Sökning: "existential experience"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 141 avhandlingar innehållade orden existential experience.

  1. 1. Dyspnea Experience and Quality of Life among persons with lung cancer in palliative care

    Författare :Ingela Henoch; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Cancer Dyspnea Scale; CDS; Consequences; Content analysis; Coping; Depression; Dyspnea; Existential; Experience; Lung cancer; Management strategies; Palliative care; Quality of life; Reliability; Social support; Symptoms; Symptom experience; Validity;

    Sammanfattning : Background: Dyspnea, a subjective, multidimensional experience of breathing discomfort commonly occurring in patients with incurable lung cancer, influences all aspects of life in the suffering per¬sons. To optimally enhance quality of life (QoL) and to identify persons most vulnerable to this symptom, it is important to investigate how to assess dyspnea, how other symptoms and coping are related to dyspnea, and what the consequences of dyspnea are, especially on QoL. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The structure of knowing : Existential trust as an epistemological category

    Författare :Hildur Kalman; Martin Edman; Ulla M. Holm; Ingvar Johansson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; lived body; knowing; existential trust; tacit knowing; Pkolanyi; subsidiary awareness; experience; gender; epistemology; from-to structure; agency;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the structure of knowing, and it argues that existential trust is an epistemological category.The aim of the dissertation is to develop a view according to which all human activity is seen as an activity of a lived body, and in which the understanding of the structure of such activity is regarded as central for the solution even of epistemological problems. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Existentiell ensamhet hos sköra äldre personer : äldre personers upplevelser samt dokumentation i patientjournalen

    Författare :Marina Sjöberg; Anna-Karin Edberg; Ingrid Bolmsjö; Ingela Beck; Britt‐Marie Ternestedt; Högskolan Kristianstad; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Existential loneliness; frail older people; palliative care; experiences; encounter; existential aspects; meaning; interview; retrospective record review; documentation; ill-being; well-being; Frail older people; Palliative care; Experiences; Encounter; Existential aspects; Meaning; Interview; Retrospective record review; Documentation; Ill-being; Well-being; Vårdvetenskap; Care science;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to illuminate the meanings of existential loneliness(EL) and describe how it was eased, as narrated by frail older people, as well as toexamine existential aspects documented in patient records in specialised palliative care.Two of the constituent studies of this thesis were qualitative with an explorative anddescriptive design (i. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Living With Bad Surroundings : War and Existential Uncertainty in Acholiland, Northern Uganda

    Författare :Sverker Finnström; Per Brandström; Susan R. Whyte; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cultural anthropology; Uganda; Acholi; political anthropology; existential-phenomenological anthropology; war; armed conflict; displacement; lived experience; Lord s Resistance Movement Army LRM A; LRA ; cosmology; religion; morality; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : War has ravaged Acholiland in northern Uganda since 1986. The Ugandan army is fighting a rebel insurgency group called the Lord’s Resistance Movement/Army. LÄS MER

  7. 5. On Consumer Experiences and the Extraordinary

    Författare :Sandhiya Goolaup; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; consumers’ lived experience; extraordinary experience; food; mundane experience; value creation; interpretative research;

    Sammanfattning : In today’s society, consumers are increasingly looking for experiences that are hedonic, positively intense, and intrinsically enjoyable, or what is called an extraordinary experience. Although, extraordinary experience as a concept has been gaining importance in consumer research, it still lacks both theoretical and empirical development. LÄS MER