The aim of the study was to describe the oral health development among patients at the Public Dental Care clinic in Bromölla who made an agreement regarding Healthy Dental Care during the years 2001 and 2004, compared with patients who did not made such an agreement. The study material was obtained from dental journals in total at 150 patients. Data regarding age, sex, health status, tobacco use, plaque- and gingivitis values, pocket depht, initial- and manifest caries, risk assessments, preventive measures by dental personel and acute dental care between year 2001 and 2004 was obtained from dental results. Almost twice as many man made an agreement compared to women. Tobacco use was higher in control group both 2001 and 2004.

Background: Intimate relationship violence is physical, psychological or sexual violence that a person is exposed to in a relationship. There is a strong correlation between intimate relationship violence and mental health problems. A psychiatric ward at a hospital in Sweden, is working with a new routine. According to this routine every new patient should be asked about intmate relationship violence as a part of the admission interview.Objective: The objective of this study was to study how the healthcare personnel is working with the routine, and also to study response rate, interventions and how the work has developed over time.Method: A quantitative study with a retrospective and descriptive studydesign. One hundred and two medical records were reviewed.

Background: Borderline personality disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis that one to two percent of the population and at least every fourth patient that have received treatment at a psychiatric clinic has been diagnosed with. BPD is most common in women between teenage and early adulthood. Purpose: The aim of this literature study was to emphasize the nursing care of patients diagnosed with BPD within different perspectives. Method: A literature study was conducted to get a deeper understanding for the nursing care of patients with BPD. The search for pertinent articles, answering to the aim of the study, was done in different databases.

Abstract. Risk assessment for future violence is an important part of today's forensic psychiatry, and including dynamic risk factors in risk assessment is important because it has been shown that risk can change over time. However, previous research has suggested that perpetrators of homicide are different than perpetrators of other violent crimes. The aim of this study was to describe and analyze risk assessments of future violence for forensic psychiatric patients convicted for homicide (n = 45) and forensic psychiatric patients convicted for assault (n = 91). To do this, differences within the groups and between the groups were analyzed.

Datortomografi (DT)-undersökningar tenderar att öka i antal. En nackdel med denna undersökningstyp är att den effektiva dosen generellt är högre jämfört med motsvarande konventionell röntgenundersökning. En högre stråldos anses medföra en högre risk för patienten att drabbas av tumörsjukdomar senare i livet. Barn anses i sig vara mer strålningskänsliga än vuxna och de har även en förväntad lång livslängd, under vilken tumöruppkomsten kan ske. Syftet med föreliggande studie var att undersöka om DT-undersökningar bidrar till strålningsinducerad cancer hos barn.

Death can be seen as a sensitive subject and can by that be difficult for many people to talk about. Working as a nurse can imply caring for severe ill and dying patients, which can be regarded as a task that makes great demands. The aim of the present literature review is to illustrate nurses' experiences of problems in association with the care of dying patients to be aware of these. Nine scientific articles were analysed and the result showed that the problems the nurses experienced could be related to four different categories: problems related to organisa-tion/resources, to the nurse herself, to the patient and to family members. The literature review also illustrates consequences of these problems for nurses, and which components that could simplify the nursing care of dying patients..

To reach health and wellbeing, despite a disease as rheumatoid arthritis, the patient needs help to manage and cope with his situation. The caregiver?s task is to give this support. The aim of this study was to illuminate how patients with rheumatoid arthritis experienced the relationship to the caregivers in the ?rheumatic-team?, and the participation in this team.

Background: When a patient suffer from a disease and is in need of palliative care, it is normal to have existential questions and thoughts. For some patients these questions can be painful and the nurse need to have knowledge about dealing with these kind of questions and thoughts to be able to relieve and/or prevent this kind of suffering.Aim: The aim was to describe how the nurse can prevent the existential suffering among patients with palliative care.Method: A literature-based study was based on eight qualitative studies.Results: The results showed that nurses meet patients in the palliative care environment which may suffer from existential problems when their questions and thoughts don´t get answered. It showed that the most important a nurse can do is to give time to these calls and build up a safe relation to the patient. This allows the nurse to read the patients existential questions and observing possibly suffering. The result is organized in two categories "To see and confirm" and " To listen and give support" and see subcategories " Use body language", " Create reliable relationship", respond to the existential questions", "Give the patient time", " take help from others in hard situations" and "to focus on other things"Conclusion: It is easy to only focus on the physical illness while caring for a patient and believe that it is creating suffering.

