Sökning: "self-care management"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 49 avhandlingar innehållade orden self-care management.
1. Self-care for Minor Illness: People's Experiences and Needs
Sammanfattning : During later years, the primary care services are experiencing a heavier strain in terms of increasing expenses and higher demand for medical services. An increased awareness about pharmaceutical adverse effects and the global concern of antibiotic resistance has given self-care and active surveillance a stronger position within the primary care services. LÄS MER
2. Self-care: the way to find balance in life : development and evaluation of a self-care questionnaire for patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Sammanfattning : Introduction: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ulcerative colitis (UC), and Crohn’s disease (CD) occur worldwide and are life-long chronic conditions. The symptoms, which include abdominal pain and frequent diarrhea, cause limitations in life. LÄS MER
3. Supporting Self-care in Migrants with Type 2 Diabetes
Sammanfattning : Background: Diabetes Mellitus, specifically type 2 diabetes, represents a growing global health concern, with a prevalence predicted to reach 783 million by 2045. Type 2 diabetes leads to personal suffering, reduced productivity and significant health care cost. LÄS MER
4. Being creative and resourceful : Individuals’ abilities and possibilities for self-management of chronic illness
Sammanfattning : Individuals’ self-management styles are crucial for how they manage to live with illness. Commonly investigated factors include social support, self-efficacy, health beliefs, and demographics. There is a gap in the literature with regard to in-depth studies of how those factors actually influence an individual’s self-management. LÄS MER
5. The borderland between care and self-care
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to examine different approaches to support the self-care of persons with Type 2 diabetes, with special reference to practical, social, and sexual aspects of women's self-management. The methods to elucidate this comprised: evaluating a new model for diabetes patient education; designing a model to analyse the role of social networks in women's diabetes; conducting individual and focus group interviews for deeper understanding of the social and sexual aspects of diabetes; and collecting questionnaire data as a complement to the above. LÄS MER