Search for dissertations about: "patient education"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 384 swedish dissertations containing the words patient education.
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1. Daily life experiences, symptoms and well being in women with coeliac disease : A patient education intervention
Abstract : Background and aims: Despite living with a gluten-free diet (GFD) Swedish women with coeliac disease (CD) report a lower level of well-being than women without the disease and than men with the disease. The aims of this thesis were to describe the life experience of being a woman living with CD (I) and to assess the effects of patient education (PE) with problem based learning (PBL) on psychological well-being (II) and gastrointestinal symptoms (III). READ MORE
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2. Information to the patient : an attempt to satisfy the patient's need for information
Abstract : Dissatisfaction with medical information is a common problem among patients. There is also evidence that patients lack information that physicians believe they have given to the patient. READ MORE
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3. Living with irritable bowel syndrome : A patient perspective on everyday life, health care encounters and patient education
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4. Learning as a patient : What and how individuals want to learn when preparing for surgery, and the potential use of serious games in their education
Abstract : Introduction: Surgical patients need knowledge to participate in their own care and to engage in self-care behaviour in the perioperative period which is important for their recovery. Patient education facilitates such knowledge acquisition and several methods can be used to facilitate it, for example, face-to-face education and brochures or using information technology such as website or computer games. READ MORE
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5. Rectal Cancer and Quality of Life. Aspects on Communication and Patient Education
Abstract : Background This thesis reports the results of three studies based on a pro-spective cohort study of an unselected population of patients with rectal cancer, and one study based on an exploratory study of a new patient edu-cation method as preparation for colorectal cancer surgery. The aim of study I was to investigate whether patient’s or doctor’s delay had an impact on quality of life at diagnosis, and in study III the development of quality of life after treatment for rectal cancer was investigated. READ MORE