Background: Nurse practitioners are increasingly conducting consultations with patients on the same basis as medical doctors. However little is known about communication within nurse practitioner consultations. Research on communication in nurse practitioner consultations has identified nurse practitioners communicate with patients in a hybrid style, combining biomedical information with the discussion of subjective information from everyday life. Research has not fully explained why this hybrid style occurs in nurse practitioner consultations, nor determined its links to consultation duration, patient expectations, satisfaction, and enablement. This study was developed to address these gaps in research of communication in nurse practitioner consultations. Aim: This study aims to advance understanding of the discrete nature of the communication processes and social interactions occurring in the nurse practitioner consultation, including explicating the reasons for the occurrence of the particular communication processes and interaction styles observed in those consultations. Methods: The study was conducted in a nurse-led primary care clinic providing general practice care. Within a case study research approach mixed methods were utilised, combining structured analysis of video recorded observations of nurse practitioner consultations, questionnaire-based measures of patient expectations, satisfaction, and enablement, and interviews with some of the participants of the consultations. The sample for video recording comprised three nurse practitioners employed at the clinic, and 30 patients registered at the clinic. Questionnaire responses were provided by 71 patients, including 26 whose consultations had been video recorded. All three nurse practitioners participated in post-consultation individual interviews, and 11 patient / carers participated in post-consultation individual interviews. The video recorded consultations were analysed with the Roter Interaction Analysis System (RIAS), a method of quantified interactions frequency analysis. The questionnaire responses were analysed with descriptive statistics. Transcripts of the interviews were analysed using computerised qualitative data analysis with NVivo. Findings: A significant majority of observed social interaction in the consultations used patient-centred communication styles (p=0.005), with neither nurse practitioners nor patients or carers being significantly more verbally dominant. Nurse ii practitioners guided the sequence of consultation interaction phases, but patients and carers participated through asking questions and involvement in negotiations for care planning. Patient / carers were highly satisfied with their consultations, and significantly higher general satisfaction was noted when participants expected the nurse practitioners to be able to diagnose their presenting problem (p=0.043). Patient / carers expressed significantly higher levels of enablement than have been seen in previous studies of enablement with other types of clinicians (p=0.003). The mean consultation time length of 10.97 minutes is comparable with studies of general practitioners. The participants’ perceptions of nurse practitioner consultation communication processes and social interactions were represented through six themes; Consulting style of nurse practitioners; Nurse practitioner – GP comparisons; Lifeworld content or lifeworld style issues; Nurse practitioner role ambiguity; Creating the impression of time; and Expectations for safety netting. Contribution to knowledge: This study reveals nurse practitioner consultations comprise collaborative openness to peoples’ agendas and questions, expressions of everyday lifeworld experiences, expanded impressions of time, clear explanations augmented by integrated clinical reasoning, and participatory negotiations. These communicative features arise from a combination of social, ideological, and epistemological factors, prompting nurse practitioners to privilege how they interact with patients and carers, and to adopt a hybrid patient-centred style combining the nursing ideology of holism and their knowledge of biomedicine. This form of communication has been characterised as a stylistic exemplar for good consultation communication practice, which potentially facilitates shared decision-making. This research has resulted in new knowledge of the communication processes and social interactions used in nurse practitioner consultations, which demonstrates the importance of clinicians giving precedence to how they communicate and interact with patients so as to optimise their therapeutic outcomes without compromising the duration of consultations.

