scholarly journals Hverdagsrehabilitering - integrert eller spesialisert?

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arvid Karl Birkeland ◽  
Eva Langeland ◽  
Hanne Tuntland ◽  
Frode F. Jacobsen ◽  
Oddvar Førland
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Intensive Training ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Evaluation Project

This study was part of a major evaluation project with focus on various models for and effects of reablement. The aim was to get an extended understanding of how Norwegian municipalities organize and conduct reablement. Seven focus group interviews were conducted in seven municipalities including a total of 33 participants representing different health professions. The interviews were transcribed, and a hermeneutical approach was used in the analyses. Four main themes were derived: "The team as an organizational and professional center", "Collaboration around assessment of applications”, "Different understanding of rehabilitation affected the organization", and "Goal – oriented and intensive training in everyday activities". The focus group interviews revealed different strength and weaknesses with specialized or integrated organization of reablement, but nevertheless they emphasized the importance of having interdisciplinary teams that can coordinate and participate in the practical implementation. However, more research is necessary to get more knowledge about organization of reablement.Keywords/Nøkkelordreablement; organizing; team; specialized; integrated; home care serviceshverdagsrehabilitering; organisering; team; spesialisert; integrert; hjemmetjenesten

scholarly journals Inter-organisational collaboration in palliative care trajectories for nursing home residents: A nation-wide mixed methods study among key persons

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofie Hermans ◽  
Aline Sevenants ◽  
Anja Declercq ◽  
Nady V Broeck ◽  
Luc Deliens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Group Interviews

Introduction Multiple care organisations, such as home care services, nursing homes and hospitals, are responsible for providing an appropriate response to the palliative care needs of older people admitted into long-term care facilities. Integrated palliative care aims to provide seamless and continuous care. A possible organisational strategy to help realise integrated palliative care for this population is to create a network in which these organisations collaborate. The aim is to analyse the collaboration processes of the various organisations involved in providing palliative care to nursing home residents. Method A sequential mixed-methods study, including a survey sent to 502 participants to evaluate the collaboration between home and residential care, and between hospital and residential care, and additionally three focus group interviews involving a purposive selection among the survey participants. Participants are key persons from the nursing homes, hospitals and home care organisations that are part of the 15 Flemish palliative care networks dispersed throughout the region of Flanders, Belgium. Results Survey data were gathered from 308 key persons (response rate: 61%), and 16 people participated in three focus group interviews. Interpersonal dimensions of collaboration are rated higher than structural dimensions. This effect is statistically significant. Qualitative analyses identified guidelines, education, and information-transfer as structural challenges. Additionally, for further development, members should become acquainted and the network should prioritise the establishment of a communication infrastructure, shared leadership support and formalisation. Discussion The insights of key persons suggest the need for further structuration and can serve as a guideline for interventions directed at improving inter-organisational collaboration in palliative care trajectories for nursing home residents.

scholarly journals Nutrition Therapy in the Transition between Hospital and Home: An Investigation of Barriers

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette Holst ◽  
Henrik Højgaard Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Clinical Guidelines ◽  
Nutrition Therapy ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Nutritional Risk ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Care Plans ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
General Practise

Aims and Objectives. This study aimed to investigate barriers for nutrition therapy in the transition between hospital and home and hereby to identify areas for potential improvements.Background. Though the focus on nutritional risk is improving in hospital, there seems to be less effort to maintain or even improve nutritional status after discharge and during the rehabilitation period.Design. Qualitative focus group interviews.Methods. Semistructured focus group interviews with experienced multiprofessional staff from hospital, home care, nursing homes, and general practise. The study was done in the county of Aalborg with about 280.000 inhabitants regarding homecare and general practise as well as Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark.Results. Interviews were generated with 41 professionals from hospital, general practise, and home care. Barriers identified between settings included the following aspects: economic, organisation, and education. The impression of professionals was that few patients are discharged with nutrition therapy, compared to who could benefit from nutrition therapy after discharge. Most often, reasons were a short in-hospital stay and lack of knowledge and interest. Moreover, lack of clinical guidelines throughout all settings, time consumption, lack of transparency regarding economy and workflows, and lack of assistance from experts regarding complicated nutritional problems were identified.Conclusions. Many barriers were found in hospital as well as in the community and general practise. These were most often practical as well as organizational. Improvements of clinical guidelines and instructions and improvement of knowledge and communication at all levels are needed.Relevance to Clinical Practise. This study emphasizes that responsibility needs to be taken for patients whom are still at nutritional risk at discharge, and even before hospitalization. Nurses and doctors in and outside hospital are in need of improved knowledge, standard care plans, and instructions.

