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  1. Factors influencing patients’ dignity.Arpi Manookian, Mohammad A. Cheraghi & Alireza N. Nasrabadi - 2014 - Nursing Ethics 21 (3):323-334.
    Dignity represents the essence of nursing care; hence, nurses are professionally responsible for promoting understanding about the promotion, provision, and preservation of every patient’s dignity, while considering contextual differences. The aim of this study was to explore the factors that influence, promote, or compromise patient dignity. A purposeful sample of 14 participants with hospitalization experience was chosen, and individual in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted for data collection. Using inductive content analysis, the themes and subthemes related to factors influencing patients’ dignity (...)
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  • Coercion in a locked psychiatric ward.Inger B. Larsen & Toril B. Terkelsen - 2014 - Nursing Ethics 21 (4):426-436.
    Background: In spite of a national strategy for reducing coercion in the mental health services, Norway still has a high rate of involuntary treatment compared to other European countries. It is therefore crucial to study various parties involved in involuntary treatment in order to reduce coercion. Research question: How do patients and staff in a Norwegian locked psychiatric ward experience coercion? Research design: Participant observation and interviews. Participants: A total of 12 patients and 22 employees participated in this study. Ethical (...)
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  • An interpretative phenomenological analysis of dignity in people with multiple sclerosis.Katarína Žiaková, Juraj Čáp, Michaela Miertová, Elena Gurková & Radka Kurucová - 2020 - Nursing Ethics 27 (3):686-700.
    Background: Dignity is a fundamental concept in healthcare. The symptoms of multiple sclerosis have a negative effect on dignity. Understanding of lived experience of dignity in people with multiple sclerosis is crucial to support dignity in practice. Research aim: The aim was to explore the sense of dignity experienced by people with multiple sclerosis. Research design and participants: An interpretative phenomenological analysis design was adopted, using data collected through face-to-face interviews with 14 participants. Ethical considerations: The study was approved by (...)
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  • Strengthening practical wisdom.Kristin Ådnøy Eriksen, Hellen Dahl, Bengt Karlsson & Maria Arman - 2014 - Nursing Ethics 21 (6):707-719.
    Background: Practical wisdom, understood as knowing how to be or act in any present situation with clients, is believed to be an essential part of the knowledge needed to be a professional mental health worker. Exploring processes of adapting, extending knowledge and refining tacit knowledge grounded in mental health workers’ experiences with being in practice may bring awareness of how mental health workers reflect, learn and practice professional ‘artistry’. Research question: The aim of the article was to explore mental health (...)
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  • Ethical challenges in everyday work with adults with learning disabilities.Betty-Ann Solvoll, Elisabeth O. C. Hall & Berit Støre Brinchmann - 2015 - Nursing Ethics 22 (4):417-427.
    Background: Healthcare providers caring for learning-disabled individuals in institutions face challenges of what is right or wrong in their daily work. Serving this group, it is of utmost importance for the healthcare staff to raise awareness and to understand how ethical values are at stake. Research question: What ethical challenges are discussed among healthcare providers working with adults with learning disabilities? Research design: The study had a qualitative and investigative design. Participants and research context: The study was conducted in a (...)
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  • The significance of small things for dignity in psychiatric care.Frode Skorpen, Arne Rehnsfeldt & Arlene Arstad Thorsen - 2015 - Nursing Ethics 22 (7):754-764.
    Background: This study is based on the ontological assumption about human interdependence, and also on earlier research, which has shown that patients in psychiatric hospitals and their relatives experience suffering and indignity. Aim: The aim of this study is to explore the experience of patients and relatives regarding respect for dignity following admission to a psychiatric unit. Research design: The methodological approach is a phenomenological hermeneutic method. Participants and research context: This study is based on qualitative interviews conducted with six (...)
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