Tidigare forskning av hälsorelaterad livskvalitet hos barn och ungdomar med funktionsnedsättning har visat att de skattar sin hälsa lägre jämfört med den typiska populationen. Hälsorelaterad livskvalitet tycks dessutom variera mellan olika diagnosgrupper. Kunskap om hälsorelaterad livskvalitet hos barn och ungdomar med olika funktionsnedsättningar har fortfarande brister därför finns ett behov av ytterligare studier. Det finns dessutom ett behov av dessa studier i kliniska sammanhang. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka och beskriva hälsorelaterad livskvalitet hos barn och ungdomar med olika funktionsnedsättningar i Västerbotten. Totalt 182 barn och ungdomar indelade i fem olika diagnosgrupper deltog i studien. Enkäten The EuroQol Five Dimensions Health Questionnaire, Youth version (EQ-5D-Y) användes för skattning av hälsorelaterad livskvalitet. I enlighet med tidigare studier tyder resultaten på att hälsorelaterad livskvalitet hos barn och ungdomar med svårare funktionsnedsättningar tycks vara lägre än för barn med lindrigare funktionsnedsättningar. Vidare tyder resultaten på att det fanns signifikanta skillnader i hälsorelaterad livskvalitet mellan olika diagnosgrupper samt mellan pojkar och flickor. Studien visar att det finns risk att barn med svårare funktionsnedsättningar jämfört med barn som hade mindre omfattande funktionsnedsättningar kan uppleva lägre generell hälsorelaterad livskvalitet samt mer svårigheter inom de olika hälsodimensionerna. / Previous health related quality of life studies in children and adolescents with disabilities have shown that they rate their health lower than in the typical population. Also, health-related quality of life appears to vary between different diagnostic groups. Knowledge of health-related quality of life in children and adolescents with various disabilities still has deficiencies therefore there is a need for further studies. There is also a need for such studies in the clinical context. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe health-related quality of life in children and adolescents with various disabilities in Västerbotten. A total of 182 children and adolescents divided into five different diagnostic groups participated in the study. The questionnaire The EuroQol Five Dimensions Health Questionnaire, Youth version (EQ-5D-Y) was used to estimate the health-related quality of life. In accordance with previous studies, the results suggest that health-related quality of life in children and adolescents with severe disabilities seems to be lower than for children with less severe disabilities. Furthermore, the results suggest that there were significant differences in health-related quality of life between different diagnostic groups and between boys and girls. The study shows that there is a risk that children with severe disabilities compared with children who have less severe disabilities may experience lower overall health-related quality of life and more difficulties in the various health dimensions.

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Background  Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic disorder in genetically predisposed individuals in which damage to the small intestine is caused by eating foods containing gluten. The prevalence has been shown to vary from around 1-3%, but most people with CD are undiagnosed. An option for finding those with unrecognized CD would include screening the general population, i.e., mass screening. However, screening identifies a pre-disease or disease condition in people who are presumed healthy and have not sought help. Therefore, the impacts of the screening process and being diagnosed through screening should be explored before such a public health intervention is considered. A population-based CD screening study involving 12-year-olds was undertaken in Sweden and provided an opportunity to explore these issues related to CD screening. Aims To make inferences about the potential impacts mass screening for CD can have on participants by exploring experiences and outcomes for participants involved in CD screening study. Methods and Subjects  Both qualitative (short written narratives) and quantitative (questionnaires with EQ-5D instrument) methods were used. Children who participated in the CD screening study were invited to write narratives at the time of the screening, before screening results were known, describing their experience with the screening (n=240). The EQ-5D instrument was used to measure and compare health-related quality of life reported by participants at the time of the screening and one year after the screening-detected participants received their diagnosis (screening-detected n=103, referents n=483). Those with screening-detected CD were also invited to write narratives one and five years after their diagnosis. In these narratives the adolescents described how it felt to be diagnosed with CD, how it felt to live with CD, and if they thought all children should be screened (one-year follow-up n=91, five-year follow-up n=72). Results  Even though some children experienced fear and anxiety during the screening, overall they had, or were provided with, tools that allowed them to cope well with the screening. The health-related quality of life reported by those with screening-detected CD was similar before and one year after diagnosis (and similar to that of the referents). We also found that after five years of living with the diagnosis there had been maintenance and evolution in the beliefs and practices of these adolescents. Being detected through screening and the threat of complications impacted how they felt about the diagnosis, coped with the gluten-free diet, and what they thought about CD screening. Five years after the screening-detected diagnosis the adolescents have adjusted to the disease and adapted new habits and coping strategies to deal with the gluten-free diet. However, there are still those who doubt the accuracy and benefit of the diagnosis.   Conclusions  Our findings suggest that it is possible for participants to avoid excess anxiety during CD screening. However, there was not consensus among participants that being detected and treated had improved their health-related quality of life or that the immediate benefits outweighed the harm caused by being detected in this way. When considering mass screening, the affect on the participants is important to take into account and our findings shed light on some of the potential impacts a CD mass screening could have on participants.

