Browsing Artikler, rapporter og annet (helse- og omsorgsfag) by Title
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Experiences of Being Significant Others to Older Adults with Frailty Living Alone in Rural Arctic Norway: A Qualitative Study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-01)<p><b>Purpose:</b> Our aim in this study was to explore how significant others experience being “significant” to older adults living alone with frailty in rural Arctic areas in northern Norway. The proportion of older adults in the population is larger and growing faster in rural- than in urban areas. Due to out-migration of the younger generations, many significant others live far from the older ... -
Experiences of quality of life the first year after stroke in Denmark and Norway. A qualitative analysis
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-24)<i>Purpose</i>: This study aims to explore quality of life (QOL) during the first year of recovery after stroke in North Norway and Central Denmark. <p> <p><i>Method</i>: Individual in-depth interviews with 11 stroke survivors were performed twelve months after stroke onset. An interpretative, inductive approach shaped the interview process and the processing of data. <p> <p><i>Results</i>: ... -
Exploring Aboriginal aged care residents’ cultural and spiritual needs in South Australia
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-12)Background: Attention to culture and its impact on health care can improve the quality of care given, add to our understanding of health care among culturally diverse populations, and encourage a more holistic approach to health care within general care. Connection to culture is important to Aboriginal peoples, and integrating Aboriginal culture into general care in residential aged care facilities ... -
Exploring staff conceptions of prevention and management practices in encounters with staff-directed aggression in supported housing following education and training
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-08)<i>Background</i> - Staff-directed aggression is a concern for service providers in mental healthcare, frequently affecting both the quality of services and staff wellbeing. This also applies to supported housing services for people with mental health problems. Staff themselves consider training to be an important route to improve the prevention and management of staff-directed aggression. The aims ... -
Exploring the meaning of a new assistive technology device for older individuals
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Exploring the potential of a standardized test in physiotherapy: making emotion, embodiment, and therapeutic alliance count for women with chronic pelvic pain
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-08-03)Introduction: There has been an increased use of standardized measurements in health care meant to provide objective information to enhance the quality and effectivity of care. Patient performance tests are based on standardized predefined criteria with a limited focus. When facing multifaceted health conditions, information expanding the predefined criteria in a standardized test may be required ... -
Exploring why and how encounters with the Norwegian health-care system can be considered culturally unsafe by North Sami-speaking patients and relatives: A qualitative study based on 11 interviews
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-09)<p><i>Background - </i>Citizens of Norway have free and equal access to healthcare. Nurses are expected to be culturally sensitive and have cultural knowledge in encounters with patients. Culturally safe care is considered both a process and an outcome, evaluated by whether the patients feel safe, empowered and cared for, or not. All patients request equal access to quality care in Norway, also Sami ... -
External Validation of the Garvan Nomograms for Predicting Absolute Fracture Risk: The Tromsø Study
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Facilitating a safe and caring atmosphere in everyday life in forensic mental health wards - a qualitative study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-08)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: ... -
Facilitating learning and change in the daily lives of stroke survivors: A comparative analysis of municipal stroke rehabilitation services in Norway and Denmark
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-16)<i>Purpose</i>: This study describes and compare the ability of professionals working in municipality stroke rehabilitation services to facilitate learning and change in the daily living of stroke survivors in two regions: one in northern Norway, the other central Denmark. <p> <p><i>Materials and Methods</i>: Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with survivors 3 and 9 months after ... -
Facilitating practical knowledge using flexible forms of learning in the education of Occupational Therapists in Palestine : An action research approach performed in cooperation with teachers in the Occupational Therapist program at Bethlehem University
(Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2009)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 ... -
Factors affecting the use of home-based and out-of-home respite care services: A survey of family caregivers of older persons with dementia in Northern Norway
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-15)<i><p>Background</i>: Family caregivers contribute substantially to the care for older home-dwelling people with dementia, although community healthcare services tend to be underutilized. In this study, we aimed to explore the use and predictors of use of home-based and out-of-home respite care services available to older home-dwelling persons with dementia, as reported by the family caregivers.</ ... -
Factors associated with adherence to antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients in Kathmandu District, Nepal
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Factors associated with the establishment of new occupational therapist positions in Norwegian municipalities after the Coordination reform
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-16)Community-based occupational therapy is an increasingly important domain of work for occupational therapists. In Norway, this has been emphasized by the Coordination reform (2012), which assigned municipalities increased responsibility to protect and promote the health of their inhabitants. However, even if approximately 400 positions have been established between 2012 and 2017, little is known ... -
“Falling off the wagon”: older adults’ experiences of living with frailty in rural arctic communities
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-12)Most populations around the world are ageing. The proportion of older adults in the population is larger and is growing more rapidly in rural communities than in urban areas. Longevity increases the risk of frailty. Our aim was to explore how single-living frail older adults experience living with frailty in everyday life in rural Arctic areas. Over eight months, we conducted a series of three ... -
Familie og kontinuitet : pårørende forteller om livsløpet til personer med demenssykdom
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)Artikkelen bygger på intervju av nære pårørende om livsløpet til pasienter med demenssykdom som bor i sykehjem i Nord-Norge. De pårørende ble spesielt spurt om pasientenes vaner, interesser og aktiviteter gjennom livsløpet. Det ble utført narrativ analyse av intervjuene med vekt på fortolkning av livsløp og livshendelser hos pasientene. Artikkelen viser hvordan pårørende konkret bidrar til å videreføre ... -
Familien som aktør i kommunal eldreomsorg
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2017-09-29)<i>Introduction</i>: Jeg har møtt Oddrun Sortland. Oddrun er sykepleier, med mange års fartstid i kommunal eldreomsorg. Oddrun er tilknyttet Senter for omsorgsforskning, vest og arbeider med et doktorgradsprosjekt knyttet til samspillet mellom eldre hjelpetrengende og deres familier og kommunale helsetjenester. Pårørende blir møtt på så mange ulike måter i tjenesten, og det ser ut til å være liten ... -
Familiesentrert tilnærming – når ideal møter realitet
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-21)Barnefysioterapeuter har som ideal å jobbe familiesentrert. Men er det i realiteten mulig i primærhelsetjenesten gitt de strukturelle og kontekstuelle vilkår tjenesten jobber innenfor? Med et økende antall barn i fulltidsbarnehage, stadig mer fokus på veiledning og mindre «hands-on-behandling», samt foreldre som ikke er til stede når fysioterapeuten møter barnet er det mange hindringer på veien om ... -
Family caregivers’ involvement in decision-making processes regarding admission of persons with dementia to nursing homes
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-23)The current Western health policy of ageing in place relies on a triad collaboration among patients, healthcare service providers and family caregivers. Such collaborations presuppose involvement in a vague juridical landscape. This article explores family caregivers’ experiences with involvement in and influence on nursing home decision-making processes for persons with dementia. The data consist ... -
Family Caregivers’ Trajectories of Distress While Caring for a Person With Serious Mental Illness
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-31)Serious mental illness (SMI) can significantly impact the lives of individuals and their families. These families often experience great emotional distress over time due to the early onset of SMI, which in turn leads to long-term trajectories and only partial recovery. However, we do not fully understand the emotional distress of family caregivers. Thus, our aim was to enrich the understanding ...