title: A mentored cooperative group pilot study: atrophic vaginitis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review nursing research initiatives from two cooperative groups and outline a pilot study performed by a junior nurse researcher mentored by cooperative group nurse researchers and institutional physicians.
  
  
  METHODS
  PubMed, Cochrane Library, Scopus, World Wide Web.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nursing research can be initiated and led by nurses in the cooperative group setting. The team approach model of research includes several disciplines to examine multiple facets of the same problem, or of multiple problems that a cancer patient may face. This new model will enable a greater number of nurse researchers to investigate symptom management, survivorship, and quality-of-life issues.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurse researchers should be included in every cooperative group study to investigate nurse-sensitive outcomes and issues related to symptom management, survivorship, and quality of life.
authors.forename: Joanne L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Lester
authors.forename: Chandler
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jarvis
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bartholomew
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yee
mesh_terms: D059268:Atrophic Vaginitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008611:Mentors; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011788:Quality of Life
keywords: Atrophic vaginitis; cooperative group; dyspareunia; mentor; mentorship; pilot study; vaginal dryness