Submitted by Rodrigo Martins Cruz (rodrigo.cruz@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2015-10-26T13:23:58Z No. of bitstreams: 2 camila_tangari_meira.pdf: 312940 bytes, checksum: a4627c11344e9979ceee55d723fadc4a (MD5) license_rdf: 22974 bytes, checksum: 99c771d9f0b9c46790009b9874d49253 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Martins Cruz (rodrigo.cruz@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2015-10-26T13:24:42Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 camila_tangari_meira.pdf: 312940 bytes, checksum: a4627c11344e9979ceee55d723fadc4a (MD5) license_rdf: 22974 bytes, checksum: 99c771d9f0b9c46790009b9874d49253 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-10-26T13:24:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 camila_tangari_meira.pdf: 312940 bytes, checksum: a4627c11344e9979ceee55d723fadc4a (MD5) license_rdf: 22974 bytes, checksum: 99c771d9f0b9c46790009b9874d49253 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / Objetivou-se com este estudo avaliar um conjunto de caracter?sticas morfofuncionais, caracter?sticas morfom?tricas e pontua??o da marcha, atrav?s da an?lise de componentes principais (ACP), e estimar os par?metros gen?ticos, para as caracter?sticas relevantes ap?s an?lise multivariada em cavalos da ra?a Mangalarga Marchador. Dados de 14288 animais, nascidos de 1990 a 2005, foram submetidos ? ACP, objetivando reduzir a dimensionalidade do conjunto de caracter?sticas. Foram consideradas as seguintes caracter?sticas: altura na cernelha, altura na garupa, comprimento da cabe?a, comprimento do pesco?o, comprimento do dorso, comprimento da garupa, comprimento da esp?dua, comprimento do corpo, largura da cabe?a, largura das ancas, per?metro do t?rax, per?metro da canela e a pontua??o da marcha. A partir desta an?lise, sugeriram-se sete vari?veis para descarte, por apresentarem maiores coeficientes de pondera??o, em valor absoluto, a partir do ?ltimo componente principal. Assim, recomendaram-se as seguintes caracter?sticas para serem mantidas em trabalhos que utilizar?o esta mesma base de dados: pontua??o da marcha (PM), altura na garupa (AG), comprimento do dorso (CD), comprimento da garupa (CG), largura da cabe?a (LC) e per?metro da canela (PC). Estas caracter?sticas foram submetidas a uma an?lise gen?tica a fim de estimar suas herdabilidades e correla??es gen?ticas e fenot?picas. Os componentes de (co)vari?ncia necess?rios ? estima??o dos par?metros gen?ticos das caracter?sticas estudadas foram estimados pelo m?todo da M?xima Verossimilhan?a Restrita (REML). O modelo animal multicaracter?stica incluiu efeito gen?tico aditivo direto de animal, como aleat?rio, e os efeitos fixos de grupos contempor?neos, al?m da covari?vel idade do animal ao registro. Altas estimativas de herdabilidade (0,66 para PM a 0,94 para CD) foram encontradas, evidenciando a possibilidade de resposta direta ? sele??o. Foram estimadas correla??es gen?ticas e fenot?picas de ausentes a moderadas magnitudes e discretas tend?ncias gen?ticas ao longo dos anos para maior parte das caracter?sticas avaliadas. / Disserta??o (Mestrado) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Zootecnia, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2010. / ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate a set of morphofunctional traits, morphometric traits and marcha score data through the principal component analysis (PCA) and genetic parameters for the relevant traits in a multivariate analysis in horses Mangalarga Marchador . Data from 14,288 animals born from 1990 to 2005 were submitted to PCA aimed at reducing the dimensionality of the data set. There had been considered the following characteristics: height at withers, height at croup, lengths of head, neck, back, croup, hip length and