Accessibility, utilisation and acceptability of a county-based home care service for sick children in Sweden.

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the economic outcomes (service use, health care and nonhealth care out-of-pocket costs) related to total hip arthroplasty from the perspective of patients. Also, examined was the relationship between economic outcomes and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). One hundred patien...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Montin L,Suominen T,Katajisto J,Lepistö J,Leino-Kilpi H

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Undernutrition has been seen in hospitalized patients at all times. Nurses have a central position in the nutritional care of the patient. Despite guidelines for nutritional practise and care, 20-55% of patients are still at risk of complications to insufficient nutrition intake. The aim of this study was to obtain...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Holst M,Rasmussen HH,Laursen BS

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:The specific aim of this study was to explore if the Sense of Coherence (SOC) Scale reflects and overlaps with standardized psychiatric assessments of depression and anxiety leading to the main hypothesis that the degree of depression decreases while the SOC scores remain stable. Fifteen patients with a diagnosis of m...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Langius-Eklöf A,Samuelsson M

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：:This article describes help seeking and health care of mothers with a difficult infant who suffered long-term depressive symptoms and a high degree of parenting stress. A subsample of severely distressed mothers (n = 37) was recruited from a cross-sectional national survey and followed up 2 months later by a semi-stru...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Thome M

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Larrabee's model of quality proposes a relationship between quality and value. This study tested the relationship by identifying predictors of patient-perceived quality for nursing care. Data were obtained from interviews and records of 199 adult patients. Candidate predictors of patient-perceived quality included pat...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Larrabee JH,Engle VF,Tolley EA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We perceived a need for relatives' evaluation of geriatric care and rehabilitation during the care period as well as the first few weeks after discharge. The aim of this study was therefore to develop and test a questionnaire for use in telephone interviews with relatives of patients discharged from geriatric wards to...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Wressle E,Eriksson L,Fahlander A,Håkansson H,Jönsson AL,Martinsson BM,Rasmusson IM,Sjölander I,Tängmark K

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Collaboration between family caregivers and health professionals in specialised hospitals or community-based primary healthcare systems can be challenging. During the course of severe chronic disease, several health professionals might be involved at a given time, and the patient's illness may be unpredictab...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Røthing M,Malterud K,Frich JC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The care dependency scale (CDS) aims at determining nursing care needs in a holistic way, at providing standardized and meaningful descriptions of the type and intensity of nursing care needs and the degree of independence. Assessment results support appropriate care planning for individuals and they provide epidemiol...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Kottner J,Halfens R,Dassen T

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:A patient's right to influence treatment and health care has been guaranteed by Norwegian law since 1999. The aim of this study was to explore how elderly patients with end-stage renal disease who are undergoing treatment with haemodialysis for the rest of their lives perceive patient participation in a dialysis un...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Aasen EM,Kvangarsnes M,Heggen K

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The preoperative education, which occurs in preoperative patient consultations, is an important part of the surgical nurse's profession. These consultations may be the building blocks of a partnership that facilitates communication between patient and nurse. AIM:The aim of the study was to describe topics a...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Pettersson ME,Öhlén J,Friberg F,Hydén LC,Carlsson E

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Palliative care is aimed at improving the quality of life of an individual with chronic noncommunicable disease and their care partners. Limitations in the provision of palliative care are mainly lack of knowledge and experience by nurses, fear of treating palliative persons, loss of control over treatment a...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Kmetec S,Štiglic G,Lorber M,Mikkonen I,McCormack B,Pajnkihar M,Fekonja Z

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：:Falls and fall injuries among the elderly population are common, since ageing is a risk factor of falling. Today, this is a major problem because the ageing population is increasing. There are predictive factors of falling and visual impairment is one of them. Usually, only visual acuity is considered when measuring v...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Källstrand-Eriksson J,Baigi A,Buer N,Hildingh C

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Living with dementia disease (DD) can include difficulties describing experiences of everyday lives, which can lead to withdrawal, social isolation or existential homelessness. Persons with DD living in nursing homes are mainly dependent on the nurses for establishing and maintaining relationships with those around th...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Söderlund M,Cronqvist A,Norberg A,Ternestedt BM,Hansebo G

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Norway has a higher incidence of hip fractures than any other country. For older individuals, a hip fracture may cause dramatic changes in health status like incontinence and daily activities. Patients with hip fractures are at high risk of urinary incontinence (UI) after surgical repair. A urinary indwellin...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Sørbye LW,Grue EV

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is part of an ongoing study aimed at illuminating the meaning of dependency on care. The aim of this particular study is to illuminate the meaning of the phenomenon 'dependency on care' as narrated by nurses. Interviews with 20 nurses were conducted, tape-recorded and transcribed verbatim. A phenomenologi...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Strandberg G,Jansson L

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Both internationally and nationally, the medical care help line (MCHL) is a growing operation within the healthcare field. In Sweden, approximately 5 million calls per year are processed. The service is managed by specially trained nurses. AIM:  To describe how patients' sex, age, education level and care l...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Ström M,Baigi A,Hildingh C,Mattsson B,Marklund B

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Family caregivers provide long-term care to their chronically ill loved ones and as a consequence they experience physical, relational and financial problems. This study investigates how long-term family caregivers rank 12 motives for caregiving. Motives are derived from the views of four philosophical anthropologists...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Beneken Genaamd Kolmer D,Tellings A,Gelissen J,Garretsen H,Bongers I

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical caring science will be described from a theory of science perspective. AIM:The aim of this theoretical article to give a comprehensive overview of clinical caring science as a human science-based discipline grounded in a theory of science argumentation. FINDINGS:Clinical caring science seeks idiog...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Rehnsfeldt A,Arman M,Lindström UÅ

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：: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 Canadian Parents' Postoperative Pain Measure (PPPM) is a behavioural pain measure for children. The purpose of this study was to test validity and reliability of this measure in 1-6-year-old Finnish children at home after minor day surgery. Children (n = 85) and their parents from four hospitals were included in t...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Kokki A,Kankkunen P,Pietilä AM,Vehviläinen-Julkunen K

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM AND METHOD:The chronic nature of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and its frequent relapses result to a considerable utilization of healthcare resources. Current approaches for the assessment of quality of care are based on the perception of the healthcare provider, which may be different from that of the healthcar...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Pallis AG,Kostagiolas PA,Mouzas IA,Niakas D

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to pose a health risk among adolescents. School is therefore a logical place for promoting sexual health through interventions, but previous research has not examined student's self-evaluations of these interventions. The purpose of this study was to examine students' se...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Pakarinen M,Kylmä J,Helminen M,Suominen T

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sleep disturbances are common among older people (>65 years). Further, long-term use of sedative hypnoticsin older people is associated with morbidity and mortality. However, older people represent a large span of life years, and few studies have included the oldest-old above 85 years. AIM:To investigate an...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Hägg M,Houston B,Elmståhl S,Ekström H,Wann-Hansson C

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00