Sami Y. Al-Rawashdeh, PhD, RN Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan.
Terry A. Lennie, PhD, RN, FAAN Professor, University of Kentucky College of Nursing, Lexington.
Misook L. Chung, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN Professor, University of Kentucky College of Nursing, Lexington.
This work is submitted to the Graduate School at University of Kentucky in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy in nursing from the College of Nursing.
This work was supported by the University of Kentucky, College of Nursing Faculty Research Support Grant (M.L. Chung, primary investigator [PI]), and from National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research (NIH/NINR) (1K23NR010011-01, M.L. Chung, PI; and 1P20NR010679, D.K. Moser, PI and P-20 Center Director). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH or the NINR.
Correspondence Sami Al-Rawashdeh, PhD, RN, Faculty of Nursing, Hashemite University, P.O. Box 330133, Zarqa, 13133 Jordan ([email protected]).