Bakgrund: Perifer venkateter (PVK) är det vanligaste invasiva ingreppet inom vården och något många patienter kan känna obehag inför. Känslor som framkallar obehag kan infinna sig hos patienten röntgensjuksköterskan möter. Syfte: Studien syfte var att sammanställa kunskap om åtgärder röntgensjuksköterskan kan vidta i samband med insättandet av en perifer venkateter för att lindra obehag. Metod: En litteraturöversikt med induktiv ansats. Tio artiklar sammanställdes till ett resultat som kategoriserades efter artiklarnas innehåll. Resultat: Kategoriseringen resulterade i trygghetsskapande-, farmakologiska- samt medicintekniska och distraherande åtgärder. I dessa framgår vilka åtgärder sjuksköterskan kan vidta för att lindra obehaget i samband med insättandet av PVK. Slutsats: Resultatet visar att lindrande av obehag kan ske genom flertalet olika åtgärder. Vissa åtgärder kräver enbart röntgensjuksköterskans personkännedom och lyhördhet medan andra kräver medicinsk utrustning eller teknik. / Background: PVC insertion is the most common invasive procedure in health care and many patients describe feelings of discomfort in connection to the procedure. Feelings of discomfort may appear in this meeting between radiographer and patient. Aim: The aim of the study was to compile the radiographer’s interventions in the procedure of PVC insertion to reduce discomfort. Methods: A general literature review with an inductive approach. Ten articles complied in the result and were categorized from the content of the articles. Results: The categorization resulted in three categories security-, pharmacological- and medically and distraction measures, describing the interventions that the nurse can use to ease the discomfort in the procedure involving a PVC. Conclusions: The results shows that easing the discomfort can be achieved in different ways. Some measures only need the radiographer’s personal knowledge and sensitivity while others require medical devices or technology.

The topic of the diploma thesis is fear, the form is an audiovisual installation with social overlap. Audio created from recordings of interviews on a given topic and spatial installations. It is therefore a matter of creating several elements that will put together a complete installation. One of the elements is conversations with people about their feelings, fears and fears - work also has a social overlap. The second element is the installation and use of sound recordings of the requested persons. The end result is a room where the voices of people are played, the walls are formed of reflective surfaces so that the visitor can see himself in the spacious darkness. Reflective material is not mirrors, I want to create a blurred image of faces.

Fear of crime is an important topic in research as well as in public opinion. However, data on fear of crime is limited and difficult to collect, being heavily reliant on surveys with different methods of operationalization yielding different results. This paper aims to investigate if an alternative method can be used to estimate fear of crime. Using a large representative unique data on fear of crime from Google Trends, I analyze if fear of crime can be estimated in Sweden during years 2011-2019, using The Swedish Crime Survey as benchmark. The results show that the method is accurate for country-level and the most populated regions of Sweden, but less so for the lesser populated regions. This method can be used to estimate fear of crime in a time- and money-efficient way, producing daily estimates at little to no cost.

Participants in extreme sports have usually been studied from a risk perspective. The present study seeks to move away from this preconception and aims to study the emotional subjective experience. A qualitative methodology with phenomenological-hermeneutic design was used taking as a tool conversational systems. The informants were 8 extreme athletes belonging to the same group. Extreme sports included were: Mountain climbing, rappelling, bungee jumping, and mountaineering. The results indicate that fear is a generator of freedom, it can be useful, it is rewarding and it is also a promoter of personal transformations. This research gives theoretical value to the reason for involvement in extreme sports.

An ancient story from Bhagavata Purana may be relevant to the psychology and spirituality of palliative care in modern medicine. This article brings an ancient Indian story that people still use during the grieving process. Symbolism of the old story is explained in a modern perspective.

An ancient story from Bhagavata Purana may be relevant to the psychology and spirituality of palliative care in modern medicine. This article brings an ancient Indian story that people still use during the grieving process. Symbolism of the old story is explained in a modern perspective.

Police officer and community relations tensions have heightened with increases in publicized deadly use-of-force incidents on social media platforms. Though some deadly force encounters have been justified because officers stated they feared for their lives, little is known about the impact fear has on police officers' actions. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the impact fear plays when officers implement use-of-force continuum practices during encounters with civilians. Schacter and Singers' two-factor theory of emotion was used as the conceptual framework for this study. The key research question examined the influence of police officer fear as a factor in decision making during use-of-force incidents. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 9 active police officers. Colaizzi's descriptive phenomenological method was used for data analysis. The four emergent themes were: (a) wall of blue, characterized by police culture, (b) being brave not invincible, characterized by civilians expecting police officers to not be human, (c) policing has evolved for the worse, characterized by policing practices to be good in theory but not realistic in practice, and (d) wearing body-worn cameras are a great tool. The key findings of this study were fear of the unknown and fight-or-flight actions are common amongst police officers when they are engaged in use-of-force incidents, and body-worn cameras are a contributing factor in how officers respond. The positive social change implications stemming from this study include recommendations for police leaders where they achieve their mission of partnership with the community and impartially enforce the law by enhancing community relations.

Traditionally, the procedure of feeding an organism in a fear-producting situation has been viewed as having a fear-reducing effect, called counterconditioning. English and English define counterconditioning as the procedure of conditioning a second and conflicting response to a conditioned stimulus that is not simultaneously being reinforced. Fear is reduced by conditioning to the fear-producing stimuli the incompatible emotional responses associated with eating (e.g.--Miller, 1951) The strength of fear was illustrated by Miller in 1951. He found that albino rats, trained to run down an alley to secure food at a distinctive place and motivated by a 46-hour hunger, would pull with a force of 50 gm. if they were restrained near the food. Studeis done by Faber (1948), Jones (1924) and Wolpe (1952) found that Ss fed in a fear-producing situation were consequently less fearful than Ss not receving food in the situation. In Nelson's second experiement the results suggested that these experiemtns primarily reflected the effects of exposure. The present experimentis designed to examine the difference in results between the Incentive and the Incentive Control groups, if the conditions are changed. The Ss in the Incentive Control group are forced to spend an amount of time in the two compartments equal to the time spent in each compartment by a matched S in the Incentive conditin, but with food present. The present experiment tried to indicate that at least for the Incentive and the Incentive Control groups the variable of free, as opposed to forced, exposure is a significant factor

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Negative stereotypes of aging, such as dependency, tend to paint a picture of older adults as frail or a burden on society. This study aimed to explore the relationship between the Fear of Dependency Scale and anxiety and depression, evaluating gender, age, and physical health as moderators. Findings suggest that age moderated the relationship between fear of dependency and depression and anxiety in women, with middle-aged women reporting the highest levels of depression and anxiety. Similarly, poor physical health in women with high fear of dependency being related to higher levels of depression and anxiety. Fear of dependency was related to higher levels of depression, but not anxiety in men. Age did not moderate the relationship between fear of dependency and mental health measures, but physical health did moderate the relationship. Men with poor perceived health and a high fear of dependency reported higher levels of depression.