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Contemporary nurse, Jun 11, 2024
Seminars in oncology nursing, Mar 1, 2024
Journal of International Medical Research
Objectives As welfare societies, Scandinavian countries share characteristics of equality related... more Objectives As welfare societies, Scandinavian countries share characteristics of equality related to healthcare access, gender, and social services. However, cultural and lifestyle variations create country-specific health differences. This meta-analysis assessed the prevalence of preterm birth (PTB) and its categories in Scandinavian countries. Methods A systematic search in key databases of literature published between 1990 and 2021 identified studies of the prevalence of PTB and its categories. Following the use of the Freeman–Tukey double arcsine transformation, a meta-analysis of weighted data was performed using the random-effects model and meta-prop method. Results We identified 109 observational studies that involved 86,420,188 live births. The overall pooled prevalence (PP) of PTB was 5.3% (PP = 5.3%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 5.1%, 5.5%). The highest prevalence was in Norway (PP = 6.2%, 95% CI 5.3%, 7.0%), followed by Sweden (PP = 5.3%, 95% CI 5.1%, 5.4%), Denmark (PP =...
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
ObjectivesGiven the increasing trend of care transition from healthcare settings to patients’ own... more ObjectivesGiven the increasing trend of care transition from healthcare settings to patients’ own home, patients and their family caregivers should take more responsibilities for care at own home. This study is going to investigate the effect of a transitional care program from hospital to own home using a digital messaging application on patients’ undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and their family caregivers’ health outcomes.MethodsA parallel randomized controlled trial study will be conducted in a hospital in a metropolis located in southwestern Iran. Sampling will be performed sequentially and the eligible dyad of patients and family caregivers will be randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. The intervention group will receive a transitional care program for 8 weeks using the WhatsApp on the mobile phone based on the person-centered care approach, but the control group will receive routine care for patient’s transition. Data collection will be c...
Advanced practice in nursing, 2023
Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing
Tele-palliative care enables people with a life-limiting illness to consult with palliative care ... more Tele-palliative care enables people with a life-limiting illness to consult with palliative care staff without having to leave their homes but requires commitment from all stakeholders, particularly on ethical challenges and patient safety issues. When using telecommunications and virtual technology, ethical challenges and patient safety aspects must be taken into account. The aim was to describe formal and informal caregivers' opportunities in tele-palliative care and the associated ethical and safety challenges using a Whittemore and Knafl integrative review method. Ethical and patient safety perspectives were extracted from studies reporting on tele-palliative care interventions. Content on ethically considerable information on the intervention was coded, categorized, and summarized into a matrix developed in advance from literature on socio-technical arrangements and eHealth applications. Nine studies from experimental and nonexperimental research were included. Four studies...
Integrative Cancer Therapies
Background and objectives: Despite significant advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer,... more Background and objectives: Despite significant advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, many people across the world still suffer from this chronic disease and its complications. Chamomile as an herbal medicine has gained an increasing attention for relieving cancer complications. This study aimed to integrate and synthesize current international evidence regarding the effect of chamomile on cancer complications. Methods: A systematic review was undertaken. Five online databases including Web of Science, PubMed [including MEDLINE], Cochrane Library, Scopus, and Embase were searched and articles published from inception to January 2023 were retrieved. All clinical trials and similar interventional studies on human subjects examining the effects of chamomile on cancer complications were included in the review and research synthesis. Relevant data were extracted from eligible studies after quality appraisals using proper methodological tools. The review results were presented...
Journal of Advanced Nursing, Dec 16, 2022
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2015
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe instruments used for quality assessment in acu... more Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe instruments used for quality assessment in acute care. Quality care assessment is essential for improving care delivery. Quality instruments can be used to evaluate nurse and patient perspectives in multi-professional care. Therefore, valid and reliable measurement instruments are vital. Design/methodology/approach – A literature search identified several instruments that measure quality from a nurse and patient perspectives. The questionnaires were appraised in several steps with specific criteria: psychometric properties, underlying construct or test theory, study context, sample characteristics and target population. Findings – Overall, 14 instruments were evaluated, but only eight questionnaires represented nurse and patient views regarding quality. Instruments showed several disparities in their theoretical foundations and their psychometric properties. Two instruments did not provide validity data and one questionnaire did not...