Bakgrund: Social ångest yttrar sig genom att personen känner rädsla inför situationer där det finns risk att bli granskad av andra och undviker därför ofta att utsätta sig för detta.  Personer som lever med social ångest upplever ofta försämrad livskvalité till följd av begränsad delaktighet i aktivitet. Syfte: Att beskriva hur personer med social ångest upplever att begränsad delaktighet i sociala aktiviteter påverkar dem i vardagen. Metod: Examensarbetet genomfördes som en kvalitativ fokusgruppsintervju genom en grupp via Facebook. Bekvämlighetsurval tillämpades via grupper på Facebook som riktar sig till personer med social ångest. Totalt elva deltagare medverkade i diskussionsgruppen. Intervjufrågorna publicerades som inlägg och deltagarna fick delge sina erfarenheter i kommentarsfälten där de även fick följdfrågor. Data analyserades genom kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Deltagarna upplevde att begränsningar i delaktighet i sociala aktiviteter påverkade dem inom tre huvudkategorier; Bristande delaktighet i vardagliga aktiviteter, obehag av folksamlingar samt utanförskap.  Personerna upplevde omfattande svårigheter vid interaktion med andra människor, vilket påverkade deras delaktighet i sociala aktiviteter negativt. Slutsats: Deltagarna upplevde att begränsningar i sociala aktiviteter orsakade bristande delaktighet i vardagliga aktiviteter, begränsad förmåga att vistas bland främmande människor, platser med mycket folk, i nya miljöer samt att det kunde leda till utanförskap. / Background: Social anxiety manifest in a person as fear and avoidance for a situation where there is a risk to feel judged by others. People living with social anxiety often experience impaired quality of life due to limited participation in activity. Purpose: To describe how people with social anxiety experience that limited participation in social activities affects them in everyday life. Method: The thesis was conducted as a qualitative interview by a group discussion through Facebook. Convenience sample was applied through Facebook groups aimed at people with social anxiety. A total of eleven participants attended the discussion group. The interview questions were published as post and the participants share their experiences in the comment section, where the authors also asked follow-up questions. Data was analysed by a qualitative content analysis. Result: The participants experienced that limitations in social activity participation affected them within three main categories; insufficient participation in everyday activities, discomfort of crowds and social exclusion. The participants experienced severe difficulties in interacting with other people, which affected their participation in social activities in a negative way. Conclusion: The participants experienced that limitations in social activities caused lack of participation in everyday activities, limited ability to be around strangers, places with a lot of people, new environments and could lead to social exclusion.

The problem is concerned with social attitudes of graduate students toward graduate faculty and graduate faculty toward graduate students in the programs of a large college of education. The purposes are (a) to establish that the attitudes of acceptance of others, trust in people, philosophy of human nature, human values, and moral ethics exist among graduate students and among graduate faculty in a large college of education; (2) to determine the relative degree to which these social attitudes exist (a) among graduate students, (b) among graduate faculty, and (c) between graduate students and graduate faculty.

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Submitted by isabela.moljf@hotmail.com (isabela.moljf@hotmail.com) on 2017-05-09T15:56:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 julianavazenunes.pdf: 1792666 bytes, checksum: 385a1cf5dc7d2ff7ac85dab538741ff1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-05-17T14:27:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 julianavazenunes.pdf: 1792666 bytes, checksum: 385a1cf5dc7d2ff7ac85dab538741ff1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-17T14:27:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 julianavazenunes.pdf: 1792666 bytes, checksum: 385a1cf5dc7d2ff7ac85dab538741ff1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-02-12 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este estudo teve como objetivo elaborar um etograma básico para indivíduos adultos de Tropidurus itambere, através de observações realizadas em ambiente natural e em ambientes artificiais e estudar a ecologia termal e o dimorfismo sexual dos indivíduos, em dezembro de 2006 e entre fevereiro e novembro de 2007. As observações dos comportamentos foram realizadas pelo método do animal focal e scan, totalizando 285 horas de registros. Nos ambientes