Research has shown that people bereaved by suicide have an increased risk of mental health problems, suicidality and associated stigma, as well as higher rates of sick leave and increased rates of rec...
Carbon removal is emerging as a pillar of governmental and industry commitments toward achieving Net Zero targets. Drawing from 44 focus groups in 22 countries, we map technical and societal issues th...
Fundoscopy can be of great clinical value, yet remains underutilised. Educational attempts to improve fundoscopy utilisation have had limited success. We aimed to explore the barriers and facilitators...
Ten focus groups were conducted with medical students (n = 42), emergency department doctors (n = 24), basic physician trainees (n = 7), hospital physicians (n = 6) and general practitioners (n = 7). ...
Thematic analysis identified seven main themes: (1) technical barriers to performing fundoscopy examinations; (2) clinical culture and expectations regarding fundoscopy; (3) the influence of fundoscop...
Our results build a more nuanced picture of the factors which determine fundoscopy utilisation. As current barriers limit practice by clinicians and medical students, expertise and confidence performi...
Epidemiological and intervention studies in nutritional psychiatry suggest that the risk of mood disorders is associated with what we eat. However, few studies use a person-centred approach to explore...
Numerous studies have shown that e-cigarettes are addictive. For example, we previously showed that users of e-cigarette online forums discuss experiences of addiction in a netnographic analysis. Howe...
This study aimed to validate the previously identified features of e-cigarette addictive potential by triangulating data from the netnographic analysis and focus group discussions....
Drawing on a netnographic analysis of 3 popular, German-language e-cigarette forums, we studied whether experiences of addiction were linked to specific e-cigarette features. We included 451 threads i...
Our deductive analysis confirmed that the features highlighted in our previous focus group study (pleasant taste, unobtrusiveness, and unlimited usability) were also frequently discussed in online for...
Our comprehensive analysis of online forum threads revealed that users' experiences of addiction are linked to 4 specific features unique to e-cigarettes: pleasant taste, unobtrusiveness, unlimited us...
Intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired dysphagia has severe consequences for patients including increased morbidity and mortality. Standard operating procedures, however, including systematic evaluation o...
The objective of this study was to explore and compare nurses', physicians', and occupational therapists' perceptions of dysphagia management in the ICU....
Six focus group interviews with 33 participants (23 nurses, four physicians, and six occupational therapists) were conducted and analysed using the framework method with a matrix developed from the fi...
Clinical dysphagia management depended on recognising signs of dysphagia in patients at risk. Assessment, therapeutic methods, and care differed among professional groups according to knowledge and ro...
Systematic interprofessional collaboration in ICU dysphagia management requires working towards a common goal of preventing aspiration and rehabilitating the patients' ability to swallow safely. This ...
Conflicts with patients and relatives occur frequently in intensive care units (ICUs), driven by factors that are intensified by critical illness and its treatments. A majority of ICU healthcare profe...
A qualitative descriptive analysis of four hospitals in Sweden was conducted using semi-structured focus-group interviews with ICU healthcare professionals....
A total of 34 participants (14 nurses, 6 physicians and 14 other staff) were interviewed across the four hospitals. The overarching theme: "The paradox of violence in healthcare" illustrated a normali...
This study contributes to understanding the normalisation of violence in ICU care and gives a possible explanation for its origins. The paradox involves a multifaceted approach that acknowledges and c...
To explore students' perception on the implementation of flipped classroom (FC) combined with formative assessment during the undergraduate teaching of orthodontic wire-bending skills....
Third-year undergraduate dental students were taught wire-bending skills via FC teaching method using a series of pre-recorded online video demonstrations. As part of the formative assessment, the stu...
Students perceived that FC allowed for a more convenient and flexible learning experience with personalised learning and improved in-class teaching efficiency. The pre-recorded online videos were usef...
FC teaching with continuous formative assessment and constructive feedback as a form of personalised learning was viewed favourably by students. The implementation of periodic individual feedback can ...
Active learning strategies have been identified as promoting critical thinking, strengthening clinical reasoning, and supporting the transfer of theoretical knowledge to practice amongst nursing stude...
This study aimed to understand the undergraduate nursing students' perceptions of the active learning strategies being used in the classroom and to identify critical elements within their learning spa...
Qualitative, focus group study....
A four-year undergraduate baccalaureate nursing program in the Middle East....
50 undergraduate nursing students selected through purposive and snowball sampling participated in the study....
Five focus group sessions were conducted with 10 participants in each session. Data collected from the discussions were transcribed and thematically analyzed and aligned with the Taxonomy of Significa...
Study results show that undergraduate nursing students affirm that the use of active learning strategies supports the acquisition of foundational understanding, application and integration of knowledg...
Although the use of active learning strategies positively enhances the learning process, it is important to ensure that strategies are intentionally integrated into the classroom and aligned with the ...
The phrase "goals of care" (GOC) is common in serious illness care, yet it lacks clarity and consistency. Understanding how GOC is used across healthcare contexts is an opportunity to identify and mit...
We sought to characterize frontline palliative and critical care clinicians' understanding and use of the phrase GOC in clinical practice....
We conducted a secondary qualitative thematic analysis of focus group transcripts (n = 10), gathered as part of a parent study of care delivery for patients with respiratory failure. Participants (n =...
Clinicians primarily use GOC as a shorthand signal among team members to indicate a patient is nearing the end of life. This signal can also indicate conflict with patients and families when clinician...
Frontline palliative and critical care clinicians understand a duality in GOC, as an idealized concept and as an expeditious signal for clinical care. Our findings suggest ambiguous phrases like GOC p...
