Steroid-responsive meningitis-arteritis (SRMA) is a common form of meningitis in dogs. The condition is immunopathological, but the etiology is not yet fully understood. The aim of this study was to compile facts about the disease from records of Swedish dogs. The owners were interviewed by telephone for follow up where it was possible. 15 dogs were included in the study. All of them were neurologically examined in the Small Animal Clinic at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge of dental erosion and the consumption habits of soft drinks among secondary school students. Differences between the sexes should also be investigated. The study consisted of 102 students, 60 women and 42 men, in the eleventh grade from a school in the south of Sweden. A questionnaire with 25 questions, divided in two parts with focus on knowledge respective consumption pattern and behaviour, was handed out and collected by the authors. The data showed that more than 50% of the participants had knowledge about dental erosion.

Background: Research on presenteeism has been performed mainly during the last 15 years, where several consequences on health such as cardiovascular disease and mortality have been identified. Studies have shown a relation between sickness absenteeism and presenteeism, where presenteeism could lead to long-term sickness absence. Aim: The aim of the present study was to investigate work-related and personal causes of sickness presenteeism. The study also aimed to identify the overall prevalence of sickness presence in Scandinavia, including potential occupational sectors with higher prevalence. Method: The study was literature based and consisted of 15 peer-reviewed scientific articles that were found by a systematic search in PubMed and Scopus.

Individual identification of pigs could be used in commercial herds for production monitoring, disease monitoring and breeding evaluation. This study investigates the possibility of using microchips designed for dogs and cats to identify individual pigs from birth, through rearing to carcass at the slaughter plant. Two different sizes of microchips, and two different ages of the pigs at injection were tested. Castrates and gilts from ten litters were evenly distributed between chip sizes and injection ages. All pigs were identity marked with both electronic ear tags and injected with microchips.

The aim of this study was to see if there is any group of cats that are at greater risk to get sick and/or be euthanized during their stay at a cat shelter with no-kill policy. The study was conducted at Åkeshov cat rescue center in Sweden and cats that entered the center between the 1th of June 2010 and the 31th of December 2011 was used in the study. This study focused on factors regarding gender, origin, level of socialization, incubation period and the proportion of euthanized cats. In this study, the kind of illness weren?t taken into account. This study showed that the gender of the cat didn´t affect the risk for illness.

Förekomsten av långvariga smärtor i befolkningen ligger på 40-50 procent och åtminstone en fjärdedel av de drabbade har svårigheter att leva med sin smärta. Förekomsten av långvarig generaliserad smärta eller chronic widespread pain (CWP) är ungefär 7 procent och det är ungefär dubbelt så vanligt hos kvinnor som hos män. Syfte Syftet med studien är att beskriva unga personers upplevelser av att leva med långvarig generaliserad smärta och deras syn på sin rehabilitering Metod Multipla fallstudier gjordes med kvalitativa intervjuer.I studien ingick 10 unga patienter mellan 18-23 år med generaliserad smärta. Patienterna skall ha fått en diagnos eller ha genomgått en smärtutredning vid smärtrehab på Sunderby sjukhus. Intervjuerna gjordes utifrån en intervjuguide, bestående av öppna frågor.

Förekomsten av långvariga smärtor i befolkningen ligger på 40-50 procent och åtminstone en fjärdedel av de drabbade har svårigheter att leva med sin smärta. Förekomsten av långvarig generaliserad smärta eller chronic widespread pain (CWP) är ungefär 7 procent och det är ungefär dubbelt så vanligt hos kvinnor som hos män. Syfte Syftet med studien är att beskriva unga personers upplevelser av att leva med långvarig generaliserad smärta och deras syn på sin rehabilitering Metod Multipla fallstudier gjordes med kvalitativa intervjuer.I studien ingick 10 unga patienter mellan 18-23 år med generaliserad smärta. Patienterna skall ha fått en diagnos eller ha genomgått en smärtutredning vid smärtrehab på Sunderby sjukhus. Intervjuerna gjordes utifrån en intervjuguide, bestående av öppna frågor. Intervjuerna spelades in på band, transkriberades och analyserades via en manifest innehållsanalys. Resultat Analys av materialet gällande frågeställningen att leva med långvarig generaliserad smärta- hur upplevs det resulterade i följande 6 kategorier, hur smärtan påverkar vardagen, omgivningens reaktioner och bemötande, att vara ung fördelar/nackdelar, strategier för att hantera sin situation och betydelsen av diagnostiseringen.

