Search for dissertations about: "body care"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 504 swedish dissertations containing the words body care.
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1. Technology as an extension of the human body : Exploring the potential role of technology in an elderly home care setting
Abstract : The present thesis explores the potential role and implications of technology in elderly care from the users’ perspective. This exploration is undertaken in terms of five empirical studies of a telehealth project and a meta-analysis of their contributions. READ MORE
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2. Interhospital intensive care unit-to-unit transfers : The perspectives of patients, family members, and critical care nurses
Abstract : Aim: The overall aim of the current thesis was to investigate the interhospital intensive care unit-to unit transfer process from the perspective of patients, family members, and critical care nurses. Methods: Study I explores and interprets the observed nature of the patient’s situation during interhospital intensive care unit-to-unit transfers. READ MORE
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3. Women's call for caring care : perspectives of Chinese women with gestational diabetes mellitus about beliefs, self-care behavior, quality of care and lived experience
Abstract : The overall aim of the thesis was to explore the perspectives of Chinese women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) focused on their beliefs about health and illness and self-care behavior, the quality of care in China, and their lived experience. All the studies were conducted with qualitative methodology using individual interviews. READ MORE
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4. Creating access to cancer care : an exploration of patient-provider encounters in primary care, and sociodemographic factors
Abstract : Background: Access to care is widely discussed in both research and practice. However, previous research about access to care has mainly focused on individual behaviors of seeking care, and theories about access have mostly focused on quantifiable dimensions, such as supply and demand. READ MORE
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5. 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