Undergraduate nursing students' attitudes and preparedness toward caring for dying persons - A longitudinal study.

Nursing education needs to prepare students for care of dying patients. The aim of this study was to describe the development of nursing students' attitudes toward caring for dying patients and their perceived preparedness to perform end-of-life care. A longitudinal study was performed with 117 nursing students at six universities in Sweden.

Like being covered in a wet and dark blanket - Parents' lived experiences of losing a child to cancer.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to illuminate parents' lived experiences of losing a child to cancer.

Method: Interviews and a narrative about parents' experiences of losing a child to cancer were gathered from six parents of children whom had participated in a longitudinal study across the child's illness trajectory. The analysis of the data was inspired by van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenological approach.

Nursing students' perceptions of caring for dying people, after one year in nursing school.

Aim: To describe Swedish nursing students' perceptions of caring for dying people after the first year of a three year in a nursing programme at three university nursing schools in Sweden.

Methods: Interviews (n=17) were undertaken with nursing students at the end of their first year. A phenomenographic approach was used to design and structure the analysis of the nursing students' perceptions.

We are also interested in how fathers feel: a qualitative exploration of child health center nurses' recognition of postnatal depression in fathers.

Background: To become a parent is an emotionally life-changing experience. Paternal depression during the postnatal period has been associated with emotional and behavioral problems in children. The condition has predominantly been related to mothers, and the recognition of paternal postnatal depression (PND) has been paid less attention to.

Death and caring for dying patients: exploring first-year nursing students' descriptive experiences.

Aim: To describe first-year nursing students' experiences of witnessing death and providing end-of-life care.

Methods: This study is part of a larger longitudinal project. Interviews (n=17) were conducted with nursing students at the end of their first year of education.

Swedish nursing students' reasoning about emotionally demanding issues in caring for dying patients.

Aim: To describe nursing students' reasoning about emotionally demanding questions concerning the care of dying patients.

Methods: The Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying (FATCOD) Scale was completed by students at the beginning of their education, and there was great variation in the responses to five items. At a follow-up measurement in the second year, an open-ended question, 'How did you reason when completing this question?', was added to each of the these five items.

Provoking symptoms to relieve symptoms: a randomized controlled dismantling study of exposure therapy in irritable bowel syndrome.

An internet-delivered cognitive behavioral treatment (ICBT) based on systematic exposure exercises has previously shown beneficial effects for patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Exposure exercises may be perceived as difficult for patients to perform because of the elicited short-term distress and clinicians may be reluctant to use these interventions. The aim of this study was to compare ICBT with the same protocol without systematic exposure (ICBT-WE) to assess if exposure had any incremental value.

Living an everyday life through a child's cancer trajectory: families' lived experiences 7 years after diagnosis.

The aim of this study was to illuminate the lived experiences of families where a child had survived 7 years from a diagnosis of childhood cancer. This article describes one part of an inductive and longitudinal research project that included 17 families. Four families whose child was diagnosed with cancer 7 years previously were interviewed using a hermeneutical phenomenological approach.

The Swedish version of the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying scale: aspects of validity and factors influencing nurses' and nursing students' attitudes.

Background: Nurses' attitudes toward caring for dying persons need to be explored. The Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying (FATCOD) scale has not previously been used in Swedish language.

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to compare FATCOD scores among Swedish nurses and nursing students with those from other languages, to explore the existence of 2 subscales, and to evaluate influences of experiences on attitudes toward care of dying patients.

Young women's experiences of managing self-treatment for anogenital warts.

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of self-treatment for anogenital warts from the perspective of a group of young women who received it.

Study Design: Ten young Swedish women were interviewed in the study, aged between 16 and 21. The young women had been diagnosed with anogenital warts and self-managed their treatment with 0.

A journey filled with emotions--mothers' experiences of breastfeeding their preterm infant in a Swedish neonatal ward.

The study took place in a 10-bed neonatal ward in a hospital in the south of Sweden and includes mothers having given birth to a preterm infant born before the 37th week of gestation. The aim of the study was to illuminate mothers' experiences of breastfeeding a preterm infant in a neonatal ward. Data collection includes written protocols from twelve mothers.

The lived experience of genital warts: the Swedish example.

Our aim in this study was to analyze and describe young Swedish women's experiences of living with genital warts. Interviews with 10 young women, aged 16-21 years, were interpreted within a lifeworld hermeneutic tradition. The women experience themselves as victims of a disgusting disease.

Short-term outcome of perinatal care in a Swedish county. Mortality, neonatal intensive care and overall evaluation of neuromotor function at 0-10 months of corrected age in preterm and term infants.

