Sökning: "Psychosomatic medicine"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 26 avhandlingar innehållade orden Psychosomatic medicine.
11. Waiting For Heart Surgery
Sammanfattning : Patients waiting for cardiac surgery often consider the period from the decision for surgery to the time for the operation as long, heavy and dreary. Therefore, it is important that patients are supplied with structured oral and written information regarding their disease and its treatment, so that they are able to understand and discuss the forthcoming operation, the risk of complications and the possibility that surgery may be delayed. LÄS MER
12. Advanced Knowledge Work and Stress-related Symptoms : Epidemiology and Clinical Intervention Studies
Sammanfattning : Well educated knowledge workers are a growing group of the work force. Little research has been conducted on this group regarding possible work-related health symptoms, as well as interventions in order to reduce work-related stress. This thesis describes the current work-related symptoms and potential risk and salutogenic, i.e. LÄS MER
13. Migraine and Stress : An Internet administered Multimodal Behavioral Treatment Intervention
Sammanfattning : Migraine is a disabling neurological disorder with high prevalence, the clinical manifestations of which are highly dependent on stress. The overall theme of the present thesis was to address aspects of stress in migraine. LÄS MER
14. Evaluation of Physical exercise, Physiotherapy and Chiropractic in the Management of Back Pain
Sammanfattning : The lack of evidence concerning the effectiveness of most existing interventions for back pain, has created room for the expansion of a variety of interventions and the need to evaluate these.The general aim of this thesis was to assess three interventions used for health promotion (exercise programme) and treatment (chiropractic and physiotherapy) of musculoskeletal pain, primarily back pain, and to identify potential predictors of long-term outcome in the treatment of back pain. LÄS MER
15. Alexithymia : studies of alexithymia in relation to somatic complaints, cognitive bias, emotion, and affect intensity
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents four studies on alexithymia, measured by the twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), and explores its relation to somatization, cognitive bias, emotion, and affect intensity. Alexithymia, by definition, involves difficulties in identifying and describing emotions, and has been assumed to be associated with somatization. LÄS MER