Clarifying the role of clinical research nurses working in Sweden, using the Clinical Trial Nursing Questionnaire - Swedish version.

Aim: To explore the role of CRNs in Sweden and differences in competences and tasks, using the Clinical Trial Nursing Questionnaire - Swedish version (CTNQ-SWE).

Design: A cross-sectional survey.

Methods: Participants were identified through strategic sampling.

Daily moderate-intensity physical activities and optimism promote healthy ageing in rural northern Sweden: a cross-sectional study.

The aim of our study was to explore the association between self-reported health factors and self-rated health (SRH) among an older rural population in northern Sweden and whether confounders optimistic outlook or daily moderate-intensity physical activity could moderate the association between self-reported health factors and SRH, controlling for age. The study is based on a sample (N = 1946) from the "Health on Equal Terms" Västernorrland survey 2018 aged 65-84. Prevalence and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed.

A nurse-led lifestyle intervention for adult persons with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Sweden.

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with lifestyle-related diseases. Therefore, a nurse-led lifestyle intervention including interpersonal relationships, health education and cognitive support was developed to facilitate healthier lifestyle habits. The aim was to develop a lifestyle intervention and investigate its impact on mental and physical health The 52-week intervention included 35 adults with ADHD.

Translation and validation of the Clinical Trial Nursing Questionnaire in Swedish-A first step to clarify the clinical research nurse role in Sweden.

Aim And Objectives: To translate the Clinical Trial Nursing Questionnaire (CTNQ) into Swedish and test it for face and content validity as well as internal consistency and reproducibility using test-retest procedures.

Introduction/background: In many countries, as in Sweden, a registered nurse can be involved in research by becoming a clinical research nurse. The clinical research nurse plays a pivotal role in clinical studies as a part of the research team.

No Differences in Health Outcomes After Routine Inquiry About Violence Victimization in Young Women: A Randomized Controlled Study in Swedish Youth Health Centers.

Youth is a period in life when the risk of violence victimization is high and association between victimization and ill health is well established. Youth rarely reveal violence victimization to health professionals if not directly asked but favor health professionals asking about victimization. The study's primary aim was to examine health outcomes in young women being routinely asked about violence victimization and offered subsequent support, compared with controls, at 12-month follow-up.

Assessing the Construct Validity and Reliability of School Health Records Using the 'Health Dialogue Questionnaire' in the Eleventh Grade.

Background And Aims: The aim for this study was to assess the construct validity and reliability of the Health Dialogue Questionnaire (HDQ) for eleventh grade in school through comparison of the HDQ with Paediatric Quality Of Life Inventory (PedsQL™), Local monitoring of youth policy questionnaire (LUPP), Health behaviour in Swedish school-aged children (HBSC), Equal health (EH) and The Swedish Survey Youth on Alcohol Consumption (SSYAC).

Methods: Cross-sectional samples of eleventh graders from the academic year 2009/2010 was used from the HDQ (n = 2752), the HBSC (n = 2090), the PedsQL™ (n = 666), the "LUPP" questionnaires (n = 2400), EH (n = 258), and SSYAC (n = 1748) in the academic year 2009/2010. A comparison between HDQ and the different proxies was done.

Motivational interviewing does not affect risk drinking among young women: A randomised, controlled intervention study in Swedish youth health centres.

Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse risk and binge drinking at 12-month follow-up in young women with risk drinking who received motivational interviewing compared with controls.

Methods: Young women attending Swedish youth health centres were randomised into intervention or control groups. The intervention group members were asked about their alcohol consumption by a midwife/social worker using the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test Consumption.

Feasibility of the subgroup criteria included in the treatment-strategy-based (TREST) classification system (CS) for patients with non-specific low back pain (NSLBP).

Background: The new treatment-strategy based (TREST) classification system (CS) is in its exploratory phase with potential to impact clinical decision-making in the management of non-specific low back pain (NSLBP).

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility of subgroup criteria included in TREST subgroups: pain modulation, stabilization exercise, mobilization, and training.

Methods: An observational cross-sectional investigation involving a secondary analysis of data from 128 examinations of NSLBP patients, categorized individually by four examiners into one of the TREST subgroups.

Violence victimisation-a watershed for young women's mental and physical health.

The association between victimisation and adverse health in children is well established but few studies have addressed the effect of victimisation, especially multiple victimisations, in older adolescents and young adults. The aim of this study was to assess self-reported health in young women (15-22 years) victimised to one or more types of violence, compared with non-victimised.  METHODS: Young women visiting youth health centres in Sweden answered a questionnaire constructed from standardised instruments addressing violence victimisation (emotional, physical, sexual and family violence), socio-demographics, substance use and physical and mental health.

Multiple violence victimisation associated with sexual ill health and sexual risk behaviours in Swedish youth.

Objectives: To address the associations between emotional, physical and sexual violence, specifically multiple violence victimisation, and sexual ill health and sexual risk behaviours in youth, as well as possible gender differences.

Methods: A cross-sectional population-based survey among sexually experienced youth using a questionnaire with validated questions on emotional, physical, and sexual violence victimisation, sociodemographics, health risk behaviours, and sexual ill health and sexual risk behaviours. Proportions, unadjusted/adjusted odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated.

Transitions in the Swedish school system and the impact on student's positive self-reported-health.

Background: To explore three school based transitions and their impact on positive self-reported-health (SRH), pre-school to elementary school (6-10 y), elementary school to junior high school (10-13 y), and junior high school to upper secondary school/high school (13-16 y), in a long-term longitudinal population based study.

Methods: The study followed three cohorts through one school transition each. A longitudinal study with data from 6693 Health Dialogue questionnaires were used.

Higher risk of violence exposure in men and women with physical or sensory disabilities: results from a public health survey.

