Search for dissertations about: "Caring sciences"
Showing result 26 - 30 of 435 swedish dissertations containing the words Caring sciences.
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26. Genuine Caring in Caring for the Genuine : Childbearing and high risk as experienced by women and midwives
Abstract : The experience of pregnancy and childbirth is a central life event with special implications for women at high risk. This thesis describes the meaning of pregnancy, childbirth and midwifery care in four qualitative interview studies based on the lifeworld theory. Women were interviewed during pregnancy and within one week after childbirth. READ MORE
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27. Conceptions, conflicts and contradictions in the introduction of a Swedish Health Call Centre
Abstract : Call centres have been called the industrialisation of the service sector, characterised by mon¬o¬¬tonous, highly controlled work and standardised procedures performed in an old-fashion¬ed, Tayloristic spirit. Stress and work intensification are known implications of such work. READ MORE
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28. Restrained Eating : Development and Models of Prediction in Girls
Abstract : Body image concerns and dieting emerge at an early age among girls and become more pronounced with increasing age. Knowledge about risk factors for disturbed eating is crucial in order to develop theoretical models and to suggest new paths for preventive efforts. READ MORE
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29. Doing informal care : Identity, couplehood, social health and information and communication technologies in older people’s everyday lives
Abstract : The aim of the thesis has been a) to analyse how informal care influences the identity of carers and care recipients, their sense of couplehood and social health, and b) to explore the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the context of informal care and the everyday lives of older people. Study I focused on how older carers conceptualised their identity as carers on a Swedish online social forum, using a netnographic methodology. READ MORE
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30. Balancing structure and flexibility in the ambulance service : the pursuit of professional judgement in caring and learning
Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to describe the conditions for learning inthe ambulance service during clinical practice, and to develop an understanding of how to support the professional development of caring in this context.The findings of this thesis are based on four qualitative interview studies. READ MORE