The aim with our study was to understand former addict´s experience of social networks from the Lewi Pethrus foundation (LP foundation) aftercare. The method we have used is qualitative semi-structured interviews. We have interviewed eight persons, four men and four women. They have all been in contact with the LP foundation and are today drug free. The result of the study has shown that the fellowship, in the different social networks have been very important to maintain a drug free life.

The aim of this study was to describe how persons with Whiplash associated disorder experience how the pain affects them in their daily life. The design of the study was descriptive with qualitative, individual interviews, questionnaire with background facts of the examination group, and diary notes from persons with pain of WAD. Method for selection was convenience. Through contact with the association of whiplash group in a county in middle of Sweden, the majority of the examination group for the study was found. Five persons where given information about the study, one of them choose not to take part of the study, and one of the persons did not complete the study.

Forskningen är motstridig när det kommer till huruvida män är utsatta för våld i nära relation. Det talas om ett symmetriskt och om ett asymmetriskt våld. Det första syftar på att män i samma utsträckning som kvinnor blir offer för relationsvåld medan det senare står för att majoriteten som utsätts för denna typ av våld är en kvinna. Överens är man dock om att den typ av våld som män och kvinnor utsätts för i en relation är av olika art. Män är mer utsatta för psykisk misshandel medan kvinnor ofta drabbas värre fysiskt.  Brottsförebyggande rådet presenterar siffror där var femte utsatt person för relationsvåld i Sverige är en man.

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there are any similarities or differences between leisure-time pedagogs and primary school teachers' verbal communication with parents. Questions we ask ourselves is how the verbal contact looks like today, the desire for how it should be and the importance of verbal communication has.We chose to make a qualitative questionnaire study in the form of open questions to three leisure-time pedagogs, three primary school teachers and eleven parents were asked to answer.The results show that leisure-time pedagogs, primary school teachers and parents believe that verbal communication is important and significant. They believe that it is working well today, whether is via face to face, telephone or email. The verbal communication should be honest and straight between all parties. Parents believe it is important to know leisure-time pedagogs who take care of their children, in order to create a sense of security among parents.

Upplevelsen av att vara närstående till en person med psykisk sjukdom är känslomässigt krävande. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva upplevelsen av att vara närstående till en person med psykisk sjukdom. Litteraturstudien är baserad på åtta stycken vetenskapliga artiklar som är analyserade med kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys. Analysen resulterade i sex kategorier: Att vara arg, rädd och skamsen., Att vara hjälplös och distansera sig., Att få slitningar i relationer., Att få ansvar och utvecklas men leva med förluster i livet., Att få stöd men bli nonchalerad av sjukvårdspersonal., Att lära sig leva med den nya livssituationen. Resultatet visar att de närstående går igenom omvälvande upplevelser då en nära person drabbas av en psykisk sjukdom.

Upplevelsen av att vara närstående till en person med psykisk sjukdom är känslomässigt krävande. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva upplevelsen av att vara närstående till en person med psykisk sjukdom. Litteraturstudien är baserad på åtta stycken vetenskapliga artiklar som är analyserade med kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys. Analysen resulterade i sex kategorier: Att vara arg, rädd och skamsen., Att vara hjälplös och distansera sig., Att få slitningar i relationer., Att få ansvar och utvecklas men leva med förluster i livet., Att få stöd men bli nonchalerad av sjukvårdspersonal., Att lära sig leva med den nya livssituationen. Resultatet visar att de närstående går igenom omvälvande upplevelser då en nära person drabbas av en psykisk sjukdom.

The aim of this Master thesis is to study the public libraries' function as a place for people to meet. Four major questions are taken up: + Do the public libraries have the function of a meeting place? + How important do the librarians and the visitors find the libraries possible function as a meeting place? Do they think that this function is important? + What differs the public libraries from other places in society when it comes to the function of a meeting place? + What differences are there between a larger and a smaller library when it comes to the function of a meeting place ? The basis of this study are interviews with employees at a province library in Jönköping and at a smaller library in Sjöbo in Borås municipality. Our study deals with the history of public libraries, its functions as a meeting place, its architecture, culture, and statistics concerning numbers of visitors and loans of books. The conclusions that are drawn are that the public libraries have qualifications to function as a meeting place even if that isn't always the case.

