Search for dissertations about: "work and community mental health"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 swedish dissertations containing the words work and community mental health.

2. 1. Work capacity and mental health - the phenomena and their importance in return to work

   Author : Monica Bertilsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Mental health; return to work; work participation; work capacity; the phenomenon capacity to work while depressed and anxious;

   Abstract : ABSTRACT Mental health problems are common and a major cause of decreased work capacity and sickness absence. The aim of this thesis was to investigate (i) work capacity and mental health problems as predictors of return to work (RTW) and work participation (WP), and to explore (ii) the phenomenon capacity to work while depressed and anxious. READ MORE

4. 2. 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. 3. Improving Work Ability and Return to Work among Women on Long-term Sick Leave

   Author : Linda Ahlstrom; Högskolan i Borås; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; work disability; sickness absence; back to work; randomized controlled trial; chronic pain; musculoskeletal disorder; rehabilitation activity; female; cohort; longitudinal data; grounded theory; Vårdvetenskap; Integrated Caring Science; Integrerad vårdutveckling; Medical And Health Sciences Health Sciences Nursing Medicin Och Hälsovetenskap Hälsovetenskaper Omvårdnad Medical And Health Sciences Medicin Och Hälsovetenskap Work Disability Sickness Absence Back To Work Randomized Controlled Trial Chronic Pain Musculoskeletal Disorder Rehabilitation Activity Female Cohort Longitudinal Data Grounded Theory Vårdvetenskap Integrated Caring Science Integrerad Vårdutveckling;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to gain new knowledge of factors and interventions that improve work ability and return to work (RTW) among women on long-term sick leave from human service organizations (HSOs). The specific aims of the studies were: to evaluate the associations between the self-rated Work Ability Index (WAI) and Work Ability Score (WAS), and the relationship with prospective sick leave, symptoms, and health (Paper I); to investigate whether intervention with myofeedback training or intensive muscular strength training could decrease pain and increase work ability among women with neck pain (Paper II); to examine the associations between workplace rehabilitation and the combination of supportive conditions at work with work ability and RTW over time (Paper III); and to explore experiences, views, and strategies in the rehabilitation process for RTW (Paper IV). READ MORE

6. 4. Carving out collective spaces : Exploring the complexities of gender and everyday stressors within rural youth leisure

   Author : Anne Gotfredsen; Evelina Landstedt; Isabel Goicolea; Sanna Aaltonen; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Youth mental health; stressors; leisure participation; gender; femininities; rurality; precarity; space and place; visual methods; ethnography; Public health; folkhälsa; genusvetenskap; gender studies;

   Abstract : Background: The reasons why young people are increasingly suffering frommental health problems, and the opportunities to turn this development aroundare globally debated. Stressors such as education, relationships, futuretrajectories of housing and employment all constitute important factors affectingyoung people’s mental health, leading to stress and achievement pressureespecially among girls and young women. READ MORE

7. 5. Street Working Children in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq followed over 16 years : Mental Health and Traumatization

   Author : Nezar Taib; Mia Ramklint; Abdulbaghi Ahmad; Marie Louise Nørredam; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : street working boys; schoolboys; mental disorders; trauma; homotypic and heterotypic continuity; thematic analysis; follow-up; Psychiatry; Psykiatri;

   Abstract : The overall aims of the research this thesis is based upon were to assess mental disorders and trauma experiences of street working boys in Duhok (in the Kurdistan region of Iraq), compare them with schoolboys of the same community, follow the street working boys into adulthood, and examine the continuity of mental disorders, as well as their adult perspectives on their previous street work.A group of 100 street working boys was examined in 2004–2005, and 40 of the same group (as adults) in 2021. READ MORE