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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 104 avhandlingar innehållade orden patients’ beliefs.
11. Factors influencing physical activity in patients with venous leg ulcer
Sammanfattning : Background and Aim: Venous leg ulcer is a chronic condition characterized by a cyclical pattern of healing and recurrence leading to pain, disability, inactivity and reduced health. Physical activity is beneficial for venous circulation and general health, but knowledge is needed of determinants of physical activity and of possibilities for patients with leg ulcer to be physically active. LÄS MER
12. Vision in sight : the relationships between knowledge, health beliefs and treatment outcomes : the case of amblyopia
Sammanfattning : The research reported is an experimental study on the effects of intensified education of parents of children with amblyopia on their understanding of the nature of the disease, its origins and treatment. Parents in the control group were exposed to the ordinary information provided at two departments of pediatric ophtalmology, whereas parents in the experimental group, attending the same clinics, were asked to read a booklet aiming at enhancing their understanding of the meaning of amblyopia and amblyopia-related phenomena. LÄS MER
13. Person-centred care: Possibilities, barriers and effects in hospitalised patients
Sammanfattning : The need for a person-centred rather than disease-centred approach to care is considered an important part of care today. However, healthcare professionals still tend to focus on the disease within the person rather than on the person with the disease. LÄS MER
14. Närståendes besök hos patienter som vårdas på intensivvårdsavdelning
Sammanfattning : Aim: The overall objective of the present thesis was to describe and assess the importance and impact of visits by the patients’ families in an ICU, from patient and family perspectives, and to develop, from a hermeneutic perspective, a research method to study the interplay between patient and family during the visit. Method: The comprehensive methodology of the thesis was hermeneutic. LÄS MER
15. Närståendes besök hos patienter som vårdas på intensivvårdsavdelning : Family visits to patients treated in an intensive care unit
Sammanfattning : Aim: The overall objective of the present thesis was to describe and assess the importance and impact of visits by the patients’ families in an ICU, from patient and family perspectives, and to develop, from a hermeneutic perspective, a research method to study the interplay between patient and family during the visit. Method: The comprehensive methodology of the thesis was hermeneutic. LÄS MER