The Divorced Family-Focused Care Model: A Nursing Model to Enhance Child and Family Mental Health and Well-Being of Doubly Bereaved Children Following Parental Divorce and Subsequent Parental Cancer and Death.

The experience of parental death concomitant with parental divorce occurs for 46% of Danish children and 50% of American children who lose a parent to death. This experience of loss and double bereavement compounds increased risk of mental health problems. The aim of this study was to explore nursing interventions for double bereaved children that promoted their well-being.

Parenting skills after participation in skills-based training inspired by the New Maudsley Method: a qualitative study in an outpatient eating disorder setting.

Background: Eating disorders affect the whole family and it is recommended that parents play an important role in their adolescents' recovery. Being a parent to an adolescent with an eating disorder is often linked to feelings of guilt and hopelessness and at the same time parents often feel left alone with unmet needs when it comes to handling symptoms in family life. Little is known about parents' perspectives to skills-based training in adolescent eating disorder treatment.

Between hope and hopelessness: COPD patients' and their family members' experiences of interacting with healthcare providers - a qualitative longitudinal study.

Background: Patient-family-healthcare provider interaction seems important for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and their family members' self-management practices. Because the need for support might be enhanced after a hospitalisation, it might be beneficial to explore this interaction further in follow-up health care.

Aim: To explore the meaning of patients' and their family members' experiences of interacting with healthcare providers to their daily self-management over time.

The experience of being a participant in one's own care at discharge and at home, following a severe acute exacerbation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a longitudinal study.

Purpose: In healthcare related to hospital discharge and follow-up, it is acknowledged that patient participation can strengthen self-management in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. However, the meaning of participation in care following a severe acute exacerbation is less described. Therefore, the aim of this part of a larger study was to explore patients' experiences of participating in their care around discharge and in their subsequent day-to-day care at home.

Patients' and their family members' experiences of participation in care following an acute exacerbation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study.

Aim And Objectives: To explore the experiences of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and their family members relating both to participation in care during hospitalisation for an acute exacerbation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and to the subsequent day-to-day care at home.

Background: When recovering from an exacerbation, the challenges associated with an unpredictable health condition dominate everyday life for patients and can involve their family members. Proper patient and family participation in care during discharge and follow-up can help patients to improve self-management.

The family's experience and perception of phases and roles in the progression of dementia: An explorative, interview-based study.

This paper examines how the relatives of a person with dementia experience challenges in everyday life. A model of phases is developed on the basis of interviews with 14 relatives from eight families. Data were subjected to a thematic content analysis, which found that the progression of dementia - from the perspective of the family - had three phases.

The lonely female partner: a central aspect of prostate cancer.

The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate the experiences of female partners to men with prostate cancer. The women found the capacity to manage their lives through mutual love in the family and through their faith.

Uptake of trace elements and PAHs by fruit and vegetables from contaminated soils.

The aims of this study were to investigate the uptake of seven trace elements and five PAHs in crop plants in order to establish advice regarding consumption of fruit and vegetables grown in soils contaminated by trace elements and PAHs. In a field experiment, vegetables were grown in two contaminated soils and in a reference soil, whereas fruits were collected from uncontaminated and contaminated private gardens. The results showed elevated levels of several trace elements and PAHs in the vegetables from contaminated soil.

[Efforts of general practitioners in the treatment of heart arrest in a rural area. A prospective pilot study].

During a two year period, general practitioners in a local area were called to all 112 alarms (the number dialled in Denmark in emergencies) in order to improve the prognosis of patients with cardiac arrest. In 55% of the calls, the practitioners arrived within five minutes, whereas the ambulance arrived within five minutes in only 16% of the cases (p < 0.01).

A comparison of three diuretic regimens in heart failure.

Eight patients with mild heart failure were treated in random order for 1 week with 2 mg bumethanide at 0800 and 1200 (treatment 1) h, 1 mg bumethanide at 0800, 1200, 1800, 2200 (treatment 2) and 5 mg bendroflumethiazide at 0800 and 1800 (treatment 3) h. The 'quality of life' did not differ significantly between the three treatment periods. At the presumed trough of the diuretic effect the circulating blood volume was largest during treatment 1; it was 6.

A method for determination of normal or abnormal blood volume in patients subjected to radionuclide cardiography.

The blood volume can be measured after labelling of red blood cells with technetium-99m. In addition, the blood volume and its standard error of estimate can be calculated from the subject's sex, height and deviation from desired weight. By comparing the measured blood volume with the estimated normal blood volume and using a statistical test, it can be decided whether a measured blood volume is normal or not.