A5028393943- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Sleep and related disorders
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Infant Health and Development
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Restless Legs Syndrome Research
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Family Support in Illness
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Dermatology and Skin Diseases
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
Linköping University
2014-2025
Linköping University Hospital
2020-2023
Region Östergötland
2023
Marie Cederschiöld University
2020-2021
Aims and objectives To explore describe how parents of preterm and/or sick infants in neonatal care perceive their sleep. Background Parents experience many stressful situations when newborn infant is sick. This affects bonding. By developing more family‐centred units with single‐family rooms, are given the opportunity to stay for infant(s) 24 hours a day. Lack sleep may affect new parents' ability cope challenges they face on daily basis. Design A phenomenographic study an inductive...
Abstract Aim: To describe the time of first skin‐to‐skin contact in extremely preterm infants a national perspective and to investigate possible factors affecting contact. Methods: A population‐based prospective descriptive study (n = 520) seven regional hospitals Sweden. Results: Extremely Sweden experience with parent at median six postnatal days (range 0–44). Low gestational age, high score on clinical risk index for babies, number ventilator tended delay statistically significant...
ABSTRACT Aim To identify the symptom burden in children and adolescents with post COVID‐19, a validated reliable instrument is needed, particularly to assess symptoms their impact on child. The aim of this study was describe development, validation, reliability Post COVID‐19 Kids Questionnaire (POCOKIDS‐Q), which designed adolescents. Methods POCOKIDS‐Q developed based literature, clinical experience, questionnaires for adults COVID‐19. linguistic validation involved 9‐ 17‐year‐old children....
Introduction Separation after preterm birth is a major stressor for infants and parents. Skin-to-skin contact (SSC) method of care suitable to use in the neonatal intensive unit (NICU) minimise separation between parents infants. Less leads increased possibilities parent-infant interaction, provided that parents’ sleep quality satisfactory. We aimed evaluate effect continuous SSC on mood born <33 weeks gestation as well interaction salivary cortisol concentrations at time discharge....
Abstract Background Considering the reports of increasing sleep problems in children, affecting health and well-being young children their families, we found it important to gain more knowledge about its correlation health-related quality life (HRQoL) young, healthy children. The aims with this study were describe quality, duration, HRQoL 3–10-year-old test associations between children’s HRQoL. Methods Parents 160 (average age: 6.9 years, SD ±2.2) participated study. Sleep onset (SOP),...
/Background: Sleep problems constitute a common and heterogeneous complaint in pediatric palliative care (PPC); they often contribute to disease morbidity cause additional distress children adolescents their families, already facing the burden of life-threatening life-limiting conditions. Despite significant impact sleep problems, clinical evidence is lacking. The application general medicine recommendations appears insufficient address unique challenges PPC dimension terms variability,...
Quality of care and the mental physical health nurses are interlinked. The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed an extremely high burden on care. This study aimed to: 1) describe professional quality life registered (RN) working in pediatric neonatal units during Sweden, 2) compare between RNs with without a Master's degree specialist nursing (MSc), 3) differences associated experience (years).This adopted cross-sectional survey design. PROQoL®-5-questionnaire was administered as web to 160 at four...
Painful menstruation is common among girls. To optimize school nurses' work more knowledge about their experiences of supporting these girls needed. The aim this study was to describe with menstrual pain.Interviews were conducted 15 nurses in Sweden and analyzed using thematic analysis.Three themes emerged: Taking pain seriously, Being a disseminator knowledge, External conditions for conducting professional as nurse.School felt competent pain. However, they lacked structural, written...
Background Caring for an ill child at home gives the family chance to be together in a familiar environment. However, this involves several nocturnal sleep disturbances, such as frequent awakenings and bad quality, which may affect parents' ability take care of themselves. Objectives The aim study was describe perceptions circumstances influencing their own when living with enrolled hospital-based (HBHC) services. Method This is phenomenographical inductive, exploratory design. Fifteen...
PurposeTalking and grieving together may be advantageous for maintaining belief in a meaningful future can help bereaved adolescents their parents to cope better with the situation. The aim of this study was explore communication, self-esteem prolonged grief adolescent-parent dyads, following death parent cancer.MethodThis has descriptive comparative design. Twenty family dyads consisting parentally (12–19 years) widowed completed Parent Adolescent Communication Scale, Rosenberg Self-Esteem...
