The progress of the health among the elderly has a major meaning for the needs of care, nursing and social services. The health of the elderly has improved but fall and fall accidents are a major problem. Acute diseases, activities and environment risks are often related to fall accidents. The aim of the study was to describe health care staffs? opinions about fall risk and fall prevention.

The purpose of this thesis is to identify the factors that drive efficiency and effectiveness in technical development projects performed at A?F?s department of product development. In addition to identifying and analyzing these factors, the thesis also analyzes what needs to be taken in to account in order to implement a measurement system that is able to both monitor and control the identified factors.The thesis has been performed in a qualitative manner. It is based on interviews with people from several different technological companies, within different lines of business, all of which are customers to A?F?s department of product development.The results show that there are seven critical factors for project efficiency and effectiveness.

This essay concerns medical- and dental tourism. The main purpose with the essay was to study which factors that affects Swedish choices to seek medical- and dental care abroad and therefore reach an understanding for Swedish medical- and dental tourism to other countries. The aim has also been to try to reach an insight in how Swedish medical- and dental tourism might develop the future. The study is based on qualitative interviews with five officials who were well-grounded in the field. The theoretical framework concerned the need of travel, push- and pull factors, Maslow?s hierarchy of needs and the thinking about needs within business activities.

Arbetsplatsens inflytande över den stressrelaterade ohälsan kan ses genom samband mellan upplevelser av ett stressfullt arbete och stressymptom, mellan utvecklingen av stressymptom och sjukfrånvaro samt mellan graden av sysselsättning och den stressrelaterade ohälsan. Stress definieras som obalans mellan krav och individens förmåga att hantera dem och uppstår av samma anledningar i arbetslivet. Socialt stöd ifrån kollegor är en av de viktigaste resurserna för att hantera stress på arbetsplatsen. Syftet med kandidatuppsatsen är att förstå vilken betydelse sociala relationer har för deltagare i ett nätverk av verksamhetsansvariga för deras förmåga att hantera stress.För att besvara syftet genomfördes fem semistrukturerade intervjuer via Skype. Intervjuerna spelades in och transkriberades för att sedan analyseras via en innehållsanalys och tolkas.Studiens huvudresultat tyder på att relationerna inom nätverket bidrar till upplevelser av resurser som kan förhindra att stress uppstår samt påverkar hur de verksamhetsansvarigas förmåga att hantera stress..

Our study aims to investigate whether resilient children share common factors that could explain them not following the expected course of development for said group. The study also sets out to explore which strategies resilient children implement in order to cope with their situation.The study is based on the following questions:How do resilient children describe their experiences from growing up with parents with substance abuse problems? What risk and protective factors do they mention in their biographies?We use the system theory and Goffman's dramaturgic perspective as analytical tools.  The system theory could help us see the family as a system, while Goffman's theory might help us understand how resilient children find different strategies, and why they implement these strategies, to hide their family problems.The results show that the most important factors with a positive effect on resilient children were: to have somebody else important in their lives, to have goals in life, to have a safe haven, to think independently and to develop a high level of independence early in life..

Stress är ett ämne som är aktuellt. Vi har valt belysa ämnet ur elevernas och pedagogernas synvinkel. Vi vill undersöka hur stress påverkar elevernas lärande i skolan och hur vi som pedagoger kan förebygga detta. Uppsatsen innehåller fakta om tidigare forskning, bidragande orsaker och förebyggande arbete. Metoden vi har använt oss av i litteraturdelen är facklitteratur och forskning inom området.

The purpose with our study is to investigate in which way a public field of action has succeeded to make the economic management more effective and also find out which factors/activities that have contributed to get the result of the budget in balance. We also want to find out in which degree the balanced scorecard (BSC) has contributed to the positive result of the budget. Method: We had started out from the qualitative method theory which is based on the hermeneutic theory, because we will interpret and understand. With this starting point we have chosen to use a case study with semi-standardised interviews supplemented with information from different documents, and to get the theoretic connection we have studied literature in the subject field. The analyse and even the theoretic connection have then started from, for this study, a special analyse model. Results: Througt systematic and target-concentrated management and through cooperated factors, with stress on a leadership that is both professional, visionary and un-combined, and there the staff´s is seen as a important resource, and there it is a clear strategy and objective to keep the cost of the activity within assigned budgetframe, has a public field of action, as the clinic of hab./rehab.

