Jessica Hemberg

Åbo Akademi University · Department of Caring Science

Mental health problems among adolescents and young adults are increasing worldwide together with loneliness, which is considered a global public health problem. The aim of this study was to explore loneliness through adolescents’ and young adults’ own descriptions and experiences. The research questions were: (1) How do adolescents and young adults...

Loneliness among adolescents and young adults is a multifaceted phenomenon. The aim of the study was to synthesize the existing knowledge on the different causes of involuntary loneliness among adolescents and young adults. The research question was: What underlies involuntary loneliness among adolescents and young adults? This article is based on...

Aim: The aim was to explore patients’, relatives’ and nurses’ experiences of palliative care on an advanced care ward in a nursing home setting after implementation of the Coordination Reform in Norway. Design: Secondary analysis of qualitative interviews. Methods: Data from interviews with 19 participants in a nursing home setting: severely ill...

Ungas liv och studievardag har på ett grundläggande sätt påverkats av COVID-19-pandemin som orsakat isolering och förändrat den psykosociala miljön (WHO 2020) med bland annat förflyttning av undervisning från traditionell högskole- eller universitetsmiljö till digitala plattformar och distanslärande hemifrån (THL 2021). Enligt Institutet för hälsa...

Käymme artikkelissa läpi Suomessa ja muissa OECD-maissa tehtyjä kansainvälisiä tutkimuksia koronapandemian vaikutuksista nuorten hyvinvointiin ja koulunkäyntiin tai opiskeluun. Artikkelin tarkoitus on taustoittaa omia artikkeleitamme ja tarjota yleiskuvaa tähänastisesta tutkimuksesta. Tutkimusten valossa pandemia vaikutti nuorten hyvinvointiin ja o...

Background With an increasing older population, the pressure on home care resources is growing, which makes it important to ensure the maintenance of quality care. It is known that compassion and ethical sensitivity can improve the quality of care, but little is known about care leaders’ perceptions on ethical sensitivity and compassion in home car...

Background: With an increasing older population, the pressure on home care resources is growing, which makes it important to ensure the maintenance of quality care. It is known that compassion and ethical sensitivity can improve the quality of care, but little is known about care leaders' perceptions on ethical sensitivity and compassion in home c...

The year 2022 is Nursing Science Quarterly’s 35th year in publication, and we are dialoging with nurse theorists. We hope to uncover influences and origins of their theoretical thinking and hear about their current projects related to nursing science. In this scholarly dialogue column, we dialogue with Dr. Jessica Hemberg, a former nursing student...

Background: The need for interprofessional collaboration in increasing, because a single professional group can no longer meet patients' increasingly complex and multifaceted health-related problems and needs. Researchers have found that effective interprofessional collaboration is needed, especially in primary care. Aim: The aim of the study was t...

Mental health problems among adolescents and young adults are increasing worldwide together with loneliness, which is considered a global public health problem. The aim of this study was to explore loneliness through adolescents’ and young adults’ own descriptions and experiences. The research questions were: (1) How do adolescents and young adults...

Background: Unreasonable workload and work-related stress can reduce nurse leaders' job satisfaction and productivity and can increase absence and burnout. Nurse leaders' workload in public healthcare settings is relatively unresearched. The aim: The aim of this study was to investigate nurse leaders' perceptions of workload and task distributio...

In this study, we explored key sources that led wives who care for their husbands with dementia at home to experience dignity humiliation – an issue that affects the well-being of women around the world. Through hermeneutic interpretation of in-depth interviews, three key sources of this were identified: interpersonal experiences of people’s indiff...

Background: Many healthcare professionals have left their professions recently because of increased moral distress, and the COVID-19 pandemic has had a further major impact on the ever-changing healthcare environment. Aim: The purpose of the study was to examine care leaders’ experiences of moral distress in their daily work in older adult care....

The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of loneliness among older people and to identify risk factors for loneliness in a Nordic regional context over a six-year period. Longitudinal data from the Gerontological Regional Database (GERDA) study of 4,269 older adults living in northern Sweden and western Finland, aged 65, 70, 75 and 80 at...

Purpose: This study aimed to explore and describe existential experiences after cancer treatment. Method: An exploratory phenomenological hermeneutical design was used following in-depth interviews with 21 people. Results: The study revealed experiences of multifaceted suffering in the form of limitations in everyday life, inner struggles, and bear...

