All projects from the School of Health Sciences
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Swiss Home Care Data: Better data on the quality of home care
Little is known in Switzerland about the availability, demand for, and quality of home care services. This study, which is scheduled to start in mid-2017, aims to fill the gap. The study will analyse as well as further develop the database HomeCareData (HCD) operated by the Swiss Home Care Association (Spitex). ...
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Activity Therapy
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Couples’ perception of maternal drinking: a sociocultural approach to an «ordinary risk»
The consumption of alcohol during pregnancy and breastfeeding is a public health issue characterized by uncertainty regarding the effects of a low or moderate intake. Health policy-makers have adopted a precautionary approach and recommend complete abstinence from alcohol as the safest choice. In this context, ...
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Valedo Neck Therapy
Neck pain is a serious burden for the health system and the affected individuals. An analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 lists it on the fourth rank - even before the "civilization disorders" migraine and diabetes. Because neck pain can have a wide variety of causes, individualized, personalized ...
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Statistics of independent midwives in Switzerland
The Swiss Federation of Midwives (SHV/FSSF) has been recording the activities and services of independent midwives throughout Switzerland since 2005. The goal of this survey is quality assurance. This data is evaluated annually using descriptive statistics and published in an extensive report and/or a flyer. In ...
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Evaluation Familystart Zurich
Familystart Zurich is a non-profit association which was established in May 2015. The association promotes a needs-based support of midwives for families and new-borns. Familystart uses its resources for the arrangement of postpartum care, for promoting a healthy start in life for new-borns and their families, for ...
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Innovative models of collaboration for ambulant care
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Job satisfaction midwives
Midwives are qualified to care independently for women and their children during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period and to consult professionals in case of deviations from the physiological process. In practise there are clear indications for discrepancies between the competences of the midwives and ...
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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
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Leadership of Occupational Therapy Group Therapy
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Prehabilitation - Enhanced Recovery After Colorectal Surgery
This single site study investigates whether a preoperative training reduces the number and severity of perioperative complications in patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery according to the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathway. The study will be approved by a local ethical committee and conducted ...
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Evaluation a of falls prevention programme
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Networking of independent midwives in Switzerland: access to early childhood promotion programs for families with newborn babies
Midwives in Switzerland accompany women and families during pregnancy and childbirth up to eight weeks after birth. During this time they not only attend the mother during labour and birth, they also promote the health of the mother and her child and support parents in caring for their newborn child. During the ...
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Quantified self - halfway between lifestyle and medicine
Starting position Inexpensive sensors in portable devices and an increasing number of applications (apps) for lifestyle, wellness and health tracking allow users to record their physical activity and behaviour. This self-tracking has become known as Quantified Self (QS) and provides a wealth of data (big data) that ...
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Assessment of centre of pressure excursion during sitting after stroke
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Psycho-social Care and Support