What is the experience of people living with breathlessness due to medical conditions, those
caring for them and those treating them, with regard to quality of life and the nature of clinical …

The aim is to identify facilitators and barriers for physical activity (PA) experienced by
morbidly obese adults in the Western world. Inactivity and a sedentary lifestyle have become …

Purpose: Existential loneliness is part of being human that is little understood in health care,
but, to provide good care to their older patients, professionals need to be able to meet their …

Patients find forensic psychiatric care inadequate in that they are not treated as individuals
and not involved in their own care. The purpose of this study was to describe patients' …

Purpose: Experiencing breastfeeding difficulties poses a risk for early cessation of
breastfeeding and decreases the likelihood of breastfeeding a future child. To further …

Introduction This Dutch study is a qualitative interview study. It aims to contribute to our
understanding of the day-to-day experiences by providing an idiographic description of what …

A deeper understanding of care demands the methodological finesse of qualitative
research: we must observe, listen, and witness to expose what matters to care recipients. In …

Background Being a mother of a preterm infant (< 37 gestational weeks) puts the mother in a
vulnerable and fragile situation wherein breastfeeding is an important part of becoming a …

Purpose: Patients must be able to feel as much trust for caregivers and the healthcare
system at the healthcare centre as at the emergency department. The aim of this study is to …

Increased knowledge is needed about what self-care means from the patients' perspective,
especially since the patient population with type 2 diabetes has been rising. The aim was to …