Background: Nurses can meet women who have been victims of abuse anywhere in the healthcare. Healthcare providers have a responsibility to these women, and it requires a broad range of skills to identify the women and thus be able to help them. It is important to see all patients as unique individuals and provide good care to maintain their specific needs. This paper was done to increase the understanding of nurses' experiences in the encounter with the battered woman. Aim: The aim of this study was to illustrate how nurses experience the encounter with the battered woman. Method: Literature review with both qualitative and quantitative studies. Nine articles were chosen to be read, reviewed and analyzed. Results: Three themes and ten subthemes appeared. The nurse’s experience of the encounter with battered woman resulted in the following themes, the nurse's feelings in the encounter, the nurse's experience of the abused woman and the nurse's experience of their own profession. Conclusion: The results show that the encounter is a lack of knowledge within the studied subject. It appears that nurses' experiences in meeting with the battered woman are influenced by both personal and professional experience, knowledge and training, and an empathetic understanding of her

The aim of the present study was to experimentally test the Undeutsch Hypothesis, which holds that children's statements based on self-experienced events are qualitatively and quantitatively different from statements based on coaching. Specifically, this study tested the validity of Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA, a system for assessing the credibility of eyewitness reports) for discriminating between credible and non credible eyewitness reports by children. As well, two other tests of the quantitative and qualitative differences between credible and noncredible eyewitness reports were included. One hundred and forty-two children (74 Grade4, 68 Grade 2) were tested in three conditions: (1) Live Event, in which children were actively involved in a staged event (the event was complex and included many features considered relevant to credibility), (2) Heavily Coached, in which children did not experience the event but were told in detail about it (including details which, if reported, would be assigned significance by CBCA),and (3) Lightly Coached, in which children did not experience the event but were provided with a brief account of it, with the expectation that they would fill in details to make their reports believable. Children were asked to recall the event in individual interviews. Transcribed interviews were evaluated using CBCA. Results of the study provided mixed support for the Undeutsch Hypothesis. For Grade 4 children, CBCA significantly discriminated between the Live Event and Lightly Coached conditions, but not between the Live Event and Heavily Coached conditions. Thus, although CBCA accurately distinguished credible from lightly coached reports by this older group of children, reports of the heavily coached children fooled CBCA evaluation. For Grade 2 children, CBCA did not discriminate between the three conditions. This result raised questions about the applicability of CBCA to the reports of younger children. Results of the other two tests of quantitative and qualitative characteristics indicated that these systems did not aid in discriminating between credible and noncredible reports. The implications of these findings for the empirical validation of CBCA and for the use of this system in making credibility decisions in the forensic context are discussed. At this point in time, the assessment of CBCA is still taking place. Until further testing is completed, CBCA should be viewed as one approach to credibility assessment that has clinical support but limited empirical validation.

Ever since Neisser (31) first used the term "perseveration" in psychiatry in 1894 and Müller and Schumann (30) used this concept to explain the results they obtained on a psychophysical experiment involving weight discrimination, psychologists have been interested in studying the negative effects of experience. [...]

Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka hur cancerpatienter ser på stöd i samband med sjukdom samt vilka faktorer är det som gör att vissa människor klarar av att hantera sjukdomar medan vissa har större benägenhet att fastna i kriser och hamna i depression. För syftet valdes den kvalitativa forskningsansatsen och vidare valdes Ad-hoc metoden som intervjuanalys då målet och mitt fokus som forskare låg i att skapa mening och sammanhang i materialet. Två kvinnor har intervjuats vid ett tillfälle och till grund för det transkriberade intervjumaterialet ligger tidigare forskning om stöd vid sjukdom, upplevelser av sjukdom, KASAM, coping, kristeori och depression i samband med cancer. Resultat och analys består av utdrag från respondenternas beskrivelser och berättelser samt citat kopplat och knutet till tidigare forskning och teoretiska perspektiv. I resultatet framgår hur kvinnorna upplevde stödet under sjukdom såväl som efter, KASAM och coping samt fokus på personliga faktorer för livskvalité.

Background: For most children, being hospitalized is a whole new experience. The care should be safe and meet the children’s needs. In hospital care, children are a large group of patients. It’s important for them to be involved in decisions regarding their care and to get proper information. Working as a nurse, there’s a high possibility to meet with children being ill. In order to get more knowledge about how children experience their hospital stay this study was conducted.Aim: The aim of the study was to describe children’s experiences of being a patient in hospital.Method: The method used was a literature study, based on qualitative research. Eight articles from the databases Cinahl and PsycInfo read, reviewed and analyzed according to the model for analysis of qualitative studies made by Friberg.Results: Four themes and eleven sub themes were found. Children’s experiences of hospital care revolved around the hospital environment, their emotions, not being in control and the nursing staff.Conclusion: The result shows that children’s different experiences related to their hospital stay often is affected by the ability to have their parents close, to have the opportunity to play and to get the proper information from caring health professionals. Children describe both positive and negative experiences.

In this scientific work three works that belong to three different cultures were analysed using comparative thematic method ("The wood of Gods" which was written by a lithuanian author B. Sruoga; "If this is a man" by a jewish nationality italian writer P. Levi; and "The notes from the house of the deads" written by a russian literature classic F. Dostojevskij).

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Bakgrund: Koloskopi utförs i diagnostiskt syfte, vid uppföljningar av olika tarmsjukdomar och i behandlande syfte. I och med ökad livslängd, fler cancerfall och utökad screeningsverksamhet kommer antalet koloskopiundersökningar att öka. Syfte: Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att belysa faktorer som påverkar patientens situation vid koloskopiundersökning. Metod: I denna litteraturstudie har nio kvantitativa och en två-fas studie granskats och analyserats. Sökningarna av artiklarna genomfördes i databaserna CINAHL och PubMed. Även manuell sökning genomfördes. Resultat: Analysen resulterade i tre kategorier och fyra underliggande subkategorier. Fysiska och psykiska faktorer; Smärta och obehag, Oro. Psykologiska faktorer; Skam och genans. Sociala faktorer; Bemötande och samspel mellan patient och vårdpersonal. Resultatet visade  att ovanstående faktorer påverkar patienten negativt inför och under koloskopiundersökningen. Resultatet visade även att det fanns könsskillnader som påverkar situationen vid koloskopiundersökningen. Konklusion: Behov finns att lyfta fram och belysa de faktorer som påverkar patientens situation vid koloskopiundersökning. För sjuksköterskan är det viktigt att ha kunskap om dessa faktorer för att kunna bemöta och ha ett samspel med patienten och få en djupare förståelse av vad det innebär för patienten att genomgå en koloskopiundersökning. Nyckelord: colonoscopy, experience, anxiety, attitudes, patient