<p>The aim of our study was to examine the oral health status using an oral assessment guide, ROAG, among elderly people in a block of service. Another aim was to evaluate the elderlys perception of there own oral health using a questionnaire. The study were undertaken at a ward in Kristianstad, with 39 caretakers. 21 caretakers participated in the study. The assessment of the oral health status was done on the same individuals (n=21) who answered the questions in the questionnaire. The questions were read by the authors. The caretakers answered the questions, and the answers were noted by the authors. Problems with teeth and saliva were most common. Using the assessment guide showed that three caretakers had no problem with their oral health status, while ten had four or more problems. The majority experienced a few problems with their oral health. Mouth dryness were the most common experienced problem.</p>

<p>Health should be seen as a resource in daily life so people can feel satisfaction and social support network has been shown to have a significant impact on health. Another important determinant on health is education. There is a strong interrelationship between health and education. The centre of work in health education and promotion is the development of self-esteem. The aim of the study was to investigate the level of self-esteem, social network and experience of school education among girl’s 13-16 years, in Kitwe Zambia, in order to increase knowledge about how to learn to strengthen self-esteem and empowerment in girls. This investigation is a cross-sectional survey and we have chosen to use a quantitative method such as questionnaires. Our study received the approval of the University of Kristianstad Ethics Committee. The result shows that the girls think that the school is important for their future and that they enjoy going to school. But 34% of the girls felt that the school did not treat everybody the same and 50% of the girls were not involved at all in any student club. The results in our study showed that there were no statistical connections between level of self-esteem, social network and experience of school education. Our conclusion is that it did not matter what level of self-esteem the girls had, they had a good social network and a positive attitude towards school. A high level of self-esteem increases the young girls believes in themselves and that they can feel capable of taking a bigger part in the society. We hope that this study will underline the importance of women’s education, empowerment and self-esteem for their development. We believe that this may not change the world, but it is one good step in the development of a country.</p>

<p>The purpose of the study was to describe the patients’ perception of and the dental hygienist students’ knowledge regarding bad breath (halitosis) in a University educational clinic in Kristianstad. The study is based on a waitingroom survey (n=100), and a studentpoll (n=40).</p><p>The result of the patientpoll showed that 58 % felt that they rather would not talk about bad breath, and that 44 % found it that embarrassing to talk about. However 81 % experienced that they were bothered by bad breath from other people. The majority 98 % felt that it was important to smell good from the mouth and 90 % would appreciate if someone could spoke to them that they had bad breath. The studentpolls demonstrated that 75 % was familiar with the term halitosis, and that 77 % knew how this could be treated. The conclusion of this study was, that bad breath is something that many individuals are bothered by, and that more then 58 % of the patients did not want to talk about. The studentpoll showed that the dentalhygienist students had god knowledge regarding halitosis and how halitosis could be treated. The majority of the students wanted more theoretical and practical education regarding the ethiology and treatment of halitosis. </p>

<p>ABSTRACT</p><p>The aim of this study was to ascertain whether there was any interest among dental hygienists, raising their level of competence throught attending additional courses or gaining further qualifications. The study was carried out by sending out two-hundred questionarires to randomly chosen dental hygienists. After one remainder come the answer frequency up to 66%. The study shows that many of the dental hygienists are interested to study at college. Many wanted raising level of comtpetence by education, wich also the study shows. The diversity of subjectfields mentioned was large, largest meaning has parodontology, caries/diagnostic, psykology and pedagogic. The conclusion of the study was that majority of dental hygienists continally raising their level of competence.</p>

<p>The aim of the study was to describe the oral health development among patients at the Public Dental Care clinic in Bromölla who made an agreement regarding Healthy Dental Care during the years 2001 and 2004, compared with patients who did not made such an agreement. The study material was obtained from dental journals in total at 150 patients. Data regarding age, sex, health status, tobacco use, plaque- and gingivitis values, pocket depht, initial- and manifest caries, risk assessments, preventive measures by dental personel and acute dental care between year 2001 and 2004 was obtained from dental results. Almost twice as many man made an agreement compared to women. Tobacco use was higher in control group both 2001 and 2004. The dental professions worked much with preventive dental care that we can see in the low values of plaque and gingivitis during 2001 and 2004. Its means that patients follow up the advice they get.</p><p>The healthy dental care is still a new phenomenon and has been exist only in four years. That´s why we can not made a conclusion of wich effect it´s has on the oral health.</p>

