Caring for a centenarian parent: an exploratory study on role strains and psychological distress.

abstract：:The increasing age of populations throughout the world means that healthcare services are faced with new challenges, not least regarding the provision of food during hospital stay. There is a lack of knowledge of how hospital mealtimes are experienced by older patients, and so the aim of this article was to review cur...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Jonsson AS,Nyberg M,Jonsson IM,Öström Å

更新日期：2020-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Approximately 40% of patients admitted to hospitals are undernourished. Implementing nutritional guidelines might reduce the incidence of malnutrition, and it requires education and training for the hospital staff. AIM:It was hypothesised that a training programme focusing on the staff behaviour would inc...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Pedersen PU,Tewes M,Bjerrum M

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Falls among inpatients are common. The method used by The Norwegian Patient Safety Campaign to measure the adverse events is the Global Trigger Tool, which does not look at the causation for falls. This study was aimed at investigating major risk factors for falls in the hospital setting. METHODS:This retrospecti...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： de Groot GCL,Al-Fattal A,Sandven I

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a common condition among Europe's aging population. Findings indicate that CHF patients must make significant changes in many aspects of daily life. Previous studies of older primary health-care participants and their activities of daily living (ADL)-ability are rare. The aim of this stu...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Norberg EB,Boman K,Löfgren B

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportion of elderly people in western societies is on the increase. At the same time, demands are being heard for improvements in the quality of health care, including the design of the physical environment. The aim of this study was to call attention to some aspects of colour and the possibilities of using it a...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Wijk H,Sivik L

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the article is to argue for a conception of nursing knowledge that stresses theoretical and practical knowledge as equally important, and to analyze the roles of nursing science and nursing tradition in the discipline of nursing. Nursing knowledge is characterized as involving values, sets of beliefs, a...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Sarvimäki A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this research was to study the potential influence and significance of Jewish and Christian patients' religion on their coping with cancer. After intensive methodological experimentation, the Interpretive Biography-approach, an inductive unstructured research method was applied to collect and analyse the da...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Käppeli S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to describe nurses' experiences of interactions with family members in intensive care units. Ten experienced Registered Nurses were interviewed, and the interview text was qualitatively analysed by its content. Nursing of families was experienced as an essential, necessary and demanding t...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Söderström IM,Benzein E,Saveman BI

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Do occupational therapy and physiotherapy students care about research? A survey of perceptions and attitudes to research. In this cross-sectional study, we have used a questionnaire to study perceptions and attitudes to research-related activities of Swedish occupational therapy and physiotherapy first (T1) and final...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Kamwendo K,Törnquist K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active ageing is associated with physical, social and mental wellbeing, as well as the participation and integration of older people in society. Currently, demographic changes represent a major challenge while reinforcing the need to improve our current understanding of active ageing and promote appropriate interventi...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： García-Camacha A,García-Camacha I,Martínez-Andrés M,Notario-Pacheco B,Rodríguez-Martín B

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients' decisional control over care is the ability or power for patients to decide what their involvement will be in healthcare decisions. There is evidence of limited agreement between the perceptions of patients and the perceptions of nurses and/or caregivers with regard to the degree of patient involve...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Papastavrou E,Efstathiou G,Tsangari H,Karlou C,Patiraki E,Jarosova D,Balogh Z,Merkouris A,Suhonen R

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to describe the factors promoting and hindering nurses' use of nonpharmacological methods in children's surgical pain relief, and demographic variables related to this. The data were collected by a Likert-type questionnaire, which was completed by nurses (n = 162) who were working in one ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Pölkki T,Laukkala H,Vehviläinen-Julkunen K,Pietilä AM

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：RATIONALE:Experiencing a false-positive screening mammography can cause considerable psychosocial distress. The Consequences of Screening - Breast Cancer questionnaire (COS-BC parts 1 and 2), recently developed in Denmark, is the only condition-specific questionnaire for measuring short- and long-term psychosocial cons...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Bolejko A,Wann-Hansson C,Zackrisson S,Brodersen J,Hagell P

