Empowering Healthcare Professionals: Exploring Experiences Leading a Violence Prevention Course for Adults With Intellectual Disability.

Violence prevention approaches using social-ecological models inform interventions for people with intellectual disability, who often face barriers to accessing generalist courses. This study explores the experiences of healthcare professionals leading a prevention course specifically designed for adults with intellectual disability. Through semistructured interviews, 12 Norwegian course leaders highlighted the importance of raising awareness and comprehension about rights, and the social and individual factors influencing experiences of violence and its prevention.

Workplace interventions focusing on how to plan, organize and design the work environment in hospital settings: A systematic review.

Background: Occupational Health Service (OHS) is a service that should support employers and employees with their work environment. Previous research indicates the need for deeper knowledge about the effect of workplace interventions with a focus on planning, organizing and designing the workplace to improve work conditions in hospital settings.

Objective: The aim was to evaluate the outcomes, workplace interventions and intervention strategies in hospital settings.

Improving heart failure care with an Experience-Based Co-Design approach: what matters to persons with heart failure and their family members?

Background: Heart failure is a chronic heart condition. Persons with heart failure often have limited physical capability, cognitive impairments, and low health literacy. These challenges can be barriers to healthcare service co-design with family members and professionals.

Telemedicine consultations with physicians in Swedish primary care: a mixed methods study of users' experiences and care patterns.

Objective: The study aimed to explore users' experiences and care patterns concerning telemedicine consultations with physicians in Swedish primary care from 2017 to 2019.: A mixed methods study involving 26 qualitative interviews with users of telemedicine consultations from a national sample, complemented by a quantitative registry study of data from 10,400 users in a Swedish region.

Results: Users mainly described telemedicine consultations as a positive experience and perceived that the service met their current health care needs.

[Introduction of prehospital blood transfusion programme in Sweden: experiences from a physician staffed helicopter emergency medical service].

In 2016, physician staffed helicopter emergency medical service (VGR HEMS) became the first Swedish prehospital service to routinely carry and transfuse red blood cells. In this report we describe our implementation and present our results, with preliminary analysis of our data. Out of 1 336 patients a total of 34 patients (2,5 %) were transfused without any adverse events.

Swedish version of the multi dimensional health assessment questionnaire -- translation and psychometric evaluation.

Background: Health assessment measurements for patients with Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have to be meaningful, valid and relevant. A commonly used questionnaire for patients with RA is the Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ), which has been available in Swedish since 1988. The HAQ has been revised and improved several times and the latest version is the Multi Dimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire (MDHAQ).

Sexual health in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: experiences, needs and communication with health care professionals.

Pain, fatigue and decreased joint mobility caused by rheumatoid arthritis (RA) often decrease sexual health in RA patients. Regular physiotherapy interventions in patients with RA are often aimed at improving those factors. The aim of the present study was to explore the experiences and views of patients concerning the impact of RA on their sexual health, the possible impact of physiotherapy interventions, and communication in clinical situations.

Women's experiences of sexual health when living with rheumatoid arthritis--an explorative qualitative study.

Background: The ICF core sets for patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) acknowledge sexual function and intimate relationships as important since the patients' sexual health can be affected by the disease. About 36-70% of all RA-patients experience a reduced sexual health, and their perceived problems are directly or indirectly caused by their disease. Physiotherapy is often used as non-pharmacological treatment for RA.