Institutt for sykepleie- og helsevitenskap
Recent Submissions
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Mental health as perceived by Norwegian adolescents living with parental somatic illness: Living in an earthquake zone
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Purpose: Severe parental somatic illnesses can influence the entire family, including adolescents’ everyday life, psychosocial functioning and health. Within salutogenesis, it is highlighted that stressor life events, such ... -
A User-Centered Approach to an Evidence-Based Electronic Health Pain Management Intervention for People With Chronic Pain: Design and Development of EPIO
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Chronic pain conditions are complicated and challenging to live with. Electronic health (eHealth) interventions show promise in helping people cope with chronic illness, including pain. The success of these ... -
Predictors of subjective age in people aged 40-79 years: a five-year follow-up study. The impact of mastery, mental and physical health
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)Assessing subjective age perception (SAP) and changes in SAP as well as exploring which variables of socio-demographic, health and personal mastery independently predicted SAP. Methods: The panel data are from two waves ... -
Building ground for didactics in a patient decision aid for hip osteoarthritis. Exploring patient-related barriers and facilitators towards shared decision-making
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Objective: The aim of the present study was to explore patient-related barriers and facilitators towards shared decision-making (SDM) during routine orthopedic outpatient consultations as part of the process of developing ... -
The development of a model for teaching information literacy to nursing students through cross-professional collaboration
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)This paper describes experiences from a collaborative project between the nursing educators at the Institute of Nursing Science and the health sciences librarians at Vestfold University College in Norway. The aim of the ... -
Family carers' experiences of attending a multicomponent psychosocial intervention program for carers and persons with dementia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Background: Psychosocial interventions for persons with dementia and their primary family carers are promising approaches to reducing the challenges associated with care, but, obtaining significant outcomes may be difficult. ... -
Nursing students’ experiences with clinical placement in a marginal Norwegian nursing home learning environment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Nursing homes are core clinical placement arenas in nursing education. For a range of reasons, however, they are marginally staffed and face recruiting challenges. These issues threaten the educational quality ... -
The Professional Nurse Self-Assessment Scale: Psychometric testing in Norwegian long term and home care contexts
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Background Nurses’ clinical competence is vital to ensure safe and high quality care, and the continuous assessment of nurses’ clinical competence is of major concern. A validated instrument for the self-assessment of ... -
Implementation of eHealth Technology in Community Health Care: the complexity of stakeholder involvement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: The implementation of any technology in community health care is seen as a challenge. Similarly, the implementation of eHealth technology also has challenges, and many initiatives never fully reach their ... -
Developing dementia: The existensial experience of the quality of life With young-onset dementia- A longitudinal case study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background Cognition and the ability to take care of daily activities and oneself gradually declines among people with dementia. Studies are scarce, especially regarding how people with young-onset dementia (YOD) (<65 ... -
Faser under sykehusoppholdet - sykepleieres erfaringer med delirium blant gamle med brudd
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)Bakgrunn: Hensikten med studien var å undersøke sykepleieres erfaringer med identifisering, forebygging og behandling av delirium blant gamle som innlegges for ortopedisk kirurgi i ulike faser i et sykehusopphold. Studien ... -
Solo Mothers After Assisted Conception and Their Experiences With Postnatal Care
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Purpose: To explore solo mothers’ postnatal caring experiences. Patients and Methods: A qualitative interview study including nine solo mothers living in six different counties in Norway. The mothers had a total of twelve ... -
The Use of Expectancy and Empathy When Communicating With Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer; an Observational Study of Clinician–Patient Consultations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: Information provision about prognosis, treatments, and side-effects is important in advanced cancer, yet also associated with impaired patient well-being. To counter potential detrimental effects, communication ... -
Evaluation and Implementation of ListeningTime: A Web-Based Preparatory Communication Tool for Elderly Patients With Cancer and Their Health Care Providers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: Effective patient-provider communication is an important condition to deliver optimal care and it supports patients in coping with their disease. The complex and emotionally loaded setting of oncology care ... -
Dementia and patient safety in the community: a qualitative study of family carers’ protective practices and implications for services
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background Dementia is a cause of disability and dependency associated with high demands for health services and expected to have a significant impact on resources. Care policies worldwide increasingly rely on family ... -
Effective information provision about the side effects of treatment for malignant lymphoma: Protocol of a randomized controlled trial using video vignettes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: Informing patients with cancer about the possible implications of prospective treatment is a crucial yet challenging task. Unfortunately, patients’ recall of medical information is generally poor and their ... -
Implicit and explicit attitudes towards disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs as possible target for improving medication adherence
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Objective This study aims to explore the contribution of implicit attitudes and associations towards conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (cDMARDs), alongside explicit measures, on medication-taking behaviour ... -
‘Thinking outside the box’: advanced geriatric nursing in primary health care in Scandinavia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background:Older people are frequent users of primary health care (PHC) services. PHC services have been critiqued, mainly regarding limited accessibility and continuity of care. In many countries, investment in nurse ... -
Study protocol for a randomised trial evaluating the effect of a "birth environment room" versus a standard labour room on birth outcomes and the birth experience
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Introduction In the last decade, there has been an increased interest in exploring the impact of the physical birth environment on birth outcomes. The birth environment might have an important role in facilitating the ... -
Balancing between extremes—Work in hospital‐at‐home
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Aim: To describe HAH staff's perceptions about HAH care, including work struc‐tures, processes and outcomes.Design: Cross‐sectional descriptive study of three HAH units in Finland.Methods: Three focus group interviews of ...
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