From a learning opportunity to a conscious multidimensional change: a metasynthesis of transcultural learning experiences among nursing students.

Background: Several educational activities in nursing schools worldwide have been implemented to promote transcultural nursing and cultural competence. Despite the diversity of their experiences and outcomes, the available evidence has not been systematically reviewed and reinterpreted. This study aimed to review and reinterpret all rigorous qualitative evidence available, providing an opportunity to understand how students learn transcultural nursing and assisting faculties, researchers, managers, and practitioners in designing new interventions to improve transcultural training.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Adolescents' Mental Health in Catalonia (Spain): A Qualitative Study.

This study aimed to understand the experiences of adolescents regarding the perceived impact of COVID-19 on their mental health in Catalonia (Spain). A qualitative exploratory methodology was used with a purposive sample of 30 high-school students regarding their experiences of the self-perceived impact of COVID-19 on their mental health. Data were thematically analyzed using Braun and Clarke method.

Self-care of the feet in people with type 2 diabetes. A qualitative study.

Objective: To understand the experiences of adults over 65 years of age with type 2 diabetes mellitus, regarding foot self-care.

Method: Qualitative phenomenological study with a descriptive approach. It is carried out in the facilities of the Primary Care Center of Les Planes de Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona, belonging to the Catalan Institute of Health.

Chemsex in Barcelona: A qualitative study of factors associated with the practice, the perception of the impact on health and prevention needs.

Chemsex is defined as use of psychoactive drugs with the aim of having sexual relations between gay men, bisexuals and men who have sex with men for a long period of time. To study this phenomenon, this qualitative descriptive study was proposed with the objective of describing the practice of chemsex from the perspective of users, to determine the main factors associated with its practice, the perception of the impact on their health and to establish prevention needs. Data were obtained using conversational techniques: 12 semi-structured interviews and 3 focus groups.

Expectations of patients awaiting lung transplantation: A qualitative study.

Aim: The main aim of the present study is to examine the expectations and feelings of people awaiting lung transplantation.

Background: The assessment of the benefits of lung transplant should consider, among other things, the subjective perceptions of patients about the procedure, especially in relation to the context and to their values, goals and expectations. This is an issue that has not been studied in depth, especially in Spain.

Effectiveness of Narrative Photography in Increasing Nursing Students' Empathy: A Pretest-Posttest Study.

Background: Narrative photography is a method that can enhance nursing students' empathy when caring for individuals with HIV.

Method: This quasiexperimental pre-test-posttest study included 28 first-year nursing students from a public university in Barcelona, Spain. Empathy was assessed using the Spanish validated version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index.

The nursing critical thinking in clinical practice questionnaire for nursing students: A psychometric evaluation study.

Aim: To adapt and validate the N-CT-4 Practice for use with Spanish nursing students.

Background: Promoting critical thinking is one of the primary objectives of nursing education programs all over the world. Using reliable and valid instruments to measure critical thinking is essential.

Autonomy and isolation experienced by patients and primary caregivers during COVID-19 hospitalization in Barcelona (Spain).

This study aims to describe patients' and family caregivers' hospitalization experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using qualitative exploratory descriptive methods, 13 patients admitted to the largest hospital in Barcelona (Spain) due to COVID-19 were interviewed by telephone once discharged, as were eight primary caregivers. Data were analyzed using the content analysis method proposed by Krippendorff.

TRANSALUD: A qualitative study of the healthcare experiences of transgender people in Barcelona (Spain).

Transgender identities are still considered a psychiatric pathology in many countries according to the prevailing biomedical model. However, in recent years, this pathologizing vision has begun to shift towards a perspective that focuses on the diversity of transgender peoples' experiences. However, some transgender people still face denial of services, discrimination, harassment, and even violence by healthcare professionals, causing them to avoid seeking ongoing or preventive healthcare.

Narrative photography with an expert patient as a method to improve empathy: a satisfaction study with health sciences students.

Objectives: To assess health sciences students' satisfaction with narrative photography with an expert patient as an empathy-fostering teaching method.

Methods: Nineteen students from a public medical sciences university in Barcelona (Spain) voluntarily completed six online training sessions using narrative photography and expert patient. Data were collected using an anonymous online satisfaction questionnaire verified by experts, including 29 quantitative and qualitative questions that were analyzed descriptively.

Reproductive decision-making of Black women living with HIV: A systematic review.

Background: Black women living with HIV account for a higher proportion of new HIV diagnoses than other groups. These women experience restricted access to reproductive services and inadequate support from healthcare providers because their position in society is based on their sexual health and social identity in the context of this stigmatizing chronic disease. By recognizing the analytical relevance of intersectionality, the reproductive decision-making of Black women can be explored as a social phenomenon of society with varied positionality.

Nursing students' perceptions of the efficacy of narrative photography as a learning method: A cross-sectional study.

