Staff views on how to improve mealtimes for elderly people with dementia living at home.

Dementia commonly leads to difficulties in performing daily activities, which can also often affect the ability to prepare and eat meals. As a result, formal support to maintain good nutritional intake might be needed, but there is a lack of knowledge concerning how to support older persons with dementia living at home. The aim of this study was to explore and describe staff views on how to improve mealtimes for persons with dementia who are still living at home.

Certified nursing assistants' perception of pain in people with dementia: a hermeneutic enquiry in dementia care practice.

Aims And Objectives: To interpret certified nursing assistants' perception of pain in people with dementia in nursing care practice.

Background: Detection and understanding of pain in people with dementia remains a challenge due to their difficulty in verbalising their pain. Nursing assistants provide daily nursing care and therefore play a vital role in pain detection.

Health dialogues between pupils and school nurses: a description of the verbal interaction.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the content of and the verbal interaction in health dialogues between pupils and school nurses.

Methods: Twenty-four health dialogues were recorded using a video camera and the conversations were analysed using the paediatric version of the Roter Interaction analysis system.

Results: The results showed that the age appropriate topics suggested by national recommendations were brought up in most of the health dialogues.

Registered Nurses´ View of Performing Pain Assessment among Persons with Dementia as Consultant Advisors.

Background: Pain assessment in persons with dementia is well known as a challenging issue to professional caregivers, because of these patients´ difficulties in verbalising pain problems. Within municipal dementia care in Sweden, pain assessment has become problematic for registered nurses, as they have entered a new role in their nursing profession, from being clinical practitioners to becoming consultant advisers to other health care staff.

Aim: To present municipal registered nurses´ view of pain assessment in persons with dementia in relation to their nursing profession as consultant advisers.

What actions promote a positive ethical climate? A critical incident study of nurses' perceptions.

Few qualitative studies explore the phenomenon of positive ethical climate and what actions are perceived as promoting it. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore and describe actions that acute care ward nurses perceive as promoting a positive ethical climate. The critical incident technique was used.

Moral distress and ethical climate in a Swedish nursing context: perceptions and instrument usability.

Aims And Objectives: The aim was fivefold: to describe Swedish nurses' perceptions of moral distress and determine whether there were differences in perceptions depending on demographic characteristics and to describe the usability of the Moral Distress Scale in a Swedish context. Further, the aim was to describe Swedish nurses' perceptions of ethical climate and the relationship between moral distress and ethical climate.

Background: Moral distress has been studied for more than two decades and the Moral Distress Scale is the most widely used instrument for measuring it.

Managing mealtime tasks: told by persons with dementia.

Aim: To capture the self-description of managing mealtime tasks by persons with dementia.

Background: There are several factors that negatively affect food intake in persons with dementia that may increase the risk of developing malnutrition. Difficulties in managing daily activities increase gradually and mealtime tasks like food shopping, cooking and eating often become troublesome.

Adolescents' and school nurses' perceptions of using a health and lifestyle tool in health dialogues.

Aim And Objective: To describe and explore adolescents' and nurses' perceptions of using a health and lifestyle tool in health dialogues in the School Health Service.

Background: In Sweden, dialogues concerning health and lifestyle are offered to adolescents aged 14 years with the purpose of encouraging an interest in a healthy lifestyle. A health and lifestyle tool including a health questionnaire and a health profile has recently been developed, with the aim of facilitating the communication about health and lifestyle in these dialogues.

Children's experiences of procedural pain management in conjunction with trauma wound dressings.

Aim: This paper is a report of the experiences of children (5-10 years) of procedural pain when they underwent a trauma wound care session.

Background: Procedural pain in conjunction with trauma wound care often induces anxiety and distress in children. Children need to alleviate pain and avoid the development of fear in conjunction with examinations and treatments.

Management of healthy eating in everyday life among senior Europeans.

The aim of the present study is to explore how older people reflect on, make sense of and express their views about healthy eating messages and how they narrate these responses in relation to managing their diets along with strategies adopted in terms of existing food and meal patterns. This qualitative study draws on data from 564 in depth interviews collected as part of the European Union (EU)-funded project Food in Later life - Choosing foods, eating meals: sustaining independency and quality of life in old age. The two major areas studied related to the connection between food and health and management of a healthy everyday life.

