Cross-sectoral exchange of nurses: An intervention study.

Background: In health policy, much attention has been paid to collaboration between the primary and secondary health care sectors, especially in relation to hospitalisation and discharge. Despite ideal plans for collaboration, the research literature shows that inadequate communication is a well-known problem that can be a barrier to a safe trajectory for the citizen. Based on the assumption that better knowledge of each other's work will lead to better collaboration, a cross-sectoral exchange program with nurses was initiated.

Decision making in the oesophageal cancer trajectory a source of tension and edginess to patients and relatives: a qualitative study.

Purpose: The curative oesophageal cancer continuum-diagnosis, treatment and survivorship represents different phases with its own challenges for the involved parties. The process of treatment decisions and interactions between patients with oesophageal cancer (EC), relatives and health professionals is vital yet not well described. The purpose of the study was to explore patients' and relatives' experiences with the process of decision-making through the EC illness and treatment trajectory.

Shaping Better Rehabilitation to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients: Experiences of Nurses and Colleagues With an Interdisciplinary Telerehabilitation Intervention.

In order to evaluate the reach of a collaborative cross-sectoral telerehabilitation intervention to patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), this study investigates how nurses and interdisciplinary colleagues experienced working with it. In two focus group interviews, the experiences of working in the empowerment and tele-based >>> program were examined among three nurses and four interdisciplinary colleagues. Data were analyzed with inspiration from Ricoeur's theory of narrative and interpretation and discussed with Gittell's theory of relational coordination.

Psychiatric care and education understood from a student perspective: Enhancing competences empowering personal and social recovery.

Background: During the last decades, a recovery-based approach has called for a change in mental health care services. Several programmes have been presented, and the need to develop student and professional competences in education and clinical practice has been documented.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore how psychiatric care is understood seen from a student perspective (nursing students, masters nurses and a master in applied philosophy) with focus on their personal competences and the educational interventions empowering processes for users' personal and social recovery.

Patients' experiences of the decision-making process for clinical trial participation.

Clinical decision-making about participating in a clinical trial is a complex process influenced by overwhelming information about prognosis, disease, and treatment options. The study aimed to explore patients' experiences of the decision-making process when patients are presented with the opportunity to participate in a cancer clinical trial and to shed light on how patients experience the health communication, the nurse's role, and the physician's role. A qualitative study design was applied.

Aesthetics sets patients 'free' to recover during hospitalization with a neurological disease. A qualitative study.

Background: Patients with neurological symptoms are particularly sensitive to the quality of the sensory impressions to which they are exposed to during hospitalization.

Aim: To understand the meaning of aesthetic experiences to patients afflicted with neurological diseases during hospitalization on a neurological unit.

Method: Fifteen patients were invited to "walk and talk" supplemented by semi-structured interviews conducted in newly established aesthetic tableaus within the neurology unit.

A Preference-Sensitive Online Instrument to Support Shared Decision Making for Patients With Pelvic Organ Prolapse: A Pilot Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.

A preference-sensitive instrument for women with pelvic organ prolapse was developed to increase shared decision-making. This study aimed to assess the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial to measure the effectiveness of the instrument. A pilot randomized controlled trial was conducted at three Danish gynecological clinics to assess feasibility through recruitment rates, per-protocol use and women's perception of (1) support for decision-making, (2) shared decision-making (Shared Decision-Making Questionnaire), and (3) satisfaction with their decisions.

Can patients' narratives in nursing enhance the healing process?

Although there is a growing acknowledgement of the potential of a more nuanced healthcare paradigm and practice, the discourses of health promotion-and with that nursing and other healthcare professionals' practice-still tend to focus on the medical diagnosis, disease and the rationale of biomedicine. There is a need for shifting to a human practice that draws on a broader perspective related to illness. This requires a transformation of practices which can be constructed within a narrative understanding.

Person-centred communication with cancer survivors: Exploring the meaning of follow-up coaching conversations.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the meaning of a coaching intervention for cancer survivors.

Background: Cancer survivors often experience existential concerns and worries after adjuvant treatment. A number of "care transition interventions" have been developed to improve person-centred care by empowering patients.

The discursive transformation of grief throughout history.

In recent decades, the phenomenon of grief, when you lose a loved one, has been the subject of exploration and discussion among researchers. Because of this, prolonged grief is now recognized as a possible mental disorder as the latest version of the diagnosis manual; 'International Classification of Diseases' (ICD-11) being published in 2018 is featuring a new diagnosis called 'prolonged grief disorder'. The commencement of this new disorder indicates a shift in the way grief is being articulated why the notion of rupture from the French philosopher Michel Foucault is applied as a philosophical approach in this paper.

Experiences in responders and non-responders to pulmonary rehabilitation among people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a clinical study with convergent mixed analysis.

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the experienced and measured development in physical capacity in people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) undergoing a standard pulmonary rehabilitation programme with a focus on the diverging experiences of responders and non-responders.

Methods: Twenty-one participants in standard pulmonary rehabilitation were included in the study. We measured the participants' change in the six-minute walk test (6MWT) during rehabilitation participation.

When life gives you no choice: Context of decision-making when offered an oncology clinical trial.

Background: Patients with advanced cancer are faced with a wide variety of challenges and difficult treatment decisions made while in a vulnerable life-threatening situation, including decisions about clinical trial participation. Internationally, there is a great focus on shared decision-making as a way to help patients and healthcare professionals to make informed decisions together; nevertheless, research focusing on patient experiences shows that information about clinical trials is insufficient in supporting patients to make trial decisions in the context of their course of disease and managing life with advanced cancer.

Aim: To explore where and how decisions about participation in oncology clinical trials are made and the role of the patients and healthcare professionals.

