By understanding the specific content along these themes, relevant to the individual patient, carers may be able to better support their personal recovery journey. Because time spent as inpatients in forensic psychiatry is an overarching issue, carers need to be persistent over time.

Forensic psychiatric care is largely populated by men--as patients, caregivers, and nurses. Previous research has not focused on the meaning of gender in this context. The aim of this study is to analyse male nurses' experiences of working with male caregivers and attending to male patients in forensic psychiatric care. Data were collected through interviews with six male nurses. The results consist of five themes. Protection and defence are key aspects of care and male caregivers gain status and authority through their physical strength. This could hamper caring and provide male caregivers with a superior position in the department.

A vulnerable social situation for people with cancer concretely increased their suffering. Social inequalities, seemingly linked to social hierarchy, increased the suffering of people with cancer. For example, women with cancer with a low education belonging to an ethnic minority suffered more than highly educated patients belonging to the ethnic majority.

Considerably more publications appear on left ventricular morphology than on the right ventricle. The reasons for this imbalance are related to the complex shape of the right ventricular cavity and its position beneath the sternum, making imaging, measurement and functional assessment much more complex than the left ventricular chamber. Little attention has been directed towards right ventricular changes because of training, therefore the present study was designed to assess right ventricular changes due to extensive training by comparing cavity and wall dimensions in 29 sedentary men (mean age 23 years) and 82 elite male orienteers (mean age 22 years). The elite orienteers had on average significantly larger right ventricular outflow (10%) and right ventricular inflow (12%) tract 2 and 3 dimensions. The right ventricular wall measurements were on average 13% larger in the orienteers than the sedentary men. The right ventricular enlargement in endurance athletes probably reflects the increased haemodynamic loading that is caused by prolonged and extensive physical training. The thicker right ventricular wall in endurance athletes increases the contractile reserve and decreases wall stress in the right ventricle.

Studies into work carried out by male caregivers in a care environment in which male patients and male caregivers constitute a majority are lacking. The purpose of this study was to illuminate the experiences of male caregivers in providing care for patients in forensic psychiatric care. The study has a qualitative design and data were constituted by interviews with six male caregivers at a clinic of forensic psychiatry in a town in central Sweden. The method of analysis chosen was latent content analysis. The results consist of four themes: Activities as a component of care, Social training as the basis of care, Feelings of powerlessness and Seeing the complete person. The experience that comes out most distinctly in the descriptions given by caregivers involves performing activities together with the patients. The activities had different significances and these contribute to creating a more secure care relationship, in which the boundaries between personnel and patients become less clear. Physical activities contribute to recreating the patient's health. Social training appears as a component of the care in which the significance of rules and routines in the operations was integrated. Feelings of powerlessness arise when the caregivers do not experience that the care given on the ward contributes to recreating health for the patients. Seeing the complete person behind the crime constitutes the themes that can be said to summarize the meaning of the work carried out by male caregivers.