'I start my day by thinking about what we're going to have for dinner'--a qualitative study on approaches to food-related activities among elderly men with somatic diseases.

The aim of this study was to address the question of how older men with somatic diseases living in their own home approach the question of food-related activities (FRA). Further, any adaptations of these activities necessitated by effects of diseases and of altered life circumstances were explored. Interviews were conducted with a purposeful sample of 18 co-living and single-living men, 64-84 years old.

School-aged children's experiences of postoperative music medicine on pain, distress, and anxiety.

Aim: To test whether postoperative music listening reduces morphine consumption and influence pain, distress, and anxiety after day surgery and to describe the experience of postoperative music listening in school-aged children who had undergone day surgery.

Background: Music medicine has been proposed to reduce distress, anxiety, and pain. There has been no other study that evaluates effects of music medicine (MusiCure) in children after minor surgery.

Health counselling: parental-oriented health dialogue -- an innovation for child health nurses.

The Health Curve, used by nurses in community-based health care, is an educational tool for conducting goal-directed dialogues concerning lifestyle and health. The aim of this study was to investigate how child health nurses experienced the Health Curve as a tool for conducting dialogues with parents. Fourteen nurses were interviewed.

Daily life after moving into a care home--experiences from older people, relatives and contact persons.

Aims And Objectives: To describe older people's experiences of daily life at the care home after admittance with respect to their perceptions of participation in the decision to move. Furthermore, the aim was to study the experiences of their relatives and contact persons with respect to the daily life of the same residents.

Background: When older persons move into a care home, the whole family often play an important part.

Health-care professionals' perceived trust in and willingness to recommend functional foods: a qualitative study.

The aim of this study was to investigate some Swedish dieticians', registered nurses' and physicians' thoughts about functional foods and their willingness to recommend such foods to patients. The health-care professionals were recruited to participate in one group interview with each profession. Participants were recruited through mailed invitations from primary care centers in Uppsala County district.

Relevance of philosophy of life and optimism for psychological distress among individuals in a stage where death is approaching.

The purpose was to investigate the relevance of philosophy of life as well as optimism for the psychological distress among Swedish individuals in a stage where death is approaching. Sixty-nine persons were included; of these were 42 patients newly diagnosed with advanced gastrointestinal cancer and 26 were partners to these patients. The participants' philosophy of life was studied through a semi-structured interview.

Midwives' experiences of routine antenatal questioning relating to men's violence against women.

Objective: to describe and use the experience gained by antenatal-care midwives who routinely questioned pregnant women about personally experienced violence.

Design: qualitative, using focus-group discussions.

Setting: antenatal care in a city in south-central Sweden.

On loss of activity and independence, adaptation improves life satisfaction in old age--a qualitative study of patients' perceptions.

The purpose was to improve the understanding of factors are perceived by elderly people as important for their life satisfaction, during and after rehabilitation. Fifteen persons aged 80-94 years were interviewed while in hospital and on two follow-up occasions after discharge. Assessment of motor function using the General Motor Function assessment scale was used for descriptive purposes.

The factor structure of the Burden Assessment Scale and the perceived burden of caregivers for individuals with severe mental disorders.

The aims of this study were to test the construct validity and the homogeneity of the Swedish version of the Burden Assessment Scale (BAS) and study perceived burden in daily life among family caregivers of individuals with severe mental disorders. A total of 256 caregivers took part in the study. The participants completed two questionnaires.

Continuity of the self in later life: perceptions of informal caregivers.

The authors explore perceptions of informal caregivers of extremely elderly (80+) relatives or friends regarding the purpose of caregiving, including factors they considered important for the life satisfaction of the care recipients. They collected data mainly through qualitative interviewed and employed symbolic interactionism. The results revealed a general purpose of the informal caregiving: protection of the care recipient's self.

Older women's perceptions of independence versus dependence in food-related work.

This qualitative study aims to explore the cultural meaning of accomplishing food-related work by older women, when disease has diminished their abilities and threatens to make them dependent. Seventy-two women with stroke, rheumatoid arthritis, and Parkinson's disease, as well as women without those diseases, were interviewed. All were living at home.

Food-related health perceptions and food habits among older women.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to explore food-related health perceptions and food habits among older women.

Background: Food-related health promotion has its main focus on disease prevention. With a holistic perspective on health, social and psychological aspects also need to be considered for total wellbeing.