SyfteSyftet med studien är att undersöka om, och i så fall hur, fysisk aktivitet, skattad motorisk kompetens och skattad hälsorelaterad livskvalitet förhåller sig till varandra hos barn i skolår 2 i Storstockholm. Vidare syftar studien till att undersöka huruvida resultaten skiljer sig mellan flickor och pojkar.MetodDen fysiska aktiviteten (FA) mättes med en accelerometer på barn i skolår 2 (n = 131) i Storstockholm. Den skattade motoriska kompetensen mättes med hjälp av enkätverktyget Prick- och Rutbarn och den skattade hälsorelaterade livskvaliteten (HRQOL) mättes med hjälp av PedsQL. Korrelation, enkel regressionsanalys och variansanalyser användes för att analysera data i SPSS 17.0. Signifikansnivån sattes till p<0,05.ResultatStudien visar på statistiskt signifikanta positiva korrelationer mellan FA och skattad HRQOL samt mellan skattad motorisk kompetens och skattad HRQOL.

There are many good reasons to ponder about what it is that makes life worth living. To observe and reflect on what it is that gives a person a good quality of life is arguably the essential core of social-work. The aim of this research was to investigate how 15-year old youths interpret quality of life. The key areas that we explored in order to meet the research aims were: what did the youths interpret as a good quality of life for a 15-year old and for an adult, how did they view their own quality of life, and did they think that the regional context (i.e. if one lives in a big city or in a small town) affects how one interpret quality of life.The studywas based on interviews with four boys and four girls.

SyfteSyftet med studien är att undersöka om, och i så fall hur, fysisk aktivitet, skattad motorisk kompetens och skattad hälsorelaterad livskvalitet förhåller sig till varandra hos barn i skolår 2 i Storstockholm. Vidare syftar studien till att undersöka huruvida resultaten skiljer sig mellan flickor och pojkar.MetodDen fysiska aktiviteten (FA) mättes med en accelerometer på barn i skolår 2 (n = 131) i Storstockholm. Den skattade motoriska kompetensen mättes med hjälp av enkätverktyget Prick- och Rutbarn och den skattade hälsorelaterade livskvaliteten (HRQOL) mättes med hjälp av PedsQL. Korrelation, enkel regressionsanalys och variansanalyser användes för att analysera data i SPSS 17.0. Signifikansnivån sattes till p<0,05.ResultatStudien visar på statistiskt signifikanta positiva korrelationer mellan FA och skattad HRQOL samt mellan skattad motorisk kompetens och skattad HRQOL.

Background: Patients with leg ulcer suffers often of woundpain. Healthcare professionals will strive after having knowledge and understanding for how woundpain influences the patient's quality of life. Aim: The aim is to elucidate the patient's experiences of pain at venous leg ulcer and the effects on their daily life. Method: The procedure has been a systematic literature overview with a systematic search in different databases. The search resulted in nine scientific articles.

This study is based on interviews with heads of unit, care staff and senior representatives from a total of six people. We have in this study directed our focus on care quality in the elderly as a concept in development. It appears, when the elderly do not have any dependents, it is even more important that staff supports some extra where no relatives are involved.Quality of life is the broader concept of good quality care and where a good quality of care is a necessary condition for a good quality of life. According to the social services care is the target that older people will live a good life and be allowed to live in a safe environment, which we intend to investigate in this study. Opportunity for greater influence should now be given to older people and their families on how interventions should be designed and implemented.

Patients with heart failure have a high mortality and often readmits to hospital care, due to a lack of compliance in the treatment plan. Patient education on self-care provided by nurses is important in improving patient and clinical outcomes.The aim of this study was to describe effects of nurse led interventions of patient education for elderly patients with heart failure. Literature study based on nine quantitative scientific articles. The results shows that different nurse led interventions of patient education with patients with heart failure had positive effects on self-care management, quality of life, health related quality of life and hospital care. E-mail reminder to community nurses and telephone education shows to be the most effective patient education interventions.

Objective: In recent years there has been an increasing interest within the clinical (medical) science in measuring people?s health. When estimating quality of life, present practise is to use the EQ-5D questionnaire and an index which weighs the different questions. The question is what happens if the individuals estimate there own health, would it differ from the public preferences? The aim is to make a new prediction model based on the opinion of patients and compare it to the present model based on public preferences.Method: A sample of 362 patients with unstable coronary artery disease from the Frisc II trial, valued their quality of life in the acute phase and after 3, 6 and 12 months.

