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  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,043 Views
25 Pages

Engaging People and Co-Producing Research with Persons and Communities to Foster Person-Centred Care: A Meta-Synthesis

  • Beatriz Vallina Acha,
  • Estrella Durá Ferrandis,
  • Mireia Ferri Sanz and
  • Maite Ferrando García

Introduction: Engagement and co-production in healthcare research and innovation are crucial for delivering person-centred interventions in underserved communities, but the knowledge of effective strategies to target this population is still vague, l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
167 Views
16 Pages

“The Window of Opportunity”: A Qualitative Exploration of Individual Reminiscence in Care Home Settings

  • Aoife Conway,
  • Rosemary Bradley,
  • Assumpta Ryan,
  • Claire McCauley,
  • Brighide Lynch,
  • Deirdre Harkin and
  • Sarah Penney

21 January 2026

Background: Care homes are complex care environments where supporting residents’ identity, wellbeing, and sense of personhood is central to person-centred care. Reminiscence is widely recognised as a psychosocial approach that can support these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,934 Views
21 Pages

23 April 2019

The experiences of people with severe intellectual disabilities (SID) in local churches are rarely studied, and their voices are not being heard in the research and religious communities. This study is an attempt to narrow the gap. Through a research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,155 Views
18 Pages

26 June 2023

Informed by existing research, mostly from high-income countries, this study aimed to develop and test the feasibility of a community pharmacy person-centred goal-setting intervention for people living with type 2 diabetes in a low–middle-incom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,340 Views
9 Pages

Rehabilitation Workforce Challenges to Implement Person-Centered Care

  • Júlio Belo Fernandes,
  • Diana Vareta,
  • Sónia Fernandes,
  • Ana Silva Almeida,
  • Dina Peças,
  • Noélia Ferreira and
  • Liliana Roldão

There is an increasing emphasis on developing person-centered care in rehabilitation settings. However, this care practice has not been fully implemented due to several factors. This study explores rehabilitation workforce perspectives on the barrier...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,080 Views
14 Pages

7 September 2021

Objectives: to report on acute hospital care experiences for persons with dementia and family/carers in a pilot study (PiP) of person-centred care compared with usual care. Methods: participants were recruited from one acute aged care ward and one mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,470 Views
21 Pages

Background: Internationally, digital health interventions have increasingly been adopted within hospital settings. Optimising their clinical implementation requires user involvement, but there is a lack of evidence regarding how this should be done....

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,414 Views
11 Pages

Nursing Interventions That Promote Sleep in Preterm Newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units: An Integrative Review

  • Catarina Firmino,
  • Marlene Rodrigues,
  • Sofia Franco,
  • Judicília Ferreira,
  • Ana Rita Simões,
  • Cidália Castro and
  • Júlio Belo Fernandes

Sleep is a crucial factor for the psychological and physiological well-being of any human being. In Neonatal Intensive Care Units, preterm newborns’ sleep may be at risk due to medical and nursing care, environmental stimuli and manipulation. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,948 Views
14 Pages

The provision of supported self-management (SSM) is recommended in contemporary guidelines to address the longer-term needs and outcomes of stroke survivors and their families, yet its implementation across stroke pathways has been inconsistent. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
2,429 Views
12 Pages

The Patient Experience of Ambulatory Cancer Treatment: A Descriptive Study

  • E. Bridge,
  • L. Gotlib Conn,
  • S. Dhanju,
  • S. Singh and
  • L. Moody

1 August 2019

Background: Patient experience is often measured quantitatively, but that approach has limitations for understanding the entire experience. Qualitative methods can help to understand more complex issues most important to patients and their families....

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
12,100 Views
13 Pages

Research relating to person-centred practice continues to expand and currently there is a dearth of statistical evidence that tests the validity of an accepted model for person-centred practice. The Person-centred Practice Framework is a midrange the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,138 Views
11 Pages

3 September 2023

There is a global movement for health and social care to be person-centred: supporting people’s active participation when making health decisions and considering their opinions, beliefs, and needs. The World Health Organization recommend the in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,079 Views
21 Pages

A lack of fidelity to Lean Six Sigma’s (LSS) philosophical roots can create division between person-centred approaches to transforming care experiences and services, and system wide quality improvement methods focused solely on efficiency and clinica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,436 Views
17 Pages

Realist evaluation provides a general method of evaluating the application of interventions including policy, legislation, projects, and new processes in social settings such as law enforcement, healthcare and education. Realist evaluation focuses on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,315 Views
15 Pages

Development of the Help Overcoming Pain Early (HOPE) Programme Built on a Person-Centred Approach to Support School Nurses in the Care of Adolescents with Chronic Pain—A Feasibility Study

