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- Borglin, Gunilla, et al.
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Nursing students understanding of critical thinking and appraisal and academic writing : A descriptive qualitative study
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In: Nurse Education in Practice. - : Elsevier Ltd. - 0260-6917 .- 1471-5953 .- 1873-5223. ; 12:6, s. 356-360
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In Sweden, regulations from the National Agency for Higher Education advocate an education that equips students with independence as well as critical, problem-based thinking, i.e. academic literacy skills. However, some research findings indicate that students may leave higher education without mastering these skills effectively. As part of quality-assuring a nursing programme at a university college in south-east Sweden we explored the nursing student's view of crucial academic literacy skills, such as critical thinking and appraisal and academic writing, by conducting a descriptive, qualitative study. Informants were recruited through an advertisement posted on the university's e-learning tool. Eight focused interviews were conducted during autumn 2010. The transcribed interviews were analysed – inspired by content analysis – and two categories became apparent: constantly questioning and formality before substance. The latter revealed a gap between the student's perception of academic writing and that of the educators, thus implying that nursing students might not be equipped with the tools they need to develop within academia. We suggest that students could benefit in their academic endeavours from theoretical educational models that integrate several academic skills simultaneously and which could be incorporated into the development of syllabuses and curriculums.
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- Fagerström, Cecilia, Docent, 1973-, et al.
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Factorial validity and invariance of the Life Satisfaction Index in older people across groups and time: Addressing the heterogeneity of age, functional ability, and depression.
- 2012
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In: Archives of gerontology and geriatrics (Print). - : Elsevier BV. - 0167-4943 .- 1872-6976. ; 55:2, s. 349-356
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the last decades, extensive research efforts have been directed at exploring life satisfaction in old age, and the Life Satisfaction Index A scale (LSIA), developed by Neugarten et al. in the 1960s, is one of the most commonly used instruments. However, studies have focused on predicting and comparing changes in people’s life satisfaction without testing if the LSIA instrument is equally valid for different subgroups of people. The present study investigated the underlying dimensions of the LSIA in a Swedish population (n=1402) of people 60−96 years of age. The study also examined factorial invariance across age, gender, functional ability and depression during a six-year period. The results showed that while a five-factor solution of the LSIA did not exhibit an acceptable fit to the data, a three-factor solution did show a close fit. The two three-factor models that demonstrated the best fit showed invariance across gender and across time, but noninvariance across groups with different levels of reduced functional ability, depressive symptoms and age. These findings suggest that the psychometric properties of life satisfaction instruments like the LSIA need to be taken into consideration before drawing conclusions about life satisfaction when comparing older people of different ages and with different depression and function levels.
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- Fagerström, Cecilia, Docent, 1973-
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Healthy ageing : positive health among older people with focus on sleep habits and falls
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In: Journal of Clinical Nursing. - : Wiley. - 0962-1067 .- 1365-2702. ; 19:suppl 1, s. 10-10
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Introduction: Satisfactory sleep has many positive benefits for older adults1,2; it may produce daytime wakefulness and reduce the risk of falls3. Sleep complaints and falls are both common with advancing age and negative determinants for health4. However, their relationship with good health or improving health has not been clearly established. The aim of this presentation is to discuss sleep and fall predictors of positive self-rated health among people (n=656, > 78 years), who participated in the longitudinal and multi-centre cohort study, The Swedish National study on Ageing and Care (SNAC), in 2001 and 20045. Positive odds ratio is used in the logistic regression analyses instead of commonly used Odds ratio.Method: Research synthesis from a longitudinal, multi-centre cohort study, 2001 and 2004.Results: Findings indicate that younger age, no fear of falling, no problem with balance, or no difficulties sleeping because of mood were associated with positive health, in the model that was adjusted for age, gender and co-morbidity.Conclusion: It is important to target older adults who are at risk of losing their balance and have low mood to prevent future health problems with advancing age. Also, the use of positive odds ratios appears to be useful when identifying positive health among older people.
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- Fagerström, Cecilia, et al.
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Home Care in Denmark
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In: Home care across Europe. - : European Obseravatory on Health Systems and Policies. - 978 92 890 0288 2 ; , s. 60-66
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- Fagerström, Cecilia, Docent, 1973-, et al.
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Home Care in Denmark
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In: Home care across Europe. - : World Health Organization. ; , s. 60-66
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- Fagerström, Cecilia, et al.
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Home Care in Norway
- 2012
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In: Home care across Europe. - : European Obseravatory on Health Systems and Policies. - 978 92 890 0288 2 ; , s. 207-213
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- Fagerström, Cecilia, Docent, 1973-, et al.
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Home care in Norway
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In: Home care across Europe. - : World Health Organization. ; , s. 207-213
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- Fagerström, Cecilia, et al.
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Home Care in Sweden
- 2012
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In: Home care across Europe. - : European Obseravatory on Health Systems and Policies. - 978 92 890 0288 2 ; , s. 272-279
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- Fagerström, Cecilia, Docent, 1973-, et al.
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Home care in Sweden
- 2013
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In: Home care across Europe. - : World Health Organization. ; , s. 272-279
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