Bakgrund: Idag lever ca 160000 personer med demens i Sverige. Demens är en obotlig sjukdom som med tiden leder till olika funktionsnedsättningar och svårigheter att tillgodose grundläggande behov. Livskvalitet är en parameter för att beskriva hur personen med demens upplever sin livssituation. Tidigare studier visar på att sjuksköterskans bemötande kan ha påverkan på personen med demens livskvalit

I Sverige representeras flera av de politiska församlingarna idag av en kvantitativ jämställdhet, som innebär att både män och kvinnor finns jämnt företrädda och ska kunna ges lika möjligheter att påverka och forma villkoren för beslutsfattandet. Denna studie syftade till att undersöka upplevelsen av hinder bland skånska politiker, och genom det ta reda på om förutsättningarna var lika för båda kö

I den här studien fördjupas förståelsen kring en grupp psykologers och kuratorers upplevelser om att vara i samtal med klienter, och om hur de påverkas av den sekundära psykiska påfrestningen som kan uppkomma då. Syftet med studien är att ta reda på vilka strategier de använder för att hantera svåra samtal, samt vilka strategier de använder för att bibehålla balansen mellan arbetsliv och privatlivThe results from this study deepens the understanding of how psychologists and welfare officers experiences therapeutical consultations with clients, and also how they are affected by the secondary mental stress that may occur. The objectives of the study are to examine which strategies the interviewees use to manage the impact difficult consultations may have on them selves, as well as which stra

The aim of the study was to examine how Swedish police officers reason about domestic violence in bisexual and homosexual relationships. The study involved six officers serving with varied work experience and age, stationed at different locations in southern Sweden. The method of the study was a combination of semi-structured interviews and vignettes. The study material was analyzed from a gender

The purpose of the study was to examine how the district court describes the plaintiff in rape convictions in order to gain a deeper understanding of how the district court reasons about the plaintiff’s credibility. The material used for the study consisted of ten district court verdicts from one bigger and one smaller city in Sweden where the verdict was given in 2015 and 2016. The material was a

The purpose of this study is to make researches into the experiences of the social welfare secretaries about the work of the organization with streamlining from cost- and client efficiency with emphasis on units that work with children and youths as well as welfare. The study was provided and accomplished by using a qualitative method and semi structured interviews. Five social welfare secretaries

As climate change continues to escalate, the need for drastic changes is urgent. The world has agreed on a limit to global warming, and all countries are aware of the problem. The theory behind the Environmental Kuznets Curve is based on an inverted relationship between emissions and environmental impact and GDP growth. It could easily be interpreted as an easy way out of, which means that if a co

Parallellt med ökningen av cancer i samhället ökar behandlingsmöjligheterna för cancersjukdomar. Allt fler människor kan i nuläget erbjudas kurativ cytostatikabehandling mot sin cancersjukdom. Syftet med studien var att belysa livet hos en människa som genomgått cytostatikabehandling för malignt lymfom sett ur ett patientperspektiv. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med nio patienter på en

Inom onkologin är det vanligt att patienter som får konventionell behandling samtidigt använder sig av en eller flera komplementära metoder (KAM). Syftet med studien var att undersöka patientens erfarenhet av hur det är att använda KAM tillsammans med konventionell onkologisk behandling och vilken betydelse detta val har i mötet med de professionella på en onkologisk mottagning. En kvalitativ inte

Den här uppsatsen är författad av Amanda Evertsson via Institutionen för kommunikation och medier vid Lunds universitet och har titeln ”’Kill them wherever you find them’ – en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av den Islamiska statens videopropaganda riktad mot Frankrike”. Uppsatsen skrivs i en tid där hotet från den våldsbejakande sociala rörelsen Islamiska staten är mer påtagligt än någonsin. Alarmerad

The aim of this study was to examine social workers perceptions of medication assisted treatment and how the cooperation gets affected when several professional logics meet. Through a qualitative research we interviewed nine municipal social workers that have knowledge and experience of working with people who have substance abuse problems, in particularly with heroin, and medication assisted trea

Authors: Gabriella Odell and Iga Sikora Title: "It's just that you get to see the families around the clock and that you’re not able to hide" - a qualitative study on employee perceptions of how the investigative work and families become influenced by the investigation in an institutional environment. Supervisor: Lina Ponnert In this study we looked into investigatory homes where ch

Denna studie genomförs med syftet att undersöka huruvida företag som förvärvar presterar långsiktigt bättre eller sämre än företag som inte ägnar sig åt förvärv. Vidare undersöks vilken påverkan olika omständigheter vid förvärvstillfället kan ha på utvecklingen av det förvärvande företagets aktiepris. Studien är utförd som en kvantitativ eventstudie. En multipel regressionsanalys har gjorts för at

The purpose of this study was to explore, from a Lean perspective, the possibilities to improve IKEA DC Älmhult's operational efficiency in the processes of receiving and shipping. Through Process activity mapping, the current practices for shipping and receiving operations were described and analyzed in detail. Waste, primarily in the form of transport, motion and waiting, was identified and

The aim of this study has been to discuss how couples that have shared the division of parental leave equal discuss parental leave and gender equality in a Swedish context. It has been done through caring out interviews with five couples that has shared the parental leave equal. The motives behind an equal division of parental leave is motivated around ideas of gender equality and awareness of mor

Abstract Author(s): Robert Hildingsson Title: When zero-vision is no longer valid. A study in Social Work on the experiences of the Substitution treatment. Supervisor: Annika Capelán Köhler Assessor: TBA The purpose of the study was to shed some light on the national drug policy of “zero-vision” – that is, the Swedish governmental no-drug policy – from the point of view of the participants of th

Author: Alida Karlman and Emma Jonerud Title: Young Children's Opportunities towards Development and Attachment at an Orphanage in Uganda Supervisor: Bodil Rasmusson Assesor: Malin Arvidson This study was performed at the orphanage Sanyu Babies Home in the capital city Kampala of Uganda and became possible with the financial support through the Minor Field Study (MFS) scholarship from SIDA. T

The aim of this study was to gain an understanding of how a contemporary social movement in Sweden uses social media as a way of mobilization. The case for this study was a social movement initiated by professionals working with unaccompanied minors. These professionals were frustrated with restricted asylum laws and wished to see more “humane asylum politics”. Since its start in the mid-fall of 2

The aim of this study was to examine how care managers work in relation to mental health issues amongst the elderly population in Sweden. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven care managers from four municipalities in Sweden. The empirical data collected from these interviews was analysed through the concept of Michael Lipsky´s theory of street-level bureaucracy and through Robert B