15 research outputs found
Poor health and refraining from seeking healthcare are associated with comprehensive health literacy among refugees: a Swedish cross-sectional study
Experiences and needs concerning health related information for newly arrived refugees in Sweden
Perspectives on health examination for asylum seekers in relation to health literacy – focus group discussions with Arabic and Somali speaking participants
Understanding experiences of the Swedish health care system from the perspective of newly arrived refugees
An app for supporting older people receiving home care – usage, aspects of health and health literacy: a quasi-experimental study
What value for whom? – provider perspectives on health examinations for asylum seekers in Stockholm, Sweden
Being heard – Supporting person‐centred communication in paediatric care using augmentative and alternative communication as universal design: A position paper
Person-centred care, with its central focus on the patient in partnership with healthcare practitioners, is considered to be the contemporary gold standard of care. This type of care implies effective communication from and by both the patient and the healthcare practitioner. This is often problematic in the case of the paediatric population, because of the many communicative challenges that may arise due to the child's developmental level, illness and distress, linguistic competency and disabilities. The principle of universal design put forth in conventions and legislation means that the design of products and services should be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible. Augmentative and alternative communication encompasses strategies, for example pictures and apps, that are typically used with people with communication disability. In this position paper, we argue for the universal use of augmentative and alternative communication to support person-centred communication and care for children, regardless of age or potential disability. Clinical examples are shared from three different paediatric care settings where pictorial supports were applied universally. Interviews were conducted with children and adolescents (with and without disabilities), parents and healthcare practitioners, and the principles of universal design were used as a framework to demonstrate how person-centred communication is supported in paediatric care.Barncancerfonden; Vinnova; STINT, Vetenskapsrådet, Forte; NRF, and the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred Care (GPCC), Sweden, which is funded by the Swedish Government's grant for Strategic Research Areas (Care Sciences) and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ninhj2021Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC