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- Blomqvist, Marjut, 1966-
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Health among people with psychotic disorders and effects of an individualized lifestyle intervention to promote health
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall aim of the thesis was to increase knowledge of health among people with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and other long-term psychotic conditions. The aim was also to investigate health effects, in terms of clinical health outcomes and self-reported questionnaires, of atwo-year individualized lifestyle intervention implemented in psychiatric outpatient services involving cooperation with the municipal social psychiatry services. The motivation for the study was to generate new knowledge in order to be able to promote health in people with psychotic disorders and to improve the care and support provided for this target group. The thesis consists of four studies. A quantitative study (Study I), was conducted using a cross-sectional design to investigate the prevalence of overweight, obesity, risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the relationships between self-rated salutogenic health, sense of coherence, CVD risk, and body mass index among people with psychoticdisorders (n=57). The study was conducted in four psychiatric outpatient services; questionnaires were completed by the participants and clinical health measurements were collected by the participant’s contact nurse at the psychiatric outpatient services. The participants showed a moderate/high risk of CVD, the mean for BMI was 31.9 (59.6% were obese) and 31.6% were overweight. The results did not reveal any relationships between the subjective and objective measuresof health indicating the need for both subjective and objective assessments of health in psychiatric care. In a qualitative study (Study II), data were collected with semi-structured interviews (n=16) andanalyzed with qualitative content analysis. The interviews resulted in an overall theme “Being regarded as a whole human being by self and others”, which showed the multidimensional nature of health and the issues that enable healthy living among people with severe mental illness. Three categories emerged: (i) everyday structure (ii), motivating life events and (iii) support from significant others. The results indicate that a person with severe mental illness needs to be encountered as a wholeperson if healthy living is to be enabled. In a quasi-experimental study (Study III), the potential effects of participation in the two-year lifestyle intervention (intervention group n=54 and control group (n=13) were investigated. The data were collected at baseline, after 12 months and after 24 months using the self-reported questionnaire the Salutogenic Health Indicator Scale (SHIS), the Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-25) and the National Public Health Survey. Measures of clinical healthoutcomes were conducted by the participant’s contact nurse at the psychiatric outpatient services. Multilevel modeling was used to test differences in changes over time. Significant changes were foundin physical activity, HbA1c and waist circumference after participation in individualized lifestyle intervention. The relationship between changes in physical activity, levels of salutogenic health and glycated hemoglobin (Hb1Ac) were investigated (n=54) in Study IV. The data were collected atbaseline, after 12 months and after 24 months using the self-reported questionnaires Salutogenic Health Indicator Scale (SHIS) and National Public Health Survey. Within-person changes in physical activity between baseline and at the end of the twenty-four-month intervention were calculated. Selfreported increased physical activity was positively associated with self-rated salutogenic health and negatively associated with level of HbA1c after participation in the intervention. The thesis shows that a well-founded assessment of general health needs must consider both the individual's subjective experiences and objective measurements in order to form a solid foundation for dialogue and shareddecision-making about essential care services. The results also show that it is possible to stimulate healthy behavioral changes with a two-year individualized lifestyle intervention and bring both subjectively and objectively measured health benefits for people with psychotic disorders. The importance of nurses in psychiatric care applying a holistic approach and integrating lifestyle interventions into daily person-centered psychiatric care in collaboration with other healthcare providers to facilitate changes towards a healthy lifestyle in persons with psychotic illness is emphasized in the thesis.
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- Carlsson, Ing-Marie, 1961-
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The movement towards birth : A study of women's childbirth self-efficacy and early labour
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to increase the understanding of early labour, the latency phase of labour, based on women’s experiences and ability to handle the situation. Furthermore, the aim was to perform a psychometric testing of an instrument measuring childbirth self-efficacy and to explore the relationships to women´s well-being and number of obstetric interventions and birth outcomes.Methods: In study I, a grounded theory method was used to obtain a deeper understanding of how women who seek care at an early stage experience the latent phase of labour. The same method, grounded theory was used in study II, but in this study, the aim was to obtain a deeper understanding of how women, who remain at home until the active phase of labour, experience the period from labour onset before admission to maternity ward. In both these studies (I & II) interviews were used to collect data. Study III and IV were cross sectional studies with a consecutive data collection. In study III, a forward-backward translation was used to translate the childbirth self-efficacy inventory (CBSEI) into a Swedish version. An explorative factor analysis with principal component analysis was used to test the psychometric properties of the inventory and reliability tests with Cronbach's alpha and inter item total correlation was performed. In study IV, chi-2 test, Fisher's exact test and student's t-test for independent samples was performed between women´s estimated childbirth self-efficacy and demographics, obstetric interventions and birth outcomes. Correlations were also performed between different scales measuring well-being during pregnancy and childbirth self-efficacy. Finally a logistic regression analysis was performed to predict the probability for low or high childbirth self-efficacy.Findings: Being in a safe place is essential for the women in the early labour process. But a safe place has different meanings for different women, depending on how they assess their own ability to handle their impending labour. For some women, the hospital is a secure place, a place where somebody else can take over the responsibility for themselves, the labour process or their child’s well-being. Some women choose to remain in their homes, which they consider as a kind of base camp which they can leave and go back to whenever they please. There is also a difference in how women ascribe ability to their own bodies and women´s belief in their own ability to cope and deal with the impending birth, their self-efficacy. These differences together with the women´s choice of seeking care or not, during the early labour process, affect the women´s experience of the labour process. The women's experience during the early labour process varies from feeling powerful and strong, to perceiving themselves as victims and feeling totally powerless. Women with high self-efficacy as measured by CBSEI had less previous mental illness and had more often been told their sister´s birth story. During the labour process, women with a higher childbirth self-efficacy have a lower frequency of epidural analgesia than women with low childbirth self-efficacy.Conclusion: Women´s belief in their childbirth self-efficacy affects their choice of place to be, during the early labour process. The place in turn, affects the women´s experiences and the way they handle the early labour process. The early labour process is a sensitive period that requires attention and should not be neglected. Through increased knowledge and understanding of the problematic issues related to the early labour process, the birth preparation and antenatal obstetric care, as well as the care during labour can be improved.
