Search for dissertations about: "children"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 3207 swedish dissertations containing the word children.

  2. 16. Nighttime sleep and daytime behavior in children : Studies based on parents' perseptions of five to eight year old children

    Author : Hans Smedje; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Neurosciences; Behaviour; Children; Course; Parents; Persistence; Prevalence; Sleep; Strengths and Difficulties; Survey; Neurovetenskap; Neurology; Neurologi; barn- och ungdomspsykiatri; Child and Youth Psychiatry;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to survey sleep-wake characteristics and their associations with other factors, especially behavioural and emotional difficulties, in children. Parents' reports showed that various sleep disturbances were fairly common phenomena among 5-6-year-olds. READ MORE

  4. 17. Justice for children? : A socio-legal study on Colombia’s responses to children associated with armed violence

    Author : Tove Nyberg; Anita Heber; Janne Flyghed; Andy Aydın-Aitchison; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; criminalisation; victimology; youth justice; child rights; peacebuilding; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to examine how criminal justice policy practices arose and persist in light of the international victim-centred legal framework for children associated with armed groups. The study explores the gaps between how children are treated in law versus empirical practices of criminalisation in a particular domestic setting (Colombia), which has been riddled by internal armed conflict and hybrid forms of violence. READ MORE

  5. 18. Reduced Preoperative Fasting in Children

    Author : Hanna Andersson; Peter Frykholm; Mark Thomas; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Fasting; Children; Preoperative; Pulmonary Aspiration; Anestesiologi och intensivvård; Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care;

    Abstract : Preoperative fasting is recommended in order to reduce the risk of perioperative pulmonary aspiration. However, preoperative fasting may have negative effects on patient wellbeing and homeostasis. READ MORE

  6. 19. Children in the Radiology Department : a study of anxiety, pain, distress and verbal interaction

    Author : Berit Björkman; Karin Enskär; Kerstin Öhrling; Jönköping University; []
    Keywords : Children; radiography; experiences; anxiety; pain; distress; verbal interaction; examination;

    Abstract : This dissertation focuses on children’s experiences of going through an acute radiographic examination due to a suspected fracture. The findings from interviews with children aged 3-15 years showed anxiety, pain and distress to be a concern in conjunction with an examination (Paper I). READ MORE

  7. 20. Computer-assisted surgery in children

    Author : Magnus Anderberg; Lund Pediatrik; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; minimally invasive; learning curve; laparoscopy; fundoplication; da Vinci® Surgical System; costs; Children; computer-assisted; paediatric surgery; robot; robotic surgery;

    Abstract : Although positive in terms of patient trauma and recovery time, minimally invasive surgery has several technical drawbacks compared with open surgery. The new da Vinci® Surgical System from Intuitive Surgical® offers technical innovations aiming at overcoming these drawbacks and at improving the surgeon’s operating skills, such as the improved 3-D vision, tremor reduction and flexible instruments with a more natural and intuitive range of motion. READ MORE