Aims and objectives To describe sleep quality mood in parents accommodated with their sick child a family‐centred paediatric ward. Secondary aims were to compare mothers’ fathers’ the ward parents’ between daily‐life home setting after discharge. Background Frequent interruptions, noise anxiety affect negatively when wards. Poor negative decrease ability sustain attention focus, care for child. Methods This was prospective descriptive study. Eighty‐two (61 mothers 21 fathers) children...
BackgroundSleep is essential for health and recovery. Hospital stays may affect adolescents’ sleep quality negatively as routines in the ward are not adapted developmental status or habits. The aims with this study were to (a) explore describe how adolescents experience family-centered pediatric ward, (b) presence absence of a parent during hospital stay, (c) identify circumstances that influential their wards. MethodsThis qualitative interview employing thematic analysis an inductive...
Abstract Background To increase health and well-being in young children, it is important to acknowledge promote the child’s sleep behaviour. However, there a lack of brief, validated screening instruments for children. The aims study were (1) present Swedish translation PISI, (2) examine factor structure version test reliability validity PISI sample healthy children Sweden. Methods English was translated into Swedish, back English, agreed upon before use. Parents 3- 10-year-old filled out...
Abstract Aim To study the cortisol response in parents staying with their child paediatric wards, to compare parents’ levels between ward and at home 4 weeks after discharge data of an adult reference population, reported by Wust et al., as there are few studies investigating parental cortisol. Design This has a descriptive prospective comparative design. Method Thirty‐one participated. Saliva samples were collected later home. Results The had lower morning awakening than discharge. There no...
Performing randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in neonatal intensive care is challenging many ways. While restrictive inclusion criteria or busy study protocols are obvious barriers, external barriers leading to termination of a seldom discussed. The aim this was describe for families an RCT aiming evaluate the effects continuous skin-to-skin contact on mood and sleep quality parents preterm infants, as well parent-infant interaction salivary cortisol concentrations at time discharge. A...
Summary The study objective was to assess if a 3‐week intervention with the Somnox sleep robot had effects on symptoms of insomnia, somatic arousal, and/or concurrent depression and anxiety in adults compared waitlist‐control group. participants ( n = 44) were randomized 22), or group 22). primary outcome measure Insomnia Severity Index administered at baseline, mid‐intervention, post‐intervention 1‐month follow‐up. Secondary measures Pre‐Sleep Arousal Scale, Hospital Anxiety Depression...
The Somnox sleep robot is promoted as enhancing. current study investigated individual effects, the acceptability and safety of, experiences with, a 3-week intervention in adults with insomnia. A repeated ABA single-case design (n = 4) was used to evaluate effects of compared baseline, measured diary actigraphy. Pre-, post-, 1-month follow-up assessments were conducted, measuring symptoms insomnia, level somatic arousal, depression anxiety. Questions about adherence included diary....
This study aimed to explore psychological symptoms in widowed parents with minor children, 2-4 years after the death of their partner. A second aim was examine associations between and nonmodifiable modifiable illness healthcare-related factors.A cross-sectional survey on children loss a partner cancer. In total, 42 completed an online questionnaire including instruments for assessing anxiety, depression, grief rumination, prolonged grief, posttraumatic stress. Descriptive statistics,...
Insomnia is a common sleep disorder characterized by difficulties initiating sleep, maintaining and/or early-morning awakenings. Hyperarousal causal and factor in insomnia models. Different techniques to decrease arousal have shown be effective. Calm breathing can one approach enhance sleep. The Somnox robot looks like bean-shaped cushion hug, it gives physical auditive guidance calm down the users' breathing. There currently no impartial empirical evidence of robot's effects on insomnia....
This study aimed to 1) investigate the relationships between hair cortisol concentration (HCC), insomnia symptoms, Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and Oral (OHRQoL) in preschool children with severe early childhood caries, 2) compare HCC, HRQoL OHRQoL caries these factors without clinical signs dental 3) explore correlations scores OHRQoL.A case-control pilot study, including 12 28 controls, aged 3-5 years. Dental examination was performed samples for were taken. Parents filled out...