Background: Research on efficient nurse leaders as managers who lead with integrity is scant. Aim: To explore the role integrity plays in efficient managerial leadership in nursing care. Methodology: The study has a qualitative design using a modified integrative review method. A literature search of electronic databases was performed between 201...

Background: International research notes the challenges facing youth research and it is, therefore, urgent to examine its own knowledge base to be able to provide the lay of the land and uncover research gaps in caring science youth research. This study examines several decades of the development of caring science youth research. Aim: The aim of th...

Meaningfulness is a fundamental aspect in the promotion of frail older adults' health and well-being. From a salutogenic point of view, meaningfulness is a vital component of a sense of coherence (SOC), since having a strong SOC aids toward assembling the resources needed to cope with stressors and manage tensions with success. In order to respond...

Background: Nurses that are constantly being exposed to patients' suffering can lead to compassion fatigue. There is a gap in the latest research regarding nurses’ experiences of compassion fatigue. Little is known about how compassion fatigue affects the nurse as a person, and indications of how it affects the profession are scarce. Aim: The aim...

Society has undergone rapid changes over the last decade affecting adolescents and their mental health as well as experiences of loneliness. The aim of this study is to examine loneliness from adolescents’ and young adults’ perspectives. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with eleven (n = 11) Finnish adolescents and young adults...

Loneliness in adolescents is related to common mental health issues, and as a major global concern it is important to investigate loneliness from their own perspectives. The aim of this study was to explore how adolescents experience and describe negative and positive sides of loneliness. Data was collected through interviews with fifteen young Swe...

Experiences of longing in daily life and associations to well-being among frail older adults

Purpose: All over the world, communities face the challenge of maintaining well-being among older adults. More specifically, understanding the resources required to establish and maintain well-being among community-dwelling older adults is an essential issue. Although longing from a caring science perspective is considered a driver for well-being,...

Background For about 40 years, Katie Eriksson developed the caritative caring theory at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. However, a description regarding the most substantial concepts and the relationships between these is lacking and thus needs to be explored. Aims The aim of the study was twofold: to explore and describe central concepts in...

Aim Ethical competence is a crucial component for enabling good quality care but there is insufficient qualitative research on healthcare professionals’ views on ethical competence. The aim of this study was to investigate healthcare professionals’ views on ethical competence in a student healthcare context. Design A qualitative design and a herm...

Aim The aim of this study was to illuminate nurses’ experiences of mediating compassion to patients in the home care context. Design A phenomenological hermeneutical approach was used. Methods The data comprised of texts from interviews with twelve nurses in a home care context. Informed consent was sought from participants regarding participat...

Background: Cultural competence is recognized as a leading component in the delivery of high-quality healthcare. However, a lack of concept clarity has led to lower quality and less effective healthcare provision for culturally diverse groups. Understanding of cultural competence in a healthcare context will be improved through the exploration of h...

Background: According to the World Health Organization, suicide is the third most common cause of death amongst 15-19-year old adolescents in the world, which is associated with feelings of hopelessness and loneliness. With a considerable increase in loneliness amongst adolescents in the Nordic countries there is a call for an understanding of the...

Abstract Language barriers in the healthcare sector, for example as a result of failure to use a patient’s mother tongue, can lead to misunderstandings and/or care errors, especially when circumstances require that nursing staff or patients speak a language other than their own mother tongue. The aim of this study was to explore the importance of...

Background In research on co-creation in nursing, a caring manner can be used to create opportunities for the patient to reach vital goals and thereby increase the patient’s quality of life in palliative home care. This can be described as an ethical cornerstone and the goal of palliative care. Nurses must be extra sensitive to patients’ and their...

Translator disclaimer  Full Article  Figures & data References  Citations Metrics  Reprints & Permissions Get access ABSTRACT In order to describe nurses’ experiences of working in home health care and their suggestions for the development of this public health-care sector, interviews with 18 home health-care nurses were analyzed...

Background In research on co-creation in nursing, a caring manner can be used to create opportunities whereby the patient’s quality of life can be increased in palliative home care. This can be described as an ethical cornerstone and the goal of palliative care. To promote quality of life, nurses must be sensitive to patients’ and their relatives’...

Background: A new concept in palliative care, co-creation appears to be a part of caring in nursing but has not yet been explored as a caring phenomenon. The aim: The aim was to, from a caring science perspective, explore how co-creation can be experienced as a phenomenon by nurses working in palliative home care. Research design, participants a...

