Sökning: "psychiatric illness"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 146 avhandlingar innehållade orden psychiatric illness.
1. Representationer av psykisk ohälsa : Egna erfarenheter och dialogiskt meningsskapande i fokusgruppsamtal
Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to explore socially shared ideas about mental illness in everyday contexts. Drawing on social representation theory, organizations for users of mental health services and self-help groups are regarded as communities where social knowledge is constructed that makes intersubjective understanding of illness experiences possible. LÄS MER
2. Adoption studies on psychiatric illness : epidemiological, environmental and genetic aspects
Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to evaluate the outcome of adoptions and to study the gene-environment influences on psychiatric illness as well as sick-leave patterns. The material consists of 2 966 adopted persons born between 1917 and 1949, their 5 932 adoptive parents and 5 438 identified biological parents. LÄS MER
3. Families with parental mental illness : supporting children in psychiatric and social services
Sammanfattning : Children living with a parent with a mental illness can face difficulties. Parentalmental illness may influence the parents’ ability to cope with family life, where theparents’ awareness of their illness plays an important role. LÄS MER
4. Serious mental illness : early detection and intervention by the primary health service
Sammanfattning : Background – People with functional impairments have unmet needs and they are not given the support and service they are entitled to. According to international studies, early measures and treatment may slow down the outbreak of mental illness and relieve its course. LÄS MER
5. Att främja förändrad livsstil bland personer med psykiskt funktionshinder : studier av metabola och psykologiska effekter, upplevd mening och hälsa
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate if the somatic comorbidity and increased mortality among persons with psychiatric disability (residents in supported housing facilities) can be influenced. The thesis comprises four papers. Paper I describes the lived experience of health and body. LÄS MER