Leadership in nursing research: Evidence based nursing in post-stroke emotional dysfunction

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Nursing science has a clinical-oriented nature, making it indispensable to address health challenges of today and tomorrow. The issues addressed in the nursing research, therefore, are on the aging population with high health risks with relation to the changing health policies. Nursing researchers should aim to achieve health care solutions for the high risk groups and to develop an integrated continuum of care services for the public health, medical science and welfare services. Increasing quality of life (QOL) may be area that need more research attention. In this review, we discussed about various factors including post-stroke depression (PSD), post-stroke emotional incontinence (PSEI), post-stroke anger proneness (PSAP), post-stroke fatigue (PSF), post-stroke sleep disturbances (PSSD) and post-stroke pain (PSP), which were identified to affect stroke survivors' QOL. Moreover, we discussed how the research idea evolves as the time passed by. Nursing researchers should start to build their own database and broaden areas of focus. Given the rise in the number of patients suffering from chronic illnesses, it is critically important for the nursing researchers to focus on improving patients' QOL. Every patient, regardless of their health status, age, gender, race and ethnicity, should be able to achieve and experience his or her highest QOL where the patient is able to successfully manage own health with minimal burden caused by illness-related adverse symptoms. Nursing researchers must employ various methods to answer intriguing questions to achieve evidence-based practice and an integrated continuum of care.