The aim of this study was to investigate a health intervention at a Swedish telecom company, with regards to behavioral, cognitive and somatic stress, experienced health, and absence due to illness. A further aim was to investigate the employees' perceptions regarding the health intervention. Questionnaires were collected from 139 employees at the customer service departments.Results indicated that the health activity bowling to some extent could predict lower behavioral stress. However, the most important predictors of stress and perceived health were lack of meaningfulness and quantitative demands. Lack of meaningfulness was also a predictor of absence due to illness.

The purpose of this study was to try to develop a better understanding of the process that being a member in a new religious movement might imply, and to find out how the identity of a defector changes from the time upon entering the movement, while they are within the movement and after leaving the movement. We also wanted to examine what kind of help and support would be needed around a defection. The study focuses on identity and our questions were: How does the defector describe him/herself and his/her identity before joining the new religious movement until the period after defecting? What demand for support and help may there be when defecting from new religious movement? The theoretical starting point was The Identity Theory, Structural Role Theory and KASAM. A qualitative method was used and four defectors from new religious movements were interviewed.

Titel: Det gemensamma ansvaret fo?r lokal folkha?lsoutveckling - En studie om folkha?lsoarbetets villkor i tva? svenska kommuner. Bakgrund: Befolkningens ha?lsa a?r beroende av fungerande samha?llsstrukturer da?r kommuner har en central uppgift att vara med och skapa dem. Arbetet att skapa goda villkor fo?r ma?nniskors ha?lsa a?r en komplex uppgift.

This study is of a qualitative phenomenological approach. Its background lies in recent reports that show the problem of self-harm increasing among adolescents. The intent of the study was to highlight school counselors? view of self-harm, and their experiences of meeting self-harm through their work. Six school counselors, all employed in secondary school, have participated in semi-structured interviews.

This essay is a qualitative study about Swedish fire-fighters´ ideas of women and people from other ethnic backgrounds than Swedish. The problem in focus is why there are difficulties for those groups of people to be employed in the Swedish fire service. Can there be ideas of these groups which are not favourable for them? And if this is the case, can those ideas be explained by gender theory about construction of masculinity? The purpose is to investigate whether the absence of women and people from other ethnic backgrounds can be explained by the fire-fighters´ ideas of those groups. The study consisted of a one day observation and four one hour long interviews with fire-fighters from different positions within the Swedish fire service.

Studien är en föremålsanalys med semiotik som metod, och är en jämförelse mellan det konceptuella konsthantverket och kläder från varumärket Viktor & Rolf som drivs av Viktor Horsting och Rolf Snoeren. Syftet är att analysera hur två utstyrslar från Viktor & Rolf kan definieras på olika sätt när de placeras inom olika områden. Dessa områden är klädkonst, mode och konsthantverk. Här tolkas även hur de sammanhang som utstyrslarna visas inom  (modevisning & museum) påverkar definitionen av dem. Frågeställningarna lyder:Hur påverkar sammanhanget föremålets identitet?Hur kan ett och samma föremål tolkas när det placeras in i områdena för mode, konst och konsthantverk?Vad krävs för att ett föremål ska kunna betraktas som ett superobjekt?Analysen uppmärksammar några aspekter av hur vi definierar och tolkar föremål.

The aim of this study was to investigate how counselors who work at youth clinics relate to the question of the integrity of adolescents who are under 18 years old in relation to the parents rights to information. The study was based on semi-structured interviews with eight counselors from youth clinics in the StockholmCounty. We have analyzed our empirical material by categorizing the statements from the counselors and by using two different theories. The first one is a consequential ethics theory and the second one is a cognitive theory. These two theories have helped us to understand the thoughts and actions of the counselors.

Background:Due to a more open climate in society for homosexual people several lesbian couples have given birth to children in their relations. Research has shown no differences between children in lesbian families and children in heterosexual families considering mental and social health. International research has also shown that lesbian parents often have bad experiences from meetings with healthcare providers.Theaim of this study was to describe lesbian child families/familyplannings and the lesbian parents experiences and expectations of the healthcare.Themethod for the study was qualitative interview with 9 lesbian parents. The data was analysed by the queer theory heteronormative concept.Theresults of the research was that lesbian families considered themselves as a nuclear family and at the same time distanced themselves from the nuclear family concept. The findings showed that lesbian couples are involved in a very long process when they try to become parents.

