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1. Experiences of care and everyday life in a time of change for families in which a child has spinal muscular atrophy
Abstract : This thesis focuses on children with severe spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and their families. Although the disease is severe, and the families are faced with challenges in everyday life related to the progressive muscle weakness that SMA causes, knowledge of their experiences of the situation is limited. READ MORE
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2. A Risk or a Resource? : A Study of the Swedish State’s Shifting Perception and Handling of Minority Religious Communities between 1952-2019
Abstract : In Sweden, as in many other European countries, governments and other public authorities increasingly seem to view religious communities as an important resource that should be included in welfare provision and help combat problems that societies are facing, thereby intentionally or unintentionally bringing religion back into the public arena. However, religious communities also seem to be perceived as a risk and a problem that needs to be further regulated and controlled. READ MORE
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3. Collective Patient Participation : Patient Voice and Civil Society Organizations in Healthcare
Abstract : The importance of engaging patients in the development of healthcare services and policy has received increasing attention over the last decades. However, this attention has mainly been directed towards various forms of involvement of individual patients. READ MORE
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4. Bereaved family members’ VOICES of support and care during the last three months of life for people with advanced illness
Abstract : This thesis is in the subject of palliative care within the research field ‘The individual in the Welfare society’. The overall aim was to investigate bereaved family members’ experiences of support and care during the last three months of life for people with advanced illness. READ MORE
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5. Bereaved mothers and fathers : Grief and psychological health 1 to 5 years after losing a child to cancer
Abstract : Bereaved parents often experience severe suffering and are at elevated risk for developing grief complications such as prolonged grief and other negative psychological health outcomes. The general aim of this thesis was to investigate symptoms of prolonged grief, depression, posttraumatic stress, anxiety, rumination, and sleep disturbance in parents who had lost a child to cancer 1 to5 years earlier. READ MORE