Nurses' experiences of providing nonpharmacological pain management in palliative care: A qualitative study.

Aim And Objectives: To explore the experiences and views of nurses who provide nonpharmacological therapies for chronic pain management in palliative care.

Background: Nursing expertise in palliative care is essential in providing pain relief to patients with chronic diseases. Examinations of the use of nonpharmacological therapies for chronic pain management in palliative care have revealed what nonpharmacological therapies have been used, but there is insufficient knowledge regarding nurses' attitudes, views and experiences regarding pain therapies in this context.

Caring for stroke survivors: experiences of family caregivers in Sri Lanka - a qualitative study.

Background: Stroke is a life-changing event for both stroke survivors and their family caregivers. After receiving acute care at the hospital, family members are expected to take care of stroke survivors at home and to continue treatment and rehabilitation. The new role of "informal caregiver" is a challenge that creates many difficulties for family caregivers that are not explicit in the Sri Lankan context.

Nursing actions that create a sense of good nursing care in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration.

Aims And Objectives: To identify and describe nursing actions performed by nurses that create a sense of good nursing care in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration.

Background: People who suffer from wet age-related macular degeneration risk central vision loss. Treatment with antivascular endothelial growth factor is the only available option at present that preserves vision and no definitive cure currently exists.

Middle-aged women and everyday life: implications for health.

The aim of this study was to describe middle-aged women's perceptions of lifestyle and how it was experienced in their daily lives. Interviews with 15 women selected using network sampling were analysed using a phenomenographic approach. Lifestyle was perceived as either 'handle life', describing a framework of how everyday life should manifest itself in different areas of life, or 'relate to life' implying accepting life as it is and making the best of it based on previous experiences.

Being in charge of life: perceptions of lifestyle among women of retirement age.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the perceptions of lifestyle among women of retirement age.

Background: Women go through many transitions during their lives, which impact on their lifestyle and possibly their outlook on life. Family circumstances such as motherhood and marital status change over time and the menopause is also likely to influence their view of life.

Radiographers' areas of professional competence related to good nursing care.

Background: Radiographers' ability and competence is a matter of vital importance for patients. Nursing care is an integral part of the radiographer's work. The demand for high competence in clinical activities has increased in diagnostic radiology and has had an impact on the development of the profession.

Bone mineral density in relation to body mass index among young women: a prospective cohort study.

Aim: To identify important predictors among lifestyle behaviours and physiological factors of bone mineral density (BMD) in relation to body mass index (BMI) among young women over a 2-year period. DESIGN, SAMPLE AND MEASUREMENTS: Data were collected in 1999 and 2001. Healthy young women (n=152) completed a questionnaire.

Young women's lifestyle behaviours and their bone mineral density changes: a grounded theory analysis.

Background: Only limited information is available on healthy young women's perspective of their own lifestyle behaviours. By lifestyle behaviours, e.g.