Strategies in health-promoting dialogues--primary healthcare nurses' perspectives--a qualitative study (original) (raw)

Scandinavian journal of caring sciences, 2014

Abstract

The aim of this study was to describe dialogic strategies about health and lifestyle used by primary healthcare nurses (PHNs) in the Västerbotten Intervention Programme (VIP) in Sweden. The VIP offers all citizens aged 40, 50 and 60 in Västerbotten County an individual health check-up followed by a health-promoting dialogue with a specialist PHN. Inconsistencies in previous reports of the effects of lifestyle counselling and health promotion suggest that it is important to study dialogues about health and lifestyle to understand health-promoting strategies and to highlight aspects important to improving their effects. In 2010, we conducted in-depth interviews with ten experienced PHNs working with the VIP at eight healthcare centres in Västerbotten County, Sweden. Qualitative content analysis was used to illuminate the nurses' strategies in health-promoting dialogues. The Regional Ethics Board (Dno 06-126M) approved the study. The PHNs used various strategies in dialogues about ...

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