Inledning: Kvinnors sexualitet och kroppsuppfattning efter gynekologisk cancer förändras. Som barnmorskor är det viktigt att i tidigt skede medverka till och förebygga de komplikationer som dessa kvinnor drabbas av. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att göra en jämförande, detaljerad beskrivning av attraktion och sexuell lust hos kvinnor som blivit strålbehandlade mot gynekologisk cancer. Metod: En prospektiv kohortstudie med kvantitativ ansats med enkätformulär. Två kohorter har jämförts där 616 kvinnor behandlats för gynekologisk cancer samt 344 kvinnor som inte behandlats.

The basic view on children has change radically in the swedish society during the last century. From beeing seen as ruled by internal evil powers that only church could help controling later on the children should be brought up as citizen well-behaved and capable of work with help of the state's control. Today we see the child as competent and equal, and through Swedens adoption of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child in year 1990, Sweden as a country undertakes itself to always see to the child´s greatest in all decision-making process concerning the child and also vouch for that the rights stated in the convention are beeing fulfild.Working with the convention in a such way that it's intention becomes reality in educational activities requires instruments for the pedagogues. During the years between 1980 and 1990 a number of different methods and programmes were developed with staring-points in the interplay between the child and the adult.

Varje år insjuknar cirka 300 barn i Sverige i någon form av cancer. Det innebär ett stort lidande för föräldrarna. Syftet med studien var att belysa föräldrars upplevelse när deras barn fått en cancersjukdom. Studien baserades på två självbiografiska böcker som föräldrar till barn med cancer skrivit. Innehållsanalysen som användes behandlar textmaterialet i fyra steg.

Bakgrund: Patienter med cancer i den palliativa vården lider av olika symtom. Symtom som patienterna kan lida av är smärta, ångest och sömnsvårigheter. Dessa symtom kan bland annat leda till att patienter har svårt att känna ett välbefinnande i sin sjukdom. Palliativa vårdens huvudmål är att lindra patienternas symtom och det vanligaste hjälpen till att lindra symtom är läkemedel men det finns även andra sätt att tillgå som t.ex. massage.

Syftet med denna studie var att belysa hur litteraturen beskriver hur syskon till barn med cancer mår, vilka behov de har och vad som görs för dessa syskon. Fjorton artiklar inkluderades i studien och dessa hittades i databaserna Cinahl och Medline (via Pub Med). Sökorden cancer, siblings, emotions, childhood neoplasms, feelings, neoplasms, coping och support har använts i kombination för att hitta artiklarna. Av studiens resultat framkom att många syskon fick förändrad livskvalitet. De kände sig oroliga för det sjuka barnet, en del fick beteende problem som försvann, medan andra kvarstod under en längre tid hos andra.

Background: Overweight in children is a growing problem around the world. Studies has shown that children suffering from overweight, are at a greater risk to remain overweight as adults as well. Child health care nurses have an important task by trying to motivate parents to better diet and exercise habits for their children. Previous research proves that overweight and obesity in children is a very complex problem which requires a good caring relationship between child health care nurses and parents.Purpose: The purpose of the study was to illuminate the experiences of child health care nurses of meeting parents of overweight children.Method: An inductive qualitative approach was used as method. The collection of data was conducted by using semi-structured interviews.

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer which struck women around the world. When a human is exposed to threat or stress, e.g. breast cancer, different coping strategies are used in order to cope with the situation by the afflicted person. The aim of this literature study was to describe how women, who suffered from breast cancer, experienced coping with their situation. Scientific articles were found in the databases Medline (Pub Med) and Cinahl.

The focus of this thesis is on social workers? knowledge in assessing and making decisions in child welfare cases. The primary aim is to identify what skills or knowledge social workers find most useful within child welfare agencies in Swedish municipalities. Six different types of knowledge, social policy and the approach of child welfare cases are perspectives considered in the analysis. The interviews with social workers were held in three agencies in southern Sweden, in 2014.

The main purpose of this essay was to study how the child's own view appeared in the office of family law investigations and in the following municipal court verdicts and if it had influenced the judgement and the verdict. We wanted to see if the child's age was important for the possibility to make oneself heard and if there had been changes overtime related to the consideration to the child's own view in investigations- and court context.To obtain answers to the questions, we decided to execute a qualitative case study, which exclusively was based on document analyses. We selected to examine a middle-sized municipal in the southern part of Sweden. We concerned only for children in the age of 8-12 years, who was affected by a court verdict either 1999 or 2003.Our study showed, among other things, that the majority of all children were interviewed. It also showed that the age of the children didn't affect the consideration the court took to the child's opinion.

I have investigated how municipalities support children with ADHD. I have interviewed persons responsible in five different municipalities. The persons have had the authority to decide how the support funds are to be shared in the municipality. Mostly I was interested to know if the support was the same in all these municipalities and if the children with ADHD really got the help and support they were entitled to. I discovered that the support varied; in some the children were correctly diagnosed but in others municipalities I was not convince.

Malnutrition is a common problem for patients with cancer that leads to anxiety and frustration for the whole family. Patients with palliative cancer disease treated at home are entitled to an adequate nutrition treatment suited to individual needs. Aim: The aim of the literature review was to describe how cancer patients experience their nutriment situation before and after the introduction of parental nutrition and the experience of getting home parental nutrition. Methods: A literature study was carried out where qualitative and quantitative articles were examined. Findings: Five qualitative and five quantitative articles were examined.

Cancer upplevs ofta som en hotfull och farlig sjukdom. Många människor som har haft cancer drabbas även senare i livet av ett återinsjuknande. Vårdpersonals kunskap om upplevelser av att drabbas av ett återinsjuknande är otillräckliga, vilket leder till att människor i dessa situationer inte får adekvat stöd och hjälp. Syftet med examensarbetet var att belysa människors upplevelser av att återinsjukna i cancer. Fyra stycken självbiografier analyserades utifrån en kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys med en induktiv ansats.

Bakgrund: Cancer är en av de sjukdomar som ökar mest och detta kan bero på att vi lever längre. En cancerdiagnos påverkar vardagen, både under pågående behandling och efteråt. Personerr som får ett cancerbesked hamnar ofta i kris och det är viktigt att de får stöd och hjälp av andra för att orka. Det är mycket känslor som uppkommer vid ett cancerbesked och under sjukdomstiden. Ordet cancer får många att känna rädsla och obehag.

 Var tredje person i Sverige kan under sin livstid drabbas av en cancersjukdom. När en familjmedlem får diagnosen cancer påverkar detta oftast livet för dem som är närstående. Forskning visar att de närstående upplever olika förändringar i livet. Det uppstår oftast känslor som ångest, hjälplöshet och maktlöshet. Syftet med denna litteraturöversikt var att beskriva hur närstående till personer med cancer upplever sin förändrade livssituation.

The purpose of this study was to examine social workers working process in social assistance with focus on the child´s perspective. We were interested in learning about the existence of variations in approach and attitude between two municipalities. Question to be answered about what methods and approaches used by social workers to include the child´s perspective in the process of social assistance. Another question to be answered about what the manner in which social workers took into account the child´s perspective when the families apply for social assistance in relation to the operations and requirement. To fulfill the purpose, qualitative methods were used.