Search for dissertations about: "disability and schizophrenia"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words disability and schizophrenia.
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1. Social interaction and participation in activities of everyday life among persons with schizophrenia
Abstract : Difficulties in social interaction frequently accompany a diagnosis of schizophrenia and are an obstacle for participation in everyday life. The overall aim of this licentiate thesis was to develop knowledge about participation in everyday life among persons with schizophrenia. READ MORE
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2. Disability, rehabilitation and health economic assessment
Abstract : Background: Disability caused by long-term illnesses and diseases involves welfare losses through human suffering and huge societal costs. Rehabilitation of disabled individuals is a complex and growing field where health economic assessment studies could play a role in health policy and medical decision-making. READ MORE
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3. Work and psychiatric disabilities. A person, environment, and occupation perspective on Individual Placement and Support
Abstract : This thesis adds to the knowledge base of how the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) can be optimized to secure a more sustainable working career for people with severe mental illness (SMI). The thesis has given the IPS-participants an active voice about what it is like to start to work in a Swedish context, visualised the psychiatric disability in relation to work, discerned the support and process in IPS, and emphasized the employers’ experiences in an IPS-context. READ MORE
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4. Gene and pathway associations in neurodevelopmental disorders
Abstract : Neurodevelopmental disorders are complex and heterogenous disorders affecting brain development. In this thesis, we study intellectual disability (ID) and schizophrenia, and we applied genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic techniques to identify and further investigate candidate variants and important genes and pathways involved in pathology of these two disorders. READ MORE
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5. Occupational Perspectives on Health in People with Schizophrenia
Abstract : The thesis has provided with systematic information about how people with schizophrenia live their everyday life, and the results have shown significant relationships between occupational perspectives and health. The thesis departed in two in-depth studies that concerned time use and occupational engagement in relation to what people with schizophrenia do in their everyday life, with whom they are with, where they are and how they perceive and experience what they do, as reflected by time-use diaries. READ MORE