Sökning: "Percieved health"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden Percieved health.
1. The percieved threat of the risk of graft rejection among organ transplant recipients
Sammanfattning : Transplantation is an established and successful treatment for critically ill patients. For many of the organ transplant recipients (OTR) it is the only option for survival. When OTRs are asked about what they fear the most, the most common answer is graft rejection. LÄS MER
2. Housing Matters for People with Parkinson´s disease. Accessibility, Meaning, Control and Activities of Daily Living
Sammanfattning : Parkinson´s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurological diseases with both motor and non-motor symptoms that can be perceived as difficult to control despite medical treatment. This leads to several consequences in everyday life for example difficulties in activities of daily living (ADL), sometimes already at diagnosis. LÄS MER
3. Heteronormativity in a Nursing Context : Attitudes toward Homosexuality and Experiences of Lesbians and Gay Men
Sammanfattning : The general aim of the project was to describe the situation of lesbians and gay men in a nursing environment by studying the attitudes of nursing staff and students, and the experiences of gay nursing staff in their work environment and of gay patients and partners in their encounters with nursing. The study for papers I and II had a descriptive, comparative design. LÄS MER
4. Health and Rehabilitation in a Psychosocial Context. A Ten Year Persepctive
Sammanfattning : Abstract This thesis is a retrospective- and prospective study of 372 long-term sick listed individuals with diseases of the locomotor system that underwent vocational rehabilitation conducted by the Social Insurance Office in the County of Västernorrland during the 1990s. The outcome of commercial rehabilitation services financed by the Insurance was evaluated in terms of return to work, sickness benefit and disability pension after1, 3, and 10 years in relation to demographic data, Sense of Coherence, Perceived Health and a created index of potential psychosocial stress labelled Psychosocial Marker. LÄS MER
5. Caring for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities : how can it be experienced and percieved by registered nurses?
Sammanfattning : Registered nurses [RNs] are within the frontline of professional nursing and are expected to provide a diverse range of health care services to a varied and heterogenic group of patients. They are bound by a code of ethics that mandates that nurses respect all human rights regardless of the patient’s abilities or functional status. LÄS MER