Purpose: Forensic psychiatric inpatient care in Sweden is characterized by strict regulations and adherence to court-mandated rules, with a median care time of 7 years. Comorbity has significant clinical implications, impacting health and well-being, violent behaviour and criminal recidivism, and prolonging inpatient stays. This study investigated the individual experiences and perspectives of Swedish patients in forensic psychiatric care with substance use (SU) disorders, focusing on past, present and future orientations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To assess the top 1000 cited nursing articles in terms of their impact, conceptual and social characteristics.
Design: Bibliometric literature review design.
Methods: A bibliometric analysis on the 1000 most cited nursing articles in English, focusing on assessing their impact and prevalent terms, keywords, co-occurrence networks and topic trends.
Background: Individuals with psychotic disorders face an increased risk of physical health issues, leading to reduced life expectancy. Despite recommendations to integrate physical health promotion into mental healthcare, challenges persist, and mortality from somatic diseases continues to rise. Understanding healthcare providers' perspectives is crucial to overcoming these barriers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Qual Stud Health Well-being
December 2024
Purpose: To describe how (QMA), based on a lifeworld theoretical approach, can be made accessible to students and researchers not well-versed in the philosophy of science or qualitative research. Additionally, to demonstrate that it is a more rigorous approach than qualitative content analysis in guiding healthcare inquiries.
Method: In recent years, qualitative approaches in nurse education and research have increasingly relied on various content analytical procedures.
Introduction: Ageist attitudes negatively affect the quality of care for service users and the working conditions of older nursing staff. Clinical leaders' perceptions of older service users and nursing staff are unknown.
Aim: To map research evidence on ageist attitudes in healthcare towards service users and older nursing staff, from the leadership perspective.
Background: Negative portrayals of schizophrenia in media can prompt the condition's stigmatization. However, because research on language stigmatizing schizophrenia has focused on paper-based media, its results have limited generalizability to contemporary media. Also, research on interventions to guide media professionals in accurately depicting schizophrenia has been scarce.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Restraints, a highly regulated and contentious measure in pediatric psychiatry, have significant negative impacts on children. The application of international human rights standards, such as the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), has spurred global efforts to reduce or eliminate the use of restraints. However, a lack of consensus on definitions and terminology, as well as quality indicators in this field, hinders the ability to compare studies and evaluate interventions consistently.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia have debilitating effects on health and functioning. Given symptomatic remission's recent emergence as a viable treatment goal, the Remission in Schizophrenia Working Group's criteria (RSWG-cr), based on eight items from the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS-8), are frequently used in clinical and research settings. Against that background, we sought to evaluate the PANSS-8's psychometric properties and examine the RSWG-cr's clinical validity among outpatients in Sweden.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: We evaluated the long-term outcomes of recurrent glomerulonephritis (RGN) using clinical, histopathological, and demographic predictors.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study of kidney transplant recipients (KTR) in two renal centers between 2005 and 2020. Clinical and native kidney histological data were analyzed.
Background: Individuals with psychotic disorders experience widespread treatment failures and risk early death. Sweden's largest department specializing in psychotic disorders sought to improve patients' health by developing a point-of-care dashboard to support joint planning and co-production of care. The dashboard was tested for 18 months and included more than 400 patients at two outpatient clinics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite the growing population of older adults worldwide, nurses may harbor negative attitudes toward older patients that might risk patient safety. Most studies have investigated general attitudes toward older adults. Only a few have focused on nurses' perceptions of caring for older patients, and there has been little focus on the oldest-old (aged ≥80 years), an age group that is particularly affected by negative attitudes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElevated pulse pressure is associated with metabolic and neurocognitive diseases. Preliminary small-scale studies among patients with psychotic disorders have indicated that these patients had an increased pulse pressure compared with controls. However, it is unclear whether and how these associations are manifested among larger heterogenous samples of patients with psychotic disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study validated a Swedish translation of the Aging Semantic Differential Scale (ASD, 32-items) distributed online. Translation and back-translation were conducted. A convenience sample of nursing students completed the online questionnaire (N = 292) in spring 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Rationale: Ageism in nursing, particularly regarding oldest-old adults (age ≥80 years), adversely affects patient safety and care quality. Nurse education can reduce ageist attitudes. Swedish and Austrian nursing students' attitudes towards adults age ≥80 years have not been assessed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite the advantages of using active learning strategies in nursing education, researchers have rarely investigated how such pedagogic approaches can be used to assess students or how interactive examinations can be modified depending on circumstances of practice (e.g., in online education).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS-2.0) is a self-administered instrument to assess functional impairment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Few studies have evaluated educational nutrition activities in undergraduate nursing, and none have published how the established food assessment method, the food diary, can be used as a pedagogical method in this context.
Objective: To describe undergraduate nursing students' learning outcomes of basic nutrition and important elements for their learning after conducting a one-day food record with a subsequent seminar (henceforth: "the food diary method").
Design: Cross-sectional.
Background: During adolescence, health behaviors and weight status are increasingly influenced by friendship and peer networks. This paper examines resemblances in weight-related characteristics and how they differ by sociodemographic factors.
Methods: Over 3,000 friendships were reported by 1,603 adolescents, aged 11-16 years, who participated in the school-based I.
Background: In involuntary psychiatric admission, used globally, professionals or caretakers decide upon hospitalization regardless of what the person with psychosocial disabilities decides. This raises clinical, ethical, legal, and human rights concerns, and it goes against Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). CRPD mandates that member states respect the autonomy of people with disabilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims And Objectives: To explore the views of registered nurses experienced in aesthetic nursing regarding medically safe practices and sound ethical standards.
Background: Aesthetic nursing is an emerging field of modern-day healthcare encompassed within aesthetic medicine. There is a distinct lack of research regarding how registered nurses who specialise in this area of care view medically safe practices and sound ethical standards.
Background: Emerging research suggests that social media has the potential in clinical settings to enhance interaction with and between pediatric patients with various conditions. However, appearance norms and weight stigmatization can make adolescents with obesity uncomfortable about using these visual-based media. It is therefore important to explore these adolescents' perspectives to identify the implications and concerns regarding the use of social media in clinical settings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study aimed to describe adolescents' experiences of participating in a health-promoting school-based intervention regarding food and physical activity, with a focus on empowering aspects. Method: The school was located in a urban disadvantaged community in Sweden, characterized by poorer self-reported health and lower life expectancy than the municipality average. Focus group interviews with adolescents (29 girls, 20 boys, 14-15 years) and their teachers (n = 4) were conducted two years after intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to explore experiences with online information regarding food, weight management, and health in a group of adolescents in treatment for obesity. Individual semi-structured interviews with 20 adolescents were conducted. Participants used a screen-recorded laptop to demonstrate their search procedures and online information sources.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Ment Health Nurs
April 2018
Swedish mental health-care services are experiencing a critical shortage of nursing personnel. Researchers suggest that this shortage is due to low levels of job satisfaction. Job satisfaction is frequently studied with the assistance of Herzberg's two-factor theory, and this theory has foremost been explored with studies using quantitative methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe study aimed to explore how adolescents communicate food images in a widely used social media image-sharing application. We examined how and in what context food was presented and the type of food items that were frequently portrayed by following a youth related hashtag on Instagram. The hashtag #14år ("14 years") was used to find adolescent users on Instagram: these users public photo streams were then searched for food items they had shared with others.
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