Search for dissertations about: "coping style"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 swedish dissertations containing the words coping style.

2. 1. End-stage renal disease patients and their spouses : Coping, perceived consequences, and health-related quality of life

   Author : Ragny Lindqvist; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Medical sciences; Coping; health-related quality of life; perceived consequences; perceived efficiency; BSRD patients; spouses; MEDICIN OCH VÅRD; MEDICINE; MEDICIN; omvårdnadsforskning med medicinsk inriktning; Caring Sciences;

   Abstract : The general aim was to study use and efficiency of coping strategies to handle problems occasioned by illness and treatment among three groups of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients (n=86) and their spouses (n=55). A sample of the Swedish population (n=519) was studied as a reference. READ MORE

4. 2. Health related quality of life and coping in liver transplant recipients

   Author : Anna Forsberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; liver transplantation; health related quality of life; coping; pain;

   Abstract : Health related quality of life (HRQOL) and coping after liver transplantation (LTX) is the result from different factors, which are not clearly defined.Aim: The aim of this thesis was to explore health related quality of life, coping style and coping strategies before as well as after liver transplantation. READ MORE

5. 3. Stress Coping Strategies in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

   Author : Joachim Schjolden; Svante Winberg; Felicity Huntingford; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Biology; Salmonid fish; Stress coping; Serotonin; Cortisol; Catecholamines; Monoaminoxidase; Tryptophan; Monoamines; Behaviour; Stress; Biologi; Biology; Biologi;

   Abstract : Animals show a great variety in physiological and behavioural responses to stressors. These responses are often bimodally distributed within populations and show consistency on an individual level over time and across situations, which in terrestrial vertebrates have been identified as proactive and reactive stress coping strategies. READ MORE

6. 4. More or less than human : the influence of shame on psychological distress

   Author : Lotta Strömsten; Elisabet Sundbom; Mikael Henningsson; Martin Bäckström; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Shame; shame-proneness; guilt; self-conscious emotions; psychological distress; coping; attachment styles; Compass of Shame;

   Abstract : Background Shame is a powerful emotion involved in a wide variety of phenomena including psychopathology. The propensity to react with shame to situations of transgression is formed early in life, but the processes by which elevated shame-proneness causes higher levels of psychological distress and functional impairment in some people rather than in others is as yet poorly understood. READ MORE

7. 5. Dyspnea Experience and Quality of Life among persons with lung cancer in palliative care

   Author : Ingela Henoch; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : Cancer Dyspnea Scale; CDS; Consequences; Content analysis; Coping; Depression; Dyspnea; Existential; Experience; Lung cancer; Management strategies; Palliative care; Quality of life; Reliability; Social support; Symptoms; Symptom experience; Validity;

   Abstract : Background: Dyspnea, a subjective, multidimensional experience of breathing discomfort commonly occurring in patients with incurable lung cancer, influences all aspects of life in the suffering per¬sons. To optimally enhance quality of life (QoL) and to identify persons most vulnerable to this symptom, it is important to investigate how to assess dyspnea, how other symptoms and coping are related to dyspnea, and what the consequences of dyspnea are, especially on QoL. READ MORE