Sökning: "Asthma quality of life"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 56 avhandlingar innehållade orden Asthma quality of life.
1. Health-Related Quality of Life in Asthma
Sammanfattning : Health-related quality of life (HRQL) has become an important outcome in asthma, since traditional outcomes, such as respiratory symptoms and pulmonary function, might not entirely express the patient’s perception of the limitations caused by the disease. The aim of this thesis was to study HRQL in asthma and to analyse if HRQL was related to asthma onset and prognosis. LÄS MER
2. Organisation of Asthma in Primary Care, Quality of Life and Sex-related Aspects in Asthma Outcomes
Sammanfattning : Objectives: To investigate the organisation of asthma care in primary care and evaluate outcomes for patients attending primary care centres with and without asthma clinics.Other objectives were to study the association between quality of life and asthma control in patients in primary care and to analyse sex differences regarding asthma outcomes related to menopausal status. LÄS MER
3. Skydda och frigöra : en studie av föräldrar till barn med astma och av professionella vårdare
Sammanfattning : Aim: The overall aim of this thesis is, from the point of view of parents of a child with asthma, to describe meanings of being a parent, parents’ quality of life, and to describe how family relations are influenced by their child’s disease. The aim is also to increase the understanding of what strategies professional caregivers use in their work with teenagers suffering from asthma. LÄS MER
4. The Voice of the Patient
Sammanfattning : Allergic diseases, which constitute a global health problem, have been defined as one of the epidemics of the twenty-first century. Since there are no cures for allergic diseases today, the goal of treatment is to get the disease under control so that the patient can live a normal life with optimal chances of development. LÄS MER
5. Health-Related Quality of Life in COPD and Asthma - Discriminative and evaluative aspects
Sammanfattning : Background - The effects of intervention can be evaluated in different ways, and objective measurements of changes in lung function are commonly used as the outcome measure. Patient-reported outcome (PRO) is an umbrella term used for all patient-based assessments. LÄS MER