Production of Novel Energy Gases in Bioprocesses Using Undefined Mixed Cultures.

Three phases of matter intermingle in various environments. The phenomena behind these fluctuations provide microbial cultures with beneficial interphase on the borderlines. Correspondingly, a bioreactor broth usually consists of a liquid phase but also contains solid particles, gas bubbles, technical surfaces, and other niches, both on a visible scale and microscopically.

Food and Forest Industry Waste Reuse Using Mixed Microflora.

Organic raw materials are the renewable sources of substrates for our industries and for our microbial communities. As industrial, agricultural or forestry side streams, they are usually affordable if the process entities, equipment and protocols are properly designed. The microbial communities that are used as biocatalysts take care of the process development together with us or with the process team.

Distanced Large Group Simulations as a Learning Method for Interprofessional Collaboration.

Digitalization in healthcare education has shifted simulation learning methods to distanced implementations. Successful transition to distance education requires effective communication and the teacher's good ability to use digital learning methods, as well as students' active interaction and motivation throughout the entire educational process. This study explores participants' experiences of online large group simulations as an approach for learning about interprofessional collaboration.

The effect of promoting factors on learning by four different delivery modes.

Background: In the digital era, developing effective teaching methods is crucial due to the challenges of maintaining students' concentration amidst distractions. This study assessed the effects of learning-promoting factors both across group boundaries and within RCT learning groups examined in our previous study on the effectiveness of online versus live teaching.

Methods: The participants' experiences in the domains of Concentration, Anticipation, Liking and Desire to reuse were evaluated online immediately after a lesson on diagnosing pediatric respiratory issues implemented either in a Live, Live-stream, Vodcast or Podcast setting.

Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care.

Background: Older people's autonomy is an ethical and legal principle in everyday residential care, but there is a lack of clarity about the roles and responsibilities of the key professional stakeholder groups involved.

Research Objectives: This study aimed to identify and define the roles and responsibilities of the key professional stakeholder groups involved in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care settings.

Research Design: We used a Delphi method with two iterative rounds of online group discussions and collected data from experts in older people's care in Finland in summer 2020.

Corrigendum: Quality of life and quality of education among physiotherapy students in Europe.

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Attitudes and Beliefs of Physical Therapists and Physical Therapist Students Toward Working With Older Adults: A Systematic Review.

Objective: The aim of this study was to systematically review physical therapists' and physical therapist students' attitudes toward working with older adults.

Methods: CINAHL, EMBASE, ERIC, MEDLINE, Scopus, PsycINFO, and SocIndex databases were searched in duplicate (from inception to March 2023). Studies that assessed knowledge on aging, intention to work with older adults or attitudes toward older adults for physical therapist students and/or clinicians, and that were written in English, Finnish, Spanish, or Swedish were included.

Quality of life and quality of education among physiotherapy students in Europe.

Background: The study of physiotherapy is challenging and can affect the students' well-being and quality of life. The aim of this study was to describe and compare factors that could affect well-being among students across Europe.

Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study using an online questionnaire survey, students of bachelor's physiotherapy programs from 23 European faculties, from 8 countries, were interviewed on mental health and stress burden, sleep quality, dietary habits, and physical activity.

A portfolio decision analysis approach for selecting a subset of interdependent actions: The case of a regional climate roadmap in Finland.

In this paper, we present a structured approach based on portfolio decision analysis to support the consideration of interdependencies between actions (i.e. interactions) in the selection of an efficient portfolio.

Effect of robot for medication management on home care professionals' use of working time in older people's home care: a non-randomized controlled clinical trial.

Background: Medication management has a key role in the daily tasks of home care professionals delivered to older clients in home care. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of using a robot for medication management on home care professionals´ use of working time.

Methods: A pragmatic non-randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted.

Understanding medication-related burden from patient perspectives: a qualitative study testing the applicability of the conceptual model among chronically ill outpatients in Finland.

Objectives: Disease self-management and medication therapy can cause burden to patients that can influence adherence. The conceptual model 'patients' lived experience with medicine' (PLEM) brings new insights into medication-related burden (MRB) from patient perspective. This study aimed to test the applicability of the PLEM model by interviewing chronically ill patients in Finland and to investigate the MRB experienced by the Finnish patients.

Comparison of remote learning methods to on-site teaching -randomized, controlled trial.

Background: In the digitalized world, there is a need for developing new online teaching and learning methods. Although audio and video recordings are increasingly used in everyday learning, little scientific evidence is available on the efficacy of new online methods. This randomized trial was set out to compare the learning outcomes of online and classroom teaching methods in training healthcare students to diagnose breathing difficulties in children.

Improving the Evidence-Based Practice Skills of Entry-Level Physiotherapy Students through Educational Interventions: A Scoping Review of Literature.

