This study intends to explore and give insight in how the Swedish PR-profession has evolved due to digitization, in reference to the science expectations of the professions evolvement.Through qualitative interviews, six Public Relations practitioners has supplied this study with the empirical basis which with an interpretive analysis generates a comprehensive insight into the Swedish public relations profession. This study has analyzed the PR-practitioner’s descriptions of their communicative activities through Grunig and Hunts (1984) four communicative models and with consideration to social contexts. The digitization and the emergence of social media is described by science as the beginning of a new communicative paradigm, which entails a development towards symmetrical dialogue that will generate mutual understanding between the organization and stakeholders (Grunig, 2009). This analysis shows that the Swedish public relations profession exhibit tendencies to evolve with scientific prophecy. The study also shows that the organizations still widely don’t operates with the symmetrical two-way model.

Based on qualitative interviews with social workers is the aim with this study to examine a social worker's perspective concerning their work and development with street children in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The interviews were analyzed thematically focusing on how social workers describe the problems and their work/strategies with street children. The result is divided in two themes; Problems and Solution. Problems refer to how the local context concerning street children in Bloemfontein are described by social workers. Solutions refer to how the social workers describe their work and which solutions that are available in Bloemfontein. According to the participant’s street children are viewed as victims, thief’s and naughty by the society. The social workers stated that the main approach of effort in social work with street children are trustful-relationships, negotiation and support. Therefore, a relationship of trust must be gained before the children can receive help. The participants divided children of the street in to types, the ‘manipulative’ child and the ‘naive’ child. The social worker’s tasks are to work with both types of children in order to create change and to restore trust. The findings from the result are analyzed from one of Helen Fuchs Bach’s theoretical concepts from The Exit Process. This concept is called the Turning Point and refers to that there comes a point where a change is needed which affects the former identity and role for a person. Understanding the results using the Turing Point has helped us understand the importance of creating trusting relationships and making each street child feel special in order to enable change in a street child’s life.

The purpose of this qualitative study is to enrich the understanding of the counselling and psychotherapy experiences of women who have previously or currently worked in the Canadian sex industry. I conducted semi-structured interviews with 6 participants ranging in age from 19 to 52 who described an individual counselling experience in which they revealed their sex work employment status. I analyzed the interview drawing from a Gadamerian hermeneutic phenomenological approach grounded in feminist standpoint theory. The results revealed 17 themes organized in 5 categories: (a) seeking counselling, (b) the therapeutic relationship, (c) disclosure of sex work, (d) counselling outcomes, and (e) recommendations for counsellors working with sex workers. The results shed light on indoor sex worker clients’ heterogeneous counselling needs, expectations, and experiences, providing valuable considerations for culturally responsive and socially just practice with sex workers. The discussion of the results reflects previous research studies, clinical implications, and suggestions for future research.

This dissertation examines the negotiating style of the Dominican negotiator. The research presented is of qualitative nature -a phenomenology study- which looks at a single country: the Dominican Republic. Two major research strategies used in this research are (a) in-depth interviews with negotiators and observers and (b) a cultural survey instrument of Dominican managers. Data has been collected from primary sources, through interviews of negotiators in the private and public sector and through surveys completed by managers and negotiators. After distilling the interview through horizonalization and other qualitative analyses methods, within-case and across-case analysis were done to determine key findings of each interview. This dissertation provides an insight into the cultural profile of Dominicans, as the foundation to create a descriptive profile of the Dominican negotiator.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・論文博士 / 博士(社会健康医学) / 乙第13358号 / 論社医博第15号 / 新制||社医||11(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院医学研究科社会健康医学系専攻 / (主査)教授 川上 浩司, 教授 小川 修, 教授 松村 由美 / 学位規則第4条第2項該当 / Doctor of Public Health / Kyoto University / DFAM

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(医学) / 甲第23377号 / 医博第4746号 / 新制||医||1051(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院医学研究科医学専攻 / (主査)教授 川上 浩司, 教授 近藤 尚己, 教授 万代 昌紀 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Medical Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

The human factor has been detected as the weakest link in the information security of organizations. Methods like training and awareness programs and the implementation of security policies have been developed, but they still seem to be less effective than desired. Authors have suggested integrating information security more holistically in organizations. In this study we discuss how strategic intent can influence an information security culture and improve information security behavior, thereby strengthening the weakest link. This thesis aims to develop a conceptual framework for organizations to integrate behavioral information security holistically with strategic intent. This thesis is based on a qualitative study with an abductive approach consisting of nine exploratory, semi-structured interviews. This way we could find today’s most prominent factors that might reinforce information security behavior in organizations and discuss the interrelations among those factors together with their potential facilitators and barriers. To improve behavioral InfoSec holistically in organizations, strategic Intent and InfoSec culture are promising factors. All factors have clear interrelations, but also potential facilitators and barriers.

