Search for dissertations about: "Coping strategy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 58 swedish dissertations containing the words Coping strategy.

2. 1. Living and Coping with Cancer : Specific Challenges and Adaptation

   Author : Elisabet Wasteson; Karin Nordin; Bengt Glimelius; Stein Kaasa; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Caring sciences; stressful events; appraisal; coping; life values; social support; psychiatric history; anxiety; depression; well-being; quality of life; cancer; spouses; Vårdvetenskap;

   Abstract : The overall aims of this thesis were to prospectively investigate how specific challenges among patients with commonly occurring cancers are related to adaptation and well-being, to predict later well-being using a range of psychosocial aspects and to compare two ways of measuring coping with cancer. This was studied at diagnosis in patients with gastrointestinal cancers and their spouses and at termination of cancer treatment and during follow-up in a heterogeneous group of cancers. READ MORE

4. 2. Facing death : physicians' difficulties and coping strategies in cancer care

   Author : Margareta Andræ; Lars Jacobsson; Ulla Holm; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Physician; cancer care; conflicts; coping; facing death; dying;

   Abstract : Even if the treatment of cancer has developed over the last decades 50% of the patients still die of their cancer. The doctor's way of dealing with his and his patient's anxiety must surely be of significance for the treatment the patient receives.In the first part of the thesis earlier studies of physicians' stress and ways of coping are reported. READ MORE

5. 3. Recurrent Headache among Swedish Adolescents : Psychosocial Factors, Coping and Effects of Relaxation Treatment

   Author : Åsa Fichtel; Huda Huijer Abu-Saad; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Nursing; headache; adolescents; coping; relaxation; Omvårdnad; Nursing; Omvårdnad; Caring Sciences; omvårdnadsforskning med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning;

   Abstract : Overall aims of the present thesis were to study the prevalence and psychosocial impact of recurrent headache within a school population in comparison with other types of pain and to examine the use and efficacy of various coping strategies. Further aims were to compare the effects of relaxation treatment among adolescents with recurrent headache to a waiting-list control group, and finally to examine the efficacy of relaxation training administered in a school setting. READ MORE

6. 4. Postconflict internally displaced persons in Ethiopia : mental distress and quality of life in relation to traumatic life events, coping strategy, social support, and living conditions

   Author : Mesfin Araya; Jayanti Chotai; Gunnar Kullgren; Hans Ågren; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : Psychiatry; Ethiopia; postconflict displaced persons; trauma; mental distress; quality of life; coping; social support; Psykiatri; psykiatri; Psychiatry;

   Abstract : Background: There are about 23.7 million internally displaced persons worldwide today, still living in the low-income countries. Ethiopia has for the past four decades been ravaged by war and famine. A lengthy civil war resulted in Eritrea, formerly a part of Ethiopia, becoming an independent state in 1991. READ MORE

7. 5. LIFE EVENTS, STRESS AND COPING

   Author : Charlotta Sunnqvist; Lund Psykiatri; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; coping strategies; biological stressmarkers; SUAS-S; Suicide attempt; time-geographic life charting;

   Abstract : In order to increase the understanding of suicidal behaviour, the general aim of the thesis is to gain a profound knowledge of the suicidal individual, and hence to find and ensure a preventive strategy. This will be accomplished by finding and trying new methods for evaluation of suicide risk. READ MORE