Long-term follow-up 3 years after a randomized rehabilitation study among radiated prostate cancer survivors.

Purpose: In the Rehabilitation of Prostate Cancer (RePCa) study, the intervention reduced early adverse effects in prostate cancer 6 months after radiotherapy. This 3-year follow-up study assesses late adverse effects, evaluates rehabilitative long-term effects and identifies patients who benefit the most.

Design: RePCa was a randomized clinical trial with multidisciplinary rehabilitation (n = 79) or usual care (n = 82).

Effect of family nursing therapeutic conversations on health-related quality of life, self-care and depression among outpatients with heart failure: A randomized multi-centre trial.

Objective: To evaluate the short-term (3 months) effects of family nursing therapeutic conversations (FNTC) on health-related quality of life, self-care and depression in outpatients with Heart failure (HF).

Methods: A randomised multi-centre trial was conducted in three Danish HF clinics. The control group (n = 167) received usual care, and the intervention group (n = 180) received FNTCs as supplement to usual care.

Male coping through a long-term cancer trajectory. Secondary outcomes from a RTC examining the effect of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program (RePCa) among radiated men with prostate cancer.

Background: The objective of this study was to examine if rehabilitation influenced self-reported male coping styles during and up to three years after treatment with radiotherapy for prostate cancer.

Materials And Methods: In a single-center oncology unit in Odense, Denmark, 161 prostate cancer patients treated with radiotherapy and androgen deprivation therapy were included in a randomized controlled trial from 2010 to 2012. The trial examined the effect of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program within six months of treatment consisting of two nursing counseling sessions and two instructive sessions with a physical therapist (n = 79), or standard care (n = 82).

The Importance of Risk and Subgroup Analysis of Nonparticipants in a Geriatric Intervention Study.

Background. A major concern in intervention studies is the generalizability of the findings due to refusal of intended participants to actually take part. In studies including ill older people the number of those declining to participate may be large and the concern is therefore relevant.

Validity and reliability of the Danish version of the 9-item European Heart Failure Self-care Behavior Scale.

Objective: To assess the self-care of patients with heart failure (HF), reliable and validated instruments are needed. The aim of this study was to test the validity and reliability of the Danish version of the European Heart Failure Self-care Behavior Scale (EHFScBS-9) based on previous studies reporting 1, 2 and 3 factors, respectively.

Methods: A convenience sample of 147 patients with HF completed the EHFScBS-9.

Nurses' experience of using an application to support new parents after early discharge: an intervention study.

Background. A development towards earlier postnatal discharge presents a challenge to find new ways to provide information and support to families. A possibility is the use of telemedicine.

The development of family nursing in Denmark: current status and future perspectives.

Over the past 12 years, a strong foundation for family nursing has been built in Denmark, with rapid growth in the past 3 years. A review of nursing research conducted in Denmark and published between 2002 and 2013 found 15 studies that examined family phenomena. The majority of the studies used descriptive methods with data collected from surveys and interviews involving family members either together or individually.

Seven- to nine-year-old children's own assessment of health-related quality of life is important in preventing overweight and obesity.

The aim was to study how, and to what degree, health-related quality of life (HRQOL), as assessed by children and their mothers, was related to overweight and obesity among children aged seven to nine years. Mother-child pairs of 149 non-overweight, 95 overweight and 16 obese children participated. We assessed HRQOL by the children's self-report and parent proxy report module of the PedsQL™ 4.

Childhood Overweight Dependence on Mother-Child Relationship.

The causes of childhood overweight are numerous and inter-related. The mother-child relationship is of great significance for the child's health. Previous studies have found patterns of dysfunctional interaction in families with obese children.

Identifying factors significant to continuity in basic palliative hospital care-from the perspective of patients with advanced cancer.

Based on the research method grounded theory and semistructured patient interviews at home following hospitalization, the aim was to provide information on issues relating to the identification and alleviation of patients' physical and emotional problems, understood as continuity in palliative care. The interviews were based on selected problems that patients found significant. The results are distilled into the core category disheartening interactions and four categories: falling outside the professional framework, not being seen as a person, unidentified/unmet need for guidance and involvement, and patient strategy-minimizing conflict.

Testing a two step nursing intervention focused on decreasing rehospitalizations and nursing home admission post discharge from acute care.

Older adults are at high risk of readmission on discharge from the Acute Medical and Emergency Department (ED). This study examines the effect of a two-stage nursing assessment and intervention to address older adults' uncompensated problems and thus intend to prevent readmission and functional decline. A randomized controlled study was conducted.

Do families after early postnatal discharge need new ways to communicate with the hospital? A feasibilility study.

Objective: the length of the postnatal hospital stay in Denmark as well as globally has been radically reduced over the past 10-20 years and this raises the challenge of finding new ways of providing observation and support to families discharged early, that they otherwise would be provided as inpatients.

Aim: this study is to identify the nursing support needs of new parents and their infants during the first seven days post partum, by drawing on the experiences of all stakeholders' in early postnatal discharge from hospital, and thereby gaining new knowledge to investigate further whether telemedicine is a viable option in providing the required support.

