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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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- Lundstedt, G., et al.
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Eating disorder traits in obese children and adolescents
- 2006
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Ingår i: Eating and Weight Disorders. - 1124-4909 .- 1590-1262. ; 11:1, s. 45-50
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of eating disorder (ED) traits among obese children and adolescents. The Swedish version of the Eating Disorder Inventory for Children, consisting of 11 subscales, was administered to 150 obese patients during an extensive investigation of causes and risk factors in obesity at the Karolinska University Hospital at Huddinge. Patients aged 17-18 years (N=24) had a mean body mass index (BMI) of 40.7, SD 5.31, and patients aged 8-16 (N=126) had a mean body mass index standard deviation score (BMI SDS) of 6.18, SD 1.69. These patients were compared with 201 girls with a diagnosed ED from the COEAT project and with a control group of schoolchildren. The comparison between obese girls and boys showed that adolescent obese girls scored higher than obese boys on Drive for Thinness, Bulimia and Body Dissatisfaction. They also scored higher on Ineffectiveness, Interoceptive Awareness and Impulse Regulation. Obese girls were close to the girls with an ED on six of the subscales. Obese boys had a lower score of Asceticism than boys in the control group. The conclusion is that psychological traits associated with disordered eating appear among obese patients, particularly among the girls. However, these patients rarely satisfy any diagnostic criteria for ED during childhood or adolescence. Since obesity treatment currently assumes rational behavior, i.e. no EDs, it is important to discover ED traits at an early age in order to adapt treatment accordingly.
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