Publications by authors named "Karen Steenvinkel Pedersen"
Aims And Objectives: This study evaluates the short-term (3 months), medium-term (6 months) and long-term (12 months) effect of family nursing therapeutic conversations added to conventional care versus conventional care on social support, family health and family functioning in outpatients with heart failure and their family members.
Background: It has been emphasised that increased social support from nurses is an important resource to strengthen family health and family functioning and thus improve the psychological well-being of patients with heart failure and their close family members.
Design: A randomised multicentre trial.
Research shows that students who feel emotionally insecure are at risk of dropping out of nursing educational program. It is, therefore, important to support student resilience in the international nursing education. The aim of this study was to investigate the lived experiences of undergoing a nursing education as an emotionally insecure student.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Valid and reliable instruments to assess family functioning, health and social support in families with heart failure constitute a cornerstone in the detection of the families' needs, in improving their functioning and in evaluating the effects of nursing interventions.
Aim: To translate the three scales of the Family Functioning, Family Health and Social Support (FAFHES) questionnaire from Finnish into Danish, to test validity and reliability of the Danish version among outpatients with heart failure and to add to previous studies by reconstructing scales using confirmatory factor analysis.
Methods: A cross-sectional design was used to study a sample of 330 patients with heart failure who completed the FAFHES.