Mothers' experiences living with diastasis recti abdominis - an interview study.

Background: Diastasis recti abdominis (DRA) is a common postpartum condition. Knowledge is scarce on how mothers perceive living with DRA. The interaction between healthcare providers and patients plays a significant role in shaping the healthcare service experience.

Persevering professionals: dilemmas of relationships and self-determination in work with people with intellectual disability - a multi-method study based on interpersonal process recall.

The article focuses on social educators' reflections on their own professional practice in encounters with people with intellectual disability receiving services. Drawing on Interpersonal Process Recall, a video-assisted method, together with a focus group interview, the study explores the experiences from in-situ encounters of five social educators employed in a Norwegian municipality. The key findings are that they view relationship-building as integral to their work, they grant primacy to the ideal of autonomy and they strive towards realizing this in their daily work.

Living the dream - but not without hardship: stories about self-directed weight transformation from severe obesity.

Design: In-depth interviews were conducted with eight women and two men, aged 27 to 59 years, who had carried out self-directed WL from SO for 5 years or more.

Two Themes Ran Across The Stories: fear of weight-regain, and food and emotion. We performed a case-based narrative analysis of especially rich interviews that illustrate these.

Pharmacists' experience of a diabetes risk-assessment service and analytical quality control in community pharmacies - A focus-group study.

Background: Healthcare services such as diabetes risk-assessment are increasingly common in community pharmacies. Knowledge of community pharmacists' experiences of such services could ease the implementation of a larger-scale service.

Objectives: To explore Norwegian pharmacists' experience of a diabetes risk-assessment service, including analytical quality control, in a community-pharmacy setting.

Facilitating new movement strategies: Equine assisted physiotherapy for children with cerebral palsy.

Background: Equine Assisted Physiotherapy (EAPT) offers children with cerebral palsy (CP) opportunities for new movement experiences, and may influence movement qualities. Descriptions of how, and to what extent EAPT affects trunk control is missing. The aim of this study was to explore if, and how changes in trunk control and changes in other movement aspects were observable in children with CP during EAPT, and if potential changes in trunk control could be measured.