BACKGROUND Caring for someone with a long-term medical condition or a terminal diagnosis can take a physical, mental, and emotional toll on the family and caregivers. Palliative care support services can help to ease the burden and ensure the wellbeing of these caregivers is looked after. AIM To explore family member experiences of the services off...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Background Low motivation and suboptimal cognitive skills are common among forensic psychiatric patients. By focusing on doing and experiencing, innovative technologies could offer an alternative to existing treatment for this patient group. One promising technology is DEEP, a VR biofeedback game that teaches diaphragmatic breathing, which has show...
Published in Journal of interprofessional care
Clinical reasoning is a core ability in the health professions, but the term is conceptualised in multiple ways within and across professions. For interprofessional teamwork it is indispensable to recognise the differences in understanding between professions. Therefore, our aim was to investigate how nurses, physicians, and medical and nursing stu...
Published in Qualitative health research
While recruitment is an essential aspect of any research project, its challenges are rarely acknowledged. We intend to address this gap by discussing the challenges to the participation of vaccine-hesitant parents defined here as a hard-to-reach, hidden and vulnerable population drawing on extensive empirical qualitative evidence from seven Europea...
Published in Nursing in critical care
The transfer from an intensive care unit (ICU) to a regular ward often causes confusion and stress for patients and family members. However, little is known about the patients' perspective on preparing for the transfer. The purpose of the study was to describe patients' experiences of preparing for transfer from an ICU to a ward. Individual intervi...
Background: COVID-19's emergence questions the agility of health policy deployment in a context of urgency. This exceptional pandemic offers a unique Implementation Science study opportunity. It reveals how actors adapt, coordinate, and mitigate an unknown global threat to safeguard populations from an initially mysterious virus. Limited research h...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Published in International journal of audiology
Despite previous research into the psychosocial impact of hearing loss, little detail is known regarding the hearing and hearing-aid-related emotional states experienced by adults with hearing loss in everyday life, and how they occur. Individual remote semi-structured interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and qualitatively analysed ...
Published in Ethnicity & health
Rates of HPV infection and HPV-related cancers are elevated in the Black population of the US. Efforts to promote HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening are important to reducing the cancer burden among Black populations. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study guided by social ecological model (SEM) was to describe from the perspe...
Published in European Journal of Formal Sciences and Engineering
This paper aims to contribute with results in relation to the challenges that users encounter with regard to technologies in sustainable social housing. The results are significant and show that in modern Danish sustainable social housing consideration is not taken for the users in relation to the technologies implemented in the buildings. The cons...
