Patients' perceptions as an indicator of quality of care, in Greek patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to explore optimism, perceived happiness and life satisfaction in a group of Palestinian children living in urban districts, rural areas and a refugee camp in the West Bank, as well as in a city in Israel. METHOD:Three self-report instruments were administered to a convenience sample of sch...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Veronese G,Castiglioni M,Tombolani M,Said M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with cancer experience side effects related to their antineoplastic treatment. Demands for efficiency limit the time patients spend with health professionals. This requires that professionals are able to offer adequate support to patients in coping with side effects of treatment in everyday life. Ho...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Pedersen B,Koktved DP,Nielsen LL

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies of nurses' required competence in EOL care in health centres are rare. It is important to produce information about experienced nurses' perceptions of the competence they consider important in their practical work. AIM:The aim of this study was to describe nurses' required competence in EOL care in ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Haavisto E,Soikkeli-Jalonen A,Tonteri M,Hupli M

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have reported that homosexual patients fear they will not receive adequate care if they openly show their sexual orientation, for example, when introducing their partner. The aims of this study were to investigate the emotions of nursing staff and nursing students, and possible relations to cultural background...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Röndahl G,Innala S,Carlsson M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate whether the Swedish version of the Katz Index of ADL (Activities of Daily Living), on days 5-7 after amputation for vascular disease, had predictive value regarding length of hospital stay, discharge to the patient's own home or death within 1 month. Patients who had recently un...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Hermodsson Y,Ekdahl C

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe, through observations and interviews with patients >/=75 years old and the relatives who accompanied them to the hospital, the conditions at the emergency department (ED) and the events that took place during the waiting period. Twenty older patients were studied, together with th...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Kihlgren AL,Nilsson M,Skovdahl K,Palmblad B,Wimo A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coronary artery disease is one of the most important health problems among heart diseases in the world, with high morbidity and mortality. Lifestyle changes in particular are recommended in the latest guidelines for implementing secondary prevention. AIM:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectivene...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Turan Kavradim S,Özer Z,Boz İ

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a survey to investigate parents' satisfaction with neonatal wards in a population of parents of children with a gestation age of ≥24 weeks to 3 months after full-term birth. METHOD:We explored the literature and conducted three focus groups: two with expert he...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Hagen IH,Vadset TB,Barstad J,Svindseth MF

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The VIPS-model developed by Ehnfors et al. (1991) for nursing documentation and writing of care plans was used and evaluated by nursing students in connection with their final assignments. In addition to their evaluation by the use of a questionnaire, the students' written care plans were reviewed. Three instruments w...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Thorell-Ekstrand I,Björvell H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to describe and analyse how newly graduated nurses perceive themselves as professionals and their perceptions of barriers to research utilization when starting to work within paediatric care. The nurses were employed in two paediatric university hospitals in Sweden and had been working as staf...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Andersson N,Cederfjäll C,Jylli L,Nilsson Kajermo K,Klang B

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Spirituality can be important in adjusting to the experience of cancer and its medical treatment. Since nurses have frequent contact with patients, they seem to have a unique role in providing spiritual care. Nurses consider spiritual care important; however, little is known about how patients in a curative settin...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Ebenau A,Groot M,Visser A,van Laarhoven HWM,van Leeuwen R,Garssen B

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Providing health and social care to older persons is challenging, since older persons often have multiple diseases and a complex health situation. Hence many professions and organisations are involved. Lack of interprofessional and interorganisational collaboration leads to fragmented care. Care planning meetings befo...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Sundström M,Petersson P,Rämgård M,Varland L,Blomqvist K

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food and mealtimes should be adapted to the older person's individual needs and desires, a fact that is often ignored in favour of a functional mealtime organisation. This study was grounded in participatory action research (PAR), and the aim of the study was to illuminate a PAR process to assist care providers in con...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Ericson-Lidman E,Strandberg G

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethical issues in ethnographic nursing research with children and elderly people The purpose of this article is to stimulate discussion on ethical issues in qualitative nursing research with children and elderly people. Both groups as informants of a qualitative study may need extra protection owing to their vulnerabi...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Jokinen P,Lappalainen M,Meriläinen P,Pelkonen M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a grounded theory study to identify concepts for describing how adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) respond to their parents' concern for them. Ten adolescent boys and seven girls were interviewed. In the analysis four main categories emerged: ambivalence, ability/inability, compliance/resistance...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Reichenberg K,Lindfred H,Saalman R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a lack of research focusing directly on both patients' suffering and alleviated suffering in relation to care. The aim of this paper was to investigate the progression of suffering in relation to the encounter between the suffering person and the caregiver from the perspective of an understanding of life. The...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Rehnsfeldt A,Eriksson K

