AimsThe aim of this study was to conclude whether women living and staff working in a women´s shelter feel experience a need of physical activity in the shelter and also what thoughts women living and staff working in the shelter have regarding possible access to physical activity. Following questions were adressed: Does women living and staff working in the shelter experience that there is a need of physical activity in the shelter? What does women living, and staff working, in the shelter think about the physical activity conducted in the shelter? Why does the women living in the shelter choose to participate in the physical activity? Are there any connections between symptoms which battered women can suffer from and symptoms which scientific studies say can be reduced by physical activity?MethodsThe study is based on five interviews in order to understand and illustrate how women living in a shelter relate to physical activity. The answers from the interviews has been correlated to scientific results and other literature in the area. Literature studies have also derived background information as well as a deeper knowledge regarding in what way violence against women affect the abused woman.ResultsThe results show a need for physical activity at the women?s shelter where this study was conducted.

Årligen insjuknar ca 300 barn i någon form av cancer i Sverigel. När ett barn drabbas av cancer, påverkar det hela familjen. Hur det påverkar och vilka erfarenheter det ger de friska syskonen finns det en okunskap om. Syfte: Att belysa erfarenheter av att vara ett syskon till barn med cancer. Metod: Systematiska litteraturstudie byggd på tre kvantitativa och fem kvalitativa artiklar. Sökning gjordes i Cinahl, PubMed och PsykINFO. Artiklarna har kvalitetsgranskats och inspiration av innehållsanalys anvädes. Resultat: Analysen resulterade i två huvudkategorier.

Bakgrund: I Sverige drabbas 8000 kvinnor av bröstcancer varje år. Dessa kvinnor utsätts för både kroppsliga och emotionella biverkningar och förändringar. Syfte: Syftet med denna litteraturöversikt är att belysa hur kvinnor som drabbas av bröstcancer upplever att deras sexualitet påverkas av sjukdom och behandling. Metod: Metoden var en litteraturstudie. Resultat: Ett huvudtema framkom en förändrad identitet; och fem subteman: kroppsliga förändringar, känna sig okvinnlig, relationens betydelse, kommunikationens betydelse för att komma vidare och sjukvårdens betydelse.

I Sverige insjuknar årligen omkring 300 barn och ungdomar mellan 0-18 år i cancer. Barn med cancer påverkas på många olika sätt och det medför ofta en långvarig sjukhusvistelse för dem. Syftet med studien var att beskriva barns upplevelser av att leva med cancer. En systematisk litteraturstudie genomfördes där vetenskapliga artiklar söktes i databaserna Cinahl, PsycINFO och PubMed och 14 artiklar granskades och kvalitetsbedömdes. Resultatet delades in i tre teman fysiska upplevelser av behandlingen, leva med känslomässiga förändringar och önskan av att vara ?normal?.

The health care system in most western countries is undergoing rapid changes with an increasing amount of people living with chronic cancer. These people have to deal with their disease in every day life together with working and family life. The relationship between health services and every day life has changed and raises new requirements. Earlier research has shown that maintaining every day life is important for cancer patients and their families. This study comprised patients with lymphoma receiving their diagnosis during 2003 ? 2005.

Sexualitet kan uppfattas som obekvämt och därmed undviks det ofta att prata om det inom vård och omvårdnad. Gynekologisk cancer kan ha en stark på-verkan på kvinnors sexualitet. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva kvinnors upplevelser av sexualitet vid gynekologisk cancer. En litteratursökning genomfördes och 15 vetenskapliga artiklar analyserades med en kvalitativ innehållsanalys med manifest ansats. Detta resulterade i sex kategorier: Oro och rädsla för samlagssmärta; förändrad kroppsuppfattning och förlust av kvinnlighet; oro och sorg över risken att vara infertil; försämrade parrelationer eller oro över framtida parrelationer; oförändrad eller stärkt relation samt lättnad över att vara besvärsfri.

Varje år drabbas ca 50000 människor i Sverige av cancer. Ungefär var tredje människa kommer någon gång att få en cancersjukdom. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva personer med cancer och deras upplevelse av information i samband med behandling och/eller undersökning. 11 internationella kvalitativa vetenskapliga artiklar analyserades med manifest kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Analysen resulterade i tre kategorier: Betydelsen av olika informationskällor, missnöje över att inte få individuellt anpassad och relevant information från vårdpersonal och att kontrollera och hantera situationen genom att erhålla eller undvika information.

Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva vilka copingstrategier föräldrar använder sig av då deras barn har cancer. Data samlades in via databaserna MedLine (PubMed) och CINAHL. Femton artiklar valdes ut och de valda artiklarna kvalitetsgranskades och analyserades. Utifrån valda artiklar framkom sju kategorier. I studiens resultat framkom det att föräldrar till barn med cancer använde sig av olika copingstrategier.