  • Stefan Nilsson,
  • Ulrika Wallbing,
  • Gösta Alfvén,
  • Kristina Dalenius,
  • Andreas Fors,
  • Marie Golsäter,
  • Per-Åke Rosvall,
  • Helena Wigert and
  • Mari Lundberg

25 August 2019

Chronic pain and its consequences are major global health challenges, and the prevalence is increasing worldwide among adolescents. Adolescents spend most of their waking hours in school; however, there is limited research available on how school nur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,070 Views
20 Pages

Translation, Cultural Adaptation, and Validation of the Spanish Version of the Person-Centred Practice Inventory-Staff (PCPI-S)

  • Ana Carvajal-Valcárcel,
  • Edgar Benitez,
  • Marta Lizarbe-Chocarro,
  • María José Galán-Espinilla,
  • Mónica Vázquez-Calatayud,
  • Begoña Errasti-Ibarrondo,
  • Ana Choperena,
  • Brendan McCormack,
  • Vaibhav Tyagi and
  • Virginia La Rosa-Salas

9 December 2024

Background: Person-centredness, a global movement in healthcare, is consistent with international developments in healthcare policy. It is important to have instruments to measure person-centred care. The Person-Centred Practice Inventory-Staff (PCPI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,423 Views
6 Pages

16 October 2017

Nurses play a central role in joint decision-making and person-centred care, whereby care is focused on the needs of an individual patient. A key part of person-centred care is the way nurses engage with patients because good communication can impact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,230 Views
20 Pages

Case management developed from a generalist model to a person-centred model aligned with the evidence-informed evolution of best practice people-centred integrated care. Case management is a multidimensional and collaborative integrated care strategy...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,598 Views
13 Pages

7 November 2023

The drive for a more person-centred approach in the broader field of clinical medicine is also gaining traction in chronic pain treatment. Despite current advances, a further departure from ‘business as usual’ is required to ensure that t...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,655 Views
9 Pages

Pharmacy technicians’ roles are rapidly evolving in Great Britain (GB) as they undertake more extended activities with increased autonomy across the different pharmacy sectors. This paper compares the GB pharmacy regulator initial education and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,306 Views
8 Pages

The Use of Videoconferencing in Nursing for People in Their Homes

  • Bente Nordtug,
  • Hildfrid V. Brataas and
  • Lisbeth Ø. Rygg

31 August 2018

The aim of this literature review is to bring to the forefront knowledge about the suitability of videoconferencing (VC) in nursing for patients and their families living at home. A systematic literature review that included studies of VC in nursing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,815 Views
10 Pages

7 February 2018

This research paper was presented at the Third International Spirituality in Healthcare Conference 2017—‘Creating Space for Spirituality in Healthcare’ at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin. 22 June 2017. The number of older people livi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
830 Views
17 Pages

The Role of Theatre-Based Methodologies as Complementary Educational Interventions in Continuing Nursing Education: A Scoping Review

  • Giovanna Artioli,
  • Andreina Saba,
  • Laura Saladino,
  • Allison Alberti,
  • Laura Macchetti,
  • Maria Chiara Bassi,
  • Sara Falbo and
  • Federica Dellafiore

Theatre-based methodologies are increasingly recognized as complementary approaches that can enhance nurses’ empathy, communication, critical thinking, and person-centred care, all essential for managing chronic illnesses. This scoping review a...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
2,738 Views
12 Pages

‘Finally, in Hands I Can Trust’: Perspectives on Trust in Motor Neurone Disease Care

  • Dominika Lisiecka,
  • Neil Dyson,
  • Keith Malpress,
  • Anthea Smith,
  • Ellen McNeice,
  • Peter Shack and
  • Karen Hutchinson

14 August 2025

Integrated multidisciplinary care is recognised as essential for people living with motor neurone disease (PlwMND) and their families. The values underpinning integrated care, such as person-centredness, respect, empowerment, and co-production, are c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,646 Views
17 Pages

Identity and Sport Participation Following Limb Loss: A Qualitative Study

  • Heather Havlin,
  • Victoria Molyneaux and
  • Craig D. Murray

Background/Objective: Research indicates that sport is a useful avenue in rehabilitation for redeveloping identity for people with a limb amputation. However, the available research focusses on Paralympians or elite athletes with disabilities. By con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,825 Views
18 Pages

15 March 2022

The present study investigated the variation in higher education students’ study burnout experiences and how they are related to academic success and social support needs. Similarities and differences between the international and domestic stud...