body, widths of head, hip width, thorax perimeter, cannon bone circumference and marcha score. From this analysis, it was suggested seven variables to be discarded, because they have higher weightings (eigenvectors) in absolute value from the last major component. Based on the results, there was recommended the following characteristics to be maintained in future work: marcha score, height at croup, length of back, length of croup, width of head and cannon bone circumference. In a second step, these features were subjected to a genetic analysis to estimate their heritability?s and genetic and phenotypic correlations. The components of (co) variance needed to estimate the genetic parameters studied were estimated by Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML). The trait animal model included direct genetic effect as random and fixed effects of contemporary groups and the covariate age record. High heritability estimates were found, suggesting the possibility of direct response to selection. Genetic and phenotypic correlation were estimate of absence to moderate magnitudes between traits and observed discrete genetic trends over the years for most traits.

Abstract Thesis in Business Administration, School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, 2FE26E, 2017 Author: Hanna Daneshmir Supervisor: Frederic Bill Examiner: Anna Stafsudd
 Title: Emotional Intelligence in an Entrepreneurial context Background: Emotional Intelligence (EI) has been said to matter twice as much as Intelligent Quotient (IQ) for predicting business success (Goleman, 1998b). This study addresses Emotional Intelligence in previously unexplored context in Sweden: entrepreneurship. Purpose: The purpose of this research is to explain Emotional Intelligence and its possible relationship with the entrepreneur. Hypothesis: Being an entrepreneur is positively related to EQ Method: The study has a deductive research approach where the hypothesis is formed by the theoretical framework of Emotional Intelligence, providing an empirical framework that measures the concept in the entrepreneurial context and outlines linkages among the constructs. The study is conducted among members of the business organization Företagarna in Region Halland, Sweden, by the measurement instrument Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS). Conclusion: The assumptions derived from a theoretical perspective could be confirmed empirically. Being an entrepreneur is positively related to EQ. Keywords: CEO, EI, EIS, EQ, Emotional Intelligence, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship

Magister Commercii - MCom / This study was undertaken to determine the relationship between the emotional intelligence and burnout levels of police constables of the South African Police Service (SAPS) in the Western Cape. The field work of constables includes situations in which police officers need to make quick decisions involving life and death. Constables regularly have to deal with and are exposed to dangerous and violent situations (Plani, Bowley & Goosen, 2003). There are certain skills which a police officer needs to demonstrate. These skills include the ability to make decisions promptly and accurately; the ability to favourably interact with the community and to observe, retain and recall detailed information. However, these skills are affected when the police officer experiences feelings of stress and burnout (Goodman, 1990). One factor that might help police officers with these skills is emotional intelligence (Levert, Lucas & Ortlepp, 2000; Mayer & Salovey, 1997). Given the nature of policing, the potential benefit to the SAPS employing a police officer with high emotional intelligence to deal with burnout, would be the desired attribute. A simple random sample of N=108 police constables participated in this study. The Emotional Quotient-Inventory (EQ-i) and the Burnout Measure (BM) were administered. Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 15.0. Cronbach reliability estimates for the EQ-i ranged from .87 to .90 and for the BM was .93. Positive and negative relationships were found between emotional intelligence dimensions: self-awareness (r=.-393, p>0.01), self-regulation (r=.-485, p>0.01), motivation (r=.-442, p>0.01), empathy (r=.-394, p>0.01) and social skills (r=.-383, p>0.01), [N=108] and police officers’ total burnout levels. The results indicated that the more self-aware, self-regulated, motivated, empathetic and socially inclined police officers were, the less likely police officers were to experience burnout. The results also indicated that the less self-aware, self-regulated, motivated, empathetic and socially inclined police officers were, they would be more likely to experience burnout. The exploratory factor analysis yielded a two factor structure for the individual on the emotional intelligence dimensions namely, self-awareness and empathy. A single factor was found for the manager consisting of the original five dimensions of the EQ-i. There was a moderate to strong negative correlation between total self-awareness (r=.-206), self-regulation (r=.-263), motivation (r=.-299), empathy (r=.-268) and social skills (r=.-311), [N=108, p>0.01] and police officers’ total burnout levels. This finding suggests that the more police officers viewed their manager to be self-aware, self-regulated, motivated, empathetic and socially inclined, the less likely they were to experience burn-out. The results of the multiple regression analysis show that police officers’ self-regulation appeared to be the only significant reliable predictor of burnout. The findings of this study provide an important contribution to expanding the body of literature and knowledge concerned with the emotionally intelligent constable which influences their burnout levels / South Africa

Sexual assault and abuse have a significant impact on victims and society. Although there has been a plethora of research studies examining the criminogenic aspects of sexual offending, sparse literature exists on the emotional aspects of sexual offending. Prior research established that sex offenders hold deficits in their emotional functioning that could be a result of psychopathic personality traits. This research study sought to expand the literature on sex offenders and investigate if adult male sex offenders in New Jersey differ in emotional intelligence and psychopathic personality traits depending on victim typology. This study was grounded in coercion and integrated theories to explore if there are differences between the emotional intelligence and psychopathic personality traits of adult male sex offenders in New Jersey who have adult victims and child victims. The research questions asked if adult male sex offenders in New Jersey with adult victims differ in emotional intelligence and psychopathic personality traits than adult male sex offenders with child victims. Data were collected from a sample of 80 adult sex offenders located in New Jersey who were administered the Bar-On EQ-I and PPI-R. Results were analyzed using a multivariate analysis of variance. The findings of the study showed that when compared to convicted sex offenders with adult victims, convicted sex offenders with child victims had higher total and subscale scores on the EQ-I and lower scores on the three dimensions of the PPI-R. The implications for positive social change include helping to tailor treatment programs to reduce the risk of recidivism based off the identified offender emotional intelligence and psychopathic personality differences.

