Child healthcare nurses' experience of communication with 4-year-old children during their visit to the child health care center.

Objective: To illuminate child healthcare nurses' experiences of communication with 4-year-old children during their visit to the child healthcare center.

Design: A qualitative method, using data collected from individual interviews.

Sample: Fifteen semistructured interviews with nurses working in a child healthcare center.

Adolescents' experiences of Help Overcoming Pain Early-A school based person-centred intervention for adolescents with chronic pain.

To illuminate adolescents' experiences of Help Overcoming Pain Early (HOPE), a person-centred intervention delivered in a school setting by school nurses. Twenty-one adolescents with chronic pain recruited from secondary school, who had completed the HOPE intervention, were included in the interview study. The HOPE intervention was built on person-centred ethics and consisted of four meetings between school nurses and adolescents on the subject of stress and pain management.

Need and benefit of communication training for NICU nurses.

Objectives: To assess the effects of a new communication course for neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurses on nurses' confidence in communicating with families, and to explore communication-related issues experienced by the nurses and their relationship to burnout.

Study Design: Twenty-nine nurses participated in an interactive course based on communication cases from the NICU. Participants' experience of communication with parents was assessed.

Communication between parents and neonatal healthcare professionals using pictorial support when language barriers exist - parents' experiences.

Purpose: Families arriving in Sweden after being forced to flee their home need health care. Communication is a key component to establishing good care relations and becomes difficult when there are language barriers between families and healthcare professionals. In the context of neonatal care, communication is carried out with parents.

Organizational climate and interpersonal interactions among registered nurses in a neonatal intensive care unit: A qualitative study.

Aim: The aim of this work is to describe the organizational climate and interpersonal interactions experienced by registered nurses in a level III neonatal intensive care unit.

Background: Neonatal nurses have a demanding task in caring for a varied, highly vulnerable patient population and supporting patients' families. Nurses' psychosocial work environment affects quality of care as well as nurses' job satisfaction and organizational commitment.

Child health care nurses' experiences of language barriers during home visits.

Objective: The aim of the study was to explore the communication tools that child healthcare nurses can use during home visits to families when language barriers exist.

Design: Qualitative study using data collected from focus group sessions.

Sample: Six semi-structured focus group interviews with twenty nurses in child healthcare services.

Managing conflict situations nursing students encounter during their clinical practice, narrated and performed through Forum Play.

Aim: To describe and illuminate conflict situations nursing students encounter during their clinical practice, narrated and performed through Forum Play.

Background: Conflicts are common in healthcare settings and affect patient care and the wellbeing of nurses. To be able to manage complex practice situations, conflict management is an essential competence for nurses and should be highlighted during education.

Self-perceived health among children with spina bifida in the West Bank: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Children born with spina bifida endure constant physical disability, which is challenging for themselves and their families. To date, the impact of spina bifida on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL; eg, physical, psychological, and social wellbeing) of these children has been assessed mainly through parent proxy reports, and self-perceived health among these children is rarely measured. This study aimed to measure self-perceived health in children with spina bifida in the West Bank, to compare this with that in a healthy reference group also from the West Bank, and to assess the potential association between self-perceived health and the level of disability in children with spina bifida.

Assessment of health status in adolescents with spina bifida in the West Bank, Palestine: sense of coherence and self-perceived health.

Purpose: To assess self-perceived health and sense of coherence (SOC) in adolescents with spina bifida (SB) in the West Bank, Palestine, compared to a healthy reference group. Further, to assess the association between impairment levels in the adolescents with SB and their self-perceived health and SOC.

Methods: Fifty adolescents with SB and 150 healthy adolescents completed measures of self-perceived health - the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL 4.

Effects of a person-centred approach in a school setting for adolescents with chronic pain-The HOPE randomized controlled trial.

Background: Chronic pain among adolescents is common but effective interventions applicable in a school setting are rare. Person-centred care (PCC) is a key factor in improving health by engaging persons as partners in their own care.

Methods: In this randomized controlled trial, a total of 98 adolescents in secondary school or upper secondary school (aged 14 - 21 years) with chronic pain were randomly assigned to a PCC intervention or standard school healthcare.

Psychosocial support for parents of extremely preterm infants in neonatal intensive care: a qualitative interview study.

Background: Extremely premature infants (those born before 28 weeks' gestational age) are highly immature, requiring months of care at a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). For parents, their child's grave medical condition and prolonged hospitalization are stressful and psychologically disruptive. This study aimed at exploring the needs of psychosocial support of parents of extremely premature infants, and how the NICU as an organization and its staff meets or fails to meet these needs.