 Background: Self-injury can be defined as deliberate harm one's own body without conscious intent to commit suicide. These patients need skilled care. Purpose: Illuminate nursing staff attitudes and treatment of patients with self-injury behaviour for individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Method: A general literature study has been made. Based on the objective was a literature search in various databases with ten relevant articles were selected and reviewed.

Ett cancerbesked hos kvinnor i ung ålder kan medföra upplevelser som aldrig tidigare förekommit i livet, en oviss framtid med mycket tankar och funderingar. Bristande kunskaper om cancersjukas upplevelser finns hos sjuksköterskor enligt tidigare forskning, och det leder till att patienterna inte får adekvat vård. Syftet med examensarbetet var att beskriva unga kvinnors upplevelser av att leva med cancer. Tre biografier innehållande fem berättelser analyserades utifrån en kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys. Martinsens teori användes som teoretisk referensram, där hon belyser vikten av gemenskap mellan människor samt tryggheten i miljön.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka intresset för aktiv dödshjälp hos patienter som lider av en långt framskriden cancer samt vilka faktorer som påverkar dem i detta ställningstagande. I en litteraturstudie har relevant litteratur insamlats, analyserats och tolkats. Utifrån bevisen från sammanlagt fem kvalitativa studier har nya slutsatser dragits. Resultaten pekar på att det finns ett intresse för aktiv dödshjälp bland svårt sjuka cancerpatienter men att detta i hög grad är framtidsorienterat. Faktorer som påverkar intresset är uppfattningen om att vara en börda för andra, rädsla för framtiden, lidande, den demoraliserande inverkan som cancern har på individen samt religion och etik..

Bakgrund: Familjecentrerad vård är ett sätt att tillmötesgå barns och familjens behov under en sjukdomsperiod. Fokus läggs på att anpassa vården för hela familjen och inte bara för den sjuka familjemedlemmen. Syskon till det cancerdrabbade barnet kan lätt glömmas bort i skuggan av cancersjukdomen. Detta kan leda till problem med skolan och att barnet inte känner sig lika värdefull som sitt syskon. Ur ett sjuksköterskeperspektiv anses bland annat en god relation till barnet och en bra vårdmiljö vara viktiga för det cancerdrabbade barnet.Syfte: Att sammanställa forskning som belyser vilka behov familjen har i samband med att ett barn vårdas för en cancersjukdom.Metod: Litteraturöversikt.Resultat: Behoven skiljer sig mycket mellan familjemedlemmar.

Bakgrund: Cancer är idag en av de vanligaste sjukdomarna i svenska samhället och klassas som en folksjukdom. Hälften av de personer som får en cancerdiagnos, får obotlig cancer. Att dela med sig av upplevelser via bloggar kan hjälpa individer med obotlig cancer att hantera sin sjukdom. Sjukdomsbloggar kan även ha betydelse för omvårdnaden av patienter gällande förståelse och bemötande från sjukvården. Syfte: Att utifrån bloggar, beskriva individers upplevelser av att ha obotlig cancer samt beskriva vilken betydelse bloggen har för individerna.

I Sverige insjuknar varje år cirka 300 barn i cancer. De vanligaste cancerformerna är leukemi samt hjärntumörer. Trots att forskningen har utvecklats är det en fjärdedel av de drabbade barnen som inte går att rädda. Då ett cancersjukt barn vårdas palliativt och sedan går bort, påverkas en hel familj med föräldrar och syskon. Att förlora ett barn är en fruktansvärd upplevelse.

Background: Contracting asexually transmitted disease is strongly associated with stigmaand shame. Stigma associated with these diseases has a significant impact on self-image andpropensityto seek care. Despitehigh incidencethere is a generallack of awareness about therisks and theeffectsthatthese diseases have on both mental and physical health. Health carepersonnel are experiencing difficulties to meet and care for these patients. Aim: The aim ofthis studyisto describe patients'experiences of health care after they were diagnosed with asexually transmitted disease.