Refining the Make My Day stroke prevention intervention for primary healthcare through co-creation with stakeholders.

Objectives: To describe and explore the refinement of a stroke prevention intervention and conditions for implementation in primary healthcare by utilising co-creation with stakeholders.

Method: This was an iterative co-creation process of five collaborative workshops engaging stakeholders; healthcare professionals (HP), and persons at risk for stroke, who participated in or delivered a stroke prevention intervention in primary healthcare.

Results: Through co-creation with stakeholders key components for revision were identified in the Make My Day intervention.

It's Like Doing Simultaneous Mind Puzzles: Exploring How Care is Understood and Experienced by Nursing Assistants Working in Sweden with Older Persons.

Background: The care of older persons is facing several challenges, especially as care tasks are becoming increasingly rationalized with less opportunity for relational engagement between nurse assistants and older persons. Evidence suggests this engagement is needed to promote well-being and satisfaction among the older persons with whom they work. The aim of this study was to explore how care, in the context of worker perspectives, is understood and experienced in home or residential care facilities.

Make My Day: primary prevention of stroke using engaging everyday activities as a mediator of sustainable health - a randomised controlled trial and process evaluation protocol.

Introduction: The individual, societal and economic benefits of stroke prevention are high. Even though most risk factors can be reduced by changes to lifestyle habits, maintaining new and healthy activity patterns has been shown to be challenging.The aim of the study is to evaluate the impact of an interdisciplinary team-based, mHealth-supported prevention intervention on persons at risk for stroke.

Occupational therapy gender imbalance; revisiting a lingering issue.

Background: Recently, it has been suggested that gender disparity in Occupational Therapy has to do with segregated gendered job norms that position female dominated professions as a 'step down' for many males. Interestingly, this suggestion was not underpinned by experiences of males in the profession.

Aims And Methods: Thirteen male Occupational Therapists with a variety of backgrounds were invited to this Round Table research, focussing on the broader issue of the existing gender imbalance in Occupational Therapy.

Incorporating new ways of doing by learning from everyday experiences and interactions using a multifactorial mHealth app.

Background: Digital health innovations can support the prevention and management of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, such as stroke. However, little is known about people's everyday experiences of digitally augmented stroke-prevention programmes combining onsite group sessions including peers and healthcare professionals with interaction and support from a multifactorial mHealth app.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore how people with stroke risk experienced interaction with a multifactorial mHealth app as support in the make my day stroke-prevention programme.

Return to work after COVID-19: Experiences and expectations from the first wave of COVID-19 in Stockholm.

Background: In Stockholm (Sweden) a substantial number of persons who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 during spring 2020, and received intensive care followed by rehabilitation due to COVID-19, were of working age. For this group, return to work (RTW) is an important part of the rehabilitation, however this is an area that thus far has received little scholarly attention. The Aim of this study was two-fold.

Return to work among workers recovering from severe COVID-19 in Slovenia: a focus group study.

Purpose: For working age adults, return to work (RTW) after severe COVID-19 can be an essential component of rehabilitation. We explored the expectations and experiences related to RTW in a group of workers recovering from severe COVID-19 in Slovenia.

Materials And Methods: Four focus groups were conducted between May 2021 and August 2021.

Cocreation from Emerging Opportunities: Occupational Therapists' Perspectives on Supporting Older Persons, in Japan.

Introduction: Practices of occupational therapists, particularly those supporting older persons with physical impairments, remain overly focused on remediating impairments, and implementation of occupation-centered practices remains fraught with difficulties. In Japan, this issue exists across the continuum from acute care to rehabilitation settings and into the community. This is despite the existence of international models and frameworks that place occupation at the core of the profession.

Stakeholders' Expectations of Return-to-Work After Spinal Cord Injury: A 1-Year Follow-Up.

Understanding the process of return-to-work is key to supporting people's social participation and health after a disability. This phenomenographic study aimed to explore the expectations and ways of understanding return-to-work from the perspectives of three stakeholder types: three workers with spinal cord injuries, their employers, and an occupational therapist coordinator. Participants were interviewed twice, at 6 and 12 months, after having participated in a research-based return-to-work intervention in Sweden.

Photovoice Revisited: Dialogue and Action as Pivotal.

Photovoice has gained acceptance as a viable visual method to engage community members as partners in research. However, as methods associated with photovoice have developed and evolved over time, concerns have also been raised with regard to how this impacts the methodological underpinnings on which photovoice rests. The aim of this article is to explore the meaning of dialogue and action as methodologically pivotal for the relevance of photovoice as community-based participatory research; further, using an empirical case and narrative theory, we attempt to contribute to an understanding of the processes that facilitate the viability and relevance of photovoice.

Communication and engagement as potentiality in everyday life between persons with young onset dementia living in a nursing home and caregivers.

Objectives: To explore communication and engagement in everyday situations between persons with young-onset dementia (YOD) living in a nursing home (NH) and the caregivers.

Methods: The study draws on ethnographic methods aligned with participatory design. Three residents with YOD living in a NH and eight staff members were recruited.

Engagement in Everyday Activities for Prevention of Stroke: Feasibility of an mHealth-Supported Program for People with TIA.

