Background: While study approaches have been directly associated with students’ academic performance, learning environment factors may play a more indirect role. The aim of this study was (i) to assess learning environment factors as predictors of students’ average exam grades, and (ii) whether study approaches mediated associations between learning environment factors and exam grades.<p> <p>Methods: ...

Background: Mentors play an important role in the practical education of critical care nursing students in intensive care units, yet little is known about the mentoring competencies of critical care nurses. Aim: The aim of this study was to assess Norwegian critical care nurses’ competence in mentoring students in intensive care units.<p> <p>Design: This study has a descriptive, cross-sectional ...

Purpose: To investigate attitudes and perspectives on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the assessment of screening mammograms among women invited to BreastScreen Norway.<p> <p>Method: An anonymous survey was sent to all women invited to BreastScreen Norway during the study period, October 10, 2022, to December 25, 2022 (n = 84,543). Questions were answered on a 10-point Likert scale ...

Background An increasingly complex healthcare system entails an urgent need for competent and resilient leadership. However, there is a lack of extensive research on leadership development within healthcare. The knowledge gaps extend to various frameworks and contexts, particularly concerning municipal healthcare, knowledge leadership, and the application of knowledge in the field of practice. ...

Purpose - To ensure high-quality screening programmes and effective utilization of resources, it is important to monitor how cancer detection is affected by different strategies performed at recall assessment. This study aimed to describe procedures performed at recall assessment and compare and evaluate the performance of the assessment in Denmark, Norway, and Spain in terms of screen-detected ...

Introduction - Pre-frailty provides an ideal opportunity to prevent physical frailty and promote healthy ageing. Excess adiposity has been associated with an increased risk of pre-frailty, but limited studies have explored whether the association between adiposity measures and pre-frailty varies by social position.<p> <p>Methods - We used data from the seventh survey of the Tromsø Study (Tromsø7) ...

Background - Video streaming in emergency medical communication centers (EMCC) from caller to medical dispatcher has recently been introduced in some countries. Death by trauma is a leading cause of death and injuries are a frequent reason to contact EMCC. We aimed to investigate if video streaming is associated with recognition of a need for first aid during calls regarding injured patients and ...

Bakgrunn: På norske intensivavdelinger behandles rundt 20 000 kritisk syke pasienter hvert år. Blant de pårørende vil det være mange barn og unge i en sårbar situasjon. Spesialisthelsetjenesteloven om barn og ungdom som pårørende ble endret i 2010. Det førte til at funksjoner som barneansvarlig personell ble opprettet i spesialisthelsetjenesten. Disse fagpersonene skulle i særlig grad tilrettelegge ...

People who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk of acute and chronic health outcomes and in need of in-hospital healthcare services. This study aims to give insight into how PWID experience care from nurses in hospital settings. We used a qualitative descriptive design and applied reflexive thematic analysis to 11 individual semi-structured interviews with PWID. Our analysis generated the ...

Background - With the increasing complexity of health care services, more comprehensive and integrated services need to be designed. Action researchers are encouraged to facilitate multiactor participation and user-centered approaches to initiate service development. However, “orchestrating” co-innovation, in which actors have diverse attitudes, agendas, positions of power, and horizons of understanding, ...