Syftet med studien var att utifrån Gross (2007) teori undersöka känsloregleringsstrategier hos elitidrottare. Studiens frågeställning var: Vilka känslor upplever elitidrottaren timmen innan en viktig tävling och hur hanterar idrottaren de uppkomna känslorna? Studien omfattade nio elitidrottare inom individuella idrotter. Datainsamlingen genomfördes med semistrukturerade intervjuer som transkriberades och analyserades via en innehållsanalys. Analysen resulterade i sex teman med respektive två till tre subteman. De sex huvudteman var distraktion, självprat/peptalk, social strategi, struktur, uppmärksamhetsfokus och visualisering. Elitidrottarna sa samstämmigt att de upplevde känslor timmen före start i en viktig tävling och de gav uttryck för att de använde sig av känsloreglerande strategier. Dessa strategier användes ofta omedvetet. Att medvetandegöra känsloreglerande strategier kan bidra till att skapa möjligheter till en bättre tävlingsprestation. / The purpose of the study was, based on Gross’ (2007) theory, to investigate elite athletes’ emotion regulating strategies. The issue posed in the Study was the following: What feelings does an elite athlete experience in the hour before an important competition and how does the athlete handle those feelings? The study pertained to nine elite athletes in individual athletic disciplines. The compilation of data was performed through semi-structured interviews which were transcribed and analysed using a content analysis. The analysis resulted in six categories with 2-3 sub-categories. The six main categories were distraction, self-talk/pep-talk, social strategy, structure, attention focus and visualisation. The elite athletes conclusively stated that they did experience feelings during the hour just before an important competition and they gave the impression that they used emotion regulating strategies. These strategies were often used sub- consciously. Raising awareness of emotion regulating strategies can contribute to creating possibilities for enhanced performance.

This study analyzes how Swedish and Turkish journalists cope with threats, hatred, and harassment, and what role journalistic ideals and organizational support play in their coping process. The study is based on qualitative interviews, analyzed utilizing aspects from the theoretical framework of systems and coping theories. The aim of the study is to delve into personal experiences in circumstances where journalists face threat, hatred, or harassment to increase our understanding of how journalists cope with them and what happens to their journalistic ideals during this process. The results show that both groups have a similar view on which journalistic ideals are important. Both groups of journalists used emotion-focused and problem-focused coping mechanisms which utilized journalistic ideals in one way or another, to feel control over the situation. In some cases, ideals were experienced as comforting, and in others, they were compromised. Lastly, organizational support was seen and experienced as a part of individual coping only for Swedish journalists, who expressed it as a primary method to cope with hostile situations, while it remained absent for Turkish journalists in this study.

Yes / As the ageing population in China continues to grow, more people will be living with long-term health conditions and require support from family care-givers. This scoping review therefore aims to explore sources of stress and coping mechanisms adopted by care-givers of older relatives living with long-term conditions in mainland China. Literature searches were conducted in English (CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, PsycINFO and SCOPUS) and Chinese (CNKI, WANFANG DATA, CQVIP and CBM) databases between October and November 2019. The searches focused on the stressors and coping mechanisms utilised by family care-givers residing in the community. Narrative synthesis was used to identify themes within the data. Forty-six papers were included: 20 papers from English and 26 from Chinese databases. Six themes captured stressors: care-giving time (N = 22), financial resources (N = 17), role and personal strains (N = 42), preparedness (N = 4), social roles (N = 10) and lack of adequate formal support (N = 22); and one theme captured coping (N = 14). Unmet needs of care-givers of older relatives in mainland China were found to be extensive. Only a few studies had attempted to explore the causal link between stressors, coping and the influence of culture. Findings underscore the significance of adequately capturing intricacies around care-givers’ unmet needs, rather than generalising on the basis of culture. Qualitative studies are critical to providing a better understanding of the relationship between stressors, coping and resources afforded to care-givers by their cultural environment. Having such understanding is crucial to inform the development of competent care, which promotes self-efficacy and self-actualisation in care-givers in mainland China. / This work was supported by Research England: Quality Related Global Challenge Research Fund (QR-GCRF).