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "Appraisal of Self-care Agency" scale (the ASA scale) is designed to measure self-care agency in accordance with Orem's self-care deficit theory of nursing. The aim of this study was to obtain a reliable Swedish version of the ASA scale by measuring the internal consistency. ASA-A for self-appraisal and ASA-B for ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Söderhamn O,Evers G,Hamrin E

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The implementation of theoretical knowledge in clinical practice and the implementation of good clinical practice into theory have been of interest in caring science for the last 30 years. The aim of this article was to elaborate and discuss a methodology named clinical application research. The method is grounded in ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Lindwall L,Råholm MB,Lohne V,Caspari S,Heggestad AKT,Saeteren B,Slettebø Å,Høy B,Nåden D

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to describe types of appliances and stoma care routines and evaluate their relation to peristomal skin complications. Sixty-six patients with a cutaneous uretero-ileostomy were interviewed and the peristomal skin was assessed according to Classification of Peristomal Skin (CPS). The results sh...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Nordström GM,Borglund E,Nyman CR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1994, the Norwegian Board of Health (NBH) published recommendations for nursing care documentation. The two-fold purpose of the present study was to see if 5 wards in 2 Norwegian hospitals fulfilled the proposed NBH recommendations and guidelines regarding documentation, and to evaluate them in terms of the propose...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Stokke TA,Kalfoss MH

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The care in the emergency department (ED) is often characterised by high standards of efficiency and rapid treatment and the encounter between patient and staff can be described as both short and fragmented. Research within this field has mostly been performed with quantitative measurements and patients ar...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Elmqvist C,Frank C

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is limited research on nurses' experiences of nursing care in the operating room. The operating room nurses' responsibility is to ensure good nursing care before, during and after surgery. In an increasingly technological health care environment, there is always a risk of turning the focus away from nursing care...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Eriksson J,Lindgren BM,Lindahl E

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of ideas may contribute to an awareness and an opening up of deep-seated currents of thought that have shaped the inner core of the caring culture and an ethical value base - the ethos of serving in nursing leadership. This article studies how serving as an ethos is represented, which becomes visible and e...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Honkavuo L,Eriksson K,Nåden D

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore patients' perceptions of their pain while participating in a weekly yoga program. METHODS:A consecutive convenience sample was recruited from a Multidisciplinary Pain Centre. Seven adult patients (six women), agreed to participate in an 8-week Hatha yoga program, including weekly group sessions an...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Tul Y,Unruh A,Dick BD

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Interprofessional collaboration is the process in which different professional groups work together to positively impact health care. We aimed to explore physicians' attitudes toward interprofessional collaboration in the context of chronic pain management with the implication that if attitudes are ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Klinar I,Ferhatovic L,Banozic A,Raguz M,Kostic S,Sapunar D,Puljak L

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social function is a key aspect of health-related quality of life after solid organ transplantation (SOT). The focus of this study was to report how solid organ-transplanted patients change their social function after transplantation. AIM:To investigate the main concerns associated with social function afte...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Forsberg A,Cavallini J,Fridh I,Lennerling A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersed ethnic populations believe their health to be worse than the ethnic majority group in Sweden. Most studies in rehabilitation exclude dispersed ethnic populations who can not read or speak the national language although this group seems to be in need of rehabilitation to a larger extent than privileged majori...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Müllersdorf M,Zander V,Eriksson H

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The nursing profession still needs more attention from decision-makers to enhance satisfaction and commitment in the work environment. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:This study aims to explore the perceived level of job rotation, job satisfaction, job commitment, job turnover and job conflict among nurses who previous...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Alfuqaha OA,Al-Hairy SS,Al-Hemsi HA,Sabbah AA,Faraj KN,Assaf EM

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sweden has a population of a little more than 9.4 million. The rapid growth of immigration in Sweden has resulted in an increased number of minority ethnic patients and minority ethnic nurses in the Swedish healthcare system. This also applies to paediatric care. AIM:The purpose of this study was to explore...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Tavallali AG,Kabir ZN,Jirwe M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moving into a residential care facility requires a great deal of adjustment to an environment and lifestyle entirely different from that of one's previous life. Attachment to place is believed to help create a sense of home and maintain self-identity, supporting successful adjustment to contingencies of ageing. The pu...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Falk H,Wijk H,Persson LO,Falk K

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00