Die Therapie von Azetabulumfrakturen bei älteren Patienten bleibt ein kontrovers diskutiertes Thema, was aufgrund der steigenden Inzidenz zunehmend an Relevanz gewinnt. Richtlinien für die Therapie existieren vor allem für ein jüngeres Patientenkollektiv, was die Therapieentscheidung bei älteren Patienten erschwert. Trotzdem wurden in den letzten Jahren zunehmend auch ältere Patienten operativ versorgt. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde untersucht, ob ältere Patienten von einer operativen Therapie profitieren und ob ältere Patienten generell ein schlechteres Outcome aufweisen als jüngere. Es wurden 374 Patienten mit Azetabulumfraktur untersucht, welche zwischen 2005 und 2014 am Universitätsklinikum Leipzig operativ oder konservativ versorgt wurden. Zunächst wurden den krankenhausinternen Patientenakten allgemeine Patientendaten entnommen und anschließend eine Befragung mittels Fragbogen und eine klinische Nachuntersuchung durchgeführt. Schlechtere Ergebnisse im Outcome älterer Patienten traten zwar auf, erwiesen sich jedoch nur für die Items KÖFU und KÖRO des SF-36, den Parameter „Eigenständige Versorgung“ des EQ-5D sowie die Parameter „Hinken“ und die „Verwendung von Gehhilfen/Gehfähigkeit“ im Merle d’Aubigé und Harris Hip Score als statistisch signifikant. Auch zwischen den operativ oder konservativ versorgten Patienten wurden kaum signifikante Unterschiede im Outcome gefunden. Lediglich im psychischen Bereich des SF-36 (PSYC und psk) zeigten sich bei jüngeren konservativ versorgten Patienten signifikant bessere Ergebnisse. Ansonsten ließen sich keine signifikanten Unterschiede zwischen den Versorgungsgruppen, weder bei älteren noch bei jüngeren Patienten in den Scoresystemen feststellen. Insgesamt erwiesen sich die Unterschiede der Outcomeergebnisse zwischen den Alters- und Versorgungsgruppen als tendenziell und rücken unserer Meinung nach in den Hintergrund. Demnach schneiden ältere Patienten nach erfolgter Therapie unter Berücksichtigung des Allgemeinzustandes genauso gut ab wie jüngere Patienten. Die Gründe für die überraschend guten Ergebnisse im Outcome bei älteren und auch konservativ versorgten Patienten könnten Grundlage für weitere Arbeiten sein. Intentionen, welche möglicherweise die Therapieentscheidung künftig stärker beeinflussen könnten, sind der Anspruch an eine möglichst anatomische Reposition auch im hohen Alter und der damit verbundenen Langlebigkeit der angewendeten Therapie. Dadurch wäre die Senkung der Komplikationsrate sowie der Rate sekundär implantierter H-TEPs möglich. Diese sind aktuell bei operativ versorgten jüngeren und älteren Patienten deutlich höher als bei konservativ versorgten. Zwischen den Altersgruppen bestand kein statistisch signifikanter Unterschied. Um diese These zu untermauern sind weitere kontrollierte Beobachtungen des Outcomes sowie der Komplikationsraten nötig.:Inhaltsverzeichnis I Abbildungsverzeichnis III Tabellenverzeichnis IV 1 Einleitung  1 1.1 Einführung in die Thematik  1 1.2 Anatomie  2 1.2.1 Funktion und Bedeutung des Azetabulums  2 1.2.2 Anatomie des Azetabulums  2 1.2.3 Biomechanik des Hüftgelenkes  5 1.3 Pathologie  6 1.3.1 Pathomechanik der Azetabulumfraktur  6 1.3.2 Demographie und Epidemiologie  7 1.3.3 Frakturklassifkation  8 1.3.4 Diagnostik  9 1.3.5 Therapie  12 1.3.6 Komplikationen  14 1.4 Fragestellung  15 2 Patienten und Methoden  16 2.1 Patientenkollektiv  16 2.2 Methoden  17 2.2.1 Datenerhebung  17 2.2.2 Datenerfassung  17 2.2.3 Statistik  19 3 Ergebnisse  21 3.1 Patientenkollektiv  21 3.1.1 Allgemeine Merkmale  21 3.1.2 Unfallmechanismus und