Communication skills in nursing: A phenomenologically-based communication training approach.

The aim of this article is to present a communication skills training curriculum for nursing students, based upon phenomenology. Research shows that nurses have difficulty prioritizing dialogue with patients, due to lack of time, organizational and cultural factors. Like other health care professionals, nurses may also have difficulties communicating with patients due to personal fears and shortcomings.

Adaptation to a changed body. Experiences of living with long-term pelvic girdle pain after childbirth.

Purpose: To explore how women experience living with long-term pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain.

Materials And Methods: Nine women with persistent pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain of 2-13 years were recruited by means of purposive sampling from long-term follow-up studies. The women were 28-42 years of age and had given birth to 2-3 children.

Group supervision for healthcare professionals within primary care for patients with psychosomatic health problems: a pilot intervention study.

Background: In primary health care, efficacious treatment strategies are lacking for these patients, although the most prominent symptoms accounting for consultation in primary care often cannot be related to any biological causes.

Aim: The aim was to explore whether group supervision from a specific phenomenological theory of psychosomatics could provide healthcare professionals treating patients with psychosomatic health issues within primary care a deeper understanding of these conditions and stimulate profession-specific treatment strategies. Our research questions were as follows: (i) What is the healthcare professionals' understanding of psychosomatics before and after the intervention? (ii) What are the treatment strategies for this group of patients before and after the intervention?

Methods: The study was an explorative qualitative intervention pilot study.

Meanings of "acceptance" for patients with long-term pain when starting rehabilitation.

Purpose: The study aimed to elucidate the meaning of acceptance in relation to the lived body and sense of self when entering a pain rehabilitation programme.

Methods: Six women and three men with long-term pain were interviewed. The interviews were analysed according to interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Body awareness in persons diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.

Living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) poses physiological and psychological demands on a person. RA is a autoimmune disease that can cause pain, disability, and suffering. The ability to notice bodily inner sensations and stimuli (body awareness, BA) is described in the literature in ways that could have either a positive or a negative impact on a person's health.

Regaining health and wellbeing after traumatic spinal cord injury.

Objective: Traumatic spinal cord injury is typically a devastating event, leading to permanent physical disability. Despite the severity of the condition, many persons with traumatic spinal cord injury manage to lead both active and independent lives. The aim of this study was to investigate the experience of health and wellbeing of persons living with a traumatic spinal cord injury for at least 20 years.

My prosthesis as a part of me: a qualitative analysis of living with an osseointegrated prosthetic limb.

Background: Bone-anchored prosthesis is still a rather unusual treatment for patients with limb loss.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to improve our understanding about the experience of living with an osseointegrated prosthesis (OI-prosthesis) compared to one suspended with a socket, through the use of qualitative research methodology.

Study Design: A qualitative phenomenological research method.

Embodiment and chronic pain: implications for rehabilitation practice.

Throughout the Western world people turn towards the health care system seeking help for a variety of psychosomatic/psychosocial health problems. They become "patients" and find themselves within a system of practises that conceptualizes their bodies as "objective" bodies, treats their ill health in terms of the malfunctioning machine, and compartmentalizes their lived experiences into medically interpreted symptoms and signs of underlying biological dysfunction. The aim of this article is to present an alternative way of describing ill health and rehabilitation using the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty in order to deepen our understanding of the rehabilitation process.

Experiences of moving with persistent pain--a qualitative study from a patient perspective.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to use a phenomenological approach to explore how patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain experienced moving with their pain.

Design: In-depth interviews were performed by a physical therapy researcher with many years' experience with the rehabilitation of patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain.

Setting: The patients took part in individual rehabilitation at two different physical therapy departments.

Meaning out of chaos: a way to understand chronic pain.

Pain is a multidimensional phenomenon lying at the intersection between biology and culture. The modern understanding of pain takes into account emotional, psychological, socio-political and existential aspects of pain as well as physiological, anatomical factors. Our aim in this study was to deepen the understanding of psychosocial, existential aspects of pain and to discuss how clinicians can better understand and treat patients with chronic pain.