<i>Background</i>: Palliative cancer patients experience a complex clinical picture. Research shows little correlation between nurses’ impressions of the patient’s symptoms and the patient’s experience of their own symptoms. National guidelines recommend the use of screening tools to chart and evaluate the patient’s symptoms systematically.<p><p> <i>Objective</i>: The objective of the study is ...

Aims: The aim of this study was to adapt the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) in English and Norwegian for use with parents.<p> <p>Methods: The research group evaluated all HLQ items and, where relevant, modified them to refocus the attribution of care to that of a child by a parent. Five cognitive interviews with parents were undertaken to gain a detailed depiction of the meanings and processes ...

Background: Patient and public involvement (PPI) is increasingly considered an integral part of health research, and the focus has shifted from why we need PPI to how users can be involved in a meaningful way. The rationale for investigating experiences with PPI from the perspective of occupational therapy (OT)‐trained researchers' originates in the interrelationship between the inclusive approach ...

<i>Objectives</i> - To study the expectations women with bulimia nervosa (BN) or binge eating disorder (BED) had to a new treatment programme based on guided physical exercise and dietary therapy.<p> <p><i>Design and participants</i> - Semistructured interviews were conducted with six women with BN and four women with BED following a group-based therapy programme. Transcribed interviews were ...

<i>Background</i> - Healthcare services are facing extensive challenges due to the increased proportion of elderly persons and persons with chronic disease. Technology enabled care (TEC) is a collective term for telecare, telehealth, telemedicine, mobile (m)-, digital- and electronic (e) health services. TEC is increasingly seen as a solution to many of the challenges facing the health sector. Patient ...

Objective - The aim of this integrative review was to identify facilitators and barriers to patients’ well-being when being cared for in an ICU setting, from the perspective of the patients.<p> <p>Background - To become critically ill and hospitalised in an ICU is a stressful, chaotic event due to the life-threatening condition itself, as well as therapeutic treatments and the environment. A ...

Objective - The aim of this integrative review was to identify facilitators and barriers to patients’ well-being when being cared for in an ICU setting, from the perspective of the patients.<P> <P>Background - To become critically ill and hospitalised in an ICU is a stressful, chaotic event due to the life-threatening condition itself, as well as therapeutic treatments and the environment. A ...

Patient or Public Contribution - Patients, relatives and nurses were involved in this study.<p> <p>Aim - The aim was to explore patients', relatives' and nurses' experiences of palliative care on an advanced care ward in a nursing home setting after implementation of the Coordination Reform in Norway.<p> <p>Design - Secondary analysis of qualitative interviews.<p> <p>Methods - Data from ...

Bakgrunn: For pasienten er det viktig å ha pårørende til stede på intensivavdelingen. Tradisjonelt har norske intensivavdelinger lagt til rette for at pårørende kan være mye til stede på avdelingen. Med covid-19-pandemien ble det innført strenge besøksrestriksjoner ved intensivavdelingene. Vi har liten oversikt over informasjonsrutinene og de pårørendes muligheter til å være sammen med pasienten på ...