Denna studie undersökte en ACT-baserad stresshanteringskurs för patienter med blandad stressrelaterad problematik inom primärvården (N=26). Stress, ångest, depression och livskvalitet mättes genom självskattning före och efter interventionen som genomfördes i två omgångar. För att få svar på frågor om deltagarnas upplevelser av kursen genomfördes intervjuer med ett slumpmässigt urval av deltagarna (N=7). Analys av självskattad stress, ångest, depression och livskvalitet visade en signifikant förbättring för samtliga variabler. Effektstyrkan var hög för stress och låg till måttlig för övriga variabler.

Allt fler kvinnor söker sig till rektorsyrket. Medan yrket har blivit mer kvinnodominerat har även arbetsvillkoren blivit hårdare. Långa dagar med mycket oförutsedda arbetsuppgifter gör rektorsyrket till ett tungt arbete. Studier visar att det fortfarande är kvinnan som tar hand om det mesta i hemarbetet. Tuffa arbetsvillkor och mycket ansvar i hemmet kan leda till långvarig stress.

The aims of the present study were to implement and evaluate a three-session Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) stress management intervention in a non-clinical group of university students (N = 25) and to investigate the importance of practice in an ACT-intervention. A design with pre-test and double post-test was chosen. A comparison was made between a nine-hour ACT-intervention containing practice for the participants, a two-hour lecture on ACT and stress management containing no practice for the participants and a control group. Psychological flexibility was assessed with Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-2 and mindfulness was measured with Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills. Perceived stress level was measured with Perceived Stress Scale.

Abstract P. Hed. (2011) What is health for men? Bachelor thesis. Gävle: University of Gävle, Faculty of health and occupational studies; 2011.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka samband mellan upplevd stress och användande av och tillgänglighet till sociala medier bland gymnasister. 167 elever deltog i studien och besvarade en digitalt presenterad enkät angående sina beteendevanor kring sociala medier och upplevd stress. Resultatet visade att en stor andel av eleverna var aktiva användare av sociala nätverk under lektionspass, 73,6 %, och av mobiltelefoner på nätterna, 60,4 %. Samtidigt kände 58,6 % av eleverna oro eller ångest för skolarbetet. Statistisk analys visade att stressnivån ökade med ålder och var högre hos flickor än hos pojkar.

The aim of this study was to study how Swedish youth national football players handle stressful events in sports. A longitudinal questionnaire diary was constructed from a revised version of Nicholls and Polmans (2007) design with the intention of recording in-sport and psychosocial stress, choice of coping strategy and coping effectiveness. The participants were 59 Swedish youth national football players born 1992 observed during a four day national training camp held by the Swedish Football Association. Data were drawn from a quantifying analyzing method. The main result showed that the most common stressors reported were, physical injury or pain, experiencing teammates or opponents to perform better and feeling generally insecure during training camp.

There are various value-influencing factors that have various effects on the value of a cooperative flat for buyers. What generates value is individual and different from buyer to buyer, but also between buyers and real-estate agents. Consequently, the real-estate agents who perform valuations can make incorrect estimates of a residential value. Therefore, it is important to examine which factors are important for buyers to prevent incorrect valuations. To find out which these factors are and which of them that are the most important for potential buyers, previous research has been done in larger cities in both Sweden and other countries.

Bakgrund: Stress påverkar hälsan negativt. Påfrestningar i arbetslivet leder till arbetsrelaterad stress. Sjuksköterskor har många faktorer i sitt arbete som leder till arbetsrelaterad stress. Detta leder inte endast till negativa konsekvenser för sjuksköterskan utan kan även påverka patienten negativt. Fysisk aktivitet har i tidigare studier visat sig kunna leda till minskad stress i det dagliga livet.