Caught on the Fringes of Life: Mothers' Lived Experiences of Initial Breastfeeding Complications.

Becoming a parent changes one's life, and existential questions arise. Time and being oscillate between joy and powerlessness, vulnerability, and self-confidence, between harmony and unpreparedness. Breastfeeding, one of the first skills new mothers try to master, can be joyful and painful.

Impact of an educational intervention for district nurses about preparedness to encounter women exposed to intimate partner violence.

Aim: To evaluate the impact of an educational intervention on the preparedness of district nurses at primary healthcare centres to encounter women exposed to intimate partner violence.

Methodological Design: An observational quasi-experimental study. Participants were divided into an intervention group (n = 117) and a control group (n = 204), both from the eastern part of Sweden.

Psychometric Testing of an Instrument About Intimate Partner Violence.

This study used step-by-step exploratory factor analysis in the framework of confirmatory factor analysis (EFA/CFA) to evaluate the psychometric properties of the translated and culturally adapted Swedish version of "The Violence Against Women Health Care Provider Survey." The Swedish version of the instrument was needed to measure district nurses' preparedness to encounter women exposed to intimate partner violence. In the first step of EFA/CFA, the eight-factor model was confirmed.

To ask, or not to ask: the hesitation process described by district nurses encountering women exposed to intimate partner violence.

Aims And Objectives: To improve the understanding of district nurses' experiences of encountering women exposed to intimate partner violence.

Background: Intimate partner violence is a public health issue that influences all aspects of affected women's lives; it is thus of great relevance to identify intimate partner violence. District nurses in primary health care in Sweden encounter women of all ages and are therefore in a unique position to identify intimate partner violence and provide nursing care.

Cross-cultural adaptation of an intimate partner violence questionnaire.

The aim of this study was to describe the translation and the cross-cultural adaptation process of questionnaire about intimate partner violence (IPV). IPV is a serious threat to women's health. There is a need for instruments to measure the results of educational interventions.