Excess mortality among people in homelessness with substance use disorders: a Swedish cohort study.

Background: People in homelessness have an increased risk of substance use disorders (SUDs) and poor health outcomes. This cohort study aimed to investigate the association between homelessness and mortality in people with SUDs, adjusting for age, sex, narcotic use, intravenous drug use and inpatient care for SUDs.

Methods: Data from the Swedish National Addiction Care Quality Register in the Stockholm region were used to analyse mortality risk in people with SUDs (n=8397), including 637 in homelessness, 1135 in precarious housing and 6625 in stable housing, at baseline.

Asking about violence and abuse among patients experiencing homelessness: a focus group study with healthcare professionals.

Background: People experiencing homelessness are at increased risk of violence and abuse, however, there is insufficient knowledge about rates of inquiry or readiness of healthcare professionals to address violence and abuse among this population. This study aimed to explore healthcare professionals' experiences and perceptions of asking about violence and abuse among patients experiencing homelessness.

Methods: This study used a qualitative, interpretive, and exploratory design.

Health literacy and its association with mental and spiritual well-being among women experiencing homelessness.

Low health literacy (HL) has been linked to low self-rated health, reduced efficacy of behaviour change, and challenges in preventing, treating, or managing health conditions. People experiencing homelessness are at risk of poor HL; however, few studies have investigated HL in relation to mental and spiritual well-being among people experiencing homelessness in general, or women experiencing homelessness specifically. This cross-sectional study of 46 women experiencing homelessness in Stockholm, Sweden, recruited during the period October 2019-December 2020, aimed to examine how HL was associated with mental and spiritual well-being among women experiencing homelessness.

Collaborative Interpretation of Researcher-Generated Photo-Elicitation Findings: Insights From Women With Lived Experience of Homelessness.

Interviews with individuals experiencing homelessness can be challenging for various reasons, including mental and physical health issues, substance use, and negative experiences with authority figures. Researchers have used photos to facilitate communication and empower participants during data collection. We analyzed data from a previous study to explore the use of researcher-generated photos during interviews about health with 13 women experiencing homelessness.

Nurse education about forced migrants with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions: An exploratory focus group study.

Background: In many countries, forced migrants can seek asylum based on persecution and danger related to self-identifying as having diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions; herein defined as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or other non-heterosexual orientations, non-cisgender identities, gender expressions and/or reproductive development considered beyond cultural, societal or physiological norms. Nurse education has a significant role in promoting cultural competence among future health professionals.

Objectives: To explore the experiences and views regarding education about forced migrants with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions, among students and lecturers in nurse education.

Voices of women in homelessness during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: a co-created qualitative study.

Background: Women in homelessness face extreme health- and social inequities. It could be postulated that during societal crises, they become even more vulnerable. Thus, the aim was to explore experiences related to the COVID-19 pandemic among women in homelessness.

Reflections on health among women in homelessness: A qualitative study.

Unlabelled: WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Previous research reports that people in homelessness have poor physical and mental health and are excluded from society with risk for loneliness and social exclusion. Women in homelessness face particularly vulnerable circumstances with significant risks of harm. WHAT THE PAPER ADDS TO EXISTING KNOWLEDGE?: Feelings of having a home is a basis for meeting physical, psychosocial, and existential needs related to health.

The relationship between attitudes to homelessness and perceptions of caring behaviours: a cross-sectional study among women experiencing homelessness, nurses and nursing students.

Background: Women experiencing homelessness have complex and multifaceted healthcare needs and yet they are an underserved population across healthcare services. Nurses are trained to perform an integral role in the provision of equitable healthcare and their attitudes towards homelessness may therefore influence the care that women experiencing homelessness receive. This study aimed to examine correlations between attitudes towards homelessness and caring behaviours, and to test if these correlations differed between the groups of women experiencing homelessness, registered nurses, and nursing students.

A comparison of perceptions of caring behaviours among women in homelessness, Registered Nurses and nursing students.

Background: The population of women in homelessness in Europe is increasing and women in homelessness experience multiple healthcare needs. However, there is insufficient understanding about how perceptions of caring behaviours compare between women in homelessness as patients and nurses in their clinical practice.

Aim: This study aimed to investigate perceptions of caring behaviours among women in homelessness, Registered Nurses and nursing students.

Peer Support Experienced by Mothers of Children With Congenital Heart Defects in Sweden.

The aim of this study was to describe experiences of peer support among mothers of children with congenital heart defects. Ten mothers were interviewed through a semi-structured approach and interviews were analyzed with systematic text condensation. The respondents established various channels used for peer support and navigated between the channels depending on what type of information or support they needed.

Caring for patients with eating deficiencies in palliative care-Registered nurses' experiences: A qualitative study.

Aims And Objectives: The aim was to explore RNs' experiences of caring for patients with eating deficiencies in palliative care.

Background: Food and mealtimes are fundamental aspects for wellbeing and social interactions. The worldwide trajectory of ageing populations may result in increased need for palliative care.

Experiences of food and mealtime from the perspective of patients with chronic life-limiting disease: A mixed-method systematic review.

Aim: To describe and synthesise experiences of food and mealtimes from the perspective of patients with chronic life-limiting disease.

Design: A mixed-method systematic review.

Data Sources: The databases Academic Search Complete, CINAHL, Nursing and Allied Health Database, PsycINFO, PubMed, Soc Index and Web of Science Core Collection were searched (January 2000 to March 2019).

"Stripped of dignity" - Women in homelessness and their perspectives of healthcare services: A qualitative study.

Background: A much more substantial European evidence base on the accessibility of healthcare services among women experiencing homelessness across healthcare systems in Europe is warranted.

Objective: To give voice to women with experiences of homelessness, and to explore their perspectives of healthcare services in an EU country with universal healthcare.

