Published in Global qualitative nursing research
Perceptions of people living with chronic illness change over time, contributing to health-related stress that necessitates coping skills. Paterson's shifting perspectives model provides an explanation of chronically ill people's variations in attention to their symptoms. In this qualitative study, 20 people with fibromyalgia living in a rural sett...
Published in International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being
Constipation is a common problem among older people. This study aimed to explore how older patients experience constipation and which strategies they used in handling the condition before and during hospitalization. A qualitative exploratory research design was used. Fourteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with patients (61-91 years of a...
Published in Journal of rehabilitation research and development
Veteran-Directed Home and Community-Based Services (VD-HCBS) is a consumer-directed program that began in 2009 and is jointly administered in a partnership between the Veterans Health Administration and the Administration for Community Living. The objective of this article is to describe the Aging and Disability Network agency (ADNA) personnel's pe...
Pour sortir des représentations abstraites ou du recyclage plus ou moins conscient de discours prêt-à-penser sur le travail dans le nucléaire, on se propose de tirer parti d’un bonheur d’archive, un feuilleton télévisé diffusé en 26 épisodes de 13 minutes en 1968. En projetant des extraits de ce feuilleton à des personnes vivant aujourd’hui près du...
Published in Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community
Improved life-sustaining technology in the neonatal intensive care has resulted in an increased probability of survival for extremely premature babies. In the neonatal intensive care, the condition of a baby can deteriorate rapidly. Nurses and parents are together for long periods at the bedside and so form close and trusting relationships. Neonata...
Published in Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy
To explore patients' preferences for follow-up in primary care vs. secondary care. A cross-sectional design was employed, involving semi-structured interviews with 70 female patients with a history of early-stage breast cancer. Using descriptive content analysis, interview transcripts were analysed independently and thematically by two researchers....
Published in Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community
This article aims to share critical debate on undertaking interviews with children in the home setting and draws on the authors' extensive research fieldwork. The article focuses on three key processes: planning entry to the child's home, conducting the interviews and exiting the field. In planning entry, we include children's engagement and issues...
Published in Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy
Older people with sight impairment reported many researched risk factors previously identified by older people without sight impairment but also described many perceived risks unique to people with sight impairment. There are few interventions to prevent falls aimed at older people with sight impairment, and the results of this study allow further ...
Published in Qualitative health research
We used a phenomenological approach to gain insight into the experiences of self, other, and world in patients with hemispatial neglect within the first month following stroke. Comprehensive descriptions of circumstances were conjoined with open-ended interviews of 12 participants. The neglect experience was captured in the overarching theme, "gett...
This article explores key elements of qualitative research on policing and security agencies, including barriers encountered and strategies to prevent them. While it is oft-assumed that policing/security agencies are difficult to access due to their clandestine or bureaucratic nature, this article demonstrates this is not necessarily the case, as a...