Dealing with adolescents' recurrent pain problems in school health care-Swedish school nurses' view.

Aim: To explore school nurses' strategies for supporting adolescents with recurrent pain.

Design: An explorative inductive qualitative design.

Method: Twenty-one Swedish school nurses were interviewed, and the interviews were subjected to content analysis.

Development of the Help Overcoming Pain Early (HOPE) Programme Built on a Person-Centred Approach to Support School Nurses in the Care of Adolescents with Chronic Pain-A Feasibility Study.

Chronic pain and its consequences are major global health challenges, and the prevalence is increasing worldwide among adolescents. Adolescents spend most of their waking hours in school; however, there is limited research available on how school nurses can address chronic pain among adolescents in the Swedish school context. Therefore, we designed a person-centred intervention, known as Help Overcoming Pain Early (HOPE), to enable school nurses to offer adolescents strategies to manage their stress and pain.

Health care professional's communication through an interpreter where language barriers exist in neonatal care: a national study.

Background: A number of parents in neonatal care are foreign-born and do not speak the local language, which makes communication between healthcare professionals and parents more difficult. Interpreters can be used when language barriers exist - parent interactions, medical communication and communication about the care of the child. The aim in this study was to examine healthcare professionals' use of interpreters and awareness of local guidelines for interpreted communication in neonatal care.

Conditions for communication between health care professionals and parents on a neonatal ward in the presence of language barriers.

: Family-centred neonatal care views parents and child as a unit, and aims to support each family on the basis of its specific needs. Good communication can increase parents' satisfaction and reduce tension, and is necessary to create a mutual trustful relation, but is influenced by language barriers. We aimed to describe communication between neonatal health care professionals and parents in the presence of language barriers.

A Person-Centred Approach When Encountering Students With Recurrent Pain: School Nurses' Experiences.

Stress has a negative impact on students' daily lives and can be associated with recurrent pain. School nurses play a key role in supporting young people with stress-related pain. The purpose of this qualitative interview study was to elucidate school nurses' experiences of encountering students with recurrent pain when practicing person-centred care.

Palestinian children's narratives about living with spina bifida: Stigma, vulnerability, and social exclusion.

Background: Living with spina bifida in Palestine is a critical issue that might influence various aspects of the individual's life. It is a challenge for children, their families, and health care providers because it requires lifelong treatment and follow-up of care provision. However, little focus has been placed on these children's perceptions about their daily life experiences with spina bifida.

Causes and outcomes in studies of fear of childbirth: A systematic review.

Problem: Fear of childbirth negatively affects women during pregnancy and after birth.

Aim: To summarise the findings of published studies regarding possible causes/predisposing factors and outcomes of fear of childbirth for childbearing women.

Design: A systematic review, searching five databases in March 2015 for studies on causes/predisposing factors and outcomes of fear of childbirth, as measured during pregnancy and postpartum.

Learning About Conflict and Conflict Management Through Drama in Nursing Education.

Background: In the health care settings in which nurses work, involvement in some form of conflict is inevitable. The ability to manage conflicts is therefore necessary for nursing students to learn during their education.

Method: A qualitative analysis of 43 written group assignments was undertaken using a content analysis approach.

Definitions, measurements and prevalence of fear of childbirth: a systematic review.

Background: Fear of Childbirth (FOC) is a common problem affecting women's health and wellbeing, and a common reason for requesting caesarean section. The aims of this review were to summarise published research on prevalence of FOC in childbearing women and how it is defined and measured during pregnancy and postpartum, and to search for useful measures of FOC, for research as well as for clinical settings.

Methods: Five bibliographic databases in March 2015 were searched for published research on FOC, using a protocol agreed a priori.

Nursing students experiences of learning about nursing through drama.

The ability to understand, interact and create a caring relationship with the patient is a core component in nursing. A shift in nursing education from traditional classroom teaching towards more experiential approaches should be encouraged as this will support learning that links theory with practice. The aim of this study was to describe nursing students' experiences of learning about nursing through drama.

From Feeling Broken to Looking Beyond Broken: Palestinian Mothers' Experiences of Having a Child With Spina Bifida.

Spina bifida (SB) is the second most common birth defect worldwide. Mothers of children with SB face extraordinary challenges due to the complicated conditions and disability of their children. Little is known about the impact of these challenges on the mothers' well-being, particularly in Middle Eastern culture, where chronic illness and disability are perceived as a stigma, and care of disabled children has traditionally been the responsibility of the mother.