Design: The study is part of a research program striving to promote equal healthcare through co-production with women in homelessness.

"There should be some kind of checklist for the soul"- A qualitative interview study of support needs after end of treatment for gynecologic cancer in young women.

Purpose: Young women diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer face the risk of significant physical and mental health problems after end of treatment. Still, there is a lack of knowledge regarding specific support needs in this population, and supportive care services provided to young women with a gynecologic cancer have been reported to be insufficient. The aim of this study was therefore to identify support needs experienced by women diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer before the age of 40.

Caring Behaviors Inventory-24: translation, cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric testing for use in a Swedish context.

Background: Patients' health and wellbeing are promoted when nurses successfully conceptualize caring in clinical practice. Measuring caring behaviors can advance knowledge about caring and has potential to improve caring practices and the outcomes of care. The Caring Behaviors Inventory-24 (CBI-24) is an empirical instrument for measuring caring, developed to determine perceptions of caring among patients and nurses.

Developing the Preterm Breastfeeding Attitudes Instrument: A tool for describing attitudes to breastfeeding among health care professionals in neonatal intensive care.

Objective: The aim of this study was to develop an instrument that measures health care professionals' (HCPs) attitudes to breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact in relation to the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative for neonatal intensive care.

Design: The study was part of a larger project aiming to revive the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding for both full-term and preterm infants. The study had a pre-test/post-test design using online questionnaires distributed by email before and after a training programme.

Perceptions of care after end-of-treatment among younger women with different gynecologic cancer diagnoses - a qualitative analysis of written responses submitted via a survey.

Background: Less attention has been given to younger adults' psycho-oncology care needs than to children and older adults with cancer. The aim was to explore how care following end-of-treatment was perceived by women treated for different gynecologic cancer diagnoses during younger adulthood.

Methods: A sample of 207 women diagnosed with gynecologic cancer 2008 to 2016, aged 19-39 at time of diagnosis answered one open-ended question regarding important aspects of care after end-of-treatment.

Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Psychometric Analysis of the Attitudes Towards Homelessness Inventory for Use in Sweden.

Background: Homelessness is an increasing problem worldwide, and the origins of homelessness in high-income countries are multifaceted. Due to stigma and discrimination, persons in homelessness delay seeking health care, resulting in avoidable illness and death. The Attitudes Towards Homelessness Inventory (ATHI) was developed to cover multiple dimensions of attitudes toward persons in homelessness and to detect changes in multiple segments of populations.

Belonging to a community of care: Mothers' experiences of online peer support groups for parents having lost a child with congenital heart defects.

The aim was to study mothers' experiences of online peer support groups after the death of a child. Participants ( = 8) were recruited through a newsletter for the Swedish association for families/children with heart defects, and two closed support groups on Facebook (900 and 100 members) and interviewed by telephone. Transcripts were analyzed with qualitative content analysis.

Peer support among parents of children with congenital heart defects: A qualitative analysis of written responses submitted via an online survey.

Aim: To explore experiences of peer support among parents of children with congenital heart defects.

Design: A study analysing written responses to open-ended questions about peer support, collected via an online survey distributed in Sweden.

Methods: Respondents were recruited during 3 months in 2018 by means of convenience sampling, through ads via the Swedish foundation for families with children who have heart defects and two closed Facebook groups for peer support.

Being involved in research as a collaborator with experience of a prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defect in the fetus: a qualitative study.

Background: An increasing number of research projects are now collaborating with persons who have lived experience of a specific health-related situation, such as a prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defect. Such collaboration has the potential to provide valuable insights how to plan future studies, but little is known how these persons experience such involvement. The aim was to explore how persons with lived experience of a prenatal diagnosis perceived collaborating in a research project utilizing patient and public involvement to identify relevant research questions and develop suitable interventions.

Mothers' Adaptation to a Late Preterm Infant When Breastfeeding.

The aim of this study was to psychometrically test the Adaptation to the Late Preterm Infant when Breastfeeding Scale (ALPIBS) and also to test how a mother's self-efficacy predicts adaptation to a late preterm infant when breastfeeding. This study had a longitudinal and prospective design, and data collection was consecutive. Mothers (n = 105) with infants born between 340/7 and 366/7 weeks were recruited from a neonatal intensive care unit or a maternity unit.

Homeless persons' experiences of health- and social care: A systematic integrative review.

Homelessness is associated with high risks of morbidity and premature death. Many interventions aimed to improve physical and mental health exist, but do not reach the population of persons experiencing homelessness. Despite the widely reported unmet healthcare needs, more information about the barriers and facilitators that affect access to care for persons experiencing homelessness is needed.

Written narratives from immigrants following a prenatal diagnosis: qualitative exploratory study.

Background: Expectant parents often have optimistic expectations of the obstetric ultrasound examination and are unprepared for a diagnosis of foetal anomaly. Research that gives voice to the experiences of immigrants faced with a prenatal diagnosis is scarce, and there is a need for more exploratory research that provides insights into the experiences of these persons. The aim of this study was to explore narratives of experiences of immigrants with Arabic or Sorani interpreter needs when presented with a prenatal diagnosis of foetal anomaly.

Women treated for gynaecological cancer during young adulthood - A mixed-methods study of perceived psychological distress and experiences of support from health care following end-of-treatment.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence and predictors of cancer-related distress in younger women treated for gynaecological cancer, and to explore women's needs and experiences of psychosocial support following end-of-treatment.

Methods: Data were collected from 337 gynaecological cancer survivors, 19-39years at diagnosis, using a study-specific questionnaire and the Swedish Quality Register of Gynaecologic Cancer. Predictors of distress were investigated with multivariable logistic regression analysis.