Publications by authors named "Mette Ludvigsen"

Background: There are several strategies used to assess involvement in their healthcare across service providers. However, there is no consensus on the most appropriate measurement tool to use when evaluating patient involvement initiatives. This qualitative study aimed to explore the perspectives of stakeholders from micro, meso, and macro levels within the Danish healthcare system on measuring patient involvement in their healthcare.

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Background: eHealth communication interventions have been shown to offer individuals with chronic kidney disease the opportunity to embrace dialysis therapies with greater confidence, the potential to obtain better clinical outcomes, and an increased quality of life. eHealth is an emerging field that offers diverse, flexible designs and delivery options. However, existing evidence on eHealth communication among patients undergoing hemodialysis is sparse and scattered and lacks systematization.

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Asthma symptoms and experiences of dyspnea challenge participation in physical activity (PA). Therefore, in-depth understanding of experiences with PA is essential. In this meta-ethnography, we synthesized published qualitative studies of experiences of children and adolescents with asthma that influenced, or limited, participation in PA.

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Background: The existing literature on nursing care for patients who choose home as their preferred place of death is scattered and lacks a coherent overview. This scoping review aimed to explore and categorize the available evidence on how nurses provide care for patients preferring to die at home.

Methods: Studies that included nurses and were focused on nursing care for patients who choose the home as their preferred place of death were included in the review.

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  • Anorexia nervosa is a severe mental disorder leading to complex care needs, with nasogastric tube feeding under restraint being a critical yet ethically challenging nursing task in hospitals.
  • The study involved twelve registered nurses from a Norwegian psychiatric hospital, using narrative interviews and reflexive thematic analysis to explore their experiences related to this care practice.
  • Findings revealed themes of providing effective care under coercion, expressing ethical concerns when patients are not in immediate danger, and the complications of involving external personnel in the treatment process.
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Aim: The aim of this study was to explore home care nurses' experience of enablers and barriers for planned home death in municipal health care.

Design: A focused ethnography.

Methods: This qualitative study collected data from 20 semi-structured interviews of home care nurses and 8.

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Background: Slow progression of labor is a common obstetrical problem with multiple associated complications. Tafoxiparin is a depolymerized form of heparin with a molecular structure that eliminates the anticoagulant effects of heparin. We report on 2 phase II clinical studies of tafoxiparin in primiparas.

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This study aimed to describe how older adults with complex health problems manage their everyday lives in their own homes and how they interact with given home care. In this multiple-case study, a total of 14 individual interviews were conducted with five older adults over the course of one year. Deductive and inductive content analyses were performed.

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  • - This study explores the inconsistencies in how qualitative longitudinal research (QLR) presents changes over time, highlighting the need for clearer methodologies in health research.
  • - Through analyzing 299 QLR articles, the researchers developed a typology that categorizes findings into three main types based on their use of time and change: low utilization of longitudinal data, chronological structure, and focus on changes through time.
  • - The findings aim to guide researchers in effectively integrating time and change into their studies by offering a structured framework that outlines different approaches for presenting QLR results.
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Background: Home care nurses provide complex palliative care for patients who want to die in their own homes. This study aimed to explore home care nurses' facilitation of planned home death to better understand nursing practices.

Methods: Data were collected between March 2019 and March 2020 using participant observations and semi-structured interviews.

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Aim: To systematically review and synthesize findings across qualitative primary studies about fathers' experiences of living with a child with a progressive life-limiting condition without curative treatment options (C3 conditions).

Design: Systematic review and metasynthesis.

Methods: Sandelowski and Barosso's qualitative research methodology guided this review and metasynthesis.

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The transfer of adolescents and young adults (AYA) with long-term health conditions from pediatric to adult care is a multidisciplinary enterprise where nurses and doctors play an important role. This review aimed to identify and synthesize evidence from qualitative primary reports on how nurses and doctors experience the transfer of AYA aged 13 to 24 years with long-term health conditions to an adult hospital setting. We systematically searched seven electronic databases for reports published between January 2005 and November 2021 and reporting nurses' and doctors' experiences.