Background: Pain can be a constant problem in many older people's daily life, associated with particular physical and social disability, depression and poor quality of life. Dementia diseases are often associated with old age. Communication difficulties are one of the consequences of the disease, which clarifies the role of nursing staff in detecting and assessing pain. Objective: The aim was to compile knowledge about how nursing staff can identify pain in people with dementia. Method: A systematic literature review, where data were collected through manual and database searches.

Background: Cancer is the most common cause of death among children in Sweden. The disease and the treatment cause suffering among the children, which also affects their parents. Research has shown that parents of children with cancer have poorer health. It is the nurse?s responsebility to help, not only the child, but also the parents in their difficult situation.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka samband mellan bukaorta aneurysm hos 65-åriga män och riskfaktorer såsom rökning, BMI>25, kosttillskott, hypertoni, hyperlipidemi, ett stillasittande yrke samt hereditet. Kvantitativ ansats med deskriptiv och korrelativ design användes, 3854 65-åriga män från två årskullar som screenats för AAA ingick och uppgifter hämtades från ett dataregister. Resultat: Antalet personer med bukaorta aneurysm var 2,4 %, 65 % var/hade varit rökare, 67 % hade övervikt, 49 % stillasittande arbete, 41 % hypertoni, 25 % hyperlipidemi, 17 % åt kosttillskott och 4 % hade hereditet. Rökning, hypertoni och hyperlipidemi visade signifikant samband med och ökade risken för att utveckla AAA. Störst riskfaktor var rökning.

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.

Title: Experiences of physical activity in a flat country Regular physical activity provides many chronic diseases and is an important contributor to health promotion. According to Swedish goals for public health, community planning ought to provide opportunities for exercise in all groups of the population and exercise in daily life should be uncomplicated, even in rural areas. The purpose of this study was to explore how individuals living in a flat country experienced their opportunities for exercise on a regular basis. Four semi-structured interviews were carried out with a phenomenological approach and for the analysis a phenomenological-hermeneutic method was used, resulting in two main themes and nine sub themes. The first main theme ?The reciprocal relation between physical activity and the landscape? showed that the informants experienced that they had good opportunities in the landscape for physical activity, it was easy to exercise on a regular basis, provided there was motivation.

Bakgrund: Ungefär 100 000 människor i Sverige beräknas lida av Alzheimers sjukdom. Vanliga symtom är minnesförlust och nedsatt inlärningsförmåga. Vården av de med Alzheimers sjukdom sker ofta i hemmet av en närstående. Dessa närstående får inte tillräckligt med information och deras livskvalitet blir sämre. Det är därför viktigt att vårdpersonalen kar kunskap om de upplevelser som de närstående vårdarna har för att kunna stötta dem.

Introduction: Public health is based on the determinants of health. They mutually influence each other. Structural factors and life conditions contribute to health inequality both within and between countries. Health inequality can be seen between different social groups, which can be the cause of differences in living conditions, health behavior and disease vulnerability. One of the consequences of this is segregation which means that certain groups live apart, where this distribution can be connected to economic resources and/or ethnicity.

Studies show that older is an increased proportion patients in hospital and that it is a patient group that can be difficult to communicate with because of older patients' often multiple disease picture. Relatives to the patient can be help for caregivers in the communication and the care of the patient. The aim with the study was to examine relative's experience of participation, meeting/support, accessibility and information on a geriatrics rehabilitation care unit. The study had a descriptive design and was designed as a questionnaire study. It was implemented on one geriatrics rehabilitation care unit on the countryside in central Sweden, belong to Uppsala University hospital.