Living in limbo while one's identity is changing: Patients' existential experiences 6 months after a kidney transplantation with a living donor.

Aim: To investigate patients' existential experiences in everyday life after a kidney transplantation with a living donor.

Design: A qualitative study anchored in a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach inspired by Ricoeur's theory of narrative and interpretation.

Method: Eleven patient interviews were conducted approximately 6 months after a kidney transplantation with a living donor.

Undertaking responsibility and a new role as a relative: a qualitative focus group interview study.

Background: Being a relative of a patient with oesophageal cancer can evoke strong emotions and uncertainty about the future. As a consequence of the treatment course for oesophageal cancer and an increase in outpatient treatment, relatives are becoming increasingly responsible for patients' physical and emotional care. There is a lack of research exploring relatives' experiences with illness, treatment and decision-making.

The Balance of Patient Involvement: Patients' and Health Professionals' Perspectives on Decision-Making in the Treatment of Advanced Prostate Cancer.

Research has shown that involving patients in decisions on treatment may have positive effects for patients. However, there are different understandings of what involving patients implies and different attitudes among physicians toward sharing decisions with patients. This study aimed to explore the attitude of patients with advanced prostate cancer to involvement in treatment decisions and physicians' and nurses' approach to patient involvement.

Pelvic organ prolapse and treatment decisions- developing an online preference-sensitive tool to support shared decisions.

Background: Female patients with pelvic organ prolapse and clinicians need to take decisions regarding treatment that are often unpredictable in relation to how they impact the future everyday lives of the patients. This study formed the developmental phase of a larger study to develop and test an online tool to support shared decision-making.

Methods: Patients, health care professionals and other stakeholders participated in the development and evaluation process of this tool.

Becoming a nomad when hospitalized with a neurological disease: a phenomenological study.

Patients with a neurological disease are affected by their ability to maintain focus and are easily disturbed by outside stimuli. Few studies have investigated how sensory impressions from the physical environment contribute to patient's wellbeing during hospitalization. However, no studies have explored the meaning of the environment to patients with a neurological disease during hospitalization.

Raised illness mastering - a phenomenological hermeneutic study of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients' experiences while participating in a long-term telerehabilitation programme.

Purpose: To investigate COPD patients' experience on the mastering of their illness during participation in a long-term interprofessional and cross-sectoral telerehabilitation programme called  > C☺PD-Life≫.

Materials And Methods: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study design with combined participant observations and individual interviews formed a continuous data generation among fifteen patients while they participated in the programme. Data underwent a three-levelled interpretation inspired by the theory of the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur.

Patients' Experiences With Illness, Treatment, and Decision-Making for Esophageal Cancer: A Qualitative Study in a Danish Hospital Setting.

Patients with curable esophageal cancer or cancer in the esophageal junction face several challenges during the course of their treatment because of the burden of uncertainty in their prognoses and complexity and side effects of the treatment. The aim of this study is to explore patient experiences with illness, treatment, and decision-making in the context of esophageal cancer. A qualitative approach using phenomenological-hermeneutical methodology was used.

Personal recovery and depression, taking existential and social aspects into account: A struggle with institutional structures, loneliness and identity.

Background: Although depression is one of the most studied mental illness phenomena, the studies attempt to understand depression as different phases, turning points and transitions, but depression has an existential and social resonance. There is progress to be made in seeking to understand how people experience, cope and process, living with depression. There is a need of supplementary and alternative approaches that goes beyond medicine and traditional treatment of psychiatric disabilities.

Existential Contradictions in Living With End-Stage Renal Disease: A Qualitative Metasynthesis.

A qualitative metasynthesis following Sandelowski and Barroso's method was conducted to explore what characterizes the existential experiences of individuals living with end-stage renal disease. The findings show that patients with end-stage renal disease live with several existential contradictions characterized by the following: perception of the body-oscillating between connection and separation, maintaining life-oscillating between freedom and captivity, uncertainty-oscillating between hope and despair, and enduring technology-oscillating between being perceived as an object and subject. Consequently, living with end-stage renal disease is challenging for patients; hence, the support of nurses is important to alleviate patients' vulnerability.

Being a relative on the sideline to the patient with oesophageal cancer: a qualitative study across the treatment course.

Background: Being a relative of patients with oesophageal cancer or cancer in the oesophageal junction is stressful, as the healthcare system often overlooks concerns about the future as well as the roles and needs of relatives. There is a lack of research addressing relatives' experiences, roles and needs for participation in decisions.

Aims And Objectives: To explore relatives' experiences before the start of treatment and their subsequent roles and needs for participation in treatment decisions.

Challenges to cross-sectoral care experienced by professionals working with patients living with low back pain: a qualitative interview study.

Background: While interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral collaboration promotes the effectiveness of rehabilitation programmes for persons with low back pain, challenges remain for this process. Few studies have explored challenges to cross-sectoral care as experienced by all the involved professionals across sectors during a course of treatment. The aim of this study was to explore challenges to cross-sectoral care as experienced by professionals involved in the course of treatment for patients with low back pain.

"" - the experience of losing sense of self in those with young onset dementia.

: To explore and describe the experience of people having young-onset dementia.: This was a qualitative study that used semi-structured interviews to collect data from nine persons with young-onset dementia (aged 47-65; five men and four women). Data were collected in the spring of 2018.

Experiences and challenges to cross-sectoral care reported by patients with low back pain. A qualitative interview study.

Background: Cross-sectoral care comprises interdisciplinary and coordinated efforts for patients with complex care needs involving various competencies and professions across the primary health care sector, hospital sector, and municipal services. Cross-sectoral care can increase the effectiveness of rehabilitation programmes, but the treatment courses often lack coherence. Establishing successful treatment pathways requires a better understanding of the health care challenges faced by patients with low back pain.