BMC Nursing
Background Cultural safety requires healthcare professionals and organisations to improve healthc... more Background Cultural safety requires healthcare professionals and organisations to improve healthcare, facilitate patient access to healthcare, and achieve equity within the workforce. Methods This ethnomethodological study, which consisted of two phases, explored the concept of cultural safety from the perspective of Advanced Practice Nurses. Semi-structured interviews and the nominal group technique were used to prioritise challenges related to cultural safety, identify barriers to clinical practise and assess educational needs. The data collected was subjected to thematic analysis. Results Nurses working in Austria, Germany and Switzerland were recruited (N = 29). Accordingly, the phenomenon of cultural safety in health care is not generally known and there is little prior knowledge about it. The most frequently discussed themes were communication difficulties, lack of knowledge, the treatment of people with insufficient language skills and expectations of treatment goals and outc...
Journal of Nursing Management, 2022
Aims: To explore nurses' and midwives' perspectives of safety climate in Austrian hospitals as me... more Aims: To explore nurses' and midwives' perspectives of safety climate in Austrian hospitals as measurable elements of safety culture and to identify areas of quality improvement. Background: Due to close contact with patients, nurses and midwives play a vital role in ensuring patient safety. Method: An online survey among 713 nurses and midwives was conducted, using the 19-item Safety Climate Survey (SCS). To answer the survey, a 5-point Likert scale was provided with higher ratings indicating a more positive safety climate. Results: Results demonstrate a positive safety culture (MD 4.09, SD 0.53). Significant group differences in overall safety climate score could be found regarding nurses and midwives in managerial positions, between gender and participants age with low effect size. High item missing rates focus aspects on management/leadership, institutional concerns, leadership by physicians, and handling of adverse events. In addition, these items present the lowest ratings in safety climate. Conclusion: Results indicate potentials for optimization in the areas of leadership communication and feedback, the handling of safety concerns, and visibility or improvement of patient safety strategies. Implications for Nursing Management: A regular, standardized safety climate measurement can be a valuable tool for nurse managers and (political) decision-makers to manage patient safety initiatives.
Contemporary nurse, Jun 11, 2024
Seminars in oncology nursing, Mar 1, 2024
Journal of International Medical Research
Objectives As welfare societies, Scandinavian countries share characteristics of equality related... more Objectives As welfare societies, Scandinavian countries share characteristics of equality related to healthcare access, gender, and social services. However, cultural and lifestyle variations create country-specific health differences. This meta-analysis assessed the prevalence of preterm birth (PTB) and its categories in Scandinavian countries. Methods A systematic search in key databases of literature published between 1990 and 2021 identified studies of the prevalence of PTB and its categories. Following the use of the Freeman–Tukey double arcsine transformation, a meta-analysis of weighted data was performed using the random-effects model and meta-prop method. Results We identified 109 observational studies that involved 86,420,188 live births. The overall pooled prevalence (PP) of PTB was 5.3% (PP = 5.3%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 5.1%, 5.5%). The highest prevalence was in Norway (PP = 6.2%, 95% CI 5.3%, 7.0%), followed by Sweden (PP = 5.3%, 95% CI 5.1%, 5.4%), Denmark (PP =...
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
ObjectivesGiven the increasing trend of care transition from healthcare settings to patients’ own... more ObjectivesGiven the increasing trend of care transition from healthcare settings to patients’ own home, patients and their family caregivers should take more responsibilities for care at own home. This study is going to investigate the effect of a transitional care program from hospital to own home using a digital messaging application on patients’ undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and their family caregivers’ health outcomes.MethodsA parallel randomized controlled trial study will be conducted in a hospital in a metropolis located in southwestern Iran. Sampling will be performed sequentially and the eligible dyad of patients and family caregivers will be randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. The intervention group will receive a transitional care program for 8 weeks using the WhatsApp on the mobile phone based on the person-centered care approach, but the control group will receive routine care for patient’s transition. Data collection will be c...
