The purpose of this study was to investigate the results obtained from scientific articles concerning research into group rehabilitation for people over 65 years with hearing problems. The interest arose then group rehabilitation was unusual in the audiologists work, even though previous research showed these positive effects. With a group rehabilitation, the participants can easier accept theire hearing loss and hearing aid, compaired with an individual rehabilitation. The method used was a literature study. PubMed and PsycINFO databases were used in the search for literature.

Background: From a public health perspective it is of great interest to prevent the risk of noise induced hearing loss, because in addition to hearing loss, tinnitus and sound sensitivity also may lead to other health problems. About 1,4 million people in Sweden live with some form of hearing loss and 25000 of them are children under the age of 16. Studies have shown that hearing loss among adolescents is increasing and it is often associated with sound environments in their leisure time. Lectures in hearing prevention has been conducted in schools for adolescents but have not reached the desired results. Objective: To enquire caregivers? attitude, behaviour and perceived knowledge about sound exposure and its risks.

HIV/AIDS är en virus sjukdom som omgärdas av fördomar och kopplas samman med grupper som homosexuella och missbrukare av intravenösa droger. Grupper som av samhället i många fall har blivit fördömda för sitt avvikande levnadssätt. Vi vill med denna litteraturstudie belysa hur sjuksköterskors attityder emot HIV/AIDS patienter ser ut inom slutenvården. I samhället bemöts HIV/AIDS patientgruppen med misstänksamhet, skuldbeläggande och rädsla (Siminoff, 2001). Vilken attityd har sjuksköterskorna inom slutenvården i EU och USA till denna patientgrupp? Vi valde att genomföra en systematisk litteraturstudie för att få svar på studiens frågeställningar.

Bakgrund: HIV/AIDS har blivit ett allt större problem i världen varför sjuksköterskor kommer att möta patienter med denna sjukdom i allt större utsträckning. Runt 39,5 miljoner är smittade av HIV/AIDS och cirka 25 miljoner har dött. Det är därför viktigt att undersöka vad sjuksköterskan upplever i sitt möte med patienter med HIV/AIDS. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva vad sjuksköterskor och sjuksköterskestuderande upplever i sitt möte med patienter med HIV/AIDS. Metod: Metoden som författarna valt är en litteraturstudie.

När en person insjuknar i HIV/AIDS blir hela familjen drabbad. Familjen är en viktig resurs för den sjuke och är dem som har bäst kännedom om den sjuke familjemedlemmens behov. Genom att ha kunskap om hur HIV/AIDS påverkar familjen kan sjuksköterskor och övrig vårdpersonal hjälpa och stötta hela familjen. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur familjer påverkas av att leva med en familjemedlem med HIV/AIDS. Studien genomfördes som en systematisk litteraturöversikt och elva kvalitativa och tre kvantitativa artiklar analyserades.

To be able to feel a sense of belonging, people need to have the possibility to take part of the information from the society. Hearing-impaired don?t have the same possibility as hearing people when they want to take part of the information, therefore they don?t get the same benefit. This contributes to a feeling of not belonging and a sense of limitation in different social occasions. Therefore the society needs to be accessible to everyone regardless disability.

I denna uppsats utreds effekterna av HIV/AIDS på tillväxt i södra och östra Afrika. Detta sker via en teoretisk undersökning av effekterna på fysiskt, humant och socialt kapital som är tre viktiga bakomliggande faktorer som påverkar ekonomisk tillväxt. Resultatet av studien är att HIV/AIDS troligen har negativ verkan på alla dessa tre typer av kapital, men att det är effekterna på humant och socialt kapital som får långsiktiga ekonomiska följder i form av lägre ekonomisk tillväxttakt i länderna i fråga..

AIDS is a huge problem in the world and it is spreading rapidly, especially in Africa. Botswana is one of the worlds worst-hit countries, with over one-third of the inhabitants infected by HIV/AIDS. The measures that have been taken to stop the spread of AIDS are to inform and enlighten people on how the disease is spread and how to protect oneself. The aim of this thesis is to investigate what different ways of informing people about AIDS different organisations make use of in Botswana. The thesis also addresses how some receivers of the AIDS information experience it.

This essay investigates the relation between ?usage? and ?hearing? of dialectal words and expressions in the Ryukyu islands, Japan, in this case words and expressions from a mix of Ryukyuan and standard Japanese, so called uchinaa-yamatoguchi. A survey was conducted and in the questionnaires the respondents were asked to fill in the degree of usage and hearing of each word and expression, consisting of three alternatives each; use often, use seldom and never used - hear often, hear seldom and never heard.My findings show a stable pattern in the relation between usage and hearing, where the usage is relatively low compared to hearing in almost every case. Among the most frequently used ones, one could find words and expressions connected to food, festivals, type of person, adjectives, adverb and animals etc..

Ear disease and hearing loss in preschool children can be difficult to discover and diagnose. This paper investigates ear disease in 20 children controls from 1 to 5 years of age. The aim of the study was to map prevalence and incidence for ear disease, and prevalence of hearing loss in a group of children.Twenty children wide aged 1, 1½, 3 and 5 were included and investigated according to a set protocol with psychoacoustic tests, tympanometry, ear microscopy and a parental questionnaire. The majority of the children could be evaluated by age adequate psychoacoustic tests and otoscopy. Tympanometry was the investigation method that was most difficult to perform.

Bakgrund: HIV/AIDS har blivit ett allt större problem i världen varför sjuksköterskor kommer att möta patienter med denna sjukdom i allt större utsträckning. Runt 39,5 miljoner är smittade av HIV/AIDS och cirka 25 miljoner har dött. Det är därför viktigt att undersöka vad sjuksköterskan upplever i sitt möte med patienter med HIV/AIDS. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva vad sjuksköterskor och sjuksköterskestuderande upplever i sitt möte med patienter med HIV/AIDS. Metod: Metoden som författarna valt är en litteraturstudie.

Abstract The present study examined if early deaf people and people with severe hearing loss perceive visual information differently than hearing people. An experiment was conducted with eight deaf participants and eight participants with normal hearing. The participants were between the ages of 18-74 years. The participants were asked to look at fifteen different images portraying manipulated illusions, and then assess if the images were of the same size. Subsequently another image depicting a different illusion with a face hidden in it was presented to the participants.

The present study deals with task-oriented conversations between a person with hearing loss and a relative or friend. The purpose was to investigate how the participants in the task-oriented context co-construct understanding, and to focus on different kind of repair strategies that the participants may use to make the hearing loss relevant in the conversation. The method used was Conversation Analysis (CA). The material consisted of eight videotaped task-oriented conversations between a person with hearing loss and their significant other. Altogether eight persons participated in the study ? four of them had a hearing loss and the other four had normal hearing.

A hearing loss may affect the identity development and participation among adolescents. To understand adolescents with hearing loss in modern society, it?s of great importance to ascertain how identity- and participation processes occur in new areas, such as the internet.Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate what research shown regarding identity development among adolescents with hearing loss and whether social processes on the internet may influence the participation of this group.Method: A literature review was conducted to obtain a cohesive framework of research about participation processes and identity development among adolescents. Included articles have been published 1995-2015.Results: The results show the importance of the individual?s identification with the surrounding.

Abstract The present study examined if early deaf people and people with severe hearing loss perceive visual information differently than hearing people. An experiment was conducted with eight deaf participants and eight participants with normal hearing. The participants were between the ages of 18-74 years. The participants were asked to look at fifteen different images portraying manipulated illusions, and then assess if the images were of the same size. Subsequently another image depicting a different illusion with a face hidden in it was presented to the participants.