  • Review
  • Open Access
625 Views
27 Pages

Digital Approaches to Pain Assessment Across Older Adults: A Scoping Review

  • Leanne McGaffin,
  • Gary Mitchell,
  • Tara Anderson,
  • Arnelle Gillis and
  • Stephanie Craig

Background: Effectively managing pain in adults remains challenging, particularly in individuals with cognitive impairment or communication difficulties. Digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled facial recognition and mobi...

  • Protocol
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,500 Views
15 Pages

The Importance of the Built Environment in Person-Centred Rehabilitation at Home: Study Protocol

  • Maya Kylén,
  • Lena Von Koch,
  • Hélène Pessah-Rasmussen,
  • Elizabeth Marcheschi,
  • Charlotte Ytterberg,
  • Ann Heylighen and
  • Marie Elf

Health services will change dramatically as the prevalence of home healthcare increases. Only technologically advanced acute care will be performed in hospitals. This—along with the increased healthcare needs of people with long-term conditions such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,540 Views
19 Pages

Supporting Innovative Person-Centred Care in Financially Constrained Environments: The WE CARE Exploratory Health Laboratory Evaluation Strategy

  • Helen M. Lloyd,
  • Inger Ekman,
  • Heather L. Rogers,
  • Vítor Raposo,
  • Paulo Melo,
  • Valentina D. Marinkovic,
  • Sandra C. Buttigieg,
  • Einav Srulovici,
  • Roman Andrzej Lewandowski and
  • Nicky Britten

The COST CARES project aims to support healthcare cost containment and improve healthcare quality across Europe by developing the research and development necessary for person-centred care (PCC) and health promotion. This paper presents an overview e...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,884 Views
10 Pages

Lessons Learned from the Implementation of a Person-Centred Digital Health Platform in Cancer Care

  • Saima Ahmed,
  • Karine LePage,
  • Renata Benc,
  • Guy Erez,
  • Alon Litvin,
  • Annie Werbitt,
  • Gabrielle Chartier,
  • Carly Berlin and
  • Carmen G. Loiselle

29 September 2022

The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated the development and use of digital health platforms to support individuals with health-related challenges. This is even more frequent in the field of cancer care as the global burden of the disease c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,822 Views
24 Pages

Diet and Chronic Non-Cancer Pain: The State of the Art and Future Directions

  • Katherine Brain,
  • Tracy L. Burrows,
  • Laura Bruggink,
  • Anneleen Malfliet,
  • Chris Hayes,
  • Fiona J. Hodson and
  • Clare E. Collins

8 November 2021

Nutrition plays an important role in pain management. Healthy eating patterns are associated with reduced systemic inflammation, as well as lower risk and severity of chronic non-cancer pain and associated comorbidities. The role of nutrition in chro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,747 Views
12 Pages

14 October 2019

The concept of person-centred care (PCC) is considered one of the core competencies in Swedish healthcare. It has increasingly spread and involves treating the patient as a person who is decision-competent and part of the team. The PCC concept has be...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,096 Views
12 Pages

Medication-Related Outcomes and Health Equity: Evidence for Pharmaceutical Care

  • Tamasine Grimes,
  • Romaric Marcilly,
  • Lorna Bonnici West and
  • Maria Cordina

22 March 2023

Marginalised people experience diminished access to pharmaceutical care and worse medication-related outcomes than the general population. Health equity is a global priority. This article explores the key evidence of health inequity and medication us...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,972 Views
9 Pages

National healthcare systems need to adjust services and operations to accommodate the needs of complex, aging populations living with multimorbidity and polypharmacy. This paper suggests the use of a human-centred design as a method to engage older a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,041 Views
28 Pages

Exploring the Connection between Social Housing and Employment: A Scoping Review

  • Julia Jansen-van Vuuren,
  • Hibo Rijal,
  • Nicole Bobbette,
  • Rosemary Lysaght,
  • Terry Krupa and
  • Daniella Aguilar

Adequate housing is a social determinant of health and well-being, providing stability from which people can engage in important life activities, including self-care and productivity. Social housing is a system-level intervention that aims to provide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,728 Views
13 Pages

Translation, Adaptation, and Validation of the Portuguese Version of the Exercise of Self-Care Agency Scale

  • Fátima Cunha,
  • Maria do Rosário Pinto,
  • Susan Riesch,
  • Pedro Lucas,
  • Sofia Almeida and
  • Margarida Vieira

10 January 2024

Assessing a person’s capacity to engage in self-care behaviours is another added value in identifying one’s potential to care for oneself in the health domain that contributes to planning person-centred care. This study aimed to translate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
21,303 Views
23 Pages

