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The aim of the study was to investigate how municipal home care workers can determine whether an elderly woman in an ordinary home has been or is being subjected to violence, of any kind, by her partner, and how the home care workers respond to their findings. My two key questions were: how do staff detect that an elderly woman is being or has been subjected to some form of violence by her partner

Denna studie är baserad på intervjuer med kvinnor med erfarenhet av missbruk och våldsutsatthet. Syftet har varit att undersöka hur dessa kvinnor behandlats när de sökte hjälp från hälso- och sjukvården. Vi har även undersökt hur hälso- och sjukvårdens reproducerade föreställningar av kvinnor med missbruk och erfarenhet av våldsutsatthet kan förstås. Resultaten visade att intervjupersonerna kännerThis study is based on interviews with women experienced of substance addiction whilst being the victims of violence. The aim was to examine how these women were treated when they sought aid from help services. We also wanted to investigate how the reproduced notions, by healthcare personnel, of female addicts, victims of violence, can be understood. The results showed that the interviewees feel s

Lagen (1988:688) om besöksförbud trädde i kraft den 1 juli 1988 och sedan dess har såväl antalet meddelade besöksförbud som antalet polisanmälda överträdelser av besöksförbud ökat i antal. Många som beviljats besöksförbud känner trygghet enbart i sitt hem och undviker så gott det går att befinna sig på platser som inte omfattas av förbudet. En lösning på detta skulle kunna vara att införa en möjli

Mother Abuse in the Eyes of the Social Services - a Qualitative Study of Violence and Parenting The purpose of this study was to examine how Child Protection workers understand the dynamics of parenting within a relationship that entails Domestic Violence, and to highlight how they understand the needs of the children in these families. Interviews were carried out with four female Child Protectio

The purpose of this study was to examine a few home care workers’ conception of their discretion connected to work-related health within the home care service. The study was based on semi-structured interviews with three home care workers from different areas of a common district in the south part of Sweden. The analyzed result was based on theories about control and research on health. Theoretica

“Abuse – That’s not really a factor in my world”: A qualitative study about how abuse is defined and constructed within geriatric care Nursing homes have increasingly come under attack in recent years for scandals involving the abuse of elderly care-takers within their organisations. The purpose of this study was to determine how abuse can be defined by the staff within geriatric care in nursing

Two different hot work tool steels, QRO 90 and QRO 80N were investigated using atom probe tomography. QRO 90 is a commercial alloy while the other QRO 80N is an experimental test alloy. The main composition of QRO 90 is 0.38C-2.6Cr-2.3Mo-0.9V-0.75Mn (wt%) whereas QRO 80N has the composition 0.38C-1.7Cr-2.7Mo-1.2V-1.1Mn-0.044N (wt%). Hence the main difference between both materials is the nitrogen

With some of the highest biodiversity on the planet, the Mediterranean Biome is experiencing a conservation crisis driven by high human population density, development, and habitat fragmentation. While protected areas safeguard some critical habitat, economic realities require conservation efforts in human-dominated landscapes to maintain biodiversity in practice. As an essential component of food

Energy service companies (ESCOs) are often portrayed as important change agents in capturing energy efficiency opportunities to curb global energy demand and mitigate climate change. Yet, the literature in this area is limited. While many studies analyze economic and environmental impacts from energy efficiency programs, far less attention has been devoted to evaluating managerial and other challe

Even enterprises with very advanced management systems seldom monitor efficiency of energy usage and materials flows within their processes and have, therefore, difficulty to effectively manage their resource efficiency. This paper is built upon experiences from a pilot implementation of a new tool for promotion of energy management and cleaner production, developed within the Energy Management an

Background: Previous studies on domestic violence in Indonesia have focused primarily on women's experiences and little research has been undertaken to understand men's views on domestic violence or their involvement in the prevention of domestic violence. This study aimed to explore men's views on masculinity and the use of violence within marriage, in order to gain knowledge on how to involve me

The purpose with this essay, was to examine how the social workers in Malmö´s Social welfare services describe the needs of the psychosocial treatment to clients with methadone maintenance treatment and what kind of efforts they can offer to this group of clients. To attain this purpose we focused on these following questions How do the social workers define the problems and the needs of a heroin

Syftet med detta arbete är att utreda om brandmännens praktiska färdigheter har förändrats sedan utbildningen Skydd Mot Olyckor (SMO) trädde i kraft. I detta arbete förklaras praktiska färdigheter som ”hur väl man hanterar och är insatt i hur verktyg och redskap fungerar som ingår i brandmannayrket – t.ex. kedjesåg, klippverktyg, pumpar, motorkap med mera”. Vid Helsingborgs Brandförsvar där studieThe purpose of this study is to investigate if the practical skills of firemen have changed since the education Skydd Mot Olyckor, SMO (eng. Protection Against Accidents, SMO) was introduced. In this study, the term ”practical skills” is defined as ”how competently one handles and understands the use and function of tools used in the fireman profession, e.g. chainsaw, cutting tools, pumps and cros

Background: Fatigue is a debilitating symptom in patients with primary mitochondrial disease nPMD). Developing new treatments that improve fatigue is a patient priority but is hampered by a lack of fit-for-purpose patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). We aimed to understand the impact of fatigue on the lives of people with PMD and develop a brief PMD-specific PROM to evaluate fatigue in clini

In the last couple of years changes in the legal systems treatment of young offenders has given the social worker more legal responsibility. In view of this, our purpose with this study was to examine how social workers and prosecutors apprehend the role of the social worker during the legal process. The study was delimited to look into the handling of young offenders between the ages of 15 and 18

Background: Second primary cancers (SPCs) are increasing due to improving survival in first primary cancers. Previous studies on SPCs in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) have focused on treatment and other risk factors, but data of RCC as an SPC are scarce. Objective: In this study, we want to elucidate the risk for any SPC after RCC, and in reverse order, for RCC as an SPC after any cancer. We addition

Background: A novel generation of PET scanners based on silicon (Si)-photomultiplier (PM) technology has recently been introduced. Concurrently, there has been development of new reconstruction methods aimed at increasing the detectability of small lesions without increasing image noise. The combination of new detector technologies and new reconstruction algorithms has been found to increase image

BackgroundAdrenomedullin is a vasoactive hormone with potentially prognostic and therapeutic value, which mainly has been investigated in intensive care unit (ICU) settings. The triaging in the emergency department (ED) of patients to the right level of care is crucial for patient outcome.ObjectivesThe primary aim of this study was to investigate the association of bioactive adrenomedullin (bio-AD