Association of Foot Health and Lower Extremity Function in Older People with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction: Foot health and lower extremity function are important in older people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), as they maintain and promote these individuals' independent living and functional health. RA is a long-term inflammatory health condition that alters foot structure and function. Relatively little is known about the association between foot health and lower extremity function in older people with RA.

Empowering Healthcare Through User Feedback: A Multidimensional Analysis of the Knowledge.

Purpose: Feedback from service users is a valuable source for improving the quality of care and services, potentially reflecting the successes and failures in providing empowering healthcare. In supporting empowerment, the multidimensionality of knowledge of service users is assumed to be a crucial factor, yet feedback has not been explored from the perspective of empowering knowledge. In this study, the aim was to analyze the knowledge areas expressed in the service users' feedback from the point of view of empowering knowledge.

Effect of robot for medication management on home care professionals' use of working time in older people's home care: a non-randomized controlled clinical trial.

Background: Medication management has a key role in the daily tasks of home care professionals delivered to older clients in home care. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of using a robot for medication management on home care professionals´ use of working time.

Methods: A pragmatic non-randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted.

Self-reported competence level of occupational health care professionals in work ability risk management and analysis.

Background: The management and analysis of work ability risks is important to support well-being at work and requires multidimensional competence. Competence evaluation in Occupational Health Care professionals' (OHCP) practice is essential for their professional development and promotion of quality of care.

Objective: To describe OHCPs' self-reported competence level to manage and analyze work ability risks.

Nurse competence provides more individuality in the care of older hospitalized people.

Aim: The aim of the study was to assess Registered Nurses' perceptions of general nurse competence, patient-centred care competence, and individuality in the care of older patients and to explore their associations.

Design: A descriptive correlative survey.

Methods: Data were collected using questionnaires at one Finnish university hospital during winter 2016-2017 amongst Registered Nurses (n = 223) and analyzedd statistically using descriptive and inferential statistics (ANOVA, Pearson's correlations coefficients) and path analysis.

Psychometric testing of the facilitative student-patient relationship scale within six EUROPEAN countries.

Aim: The aim of the study was to test the psychometric properties of the Facilitative Student-Patient Relationship (FSPR) Scale in clinical practicum in hospital settings within six European countries.

Design: A multi-country, cross-sectional survey design was applied.

Methods: A convenience sample of graduating nursing students (N = 1,796) completed the FSPR Scale.

Mental health literacy among primary healthcare workers in South Africa and Zambia.

Background: In developing countries, mental health literacy (MHL) still needs to be improved due to the high prevalence of mental disorders. It is widely recognized that MHL can improve health outcomes for both individuals and populations. Healthcare professionals' development in MHL is crucial to the prevention of mental disorders.

The prevalence of foot health problems in people living with a rheumatic condition: a cross-sectional observational epidemiological study.

This study aimed to determine the prevalence of foot health problems in people living with any rheumatic condition and explore potential associations with exposure variables. A cross-sectional observational epidemiological design was applied. The participants were recruited from one regional patient association in southwest Finland.

National registry-based data of adverse events in Finnish long-term professional homecare in 2009-2019.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to discover the nature of the adverse events in Finnish long-term professional homecare reported by professionals, and to identify the circumstances in which adverse events occur and their consequences.

Background: Adverse events are incidents causing unintended and unnecessary harm to older people at home. Safety is a basic human right and a fundamental prerequisite for independent living among older people at home.

Construct validity and internal consistency of the revised Mental Health Literacy Scale in South African and Zambian contexts.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the construct validity and internal consistency of the revised Mental Health Literacy Scale (MHLS) in South Africa (SA) and Zambia.

Design: This cross-sectional study was conducted between October 2018 and December 2019.

Methods: The study population comprised PHC workers (n = 454) in five districts in SA and Zambia.

Nurses' self-assessed moral courage and related socio-demographic factors.

Background: Nurses need moral courage to ensure ethically good care. Moral courage is an individual characteristic and therefore it is relevant to examine its association with nurses' socio-demographic factors.

Objective: To describe nurses' self-assessed level of moral courage and its association with their socio-demographic factors.

Self-assessed foot health in older people with rheumatoid arthritis-A cross-sectional study.

Background: Foot and ankle problems are especially common in patients with RA, causing significant disability and limitation in daily activities. Previous studies have mainly focussed on foot problems in the adult population whilst the evidence of foot health in the older population is scarce.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to analyse self-assessed foot health and associated factors in older people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Healthcare student-patient relationship and the quality of the clinical learning environment - a cross-sectional study.

Background: Relationships with patients are seen as the core component of establishing the quality of patient-centred care and promoting patients' autonomy and relevant use of services. A clinical learning environment that emphasizes relationship-based healthcare is essential for encouraging future healthcare professionals to work in partnership with patients. There is also broad agreement that the insight of patients should be used actively in healthcare students' clinical learning.

