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- Edlund, Sara, 1983-, et al.
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Facing negative emotions : Evaluating the effects of training in affirmative communication for contact nurses in cancer care
- 2022
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Ingår i: Annals of Oncology. - : Elsevier. - 0923-7534 .- 1569-8041. ; 33:7, s. S1368-S1368
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: In cancer care, contact nurses daily meet people who deal with strong,aversive emotions in relation to that they have or may have cancer where the risk ofdying is constantly present. This places demands on the ability of contact nurses tomaster difficult conversations with strong emotional expressions. One communicationmethod known for its regulating effects on emotions is affirmative communication, socalled validation. The overall aim of the current study was to evaluate effects of atraining in validating communication for contact nurses in cancer care, aimed tostrengthen their ability to work in a person-centered way.Methods: This study had a within-group design with pre-, post- and follow-up mea-surements (2 months). Specifically, the study aimed to evaluate whether the vali-dation training coincided with an increase in validation and a decrease in invalidation.Contact nurses from six regions (n ¼ 17) with a generally long work experience as anurse participated in a digital validation training for six weeks (three training sessionsplus three pre-recorded theoretical lectures). Communicative behaviors wereassessed through video-recordings of interactions between the nurses and fictitiouspatients. The videos were encoded by independent coders and analyzed withdependent MANOVA.Results: The contact nurses showed a significant increase in validation and a signif-icant decrease in invalidation after the training. These effects remained at the 2-month follow-up.Conclusions: Experienced healthcare professionals’ affirmative communication skillscan be improved after a brief training in validation.
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- Kerstis, Birgitta, et al.
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Depressive symptoms postpartum among parents are associated with marital separation : A Swedish cohort study
- 2014
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. - : SAGE Publications. - 1403-4948 .- 1651-1905. ; 42:7, s. 660-668
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims: To study whether there is an association between dyadic consensus, depressive symptoms, and parental stress during early parenthood and marital separation 6–8 years after childbirth, among couples in Sweden.Methods: At baseline, 393 couples were included. The couples answered three questionnaires, including: Dyadic consensus at 1 week post-partum, depressive symptoms at 3 months post-partum and parental stress at 18 months post-partum. The parents’ addresses were followed up after 6–8 years, to study the marital separation rate.Results: We found, 6–8 years after childbirth, that 20% of study couples were separated. Separation was associated with less dyadic consensus (mothers p < 0.001; fathers p < 0.001), depressive symptoms (mothers p = 0.022; fathers p = 0.041) and parental stress (mothers p = 0.002; fathers p = 0.040). The hazard ratio (HR) for marital separation was related to dyadic consensus for fathers (HR 0.51; 95% CI 0.28–0.92), depressive symptoms for mothers (HR 1.69; 95% CI 1.01–2.84) and fathers (HR 1.92; 95% CI 1.12–3.28), and the mother’s parental stress (HR 2.16; 95% CI 1.14–4.07).Conclusions: Understanding how dyadic consensus, depressive symptoms and parental stress are associated with marital separation is important for health professionals. It could be useful in developing interventions to provide parents with adequate support during pregnancy and early parenthood. This knowledge is also important for the public. Parents should get support in pregnancy and while bringing up children, which may help prevent marital separation and optimize conditions for the children.
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