La thérapie par faisceaux ultrasonores focalisés de forte intensité (HIFU / High Intensity Focused Ultrasound) est une nouvelle technique d’ablation tissulaire, fondée sur la focalisation de faisceaux ultrasonores de forte intensité pour réaliser une élévation de température capable de créer une nécrose thermique. Le cerveau a été jusqu’à présent peu accessible aux ultrasons car il est protégé par la boîte crânienne. Mais de nouvelles techniques de focalisation par correction des aberrations des faisceaux ultrasonores laissent espérer des applications prochaines en intracrânien, où l’HIFU pourrait constituer une intéressante alternative à la chirurgie et à la radiothérapie stéréotaxique. Le but général de ce travail a été de tester la thérapie HIFU contrôlée par Imagerie de Résonance Magnétique (IRM) pour le traitement des tumeurs cérébrales dans un modèle petit animal in vivo de tumeur cérébrale. Nous espérons ainsi fournir des apports sur la thérapie HIFU et ses effets biologiques sur le cerveau et les tumeurs cérébrales, connaissances nécessaires avant de passer à des études cliniques chez l’homme. Le plan de ce travail est le suivant : 1) développement d’un protocole de thérapie HIFU contrôlé par IRM sur le cerveau sain et sur un modèle de tumeur RG2 greffée en intracérébral chez le rat ; 2) étude des effets biologiques de l’HIFU par l’IRM et l’examen anatomo-pathologique sur le tissu cérébral sain et la tumeur RG2 en intracérébral, montrant une sensibilité variable des tissus à l’hyperthermie ; 3) étude de sécurité (tolérance et effets indésirables), démonstration d’efficacité sur la tumeur RG2 (ralentissement de l’évolution tumorale et augmentation de la survie des animaux traités). En conclusion, l’HIFU a montré sa précision et son efficacité dans le traitement de la tumeur RG2 greffée en intracérébral chez le rat. Cette technique n’est cependant pas exempte de complications, notamment un œdème périlésionnel et des hémorragies intratumorales. / High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) therapy is an innovative approach for tissue ablation, based on high intensity focused ultrasound beams. At focus, HIFU induces a temperature elevation and the tissue can be thermally destroyed. For transcranial brain therapy, the skull bone is a major limitation but new adaptive techniques for focusing ultrasound through the skull are underway and in the near future HIFU therapy could be an interesting alternative to brain surgery and radiotherapy.The overall aim of this work is to test HIFU therapy guided by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRgHIFU) for the treatment of brain tumors in an in vivo brain tumor model in rodent in order to provide inputs for future regulatory approval for clinical trial with a clinical prototype. In this work: 1) a dedicated system for transcranial MRgHIFU in an in vivo rat brain tumor model was developed, and a full protocol was applied in healthy brain tissue of rats and in transplanted tumors; 2) the biological effects of HIFU therapy was evaluated using MRI and histology in healthy brain tissue and in RG2 brain tumor, showing a different tissue sensibility for hyperthermia; 3) tolerance and side effects were investigated and the treatment was shown to improve the animal survival time by 50%. In conclusion, HIFU therapy has proved its accuracy and efficacy in the treatment of the RG2 brain tumor transplanted intracerebral in rats. However this technique is not free of complications, in particular edema and hemorrhages.

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Compassion Focused Therapy är en integrativ transdiagnostisk behandlingsform som syftar till att öka self-compassion och minska skam och självkritik hos individer med psykisk ohälsa. Skam och självkritik har i hög grad identifierats hos personer med ätstörningar, som också ofta anses svårbehandlade. Denna studie syftade till att undersöka huruvida CFT kan vara ett behandlingsalternativ vid ätstörningar. En single-subject design med upprepade mätningar användes (n=5). Studien visade på tvetydiga resultat men indikerar att en del individer kan vara hjälpta av denna behandling. Fortsatt forskning är således motiverad / Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) is an integrative transdiagnostic treatment aiming at increasing self-compassion, and reducing levels of shame and self-criticism in individuals with psychiatric illness. High levels of shame and self-criticism have been identified in people suffering from eating disorders, disorders who are usually considered difficult to treat. The aim of the present study was to investigate if CFT could be considered a treatment option for eating disorders. A single-subject design with repeated measures was used (n=5). The results were ambiguous, though indicating that CFT could be helpful for some individuals with eating disorders. Further research is warranted.

