurrence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is qui... Read More about Inflammatory bowel disease in older people.

The structure of stress: Confirmatory factor analysis of a Chinese version of the stressors in Nursing Students Scale (SINS) (2013)
Journal Article
Watson, R., Yanhua, C., Ip, M. Y. K., Smith, G. D., Wong, T. K. S., & Deary, I. J. (2013). The structure of stress: Confirmatory factor analysis of a Chinese version of the stressors in Nursing Students Scale (SINS). Nurse Education Today, 33(2), 160-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2012.02.013

Background Stress is a feature of the life of nursing students and this had been well studied. However, there are very few instruments to measure stress in nursing students specifically. One such instrument, the Stressors in Nursing Students Scale... Read More about The structure of stress: Confirmatory factor analysis of a Chinese version of the stressors in Nursing Students Scale (SINS).