Search for dissertations about: "measuring mental health"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 55 swedish dissertations containing the words measuring mental health.
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1. Mental health : a philosophical analysis
Abstract : The present dissertation is an attempt to analyze, philosophically, the notion of "positive mental health". In doing so the author presents a number of suggestions found in the literature. The discussion of these suggestions leads to a number of general conclusions. READ MORE
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2. Exploring firefighters' health and wellbeing
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
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3. Measuring peer victimization and school leadership : A study of definitions, measurement methods and associations with psychosomatic health
Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore methods for assessing peer victimization and pedagogical leadership in school.The thesis includes four studies. Study I and II are based on web-based questionnaires among 2, 568 students in grades 7, 8 and 9. READ MORE
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4. Studies of physical activity in the Swedish population
Abstract : Background: Cheap and effective tools for measuring patients’ physical activity (PA) level are needed. The first aim in this thesis was therefore to assess the validity of two PA -questions, and their three associated answer modes, that are used within the Swedish health care system. READ MORE
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5. Aspects of Vitamin D Deficiency in Elderly People in Nursing Homes and in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes : with Emphasis on Mortality, Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mental Health
Abstract : BackgroundInstitutionalised elderly people living in northern latitudes may be at elevated risk for vitamin D deficiency. They are recommended to take oral vitamin D supplements, but the main source of vitamin D is sunlight. READ MORE