Improvements in obstetrical and neonatal care during the last decades have led to a marked increase in survival rate of preterm and term infants. In order to study the short- and long-term outcome in infants who survived neonatal intensive care (NIC) and were born in the county of Uppsala between January 1st 1986 and April 30th 1989, a prospective long-term follow-up study was conducted. Epidemiological data on all infants born in the county during the study period and the short-term outcome, measured as overall neuromotor function at term and at 2, 4, 6 and 10 months of corrected age in 245 infants surviving NIC and 72 healthy control infants are presented.

Thermal balance in term and preterm newborn infants nursed in an incubator equipped with a radiant heat source.

A radiant hood warmer, a device that heats the incubator roof independently of the incubator's main heat source, was used to study the thermal balance of 11 full term and 13 preterm (gestational age 25-34 weeks) infants exposed to an isolated elevation of incubator roof temperature at stable ambient air temperature and humidity. After initial measurements without active heating of the incubator roof, the hood warmer was set to 33 degrees C, 36 degrees C and finally (preterm infants only) to 39 degrees C. At least 18 min of measurements with the infant asleep were made at each hood warmer setting.

Irregular breathing in young lambs and newborn infants during heat stress.

Ten healthy unanaesthetized full-term lambs, aged 4-12 days, were studied during moderate radiant heat stress, and 21 full-term newborn infants were studied during moderate convective heat stress. The rate of breathing and the breathing pattern were recorded, using strain gauges made of mercury-filled rubber tubing placed around the thorax and abdomen. In both the lambs and the infants the respiratory rate increased during heat stress.

Respiratory water loss in relation to gestational age in infants on their first day after birth.

Respiratory water loss, oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production were measured in 32 infants on their first day after birth. Gestational age was between 27 and 41 weeks. All infants were studied in incubators with 50% ambient relative humidity and an ambient temperature that allowed the infant to maintain a normal and stable body temperature.

Endotracheal intubation influences respiratory water loss during heat stress in young lambs.

To study the effect of intubation on respiratory water loss (RWL) during heat stress, 10 young nonsedated lambs were exposed to radiative heat stress both when intubated and when not. RWL, oxygen consumption (VO2), and carbon dioxide production were monitored continuously by using a flow-through system with a mass spectrometer for gas analysis. When the lambs were not intubated, heat stress caused RWL to increase by 218%, whereas VO2 and body temperature remained unchanged.

Water loss from the skin of term and preterm infants nursed under a radiant heater.

The rate of evaporation from the skin (g/m2/h) was measured in 12 full-term and 16 preterm infants (gestational age 25-34 wk) both during incubator care and when nursed under a radiant heater. The method for evaporation rate measurement is noninvasive and based on determination of the water vapor pressure gradient close to the skin surface. Measurements were first made with the infant nursed in an incubator with a controlled environment with respect to humidity, temperature, and air velocity.

Respiratory water loss and oxygen consumption in full-term infants exposed to cold air on the first day after birth.

Respiratory water loss, oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide production and skin blood flow were measured continuously in nine full-term infants on the first day after birth. After at least 18 min of measurements with the infant asleep in an incubator, with an air temperature of 33 degrees C and a relative humidity of 50%, the temperature of the incubator air was lowered to less than 27.5 degrees C.

The temperature of inspired air influences respiratory water loss in young lambs.

The temperature of inspired air influences respiratory water loss (RWL) in young lambs. Water loss from the airways, oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production were measured using an open flow-through system with a mass spectrometer, specially equipped with a water channel, for gas analysis. Measurements were made in 9 newborn lambs at 3 different inspired air temperatures keeping all other environmental factors stable, including the ambient air temperature.

A protocol for structured observation of motor performance in preterm and term infants. Interobserver agreement and intraobserver consistency.

A new protocol for structured observation of motor performance, for use both in term and preterm infants, has been tested regarding interobserver agreement and intraobserver consistency. Ten different motor items are assessed concerning the developmental level as described in the protocol. Any deviations from the description of the level are noted.

Respiratory water loss and oxygen consumption in newborn infants during phototherapy.

Respiratory water loss was measured together with oxygen consumption (VO2) and carbon dioxide production (VCO2) in 11 full-term and eight preterm infants (mean gestational age 34 weeks, range 31-36 weeks) before and during 1 h of phototherapy. The method for determination of respiratory water loss, VO2 and VCO2 was based on an open flow-through system with a mass spectrometer for measurement of gas concentrations. All infants were studied naked in an incubator with an ambient relative humidity of 50% and with a controlled environment with respect to temperature and air velocity.

Insensible water loss from the skin during phototherapy in term and preterm infants.

The rate of evaporation from the skin was measured before and during phototherapy in 10 full-term and seven preterm infants (gestational age 29-33 weeks). The method for measurement of rate of evaporation was non-invasive and was based on determination of the water vapour pressure gradient close to the skin surface. All infants were studied naked in an incubator with an ambient relative humidity of 50% and with a controlled environment with respect to temperature and air velocity.