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lack of participation in the open labour market is highly prevalent for people with a mental illness across countries, and the proportion of people who get some kind of sickness benefit because of mental illness is steadily growing in Europe. Vocational rehabilitation through individual placement and support (IPS) has...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Nygren U,Markström U,Svensson B,Hansson L,Sandlund M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research has shown that the Swedish-speaking Finns have better health than the Finnish-speaking majority. The aim of this paper was to explore the health resources and health strategies among home-dwelling Swedish-speaking Finns aged 75 or older. The objective was to develop health-promotive nursing care for this grou...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Kulla G,Sarvimäki A,Fagerström L

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Similarities and differences across borders of Nordic countries constitute a suitable context for investigating and discussing factors related to the development of diabetes nursing research over the last three decades. The present study reviewed the entire body of contemporary diabetes nursing research literature ori...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Iversen MM,Graue M,Leksell J,Smide B,Zoffmann V,Sigurdardottir AK

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Presence, concern, compassion and universal or ontological unity between human beings have emerged as crucial to the healthy development of people who have experienced disasters. AIM AND OBJECTIVES:The aim of this article was to present a new model for long-term care following disasters. The objective of th...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Rehnsfeldt A,Arman M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stroke is highly debilitating and requires long-term care. Informal caregivers of stroke survivors play important roles in stroke rehabilitation. Caring for stroke survivors can negatively affect the caregivers' well-being and may adversely impact on their caregiving quality and subsequently on stroke surviv...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Okoye EC,Okoro SC,Akosile CO,Onwuakagba IU,Ihegihu EY,Ihegihu CC

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe the life situation among 'significant others' to patients with post-stroke depression, and to identify associations between the life situation of the significant others and patient characteristics. Seventy-one dyads consisting of patients with a diagnosed post-stroke depression an...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Franzén-Dahlin A,Billing E,Näsman P,Mårtensson B,Wredling R,Murray V

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the quality of standardized care plans and the extent to which they are used within Swedish in-hospital somatic care. Further, to examine the quality of the knowledge summaries on which existing standardized care plans were supposed to be based. DESIGN:Submitted documents were reviewed with s...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Olsson PT,Petersson H,Willman A,Gardulf A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been little research that has addressed the practices of nurses who go beyond the usual scope of practice to demonstrate caring. In this study, a grounded theory methodology was used to interview 18 nurses identified as exceptional caring nurses. The core process identified was giving and involved gifts (par...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Yonge O,Molzahn A

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a descriptive study based on quantitative and qualitative methods. We wished to determine factors that promote or restrict home deaths. The Norwegian Central Bureau of Statistics released non-identifiable data for the time period 1990-1994 for all municipalities in Norway. Relevant health and soc...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Sørbye LW

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to describe the idea pattern of nursing ethics in the textbook written by the Swedish nurse Estrid Rodhe (1911). The purpose is to increase understanding of the ideas in early written history of nursing ethics by using the method of history of ideas. A theoretical premise, but also a fascinati...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Kangasniemi M,Haho A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many older people believe sensory problems are inevitably, a part of growing old, and avoid assessment and help. Such problems are often also overlooked by health professionals. The aim of this study was to find the prevalence of hearing and vision impairment and their associations with loss of instrumental ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Grue EV,Ranhoff AH,Noro A,Finne-Soveri H,Jensdóttir AB,Ljunggren G,Bucht G,Björnson LJ,Jonsén E,Schroll M,Jónsson PV

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess what was documented by Registered Nurses regarding diabetes care in a Swedish municipality's home nursing service; to what extent diabetes-related nursing actions were planned for, performed and evaluated according to the goals of metabolic control, treatment and prevention of complications. DESIG...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Gershater MA,Pilhammar E,Roijer CA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, which is a part of a clinical-epidemiological study of post-operative complications, the Project Peri-operative Risk (PROPER), patients' and health professionals' perceptions of complications during the patients' stay in hospital are analysed. Five hundred and ten patients admitted for elective (= plann...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Larsson US,Svärdsudd K,Wedel H,Säljö R

更新日期：1989-01-01 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

abstract：:The aim of the study was to identify factors of decisive importance for women's motivation to perform breast self-examination (BSE), which could form the basis of an intervention programme. Interviews were conducted in 1994 with 48 women focusing on four different areas: 1) why the women examined did not examine their...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Persson K,Ek AC,Svensson PG

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00