ABSTRACTBackground: People with colorectal cancer undergoing rectum amputation get a permanent colostomy, which affects the social life. It may be valuable for health care what these people experience living with colostomy in order to provide the greatest possible support. Objective: The aim of this study is to describe how people who received a colostomy experience their daily lives and the support they have received from the health services.Method: Qualitative interview study with six people, with a descriptive phenomenological approach.Results: The analysis of the interviews about how it's like to live with a colostomy resulted in three themes: 1) Living with a colostomy gives an uncertainty that affect the social life, 2) Physical and psychological impact of getting a colostomy and 3) Support for health care and relatives.Conclusion: Subjects had a positive attitude towards life, which contributed to that they could adjust to living with a colostomy and feel a meaningfulness of life. The study shows that all the interviewed people overall were satisfied with the information provided by the healthcare personnel. It was good with both oral and written information and very appreciated with repeated information. One aspect that could be improved was the information given aboute the closure of anus during surgery and the following complications.

En artikelserie om livmoderhalscancer.I Sverige diagnostiseras 30 000 kvinnor varje år med cellförändringar i livmoderhalsen. Av dem utvecklar 450 cancer. Chris Eriksson överlevde livmoderhalscancer med ett ärr som minne. John Karlssons sambo Ylva var en av de som inte överlevde..

Jönköping's municipality requested a diploma work witch would present the experiences, as arisen during the existence of the echo village Smeden.To recive information for the background, literature at the university library were searched at the database "Libris" with words like "echo village" and "ecological living".Data was retrieved from 28 questionnaires that were sent out to the inhabitants of the echo village Smeden. The questionnaires contained questions about experiences, opinions, ideas and thoughts about living in this echo village. The results were analyzed and presented by diagrams and tables and showed that the inhabitants where most unsatisfied with the sewer and the system of the toilet. In the opposite the inhabitants experienced that the remaining systems were in satisfactory and the majority of the inhabitants were very pleased with their living conditions.Conclusions of this study are that an echo village would be a suitable alternative to an ordinary living and that ecological living would be something that would work well even in the future. An important thing to remember is that the systems of the households must be easy for the inhabitants to maintain otherwise the environmental thinking would be in risk of failure if some don?t have the energy to manage this properly..

Background; Gynecological cancer is a common term for cancer in the female genitals and 2013 there were about 2800 women in Sweden that was diagnosed. This form of cancer and the treatment that is used, affects the sexuality and also the fertility of the women.Aim; The purpose with the essay was to illustrate the experience of the sexuality after the treatment of gynecological cancer.Method; The method used in the essay was a systematic translation of different literature. Of all the articles used there were eight that was qualitative, two quantitative and one was a combination of both methods. The analytic process was accomplish with the support of the Friberg (2006) analytic method.Results; The analysis resulted in two categories; Physical changes after the treatment and the treatments impact on the sexuality of the women. The physical changes that occurred because of the treatment was recurring and it showed that it was primarily surgery that hurt the woman body.

Introduction: For the adolescent to be diagnosed with cancer could be turbulent and life may end up in tatters. A cancer diagnose affects the adolescents' relationships with parents, friends and new acquaintances. For teens that are affected by cancer, losing peer relations are a great fear and to maintain friendship can be one of several challenges during this period.Purpose: The purpose of the study is to describe adolescents' experiences of peer relations after being diagnosed with cancer.Method: Qualitative interviews with four adolescents were conducted and collected data were analyzed using a qualitative content analysis.Findings: The result shows that peer relations got affected in both positive and negative ways. This is reported in three categories; ?Losing friends?, ?Friends matter? and ?Changed friendship?.

Problemområde: Studiens problemområde omfattade den förändrade livsvärlden hos en familj då ett barn drabbas av cancer. Sjukdomen för med sig en ökad emotionell stress och de vanligaste reaktionerna är ångest, depression, ängslan, skuld, maktlöshet, utmattning och osäkerhet. Barnets cancer leder således till ett ökat livslidande hos samtliga familjemedlemmar. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att ur ett föräldraperspektiv belysa hur familjens livsvärld påverkas då ett av barnen drabbas av cancer samt hur situationen hanteras av familjen. Metod: För att besvara syftet användes en kvalitativ ansats där författarna utgick ifrån tre olika självbiografier.

To receive a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer can lead to a tremendous change in a person?s life. Thoughts regarding death may cause a personal crisis which can have negative influences on the patient?s social, mental and spiritual state. Most people with pancreatic cancer are diagnosed in a late stage of the disease.