Anxiety and care experiences in adolescents with chronic health conditions: an international, longitudinal study across the transfer of care.

Objectives: To evaluate changes in anxiety, care experiences and condition impact among adolescents with chronic health conditions in two countries as they transfer to adult healthcare and to assess factors influencing anxiety levels.

Design: A longitudinal international study. Data was collected by questionnaires before (2017-2021) and a year after (2018-2022) transfer of care.

Occupational well-being among health and social care educators: Structural equation modelling.

This study tested whether empirical data about health and social care educators' occupational well-being would fit the proposed Content Model for the Promotion of the School Community Staff's Occupational Well-being. Descriptive, cross-sectional survey was conducted with 552 health and social care educators in 2020. Results confirmed that the four-aspect Content Model for the Promotion of School Community Staff's Occupational Well-being is suitable for promoting health and social care educators' occupational well-being, with some modifications.

An Instrument to Assess the Digital Competence of Nurse Educators.

Background: The Educators and Educator Candidates' Competence in Digital Pedagogy instrument needed to be tested before using it in nursing education.

Purpose: This study describes the further testing of this instrument to measure nurse educators' digital competence.

Methods: The study is reported according to the 7 steps of the MEASURE Approach.

An intervention to address nurse educators' occupational well-being: A process evaluation.

Background: There is a global need for more support for the occupational well-being of educators working in nurse education, where nurse educators experience challenges when managing their own occupational well-being. However, there is a lack of research studies into occupational well-being interventions. Aim To evaluate the usability and utility of the Self-Help INtervention for Educators in nurse education.

Nursing applicants' desire to work in nursing and related factors: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The desire to work in the nursing profession has recently been identified as an important aspect to consider in the selection process of nursing students but very little is known about nursing applicants' or students' desire to work in nursing.

Aims: The study aimed to describe and explain the desire of undergraduate nursing applicants to work in nursing.

Design: A cross-sectional study design.

Effectiveness of a Digital Health Game Intervention on Early Adolescent Smoking Refusal Self-Efficacy.

Smoking poses a significant threat to adolescent health because of its immediate and long-term detrimental health effects. Smoking refusal self-efficacy predicts smoking behavior in adolescence. In adolescents' health education, digital interventions are potential tools to support smoking refusal self-efficacy.

Professional competence, personal occupational well-being, and mental workload of nurse educators - A cross-sectional study in four European countries.

Background: Nurse educators need a high level of professional competence to educate future health care professionals. Professional competence supports occupational well-being whilst high mental workload can undermine it. There is little existing research into nurse educators' professional competence, occupational well-being, mental workload, and the relationships between them, particularly in the European context.

Effectiveness of an educational intervention to increase professional nurses' person-centred care competence in long-term care of older people-Quasi-experimental study.

Background: Based on previous evidence person-centred care (PCC) as a quality indicator is important in long-term care (LTC) settings for older people. Effective ways to increase nurses' person-centred care competence are missing.

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of a continuing education (CE) intervention named 'Person First-Please' (PFP) for improving nurses' PPC competence and its connection to PPC climate.

Nurse educator competence in four European countries-A comparative cross-sectional study.

Aim: The aim of this article is to describe and compare the nurse educator competences in four European countries using three different evaluators: nurse educators (n = 329), heads of a nursing subject (n = 60) and student nurses (n = 1058).

Design: The study was conducted as a comparative cross-sectional survey in Finland, Malta, Slovakia and Spain between May 2021 and February 2022.

Methods: The data were collected with an online survey.

The ethical pathway of individuals with stroke-A follow-up study.

Aim: To analyse the ethical pathway as perceived by individuals with stroke (IwS) in the first three post-stroke months. In the novel concept of ethical pathway, dignity, privacy, and autonomy are considered as dimensions of the ethical pathway while the pathway illustrates their potential change in the post-stroke time. Furthermore, the focus of interest was on whether the perceived realisation of values is associated with the life situational factors of symptoms diminishing functioning, social environment, and self-empowerment.

Health and social care workers' professional values: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Professional values create a basis for successful collaboration and person-centred care in integrated care and services. Little is known about how different health and social care workers assess their professional values.

Research Aim: To describe and compare professional value orientation among different health and social care workers in Finland.

Transition readiness and anxiety among adolescents with a chronic condition and their parents: A cross-sectional international study.

Aims: To evaluate associations of age, transition readiness and anxiety in adolescents with chronic conditions and to compare perceptions of adolescents and their parents regarding health self-management and transition readiness.

Design: Cross-sectional international study, reported following STROBE guidelines.

Methods: Adolescents and young adults (N = 512, mean age 17.

Effectiveness of an Occupational Well-being Intervention Among Nurse Educators: A Quasi-Experimental Study.

Background: Occupational well-being supports the retention of the nurse educator workforce and their ability to manage workload. There is a research gap regarding interventions promoting occupational well-being.

Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of an 8-workweek digital occupational well-being intervention using self-conducted exercises among nurse educators in secondary vocational nursing schools in Finland.

Psychological capital, grit and organizational justice as positive strengths and resources among registered nurses: A path analysis.

Aim: To examine registered nurses' individual strengths (psychological capital and grit) and an organizational resource (organizational justice) as well as associated work-related outcomes. In a time of a global nursing shortage, there is an urgent need to identify strengths and resources that can have a positive impact on the health, well-being and retention of registered nurses.

Design: A cross-sectional survey.

Person-centred care competence and person-centred care climate described by nurses in older people's long-term care-A cross-sectional survey.

Background: Person-centred care requires that nurses are competent in this approach to care. There may be an association between person-centred care competence and person-centred care climate, but it has not been demonstrated in the literature. This is the justification for the survey study to gain staff's perceptions of such a relationship.

Patient- and proxy-perceptions on functioning after stroke rehabilitation using the 12-item WHODAS 2.0: a longitudinal cohort study.

Purpose: To analyse longitudinally patient- and proxy-perceptions on stroke survivors'(SSs') functioning using the 12-item WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS) after subacute inpatient stroke rehabilitation.

Methods: Sixty-five SSs and their significant others(proxies) responded to WHODAS questionnaire at discharge and 9 to 50 months later.

Comparing prenatal and postpartum stress among women with previous adverse pregnancy outcomes and normal obstetric histories: A longitudinal cohort study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare subjectively and objectively measured stress during pregnancy and the three months postpartum in women with previous adverse pregnancy outcomes and women with normal obstetric histories.

Methods: We recruited two cohorts in southwestern Finland for this longitudinal study: (1) pregnant women (n = 32) with histories of preterm births or late miscarriages January-December 2019 and (2) pregnant women (n = 30) with histories of full-term births October 2019-March 2020. We continuously measured heart rate variability (HRV) using a smartwatch from 12 to 15 weeks of pregnancy until three months postpartum, and subjective stress was assessed with a smartphone application.

Supporting lifestyle change in obese pregnant mothers through the wearable internet-of-things (SLIM) -intervention for overweight pregnant women: Study protocol for a quasi-experimental trial.

Objectives: To assess, in terms of self-efficacy in weight management, the effectiveness of the SLIM lifestyle intervention among overweight or obese women during pregnancy and after delivery, and further to exploit machine learning and event mining approaches to build personalized models. Additionally, the aim is to evaluate the implementation of the SLIM intervention.

Methods: This prospective trial, which is a non-randomized, quasi-experimental, pre-post intervention, includes an embedded mixed-method process evaluation.

Foot self-care competence reported by patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Foot self-care is important for preventing foot problems and maintaining one's foot health. Foot self-care requires competence to identify foot problems, knowledge and skills to care for those problems, and a willing attitude to care for one's foot health. However, there is major gap in the research evidence of foot self-care competence among patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Recognising older people's individual resources and home-care-specific tasks in home care in Finland: A document analysis of care and service plans.

Background And Rationale: Comprehensive care and service planning in home care is tailored to older people's individual needs and resources in order to support them living at home. However, little is known about how these individual resources and home-care-specific tasks are recognised in older people's care and service plans.

Aims: To describe the content of care and service plans in older people's home care with special attention to their individual resources and home-care-specific tasks.

Health Promotion Actions and School Violence-A Cluster Analysis from Finnish Comprehensive Schools.

(1) Schools have a significant role in violence prevention activities. This study aimed to first identify profiles of Finnish comprehensive schools based on school violence. The second aim was to examine the associations between profiles concerning health promotion actions, reactive or punitive actions, and school characteristics.

Psychometric Properties of an Instrument to Measure the Quality of Family-Centered Care in NICUs.

Objective: To examine the psychometric properties of the Digi Family-Centered Care-Parent Version (DigiFCC-P), which was developed to measure parents' perceptions of family-centered care (FCC) in NICUs.

Design: Cross-sectional psychometric study.

Setting: Twenty-three NICUs in 15 countries in Europe, Canada, and Australia.

Disciplinary processes for nurses, from organizational supervision to outcomes: A document analysis of a regulatory authority's decisions.

Aim: This study aims to explore the disciplinary processes for nurses, from organizational supervision to final decisions by the Finnish regulatory authority.

Background: Regulatory authorities are responsible for protecting the public, by ensuring that they receive safe, competent and ethical nursing care, but little is known about the disciplinary processes for nurses.

Methods: This is a retrospective document analysis of 296 disciplinary decisions by the Finnish regulatory authority from 2007 to 2016.

Identification of research priorities of radiography science: A modified Delphi study in Europe.

Radiography science is a new discipline among health sciences. It is a discipline that investigates phenomena in medical imaging, radiation therapy, and nuclear medicine. It has merged from the need to provide research evidence to support these services.