scholarly journals Skjønn som profesjonell kompetanse hos lærerstudenter

2020 ◽  
pp. 119-135
Author(s):  
Anders Aasgaard Madsen ◽  
Truls Nilsen Tangen ◽  
Audhild Løhre
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
System A ◽  
Group Interviews

Research into teacher education emphasizes theoretical knowledge, reflection and critical thinking. However, many preservice teachers measure the value of theoretical knowledge by its potential for practical implementation, orienting themselves towards a more technical professional practice. This is consistent with a growing instrumental tendency within the educational system, a development which is worrying. This article focuses on those skills which preservice teachers in their final year anticipate will be important when they enter the profession. It is based on focus group interviews, and the participants’ discourse suggested good judgement to be an important skill. During educational practice, the preservice teachers must make decisions in situations where the solutions are not clear. The findings show that theoretical knowledge is the foundation for the judgment necessary to solve ethical problems. The school guidelines express contradictory expectations of teachers, such as those related to pupils’ measurable results. The preservice teachers’ conversations reflect a dilemma between expectation and opportunity within these guidelines, where the teachers’ judgement becomes a means of clearing the way for children’s learning and formation. As a foundation for our analysis, we use theory on judgement, as well as Aristotle’s conceptualisation of knowledge.

Management Strategy for Distributing Questionnaires and Interview Guidelines in the Research Data Collection Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-111
Author(s):  
Po. Abas Sunarya ◽  
George Iwan Marantika ◽  
Adam Faturahman
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Good Management ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Data Collection Process ◽  
Group Interviews

Writing can mean lowering or describing graphic symbols that describe a languageunderstood by someone. For a researcher, management of research preparation is a veryimportant step because this step greatly determines the success or failure of all researchactivities. Before a person starts with research activities, he must make a written plan commonlyreferred to as the management of research data collection. In the process of collecting researchdata, of course we can do the management of questionnaires as well as the preparation ofinterview guidelines to disseminate and obtain accurate information. With the arrangement ofplanning and conducting interviews: the ethics of conducting interviews, the advantages anddisadvantages of interviews, the formulation of interview questions, the schedule of interviews,group and focus group interviews, interviews using recording devices, and interview bias.making a questionnaire must be designed with very good management by giving to theinformation needed, in accordance with the problem and all that does not cause problems at thestage of analysis and interpretation.

scholarly journals Counter-talk as symbolic boundary drawing: Challenging legitimate cultural practices in individual and focus group interviews in the lower regions of social space

2021 ◽  
pp. 003802612110144
Author(s):  
Riie Heikkilä ◽  
Anu Katainen
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Moral Boundaries ◽  
Popular Classes ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Symbolic Boundary

In qualitative interviews, challenges such as deviations from the topic, interruptions, silences or counter-questions are inevitable. It is debatable whether the researcher should try to alleviate them or consider them as important indicators of power relations. In this methodological article, we adopt the latter view and examine the episodes of counter-talk that emerge in qualitative interviews on cultural practices among underprivileged popular classes by drawing on 49 individual and focus group interviews conducted in the highly egalitarian context of Finland. Our main aim is to demonstrate how counter-talk emerging in interview situations could be fruitfully analysed as moral boundary drawing. We identify three types of counter-talk: resisting the situation, resisting the topic, and resisting the interviewer. While the first type unites many of the typical challenges inherent to qualitative interviewing in general (silences, deviations from the topic and so forth), the second one shows that explicit taste distinctions are an important feature of counter-talk, yet the interviewees mostly discuss them as something belonging to the personal sphere. Finally, the third type reveals how the strongest counter-talk and clearest moral boundary stemmed from the interviewees’ attitudes towards the interviewer herself. We argue that counter-talk in general should be given more importance as a key element of the qualitative interview. We demonstrate that all three types of counter-talk are crucial to properly understanding the power relations and moral boundaries present in qualitative interviews and that cultural practices are a particularly good topic to tease them out.

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