Existential loneliness experienced by older adults

Background: In research on co-creation in nursing, a caring manner can be used to create opportunities whereby the patient’s quality of life can be increased in palliative home care. This can be described as an ethical cornerstone and the goal of palliative care. To promote quality of life, nurses must be sensitive to patients’ and their relatives’...

The aim of this study was to reveal deeper understanding of ethical leadership from a caring science perspective through the views of nurse leaders. The research questions were: What enhances ethical leadership in a nursing care context and how can nurse leaders and co-workers realize ethical conduct in a work setting? Latent content analysis was u...

The aim of this study was to reveal a deeper understanding of ethical leadership from a caring science perspective through the views of nurse leaders. Latent content analysis was used to analyze the data material. The data material consisted of texts from interviews with nursing leaders in Finland, all working in public healthcare in a nursing cont...

Background Due to physical impairments and functional limitations, older adults receiving home care can be considered especially vulnerable to loneliness. To understand how society can provide support that enhances vulnerable individuals’ quality of life, it is important to explore loneliness and its underlying causes in older adults. Aims To cont...

Background Childbirth is often seen as an existentially important life event. However, few studies focus on the experience from the woman's perspective. The aim and research questions The aim of this study was to explore women's experiences of strength and health during childbirth through an ontological understanding. What enables women to experie...

Background: In order to alleviate suffering it is essential to uncover the nature of suffering and find deeper ways of understanding the phenomenon from a holistic perspective and from the viewpoint of human beings themselves.

The population in the Nordic countries, as well as globally, is increasingly becoming older. Concurrently, with an increased aging population, there is an increase in poor health and loneliness among older adults. The aim of this study was to uncover, from a caring science perspective, community-living older adults' experiences of interacting with...

Background: Clinical placement represents an essential part of education within nursing. Only few studies, however, have focused on the invitation of nursing students from a caring science didactic perspective. Aims: The aim of this study is to highlight, from a caring science perspective, how invitation is figured in clinical placement according...

Background The global and multicultural society of today creates challenges that require multicultural competence among individuals, especially within caring contexts. Aims and objectives This study assumes an intercultural perspective, and the aim is to uncover a new understanding of the caring community between nurses and patients when these do...

Background: Suffering profoundly touches the human being's inner existence. The different faces of suffering may yet be unknown, and therefore, it is important to further explore suffering in order to reach a new and deeper understanding of it and its alleviation. The aim and research questions: The aim of this study was to expand the understand...

Background: Occupational healthcare is nowadays more and more regulated by economic demands of gain and efficiency. Aim and research questions: The aim of this study is to reach a new understanding of ethics in occupational healthcare by uncovering this from occupational healthcare nurses' own views. The research questions are as follows: (1) What...

Aims: With a considerable increase in the aging population in the Nordic countries there is a call for a deeper understanding of healthy aging and its underlying mechanisms. The aim of this study is to uncover health and well-being for older adults according to their own views and understand what role the existential dimension play? Methods: The s...

Background: Love is seen as important as a basis for the caring-relationship but very few studies have examined the ontological relationship between love and health. Aims: The aim of the study is to uncover a deeper understanding of love as the core of life and as the human being’s source of strength as well as love’s relationship to health. The...

Background: Responsibility and ethics play a decisive role when it comes to the context of meaning of caring. The concept of responsibility has a multifaceted meaning, however, which can make it unclear and diffuse. Therefore, in order to attain a deeper understanding of it, it is meaningful to uncover responsibility in public health care from lead...

Aims: This study aims to explore, from a caring science perspective, what constitutes and creates a caring encounter between the patient and the nurse within a mental health and psychiatric care context. Methods: The study uses a hermeneutical approach. The material consists of interviews with nurses working in an emergency polyclinic regarding t...

Background: Responsibility is part of the human being’s life and plays a decisive role for the nurse in the context of meaning of caring. Exploring the concept of responsibility from a caring science perspective is crucial for understanding what responsibility means on a deeper level within the context of meaning of caring. Aims: The aim of this...

Background: Within health science research there is an ongoing discussion from a holistic viewpoint about health and how human beings may find strength. By uncovering health on a philosophical and ontological level the source of strength may be found within the human being. Aims: The aim of this study is to uncover and deepen the ontological under...

This basic research focuses on the ethos of health and the human being’s becoming in health. The theoretical perspective consists of the caring tradition within caring science developed at Åbo Akademy University. The aim of the present doctoral thesis is to uncover a new understanding as well as to deepen and attain a more nuanced understanding of...