Sökning: "chronic physical illness"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 35 avhandlingar innehållade orden chronic physical illness.

1. 6. Living with chronic kidney disease : perceptions of illness and health-related quality of life

   Författare :Agneta Pagels; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Chronic kidney disease;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis comprises two studies concerning illness perceptions and perceived health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The overall aim was to evaluate psychometric properties of a Swedish translation of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) (study I), and furthermore to explore illness perceptions (study I) and HRQoL (study II) in adult patients in different stages of renal insufficiency (CKD stages 2-5). LÄS MER

3. 7. LIVING WITH PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE Quality of life and the patients' view of meaning

   Författare :Christine Wann-Hansson; Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Short Form 36 Health Survey; Long-term follow-up; Quality of life; Peripheral arterial disease; Chronic illness; Nottingham Health Profile; Medicin människa och djur ; Medicine human and vertebrates ; Content analysis;

   Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate quality of life and the meaning of living with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) before and after revascularization in a long-term and methodological perspective. The sample in the first study consisted of 142 patients with PAD who were planned for a revascularization. LÄS MER

4. 8. The life situation of patients with heart failure in primary health care. An explorative and interventional study

   Författare :Jan Mårtensson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; life situation; heart failure; primary health care; chronic illness; spouses; inside and outside perspective; caring; social network; social support; patient education; self-care behaviour; health-related quality of life; gender differences; Heart failure; Nursing; Cardiology;

   Sammanfattning : The general aim of this thesis was to obtain a deeper understanding of the life situation of patients with mild to severe heart failure and their spouses, and to determine the effects of a nurse-led intervention on patients with heart failure in primary health care. A phe-nomenographic approach was used to describe how male (N=12) and female (N=12) patients with heart failure conceive their life situa-tion (I, II), and the critical incident technique was used to describe spousal (N=23) experience of factors that influence their support of the patient with heart failure. LÄS MER

5. 9. Burnout in parents of chronically ill children

   Författare :Caisa Lindström; Jan Åman; Annika Lindahl Norberg; Agneta Anderzén Carlsson; Carina Sparud Lundin; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Burnout; long-term stress; parents; children; chronic illness; T1DM; IBD; intervention group; Family Medicine; Allmänmedicin;

   Sammanfattning : Parents of children with a chronic disease are usually highly involved in their child’s treatment and may be affected by the heavy demands and constant stress. This can increase the risk of developing burnout, which is an individual reaction to long-term stress consisting of symptoms associated with emotional exhaustion, as well as physical and cognitive fatigue. LÄS MER

7. 10. Socio-economic consequences of longstanding illness

   Författare :Christina Lindholm; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Limiting longstanding illness; socio-economic consequences; socio-econornic group; job demands; economic inactivity; unemployment; economic difficulties.;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses an old research area of social medicine, the social and economic consequences of chronic illness and factors modifying this effect. Historically, illness was the main predictor of poverty. LÄS MER