Mothers' experiences living with diastasis recti abdominis - an interview study.

Background: Diastasis recti abdominis (DRA) is a common postpartum condition. Knowledge is scarce on how mothers perceive living with DRA. The interaction between healthcare providers and patients plays a significant role in shaping the healthcare service experience.

Living the dream - but not without hardship: stories about self-directed weight transformation from severe obesity.

Design: In-depth interviews were conducted with eight women and two men, aged 27 to 59 years, who had carried out self-directed WL from SO for 5 years or more.

Two Themes Ran Across The Stories: fear of weight-regain, and food and emotion. We performed a case-based narrative analysis of especially rich interviews that illustrate these.

Facilitating new movement strategies: Equine assisted physiotherapy for children with cerebral palsy.

Background: Equine Assisted Physiotherapy (EAPT) offers children with cerebral palsy (CP) opportunities for new movement experiences, and may influence movement qualities. Descriptions of how, and to what extent EAPT affects trunk control is missing. The aim of this study was to explore if, and how changes in trunk control and changes in other movement aspects were observable in children with CP during EAPT, and if potential changes in trunk control could be measured.

The hamster wheel: a case study on embodied narrative identity and overcoming severe obesity.

Based in narrative phenomenology, this article describes an example of how lived time, self and bodily engagement with the social world intertwine, and how our sense of self develops. We explore this through the life story of a woman who lost weight through surgery in the 1970 s and has fought against her own body, food and eating ever since. Our narrative analysis of interviews, reflective notes and email correspondence disentangled two storylines illuminating paradoxes within this long-term weight loss process.

"Finding oneself after critical illness": voices from the remission society.

The number of people who survive critical illness is increasing. In parallel, a growing body of literature reveals a broad range of side-effects following intensive care treatment. Today, more attention is needed to improve the quality of survival.

Finding ways to carry on: stories of vulnerability in chronic illness.

In this study, we explore the lived experiences of chronic illness in four groups of patients; children with asthma, adolescents with diabetes, young adults with depression, and adult patients with chronic, obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Persons living with chronic illness are often designated as vulnerable. This study builds on the assumption that being vulnerable belongs to being human, and that vulnerability also might entail strength and possibilities for growth.

A complex reminding: The ethics of poetry writing in dementia care.

Interest in the potential benefits of poetry writing in dementia care has been increasing. Various practical projects, as well as research articles, have highlighted how poetry can acknowledge the words of persons with dementia, and increase well-being. In this article, the authors present a poetry writing project in dementia care in Norway, and argue for how poetry as a genre involves lyrical as well as ethical aspects.

Physical education classes - a double-edged sword: a qualitative study of Norwegian high-school students' experiences.

: The aim of this study was to explore students' experiences of physical education (PE) and to gain insight into what contributes to engaging them in PE.: A total of 316 second-year high-school students from five schools participated by completing a school assignment. The data were analyzed according to content analysis.

An Experientially Derived Model of Flexible and Intentional Actions for Weight Loss Maintenance After Severe Obesity.

Background: Knowledge about weight loss (WL) is scarce among people with severe obesity (SO). Lifestyle changes are primarily self-driven, occasionally accompanied by professional guidance and weight-management support. Weight regain and intervention discontinuation are common challenges among guidance and support programmes.

Patients' experiences from basic body awareness therapy in the treatment of binge eating disorder -movement toward health: a phenomenological study.

Background: Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder. Patients with BED are often not diagnosed, nor offered adequate specific treatment. A great number of those who receive recommended treatment do not recover over time.

Patients' quest for recognition and continuity in health care: time for a new research agenda?

User involvement is important in democratization of health care and is assumed to contribute to better and more relevant research. Despite increased requirements for user involvement in research, more studies are still needed. This study aimed at exploring what research agenda people with varied health problems consider as important, based on their own experience.

Living a successful weight loss after severe obesity.

Purpose: Losing weight and keeping it off for the long term is difficult. Weight regain is common. Experiences of successful non-surgical weight loss after severe obesity are largely unexplored.

Being mothers and fathers of a child with type 1 diabetes aged 1 to 7 years: a phenomenological study of parents' experiences.