Most of the risk factors for stroke are modifiable, yet incorporating and sustaining healthy lifestyle habits in daily life that reduce these risk factors is a major challenge. Engaging everyday activities (EEAs) are meaningful activities that are regularly performed that have the potential to contribute to the sustainability of healthy lifestyle habits and reduce risk factors for stroke. The aims of this study were (1) to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of a digitally supported lifestyle program called "Make My Day" (MMD) for people at risk for stroke following a transient ischemic attack, and (2) to describe participants' stroke risk and lifestyle habits pre- and post-intervention.

Experiences and motives of retirement-aged workers during the first wave of COVID-19 in Slovenia: "This was the first time in 40 years that I really saw spring".

Choosing to continue working after retirement eligibility can attract both negative and positive sentiments from the general public. Studies examining the motivations of older workers have so far been conducted in times of relative social and economic stability. However, little is known about what it means for older workers to work during a lockdown or pandemic situation.

'Weaving lifestyle habits': Complex pathways to health for persons at risk for stroke.

Background: It is important to understand how healthy lifestyle habits can be developed as they are essential in cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention. There is limited knowledge regarding whether, and how, engaging occupations (things that people do and occupy themselves with) can promote and help sustain healthy lifestyle habits for persons at risk for CVDs, including stroke.

Aim: The aim was to develop knowledge of how engaging in occupations can contribute to changes in lifestyle habits among persons at risk for stroke.

: two families' narratives when a child with spinal muscular atrophy receives a new drug.

This study aims to explore negotiations of hope in everyday life for families where a child with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) has received a new drug treatment. A narrative design was used, drawing on interviews and participant observations in two families with children with SMA, types 1-2, to situate family experiences of hope in everyday life. Narrative analysis was used on the data.

Views on everyday life among adults with spina bifida: an exploration through photovoice.

The aim of this study was to actively integrate expertise of persons living with spina bifida, to explore conditions embedded in their everyday life. This was important because young adults with spina bifida risk not being able to fully participate in the community on equal terms and in accordance with their own preferences. Photovoice, a community-based participatory research approach, was utilized to engage participants through dialogue and photography.

Engaging occupations among persons at risk for stroke: A health paradox.

Background: An occupational perspective in stroke prevention could support sustainable changes in habits and routines that could contribute to reduce modifiable risk factors.

Aim: To explore engaging occupation in relation to risk for stroke by drawing on experiences from everyday life among persons with a heightened risk for stroke.

Material And Methods: Interviews from 14 persons with an increased risk for stroke were analysed by a constant comparative approach.

Evaluating the feasibility of ReWork-SCI: a person-centred intervention for return-to-work after spinal cord injury.

Objectives: To evaluate the feasibility of: (1) ReWork-SCI with regard to adherence and acceptability and (2) a study design for evaluating ReWork-SCI with regard to recruitment, retention and outcome measures.

Design: Pre-test and post-test, single group, feasibility study.

Setting: Spinal cord injury (SCI) unit at a regional rehabilitation centre in Sweden.

Return-to-work: Exploring professionals' experiences of support for persons with spinal cord injury.

Purpose: To generate knowledge about how professional stakeholders organise and experience the support of the return-to-work (RTW) process for persons with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Methods: Constructivist grounded theory approach. Professional stakeholders ( = 34) involved in the RTW process and representing three Swedish Regions were recruited into seven focus groups.

A narrative synthesis systematic review of digital self-monitoring interventions for middle-aged and older adults.

Objective: Self-monitoring is crucial to raise awareness for own behaviors and emotions, and thus facilitate self-management. The composition of self-monitoring within interventions, however, varies and guidelines are currently unavailable. This review aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of technology-based self-monitoring interventions that intend to improve health in middle-aged and older adults (>45 years).

Stroke secondary prevention, a non-surgical and non-pharmacological consensus definition: results of a Delphi study.

Objective: Evidence supporting lifestyle modification in vascular risk reduction is limited, drawn largely from primary prevention studies. To advance the evidence base for non-pharmacological and non-surgical stroke secondary prevention (SSP), empirical research is needed, informed by a consensus-derived definition of SSP. To date, no such definition has been published.

Primary prevention of stroke: randomised controlled pilot trial protocol on engaging everyday activities promoting health.

Introduction: Stroke is a globally common disease that has detrimental effects on the individual and, more broadly, on society. Lifestyle change can contribute to reducing risk factors for stroke. Although a healthy lifestyle has direct benefits, sustaining and incorporating healthy activities into everyday life is a challenge.

Interprofessional learning in an international context: the unfamiliar as impetus for learning, also about oneself.

Studying experiences of interprofessional learning (IPL) in international contexts can contribute to better understand its nature. The aim of this study was to evaluate students' IPL in the context of a two-week study-abroad program. There were 28 health-care students from Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, who participated in a two-week interprofessional education program provided by Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, from 2013 to 2016.

The use of information and communication technology in healthcare to improve participation in everyday life: a scoping review.

The increase in use of everyday information and communication technologies can lead to the need for health professionals to incorporate technology use competencies in practice. Information and communication technologies has the potential to improve participation in daily life among people with disability. The aim was to review and describe evidence of the use of information and communication technology, including mobile technology, for improving participation in everyday life.