Sökning: "psychosomatic complaints"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden psychosomatic complaints.
1. Health Complaints, Bullying and Predictors of Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in 10-year-olds in a Swedish Community
Sammanfattning : Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common behavioural disturbances in school children. The aims of this thesis were to explore the association of ADHD with recurrent health complaints and bullying behaviour in children in grade four, and to evaluate whether it is possible to predict ADHD in grade four by screening before or at school entry. LÄS MER
2. Body and soul : studies on health and psychosomatic complaints among adolescents in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Objective: The aim of this thesis is to describe the health of the adolescents with special emphasis on psychosomatic complaints. Method: Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to get a insight into the adolescents health. LÄS MER
3. Close to the edge : discursive, gendered and embodied stress in modern youth
Sammanfattning : Background Adolescent subjective health and mental problems have become a public health concern not only in Sweden but worldwide. The overall aim of this thesis is to deepen and widen the understanding of young peoples’ subjective health, psychosomatic and stress-related problems. LÄS MER
4. 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
5. Illness, disease, sickness : clinical factors, concepts of pain and sick leave patterns among immigrants in primary health care : effects of different therapeutic approaches
Sammanfattning : The outer framework for this thesis is the high rate of disability pensions among some immigrant groups in Sweden. The general aim for the research has been to understand the phenomena of illness, disease and sickness certification in immigrants from a primary care perspective and to test the effects on well-being and sickness certification of different therapeutic approaches. LÄS MER