Bakgrund: stroke betraktas som ett samlingsnamn för hjärninfarkt och hjärnblödning. Stroke är ett globalt folkhälsoproblem som tillhör de fem vanligaste dödsorsakerna i Sverige. Risken att drabbas av stroke skiljer sig mellan åldrar, socioekonomi och insjuknandet ser olika ut även geografiskt. Stroke kan förekomma i olika åldrar, men äldre personer har större risk att drabbas av stroke än yngre personer. Stroke kan orsaka funktionsnedsättningar och leda till många olika begränsningar i patients vardagsliv. Antalet strokefall har minskat bland både kvinnor och män under perioden 2007–2018. Syfte: Var att undersöka patientens upplevelse av sitt liv efter stroken. Metod: En litteraturöversikt med induktiv ansats valde och endast vetenskapliga artiklar med kvalitativ metod har använts i studien. För analysering av data användes Fribergs (2017) metod för kvalitativ forskning. Resultat: Litteratursökningen gav tio artiklar för vidare analys. Resultatet av samtliga artiklar har tillsammans bildat underlag för den kvalitativa innehållsanalysen. Resultatet redovisar strokepatienters känslor och upplevelser i vardagen och presenterar följder och konsekvenser av stroke. Huvudresultatet av studien var att patienter upplevde besvär av såväl fysisk, psykisk, emotionell som social karaktär. Slutsats: Patienten upplever en förändrad syn över sin livsvärld efter stroke. Sjukdomen kan leda till förlust av förmågor och många begränsningar i det vardagliga livet. / Introduction: stroke is considered a collective name for cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage. Stroke is a global public health problem that is one of the five most common causes of death in Sweden. The risk of suffering a stroke differs between ages, socioeconomics and the disease also differ geographically. Stroke can occur at different ages, but older people are at greater risk of having a stroke than younger people. Stroke can cause disabilities and lead to many different limitations in the patient's daily life. The number of stroke cases has decreased among both women and men during the period 2007–2018. Aim: was to examine the patient's experience of his life after the stroke. Method: a literature review with an inductive approach was chosen and only scientific articles with a qualitative method were used in the study. For analysis of data, Friberg's (2017) method was used to qualitative research.  Results: The literature search yielded ten articles for further analysis. The results of all articles have together formed the basis for the qualitative content analysis. The results report stroke patients' feelings and experiences in everyday life and present the consequences and consequences of stroke. The main result of the study was that patients experienced problems of a physical, mental, emotional and social nature. Conclusion: The patient experiences a changed view of their life world after stroke. The disease can lead to loss of abilities and many limitations in everyday life.

The aim of this study was to investigate management and leadership at a distance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden. Eight managers from a large industrial company in Sweden currently working full time from home participated in the study, of which six were women. Semi structured interviews were carried out and the data was analyzed through thematic analysis which yielded 7 themes accompanied by 5 subthemes. Not being in the same physical space removes informal interactions, and to combat this, formalization has increased. Tasks that do not lend themselves well to formalization, such as getting a feel for co-worker’s emotional state or creative work, were found to be more difficult. The managers workdays had a high number of digital meetings, and their way of working was changed through digital adaptations. While the availability of quality social interactions with co-workers was down, digital meetings were used to keep interactions up within the work group. While work environment management was harder, work requiring heavy focus was described as more efficient when teleworking. Overall, the situation surrounding COVID-19 has been challenging for managers, but the digital space has evolved quickly, and work has still been able to function surprisingly well.

Bakgrund: När en person drabbas av Alzheimers sjukdom sker en drastisk förändring i både personens och anhörigas livssituation. Anhöriga tar på sig rollen som anhörigvårdare och träder in i en främmande livsvärld som präglas av lidande. För att lindra detta lidande krävs det att sjuksköterskan har stor kunskap och bättre förståelse för hur de anhöriga upplever den förändrade livssituationen. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att belysa hur anhörigas upplevelser av att vårda en närstående med AS porträtteras i spelfilm. Metod: En empirisk kvalitativ ansats med direkta och ostrukturerade observationer av tre filmer har gjorts. Fältanteckningar har förts och analyserats med hjälp av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Anhörigas upplevelser av att vårda en närstående med AS framförs i fyra teman: när livsvärldsmönstret brister; sorg; förlust av frihet; att släppa taget. Slutsats: Anhöriga känner att det är deras ansvar att vårda sin partner. Att bli anhörigvårdare innebär en förlust av frihet, social isolering och en känsla av ensamhet. De känslomässiga upplevelserna är främsta orsaken till lidandet. Filmerna som har använts i studien är ett kraftfullt medium som kan användas i utbildningssyfte. / Background: When a person is diagnosed with AS, a drastic change takes place in both the patient's and the relatives' lives. The relatives become an informal caregiver, they enter into a foreign world of suffering. In order to alleviate this suffering, the nurse must have greater knowledge and a better understanding of how the relatives experience their changed lifeworld. Aim: The aim of this study is to explore how relatives experience taking care of a partner with AS portrayed in films. Methods: An empirical qualitative approach with direct and unstructured observations of three films has been used. The material consisted of field notes which were analyzed with the help of a qualitative content analysis. Results: Relatives' experiences of caring for a partner with AS are presented in four themes: when the lifeworld texture ruptures; sorrow; loss of freedom; letting go. Conclusion: Relatives feel a responsibility to care for their partner. Becoming an informal caregiver means a loss of freedom, social isolation and a feeling of loneliness. The emotional experiences are the main cause of the suffering. The films used in this study are a powerful medium that can be used for educational purposes.