Trauma  22 3.1.3 Frakturklassifkation 24 3.1.4 Therapie  25 3.1.5 Komplikationen  26 3.1.6 Revisionen  29 3.2 Ergebnisse der Nachuntersuchung  30 3.2.1 Allgemeine Merkmale des Nachuntersuchten Patientenkollektivs  30 3.2.2 Ergebnisse im SF-36  30 3.2.3 Ergebnisse im EQ-5D  32 3.2.4 Ergebnisse im Merle d’Aubigné Score  33 3.2.5 Ergebnisse im Harris Hip Score  34 3.2.6 Vergleich der Scoreergebnisse  36 4 Diskussion  37 4.1 Allgemeine Gruppenmerkmale  37 4.2 Unfallmechanismus und Trauma  39 4.3 Klassifkation  40 4.4 Therapie  41 4.5 Komplikationen  43 4.6 Ergebnisse der Nachuntersuchung  44 5 Zusammenfassung der Arbeit 47 6 Quellen  49 7 Anlagen  A 7.1 Anlage A: AO-Klassifkation  A 7.2 Anlage B: Fragebogen zur Nachuntersuchung  C 7.3 Anlage C: Klinischer Nachuntersuchungsbogen  H 7.4 Anlage D: SF-36 Gesundheitskonzepte I 7.5 Anlage E: EQ-5D Bereiche  J 7.6 Anlage F: Modifizierter Merle d‘Aubigné Score K 7.7 Anlage G: modifizierter Merle d'Aubigné Score Auswertung L 7.8 Anlage H: Harris Hip Score Parameter. L 7.9 Anlage I: Harris Hip Score Auswertung N

Die Arbeit befasst sich mit anonymisierten Daten von 142 Patienten mit 159 Fällen (17 Patienten wurden beidseitig operiert) einer Femurschaftfraktur die im Uniklinikum Leipzig versorgt wurden. Dabei wurden drei verschiedene Osteosyntheseverfahren angewendet: antegrade und retrograde intramedulläre Marknagelung sowie die Plattenosteosynthese. Die Aufgabenstellung umfasst eine retrospektive Analyse der postoperativen Ergebnisse zwischen Januar 2003 bis Dezember 2010 unter Einbeziehung der postoperativen Komplikation, Daten zur subjektiven Lebensqualität (EQ-5D) im Rahmen einer Subgruppenanalyse sowie zugehörige Röntgenbilder. Es konnte festgestellt werden dass geringfügige Unterschiede bezüglich Komplikationen und Lebensqualität bei den verwendeten operativen Verfahren vorhanden sind. Diese werden in der Arbeit näher betrachtet und anhand der aktuellen Literatur diskutiert. Postoperativ konnten wir insgesamt eine sehr hohe Heilungsrate verzeichnen. Es traten bei 11% der Fälle Komplikationen (Pseudarthrose, Infektion, Implantatbruch, Rotationsfehler) auf, wobei der AFN Vorteile in der Komplikationsrate sowie der subjektive Lebensqualität verzeichnete. Darüber hinaus erfüllt unsere Studie den Zweck eines epidemiologischen Updates des Patientenkollektives am Universitätsklinikum Leipzig.:1. Vorbetrachtung 2. Aufgabenstellung 3. Material und Methoden 4. Ergebnisse 5. Diskussion 6. Zusammenfassung 7. Anhang

Detta arbete handlar om utommusikaliska ljud och dess inverkan på mig som musikskapare. Jag har samlat in utommusikaliska ljud genom att spela in dem på egen hand, alternativt laddat ner färdiga ljudfiler från andra skapare. Sedan har jag använt ljuden på tre olika sätt i tre olika musikproduktioner. Syftet har varit att undersöka hur de olika metoderna påverkar min kreativa process samt hur de har påverkat slutresultatet Jag har under arbetets gång försökt att hålla ljudfilerna så nära originalskicket att man fortfarande kan höra vad ljudkällan har varit. JMin slutsats är att två av metoderna gav negativa resultat på min kreativa process medan den tredje metoden gav ett positivt resultat. När jag använde de utommusikaliska ljuden tidigt i produktionsprocessen stimulerade de mitt kreativa tänkande och hjälpte mig att komma på nya idéer för resten av produktionen. Men när jag påbörjade produktionen som vanligt och sedan försökte få in de utommusikaliska ljuden i efterhand upplevde jag det som svårare att vara kreativ jämfört med hur det är när jag inte använder utommusikaliska ljud i mina produktioner.