This is a qualitative study where the purpose was to investigate what professionals experience to be the reason for an individual to become addicted to gambling and continues to gamble even though it leads to negative consequences. The purpose was also to investigate what the professionals experienced was of importance for an individual to recover from a gambling addiction. The study was based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with knowledgeable individuals in the field. The main findings of the study were that the motivation for individuals with a gambling problem to continue gamble was that they saw gambling as the solution to their problems by winning back lost money. It was common that gambling was an escape from anxiety, guilt, shame, and other gambling-related problems such as financial liabilities.

Background: All the students in the University College of Södertörn in Sweden who are studying to become a teacher, are attending practice education.Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study was to illuminate and analyze how the students experienced their practice education. My intent was to investigate if the students by their experiences have been affected in their own self-esteem.Method: This is a qualitative study that has been responded by 60 teacher students. The students attended in an internet- survey that included ten different questions.Result: The result of the interviews shows that the self-esteem has been affected, mostly in a positive way.Conclusion: The most common reason that affected the student self-esteem depended on how their supervisor has been treating them during their practice.

Syftet med föreliggande enkätstudie var att undersöka om distriktssköterskorna upplever att de har tillräckligt med kunskap och stöd för att genomföra stödsamtal med deprimerade mammor, samt att se hur handläggningen ser ut då mammor visar tecken på postnatal depression. Urvalet bestod i distriktssköterskor som genomgått utbildning i Postnatal depression och svarsfrekvensen i enkätstudien var 66 %. Samtliga respondenter upplever att utbildningen i Postnatal depression är användbar i deras arbete. Mest nytta har de av att veta hur en bra screening ska gå till. Majoriteten av respondenterna har tillgång till handledning med psykolog 1 gång/mån eller 2-3 gånger/halvår.

Background: Children frequently exhibit high levels of distress while undergoing routine blood sampling or injections. If the child is not treated with appropriate care, the feelings of distress may increase over time and result in needle-phobia. Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe nurses´ possibilities to relieve distress in children undergoing needle sticks. Method: A systematic literature review was conducted through database search and screening of reference lists. Ten research articles with a quantitative approach were included, coded for quality and then analyzed.

Bröstcancer är den vanligaste cancersjukdomen hos kvinnor men med rutinmässig mammografiscreening vartannat år och tidig samt effektiv behandling, har dödligheten minskats de senaste två decennierna. Orsakerna till varför vissa kvinnor får bröstcancer är inte klarlagda. Det kan bero på flera bidragande faktorer, bland annat arvsanlag. En del av den ärftliga bröstcancern beror på mutation av bröstcancergen1 (BRCA1) och bröstcancergen2 (BRCA2). Mutationsbärare tillhör en högriskgrupp och erbjuds därför årlig screening med magnetresonanstomografi (MRT), mammografi och ultraljud redan i ung ålder för att tidigt kunna upptäcka och behandla eventuell bröstcancer.

: I denna rapport har det gjorts en undersökning om vilket som är det mest lämpliga materialet/ materialen för en handske till formel 1 bilförare. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer och informationsundersökning har en kravspecifikation sammanställts med de viktigaste kraven, som förare och regelverket ställer. Reglerna är angivna i standarder till handskar för formel 1 bilförare. ! En rad olika tester har gjorts och genom det har frågeformuleringarna besvarats. De material som testades var Nomex®, Kevlar®, Trevira CS® och Nomex® III.

The purpose is to describe and analyze Handelsbanken?s proftit share system Oktogonen and to investigate how it affects the motivation among the employees and management.The method qualitative case-study has been used. Both primary and secondary sources act as a foundation for the thesis. The primary sources are based on eight qualitative interviews. The empirical material is completed with appropriate theories.

A large proportion of the energy consumption is in the building industry and a large part goes to heating our homes and premises. In the developing countries' development now threatens the large consumption of energy in our earth's climate. It is in the West world that we must be good role models in terms of energy efficiency. One solution to reduce energy consumption for heating of buildings may be to continue to build low energy houses and passive houses, but it is also about rebuilding the buildings that currently have high energy consumption such as the old Million program Houses. These buildings will be standing many years and their energy consumption will not diminish over time by itself and energy prices will certainly not diminish in the future.

