Sökning: "transcultural care study"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden transcultural care study.
1. Vårdandets symfoni : Fenomenet vårdrelation i skenet av två världsbilder
Sammanfattning : This thesis 'The Symphony of Care' consists of four studies focusing on care relationships between patients and professional caregivers.Care relationships are central to the health process and a fundamental element in caregiving. LÄS MER
2. Organizing Language Interpreting Services in Elderly and Emergency Healthcare
Sammanfattning : With an increasing migrant population there is a growing need to organize interpreting practices in healthcare in order to deliver equitable high-quality care.This thesis focuses on healthcare institutions’ organization of interpreting services. LÄS MER
3. Virtual patients as an innovative educational tool in transcultural psychiatry
Sammanfattning : Background: The dramatic increase in the number of patients with diverse ethnic backgrounds who have been exposed to severe mental trauma demonstrates that there is an urgent need for improvement in the quality of transcultural psychiatric health care through the development and evaluation of relevant and effective training tools. Aim: This thesis describes the development and scientific study of a new medical educational tool based on Virtual Patient (VP) methodology and the evaluation of different aspects that highlight its educational potentials as a train environment for the clinical management of traumatised refugee patients. LÄS MER
4. Understanding "successful aging" : Cultural and migratory perspectives
Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims to contribute to the rectification of the atheoretization that characterizes the study of aging and diversity through the formulation and preliminary empirical testing of a culturally-relevant theoretical framework for the study of successful aging. Inspired by the Kluckhohnian approach to the study of cultural variation, the framework hereby proposed posits that there is congruence between the understandings of successful aging that people uphold and the value orientations that they prefer in regards to four topics: man-nature, time, activity and relational. LÄS MER
5. Clinical encounters with different illness realities : qualitative studies of illness and restructuring of illness meaning among two cultural groups of female patients in a multicultural area of Stockholm
Sammanfattning : Background: Mental health care in Sweden encounters a multicultural population. Meaning given to illness may differ between patient, family and caregiver and this affects the clinical encounter and outcome of treatment. LÄS MER
