Psychometric properties of the full and short version Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture (NHSOPSC) instrument: a cross-sectional study assessing patient safety culture in Norwegian homecare services.

Objectives: Measure patient safety culture in homecare services; test the psychometric properties of the Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture (NHSOPSC) instrument; and propose a short-version Homecare Services Survey on Patient Safety Culture instrument for use in homecare services.

Design: Cross-sectional survey with psychometric testing.

Setting: Twenty-seven publicly funded homecare units in eight municipalities (six counties) in Norway.

User Needs in the Development of a Health App Ecosystem for Self-Management of Cystic Fibrosis: User-Centered Development Approach.

Background: Digital self-management in cystic fibrosis (CF) is foreseen as a means toward better understanding of the disease and its treatment and better adherence to the treatment. Mobile apps hold the potential to provide access to information, motivate, and strengthen compliance. However, to deliver high-quality apps, the development should be based on thorough knowledge about user needs.

Mainstream ICT Can Support Children and Adolescents with ADHD and/or Autism in Their Everyday Activities.

This exploratory case study investigated how ICT can support children with ADHD and/or autism and their families in their daily activities. We focus in particular on the suitability of mainstream technology for such support. Two cases are presented, and implications for practice are discussed.

Access to tuberculosis services for individuals with disability in rural Malawi, a qualitative study.

Tuberculosis occurs in all populations, but with higher prevalence in poor contexts. Vulnerable groups, including individuals with disability, run a particular risk due to poorer access to information and health services. Studying access to tuberculosis services for vulnerable groups in poor contexts may provide useful insight into the quality of such services in low-income contexts.

Seeking care for epilepsy and its impacts on households in a rural district in southern Malawi.

Background: Epilepsy is a disability as defined in the 2012 Disability Act of the Government of Malawi.

Objectives: This article explores the health-seeking behaviour of people with epilepsy in a rural town in southern Malawi and how having a person with epilepsy impacts on the households' productivity.

Method: A snowball approach was used to identify persons with various forms of disabilities.

Accessing community health services: challenges faced by poor people with disabilities in a rural community in South Africa.

Poor people with disabilities who live in poor rural societies experience unique problems in accessing health services. Their situation is influenced by multiple factors which unfold and interplay throughout the person's life course. The difficulties do not only affect the person with a disability and his or her family, but also impact on the relevant care unit.

The evil circle of poverty: a qualitative study of malaria and disability.

Background: This article discusses the link between disability and malaria in a poor rural setting. Global malaria programmes and rehabilitation programmes are organized as vertical and separate programmes, and as such they focus on prevention, cure and control, and disability respectively. When looking at specific conditions and illnesses, the impairing long-term consequences of illness incidents during childhood are not questioned.

[General practitioners' experiences with refugee patients].

Background: Refugees are likely to suffer from complex medical conditions due to persecution and exile. The symptoms may persist several years after the individual has fled his or her homeland. Knowledge of refugees' health condition in their receptive countries is insufficient.