Sökning: "psychosomatic symptoms"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 29 avhandlingar innehållade orden psychosomatic symptoms.

  1. 1. Problemet utan namn? : Neuroser, stress och kön i Sverige från 1950 till 1980

    Författare :Maria Björk; Karin Johannisson; Maja Bondestam; Motzi Eklöf; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Neuroses; neurosis; stress; health; illness; vague symptoms; history of medicine; housewives; women; gender; modernity; welfare state; medicine; citizenship; man; Woman; psychiatry; psychosomatic; symptoms; Hans Selye; Lennart Levi; Gunnar Lundquist; health care; social medicine; mental hygiene; public medicine; patients charts; sex roles.; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : Focusing on Sweden between 1950 and 1980, this doctoral dissertation analyzes and problematizes the process in which a discourse about neurosis and nervous troubles gradually evolved into a discourse about stress. The thesis aims to show how the medical and general discussion about diffuse or vague symptoms transformed and rearticulated ideas and views on society and man, citizenship, gender roles, and medicine. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Adolescent Gaming and Gambling in Relation to Negative Social Consequences and Health

    Författare :Charlotta Hellström; Cecilia Åslund; Kent Nilsson; Jerzy Leppert; Per Binde; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Adolescents; Depression; Gambling; Gaming; Health; Musculoskeletal symptoms; Negative social consequences; Psychosomatic Symptoms.; Family Medicine; Allmänmedicin;

    Sammanfattning : The aims of the thesis were to study relationships between the effects of online gaming and gambling and negative social consequences and ill health among adolescents and to determine whether gaming and gambling activities occur together.The papers in this thesis used epidemiological methods to obtain self-report information from Swedish adolescents aged 13–18 years. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Psychosomatic aspects of women's health - results from the Prospective Population Study of Women in Gothenburg

    Författare :Dominique Hange; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; women; psychosomatic symptoms; nervousness; mental stress; population study; mortality; cardiovascular diesease; cardiovascualr risk factors; life-styel; physical activity;

    Sammanfattning : Aim: The aim of this thesis was to study prevalence of perceived nervousness and mental stress in a female population and to investigate associations between perceived nervousness and mental stress and psychosomatic symptoms as well as mortality and morbidity. The secondary aim was to investigate the contemporaneous development of cardiovascular risk factors in women. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The expert and medical progress : Experts' influence on the views of peptic ulcer and dyspepsia and its treatment in Scandinavia during five decades

    Författare :Herdis Molinder; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Medical sciences; peptic ulcer; dyspepsia; cimetidine; H2-receptor antagonists; psychosomatic; humanfactor; controversy; interpretation; drug consumption; MEDICIN OCH VÅRD; MEDICINE; MEDICIN; Medicine; medicin;

    Sammanfattning : In this study the experts' influence on the recommendations for treatment of peptic ulcer in Scandinavia during the period 1940-1975, on the development of the first H2-receptor antagonist, cimetidine, on the adoption and use of H-receptor antagonists during the introductory phase in Scandinavia 1978-1986, and on the controversy about dyspepsia, is analysed.Experts during 1940-1960 promoted their "cures" containing severe diet restrictions and bed rest, convinced of their benefit. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Alexithymia : studies of alexithymia in relation to somatic complaints, cognitive bias, emotion, and affect intensity

    Författare :Margareta Simonsson-Sarnecki; Gunnar Lundh; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Affective symptoms; Psychology; Psychosomatic medicine; Alextymi; Psykosomatiska sjukdomar; psykologi; Psychology;

    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