“Breaking down the wall” patients` and families` experience of multifamily therapy for young adult women with severe eating disorders

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Struggling with and for. A Grounded Theory of Parents Managing Life with Hard-to-Treat ADHD Teenagers

The aim of this study was to develop a grounded theory of being a parent of hard-totreat teenagers with the diagnosis of ADHD. Caretakers of 11 adolescents with ADHD were interviewed and analyzed according to the principles of classic grounded theory. The parents’ main concern was how to handle everyday challenges with the teenagers and how to get the help they needed and required. Struggling with and for is the core category in our findings. In addition, we identified four sub-categories: good “mothering”, advocating, seeking support, and giving up. The meeting with the helping services causes just as many problems as the relationship with the teenagers. Professionals should be able to identify family strengths and capabilities. In that way, professional support can be built upon coping strategies with which a family is already familiar

Optimising Capasity – A Service User and Caregiver Perspective on Reablement

Reablement focuses on offering individuals the opportunity to regain independence and thus stay longer in their homes. Few studies have looked at service users and caregivers’ perspectives on reablement. There is also a lack of theories grounded in this relatively new field of practise. This study aims to generate a grounded theory of service users’ and their caregivers’ experiences of reablement. The empirical data are based on interviews with 17 service users and 10 caregivers and observations of reablement provision. For seniors to manage as well as possible in their own homes emerged as the main concern. The core category is optimising capacity. The grounded theory builds on the core category, integrating identified strategies and concepts of health and coping. The conditions of reablement are grounded in the social and cultural life of the recipient. We conclude, therefore, that including the individual’s life history and existing coping strategies is essential to the success of reablement

Tailoring reablement : A grounded theory study of establishing reablement in a community setting in Norway

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Care-managers' professional choices : ethical dilemmas and conflicting expectations

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Ethical challenges in home mechanical ventilation : A secondary analysis

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Fathers’ experience of starting family life with an infant born prematurely due to mothers’ severe illness.

Objective: To describe fathers’ experiences of starting family life with an infant delivered prematurely out of necessity of saving the mother’s and infant’s lives due to the mother’s severe preeclampsia. Methods: A descriptive, qualitative design was used. Six fathers were interviewed twice: from 6 to 24 days and from 4 to 22 weeks after delivery. Data were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using a reflective lifeworld research approach. Results: The essence of the fathers’ experiences of establishing a family with a seriously ill mother and a premature infant can be described as a process of becoming a family through reflection on life and death in a context of separation. The essence specifically comprised the following constituents: (1) starting fatherhood facing existential issues, (2) connecting the family, (3) becoming familiar with your infant, and (4) becoming a father in a public area. Conclusions: The fathers were able to develop their relationship to their infants; this emphasizes the importance of the fathers being able to spend their time in the NICU. The privacy of the fathers were more or less challenged, health professionals should be aware of individualize their approach to the fathers. The study reveals that family life started with separation. Health professionals should try to ensure that the family should be together. Mutual guidelines between the wards that treats mother and child should be implemented. When new mother and child-centers are planned a family friendly environment should be prioritized.acceptedVersio

Developing and Testing Digital Ethical Reflection in Long-Term Care: Nurses’ Experiences

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“Balancing within a closed family system”: a grounded theory study of how family life is affected by having a family member with an eating disorder

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ICU nurses´ lived experience of caring for adult patients with a tracheostomy in ICU: a phenomenological-hermeneutic study

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