Family Caregivers' Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Study.

The COVID-19 pandemic imposed lockdown measures that affected caregiving. Understanding caregivers' context provides reveals their adaptive strategies to continue caring in this situation of uncertainty and isolation. To better understand the caregiving experiences of caregivers looking after dependent individuals living in the community during the pandemic.

Nursing Diagnoses of Individuals with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Research Protocol for a Qualitative Synthesis.

Although previously developed qualitative studies have explored the experience of illness of individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, these findings have not been undertaken for the purpose of enabling the identification of nursing care needs in such patients. This study aims to identify NANDA-I nursing diagnoses of adults with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome based on a qualitative literature review of their experience of illness. The protocol includes: searches in the electronic databases Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, SciELO, LILACS, and Cuiden; and manual searches in specialised journals and the references of the included studies.

[Uncovering infertility: the experience of women undergoing assisted reproductive technologies.].

Objective: Infertility is a huge reproductive health problem in developed countries. The aim was to understand the infertility experience of women who have undergone assisted reproduction technologies.

Methods: Qualitative study using Grounded Theory.

Nurses' perceptions and demands regarding COVID-19 care delivery in critical care units and hospital emergency services.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health challenge that puts health systems in a highly vulnerable situation. Nurses in critical care units (CCUs) and hospital emergency services (HESs) have provided care to patients with COVID-19 under pressure and uncertainty.

Objective: To identify needs related to safety, organisation, decision-making, communication and psycho-socio-emotional needs perceived by critical care and emergency nurses in the region of Madrid, Spain, during the acute phase of the epidemic crisis.

Acceptability and feasibility of a virtual community of practice to primary care professionals regarding patient empowerment: a qualitative pilot study.

Background: Virtual communities of practice (vCoPs) facilitate online learning via the exchange of experiences and knowledge between interested participants. Compared to other communities, vCoPs need to overcome technological structures and specific barriers. Our objective was to pilot the acceptability and feasibility of a vCoP aimed at improving the attitudes of primary care professionals to the empowerment of patients with chronic conditions.

Overweight and obesity: effectiveness of interventions in adults.

Objective: To identify the most effective interventions in overweight and obese adults.

Method: A narrative review through a search of the literature in databases PubMed, Cochrane, Joanna Briggs Institute, EMBASE, Cuiden y Cinahl with free and controlled language (MeSH terms) using Boolean operators AND and NOT. The research was limited to articles published between 2007 and 2015.

Factors associated to clinical learning in nursing students in primary health care: an analytical cross-sectional study.

Objective: to identify the students' perception about the quality of clinical placements and asses the influence of the different tutoring processes in clinical learning.

Methods: analytical cross-sectional study on second and third year nursing students (n=122) about clinical learning in primary health care. The Clinical Placement Evaluation Tool and a synthetic index of attitudes and skills were computed to give scores to the clinical learning (scale 0-10).

[The experience of women care cargivers with chronic conditions of dependent relatives].

Objective: To describe the experience of women caregivers with chronic conditions who care for a dependent relative.

Design: Qualitative study based on constructivist grounded theory.

Location: Study conducted on two Health Areas urban of the Community of Madrid.

Women's self-management of chronic illnesses in the context of caregiving: a grounded theory study.

Aims And Objectives: Uncover how women self-manage their own chronic illness while taking care of a dependent relative.

Background: International policies place special emphasis in promoting interventions addressed to control, prevent and care for people with chronic health conditions. Self-management is a crucial part of this care.

How women caregivers deal with their own long-term illness: a qualitative study.

Aim: To explore the strategies used by women caregivers to deal with their own chronic health conditions.

Background: Providing care has a negative impact on the physical and mental health of caregivers. When caregivers suffer chronic health problems, it increases the burden of caring, making them more vulnerable and less likely to look after their own health.

[Another way to view the nursing profession: an experience in deconstruction].

The authors present a personal process to search for new meanings and ways to approach the reality how nurses exercise their profession by means of exploring, reviewing and analyzing active nursing practice, care and teaching. All this investigation permitted the authors to construct a reflexive, inquisitive and critical view, leading to a position change regarding education and the concept we hold about people and about ourselves. This method deals with listening to theory by telling one's experiences.