Integrating Spirituality as a Key Component of Patient Care

  • Suzette Brémault-Phillips,
  • Joanne Olson,
  • Pamela Brett-MacLean,
  • Doreen Oneschuk,
  • Shane Sinclair,
  • Ralph Magnus,
  • Jeanne Weis,
  • Marjan Abbasi,
  • Jasneet Parmar and
  • Christina M. Puchalski

17 April 2015

Patient care frequently focuses on physical aspects of disease management, with variable attention given to spiritual needs. And yet, patients indicate that spiritual suffering adds to distress associated with illness. Spirituality, broadly defined a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
24,010 Views
14 Pages

21 August 2020

Numerous spirituality models and tools have been developed in health education and research, but a gap still exists around the conceptual clarity and articulation of spirituality among nurses and healthcare providers. Nurses and healthcare providers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,521 Views
14 Pages

Delivery of Virtual Care in Oncology: Province-Wide Interprofessional Consensus Statements Using a Modified Delphi Process

  • Matthew C. Cheung,
  • Bryan B. Franco,
  • Nicholas Meti,
  • Alia Thawer,
  • Houman Tahmasebi,
  • Adithya Shankar,
  • Andrew Loblaw,
  • Frances C. Wright,
  • Colleen Fox and
  • Simron Singh
  • + 2 authors

13 December 2021

Virtual cancer care (i.e., teleoncology) was rapidly adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic to meet the needs of patients with cancer. However, there is a paucity of guidance for clinicians regarding virtual cancer care. We sought to develop consensus-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,131 Views
14 Pages

(1) Background: The Master of Clinical Science program (MClSc) in Advanced Healthcare Practice at (University) introduced a new “Interprofessional Pain Management” (IPM) field in September 2019. The purpose of this study is to inquire int...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,426 Views
16 Pages

There is growing empirical evidence regarding the relationship and sexuality experiences and needs of children, young people and adults with intellectual disabilities. A total of twelve papers met the inclusion criteria regarding relationship and sex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7,533 Views
17 Pages

8 February 2024

The concept of post-traumatic growth (PTG) continues to generate significant interest, as reflected in the increasing number of studies. This article makes two novel contributions to existing scholarship on PTG. First, it seeks to demonstrate that th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,559 Views
12 Pages

8 February 2020

The aim of this article was to identify the main contributing factors to optimising improved experience and better outcomes for older adults participating in intermediate care setting. Background: Intermediate care is an integrated team intervention...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,186 Views
17 Pages

(1) Background: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is the recommended treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) symptoms in adults, however, research investigating the effectiveness of DBT for adolescents is limited. The present study expl...

  • Protocol
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,094 Views
9 Pages

Efficient decision-making is crucial to ensure adequate rehabilitation with optimal use of healthcare resources. Establishing the factors associated with making decisions concerning rehabilitation provision is important to guide clinical staff toward...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,452 Views
16 Pages

GREEN: Cool & Care—Research and Development of Greening Measures in Nursing Homes in Austria. Technical and Social Interconnections

  • Katharina Halbmayer,
  • Jutta Hollands,
  • Sara Alasu,
  • Azra Korjenic,
  • Barbara Pichler,
  • Elisabeth Reitinger,
  • Eva Zojer,
  • Bente Knoll,
  • Agnes Renkin and
  • Ralf Dopheide

17 October 2021

According to demographic data, the percentage of elderly people within the population is growing, representing a vulnerable group to the effects of increasing heat, but little attention has been paid to developed adaptation measures. In addition, man...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
9 Citations
13,154 Views
8 Pages

12 August 2022

The registered nurse has crucial preventative, therapeutic, sociocultural, and advocacy roles in promoting quality holistic patient-centred palliative care. This paper examines, describes, and analyses this multifaceted role from an antipodean perspe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,435 Views
9 Pages

14 December 2023

In today’s demanding healthcare landscape, the use of theoretical frameworks is paramount for navigating the complexities of digital health challenges. The Context Optimisation Model for Person-centred Analysis and Systematic Solutions (COMPASS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,167 Views
13 Pages

The Integration of Psychosocial Care into National Dementia Strategies across Europe: Evidence from the Skills in DEmentia Care (SiDECar) Project

  • Ilaria Chirico,
  • Rabih Chattat,
  • Vladimíra Dostálová,
  • Pavla Povolná,
  • Iva Holmerová,
  • Marjolein E. de Vugt,
  • Niels Janssen,
  • Fania Dassen,
  • María Cruz Sánchez-Gómez and
  • Giovanni Ottoboni
  • + 2 authors

There is evidence supporting the use of psychosocial interventions in dementia care. Due to the role of policy in clinical practice, the present study investigates whether and how the issue of psychosocial care and interventions has been addressed in...

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