Process evaluation of the CO-WORK-CARE model: Collaboration and a person-centred dialogue meeting for patients with common mental disorder in primary health care.

Rationale: To ensure optimal patient care based on evidence, it is crucial to understand how to implement new methods in practice. However, intervention studies often overlook parts of the implementation process. A comprehensive process evaluation is necessary to understand why interventions succeed or fail in specific contexts and to integrate new knowledge into daily practice.

A cognitive behavior intervention program in women with unexplained chest pain--a pilot study.

Background: Unexplained chest pain (UCP) affects everyday life, causing fear and anxiety. Patients often have difficulty understanding their symptoms.

Aim: To test a cognitive behavior group intervention program designed for women with UCP, and investigate its effects in terms of participants' ideas and perceptions of the program as well as their pain experience.

Coping strategies, stress, physical activity and sleep in patients with unexplained chest pain.

Background: The number of patients suffering from unexplained chest pain (UCP) is increasing. Intervention programmes are needed to reduce the chest pain and suffering experienced by these patients and effective preventive strategies are also required to reduce the incidence of these symptoms. The aim of this study was to describe general coping strategies in patients with UCP and examine the relationships between coping strategies, negative life events, sleep problems, physical activity, stress and chest pain intensity.

Pain characteristics in patients with unexplained chest pain and patients with ischemic heart disease.

Background: Little scientific attention has been paid to providing a comprehensive multidimensional description of chest pain in patients with unexplained chest pain.

Aims: The aims of the present study were: (1) to describe the symptom chest pain, including the dimensions of intensity, quality, duration and location in patients with unexplained chest pain (UCP); and (2) to identify similarities and differences in how patients with UCP and patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) describe chest pain.

Method: A descriptive, correlational and comparative design.

Living with unexplained chest pain.

Aim: The aim was to describe patients' experience of unexplained chest pain, and how the pain affected their everyday life.

Background: Chest pain is one of the most common reasons for patients to consult the emergency department. Often no clear ischaemic heart disease or any other somatic explanation is found.

Academic nursing education guidelines: tool for bridging the gap between theory, research and practice.

The aim of the present study was to develop educational guidelines to be used as a tool for the integration of theory, research and practice to ensure that nursing knowledge and practical skills form the basis of academic nursing education. An additional aim was to describe the nursing competence expected of the students at four academic levels: introductory, intermediate and advanced levels I and II. Clinical nursing education plays a crucial role in assisting nursing students to integrate the theory and practice of nursing at the baccalaureate level, as well as in further specialization and in-depth nursing studies at the advanced level.