Background:Patients with mental disabilities are more prone to somatic illnesses than the general public. Unhealthier lifestyles and side effects of medication might be causes of conditions that lead to diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and premature death. According to the Social Board patients with mental disabilities receive poorer treatment than patients with only somatic diagnosis.Aim:The aim of the study was to describe nurses' experiences to identify, assess and manage somatic symptoms and problems within the psychiatric care.Method:The study is based on interviews with 12 nurses working in psychiatric outpatient and inpatient care. A qualitative content analysis was chosen.Result:The nurses performed nursing through talking, blood sampling and measuring for example blood pressure. They followed up side effects of medication.

Aim and Problem statement The study aimed to investigate views on physical health amongst patients in methadone maintenance program, which is a subject little explored. Previous studies suggest that methadone patients are at risk developing illnesses related to the metabolic syndrome and an unhealthy lifestyle. Methadone also has side effects such as weight gain and irregular levels of glucose. Method This qualitive study included seven interviews with patients in the methadone maintenance program in Uppsala. Qualitive content analyses were performed Findings Content anlyses gave the theme: The view on physical health is a stuggle after normality were ambivalence of lifestyle changes and alienation causes instability in helath.

The primary purpose of this essay is to study and describe what single adoptive mothers believe to be significant motives when considering adoption. This essay also describes how single adoptive mothers experience parenthood in relation to their expectations. The theoretical perspectives applied to analyse the empirical data are existentialism, the identity making process, and social constructionism. The method of this study is qualitative based on seven interviews. The material has been analysed by condensed meaning units and themes with a phenomenological approach.

The aim: was to describe and compare a group of experts and critical care nurses' agreement in detecting delirium in intubated, ventilator treated patients with sedation / analgesia, before and after an in house training intervention with the instrument Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU).Method: A quasi-experimental study, one group pretest - posttest design. A convenience sample of 17 critical care nurses in a general intensive care unit included. To detect delirium the instrument CAM-ICU was used, 21 paired tests before and 22 after an educational intervention.Main Results: The results showed that after an in house training intervention sensitivity and kappa coefficient improved of the characteristic 1 "acute onset and fluctuating course," an improvement that was significant. In other features, and overall values were signs of numerical improvement and deterioration in sensitivity, specificity and kappa coefficient but no significant change.Conclusion: Implementing a new instrument for detecting delirium in clinical practice requires education and follow-up. A small sample of critical care nurses with varying ability to use the new instrument and the fact that patients' status may change rapidly making it difficult to draw any conclusions from this study.

The demand for renewable energy is increasing in Sweden. This consequently increases the pressure for and willingness to pay for forest fuels. One method to extract forest fuel from suitable commercial thinnings is the "long top method? (LT-method). With this method saw logs and non-delimbed tops are recovered, i.e.

SammanfattningSyfte och frågeställningar Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka hurvida en LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) kost skulle kunna vara en hälsosam livsstil utifrån hur den påverkar olika hälsomarkörer hos normalviktiga personer där en viktminskning ej har eftersträvats. Frågeställningen var följande: Hur påverkar en LCHF-kost med maximalt 30 gram kolhydrater per dag under 3 veckor normalviktiga kvinnors BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate), blodlipider, blodglukos, blodtryck, kroppssammansättning, midje- och höftmått samt deras kroppsvikt?Metod En experimentell studie har genomförts på 8 normalviktiga kvinnor mellan 20 och 35 år. Samtliga försökspersoners BMR, blodlipider, blodglukos, blodtryck, kroppssammansättning, midje- och höftmått samt kroppsvikt mättes vid normala levnadsförhållanden innan studiens start samt efter 3 veckor av en strikt LCHF-kost med endast 30 gram kolhydrater per dag.Resultat BMR sänktes i genomsnitt med 4,4% vilket var signifikant (P<0,05). HDL (High-density lipoproteins), LDL (Low-density lipoproteins) samt totalkolesterol höjdes signifikant (P<0,01) med 21%, 25% respektive 22%.

ABSTRAKT Briland, Elisabet & Prytz, Camilla (2009) Hur fungerar övergångarna förskola ? förskoleklass ? skola; Med fokus på barn i riskzonen för läs- och skrivsvårigheter (Routines for the transitions between preschool and school with a special focus on children at-risk for dyslexia). Skolutveckling och ledarskap, Specialpedagogik, Lärarutbildningen, Malmö högskola Vårt syfte är att fördjupa oss i hur övergångarna mellan förskola, förskoleklass och skola fungerar för de barn som ligger i riskzonen för att få läs- och skrivsvårigheter. Vi ställer oss frågan hur man kan underlätta övergångarna mellan förskola ? förskoleklass ? skola så att detta fungerar optimalt för alla barn, men särskilt för de barn som ligger i riskzon för att få problem med sin läs- och skrivutveckling. Vi har använt oss av den kvalitativa forskningsintervjun som undersökningsform och den kvantitativa metoden genom att skicka ut enkäter.