Dementia may cause difficulties in communicating. People suffering from dementia are therefore often described as being unable to take part in meaningful conversation. The responsibility to create understanding in a conversation is shared by all participants. By means of different strategies, participants in conversation can construct understanding through collaboration. How these strategies are utilized in conversation where one or more of the participants suffer from dementia is relatively unknown.

Title: Strategies for competition ? a study of the Swedish contact lenses market.Authors: Pernilla AArskog and Annika Lange.Background: As a market gets more mature and the competition increases, it is more important for a company to apply the right strategic perspective. There are four fundamental strategic perspectives for a service-oriented business: a core product-, a price-, an image- and a service perspective. This study is a about service management and take its point from the theories from the Nordic School about strategies for competition, customer value, perceived customer quality and customer loyalty.Purpose: The main purpose with this study is to analyze and evaluate how the actors at the Swedish market of contact lenses should compete to gain further competitive advantages.Method: The study includes four qualitative interviews with two traditional opticians and two Internet based businesses, but also a survey with 106 contact lens users is included.Analysis: In the analyse part of this thesis it was concluded that the traditional opticians conception about their customer not agrees with what the customer evaluate as important. Many of the customers have thought about changing their optician, and besides that do not recommend their optician, and can there for not be categorize as loyal customers.

Today therapy dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) service people more than ever and different categories of work places use therapy dogs to help their caretakers. Many studies have been made on the positive effects in patients when they are given contact with a dog, but very little have been done on how the dog experience its situation and what kind of behaviour a therapy dog shows during its working days. This work was made to investigate the behaviours that educated therapy dogs in Sweden showed when they were in contact with a caretaker and to find out if the dogs showed any signs of stress or some other kind of discomfort. To do this a survey was sent out to 17 educated therapy dog handlers in Sweden that together had 18 educated therapy dogs. The survey contained 39 questions about the daily work of the therapy dogs when they were together with caretakers and some questions about the therapy dogs spare time. A question about what kind of dog breed the therapy dog handlers had were also in the survey to investigate if some breeds were more usual as therapy dogs.

Syftet med studien är att belysa skillnader mellan pojkars och flickors olika skriftspråk mot bakgrund av en djupanalys av elevtexter skrivna av två klasser i år sex. Totalt antal texter att analysera blev 49, varav 28 var skrivna av flickor. Texterna skrevs utifrån en detaljrik bild för att, till studien, få ett material att analysera och redovisa som kunde svara mot vårt syfte. I studien undersöks i vilken mån pojkar respektive flickor använder första person singular samt i vilken utsträckning de beskriver olika relationer i sina texter. Resultatet av studien, som behandlade första person singular, visade på en skillnad mellan de två grupperna, alltså inte mellan pojkar och flickor.

Under det senaste året har ett nytt koncept för utlåning av pengar mellan privatpersoner utvecklats på kreditmarknaden. Det består av ett nätverk där de som behöver låna pengar annonserar på internet hur mycket de vill låna och till vilken ränta. På motsvarande sätt lägger andra personer ut bud för utlåning. Då låntagare och långivare enats om belopp och ränta, sker en lånetransaktion mellan dem precis som i en traditionell bank. En mellanhand ser till att allting är säkert, rättvist och enkelt att hantera.

Many persons with long-term illness experience a decline in their quality of life. Perceived Quality of Life is a subjective term based on prior personal experiences and is highly individual. The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate perceived Quality of Life in persons with Multiple Sclerosis and to get knowledge if physical therapy changes a person?s quality of life. Three women and three men with a range of disability were interviewed in depth.

ABSTRACTAim: The aim of this study is to chart the experiences of Swedish general psychiatric care on a Swedish University hospital from a relative?s point of view. The study focus on how they are meet, satisfaction with and participation in the care. The study is done as an improvement project.Methods: The study was conducted by performing semi-structured interviews with eight close relatives to patients on a general psychiatric ward. The interviews lasted for 20-40 minutes.Results: The result shows that relatives are satisfied with the way they are meet by the staff on the ward, that they appreciate staff that are open, down to earth and are inviting to form a good relationship.

This study investigates augmented reality using third person perspective and what precision can be achieved by using this method. There have been prior studies in regards to precision using augmented reality, however studies using third person perspective is scarce. This study presents a solution using a static camera capturing the user as well as the plane to augment from behind. This augmented image is then transferred to a handheld device that is held by the user. Using this method the user will be free to manipulate and work with the plane without removing the device that captures the scene, a common problem when using visual reference markers in augmented reality.