Aim: To develop an empirical model that explores and explains the social process of the encounters of men who suffered pregnancy loss with health and social environments.
Methods: A constructivist grounded theory method was performed, whereby 23 couples were interviewed using a semi-structured interview. Men that suffered pregnancy loss were analysed iteratively, with line-by-line and incident-to-incident coding, focused coding and axial coding, until data saturation and the emergence of theory.
Objective: To synthesize the available body of qualitative research regarding the experiences of men after an involuntary pregnancy loss.
Design: Noblit and Hare's interpretive meta-ethnography of 13 original qualitative articles was carried out.
Results: After reciprocal and refutational translations, the lines of argument synthesis were developed, together with the metaphor "Knight by force and wounded, protecting without a shield.
Objective: This study uses a meta-ethnography to synthesize qualitative research on the experiences of women during pregnancies after one or more perinatal losses.
Design: This interpretive meta-ethnography followed the Noblit and Hare approach and the eMERGe Meta-ethnography Reporting Guidance. Manual searches and a comprehensive systematic search were conducted in Pubmed, Scopus, Cinahl, Web of Science, and Psycinfo.
Background: Nurses play key roles as vaccination agents and frontline workers who deal with prejudice and misinformation. This study examined the attitudes and perceptions of nursing students regarding corona-virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination and its social and institutional management.
Method: This qualitative study consisted of an exploratory phase involving first- and fourth-year nursing students and a second phase using the PhotoVoice tool SHOWED mnemonic method followed by discussion groups with second-year nursing students.
Background: Abortion is one of the most common gynaecological procedures. It is related to personal, social, and economic reasons under a legal term that is recognised as a common sexual and reproductive right in most of countries. However, making the decision to abort is complex, because it is politicised and is often framed in public discourse related to moral or ethical issues beyond women's experiences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Gender-based violence is a major public health problem. Healthcare providers' ability to identify this type of violence and support victims may be influenced by their knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs, which requires solid education.
Objectives: To identify the gender-based violence attitudes and dating violence experiences of students in nursing and other health sciences.
Objective: To synthesise the available body of qualitative work regarding the experiences of registered nurses and nursing students in managing emotional demands of care.
Background: Care is the central part of nursing, and its provision is linked to interaction with patients. Comprehensive care allows emotions to be considered as an essential part of care.
Voluntary abortions are relatively frequent and their care is complex due to the social stigma that surrounds these losses. This interpretive meta-ethnography of 11 original qualitative articles aims to synthesize the moral experiences of nurses and midwives who cared for women and couples that decided to abort or terminate the pregnancy due to foetal abnormalities. Lines of argument synthesis emerged after reciprocal and refutational translations, together with the metaphor, 'Going with the flow or swimming against the tide'.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic both exposed and increased weaknesses in the healthcare system, so that novice nurses have become a more vulnerable group during this context.
Aim: This study sought to illuminate experience of novice nurses in providing care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method: It consists of a qualitative study conducted with data collected by means of semistructured interviews, audio recorded, transcribed, anonymised, and analysed in the light of the phenomenological hermeneutic approach.
Nursing staff plays a key role in the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, being in the front line of care. This study sought to synthesise the qualitative literature on care experiences of frontline nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. A search was conducted on five databases in January 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Men can express different responses after pregnancy loss. This loss can interfere with their expectation of parenthood, new life, and future hopes. Expectations from the social construction of gender can encourage them to maintain an image that contradicts their actual feelings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To synthesise the experience of nursing students in their final years regarding high-fidelity simulation in acute and critical care.
Background: For the complex and changing healthcare environment, new tools are required to help health students, educational staff and managers to design and present rewarding educational simulations. Due to the complexity and limited learning opportunities in real settings, high-fidelity simulation enables students to acquire skills for the provision of acute and critical care in a controlled environment that closely imitates reality; however, the literature on students' learning experiences with this education methodology is still limited.
Background: Parents who experience involuntary pregnancy loss encounter nurses and midwives when requiring care. But the environment in which this attention is provided turns it into a stressful and challenging event that favours the concealment of emotions. Literature supports the development of compassion in nurses and midwives who tend to parents who experience pregnancy losses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA generic qualitative research, using a poststructuralist feminist perspective, was conducted in a Spanish gynaecology unit with the following aims: (a) to analyse how asymmetric power relations in relation to biomedical knowledge and gender shape the medical encounters between gynaecologists and women diagnosed with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and (b) to explore the cognitive, moral, and emotional responses expressed by patients. A total of 21 women diagnosed with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia were recruited through purposive sampling. Semi-structured interviews were recorded and transcribed, and a thematic analysis was carried out.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
July 2021
(1) Background: Health professionals play an important role in addressing parents who are hesitant or reluctant to immunise their children. Despite the importance of this topic, gaps remain in the literature about these experiences. This meta-ethnography aimed to synthesise the available body of qualitative work about the care experiences of community and hospital health professionals in encounters with parents hesitant or reluctant to vaccinate their children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To illuminate the experiences of primary healthcare midwives who care for parents who have suffered an involuntary pregnancy loss.
Design: The phenomenological hermeneutic approach developed by Lindseth and Norberg was used to carry out narrative interviews.
Setting And Participants: A purposive sample of 11 public primary healthcare midwives from a municipality in northern Spain, was selected.
Objective: design and validate a questionnaire to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of nurses about the subcutaneous venous reservoir.
Method: pilot test: 30 specialized care nurses. Main study: 236 nurses of primary and specialized care.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
February 2020
Healthcare professionals find the care of parents following an involuntary pregnancy loss stressful and challenging. They also feel unprepared to support bereaved parents. The challenging nature of this support may have a personal impact on health professionals and the care provided to parents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: After the early detection of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), medical surveillance of the precancerous lesions is carried out to control risk factors to avoid the development of cervical cancer.
Objective: To explore the effects of medical surveillance on the personal and social lives of women undergoing CIN follow-up and treatment.
Methodology: A generic qualitative study using a poststructuralist perspective of risk management was carried out in a gynecology clinic in a public hospital of the Galician Health Care System (Spain).
Aims: To synthesize research findings regarding the coping experiences of parents following perinatal loss.
Design: Noblit and Hare's interpretive meta-ethnography was followed.
Data Sources: A comprehensive systematic search of the published literature (2013-2018) was undertaken in five databases, complemented by supplementary searches.
Background: Internationally, women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) lack knowledge about their disease, which limits their ability to take responsibility for self-care and creates negative psychosocial effects, including marital problems. Normally, screening is performed in primary care, and in case of abnormal results, the patient is referred to specialized care for follow-up and treatment. Given the lack of international literature regarding patients' experiences in primary and specialized healthcare, our study aims to: (a) investigate how women with CIN perceive the communication and management of information by healthcare providers at different moments of their healthcare and (b) identify these women's informational needs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of this qualitative study was to discover the coping strategies used by Spanish (European) women to cope with a pregnancy loss. Sixteen women with miscarriages and stillbirths were interviewed. All of the women were Spanish European.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Determine the level of knowledge about maternal breastfeeding and analyze to what extent this influences the intention to breastfeed after the introduction of infant feeding at the 6th and 16th weeks and at 6 months postpartum.
Method: Prospective descriptive study conducted with pregnant women in Galicia (Spain). By means of a self-filling questionnaire, data were collected on the intention of the woman to feed the newborn and their knowledge about breastfeeding.
Unlabelled: In Spain, the use of generics has considerably evolved in a short period of time through different anti-crisis legislation changes. Before the financial crisis the proposal of generics was an option for patients. Nowadays its use is actively enforced by Health authorities.
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