Background: Quality of life is a concept of individual meaning which is perceived differently depending on the person experiencing it. To have a chronic disease in the lung, such as asthma, has an effect on the quality of life. Asthma affects people of all ages. It is a disease that causes a constriction in the patients? airways which leads to a feeling of suffocation which in turn produces a feeling of anxiety.Aim: The purpose is to illuminate which factors affect the quality of life in adult patients with asthma.Method: This is a literary review based on ten articles, both quantitative and qualitative, from four different continents.

Nilsson, P. (2005). Which manager qualities can be related to a health promotive leadership? A questionnaire study among managers at hospitals. (41 p.)AbstractPeople?s working life and individual health can be seen as strongly related to each other because people spend the most of their adult lives at their places of work.

                                  The study aimed to explore how patients with ICDs experience their quality of life with a focus on everyday life, electric shocks, and how support from the health service is perceived. The studydesign is descriptive with a qualitative approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven patients. Data collection lasted for three weeks and interviews were conducted in the participant´s homes, at the participants? workplaces or over the phone.The study shows that most participants have learned to live with the ICD.

Abstract:Theoretical framework:  The Theory of Suffering by Katie Eriksson was used.Aim: The aim was to illuminate factors that influence women?s choice to seek care for urinary incontinence.Method: This literature review was based on a sample of nine qualitative and quantitative studies. Modified templates were used to assess the quality of the studies. Analysis of the results was done withmanifest content analysis.Findings: Findings made clear that the experience of shame is a central factor for women not to seek treatment for their urinary incontinence UI. Women had to have severe loss of quality of life in order to seek help for their UI, and the loss of quality of life had to be subjectively larger than the feeling of shame.

SyfteSyftet med studien är att undersöka om, och i så fall hur, fysisk aktivitet, skattad motorisk kompetens och skattad hälsorelaterad livskvalitet förhåller sig till varandra hos barn i skolår 2 i Storstockholm. Vidare syftar studien till att undersöka huruvida resultaten skiljer sig mellan flickor och pojkar.MetodDen fysiska aktiviteten (FA) mättes med en accelerometer på barn i skolår 2 (n = 131) i Storstockholm. Den skattade motoriska kompetensen mättes med hjälp av enkätverktyget Prick- och Rutbarn och den skattade hälsorelaterade livskvaliteten (HRQOL) mättes med hjälp av PedsQL. Korrelation, enkel regressionsanalys och variansanalyser användes för att analysera data i SPSS 17.0. Signifikansnivån sattes till p<0,05.ResultatStudien visar på statistiskt signifikanta positiva korrelationer mellan FA och skattad HRQOL samt mellan skattad motorisk kompetens och skattad HRQOL.

This study is based on interviews with heads of unit, care staff and senior representatives from a total of six people. We have in this study directed our focus on care quality in the elderly as a concept in development. It appears, when the elderly do not have any dependents, it is even more important that staff supports some extra where no relatives are involved.Quality of life is the broader concept of good quality care and where a good quality of care is a necessary condition for a good quality of life. According to the social services care is the target that older people will live a good life and be allowed to live in a safe environment, which we intend to investigate in this study. Opportunity for greater influence should now be given to older people and their families on how interventions should be designed and implemented.

Iraq has in recent decades been with internal conflicts between ethnic groups. Despite the enormous wealth of natural resources, more than half of the population remains poor. War and corruption has led to lack of resources and worsening quality of the health sector leading to deteriorating health situation among the population. Womens role and experiences of health and health promotion is important in conflict affected countries to create health and well-being within the family. Objective: the objective of this study was to investigate the maternal experiece of promoting the health of children in an Iraqi context.Method:Aqualitative research methodology with semi-structured interviews was chosen.Six mothers from diffrent neighborhods in the city of kirkuk were interviewed.

AbstractObjectivePatients with Parkinson?s disease often have symptoms of dysphagia. These swallowingproblems have consequences for quality of life as well for the physical wellbeing of thepatients. AimThe aim of this study was to describe and correlate Swallowing Quality of Life (SWAL-QOL)scores, self-assessment of swallowing function using a visual analogue scale and the resultsfrom a fiber endoscopic evaluation of swallowing function in patients who had been selectedfor Deep Brain Stimulation in caudal zona incerta. A secondary aim was to correlate diseaseduration with results from SWAL-QOL and the fiber endoscopic evaluation of swallowingfunction.MethodTen male Parkinson?s patients (age 45-69 yrs, median 61.5 yrs) who were selected for DeepBrain Stimulation completing the Swallowing Quality of life form, as well as rating theirswallowing function using a visual analogue scale and undergoing a fiber endoscopicevaluation of their swallowing function.    ResultsThe median total SWAL-QOL score was 94% while the mean was 91%.