The project was initiated by Medipharm which produce microbial inoculants which used as additives to preserve forage. The main goal was to test three inoculants to produce maize silege. The following Medipharm produced inoculants were tested, Milab 393, Lactisil Wolecrop II, Lactisil 300 2. An untreated control was included in the study. The trial was done at Swedish university of Agriculture and Science in Alnarp, Sweden. Eurostar was the cultivar of the maize and was grown on 20, 5 hectares.

Swedish forests are dominated by just two conifer species Norway spruce and Scotch pine. They are not able to achieve the highest possible production or fulfill industry demands for raw materials. The introduction of exotic conifers can potentially meet these shortcomings and present a relevant solution. This study was conducted in a block experiment with ten blocks planted in 1987 by SCA in North Sweden. The objective of the block experiment was to study if Black spruce is an appropriate alternative to Lodgepole pine, Norway spruce and Scotch pine on different site classes.

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which incontinence aids, used in local authority/municipal nursing homes, were adapted to the resident?s urine-leakage volume and to find out how nurses perceived the current situation concerning individual testing of incontinence aids in municipal nursing homes. The study method was a quantitative empirical study and was carried out in two phases. The first phase was a weighing test, carried out in three nursing homes, whereby the incontinence aids used by 25 residents during a 48 hour period were weighed. The second phase was the completion of a questionnaire by the municipal nurses working in the same local authority.

Centrum för Teknik i Medicin och Hälsa deltar i ett projekt som heter Innovation mot Infektionsom arbetar med att hitta nya lösningar för att minska vårdrelaterade infektioner (VRI). Omkringtio procent av inlagda patienter drabbas av VRI i Sverige. Studier hävdar att bristfällig handhygienär en av de vanligaste orsakerna till smittspridning. Hur väl produkterna på sjukhus fungerar förvårdpersonalen påverkar hur väl handhygienen sköts. Genom att utvärdera de produkter somanvänds idag kan det underlätta för vårdpersonalen att hålla en god handhygien.

During the 90s most companies organized and adopted routines for their environmental work. This work included for example eco-efficiency improvements and the introduction of environmental managing systems. At the UN conference in Rio in 1992 the concept Sustainable development was defined, but it was not until about the year of 2000 that companies in Sweden shifted their work from environmental management to sustainable management. A consequence of this is that they now have to focus on environmental aspect in conjunction with social and economic aspects.The purpose of this study is to gain understanding of what a change of focus to sustainable development means for companies. Has the environmental work suffered in the competition with social/economical aspects under the new sustainable focus? How will the new way of working affect the balance between environmental and social aspects? Changes were studied in five companies by analysing their annual-, environmental- and sustainability reports and through interviews of sustainable managers.

This Master's thesis aims to investigate the reference interview using the discourse analytical method discourse psychology. The reference interview has been studied thoroughly, and its importance has been proven repeatedly within the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). However, it has never been studied from a discourse analytical point of view before.The material for our study was gathered at Malmö public library, and consists of 10 tape-recorded and then transcribed reference interviews. Our study shows that there are several discourses within the reference situation. The dominating discourse, the reference interview discourse, is found within all the reference interviews.

BakgrundVa?rd av en patient inneba?r att skapa trygghet, mo?jliggo?ra social samvaro, skapa god kommunikation och empati, tillgodose basal hygien samt att motivera denne att fullfo?lja sin behandling. Omva?rdnad inneha?ller mentala, emotionella och fysiska komponenter. Omva?rdnad kra?ver da?rigenom emotionellt arbete som utfo?rs fo?r att reglera va?rdarens egna emotioner sa? att de blir la?mpliga fo?r en viss kontext eller i en viss situation.

Bakrund: Långtidssjukskrivningar ökar och har ökat de senaste åren, detta medför ökade kostnader inte bara för statskassan utan även för den privata sektorn. Riksförsäkringsverket rapporterar ständigt ökade kostnader för sjukskrivningar och från regeringshåll kommer åtgärdspaket i syfte att sänka kostnaderna för sjukfrånvaron samt att få långtidssjukskrivna tillbaka i arbete.Syfte: Att utvärdera en sex veckor lång rehabiliteringskurs för långtidssjukskrivna arbetande montörer i finmekanisk industri. Syftet var att se hur många som kom tillbaka i arbete efter genomgången kurs.Undersökt grupp och metod: Tio kvinnor som arbetade i monteringen och hade varit sjukskrivna fyra veckor eller längre utvaldes. Åtta individer under diagnosen skuldermyalgi och en med diagnosen utmattningsdepression deltog i studien. En individ exkluderades pga.