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  1. 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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  • The paradoxical body: A glimpse of a deeper truth through relatives’ stories.Vibeke Bruun Lorentsen, Dagfinn Nåden & Berit Sæteren - 2019 - Nursing Ethics 26 (6):1611-1622.
    Background: People with progressive cancer experience that their bodies change due to disease and/or treatment. The body is integral to the unity of the human being, a unity that must be perceived as whole if dignity shall be experienced. Relatives are in touch with the suffering bodies of their dear ones, physically, socially, mentally, and existentially, and thus the relatives’ experiences of the bodies of their dear ones might yield insight into the concept of dignity. Aim: The aim of this (...)
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  • Relationship between illness-related worries and social dignity in patients with heart failure.Hossein Bagheri, Farideh Yaghmaei, Tahereh Ashktorab & Farid Zayeri - 2018 - Nursing Ethics 25 (5):618-627.
    Background: Heart failure is a major growing problem and affects not only patients but also their families and community networks and reduces the functional capacity of patients and impairs their social life. Research questions: This study was conducted to investigate relationship between illness-related worries and social dignity in patients with heart failure. Design: The study had a descriptive-analytic design, and data collection was carried out by means of two specific questionnaires. Participants and context: A total of 130 inpatients from cardiac (...)
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  • Aspects of indignity in nursing home residences as experienced by family caregivers.Dagfinn Nåden, Arne Rehnsfeldt, Maj-Britt Råholm, Lillemor Lindwall, Synnøve Caspari, Trygve Aasgaard, Åshild Slettebø, Berit Sæteren, Bente Høy, Britt Lillestø, Anne Kari Tolo Heggestad & Vibeke Lohne - 2013 - Nursing Ethics 20 (7):0969733012475253.
    The overall purpose of this cross-country Nordic study was to gain further knowledge about maintaining and promoting dignity in nursing home residents. The purpose of this article is to present results pertaining to the following question: How is nursing home residents’ dignity maintained, promoted or deprived from the perspective of family caregivers? In this article, we focus only on indignity in care. This study took place at six different nursing home residences in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Data collection methods in (...)
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  • Personal dignity in people with early-stage dementia: A longitudinal study.Helena Kisvetrová, Milena Bretšnajdrová, Božena Jurašková & Kateřina Langová - 2024 - Nursing Ethics 31 (7):1258-1270.
    Background A psychosocial problem faced by people with early-stage dementia (PwESD) is the perception of threats to personal dignity. Insights into its dynamics are important for understanding how it changes as dementia advances and to develop suitable interventions. However, longitudinal studies on this change in PwESD are lacking. Aims To determine how perceptions of dignity and selected clinical and social factors change over 1 year in home-dwelling PwESD and the predictors associated with changes in perceptions of dignity over 1 year. (...)
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  • Ethical dilemmas in prehospital emergency care – from the perspective of specialist ambulance nurse students.Anna Abelsson & Lillemor Lindwall - 2018 - International Journal of Ethics Education 3 (2):181-192.
    The aim of this study was to describe specialist ambulance nurse students’ experiences of ethical conflicts and dilemmas in prehospital emergency care. In the autumn of 2015, after participating in a mandatory lecture on ethics, 24 specialist ambulance nurse students reported experiences and interpretations concerning conflicts and ethical dilemmas from prehospital emergency care. The text consisted of 24 written critical incidents which were interpreted using hermeneutic text interpretation. The text revealed three themes: Not safeguarding a patient’s body and identity; Not (...)
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  • Concept determination of human dignity.Margareta Edlund, Lillemor Lindwall, Iréne von Post & Unni Å Lindström - 2013 - Nursing Ethics 20 (8):851-860.
    This study presents findings from an ontological and contextual determination of the concept of dignity. The study had a caritative and caring science perspective and a hermeneutical design. The aim of this study was to increase caring science knowledge of dignity and to gain a determination of dignity as a concept. Eriksson’s model for conceptual determination is made up of five part-studies. The ontological and contextual determination indicates that dignity can be understood as absolute dignity, the spiritual dimension characterized by (...)
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  • Understanding and safeguarding patient dignity in intensive care.Linda Nyholm & Camilla A.-L. Koskinen - 2017 - Nursing Ethics 24 (4):408-418.
    Background: Dignity has been highlighted in previous research as one of the most important ethical concerns in nursing care. According to Eriksson, dignified caring is related to treating the patient as a unique human being and respecting human value. Intensive care unit patients are vulnerable to threatened dignity, and maintaining dignity may be challenging as a consequence of critical illness. Objectives: The aim is to highlight how nurses in an intensive care setting understand patient dignity, what threatens patient dignity and (...)
