Gratitude despite unease among Swedish male forensic psychiatric patients with substance use disorders: an interview study.

Purpose: Forensic psychiatric inpatient care in Sweden is characterized by strict regulations and adherence to court-mandated rules, with a median care time of 7 years. Comorbity has significant clinical implications, impacting health and well-being, violent behaviour and criminal recidivism, and prolonging inpatient stays. This study investigated the individual experiences and perspectives of Swedish patients in forensic psychiatric care with substance use (SU) disorders, focusing on past, present and future orientations.

It looks like nature - a phenomenological study of the built environment in psychotherapy from psychologists' and psychiatrists' perspective.

Introduction: The study aims to examine psychologists' and psychiatrists' experiences of built environments, indoors and outdoors, in providing psychotherapy. The research explores how the environment matters in clinical practice from the perspective of psychologists and psychiatrists and seeks to comprehend the significance of the facilities where psychotherapy takes place.

Methods: This study design is explorative and qualitative.

Toward a Future Orientation: A Supportive Mental Health Facility Environment.

Background: The provision of supportive environments is essential in clinical and environmental psychology. Mental health disorders are a major issue, and the experience of being at a mental health facility is affected by numerous factors related to the building's design.

Aim: The aim of this study is to explore the expectations of a mental health facility planning group regarding the potential impact of a supportive design on patients' mental health and staff's therapeutic practices when planning and designing a new mental health facility.

Diagnostic probability classification in suspected borreliosis by a novel C6-peptide IgG1- subclass antibody test.

The tick-borne multisystemic infection caused by , Lyme borreliosis, or Lyme disease, occurring in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, continues to spread geographically with the expanding tick population. Despite the rising perceived risk of infection in the population, the clinical diagnosis of Borrelia infection is not always obvious and the most important laboratory test, antibody detection, has limited accuracy in diagnosing active disease. According to international guidelines, the primary serology test, which has a high sensitivity-low specificity, should, be verified using a high specificity confirmation test to improve the specificity.

Attitudes towards death and dying among intensive care professionals: A cross-sectional design evaluating culture-related differential item functioning of the frommelt attitudes toward care of the dying instrument.

Objective: The objective is to examine whether one of the most used instruments for measuring attitudes towards caring for dying patients, the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying (FATCOD-B) instrument, has the same meaning across different societal contexts, as exemplified by Swedish and Saudi Arabian intensive care professionals.

Methods: A cross-sectional design used the 30-item FATCOD-B questionnaire. It was distributed to intensive care professionals from Sweden and Saudi Arabia, generating a total sample of 227 participants.