13 results match your criteria: "Vid Specialised University[Affiliation]"

In the course of worldwide attempts at the academisation of professional education and the Bologna process, nursing education has become both bachelor's and master's programmes at colleges, polytechnics, and universities.We investigated how a master's level in internships is conceptionalised by the involved parties. Our focus was on Norwegian master's education programmes in two different health professions, midwifery and public health nursing.

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Most of the literature that has looked at children's relationships with their parents in the domestic violence context has focused solely on the children's relationship with one parent or is studied from the perspective of one parent, usually the mother. Sibling relationships in the same context are also under-studied. This paper explores in more detail the complexity of children's relationships with their mothers, fathers, and siblings over time from the perspective of adult women and survivors of childhood domestic violence.

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Interprofessional collaboration for children with physical disabilities: a scoping review.

J Interprof Care

February 2024

Department of Rehabilitation Science and Health Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.

Interprofessional collaboration is vital in the context of service delivery for children with physical disabilities. Despite the established importance of interprofessional collaboration and an increasing focus on research on this topic, there is no overview of the research. A scoping review was conducted to explore current knowledge on interprofessional collaboration for children with physical disabilities from the point of view of the actors involved.

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Background: Involvement in research and shared priorities among occupational therapists (OTs) can enhance the quality of occupational therapy practice.

Aims: To explore the research involvement and research priorities of OTs in Norway.

Materials And Methods: An online survey comprising 14 open-ended and closed questions was made available to participants at the Seventh Norwegian Congress in Occupational Therapy to fill out.

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Sexual Health and Quality of Life in Cancer Survivors With Pelvic Radiation Injuries.

Cancer Nurs

August 2024

Author Affiliations: Centre for Crisis Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen (Drs Hauken, Velure, and Müller); Hyperbaric Medicine Unit, Department of Occupational Medicine (Drs Velure and Müller), and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Dr Sekse), Haukeland University Hospital; and Faculty of Health Sciences, VID Specialised University (Dr Sekse), Bergen, Norway.

Background: Little knowledge exists on how late radiation tissue injuries (LRTIs) affect sexual health and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in pelvic cancer survivors.

Objective: To explore sexual health and HRQOL in cancer survivors with pelvic LRTI.

Method: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted, including 83 pelvic cancer survivors with LRTI.

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Background: In this paper, we explore the subjective experiences of a group intervention in creative writing (CW) for young adults being treated for psychosis.

Method: A qualitative and exploratory design was applied. Five out of eight patients who were offered a course in CW with two-hour weekly sessions for 12 weeks took part in this study.

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There is a knowledge gap about nurses' use of social media in relation to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, which demands the upholding of a physical distance to other people, including patients and their relatives. The study aims to explore how nurses in the Scandinavian countries used social media for professional purposes in relation to the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 30 nurses in three Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) were conducted.

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Purpose: To translate and validate the Italian version of the Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale (SSCRS-ita).

Methods: A single-center cross-sectional study was performed from October 15 to November 15, 2019 in a public hospital in Milan, Italy. The scale was drafted using the back-translation method.

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Background: Health professionals' attitudes towards addressing sexual health are important to promote patients' sexual health. Therefore, measurement of health professionals' attitudes towards addressing sexual health is essential.

Aim: This study aimed to adapt the questionnaire Students' Attitudes towards Addressing Sexual Health (SA-SH-D) to health professionals working with rehabilitation in Danish municipalities and evaluated psychometric properties of the adapted questionnaire: The Danish Version of the Professionals' Attitudes towards Addressing Sexual Health (PA-SH-D).

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The need for meaning in life is a key aspect of being human, and a central issue in the psychology of religion. Understanding experience of meaning for persons with severe dementia is challenging due to the impairments associated with the illness. Despite these challenges, this article argues that meaning in life is as important for a person with severe dementia as it is for everyone else.

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Aim: To explore young adults' experiences of outpatient follow-up appointments, completing electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), and using the Problem Areas In Diabetes (PAID) scale during the Diabetes Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (DiaPROM) pilot trial.

Methods: We performed a qualitative study among 19 young adults (aged 22-39 years) with type 1 diabetes who participated in the pilot trial. Between February and June 2019, we conducted individual, semi-structured telephone interviews with participants from the intervention and control arms.

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Aims And Objectives: To review short documentary films about older men with advanced dementia to use in teaching, and therein address the gender imbalance in the dementia care curricula and create opportunities to learn about masculine vulnerability.

Background: There has been a growing recognition of the role of gender in respect of vulnerability, with emerging evidence suggesting a need to acknowledge and prioritise dementia as a global women's health issue. Whilst a focus on women is understandable-more women are affected by dementia than men-gender does not equal women.

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Aim: To critically review and synthesize the findings of studies that evaluated the effectiveness of nursing interventions for improving breathlessness in adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Background: Systematic reviews of nursing interventions for breathlessness in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have not been specifically addressed.

Design: Systematic review with meta-analysis.

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