Purpose: The diagnosis of diabetes in pre-school children poses a number of unique challenges related to everyday responsibility, and the continuous need for supervision and caregiving. This may affect both the child's and the parents' perceived burden caused by the condition. The aim of the study was to explore the lived experience of being mothers and fathers of a child with type 1 diabetes aged 1 to 7 years.

Space perception, movement, and insight: attuning to the space of everyday life after major weight loss.

Physiotherapists are well placed to help people adjust and engage meaningfully with the world following major weight loss. Recent research indicates that the body size a patient has lived with for years can continue to affect movement and perception even after largescale weight loss. This article explores this discrepancy in depth from the perspective of phenomenology and space perception and through the concepts of body image, body schema, and affordances.

Towards living within my body and accepting the past: a case study of embodied narrative identity.

This narrative case study, created from several qualitative sources, portrays a young woman's life experiences and an eight yearlong therapy process with Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy (NPMP). It is analyzed retrospectively from an analytical angle, where NPMP theory is expanded with Løgstrup's phenomenology of sensation and Ricoeur's narrative philosophy. Understanding Rita's narrative through this window displayed some foundational phenomena in a singular way, illuminating embodied experiences in inter-subjective relationships in movement, sensation and time entwined.

Nursing documentation in inpatient psychiatry: The relevance of nurse-patient interactions in progress notes-A focus group study with mental health staff.

Aims And Objectives: To gain insight into mental health staff's perception of writing progress notes in an acute and subacute psychiatric ward context.

Background: The nursing process structures nursing documentation. Progress notes are intended to be an evaluation of a patient's nursing diagnoses, interventions and outcomes.

Researcher-researched relationship in qualitative research: Shifts in positions and researcher vulnerability.

Background: The researcher role is highly debated in qualitative research. This article concerns the researcher-researched relationship.

Methods: A group of health science researchers anchored in various qualitative research traditions gathered in reflective group discussions over a period of two years.

"Will I ever be a true woman?" An exploration of the experiences of women with vestibulodynia.

In this study we explored the experiences of Norwegian women living with vestibulodynia, a chronic disease affecting young women all over the world. Using a phenomenological approach we conducted in-depth interviews with eight women who had struggled with vestibulodynia for several years. Our findings reveal that their efforts to fulfill their partners' sexual desires as well as their own represented an encompassing ongoing process.

Translating weight loss into agency: Men's experiences 5 years after bariatric surgery.

Fewer men than women with severe obesity undergo bariatric surgery for weight loss, and knowledge about men's situation after surgery, beyond medical status, is lacking. Our aim was to explore men's experiences with life after bariatric surgery from a long-term perspective. We conducted in-depth interviews with 13 men, aged 28-60 years, between 5 and 7 years after surgery.

Striving for a life worth living: stroke survivors' experiences of home rehabilitation.

Background: For mild-to-moderate stroke survivors, early supported discharge from hospital, followed by home rehabilitation is preferred over conventional care. How this mode of service contributes to recovery from stroke survivors' perspective needs further investigation.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore mild-to-moderate stroke survivors' experiences with home rehabilitation after early supported discharge from hospital.

Shyness and openness--common ground for dialogue between health personnel and women about sexual and intimate issues after gynecological cancer.

In this article we explore shyness and openness related to sexuality and intimacy in long-term female survivors of gynecological cancer, and how these women experienced dialogue with health personnel on these issues. Further analysis on two core themes, based on empirical data presented elsewhere, inspired continued theoretical and philosophical thinking drawing on Løgstrup's expressions of life and unified opposites. The findings show that gynecological cancer survivors and health personnel share common ground as human beings because shyness and openness are basic human phenomena.

Re-embodying eating: patients' experiences 5 years after bariatric surgery.

Health experts advise and expect patients to eat healthily after bariatric surgery. For patients, difficulties with eating might have been a long-standing, problematic part of life-a part that is not necessarily healed by surgery. Empirical research on patients' experiences of eating practices after bariatric surgery is lacking.

A skin disease, a blood disease or something in between? An exploratory focus group study of patients' experiences with porphyria cutanea tarda.

Background: Porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) is characterized by fragile skin with blistering on sun-exposed areas. Symptoms typically develop in late adulthood and can be triggered by iron overload, alcohol intake, oestrogens and various liver diseases. Treatment consists of phlebotomy to reduce iron, or increasing urinary porphyrin excretion by administering chlorochin.