<p>Introduction:Violence towards women is an extensive and important problem in the society. Confronting women who are assulted by their male partner is a demanding task for the nurses.The aim of the study:The aim of this empirical study was to illustrate the experiences of nurses in the meeting with women exposed to violence by their male partner.Method:This is a qualitative interview study including nine female nurses. The material recieved from the interviews was analysed with help of content analysis. Categories were formed named Comunication, feelings, Ability to recognize the women, Lack of time, Need of support and further education. An application to the ethical council at the University of Kristianstad were remitted and approved. Result:The difficulties in the caring of assulted women were emerged as: The lack of time and the difficulties in recognicing the assulted women. These problems caused strong emotional feelings like inability to help, anger and frustration.Conclusion:The writers think that the attitude in the society have to change, in order to get the economical resurses needed to support the nurses with further education and feed back.</p>

<p>Sexually transmitted diseases among youths is a growing problem. Generally, the knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases is relatively good, however, the risktaking among youths is great. The schools education regarding sex is often insufficient. The foundation for avoiding STD is knowledge. However, knowledge does not solve the attitude problem regarding the use of condoms. The purpose of our study was to describe the knowledge of older teenagers regarding STD, the sexual education in high school, and the youths attitude towards the usage of condoms. High school seniors were selected as respondents. This study uses a quantitative method. A survey was performed to collect data since the subject might be considered sensitive. The survey was distributed to 189 students of which 175 answered the survey. The result shows that schools are the biggest source of information regarding sexual education. Also, the results show that women, more often than men, are exposed to the risks of being infected with STD. To highlight the importance of preventive work for youths sexual behavior, we believe that school is a very important place. In conclusion, a good system for teaching about sexually related topics in school is very important in order to decrease the risky behavior of the youth.</p>

<p>Suicide and attempted suicide frequently occur in society today and represent a major public health problem. In inpatient psychiatric care the nurse have a central role when caring for suicidal patients. Few systematic studies exists that address the nurse’s practical work with these patients. The purpose of this study was therefore to describe the nursing care of suicidal patients as it was perceived by registered clinical expert nurses. The study has a qualitative approach and was conducted with open thematic interviews with eleven nurses. During the analysis, preformed as a qualitative content analysis, two different themes emerged. These were nursing care as change and nursing care as control/none-control. Change incorporated that the nurse mediated hope, created dialog, carried the patient’s suffering, inspired safety and provided basic nursing care. Control had its’ origin in an inner threat of suicide on the ward which constituted a none-control. Non-control has a paradoxical relation to control since it resulted in an increased activity to assess, observe and control the patient’s behaviour. The control strategies used was according to the nurses stressful both for patient and nurse. Self-examinations and explanations characterised the time after the none-control that a suicide constituted. </p>

<p>Abstract</p><p>Background</p><p>Parkinson’s disease is a chronically not curable progressive disease that leads to different degrees of disability. Controlled studies on how patient education influences subjective health in Parkinson’s disease are lacking.</p><p>Aim</p><p>The aim of this study was to examine the influence patient education had on drug requirements and on subjective health status of persons with Parkinson’s disease.</p><p>Methodology</p><p>A short form of Health Survey, SF-12, was used to measure perceived health. SF-12 was administered before and one month after patient education (intervention group; n= 48), and in waiting list control (n= 48). The control group was measured two times with similar intervals as the intervention group but without education between. Demographic data and daily antiparkinsonian drug requirements were collected from the patients’ medical records.</p><p>Results</p><p>No group differences were detected regarding physical and mental health. Individual items showed significant differences in social capacity and fatigue between the intervention group compared to control group at the first measure time. There was a significant increase in daily antiparkinsonian drug requirements in the control group, but not in the intervention group, between the first and the second measurement.</p><p>Conclusion</p><p>No positive effects of patient education to persons with Parkinson’s disease were detected. However, the drug requirements increased among those in the control group while it was stable among those in the intervention group. This may have been due to insufficient responsiveness of the outcome measure and that increase of antiparkinsonian drugs in the control group masked potential intervention effects. It might be that a measure of coping or empowerment is more suitable to detect positive outcomes of this type of intervention.</p><p>Keywords: Parkinson’s disease, education, L-Dopa, health status, SF-12.</p>

<p>It`s important that every person take responsebly for her own lifestyle to promote health.</p><p>Today the individuel often knows the consequense of a certain lifestyle, but she doesn`t know how to change the negative behavior. Health profile assesment (HPA) is a method where you through conversation transfer knowledge and awarness about the member. The healthprofiler also motivate to a healthier lifestyle. Our purpose with this studie was to examine how individuels effects of a health profile assesment also illuminate which part of the health profile assesment the individuels have noticed and which way of living they change. To answer our purpose we used a quantitative transverse study in the way of</p><p>questionnairexamination as we shared to a selection (n=193) on different companies in</p><p>Ostergotland and Scania. Through our result we noticed that the exercisepart was the easiest part to pay attention to and also to make a behaviorchange. Although it was the dietpart that influenced most individules. As a future as healtheducationalist we think that HPA is an efficacy method to support and promote individuels in their habits of living.</p>