Search for dissertations about: "sense of life"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 580 swedish dissertations containing the words sense of life.
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1. Icons of disease : A philosophical inquiry into the semantics, phenomenology and ontology of the clinical conceptions of disease
Abstract : The present study endeavers to answer the question: What are diseases in the clinical encounter between physician and patient? The answer supplied - actually, exposed and explicated throughout the study - is conceived in philosophical terms, engaging semantics, phenomenology, ethics and ontology.The methodological orientation of the study is humanistic and hermeneutical - besides the 'method' of philosophical discourse. READ MORE
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2. The incurable cancer patient at the end of life : Medical care utilization, quality of life and the additive analgesic effect of paracetamol in concurrent morphine therapy
Abstract : Only 12% of the patients died at home. When the period between diagnosis and death was less than one month, every patient died in an institution. Younger patients, marriedpatients, and those living within the 40 km radius of the hospital utilized more hospital days. READ MORE
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3. Families' life situation when living with cancer : aspects of health and family sense of coherence
Abstract : Aim: To investigate families’ perceived life situation when living with cancer, with a focus on health and family sense of coherence.Methods: Study I is a population-based register study that explored how cancer influenced the health of cohabitating partners of persons with cancer in Sweden by examining the onset of new diagnoses, health care use, and health care costs among the partners. READ MORE
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4. Everyday life of relatives of persons suffering from severe depression : Experiences of health, burden, sense of coherence and encounters with psychiatric specialist health services
Abstract : Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate and describe everyday life among relatives of inpatients with severe depression and their encounter with the psychiatric specialist health services (PSHS).Methods: A descriptive design with a qualitative and quantitative approach was used. READ MORE
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5. Chinese women living with cervical cancer- Health-related Quality of Life, Sense of Coherence, lived experience
Abstract : Due to the unavailability of culture-appropriate measurements of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in China, knowledge about the HRQOL of women with cervical cancer, particularly in Mainland China, is poor. Such knowledge is greatly needed to inform nursing practice. READ MORE