Fibromyalgi karaktäriseras av utbredd, diffus värk i musklerna och ömhet vid beröring och tryck. Sjukdomen kan ha ett negativt inflytande på dagliga livets aktiviteter vilket kan leda till aktivitetsbegränsningar. Syftet med studien var att undersöka om kvinnor med diagnosen fibromyalgi upplever aktivitetsbegränsningar i vardagen. Syftet var också att beskriva vilka aktiviteter som begränsas, på vilket sätt de begränsas och vilka copingstrategier och praktiska lösningar som används. Metoden som användes var halvstrukturerade intervjuer som utfördes på fem kvinnor med fibromyalgi.

This study investigated the relation between Extraversion and Conscientiousness with job satisfaction and job selection in the two occupational groups of telemarketing and administration. The study also set out to explore the relation between social desirability as assessed with an Implicit Association Test (IAT) and total reaction time on the IAT. The questionnaire was administered over the Internet to forty-one subjects (24 women and 17 men) in the age range 16-65. Results indicated that people working with telemarketing tend to be extrovert while people working with administration often are conscientious. Job satisfaction correlated with Extraversion in the telemarketing group.

Som arbetsterapeut tittar man på delaktighet och aktivitet i vardagen, där kommunikationen är en viktig del för att samspelet mellan människor skall fungera. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilken betydelse kommunikationshjälpmedel har för kommunikationen och delaktigheten i vardagen för personer med funktionsnedsättning som använder kommunikationshjälpmedel för att samtala med andra människor. Fyra undersökningspersoner intervjuades i denna kvalitativa studie. De berättade om sitt kommunikationshjälpmedel och vilken inverkan det har i deras samspel och delaktighet med andra människor. Resultatet visar att dessa kommunikationshjälpmedel har en stor betydelse för dessa personer i vardagen.

AbstractPurpose: The purpose of this study was to see if there was any correlation between BMI and chronic pain among participants who underwent a behavioural Medicine rehabilitation program at a pain clinic in the central part of Sweden. Method: The study was conducted as a quantitative descriptive study context and has used medical records with documented data from the participants who were part of a pain clinic rehabilitation programs in the years 2004-2005. Altogether there were 76 participants in these years and excluded was nine participants with BMI measurements were not included in the documentation. Main Results: Regarding the relationship between BMI and chronic pain there was no significant relationships. Participants who completed the behavioural Medicine rehabilitation program, however, showed a lower value of BMI and the estimated pain in VAS from the first to the third which is the last time of measuring.

Earlier psychological research on stress and its complex of problems has identified several factors which have shown a relation with the occurrence of a poorer mental ill-health. In this study some of these factors have been examined in 69 police officers from Stockholm, Lund and Helsingborg. In the study, police officers with high and low self reported ill-health were compared considering trait anxiety, alexithymia and posttraumatic stress symptoms.The results showed that police officers with poorer mental ill health had a significant higher degree of trait anxiety, the dimension of alexithymia difficulty identifying feelings and the PTSD-dimension avoidance and hyperarousal. The results also showed several positive relations among the variables that divided the groups. On account of the last-mentioned the results will above all be discussed in an integrating perspective..

AbstractPurpose: The purpose of this study was to see if there was any correlation between BMI and chronic pain among participants who underwent a behavioural Medicine rehabilitation program at a pain clinic in the central part of Sweden. Method: The study was conducted as a quantitative descriptive study context and has used medical records with documented data from the participants who were part of a pain clinic rehabilitation programs in the years 2004-2005. Altogether there were 76 participants in these years and excluded was nine participants with BMI measurements were not included in the documentation. Main Results: Regarding the relationship between BMI and chronic pain there was no significant relationships. Participants who completed the behavioural Medicine rehabilitation program, however, showed a lower value of BMI and the estimated pain in VAS from the first to the third which is the last time of measuring.

Violence against children and particularly the ?Bobby Case? in spring 2006 initiated an unprecedented debate in the Swedish media about child maltreatment and child murder. There are however some children whose death causes never will be solved, and some of these cases are erroneously classified as something else.The present survey is commissioned by the Swedish Rescue Services Agency and the Swedish Centre for Lessons Learned from Incidents & Accidents, and will serve as the basis for a children safety council which will be established 2006.In this survey the answer to the question how deaths among children and youth under the age of 18 years caused by accidents, suicides and violence are investigated when the background and the intention is uncertain is elaborated. A statistical report of how many deaths are classified as uncertain intent is given in the survey. The statistics shows that 26 children and youths under the age of 18 have died from uncertain intent between the years 1997-2003.There are many purposes to a death investigation, for example to determine the cause and manner of death.

