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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Patients' perspectives"”.
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Specialist palliative day care : patients' perspectives
… one is a systematic literature review entitled ‘Patients' Psychosocial Experiences of Attending Specialist Palliative Day Care: A Systematic Literature Review’. Recent reviews conclude that the benefits of attending Specialist Palliative Day Care are likely to be in the social, psychological and …
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Breast Cancer Patients' Perspectives on the Helpfulness of Supportive Offerings
<p>Research suggests that breast cancer patients seek and benefit from social support that they view as helpful. Previous qualitative studies have explored overtly negative behaviors by family and friends in some depth. Several quantitative studies have explored how support that is viewed as …
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Cancer related fatigue and self-care while undergoing chemotherapy: patients' perspectives
… and under-managed symptom of cancer. Patients receiving chemotherapy experience high levels of CRF which profoundly impacts on their lives. Aim: 1). To explore and measure CRF and determine the most effective self-care strategies used to combat CRF in a cohort of patients with a …
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Assessment of Service Quality in Private Health Facilities from Patients’ Perspectives in Kinondoni District
… district. Interview was administered to 110 outpatients who have accessed services at Mwenge hospital. Service quality was assessed by using five dimensions of reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy and tangibility. Descriptive analysis; frequencies, and mean were used to summarize the …
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Patients’ perspectives on the provision of tuberculosis and HIV integrated services in Sisonke district, KwaZulu Natal
… provision of TB-HIV integrated services from the perspectives of TB/HIV clients can help to identify ways to enhance the provision of these services. The aim of this study was to assess the provision of TB/HIV services including PMTCT from clients perspectives in order to make recommendations on …
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Healthcare practitioners’ and patients’ perspectives of a weight management service and the place of psychological support within this
… support within weight management services; perspectives of both client and healthcare practitioners, in view of considering the implications for the role of a counselling psychologist. There were nine interviews conducted with five healthcare practitioners and four clients. The …
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Exploring the processes of change in individual cognitive behavioural therapy for bulimia nervosa from the patients’ perspectives : a grounded theory study
The aim of this study is to explore how individuals with bulimia nervosa (BN) understand processes of change in individual cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). The treatment of individuals with BN remains a major challenge and research suggests that treatment only helps a modest number of …
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A qualitative study of healthcare workers' and patients' perspectives on changing the model of care from outpatient to in-home for the infusion of natalizumab
… own home could be an improved model of care for patients. However, no previous qualitative research has focused on healthcare workers’ and patients’ experiences of a change in the model of care from outpatients to the home for the infusion of natalizumab. This Masters by Research is by …
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Assisted Partner Notification for HIV: a qualitative study of providers and female patients perspectives and experiences of assisted partner notification in Cape Town, South Africa
… sought to better understand APN by exploring patients' and providers' experiences and perceptions of APN, taking into consideration different factors that shape partner notification documented in local and international literature. The influence of religion and faith and the involvement of …
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Experiences of adult patients living with home parenteral nutrition: a grounded theory study. A qualitative research into the experiences of home parenteral nutrition: discovery of patients’ perspectives.
Introduction Patients with intestinal failure (IF) develop problems of malabsorption and malnutrition associated with short bowel syndrome (SBS). Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) became available to treat these patients since the 1970s. There is a paucity of qualitative research on patients’ …
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Comparing and contrasting healthcare professionals’ and patients’ perceptions, understanding and experiences of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) and its management: A qualitative study.
… T2D management. Research exists which contrasts patients’ and healthcare professionals’ perspectives of T2D management. However, no studies explicitly contrast healthcare professionals’ and patients’ perspectives within the empowerment approach. <br/>The overall aim of this study was to explore …
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I'm going back to work: perceptions and experiences of back rehabilitated clients regarding their worker roles
Clinical research has shown that patients experience difficulty in adjusting to their pre-morbid worker roles after they have been through a back rehabilitation programme. The pressure and competitiveness of modern day society to achieve competence and to survive has proven to be stressful, both …
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How do persons living with lower back pain experience disability in their daily lives? A qualitative study
… thematic analysis was conducted. Twelve LBP patients participated in this study. Participants emphasized how environmental factors impacted their experiences with disability. They struggled with the invisibility of LBP and were sensitive about others’ attitudes towards them. The results show …
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The exploration of self-regulation and transfer anxiety within stroke patients transferred from a hyper acute stroke unit to a ward
Stroke services provide patients with immediate assessment and treatment on a hyper acute stroke unit prior to being transferred for intense rehabilitation. Patients' experience of transfer from a hyper acute stroke unit has yet to be explored. A patient's beliefs regarding their illness are …
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Determinants of patient and physician global assessment of disease activity and their discrepancies amongst South Africans with Rheumatoid Arthritis
… PhGA and discordance in South African (SA) RA patients remain poorly understood. Methods: This cross-sectional study included consenting adults with RA attending a tertiary hospital. Demographic, disease-specific, and patient-reported outcome data were collected. A discordance score was …
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How do patients view continuity of care in a rural hospital with significant medical staff turnover?
… coherent, and consistent care in relation to the patients’ health care needs and personal circumstances (Haggerty, Roberge, Freeman and Beaulieu, 2013). Continuity has been associated with improved health care, and is greatest when the patient establishes an ongoing relationship with a health care …
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Patients with acute hip fractures; motivation, effectiveness and costs in two different care systems
Abstract The care of patients with a hip fracture in Sweden varies a lot in terms of length of hospital stay and these patients are often subjected to multiple transferrals for other than medical reasons. How this affects the rehabilitation result is largely unknown but it is probably not in the …
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Qualitative Study of Psychosocial Needs for Individuals with Lung Cancer
… developed specifically for lung cancer patients demonstrate an underutilization of those services, which is inferred from generally low response rates from eligible participants. Although a low participation rate may demonstrate the need to investigate the barriers of participating in …
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Improving Pre-Transplant Experiences for ICU Patients on the Heart Transplant Registry
Problem: Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are at risk of worsening of their cognitive, physical, and psychiatric functions (Mikkelsen, Netzer, & Iwashyna, 2019). Many heart transplant candidates are required to stay in the ICU for weeks or months prior to transplant surgery (UNOS, 2018), making …
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What Matters, Not What is The Matter: A Novel Approach to Empathising and Understanding the Third Space of the Healthcare Waiting Room
… outdated facilities that will continue to impact patients. Notwithstanding the intentions of the architects and service designers in the planning of health centres, the microlevel facets of the patient experience still need to be fully understood, since there lacks an emphasis on listening to the …
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