Although active learning methodologies promote students' creativity and motivation regarding learning objectives, traditional unidirectional teaching methods remain more common. The objective of this study was to determine nursing students' perceptions regarding the efficacy of narrative photography as a learning method, including self-perceived satisfaction. Narrative photography is an art-based technique inspired by Photovoice that promotes empathy, creativity, and reflection.

Understanding the expectations of nursing students following the first clinical internship: A qualitative study.

This study aimed to describe how nursing students' expectations are achieved in their first clinical internship, as part of a longitudinal qualitative study conducted in a public nursing school in Barcelona, Spain. Data in the current phase were collected in 2019 from students (n = 15) after completing an internship for the first time, recruited with purposive sampling until data saturation was reached in semi-structured interviews, and thematic analysis was performed on the interview content. Positive factors that had a powerful influence on students included the accessibility at the internship location and the experience with the clinical instructor, when these provided assessment and integration of the student in the health team.

'Staying alive' with antiretroviral therapy: a grounded theory study of people living with HIV in Peru.

Background: To achieve an optimal quality of life through chronic disease management, people living with HIV (PLHIV) must adhere to antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART has been available throughout Peru since 2004 without cost in all regions; yet only 60% (43 200) of PLHIV receive ART and 32% are virally suppressed. Despite the low adherence, little is known about the experience of PLHIV with ART adherence in the context of Latin America.

Understanding to humanise: Teaching nurses' experience with caring for Mapuche patients.

Background: The Mapuche are a minority group living in small communities in southern Chile. Due to many variables, such as poverty and cultural factors, they are susceptible to inequalities in education and healthcare.

Purpose: To describe nurse educators' experiences of caring for Mapuche people in primary care centers in Chile.

Nursing students' expectations of their first clinical placement: A qualitative study.

Background: Clinical placements are a source of meaningful learning that directly impacts professional development. During the first clinical placement, nursing students' expectations are not always fulfilled, which can lead them to feel lost.

Objective: To explore nursing students' expectations before the start of their first clinical placement.

Attitudes and beliefs of nurses and physicians about managing sexual health in primary care: A multi-site cross-sectional comparative study.

Aim: To understand the attitudes and beliefs of nurses and physicians about managing the sexual health of patients during office visits in primary care centres.

Design: A questionnaire-based, cross-sectional multi-centre study.

Methods: The study was performed in 15 primary care centres in Barcelona (Spain), from December 2017-February 2018.

Final-year nursing students called to work: Experiences of a rushed labour insertion during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first COVID-19 case was confirmed in China in December 2019, and countries around the world rapidly diagnosed new cases from January 2020 onwards. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared an international emergency, characterising it as a pandemic in March 2020. In Spain, final-year Medicine and Nursing students were recruited to reinforce the healthcare system.

Early Patient Experiences of Primary Above-the-Knee Amputation From Vascular Etiologies: A Phenomenological Study.

The aim of this study was to explore the different meanings of the experience of lower-limb amputation due to vascular causes in the time period from the fifth to twelfth week post-amputation. A phenomenological study involving semi-structured interviews was carried out. Data collection took place in a Public Hospital in Spain and included a convenience sample of 20 patients who had undergone amputation.

Nursing students' satisfaction with narrative photography as a method to develop empathy towards people with Hiv: A mixed-design study.

Background: A major concern for people living with HIV during their lifetime is stigma and discrimination. It is therefore crucial to improve new generations of nurses' empathetic attitude towards these patients to eliminate fear and reduce discrimination using new educational interventions.

Objective: To analyze nursing students' satisfaction with narrative photography as a method to develop empathy towards people living with HIV.

Sexuality in people living with a serious mental illness: A meta-synthesis of qualitative evidence.

What Is Known On The Subject: A serious mental illness influences sexual life and people affected have worries about their sexual health. People living with a serious mental illness can and want to participate in interventions related to sexual health.

What The Paper Adds To Existing Knowledge: People who suffer a serious mental illness are interested in maintaining an active sex life.

Graduated nurses' experiences with baccalaureate thesis writing: A qualitative study.

This study explores the perceptions of newly graduated nurses regarding the baccalaureate thesis (BT) writing process. A qualitative approach with content analysis was adopted. Thirteen newly graduated nurses participated in the study.

Exploration of clients living with HIV needs for reporting on experiences with sex.

Talking about sex with people living with HIV receives insufficient attention in health care. A cross-sectional and exploratory study describes the preferences of people living with HIV to talk about sex with specialized HIV physicians and nurses in a clinic in Barcelona (Spain). A 27-item self-administered questionnaire was used between June 2017 and May 2018.

From physical to emotional pain in chronic kidney disease: Nurses' perceptions.

Background: Changes in body image are a recurring theme in the literature on chronic kidney disease (CKD). There is insufficient evidence identifying nurses' perceptions of this topic.

Objective: To explore nurses' perceptions of changes in the bodies of persons with CKD.