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  • Concept determination of human dignity.Margareta Edlund, Lillemor Lindwall, Iréne von Post & Unni Å Lindström - 2013 - Nursing Ethics 20 (8):851-860.
    This study presents findings from an ontological and contextual determination of the concept of dignity. The study had a caritative and caring science perspective and a hermeneutical design. The aim of this study was to increase caring science knowledge of dignity and to gain a determination of dignity as a concept. Eriksson’s model for conceptual determination is made up of five part-studies. The ontological and contextual determination indicates that dignity can be understood as absolute dignity, the spiritual dimension characterized by (...)
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  • Relational interactions preserving dignity experience.Oscar Tranvåg, Karin Anna Petersen & Dagfinn Nåden - 2015 - Nursing Ethics 22 (5):577-593.
    Background: Dignity experience in the daily lives of people living with dementia is influenced by their relational interactions with others. However, literature reviews show that knowledge concerning crucial interactional qualities, preserving their sense of dignity, is limited. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore and describe crucial qualities of relational interactions preserving dignity experience among people with dementia, while interacting with family, social network, and healthcare professionals. Methodology: The study was founded upon Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics, and an exploratory (...)
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  • Dignity of older home-dwelling women nearing end-of-life: Informal caregivers’ perception.Katrine Staats, Ellen Karine Grov, Bettina S. Husebø & Oscar Tranvåg - 2021 - Nursing Ethics 28 (3):444-456.
    Background: Most older people wish to live in the familiar surroundings of their own home until they die. Knowledge concerning dignity and dignity loss of home-dwelling older women living with incurable cancer should be a foundation for quality of care within municipal healthcare services. The informal caregivers of these women can help increase the understanding of sources related to dignity and dignity loss Aim: The aim of this study was to explore informal caregivers’ perceptions of sources related to dignity and (...)
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  • What is dignity in prehospital emergency care?Anna Abelsson & Lillemor Lindwall - 2017 - Nursing Ethics 24 (3):268-278.
    Background: Ethics and dignity in prehospital emergency care are important due to vulnerability and suffering. Patients can lose control of their body and encounter unfamiliar faces in an emergency situation. Objective: To describe what specialist ambulance nurse students experienced as preserved and humiliated dignity in prehospital emergency care. Research design: The study had a qualitative approach. Method: Data were collected by Flanagan’s critical incident technique. The participants were 26 specialist ambulance nurse students who described two critical incidents of preserved and (...)
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  • Dignity at stake: Caring for persons with impaired autonomy.Åsa Rejnö, Britt-Marie Ternestedt, Lennart Nordenfelt, Gunilla Silfverberg & Tove E. Godskesen - 2020 - Nursing Ethics 27 (1):104-115.
    Dignity, usually considered an essential ethical value in healthcare, is a relatively complex, multifaceted concept. However, healthcare professionals often have only a vague idea of what it means to respect dignity when providing care, especially for persons with impaired autonomy. This article focuses on two concepts of dignity, human dignity and dignity of identity, and aims to analyse how these concepts can be applied in the care for persons with impaired autonomy and in furthering the practice of respect and protection (...)
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  • Test of Dignity Model in patient with heart failure.Hossein Bagheri, Farideh Yaghmaei, Tahereh Ashktorab & Farid Zayeri - forthcoming - Nursing Ethics:096973301665879.
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  • Preserved and violated dignity in surgical practice – nurses’ experiences.Lillemor Lindwall & Iréne von Post - 2014 - Nursing Ethics 21 (3):335-346.
    The aim of this article was to obtain an understanding of what is experienced as human dignity by nurses in surgical practice. In order to obtain experiences from practice, the critical incident technique was chosen. A total of 11 nurses from surgical practice wrote 49 stories about positive and negative incidents. The text was analysed using hermeneutical text interpretation. The findings revealed patient dignity in terms of preserved dignity, that is, healthcare professionals paid attention to the patient. Nurses experienced preserved (...)
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  • Dignity in nursing care: What does it mean to nursing students?Rosemary F. Mullen, Angela Kydd, Anne Fleming & Laura McMillan - 2019 - Nursing Ethics 26 (2):390-404.
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  • Vocation and altruism in nursing.Melody Carter - 2014 - Nursing Ethics 21 (6):695-706.
    Background: At a time when British nursing has been under scrutiny for an apparent lack of compassion in education and practice, this paper based offers a perspective on the notions of vocation and altruism in nursing. Objectives: To understand the vocational and altruistic motivations of nurses through the application of Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of ‘symbolic capital’, ‘field’ and ‘habitus’ through a long interview with nurse respondents. Research design: A reflexive qualitative study was undertaken using the long interview. A thematic analysis (...)
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