Gabay, Gillie
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Hospital readmissions due to illness among geriatric patients result in human suffering and psychological trauma. Resilience in chronic illness protects geriatric patients from outcomes of trauma leads to psychological and physical well-being and enables bouncing back to life. While communication has been linked to improved health outcomes, little ...
Köttl, Hanna Fallahpour, Mandana Hedman, Annicka Nygård, Louise Kottorp, Anders
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Life satisfaction is strongly associated with participation in everyday life activities. Yet, older adults with cognitive impairments have been found to experience difficulties in accessing and engaging in more complex everyday activities, especially, if these involve everyday technology. Considering the rapidly advancing technological landscape, t...
Lin, Chien-Hui Liu, Ying-Chun Chiang, Hsien-Hsien
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Nurses' distress in response to the professional experience of the neonatal loss and stillbirth care is poorly addressed in nursing practice; therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore nurses' experiences of labour of a stillborn baby. A qualitative approach with ten Registered Nurses from hospital birth units in northern Taiwan was used to...
Beck, Anne Vind Thaysen, Henriette Hasselholt Soegaard, Charlotte Blaakaer, Jan Seibaek, Lene
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Patients' perspectives on standardised, multimodal prehabilitation programmes showed barriers to adherence. Further investigation of patients' ability to prepare is needed. To investigate what patients with cancer who were due to undergo major abdominal surgery actually were able to do when provided with preoperative, home-based, multimodal recomme...
Leslie, Myles Gray, Robin Patricia Khayatzadeh-Mahani, Akram
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
With governments worldwide reducing their involvement in the provision of institutional long-term elder care, community-based family caregivers (FCs) have become a key element in policies aimed at improving the quality of healthcare systems and maintaining their financial sustainability. This paper uses data from focus groups with FCs providing car...
Labrague, Leodoro J Galabay, Jolo R Anastacio, Angeline L McEnroe-Petitte, Denise M Tsaras, Konstantinos
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Educating women regarding breast cancer and increasing breast self-examination uptake continues to remain a major challenge despite the intensive campaigns. An innovative, cost-effective and easily customised intervention is needed especially in under-resourced and hard to reach communities. This paper is a report examining the effects of mobile te...
Lindhardt, Christina Louise Maerkedahl, Marielouise Brandt, Conny Elisa Madsen, Signe Rubjerg
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
To examine the experience of a discharge letter received by patients suffering from epilepsy and parents with children who suffer from epilepsy. Qualitative research inspired by a phenomenological methodology approach. Face-to-face interviews with patients and parents of epileptic children in their own homes. Participants (total n = 11). In-depth i...
Pedersen, Birgith Jacobsen, Heidi Ramlow Jørgensen, Lone
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Telephone consultations are common in supporting patients and caregivers in managing symptoms from cancer diseases and side effects from cancer treatment. In connection with telephone consultations, it may be a challenge that healthcare professionals have to rely on their auditory sense alone when they assess whether the problem can be solved over ...
Suddick, Kitty M Cross, Vinette Vuoskoski, Pirjo Stew, Graham Galvin, Kathleen T
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Despite substantial reorganisation of stroke unit provision in the United Kingdom, limited qualitative research has explored how stroke survivors experience the acute stroke unit. This hermeneutic phenomenological study used accounts from four stroke survivors who experienced one of two acute stroke units. Through detailed analysis, the acute strok...
Doroszkiewicz, Halina Sierakowska, Matylda
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
The growing number of elderly people results in the intensification of disability, reduced level of independency and quality of life as well as augmented demand on medical and social services. The aim of the study was to identify factors associated with probability of care dependency in disabled geriatric patients. The study involved 200 patients a...
