Translation and cultural adaptation of the Attentional Function Index (AFI)
Involving a user and a professional translator may be appropriate when an instrument is translated and adapted to another culture.
Involving a user and a professional translator may be appropriate when an instrument is translated and adapted to another culture.
The father’s role has changed, and fathers have become more active as regards childcare. Nevertheless, they may feel excluded during pregnancy, childbirth and follow-up at the child health centre.
Ensuring a good patient trajectory is difficult. In order to be successful, it is essential that all healthcare professionals involved have a close, trust-based cooperation, also with patients and their families.
It is challenging to treat children in a general intensive care unit intended for adults. Good training, good cooperation, and fulfilling children’s needs are valuable measures.
Almost 84% of people over the age of 70 used a computer, smartphone or tablet to maintain contact with their friends and social networks. Only 8% used these media to contact healthcare personnel.
In the last twenty years, PhD theses in nursing science at the University of Oslo (UiO) have changed in terms of methodology, authorship and theoretical approach. Has the research become less patient-centred and patient-oriented?
National and multi-regional hospitals appear to use procedures for set-up of instruments in the sterile field more often than local and regional hospitals.
Intensive care patients often suffer from undertreated pain. A pain assessment tool in a Norwegian version may increase the quality of patient treatment.
The instrument measures the collaboration between healthcare personnel and the relatives of frail elderly patients in acute hospital wards. Having a Norwegian version of the instrument will mean it can be used in our clinical practice and research.
Family caregivers will need correct and relevant information and support from health care professionals to perform the significant caring role they have to take on.