Projects
The following projects were carried out by, or in cooperation with, the School of Health Sciences at the ZHAW.
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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 ...