Purpose: To explore healthcare professionals’ experiences with facilitating a safe and caring atmosphere in patients’ everyday lives in forensic mental health wards.<p> <p>Methods: This qualitative study employed interviews with 16 healthcare professionals working shifts in two forensic mental healthcare wards in Norway. Data were analysed using phenomenological hermeneutic analysis. <p>Results: ...

Practical knowledge is essential knowledge in occupational therapy. It is a situated and experienced knowledge, a knowing how and from within the situation. This knowledge has been difficult to facilitate in the learning process of a group of Occupational Therapist students in Gaza. Travel restrictions and the unstable political situation separated teachers and students. Lack of clinical ...

Background: Work-related health problems, such as work stress, fatigue, and burnout constitute a global challenge within the nursing profession. Work-related health among nurses is not yet a prioritized phenomenon in Nepal. Health-promoting approaches to maintaining and sustaining nurses’ health are therefore essential. The aim of this study was to explore and thereby gain a deeper understanding ...

Identifying children with symptoms of anxiety before they develop clinical disorders is important. The objective of our study was to examine the latent factor structure of the MASC (youth report version) in a large self-selected sample of school children in 4th to 6th grade, and examine if the measure had a comparable factor structure for gender and age. Gender and age differences in anxiety symptoms ...

The idea of health has been given different meanings throughout history. The “Pippin perspective” introduced here contrasts the seemingly prevailing cultural climate of fascination and concern with personal health, uneasiness and “elevating health to a super value, a metaphor for all that is good in life” (1). What Pippin might help to illustrate is the reported historical trend toward a ...

Objective: To determine the prevalence and predictors of antiretroviral therapy adherence among HIV/ AIDS patients in Kathmandu district. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 316 HIV-positive individuals receiving antiretroviral therapy from three ART sites in Kathmandu districts was done from January 2012 to February 2012. The participants were interviewed and answered questions about socio-demographic ...

Cesarean section rates remain high in Georgia. As a cesarean section in the first pregnancy generally lead to a cesarean section in subsequent pregnancies, primiparous women should be targeted for prevention strategies. The aim of the study was to assess factors associated with cesarean section among primiparous women. The study comprised 17,065 primiparous women with singleton, cephalic deliveries ...

<p><i>Background - </i>The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding for six months, defined as no other solids or liquids besides breast milk and essential vitamins or medicines. Data about exclusive breastfeeding are limited in Georgia, and the information that exist are provided by national surveys, that present inconsistent numbers. Georgia has recently established a national ...

<i>Aim:</i> To identify factors associated with high weight gain and obesity duration in a representative sample of Norwegian women.<p> <p><i>Methods</i>: 66,618 Norwegian women aged 34–70 years at baseline were included in the analysis. Baseline and follow-up questionnaires completed in 1991–2011 provided information on height, weight as well as sociodemographic, lifestyle and reproductive ...