Riquee Izza T. Umali, Mary Angelique B. Angeles, Carl Adam M. Catacutan, Chlea Kim E. Escoto, Enrico R. Formacion, Juvilyn S. Montañez, John Paul C. Wah & John Paulo G. Calma·Asian Journal of Research in Nursing and Health·2026
Background: Cultural competence is an important component of nursing education, particularly among nursing clinical instructors who prepare students to provide culturally responsive care in diverse community settings. Community-based exposure may provide opportunities for clinica...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1411
Lymphatic filariasis remains a preventable cause of chronic lymphoedema, hydrocele, disability and stigma in endemic settings, yet successful elimination depends on adults repeatedly converting preventive knowledge into action. In southeastern Nigeria, the behavioural problem is...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1410
H. O. Stanley, J. O. Pondei, T. S. Johnny, E. O. Kehinde, M. P. Mammah, T. Moneyin, C. L. Nkwume, E. N. Olise-Anieh, M. J. Oliver, C. O. Ayo-Ola, M. E. Appiah, E. Azebiri, J. P. Bibiwei, I. E. Bobbo, P. B. Apiri & J. C. Stanley·Asian Journal of Research in Nursing and Health·2026
Despite ongoing health reforms in Nigeria, rural communities such as Sampou in Bayelsa State continue to experience disparities in health service utilisation. This study investigates perceptions and the socio-economic, cultural, and structural factors influencing healthcare servi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1409
Anoop K S, Seema Patra, Manguli Soren, Parvati Majhi, Madhusmita Nayak, Prajna Paramita Pradhan, Sagarika Rani Rana, Lucy Hansdah & Madhumita Das·Asian Journal of Research in Nursing and Health·2026
Background: Cancer remains a major global public-health challenge, and prevention depends partly on recognition of modifiable risk factors, warning signs, and appropriate screening pathways. Nursing students are future frontline professionals who may influence patient education a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1408
Informal food economies provide affordable meals, income and everyday food access for large urban and peri-urban populations, yet they also concentrate food-safety risks in settings where water, sanitation, storage, waste services and regulatory support are often unreliable. This...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1407
Background: Feeding practices are important determinants of nutritional status and long-term health outcomes. Rapid urbanisation, increasing income levels, changing lifestyles, and the proliferation of convenience foods have significantly influenced dietary behaviours among worki...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1406
Aims: This study assessed the lifestyle risk factors associated with the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes among patients attending Our Lady of Apostle (OLA) Hospital, a semi-rural healthcare facility in Akwanga, Nasarawa State, Nigeria. Study Design: A descriptive cross-s...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1405
Background: Health care ethics encompasses autonomy, beneficence, non-malfeasance, and justice, while health care law addresses confidentiality, documentation, negligence, malpractice, and patients’ rights. Aims: The study aims to assess pre-test knowledge and attitudes towards h...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1404
Adolescent malnutrition remains a pressing global public health concern, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where the coexistence of undernutrition and overnutrition—the so-called double burden of malnutrition—is increasingly documented. Household socioeconomic stat...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1402
Background: Artificial intelligence is entering acute and long-term care at a pace that has outstripped its evidence base, and commentary frequently frames the change as a contest between machines and the nursing workforce. Nursing carries the surveillance function on which timel...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1403
Introduction: The nursing profession is grounded in a set of ethical values and deontological rules designed to ensure the quality, safety and humanity of patient care. In daily practice, however, nurses are frequently exposed to professional situations that conflict with these v...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1401
Background: Leadership empowerment promotes positive workplace dynamics, employee satisfaction, workforce performance, and quality patient care. However, limited research has examined empowering leadership behaviours across healthcare departments, particularly in Philippine hospi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1398
Background: Paediatric patients with cancer have poor survival rates in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). These children experience severe pain during treatment. Although nurses have a significant responsibility for managing children’s pain, little is known about nurses’...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1399
Aims: This study identified the barriers and challenges to complete childhood immunisation in rural communities of Nasarawa State, Nigeria, and examined their implications for health system strengthening, with attention to facility-level, environmental, access-related and caregiv...
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Angieliza Villanueva, Sheery O. Sansaet, Jacqueline De Guzman Diaz, Joann P. Bumanglag, Dhonna Cruz Cambe, Wilfredo D. Quijencio, Jr. & Marianne Agub Tan·Asian Journal of Research in Nursing and Health·2026
Undergraduate nursing curricula treat technical proficiency and ethical responsiveness as separate learning outcomes, assessed by different instruments and taught by different means, yet clinical placement confronts students with both simultaneously and within the same encounter....
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1396