I have in this study examined, through qualitative interviews, how adults with foreign background that are pupils in adult education in Sweden, understand the concepts democracy and dictatorship. Their expressed understandings have been compared with their former life experiences as well as with the aim of the social studies to create a qualitative understanding of essential social concepts. My starting point is theories about the adult in leaning processes. It has been assumed that the adult interprets the world much through former life experiences. I have also relied on the idea that having a qualitative, more scientific, understanding of essential subjects is important for the adult as a member of society and participator in the on-going political debate.

This thesis aim to explain which part sound and music possess as a branding tool. We consider this to be of relevance since there is very limited reseach conducted on the subject. To fulfill the purpose of this thesis we have focused on three main issues. Our ambition is to describe this subject from a marketing perspective with the brand in focus.

APA har föreslagit den nya diagnostiska kategorin, hypersexuell störning, för att effektivisera forskning kring individer med normativa men omåttliga sexuella beteenden associerade med lidande. Pilotstudiens syfte var att undersöka om symptomnivå mätt med Hypersexual Disorder Screening Inventory (HDSI), var relaterat till upplevelsen av livskvalitet, psykiskt lidande och nedstämdhet samt förekomst av negativa konsekvenser. Syftet var även att utforska HDSI?s samstämmiga validitet. Deltagarna, vilka rekryterades genom annons, besvärades av omåttliga sexuella beteenden.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka och kartlägga ordens betydelse och begreppsförståelse i matematik hos barn i förskoleklass till skolår 2. Jag ville undersöka vilka de svåra begreppen i matematik var, jämföra resultatet hos svenska barn och barn till invandrade föräldrar, likaså skillnaden mellan flickor och pojkar. Intressant var även att se om pedagogerna kunde tänka sig att förändra sitt arbetssätt och arbeta mer multisensoriskt. Barn och pedagoger som ingick i min studie kom alla från min skola. Barnen gjorde en screening som innehöll fyra områden i matematik. Därefter intervjuades sju barn från de olika klasserna som deltog i studien.

Healthcare staff working within emergency care must often handle extreme and emotional situations. Most of the certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) will some time during their professionally active lives confront with events that are difficult to handle and for some these events will lead to more or less serious traumatic distress and in certain cases develop post traumatic stress disorder symptoms. Many studies demonstrate that staff working in similar stress related environment runs larger risk in order to get stress related symptoms. The aim with the study was to describe the experiences around difficult work related events among CRNAs. The study was implemented as a descriptive study with qualitative run-up via a questionnaire with open questions relevant for the study's aim.

The aim of this Master thesis is to study how management, teachers and librarians at the university college Swedish school of sport and health sciences (GIH) view information literacy (IL) as a standard in higher education. I have used a sociocultural theoretical perspective, as the focus being on co-operation within the institutional context. The following questions are focused on: Of what importance are the control documents concerning IL as a standard in the educational program? How do the respondents view the value of, and the responsibility for, IL as a standard in the educational program? What are the conditions for co-operation at GIH to reach the standards of the higher education act? The methodology used is qualitative case study. Six qualitative interviews were carried out in order to describe the attitudes of the management, teachers and librarians related to this subject.

Title: How to manage stress seen from a leadership perspective Authors: Lina Jonsson, Kristian Olsson, Mattias Olsson, Shabnam Tahajjod Supervisor: Marie Aurell Department: Department of Business Administration, IEM Course: Bachelor thesis in Business Administration, FEC 007 Question of issue: How can we understand stress managing at a workplace seen from a leadership perspective? Method: We have chosen a qualitative method for our thesis with inter-views as qualitative data collection. The interviews had a low grade of standardization. Result: On the basis of our question of issue we have drawn the con-clusion that it is important to create comfort at the workplace, that there are a safety and a feeling of handle the work tasks and that there is a plentiful information flow between managers and employees to manage to handle the workplace stress situa-tion..