Projects
The following projects were carried out by, or in cooperation with, the School of Health Sciences at the ZHAW.
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National survey among Bachelor students in health professions
What do health professionals do after their graduation? Three cohorts of bachelor graduates across all universities of applied sciences in Switzerland are surveyed during the last semester of their courses and one year after graduation. This project is part of a cooperation between the Swiss Health Universities to ...
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Professional careers in nursing: A longitudinal study
BACKGROUND In Switzerland, no data of longitudinal studies to professional careers of nurses exist. Little is known about job retention as well as why nurses leave their profession. This project is part of a cooperation between the Swiss Universities in Health to establish a competence center for workforce ...
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Translating plain language summaries of Cochrane Reviews
We are translating into German plain language summaries of Cochrane reviews about midwifery geared towards a lay audience jointly with Cochrane Switzerland. These summaries are provided free of charge and can most easily be retrieved online via "Cochrane Kompakt”. The systematic reviews summarize all existing ...
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Mobility needs of clients with impairment using transport services
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Bi-directional interactions of sensory perception, motor performance and fear of movement in the development of persistent low back pain
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the major health problems, with a lifetime prevalence of 85%. While the majority of acute LBP patients recover within a few weeks, a small minority becomes chronic (pain lasts > 3 months) and represents a huge burden in terms of pain, suffering, health care and social costs. Treatments ...
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PAN: prevention admission into nursing homes / retrospective data analysis
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Dementia associated apathy
The lack of overt behaviour in individuals exhibiting dementia-associated apathy is not only stressful to family members and caregivers, it is also a major challenge for medical and nursing staff. Knowing whether apathy arises from an impaired function of the neural network of affect due to neurodegenerative ...
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Spine Posture Monitoring (DigiSpine)
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Rationing – Missed Nursing care: An international and multidimensional problem
Background: Rationing of nursing care occurs when resources are not sufficient to provide necessary care to all patients. The reasons that lead to this phenomenon include staff reductions, in-creased demands for care due to the technological advancements, more treatment options, more informed service users, all ...
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Evaluation Via Pilot-Project Fall Prevention