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- Sjöberg, Carina, 1964-
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Barncentrerat förhållningssätt i perioperativ vård
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Bakgrund: Barns möjligheter att involveras i den perioperativa vårdkontexten kan förbättras med ett barncentrerat förhållningssätt. För att uppnå detta behöver hänsyn både tas till att barn är beroende av sin familj och att de som enskilda individer ska involveras och vara medaktörer i sin vård. Barns involvering i den perioperativa vården har många fördelar. Det bidrar till minskad oro och rädsla och att barnet kan stärka sin kompetens och bli behandlad med respekt. Barn upplever dock att det är svårt för dem att vara delaktiga och att ha kontroll i den främmande och skrämmande perioperativa sjukhusmiljön. Barns möjligheter att vara delaktiga i den perioperativa vården är därför beroende av föräldrar och hälso-och sjukvårdspersonal liksom rutiner och fördelning av resurser i vården. Det är därför viktigt att de vuxna som ska stödja barnen har förståelse för att barn är unika och uppfattar saker ur sitt eget perspektiv baserat på sina erfarenheter.Syfte: Det övergripande syftet med avhandlingen var att öka förståelsen för vad ett barncentrerat förhållningssätt innebär inom perioperativ vård - utifrån barn, föräldrars och ett organisatoriskt perspektiv. Metod: I delarbete I användes en deskriptiv kvalitativ design med intervjuer av 10 barn (8 till 11år). Delarbete II hade en explorativ kvalitativ design med intervjuer av 20 föräldrar. Delarbete I och II analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys för att beskriva barn och föräldrars erfarenheter av delaktighet i pediatrisk perioperativ vård. I delarbete III användes en explorativ kvalitativ design med intervjuer av hälso-och sjukvårdpersonal. Analysen genomfördes med grundad teori för att utforska processen av ett organisatoriskt förbättringsarbete för barn som genomgick sedering för intratekal cytostatikabehandling. I delarbete IV användes en deduktiv kvantitativ design med registerdata och analys med deskriptiv statistik för att beskriva tidsintervall och använd Propofol-dos vid sedering för intratekal cytostatikabehandling i tre olika miljöer. Resultat: Delarbete I visar att barns upplevelse av delaktighet påverkats av hur de informerats inför och under det perioperativa vårdförloppet. Vidare har relationen till hälso-och sjukvårdspersonalen haft betydelse för barns möjligheter att involveras i beslutsfattande. Dessutom har sjukhusmiljön, väntetid och möjligheter att förströ sig haft inflytande på barns upplevelse av delaktighet. I delarbete II beskriver huvudkategorin att föräldrars delaktighet i pediatrisk perioperativa vård vid dagkirurgi betydde ”Having strength to participate despite an increased vulnerability ”. Tillsammans med underkategorierna; få information om vad som ska hända, att bli sedd som en resurs och att få tillgång till miljön. I delarbete III beskriver “The theory of a shielding place” hur hälso-och sjukvårdspersonalen med ett barncentrerat förhållningssätt utförde proceduren sedering för intratekal cytostatikabehandling på barnavdelningen. Resultatet i delarbete IV kontrollerar och kvantifierar objektivt delar av resultatet från delarbete III. Genom att visa att när proceduren utförs på barnavdelningen minskas väntetid och tidsåtgång för proceduren som helhet. Konklusion: För barn och föräldrar som genomgår dagkirurgi har information, samspelet med hälso-och sjukvårdspersonalen och miljön haft betydelse för upplevelsen av delaktighet. Ur ett organisatoriskt perspektiv påverkas ett barncentrerat förhållningssätt av de rutiner som har betydelse för hur barn och föräldrar förbereds. Resurser och rutiner påverkar också om sjukhusmiljöer är anpassade för barn, väntetid och tidsåtgång, liksom relationer mellan barn och hälso-och sjukvårdspersonal.
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