Thesis (M.S.)--Rutgers University, 2008. / "Graduate Program in Psychology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 36-38).

Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-49).

Thesis (M.Psych.Org.) - University of Queensland, 2006. / Includes bibliography.

Wong Shun-wah. / Thesis submitted on: December 2002. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-91). / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Contents --- p.v / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Empirical Puzzle and Theoretical Questions / Chapter 1.2 --- Casing a Case: Hospital as a Critical Case for Studying Gender and Professional Authority / Chapter 1.3 --- The Methodology / Chapter 1.4 --- Overview of the Thesis / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review and Theoretical Framework --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1 --- Professional dominance and Professional Dependency / Chapter 2.2 --- Enthographic Studies of Resistance / Chapter 2.3 --- Gender and Organization / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Gendering Occupation in the Health Care Sector and the Gendered Occupational Structure of Hospitals --- p.16 / Chapter 3.1 --- Gender Segregation in the Health Care Workplace / Chapter 3.2 --- Hospital Setting: A Gendered Organization / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Resistance of Nurses --- p.45 / Chapter 4.1 --- Resistance Strategies of Women Nurses Mothering Gossip Symbolic Giving Explicit Resistance / Chapter 4.2 --- Strategies of Men Nurses: Resistance and Dilemma / Chapter 4.3 --- Divided and Not Organized / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Restrictive Authority of Doctors --- p.70 / Chapter 5.1 --- The Dependency of Doctors on Nurses in the Gendered Organizational Structure of Hospital / Chapter 5.2 --- Men Doctors' Means to Gain the Compliance of Nurses / Chapter 5.3 --- Women Doctors' Means to Gain the Compliance of Nurses / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.80 / Chapter 6.1 --- The Consequences of the resistance of women nurses: Accommodation and the Reproduction of Gender / Chapter 6.2 --- The Contribution of this Research and Issues for Future Study / Bibliography --- p.84

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2008. / Typescript. Computer optical disc inserted in pocket on p. 195 entitled: Medication alliance core skills demonstration. Includes bibliographical references: p. 147-179.

No / It is estimated that 820,000 people in the UK have dementia. Dementia costs the UK 17 billion a year and in the next 30 years this will treble to over pound50 billion a year. There is a need to raise competence of staff delivering care to people living with dementia across health, social and voluntary sector provision. Effective education and training will build capacity and improve staff knowledge. However, at present not enough is known about the experiences of staff involved in gaining the skills, knowledge and attitudes required to support provision of high quality care for people with dementia. This study was conducted within a large National Health Service Trust in the UK serving an urban, ethnically mixed population, in collaboration with a local university. The trust responded to government policy by seeking to identify staff training needs. The aim was to explore the experiences of staff working within a specialist mental health service in relation to development of skills for the provision of person-centred care for people with dementia. To achieve this, staff roles, experiences of dementia training and the ways in which staff feel they learn were explored through focus group interviews. Relatives' views of staff competencies necessary for effective care provision were also explored to supplement the data from staff. A total of 70 staff and 16 family carers participated and data were subjected to inductive thematic analysis. Five themes emerged: competency-based skills, beliefs, enablers and barriers and ways of learning. Findings suggested participants felt that skills for person-centred care were innate and could not be taught, while effective ways of learning were identified as learning by doing, learning from each other and learning from experience.

Allt fler personer drabbas av demenssjukdom och en stor del av dessa drabbas någon gång av ett eller flera beteendemässiga och psykiska symtom vid demens (BPSD). BPSD skapar stort lidande för den drabbade men kan även vara svårt att hantera för människorna omkring dem, närstående och vårdpersonal, och är en stor anledning till att personen flyttar till särskilt boende. Syftet med studien var att beskriva vårdpersonalens upplevelser av att vårda personer med beteendemässiga och psykiska symtom vid demens. Studien hade en beskrivande design med kvalitativ ansats. Data samlades in via sex individuella semi-strukturerade intervjuer. Genom bekvämlighetsurval rekryterades undersköterskor på ett demensboende i Sverige. Data analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Ett övergripande tema framträdde i resultatet, ”Svårigheter att finna balans mellan behov och resurser”. Informanterna upplevde arbetet med personer med BPSD som en stor utmaning men att det var mycket givande. Känslan av att inte räcka till, att sakna kunskap eller förmåga att hantera vissa situationer eller symtom samt bristen på resurser upplevdes som påfrestande av informanterna. Aggressivitet, oro och ångest hos personer med BPSD var de symtom som upplevdes som svårast att hantera. Resultatet visar även att informanterna upplevde arbetet med personer med BPSD som spännande, intressant och roligt och att de kände tillfredsställelse i att finnas där för personen med BPSD och att kunna bidra till deras välmående. Studiens slutsats visar att informanterna upplevde stora utmaningar i sitt arbete med att skapa välbefinnande för personer med BPSD. Stöd och utbildning skulle kunna öka arbetstillfredsställelsen för vårdpersonalen men även livskvaliteten för personer med BPSD. / More and more people suffer from dementia and a large part of these is affected by some point of one or several behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). BPSD creates great suffering for the affected but can also be difficult for the people around them to manage, relatives and health professionals, and is a big reason that a person moves in to a nursing facility. The aim of this study was to describe health professional’s experience of caring for persons with behavioral and psychological symptoms in dementia, BPSD. The study had a descriptive design with qualitative approach. Data were collected through six individual semi-structured interviews. By convenience sampling, nursing assistant working at a nursing facility for people with dementia in Sweden were recruited. Data were analyzed by qualitative content analysis. A theme emerged, “Difficulties to find a balance between need and resource”. The informants experienced their work in caring for people with BPSD as a great challenge but also as very awarding. The feeling of being inadequate, lacking knowledge or ability to handle certain situations or symptoms and lack of resources perceived as stressful by the informants. Aggressiveness and anxiety in individuals with BPSD were experienced as the most difficult to handle. The results also showed that the informants experienced working with persons with BPSD as exiting, interesting and fun and that they felt satisfaction in being there for the person with BPSD and to be able to contribute to their well-being. The conclusion in this study shows that informants experienced great challenges in their work to create wellbeing for people with BPSD. Support and education could increase the job satisfaction for the health personnel but also increase the quality of life for people with BPSD.

Bakgrund: I Sverige lever cirka 300 000 människor idag med ett alkoholberoende, 700 000 personer lever med ett riskabelt bruk av alkohol, samt cirka 55 000 individer skattas för närvarande att leva med narkotikaberoende. Vårdpersonal möter denna stora patientgrupp inom vårdens alla delar. Syfte: Att beskriva vårdpersonalens attityder mot patienter med beroendesjukdom samt patienternas upplevelser av vårdpersonalens attityder. Syftet var även att beskriva de valda artiklarnas undersökningsgrupp. Metod: Litteraturstudien hade en deskriptiv design bestående av 11 vetenskapliga artiklar. Databaserna Medline via Pubmed samt PsycINFO användes för artikelsökning. Huvudresultat: Resultatet visade att vårdpersonalen beskrev att de ansåg att patienter med beroendesjukdom själva orsakat sin sjukdom och därmed inte förtjänade någon vård. Det framkom även att patienterna upplevt diskriminering, kränkning, negativa attityder och särbehandling i vården. Enligt patienternas beskrivningar så medförde denna upplevelse till att många patienter avstod från att söka vård. Slutsats: Patienterna med beroendesjukdom som deltog i de inkluderade studierna blev bemötta med negativa attityder och diskriminering från vårdpersonalen. Denna negativa upplevelse beskrevs medföra att vissa patienter avstod från att söka vård. Viktigt är därför att vårdpersonalen skaffar sig kunskap om beroendesjukdomen och ser alla patienter som egna individer med behov och reducerar sitt diskriminerade sätt att agera på. / Background: In Sweden it is estimated that there are about 300 000 people living with alcohol addiction today and approximately 700 000 people with harmful use of alcohol, and an estimated 55 000 with drugaddiction. Healthcare staff will meet this large group of patients everywhere. Aim: Describing health care professionals attitudes toward patients with addictive disorders and patients experience of the health care professionals attitudes. The aim was also to describe an outline of the selected articles of this group. Method: Literature study came from descriptive design consisting of 11 scientific articles. Article search by database Medline thrue PubMed and PsycINFO. Main results: The results showed that professional staff statedthey believe patients with addictive disorders self-inflicted their illness and therefore did not deserve any help. It also showed that patients experienced discrimination, abuse, negative attitudes and discrimination in the health care system. According to patient experience this caused many from seeking further treatement. Conclusions: Patients with addictive disorders were often met with negative attitudes and discrimination from health care professionals. This negative experience resulted in that many patients refrained from seeking treatemtent. It is therefore important that health care professionals receive professional training and education in addictive disorders in order to view every patient as a separate individual in order to reduce any discriminatory behaviour.

A Research report submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand in partial fulfillment of Master of Medicine in Emergency Medicine Johannesburg, 2016 / Objective Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant social and health concern in South Africa, with far reaching consequences. One in three South African women will experience IPV, and many of the survivors of IPV will have contact with Emergency Care Practitioners (ECPs), either for treatment related to the direct sequelae of the abuse or for other health issues. ECPs already play a role in identifying and managing IPV but current knowledge, attitudes and practices were not known. The aim of the study therefore was to describe current levels of knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding IPV amongst ECPs, including doctors, nurses and paramedics in South Africa and to describe differences according to the respondent's reported prior training and profession. Methods A prospective, cross sectional study was performed using an online survey administered anonymously to ECPs in South Africa. Information regarding demographic data, qualification, prior IPV training, knowledge, attitudes and practices towards IPV were obtained. Results One hundred and fifty three respondents completed the survey. Of those 56% were doctors, 33% paramedics and 9.8% nurses. In total 65% reporting having received no training on IPV. There was a significant association between respondents reporting having received any IPV training and improved self-reported knowledge (p=0.0001), and actual knowledge (p=0.011). Of the respondents in clinical practice 75% had diagnosed IPV in the last six months, although the frequency of diagnoses being made is lower than would be suggested by the South African prevalence rates. Those respondents who reported any prior training on IPV were more likely to have diagnosed IPV in the last 6 months (p= 0.0076) Most of the ECPs who diagnosed IPV counselled the patients on options and/or referred to police and/or social workers. Conclusion Although ECPs are diagnosing and managing IPV, training in this important health concern is inadequate. Any reported training on IPV for ECPs improves self-reported knowledge, actual knowledge and practices regarding IPV. / MT2017

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