Search for dissertations about: "focus group interviews"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 698 swedish dissertations containing the words focus group interviews.

2. 11. Investigating the Future of Finnish Congruency : Focus on Possessive Morphology

   Author : Mariya Niendorf; Högskolan Dalarna; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Language variation and change;

   Abstract : This study examines variation and change in the Finnish possessive morphology during the past few decades focusing on colloquial Helsinki Finnish. The variation in the morphological marking of possession is considered to be one of the most drastic changes in spoken Finnish (cf. Nuolijarvi 1986b). READ MORE

4. 12. Exploring firefighters' health and wellbeing

   Author : Ann Jacobsson; Backteman-Erlanson Susann; Christine Brulin; Annika Egan Sjölander; Eric Carlström; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Firefighters; health; well-being; burnout; psychosocial work environment; coping strategies; critical incidents; experiences; discourse analysis; focus groups; focus group discussion; caring sciences in social sciences; omvårdnadsforskning med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning;

   Abstract : Background: This thesis supports the assumption that firefighters’ health and mental well-being is important, in order to cope with the stress that the profession implies. As health is an essential part of everyday life, it seems substantially to understand how an almost exclusively male workforce of firefighters construct their discourse in relation to health and well-being. READ MORE

5. 13. Just assessment in school : - a context-sensitive comparative study of pupils' conceptions in Sweden and Germany

   Author : Bettina Vogt; Daniel Sundberg; Florian Waldow; Anders Jönsson; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; assessment; comparative education research; context-sensitive comparison; conceptions; focus group interviews; grading; Grounded Theory Methodology; justice; meritocracy; pupil research; standards-based reform; Pedagogics and Educational Sciences; Pedagogik och Utbildningsvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis examines pupils’ justice conceptions regarding educational assessment. Due to the context-dependency of norms and values as well as of assessment, the study compares the justice conceptions of pupils in two different’socio-educational’ contexts: Sweden and Germany. READ MORE

6. 14. Use or Misuse? : Addiction Care Practitioners’ Perceptions of Substance Use and Treatment

   Author : Eva Samuelsson; Jan Blomqvist; Lena Hübner; Lisa Wallander; Ingrid Sahlin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; substance use; treatment; practitioners’ perceptions; social services; regional healthcare; factorial survey; multi-level analysis; focus group interviews; discourse analysis; Sweden; Social Work; socialt arbete;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis has been to study boundary-making in addiction care practitioner’s perceptions of substance use and treatment. The four papers are based on three data collections in Swedish outpatient addiction care: a) a survey conducted in 2006 (n=655), b) a factorial survey using randomly constructed vignettes conducted in 2011 (n=474), and c) a focus group interview study from 2013 (n=30) with a sample of the respondents from the factorial survey. READ MORE

7. 15. Infants with colic - Parents’ experiences in short and long perspectives and the effect of acupuncture treatment on crying, feeding, stooling and sleep

   Author : Kajsa Landgren; Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Baby; Interviews; Infantile Colic; Crying; Content analysis; randomised; stooling; feeding; phenomenological hermeneutic; Parents’ experiences; Long term effects;

   Abstract : Infantile colic, involving an otherwise healthy infant crying and fussing more than three hours per day and more than three days per week, is a common problem in Western countries. Both the infant and the parents suffer during the months of persistent crying and there is a risk that the establishing of the early relationship might be disturbed. READ MORE