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is an essential approach in healthcare, attracting growing interest among both practitioners and researchers. This scoping review aims to (1) systematically investigate the effectiveness of pedagogical methods used to facilitate learning of the EBP approach, and (2) explore the perceptions, experiences, and issues related to these learning methods. The overarching purpose is to identify the state of the art in pedagogical methods, instruments, influences, and barriers in teaching and learning EBP within entry-level physiotherapy education programs.

Large-group simulation as a learning method to promote interprofessional collaboration and older adults' patient centered-care.

Aims: This study described the influence of a large-group simulation on social and health care students´ working life competence concerning interprofessional collaboration (IPC) and patient centered-care.

Methods And Results: The target group (n = 319) was social and health care students from several different degree programs taking part in a large-group simulation concerning older people´s oral health as a part of his comprehensive well-being and health. Data were collected with a questionnaire containing background questions, statements about interprofessional practice and open-ended questions about learning experiences.

Values, Health and Well-Being of Young Europeans Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET).

Youth unemployment is a problem that undermines young people's health and well-being and is also a concern for their immediate communities and society. Human values predict health-related behaviour; however, this relation is very little studied and not examined earlier among NEET (not in employment, education or training) young people. This study aimed to explore the association between four higher-order human values (conservation, openness to change, self-enhancement, self-transcendence), self-rated health (SRH) and subjective well-being (SW) among NEET young men and women (n = 3842) across European regions.

Monitoring groundwater quality with real-time data, stable water isotopes, and microbial community analysis: A comparison with conventional methods.

Groundwater provides much of the world's potable water. Nevertheless, groundwater quality monitoring programmes often rely on a sporadic, slow, and narrowly focused combination of periodic manual sampling and laboratory analyses, such that some water quality deficiencies go undetected, or are detected too late to prevent adverse consequences. In an effort to address this shortcoming, we conducted enhanced monitoring of untreated groundwater quality over 12 months (February 2019-February 2020) in four shallow wells supplying potable water in Finland.

Older home care clients' experiences of digitalisation: A qualitative study of experiences of the use of robot for medicines management.

Background: Home-living older people with multiple medications are a key target group for medication robots. However, our understanding of how robots for medicines management work in older people's daily lives is limited.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe older home care clients' experiences of the implementation and use of a robot for medicines management at home.

A participatory arts programme - Shared experience for family caregivers and care recipients.

Aim: This study aimed to describe family caregivers of older people's experiences of participatory art interventions, including music, dance and visual arts.

Design: A descriptive qualitative study.

Methods: Thematic interviews were conducted with 12 family caregivers.

Recognising older people's individual resources and home-care-specific tasks in home care in Finland: A document analysis of care and service plans.

Background And Rationale: Comprehensive care and service planning in home care is tailored to older people's individual needs and resources in order to support them living at home. However, little is known about how these individual resources and home-care-specific tasks are recognised in older people's care and service plans.

Aims: To describe the content of care and service plans in older people's home care with special attention to their individual resources and home-care-specific tasks.

Home care professionals' experiences of successful implementation, use and competence needs of robot for medication management in Finland.

Aim: To describe home care professionals' individual experiences of the implementation, use and competence needs of a robot for medication management in older people's home care.

Design: A qualitative focus group interview study.

Methods: Data were collected during spring and autumn 2021 by semi-structured focus group interviews and analysed using inductive content analysis.

Developing a Feasible and Credible Method for Analyzing Healthcare Documents as Written Data.

Healthcare provides a rich, and constantly increasing, number of written documents, which are underutilized in research data for health and nursing sciences, but previous literature has only provided limited guidance on the process of document analysis. The aim of this paper is to provide a methodological framework for analyzing health care documents as written data, based on a systematic methodological review and the research team's experience of the method. Based on the results, the methods consist of seven phases: (i) identify the purpose, (ii) determine the document selection strategy, (iii) select or design an extraction matrix, (iv) carry out pilot testing, (v) collect and analyze the data, (vi) consider the credibility, and (vii) ethics of the study.

Graduating Nursing Students' Empowerment and Related Factors: Comparative Study in Six European Countries.

New nurses are needed in healthcare. To meet the role expectations of a registered nurse, nursing students must feel empowered at graduation. However, there are only a few studies focusing on nursing students' empowerment.

Social Inclusion and Communality of Volunteering: A Focus Group Study of Older People's Experiences.

The aim of this qualitative study was to describe the factors that motivate older people to volunteer and how volunteering influences their social inclusion and communality. Data were collected using focus group interviews in 2020-2021 from older people aged 65-81 years ( = 38) who had experience of volunteering in the community. The data were analyzed using inductive content analysis.