Touch and relate: body experience among staff in habilitation services.

In habilitation centres staff meet children with different impairments, children who need extensive support and training while growing up. A prevailing biomedical view of the body in habilitation services is gradually becoming supplemented by a perspective on the body as constantly involved in experiencing and communicating, the latter involving also the bodies of the therapists. Investigating body experience in habilitation staff in their encounters with the children may provide concepts that make it easier to reflect on what is going on in the interaction.

Parent's conceptions of intensive group training. The case of cerebral palsy.

Purpose: The aim was to explore what wants and needs intensive group training (IGT) fulfil for parents of children with cerebral palsy (CP) and what problems that may arise due to participation.

Methods: A phenomenograpical approach was used. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to elicit information about what participation means to parents.

Patients' conceptions of quality care and barrier care.

Aim: To describe patients' conceptions of quality care and barrier care.

Methods: As this study concerned conceptions of care, a phenomenographic approach was chosen. Fourteen adult orthopaedic patients participated.

Blood exposure: factors promoting health care workers' compliance with guidelines in connection with risk.

Background: Health care workers compliance with guidelines, universal precautions, in connection with tasks that could involve contact with patient's blood is unsatisfactory. In a previous paper, we identified different forces that undermine compliance. Socialization into infection control, routinization, stereotyping, perceptions of patients' wishes and the presence of competing values and norms are examples of such forces.