Search for dissertations about: "Adverse Childhood Experiences"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the words Adverse Childhood Experiences.

  2. 1. Measuring Pregnancy Planning and the Effect of Childhood Abuse on Reproductive Health

    Author : Jennifer Drevin; Mats G. Hansson; Susanne Georgsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : pregnancy planning; unplanned pregnancy; childhood abuse; adverse childhood experiences; reproductive health; Obstetrik och gynekologi; Obstetrics and Gynaecology;

    Abstract : The London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP) and the Swedish Pregnancy Planning Scale (SPPS) are two measurements of pregnancy planning. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and childhood abuse are stressful events that have been suggested to have both short- and long-term effects. READ MORE

  4. 2. Troubled childhoods cast long shadows : Studies of childhood adversity and premature mortality in a Swedish post-war birth cohort

    Author : Josephine Jackisch; Ylva B. Almquist; Alyson van Raalte; Olle Lundberg; Naja Hulvej Rod; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mortality; Health Equity; Adverse Childhood Experiences; Child Welfare; Adult Survivors of Child Adverse Events; Life Course Perspective; Birth cohort; Longitudinal Studies; Public Health Sciences; folkhälsovetenskap;

    Abstract : Taking a life course approach can help us to understand health inequalities. This thesis illustrates that socially-patterned childhood experiences might play a critical role for inequalities in mortality. The association between childhood adversity and premature mortality is investigated in the context of a 1953 Stockholm birth cohort. READ MORE

  5. 3. Attitudes, cognition, and functional disability in individuals with self-harm and psychiatric disorders

    Author : Magnus Nilsson; Lund Psykiatri; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Deliberate self-harm; non-suicidal self-injury; attitudes; adverse childhood experiences; stigma; executive functions; ; stigma; Executive functions; functional disability; self-hatred;

    Abstract : Title: Attitudes, cognition, and functional disability in individuals with self-harm and psychiatric disorders.Background: Self-harm is common and is associated with stigma and an increased risk for suicide attempts. There is a lack of knowledge about this behaviour, especially in clinical samples. READ MORE

  6. 4. To leave it all behind : factors behind parasuicide roads towards stability

    Author : Stig Söderberg; Bo Runeson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : parasuicide; motives; life events; childhood sexual abuse; borderline personality disorder; psykiatri; Psychiatry;

    Abstract : This study was motivated by encounters with persons with repeated suicidality in clinical psychiatry. Their suicide attempts are frequently regarded as manipulative, and the patients are often labelled a “borderline personality disorder”. READ MORE

  7. 5. Adverse life events, psychiatric morbidity, and mortality : epidemiological studies of socioeconomic inequalities from a life course perspective

    Author : Emma Björkenstam; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : The overall aim with this dissertation was to increase the knowledge on the association between adverse life events, and psychiatric morbidity and mortality, and the role of socioeconomic position from a life course perspective. In Study I we examined the association between socioeconomic position, adverse childhood experiences, and psychotropic medication in young adulthood, using parental educational level as measure of socioeconomic position. READ MORE