Submitted by Caroline Falcao (caroline.rfalcao@ufpe.br) on 2017-06-01T17:32:43Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Simone de Almeida TESE.pdf: 2230420 bytes, checksum: cff8e5133d8b8f52c2f804a82d87bf4c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T17:32:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Simone de Almeida TESE.pdf: 2230420 bytes, checksum: cff8e5133d8b8f52c2f804a82d87bf4c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-03 / A determinação do preço de venda de medicamentos manipulados tem envolvido cada vez mais fatores que contribuem com a satisfação do consumidor, transformando-se em um dos principais esforços na busca de maior competitividade neste ramo de negócio. Neste contexto, este trabalho propõe duas novas abordagens de agregação de preferências de stakeholders acerca da definição metodológica de precificação de produtos farmacêuticos, se concentrando no caso particular das farmácias magistrais da região Sul do Brasil. Ambas as abordagens utilizam-se do método Value-Focused Thinking (VFT), a fim de propiciar um melhor entendimento do problema pelos membros envolvidos. Além disso, apoiam a identificação de um objetivo fundamental a partir de várias percepções do problema, estabelecendo uma visão unificada do objetivo a ser alcançado, devido à participação de todos os atores. Para isso, são identificados os valores individuais, permite-se a criação de alternativas, onde cada participante contribui com suas percepções e valores individuais, sendo definidas as medidas naturais, diretas e/ou indiretas de acordo com a experiência e conhecimento de cada stakeholder e determina-se as constantes de escala, refletindo suas preferências. A primeira abordagem utiliza-se do consenso entre os membros do grupo para se obter a preferência global, sendo que todas as etapas de desenvolvimento do modelo são realizadas com a participação de todos os atores. A segunda abordagem propõe uma maneira individualizada de participação dos stakeholders, incluindo a utilização de mapas cognitivos a fim de organizar e registrar os valores identificados pelos stakeholders acerca de suas preferências, assim, ao final do processo de estruturação da situação problema, os mapas individuais são agregados por meio da união das diferentes percepções, obtendo um modelo unificado. Percebe-se então, um ambiente com reduzido conflito, visto que praticamente todo o processo é realizado isoladamente e garantindo-se maior agilidade, podendo haver negociação somente no final do processo. O modelo final gerado, por ambas as abordagens, reflete a preferência global de todos os stakeholders. / Establishing the selling price of compounded drugs has been involved more and more factors that contribute to customer satisfaction, becoming a major effort to achieve greater competitiveness in this business. In this context, this work proposes two new approaches for aggregating of stakeholders’ preferences about the methodological definition of pricing of pharmaceutical products, focusing on the particular case of compounding pharmacy in southern Brazil. Both approaches are used the method Value-Focused Thinking (VFT), in order to provide a better understanding of the problem by the members concerned. Furthermore, this work supports the identification of a fundamental objective from various perceptions of the problem, establishing a unified vision of the goal to be achieved, due to participation of all stakeholders. For this, the individual values are identified, allow the creation of alternatives, where each participant contributes their individual perceptions and values, and defined natural, direct and / or indirect measures according to the experience and knowledge of each stakeholder, and determine the scale constant, reflecting their preferences. The first approach utilizes the consensus among the group members to obtain the global preference, and all stages of model development are carried out with the participation of all stakeholders. The second approach proposes and individualized manner of participation of stakeholders, including the use of cognitive maps, in order to organize and record the values identified by stakeholders about their preferences, so the end of the process of structuring the problem situation, the individual maps are aggregates through the union of the different perceptions obtaining a unified model. It can be seen then, an environment with reduced conflict, since practically the entire process is carried out separately, and ensuring greater flexibility and may negotiated only at the end of the process. The final model generated by both approaches, reflect the overall preference of the stakeholders.

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Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur kvinnor som utsatts för våld i nära relationer beskriver våldet i sina egna självbiografier samt vilka copingstrategier som kan identifieras i deras berättelser. Med hjälp av fyra självbiografier skrivna av kvinnor som under många år levt med en våldsutövande man ska deras beskrivning av våldet belysas. Empirin kommer med hjälp av teorier så som normaliseringsprocessen och teorier om copingstrategier att analyseras. Våldet som belyses är fysiskt, psykiskt, sexuellt och ekonomiskt. Resultaten visar att kvinnorna beskriver liknande tillvägagångssätt och händelser kring alla de olika våldsformerna. Männens kontroll och isolering dominerar kvinnornas liv och leder till en känsla av förlorad verklighetsuppfattning. Copingstrategierna som identifierades delades upp i emotionell och problemfokuserad coping. Emotionellt fokuserad coping identifierades som bland annat att ventilera, hitta stöd, religion samt förnekelse av sin situation. Den problemfokuserade copingstrategier identifierades som informationssamlande, anpassade beteende och sökandet efter sin nya roll. / The purpose of this study is to examine how women who have been subjected to intimate partner violence describe the violence in their own autobiographies, as well as which coping strategies can be identified in their stories. With the help of four autobiographies written by women who lived with a violent man for many years, their description of the violence will be highlighted. The experience will be analyzed with the help of theories such as the normalization process and theories of coping strategies. The coping strategies are divided into emotional and problem-focused coping. The violence highlighted is physical, psychological, sexual and financial violence. The results show that the women describe similar approaches and events around all  different forms of violence. Men's control and isolation dominate women's lives and lead to a sense of lost perception of reality.The coping strategies identified were divided into emotional and problem-focused. Emotionally focused coping was identified as, among other things, ventilating, turning to one's religion for support and denial of one's situation. The problem-focused coping strategies are identified as information gathering, adapted behavior and the search for one's new role.

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