Design: this article describes the first phase of a participatory design process.

Continuity in care trajectories of older chronically ill patients in a battlefield of competing rationales.

Background: Continuity is crucial when caring for older chronically ill patients. Research has shown that the integration of patients' own perspectives on their situation is of utmost importance for continuity and quality of care. Studies have, however, demonstrated a number of problems with health professionals' communication concerning older patients, leading to lack of continuity and integration of the patient perspective in care and treatment.

Action competence obstacles to managing childhood overweight: in-depth interviews with mothers of 7- to 9-year-old children.

This qualitative phenomenological study interviewed seven mothers to overweight children and six mothers to non-overweight children aged 7 to 9 years old about their views and experiences with preventing and managing overweight in their children. The essence was that the mothers felt responsible for their children's habits, including those leading to overweight. They also felt that competent and had the opportunity to take preventive measures against child overweight but they did not always have the energy to do so.

Living alone, obesity and smoking: important factors for quality of life after radiotherapy and androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer.

Background: While effective treatment of prostate cancer with radiotherapy and hormones increase survival, adverse effects may reduce quality of life (QoL). The aim of this study was to investigate frequency and severity of self-assessed late adverse effects, and identify the patients most exposed.

Material And Methods: QoL of 317 cancer survivors with primary stage T1-T3 prostate cancer treated with conformal radiotherapy (70-78 Gy) and androgen deprivation therapy was analyzed by using SF-12 and EPIC-26 questionnaires.

Gynecological cancer patients' differentiated use of help from a nurse navigator: a qualitative study.

Background: Fragmentation in healthcare can present challenges for patients with suspected cancer. It can add to existing anxiety, fear, despair and confusion during disease trajectory. In some circumstances patients are offered help from an extra contact person, a Nurse Navigator (NN).

Geriatric nursing assessment and intervention in an emergency department: a pilot study.

Aim: To describe and test a model for structured nursing assessment and intervention to older people discharged from emergency department (ED).

Background: Older people recently discharged from hospital are at high risk of readmission. This risk may increase when they are discharged straight home from an ED as time pressure requires staff to focus on the presenting problem although many have complex, unresolved, care needs.

The impact on self-efficacy of different types of follow-up care and disease status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis--a randomized trial.

Objective: To explore the impact from different types of outpatient care, demographic and disease related variables on self-efficacy beliefs (SE) in patients with established rheumatoid arthritis (RA) after completing an educational program.

Methods: 287 adult RA outpatients with low disease activity and moderate physical disability from two Danish rheumatology clinics were randomized for follow-up care. (1) planned rheumatologist's consultations, (2) a shared care model without planned consultations, (3) planned nursing consultations.

Benefits and challenges perceived by patients with cancer when offered a nurse navigator.

Introduction: Lack of communication, care and respect from healthcare professionals can be challenges for patients in trajectories of cancer, possibly accompanied by experienced fragmentation of the care, anxiety and worries. One way to try to improve delivery of care is additional help from nurse navigators (NN) offered in a predefined shorter or longer period, but patients' experiences with this have seldom been investigated.

Aims: To explore experiences of nurse navigation offered in a short period of a longer subsequent part of cancer trajectories by patients who can use the help on offer.

The lonely female partner: a central aspect of prostate cancer.

The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate the experiences of female partners to men with prostate cancer. The women found the capacity to manage their lives through mutual love in the family and through their faith.

Promoting the health of Europeans in a rapidly changing world: a historical study of the implementation of World Health Organisation policies by the Nursing and Midwifery Unit, European Regional Office, 1970-2003.

Promoting the health of Europeans in a rapidly changing world: a historical study of the implementation of World Health Organisation policies by the Nursing and Midwifery Unit, European Regional Office, 1970-2003 The World Health Organisation (WHO) was inaugurated in 1948. Formed in a period of post-war devastation, WHO aimed to develop and meet goals that would rebuild the health of shattered populations. The historical study reported here examined the work of the Nursing and Midwifery Unit (NMU) of WHO's European Regional Office during the later part of the twentieth century.

Child overweight--mothers' competence to take action.

Objective: We investigated mothers' possession and display of action competence to counteract or prevent overweight and eventual obesity in their children. Action competence is defined as a personal resource where the most important aspect is the individual's wish to take action and to believe in its benefit. It unfolds within the room for action as experienced by the individual due to action obstacles and action potentials.

Maternal and child awareness and expectations of child overweight.

Objective: We investigated mothers' and children's assessments of body weight and their expectations about perceived body size in relation to overweight of the children.

Methods: We performed a case-control study of 111 cases of overweight children and 149 controls of non-overweight children (mean age 8.1 years) and their mothers.

Newly qualified nurses--experiences of interaction with members of a community of practice.

Aim: To explore newly qualified nurses' (NQN) interaction with members of community of practice (CoP) and how it affects their participation in the CoP.

Background: The entry of NQNs into the health care service is problematic which can result in NQNs leaving the profession within the first years of their career. Studies indicate that interaction between NQNs and their colleagues has an important influence of the way in which the NQNs experience their participation in the community of practice.