OBJECTIVES This study investigated whether the early outreach programme following the Utøya massacre reached out to the parents of the young survivors. Additionally, we explored whether specialised mental healthcare services were provided to parents presenting elevated levels of PTSD and depression reactions. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey, face-to-face interviews and questionnaires. SETTING...

Neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson's disease (PD) typically include a broad range of motor and non-motor symptoms. Disease manifestations vary considerably across individuals and, importantly, the individual needs and priorities are highly diverse among patients. It is widely felt that this multifaceted nature of PD calls for a team-oriented and personalized model of care. However, such...

BACKGROUND While greater reliance on nurse practitioners in primary healthcare settings can improve service efficiency and accessibility, their integration is not straightforward, challenging existing role definitions of both registered nurses and physicians. Developing adequate support practices is therefore essential in primary healthcare nurse practitioners' integration. This study's main ob...

12 Reflections ■ Volume 6, Number 4/5 reflections.solonline.org Are Healthcare Organizations LearningDisabled? In our work, my colleagues and I have found that the organizational dynamics in hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare organizations tend to include an overemphasis on advocacy, power and control, personal agendas, blame, and other fear-based dynamics. Although it is true that...

Objectives The aim of this study was to determine the respective contribution of professional characteristics, team attributes, team processes, and team emergent states on the job satisfaction of 315 mental health professionals from Quebec (Canada). Methods Job satisfaction was measured with the Job Satisfaction Survey. Independent variables were organized into four categories according to a ...

BACKGROUND The importance of transformational leadership for the health and well-being of staff in the healthcare sector is increasingly acknowledged, however, there is less knowledge about the mechanisms that may explain the links between transformational leaders and employee health and well-being. OBJECTIVES To examine two possible psychological mechanisms that link transformational leaders...

BACKGROUND Healthcare systems increasingly engage interprofessional healthcare team members such as case managers, social workers, and community health workers to work directly with patients and improve population health. This study elicited perspectives of interprofessional healthcare team members regarding patient barriers to health and suggestions to address these barriers. METHODS This is...

Evidence from many sources relates the quality of team work and team functioning to the quality of care. In short, being cared for by teams that function well, rather than those that do not, improves the quality of care and reduces the risk of both complications and death. If team working were a ‘drug’ it would be prescribed prophylactically to all patients on entry to any healthcare system. Th...