Advanced practice in nursing, 2023
Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing
Tele-palliative care enables people with a life-limiting illness to consult with palliative care ... more Tele-palliative care enables people with a life-limiting illness to consult with palliative care staff without having to leave their homes but requires commitment from all stakeholders, particularly on ethical challenges and patient safety issues. When using telecommunications and virtual technology, ethical challenges and patient safety aspects must be taken into account. The aim was to describe formal and informal caregivers' opportunities in tele-palliative care and the associated ethical and safety challenges using a Whittemore and Knafl integrative review method. Ethical and patient safety perspectives were extracted from studies reporting on tele-palliative care interventions. Content on ethically considerable information on the intervention was coded, categorized, and summarized into a matrix developed in advance from literature on socio-technical arrangements and eHealth applications. Nine studies from experimental and nonexperimental research were included. Four studies...
Integrative Cancer Therapies
Background and objectives: Despite significant advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer,... more Background and objectives: Despite significant advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, many people across the world still suffer from this chronic disease and its complications. Chamomile as an herbal medicine has gained an increasing attention for relieving cancer complications. This study aimed to integrate and synthesize current international evidence regarding the effect of chamomile on cancer complications. Methods: A systematic review was undertaken. Five online databases including Web of Science, PubMed [including MEDLINE], Cochrane Library, Scopus, and Embase were searched and articles published from inception to January 2023 were retrieved. All clinical trials and similar interventional studies on human subjects examining the effects of chamomile on cancer complications were included in the review and research synthesis. Relevant data were extracted from eligible studies after quality appraisals using proper methodological tools. The review results were presented...
Journal of Advanced Nursing, Dec 16, 2022
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2015
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe instruments used for quality assessment in acu... more Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe instruments used for quality assessment in acute care. Quality care assessment is essential for improving care delivery. Quality instruments can be used to evaluate nurse and patient perspectives in multi-professional care. Therefore, valid and reliable measurement instruments are vital. Design/methodology/approach – A literature search identified several instruments that measure quality from a nurse and patient perspectives. The questionnaires were appraised in several steps with specific criteria: psychometric properties, underlying construct or test theory, study context, sample characteristics and target population. Findings – Overall, 14 instruments were evaluated, but only eight questionnaires represented nurse and patient views regarding quality. Instruments showed several disparities in their theoretical foundations and their psychometric properties. Two instruments did not provide validity data and one questionnaire did not...
BMC Nursing
Background Cultural safety requires healthcare professionals and organisations to improve healthc... more Background Cultural safety requires healthcare professionals and organisations to improve healthcare, facilitate patient access to healthcare, and achieve equity within the workforce. Methods This ethnomethodological study, which consisted of two phases, explored the concept of cultural safety from the perspective of Advanced Practice Nurses. Semi-structured interviews and the nominal group technique were used to prioritise challenges related to cultural safety, identify barriers to clinical practise and assess educational needs. The data collected was subjected to thematic analysis. Results Nurses working in Austria, Germany and Switzerland were recruited (N = 29). Accordingly, the phenomenon of cultural safety in health care is not generally known and there is little prior knowledge about it. The most frequently discussed themes were communication difficulties, lack of knowledge, the treatment of people with insufficient language skills and expectations of treatment goals and outc...
Journal of Nursing Management, 2022
Aims: To explore nurses' and midwives' perspectives of safety climate in Austrian hospitals as me... more Aims: To explore nurses' and midwives' perspectives of safety climate in Austrian hospitals as measurable elements of safety culture and to identify areas of quality improvement. Background: Due to close contact with patients, nurses and midwives play a vital role in ensuring patient safety. Method: An online survey among 713 nurses and midwives was conducted, using the 19-item Safety Climate Survey (SCS). To answer the survey, a 5-point Likert scale was provided with higher ratings indicating a more positive safety climate. Results: Results demonstrate a positive safety culture (MD 4.09, SD 0.53). Significant group differences in overall safety climate score could be found regarding nurses and midwives in managerial positions, between gender and participants age with low effect size. High item missing rates focus aspects on management/leadership, institutional concerns, leadership by physicians, and handling of adverse events. In addition, these items present the lowest ratings in safety climate. Conclusion: Results indicate potentials for optimization in the areas of leadership communication and feedback, the handling of safety concerns, and visibility or improvement of patient safety strategies. Implications for Nursing Management: A regular, standardized safety climate measurement can be a valuable tool for nurse managers and (political) decision-makers to manage patient safety initiatives.