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Objective: To identify measures used within Denmark evaluating any type of intervention designed to facilitate patient involvement in healthcare.

Design: Environmental scan employing rapid review methods.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, PsycInfo and CINAHL were searched from 6-9 April 2021 from database inception up to the date of the search.

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Background: Qualitative longitudinal research (QLR) comprises qualitative studies, with repeated data collection, that focus on the temporality (e.g., time and change) of a phenomenon.

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Background: eHealth interventions have been shown to offer people living with chronic kidney disease the opportunity of embracing dialysis therapies with greater confidence, the potential to obtain better clinical outcomes and increased quality of life, and diverse and flexible designs and delivery options. eHealth interventions or solutions can offer one-way information without the possibility for dialogue, as with most mobile apps. eHealth interventions intending to enable two-way communication between patients undergoing hemodialysis and health professionals are the focus of this review.

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Mobilization of nurses' agency across healthcare sectors is needed to counter challenges associated with older adults' transitions between hospital and primary care. Based on Cultural Historical Activity theory and the Change Laboratory method, we developed a learning intervention with 16 nurses. The aim was to foster the nurses' transformative agency to improve care.

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COVID-19 increases the risk of preterm delivery in Nordic women requiring intensive care but has not been linked to foetal death. We present two cases of mild COVID-19 in pregnant women admitted due to reduced foetal movements. The babies were delivered preterm due to abnormal cardiotocography values.

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Background: Transitional care involves coordination of care for patients transitioning between primary care and hospital care. This necessitates collaboration with patients, health professionals and organizations with different goals for patient care. This can result in fragmented patient care pathways.

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Purpose: Around 15%-30% of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) experience persistent or chronic pain. The purpose of this study was to synthesise evidence from qualitative primary studies on how AYAs in a non-clinical population experience living with persistent pain.

Method: A qualitative metasynthesis guided by Sandelowski and Barroso's guidelines was used.

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Background: Family members of young people (13-24 years) with long-term conditions tend to experience multiple challenges when their children transfer from paediatric to adult care, as do the patients themselves.

Objectives: To identify, interpret and theoretically conceptualise the meaning of parents' experiences of the transfer from paediatric to adult care of their young people with long-term conditions.

Design: A qualitative research synthesis.

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Aims And Objectives: To translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of a Danish version of the Fluid Intake Appraisal Inventory (Da-FIAI) regarding reliability and validity.

Background: Patients on haemodialysis are advised to restrict their fluid intake, which often requires patients to change their way of life and health behaviour.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

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Objective: The objective of the review is to synthesize existing knowledge about experiences of children and adolescents with asthma related to participation in, or limitation of, physical activity.

Introduction: Limitations of physical activity, expressed as a barrier of bodily movement, may relate to physiological restraints, as well as emotional and social delimitation, in children and adolescents with asthma. Participation in physical activity is related to management of asthma and is important for social inclusion.

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Objective: This scoping review aims to examine and map existing evidence on home care nurses facilitating planned home deaths, as well as to identify knowledge gaps important for further research on the topic.

Introduction: Nurses may be able to offer new models of care within the primary setting for palliative patients. There is some evidence for the efficacy of home based palliative care and dying at home, but there is a lack of information on how home care nurses facilitate planned home deaths.

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Objective: The objective of this scoping review was to identify, organize and present the underpinning learning theories, theoretical frameworks, didactics, content and evaluation methods used in existing literature on non-formal patient handover learning programs for healthcare professionals to highlight existing gaps in evidence.

Introduction: Clinicians are aware that the professional patient handover between healthcare settings poses a safety risk for patients. Learning programs for healthcare professionals improve patient handovers; however, there has been little formal exploration of the content of patient handover learning programs that elicit efficacious, non-formal learning activities.

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Background: One in every two haemodialysis nurses has reported musculoskeletal complaints concerning their hands, which is twice that reported for hospital nurses in general. It is possible that there is an association between the materials used by haemodialysis nurses and the occurrence of hand complaints.

Objectives: To examine the association between the type of dialysis machine and disposables used with the occurrence of hand complaints among haemodialysis nurses.

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