Publications by authors named "A Aho"

Interprofessional education aims to foster healthcare students' ability to collaborate in interprofessional teams with the patients at the center of care as active participants. However, little is known about how patients experience this collaboration. Therefore, this study aimed to explore patients' experiences of being involved in the interprofessional team of healthcare students at a clinical training ward in Sweden.

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Hope is a complex and ever-evolving personal phenomenon that plays a vital role in individuals' abilities to cope with stressful events. This is particularly true for parents who are coping with the traumatic loss of a child. However, the topic of hope in this context is often inadequately addressed.

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Continuing bond manifesting as unexplainable experiences reflects bereaved´s attempts to restore connection with the deceased. As an experience unaligned with a person's overall schemas of meaning unexplainable experiences are a source of anxiety that individuals aim to alleviate by attribution thinking. This study describes how bereaved aim to explain unexplainable experiences related to the death of their loved ones.

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In this work kaolinite nanotubes (KNT) were obtained from commercial kaolin AKF-78 (Uzbekistan) by starting material sequential intercalation by DMSO and methanol, followed by treatment with a cetyltrimethylammonium chloride solution. Acid functionalization of KNT for catalytic applications was successfully performed for the first time using a two-step treatment with piranha solution (HSO-HO), which resulted in the removal of organic impurities as synthetic artifacts and an increase in specific surface area by 3.9 times (up to 159 m g), pore volume by 1.

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Background: Although research interest in fear of childbirth has increased, interventions targeting especially multiparas with fear of childbirth have been overlooked, although untreated fear can cause serious adverse effects on the mother and the whole family. Thus MOTIVE (Multiparas overcoming Childbirth Fear Through Intervention and Empowerment), an intervention for pregnant multiparas with fear of childbirth, was designed.

Methods: This is a protocol of a single-arm non-randomized feasibility study of the MOTIVE trial with a mixed-methods design.

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