Validation of the Dutch-language version of Nurses' Moral Courage Scale.

Background: Moral courage as a part of nurses' moral competence has gained increasing interest as a means to strengthen nurses acting on their moral decisions and offering alleviation to their moral distress. To measure and assess nurses' moral courage, the development of culturally and internationally validated instruments is needed.

Objective: The objective of this study was to validate the Dutch-language version of the four-component Nurses' Moral Courage Scale originally developed and validated in Finnish data.

The development and testing of the C/WoundComp instrument for assessing chronic wound-care competence in student nurses and podiatrists.

The purpose of this study was to describe the level of chronic wound-care competence among graduating student nurses and student podiatrists in comparison with that of professionals and to develop and test a new instrument (the C/WoundComp) that assesses both theoretical and practical competence in chronic wound care as well as attitudes towards wound care. The data (N = 135) were collected in 2019 from four groups (1): graduating student nurses (n = 44) (2); graduating student podiatrists (n = 28) (3); registered nurses (n = 54); and (4) podiatrists (n = 9). The data were analysed using statistical analysis.

Instruments for Patient Education: Psychometric Evaluation of the Expected Knowledge (EKhp) and the Received Knowledge of Hospital Patients (RKhp).

Purpose: In patient education, there is a need for valid and reliable instruments to assess and tailor empowering educational activities. In this study, we summarize the process of producing two parallel instruments for analyzing hospital patients' expectations (Expected Knowledge of Hospital Patients, EKhp) and received knowledge (Received Knowledge of Hospital Patients, RKhp) and evaluate the psychometrics of the instruments based on international data. In the instruments, six elements of empowering knowledge are included (bio-physiological, functional, experiential, ethical, social, and financial).

Nursing student-patient relationship - a 10-year comparison study in Finland.

Objective This study aimed to describe and compare the group-level findings from 2005-2006 and 2015-2016 regarding students' and patients' views of the nursing student-patient relationship and associated factors. Methods The data were in both cases collected using Student-Patient Relationship Scales. The data were analysed statistically.

Validation of the Finnish Person-Centered care Climate Questionnaire-Patient and testing the relationship with individualised care.

Aims: The aim of the study was two-fold: (1) to test the psychometric properties of the Person-Centered care Climate Questionnaire-Patient-Finnish version (PCQ-P-Fin), and (2) to examine the associations between older patients' perceptions of the PCC climate and their perceptions of individuality in care delivered within acute care settings for older people.

Design: An exploratory, correlational, cross-sectional survey design.

Methods: The study was conducted within acute care settings for older people with heart failure (n = 111, response rate 54%).

Patient participation in pro re nata medication in forensic psychiatric care: A nursing document analysis.

What Is Known On The Subject: As-needed medication is commonly used for psychiatric inpatients' acute psychiatric and physical symptoms. Both patients and staff can initiate such medication. Earlier studies have focused on what and how as-needed medication has been used for psychiatric reasons.

Emotions of Orthopaedic Arthroplasty Patients: A European Survey.

Methods: This was a pre/post-observational study examining patients' emotions before and during elective knee or hip replacement surgery for osteoarthritis in seven European Union countries to identify factors related to better emotional status at discharge.

Instruments: In addition to demographic data, information was collected on quality of life (EuroQoL five-dimension questionnaire), hospital expectations (Knowledge Expectations of Hospital Patients Scale), symptoms, and experienced emotions.

Analysis: Total negative emotions scores at baseline and discharge were transformed into median values.

Nursing student-patient relationship and related factors-A self-assessment by nursing students.

Aims And Objectives: To describe the nursing student-patient relationship in terms of three types of relationships-mechanistic, authoritative and facilitative-and analyse the factors related to the type of relationship.

Background: As future professionals, nursing students have a central role in facilitating patient autonomy while working in partnership with patients. Supporting student-patient relationship throughout the nursing education may result in positive outcomes for both students and patients.

Congruence between nursing students' and patients' views of student-patient relationships.

The growing emphasis on learning with and from patients has shifted the focus from education and healthcare professionals to the student-patient relationship. The relationship between student and patient, with a supportive preceptor as a resource, can influence the progression and development of an authentic person-centred approach to care among students. The purpose of this study was to analyse the congruence between nursing students' and patients' views of their relationship during students' clinical placement.

Development and testing of a new electronic foot health promotion programme on nurses' foot self-care.

Background: Nurses form the largest professional group in health care, and they spend most of their working day on their feet. From the perspective of work well-being, healthy feet are important to tolerate the physical demands of nursing work. However, little is known about how nurses' foot self-care practices can be promoted with computerised interventions.