The World Health Organization has declared that violence is a global public health problem. The prevalence of violence exposure among adults with intellectual and unspecific disabilities has been demonstrated in several studies, whereas only a few articles on people with sensory disabilities have been published. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and risk for exposure to physical violence, psychological offence, or threats of violence in people with physical and/or sensory disabilities, compared with people with no such disabilities, controlling for socioeconomic data.

Strong association between earlier abuse and revictimization in youth.

Background: Violence victimization among youth is recognized as a public health problem. The objective was to analyze the risk pattern of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse during the past 12 months by gender, sociodemographic factors, health risk behaviors, and exposure to abuse before the age of 15, among young men and women attending youth health centers in Sweden.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted using a nationally representative sample of youth health centers.

A Life Course Model of Self-Reported Violence Exposure and Ill-health with A Public Health Problem Perspective.

Violence has probably always been part of the human experience. Its impact can be seen, in various forms, in all parts of the world. In 1996, WHO:s Forty-Ninth World Health Assembly adopted a resolution, declaring violence a major and growing public health problem around the world.

Long-term health consequences of violence exposure in adolescence: a 26-year prospective study.

Background: Violence victimization represents a serious risk factor for health related symptoms, for both men and women. The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term effects of violence exposure in late adolescence and early adulthood on adult health, physical as well as mental, using a long-term prospective population-based study, with a follow up of 9, 19, and 26 years.

Methods: The primary data source is a longitudinal panel from one of the longest running social science surveys in the world, the Swedish Level-of-Living surveys (LNU).

Inter-examiner reliability of a proposed decision-making treatment based classification system for low back pain patients.

Evolving evidence has shown increased clinical outcomes, when low back pain (LBP) patients are classified and receive matched physical treatment. The present study aimed to examine the inter-examiner reliability of a proposed new decision-making classification system for non-specific LBP patients, using a mixed simultaneous and independent examiner design. With minimal familiarization, two pairs of experienced physiotherapists trained in Orthopedic Manual Therapy (OMT) at two different out-patient clinics in primary care, examined and classified 64 consenting consecutive patients.

Physical and psychological symptoms and learning difficulties in children of women exposed and non-exposed to violence: a population-based study.

Objectives: To analyse the association between violence against mothers and the health of their children as reported by the mothers.

Methods: The data originate from a multistage sampling health-questionnaire survey, distributed to a representative sample of women in Sweden. The health of 283 children (aged 0-18 years), as reported by women who had been exposed to violence at home or outside home during the past 12 months, was compared with that of 4,664 children of non-exposed mothers.

Did a health dialogue matter? Self-reported cardiovascular disease and diabetes 11 years after health screening.

Objective: To study the potential impact of health screening, with or without a motivational health dialogue, on the risk and morbidity of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes (DM).

Design: Two cross-sectional studies with an interval of 11 years.

Setting: The community of Härnösand, Sweden.

Waiting for surgery; living a life on hold--a continuous struggle against a faceless system.

This interpretive-phenomenological study examined the lived experience of being on the waiting list for arthroplastic surgery of the knee or hip. Interviews reveal that respondents experience suffering in different ways: illness-, caring- and life-suffering. Suffering leads to a struggle in order to have their caring needs met and the struggle is often fruitless-against a faceless enemy-"the system".

[Consequences of violence--a public health issue. Strong connection between violence/threat and illness in both women and men].

Earlier studies have indicated that patients with chronic pain often have experienced physical abuse, but only a small number of population studies have demonstrated an association between abuse and chronic pain. During 1997 a population study was made in northern Sweden. Close to 15,000 people from 18-85 years of age answered a questionnaire about public health issues, including four questions about physical abuse and threats.

Primary care physicians' experiences of carrying out consultations on the internet.

Background: The internet is increasingly used for health matters, including consulting a doctor. Primary care physicians (general practitioners) will probably be involved in performing text-based consultations on the internet as a complement to physical meetings. In the present study, we explored the experiences of GPs already performing consultations on the internet: the challenges, worries and educational demands of the task.

The impact of preoperative information on state anxiety, postoperative pain and satisfaction with pain management.

The primary objective of this study was to test whether specific information given prior to surgery can help patients obtain better pain relief after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Secondary objectives were to study the impact of preoperative information on state and trait anxiety, satisfaction with pain management and satisfaction with nursing care. The study was an intervention study with two groups of equal size (n=30).

Legitimacy aspects of social network relations in a group of women with undefined musculoskeletal disorder.

This study was conducted to investigate legitimacy aspects of social network relations in a group of women with undefined musculoskeletal disorder. The aim was to study, from the viewpoint of the patient, the extent to which the symptoms of musculoskeletal disorder have legitimacy within the social network and how this legitimacy affects the patient's social network relations. A structural equation model was used to find the model best fitting the data arising between social support, legitimacy aspects and negative outcomes in the social network relations.

Social networks of women with undefined musculoskeletal disorder.

This study was conducted to investigate social integration among, and the availability of social support for, female patients with undefined musculoskeletal disorder compared to women with coronary heart disease. The aim was to elucidate the importance of a clear diagnosis for the social network relationships of these female patients. For the measurement of social support two instruments were used: an abbreviated version of the Interview Schedule for Social Interaction and a condensed version of the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List.

Effect of asthma in childhood on psycho-social problems in the family.

Objective: The responsibility for treating children with asthma has gradually shifted from the medical health service to the family and parents, which may cause new psycho-social problems in the family. This study aimed at describing the psycho-social effects on families having a child with asthma, and at determining whether a relation exists between the medical severity of disease and psycho-social problems.

Methods: The findings are based on a questionnaire with the following domains: economy, work, free time, health, environment, and family, as well as a health-related medical questionnaire.