Search for dissertations about: "psychological stressors"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the words psychological stressors.

  2. 1. The importance of psychological and physical stressors on diabetes-related immunity in a young population – an interdisciplinary approach

    Author : Emma Carlsson; Maria Faresjö; Arne Gerdner; Anneli Frostell; Kristina Lejon; Jönköping University; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; psychological stressors; physical stressors; cellular immune system; type 1 diabetes; young population;

    Abstract : Background: The prevalence of immunological disorders such as type 1 diabetes (T1D) is increasingly common amongst children, adolescents and young adults. There is also an increase in psychosomatic symptoms (depression, insomnia, anxiety, headaches and fatigue etc. READ MORE

  4. 2. Psychological stress in relation to dementia and brain structural changes

    Author : Lena Johansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Psychological stress; distress; psychosocial life stressors; dementia; Alzheimer s disease; vascular dementia; white matter lesions; brain atrophy; epidemiology; longitudinal study; risk factors;

    Abstract : Psychological stress has been recognized as an increasing public health problem with serious consequences in both physical and mental health. Women reported a higher prevalence of psychological stress, especially in midlife. READ MORE

  5. 3. Psychological injury prevention and cost analysis in elite floorball

    Author : Ulrika Tranaeus Fitzgerald; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Floorball is a growing indoor team sport. Like many sports with fast turns and stops, the likelihood to sustain injuries is evident. The epidemiology of sport injures is well documented and prevention strategies have been suggested. Elite players are probably experiencing stress due to high demands in their sport paralleling with studies or work. READ MORE

  6. 4. Borderline personality disorder : studies of suffering, quality of life and dialectical behavioural therapy

    Author : Kent-Inge Perseius; Mats Samuelsson; Marie Åsberg; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska institutet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Borderline Personality Disorder; Emotional Stress; Quality ofLife; Patient Satisfaction; Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy; Psychological stress; Professional burnout; Caring sciences; Vårdvetenskap; Borderline Personality Disorder; Emotional Stress; Quality ofLife; Patient Satisfaction; Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy; Psychological stress; Professional burnout.;

    Abstract : The aims of the present thesis were: * To investigate how women patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) perceive their suffering, quality of life and encounter with psychiatric care (paper 11 and III). * To describe BPD patients' and psychiatric professionals' perceptions of receiving and giving dialectical behavioural therapy, DBT (paper I). READ MORE

  7. 5. Do psychosocial working conditions contribute to healthy and active aging? studies of mortality, late-life health, and leisure

    Author : Charlotta Nilsen; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; Sweden Stockholm Karolinska Institutet Care Sciences and Society Department of Neurobiology; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; psychosocial working conditions; work stressors; active jobs; passive jobs; sense of coherence; middle age; socioeconomic position; mortality; physical functioning; lung function; leisure activity; old age; Sweden; longitudinal;

    Abstract : The growing demographic challenge posed by an aging population makes finding predictors of health in old age increasingly important. This thesis investigated long-term associations between midlife psychosocial working conditions and late-life health and leisure and examined whether sense of coherence in midlife modified the association between psychosocial working conditions and all-cause mortality. READ MORE