Publications by authors named "Minna Vanhanen"

Background: To successfully design, develop, implement, and deliver digital health services that provide value, they should be cocreated with patients. However, occasionally, the value may also be codestructed. In the field of health care, the concepts of value cocreation and codestruction still need to be better established within emerging digital health services.

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Aims And Objectives: To identify and synthesise nurses' experiences of competence in lifestyle counselling with adult patients in healthcare settings.

Background: Modifiable lifestyle risk behaviours contribute to an increased prevalence of chronic diseases worldwide. Lifestyle counselling is part of nurses' role which enables them to make a significant contribution to patients' long-term health in various healthcare contexts, but requires particular competence.

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Aims: The study's aims were to (1) assess family members' perceptions of the quality of the counselling they received while visiting a loved one in an adult ICU and (2) identify factors that influence family members' perceptions of counselling quality.

Design: A cross-sectional survey of visiting family members of adult ICU patients.

Methods: Family members (n = 55) at eight ICUs across five Finnish university hospitals completed a cross-sectional survey.

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Objectives: Objectives of this study were to characterize the counselling (broadly defined) that Finnish adult intensive care unit patients received and needed during intensive care according to patients' records and memories.

Design Setting: The study was based on retrospective analysis of patient records and documented follow-up clinics, using a descriptive, qualitative approach and deductive-inductive content analysis.

Findings: According to both the records and documented memories of 162 patients (56 women and 106 men aged 18-75 years; mean 50.

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Background: Intensive care professionals (ICPs) have a key role in counselling adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their family members. The counselling provided to ICU patients and their family members can be described based on the content, implementation, benefits, and resources.

Aims: The study had two specific aims: first, to assess ICPs' perceptions of the quality of counselling provided to ICU patients and their family members; and second, to explore which factors ICPs feel is associated with the quality of counselling.

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