Competence areas of health science teachers - A systematic review of quantitative studies.

Background: In the face of rapid digitalisation and ever-higher educational requirements for healthcare professionals, it is important that health science teachers possess the relevant core competences. The education of health science teachers varies internationally and there is no consensus about the minimum qualifications and experience they require.

Objective: The aim of this systematic review was to describe the health science teachers' competences and the factors related to it.

Although unseen, chronic pain is real-A phenomenological study.

Background Research has emphasised the essential role of psychosocial risk factors in chronic pain. In practice, pain is usually verified by identifying its physical cause. In patients without any distinct pathology, pain is easily defined as imaginary pain.

Revising the negative meaning of chronic pain - A phenomenological study.

Objectives: Chronic pain may disable the body, depress the mind and ruin the quality of life. The aim of this study was to use the participants' personal experiences to explore the meaning of the experience of chronic pain and to find successful ways to manage chronic pain.

Methods: Thirty-four participants with chronic pain were interviewed.

Chronic pain affects the whole person--a phenomenological study.

Purpose: The aim of this qualitative study was to explore participants' perspectives on the effects of chronic pain on the psychophysical unity.

Methods: Thirty-four chronic pain outpatients were interviewed, and the transcribed interviews were analysed with Giorgi's four-phase phenomenological method. The mean age of the participants was 48 years, and 19 of them were women.

The dominance of chronic pain: a phenomenological study.

Background: Chronic pain is not only a physical disorder, but also a complex combination of biopsychosocial symptoms affecting each other. When in chronic pain, the patient's entire body becomes a source of pain, and eventually the pain occupies the patient's mind and entire life. The aim of the present study was to examine the life experience and management of chronic pain from the patient's perspective.

Reliability and validity study of the Finnish version of the Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ).

Purpose: Acceptance has been discovered to be successful in improving quality of life when adjusting to chronic pain. Instead of avoiding and controlling the pain, the goal is to confront the pain and to live a value directed life. Thus far, there has not been an instrument in Finnish to assess the acceptance of chronic pain.