Older adults' experiences of participation in daily activities in Swedish assisted living.

Background: According to Swedish law, older adults in Sweden should be able to live a good, safe, and independent life with social and healthcare provided, based on their individual needs. In assisted living in Swedish eldercare the environment affects the older adults' ability to participate in decision-making and strengthens their ability to feel meaningfulness. The ability of staff working in social and healthcare to invite older adults to participate varies.

Tobacco impact on quality of life, a cross-sectional study of smokers, snuff-users and non-users of tobacco.

Background: Tobacco smoking is a major public health issue, and also affects health-related quality of life. There has been considerable debate as to whether oral moist snuff, a form of tobacco placed in the oral cavity between the upper lip and gum as in sublabial administration, can be considered a safe alternative to smoking. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between health-related quality of life and smoking, snuff use, gender and age.

Lung cancer research and its citation on clinical practice guidelines.

Background: The impact of medical research is usually judged on the basis of citations in the serial literature. A better test of its utility is through its contribution to clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) on how to prevent, diagnose, and treat illness. This study aimed to compare the parameters of lung cancer research papers with those cited as references in lung cancer CPGs from 16 countries, and the Cochrane Collaboration.

Providing Mothers with a Pedometer and Subsequent Effect on the Physical Activity of Their Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Children with Obesity.

Obesity continues to rise, particularly among children, and is one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century. Physical activity may reduce weight and increase well-being. A pedometer study from the United States, Australia, and Sweden showed that boys need to walk 15,000 steps/day, and girls 12,000 steps/day to maintain a healthy profile.

Basic body awareness therapy or exercise therapy for the treatment of chronic whiplash associated disorders: a randomized comparative clinical trial.

Purpose: Chronic whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) incur both costs and suffering. Treatments that can relieve chronic WAD are therefore needed. Exercise therapy (ET) has been shown to provide pain relief.

From resistance to rescue--patients' shifting attitudes to antihypertensives: a qualitative study.

Objective: The objective of this study was to gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of experiences of antihypertensive drug treatment.

Design: Interview study.

Setting: A primary health care centre in western Sweden.

Value of qualitative research in polycystic ovary syndrome.

Objective: This article aims to introduce the benefits of qualitative research and to discuss how such research can be applied to the study of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

Data Sources: Relevant articles were published in English as of May 2013 from Pubmed. Terms "polycystic ovary syndrome/PCOS, qualitative research and methodology" were used for searching.

The experience of disagreement between students and supervisors in PhD education: a qualitative study.

Background: PhD supervision is mostly individual and disagreement between supervisors and PhD students is a seldom-discussed topic at universities. The present study aimed to describe the experience of disagreement between PhD students and supervisors.

Methods: Nine supervisors and seven PhD students from Sweden and England were interviewed using a video recorder.

Mandibular bone structure, bone mineral density, and clinical variables as fracture predictors: a 15-year follow-up of female patients in a dental clinic.

Objective: To compare three mandibular trabeculation evaluation methods, clinical variables, and osteoporosis as fracture predictors in women.

Study Design: One hundred and thirty-six female dental patients (35-94 years) answered a questionnaire in 1996 and 2011. Using intra-oral radiographs from 1996, five methods were compared as fracture predictors: (1) mandibular bone structure evaluated with a visual radiographic index, (2) bone texture, (3) size and number of intertrabecular spaces calculated with Jaw-X software, (4) fracture probability calculated with a fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX), and (5) osteoporosis diagnosis based on dual-energy-X-ray absorptiometry.

Occupational therapists' experiences of rehabilitation of patients with limited awareness after stroke.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe occupational therapists' experiences of rehabilitation of patients with limited awareness after stroke.

Methods: To capture occupational therapists' experiences, a qualitative approach was chosen using five focus groups consisting of 22 participants engaged in group discussions with open-ended questions based on the aim. Discussions were taped, transcribed verbatim, and analysed according to Kreuger's method.

Acupuncture with manual and low frequency electrical stimulation as experienced by women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a qualitative study.

Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects 5-10 percent of all fertile women and is associated with anovulation/oligoovulation, hyperandrogenism, and polycystic ovaries. Pharmacological treatment is often effective but associated with unwanted side effects. Acupuncture treatments have been shown to improve menstrual bleeding patterns and ovulation as well as hyperandrogenism, without side effects.

Lifestyle changes - a continuous, inner struggle for women with type 2 diabetes: a qualitative study.

Objective: The objective of this study was to describe how women handle necessary lifestyle changes due to a chronic disease using diabetes as a model.

Design: Interview study.

Setting: Ten women living in western Sweden were interviewed.

"I couldn't do this with opposition from my colleagues": a qualitative study of physicians' experiences as clinical tutors.

Background: Clinical contact in the early curriculum and workplace learning with active tutorship are important parts of modern medical education. In a previously published study, we found that medical students' tutors experienced a heavier workload, less reasonable demands and less encouragement, than students. The aim of this interview study was to further illuminate physicians' experiences as clinical tutors.

Light pressure massage for patients with severe anxiety.

Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is common in the western world with a lifetime prevalence of 4.3 to 5.9% and is twice as common in women as in men.

The experience of massage during chemotherapy treatment in breast cancer patients.

This study aimed to describe the experience of massage for breast cancer patients during chemotherapy treatment. Ten patients received massage at five occasions. They were interviewed and analysis was conducted using Giorgi's ideas of phenomenological research.

Massage relieves nausea in women with breast cancer who are undergoing chemotherapy.

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of massage on nausea, anxiety, and depression in patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy.

Design: This work was a single-center, prospective, randomized, controlled trial.

Settings/location: This study was conducted in an oncology clinic, in a hospital in southwestern Sweden.

Strength of motherhood: nonrecurrent breast cancer as experienced by mothers with dependent children.

The experience of breast cancer in mothers of dependent children and the strategies these women use to handle their situation of illness in relation to the children was the focus of this study. Ten women with nonrecurrent breast cancer were interviewed using phenomenology as a theoretical framework. The findings reveal that the women needed to balance themselves from being needed and perhaps not existing, balancing between demands, a will to be strong and allowing herself to be sick, and balancing between telling the truth and protecting the children from the truth.