Fritidshemmens arbete med vila och rekreation befinner sig i skuggan av de ?vriga delar som ?terfinns i fritidshemmets uppdrag. ?tminstone r?der det ett forskningsgap g?llande hur l?rare i landet arbetar med dessa begrepp i praktiken. Genom v?r kvalitativa intervjustudie str?var vi efter att kunna bidra med mer underlag till forskningsf?ltet g?llande arbetsg?ngen kring vila och rekreation utifr?n ett policy enactment-teoretiskt perspektiv.

The focus in this paper was on managers in the middle position in the care of the elderly and people with disabilities. The aim was to develop knowledge about the conditions of work among managers in the middle position and what they characterized as good leadership and which strategies they used in their work. The empirical data consisted of nine qualitative interviews with managers in the middle position in the municipality of Halmstad.The frameworks that mainly limited the middle managers' discretion were laws, political regulations and most of all it was the allocated budget. Their discretion was found closer to the operation such as working methods, recruitment and changes in job schedules. The middle managers spent the majority of their working hours with personnel administrative work and that they often had to prioritise among their tasks.

En upphandlande myndighet har en skyldighet att fo?lja upphandlingslagstiftningen na?r myndigheten upphandlar varor eller tja?nster. Vid rena lago?vertra?delser eller vid otilla?tna direktupphandlingar kan myndigheten bli skadesta?ndsskyldig. Skadesta?ndet har ba?de ett reparativt och ett preventivt syfte och ra?ttsmedlet skadesta?nd syftar till att sa?kersta?lla en effektiv tilla?mpning av upphandlingsdirektiven sa? att EU-ra?tten fa?r fullt genomslag i nationell ra?tt.

Bakgrund: God s?mn ?r viktigt f?r h?lsa och v?lbefinnande. Patienter p? sjukhus upplever ofta s?mre s?mnkvalitet p? grund av st?rningar och sm?rta. Sjuksk?terskor har ansvaret f?r att strukturera och genomf?ra omv?rdnadsprocessen, inklusive behandlande, h?lsofr?mjande och f?rebyggande ?tg?rder.

Allt fler ungdomar lider av psykisk ohälsa. Unga tjejer står för den mest dramatiska ökningen. Syftet med denna studie är att identifiera de mest förekommande stressorerna hos ungdomar på internetforumet terapisnack.com. Genom granskning av 200 inlägg undersöktes dessutom skillnader i kön, ålder samt förekomst av multipla stressorer. Genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys visade resultaten att fler tjejer än killar skriver på terapisnack.com och att de upplevda stressorerna skiljer sig åt mellan könen.

Stress är ett vanligt hälsoproblem som ökat under de senaste åren. Många sjuksköterskor upplever stress på sin arbetsplats vilket kan påverka omvårdnaden och patientsäkerheten. Vid stress sker fysiologiska-hormonella reaktioner i kroppens organsystem som utlöser fysiska och mentala påfrestningar.Syftet: var att beskriva sjuksköterskors hantering av stress på vårdavdelning. Metod: har varit en litteraturstudie. Databaser som använts var CINAHL och PubMed.

Primär hypotyreos är i Sverige en folksjukdom som främst drabbar kvinnor i alla åldrar. Sjukdomens symtom är omfattande och kan ge allvarliga konsekvenser för patientens hälsa om sjukdomen inte upptäcks och behandlas i tid. Symptom som sjukdomen uppvisar påverkar patientens livskvalitet. Sjuksköterskans ansvar är att främja patientens livskvalitet genom att bland annat hjälpa individen med anpassningen till de förändringar som sjukdomen medför. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie är att belysa hur primär hypotyreos påverkar livskvalitet hos vuxna individer.