Search for dissertations about: "somatic complaints"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words somatic complaints.

  2. 1. Job insecurity from a stress perspective : Antecedents, consequences, and moderators

    Author : Katharina Näswall; Magnus Sverke; Julian Barling; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; job insecurity; appraisal; work-related attitudes; mental health complaints; somatic complaints; personality characteristics; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Abstract : The trend in working life to lower costs by reducing personnel or employing staff on short-term basis has brought uncertainty to many employment situations. Job insecurity is a phenomenon that has received growing attention in research as well as in working life. The present thesis considers job insecurity as a stressor. READ MORE

  4. 2. Adolescent self-reported health in the Umeå region : Associations with behavioral, parental and school factors

    Author : Karina Nygren; Lennart Nygren; Urban Janlert; Curt Hagquist; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; adolescence; school survey; self-reported health; somatic complaints; stress; norm compliance; parent-adolescent relations; compulsory school; school managers; research utilization; ungdomar; skolenkät; självrapporterad hälsa; somatiska besvär; stress; normföljsamhet; föräldrarelationer; skola; skolområdeschefer; forskningsanvändning;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of a quantitative and a qualitative study. The quantitative study (articles I-III) aimed to examine how self-reported health in adolescence is associated with behavioral, parental, and school factors. Through a survey directed at all adolescents in grades 7-9, data were collected in 2005 in a region in northern Sweden (n=5060). READ MORE

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

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

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  6. 4. The presence of the past : a life course approach to the social determinants of health and health inequalities in northern Sweden

    Author : Frida Jonsson; Per E. Gustafsson; Miguel San Sebastian; Anne Hammarström; Ilona Koupil; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; social determinants; life course; health inequalities; long-term health consequences; functional somatic symptoms; northern Sweden; Public health; folkhälsa;

    Abstract : Background: Positioned at the intersection between the social and life course epidemiological sub-fields, this thesis builds on the idea that the health implications of life and living conditions can extend over years and decades before becoming expressed in the population patterns of ill-health. The overall purpose was to assess how multiple types of social determinants of health across the life course may contribute to ill-health and health inequalities in midlife. READ MORE

  7. 5. Beds in acute somatic wards. Patient and staff perspectives.A study of activities, functions, opinions, problems and requirements

    Author : Kerstin Petzäll; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; hospital beds; purchasing routines; patients opinions; staff s experience; ergonomics.; hospital beds; Nursing Science;

    Abstract : Hospital beds have to fulfil many demands from both patients and staff. During the last decade, treatment of patients in hospitals has undergone great changes in technical, medical and nursing methods. However, the design and basic functions of the standard hospital beds have not been changed since the 1960s. READ MORE