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Special Issue "New Insights into Understudied Phenomena in Healthcare"

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2023 | Viewed by 1777

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Department of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medicine, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain
Interests: aging; healthy aging; aged 80 and over; questionnaire design; quantitative research; educational techniques; pedagogy
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Department of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medicine, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain
Interests: end-of life care; terminal care; qualitative research; transients and migrants; sexology–gender studies
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Healthcare is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. Understanding health as a complete state of well-being has introduced previously unfamiliar challenges to healthcare professionals. Alongside changes in paradigm positions, the emergence of new diseases, the use of new technologies, the research into new therapeutic approaches and the development of new disciplines in healthcare all contribute to emerging understudied phenomena. Unfortunately, understudied phenomena have received little attention in healthcare research. Whether these phenomena have traditionally been irrelevant for healthcare disciplines or have recently emerged as a consequence of the advancements in healthcare, it is clear that they require new insights into how we understand them.

Various research approaches, methodologies and designs can improve our understanding of understudied phenomena in healthcare. Therefore, we invite colleagues from all healthcare disciplines to submit papers using qualitative, quantitative or mixed-methods approaches. As an example, submitted papers could focus, on new insights into our understanding of understudied populations’ healthcare needs, analyzing the characteristics and/or effects of innovative care programmes delivered for understudied populations, or describing ground-breaking educational interventions to improve healthcare professionals’ competence to care for understudied populations.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Healthcare.

Dr. José Manuel Hernández Padilla
Dr. Cayetano Fernández-Sola
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • emerging diseases
  • new technologies
  • innovative healthcare approaches
  • rare diseases
  • innovative research methods
  • social dimension of health
  • patient rights
  • demographic challenges
  • understudied populations
  • vulnerable populations
  • gender issues

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Nurses’ Perceptions of Ethical Conflicts When Caring for Patients with COVID-19
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(6), 4763; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064763 - 08 Mar 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused ethical challenges and dilemmas in care decisions colliding with nurses’ ethical values. This study sought to understand the perceptions and ethical conflicts faced by nurses working on the frontline during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 [...] Read more.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused ethical challenges and dilemmas in care decisions colliding with nurses’ ethical values. This study sought to understand the perceptions and ethical conflicts faced by nurses working on the frontline during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and the main coping strategies. A qualitative phenomenological study was carried out following Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenological approach. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews until data saturation. The theoretical sample included 14 nurses from inpatient and intensive care units during the first and second waves of the pandemic. An interview script was used to guide the interviews. Data were analyzed following Giorgi’s phenomenological method using Atlas-Ti software. Two themes were identified: (1) ethical conflicts on a personal and professional level; and (2) coping strategies (active and autonomous learning, peer support and teamwork, catharsis, focusing on care, accepting the pandemic as just another work situation, forgetting the bad situations, valuing the positive reinforcement, and humanizing the situation). The strong professional commitment, teamwork, humanization of care, and continuous education have helped nurses to deal with ethical conflicts. It is necessary to address ethical conflicts and provide psychological and emotional support for nurses who have experienced personal and professional ethical conflicts during COVID-19. Full article
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