Search for dissertations about: "Quality ofLife"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words Quality ofLife.
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1. Borderline personality disorder : studies of suffering, quality of life and dialectical behavioural therapy
Abstract : The aims of the present thesis were: * To investigate how women patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) perceive their suffering, quality of life and encounter with psychiatric care (paper 11 and III). * To describe BPD patients' and psychiatric professionals' perceptions of receiving and giving dialectical behavioural therapy, DBT (paper I). READ MORE
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2. The Impact of Advanced Home Care on Health-related Quality of Life. Reports in the end of life from palliative care patients with cancer
Abstract : Aim of study - The aim of the present work was to compare patients with advancedcancer receiving specialized palliative home care with those receiving conventional carewith regard to time spent at home and place of death (Paper I), factors associated with thepatients’ choice of palliative care (Paper II), and to describe the health-related quality oflife (HRQL) and the occurrence and changes in symptoms over the last three months ofthe patients’ lives (Paper III). In addition, sociodemographic and clinical differencesbetween participants and dropouts were explored in order to establish whether themissing data could be regarded as missing at random (Paper IV). READ MORE
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3. Rheumatoid arthritis - patient perception of disease, care, quality of life, coping and well-being : a study from a Swedish health care district
Abstract : During the past decades, the focus of outcome studies in chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has changed from a technical and biological preoccupation towards a more patient-concemed psychosocial perspective. The changing paradigm of chronic disease impact has been conceptualised in a number of self-report health status and outcome measurements that have been called 11one of the primary achievements of rheumatology in the 1980s". READ MORE
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4. Active and healthy ageing in Europe : significance of social relationships
Abstract : Background: Social relationships have important roles in achieving active and healthy ageing. Social relationships are dynamic across the life course. A myriad of contextual and individual (e.g. READ MORE
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5. Anorectal malformations - their impact on early phases in life
Abstract : Abstract: Background : Anorecta l malformation s (ARM) occur in 4: 10000 newborn children with the gender distribut ion 1:1.5 females:males. The reconstruction of ARM, posterior sagiccal anorectal plasty (PSARP), was implemenred worldwide in the late 1980s and therefore the follow-ups are limited. READ MORE