The present study examines the effect of a nine-hour Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) intervention for teachers who experience stress. Twenty-two teachers from four different counties in southern Sweden were randomly allocated to an ACT intervention (n=15) and a control group (n=7). The ACT condition received three three-hour sessions of ACT over a six-week period, and the control group received a three-hour stress lecture at one occasion. At a follow-up four-weeks after completed intervention, ACT participants showed significant in-group differences on stress, psychological flexibility, general health, and burnout. At a between group comparison, only psychological flexibility was significantly enhanced at the follow-up.

I denna uppsats undersöks hur psykologens yrkesroll formas och utformas på vårdcentral. Det empiriska materialet utgörs av semistrukturerade intervjuer med fem psykologer på vårdcentral, deras verksamhetschefer samt en yrkesutvecklingskoordinator för psykologer inom primärvården. Med utgångspunkt i grounded theory har resultatet analyserats i termer av primärvårdspsykologi, professionell identitet och professionssociologi. Resultatet lyfter fram psykologernas bild av sin yrkesroll, deras upplevelse av relationer till andra i organisationen och till gränsfrågor. Slutsatsen är att psykologens yrkesroll på vårdcentralen befinner sig i jurisdiktionens gränsområde och innebär ett aktivt identitetsarbete, en komplex och dynamisk process i spänningsfältet mellan professionella identitetsideal och organisatorisk reglering..

The main aim of the study was to examine the importance of organizational climate for affective job-related wellbeing. A further aim was to investigate potential differences in employee level in the experience of organizational climate and wellbeing. Another purpose was to see if there was agreement in the view of the organizational climate among the employees. Questionnaires were collected from 44 employees at a chain store. Results showed that Integration, Involvement, Supervisory Support, Training, Welfare, Innovation and Flexibility, Goal Clarity, Efficiency, Effort, Performance Feedback, Pressure to Produce and Quality had a great influence on Enthusiasm but only Pressure to Produce and Welfare correlated with Anxiety.

Ett av arbetsterapeutens verksamhetsområden är psykiatrin, där klienterna har olika psykiska funktionshinder. Arbetsterapeutens uppgift är att med olika medel få klienterna till att utföra aktiviteter. Syftet med studien var att undersöka arbetsterapeuters arbete med motivation i relation till personer med psykiska funktionshinder och hur detta möjliggör aktivitet. Fyra arbetsterapeuter deltog i studien. Fokusgrupp användes som metod, där interaktion och diskussion undersökningspersonerna emellan beaktas.

Vardagliga aktiviteter för personer med demens är ett viktigt område att beakta. Levnadsberättelsen består av information från personer med demens och deras tidigare intressen, som kan ligga till grund för att förbättra innehållet i vardagen. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur personer med demens, arbetsterapeuter och planeringsansvarig personal upplever aktivitet för personer med demens. En kvalitativ ansats valdes med egenkonstruerade intervjufrågor. Vi intervjuade två personer med demens, två planeringsansvariga och två arbetsterapeuter som alla var kvinnor.

The purpose of this paper was to learn more about the strategies used by senior high school librarians and teachers in educating their students' information skills, such as criticism of the information sources. The paper was based upon qualitative interviews with one senior high school librarian and three senior high school teachers. The respondents were asked to spontaneously tell me about their counseling strategies when the students do research assignments in Medicine-oriented subjects. The respondents? narratives were analyzed with Carol Collier Kuhlthau?s theories about the information search process and its levels of mediation, as well as with literature about counseling strategies in mind.

Anestesören arbetar i en miljö som är dynamisk och komplex vilket gör att det krävs att de kan utföra sekvenser av moment på automatik eftersom det oftast inte finns tid till djupare beslutsöverläggningar. Vid Huddinge Unviersitetssjukhus finns METI som är en patientsimulator. Denna simulator används idag för att öva Medicine kandidater i att ge anestesi. Detta arbete undersöker om simulatorträning kan förbättra Medicine kandidaters procedurella färdigheter. Undersökningen är en enkätundersökning där frågor som sökte ta reda på deltagarnas procedurella ställdes.

Att dokumentera är för arbetsterapeuter ett professionellt ansvar och en yrkesskyldighet som regleras av såväl lagar och etik, som interna professionella krav. Den arbetsterapeutiska dokumentationen är viktigt för att förklara arbetsterapi, stödja den arbetsterapeutiska behandlingen, kvalitetssäkring, forskning och samverkan. Tidigare studier har visat på bristfällig dokumentation, speciellt inom socialpsykiatrin, samt att dokumentation kan upplevas som problematisk. Syftet med denna studie var att genom en fokusgruppintervju undersöka hur arbetsterapeuter verksamma inom socialpsykiatri upplever dokumentationen, samt vilka faktorer som påverka densamma. Tre arbetsterapeuter deltog i studien.