artificiais os lagartos foram observados em cinco situações: (1) indivíduo sozinho; (2) 1 macho + 1 macho; (3) 1 macho + 1 fêmea (4) 2 machos + 1 fêmea (5) 1 fêmea + 1 fêmea. Os comportamentos exibidos pelos indivíduos cativos foram similares àqueles observados em campo. Foram registrados 78 atos comportamentais distribuídos em nove categorias funcionais. Os comportamentos movimentação vertical da cabeça (head bob) e lamber o substrato foram os atos comportamentais mais freqüentes exibidos pela espécie e parecem atuar juntos como sinais de reconhecimento, visual e químico, da área. A temperatura corpórea média de atividade de T. itambere foi de 32,08 ± 3,36ºC, com uma amplitude de 20,30 a 37,90ºC e apresentou variação sazonal. As temperaturas dos microhábitats (substrato e ar) influenciaram a temperatura corpórea dos lagartos sendo que na estação chuvosa a temperatura do ar explicou melhor a temperatura dos lagartos e, na estação seca, a temperatura do substrato explicou melhor a temperatura dos indivíduos. As análises mostraram uma diferença significativa no tamanho e forma do corpo e massa corpórea entre os sexos, com os machos sendo mais pesados e maiores, apresentando as medidas de todas as variáveis morfométricas significativamente maiores do que as medidas das fêmeas, com exceção da largura do abdômen cuja média das fêmeas foi maior do que a dos machos, porém essa diferença não foi significativa. A análise discriminante selecionou o tamanho da cabeça (RCT) como a variável que melhor explicou as diferenças entre os sexos, tendo classificado corretamente 89,5% dos indivíduos. / The aim of this study was to elaborate a basic ethogram for adult individuals of Tropidurus itambere, through observations accomplished in field and outdoor and indoor enclosures and to study the thermal ecology and the sexual dimorphism of the lizards, on December 2006 and between February and November 2007. The observations of the behaviors were accomplished by the method of the focal animal and scan, totalizing 285 hours of registrations. In the artificial enclosures the lizards were observed in five situations: (1) individual alone; (2) 1 male + 1 male; (3) 1 male + 1 female (4) 2 males + 1 female (5) 1 female + 1 female. The behaviors exhibited by the captive individuals were similar to those observed in the field. We registered 78 behavioral acts distributed in nine functional categories. The head bob was the act more frequently exhibited by the species, having been observed in all the treatments in the outdoor enclosure. The behaviors head bob and to lick the substratum seem to act together as signs of recognition of the area. The body temperature average of activity of T. itambere was 32,08 ± 3,36ºC and it presented seasonal variation accompanying the environmental temperatures. The temperatures of the microhabitats (substratum and air) influenced the body temperature of the lizards so that in the rainy season just the temperature of the air affected the temperature of the lizards and, in the dry season, just the temperature of the substratum affected the temperature of individuals. The analyses showed a significant difference in size and shape of the body and mass between the sexes, with the males being heavier and larger, presenting the measures of all the morphometrics variables significantly larger than the measures of the females, except for the width of the abdomen whose average of the females was larger than that of the males, even so that difference was not significant. The discriminant analysis selected the size of the head (RCT) as the variable that better explained the differences between the sexes, having classified correctly 89,5% of the individuals.

Studien har syftat till att skapa förståelse för hur verkligheten kan upplevas för personer som identifierar sig som homosexuella, bisexuella, transpersoner och/eller queer (H/B/T/Q), idag i Sverige. Vi hade en explorativ ansats utifrån detta syfte och använde oss av Grounded theory som kvalitativ metod för datainsamling och databearbetning. Vi intervjuade 11 H/B/T/Q-personer i Örebro, och vi fann ett antal centrala teman som var återkommande i intervjuberättelserna. Dessa handlade om hur sociala interaktioner med omgivningen påverkade den egna processen mot ett öppet liv som H/B/T/Q-person eller ett mer dolt. Det framkom också att det fanns en koppling mellan öppenhet i detta avseende och psykiskt välbefinnande. Utifrån dataanalysen drog vi en slutsats om påverkansfaktorer för den sociala interaktionens riktning gällande öppenhet/slutenhet och belyste relationerna mellan dessa i teoretiska modeller, där olika uttryck hos en heteronormativ omgivning beskrevs som centrala i detta avseende, men även den enskilda H/B/T/Q-personens interaktionsstrategier och tillgången till socialt stöd. / The aim of this study was to create an understanding of the life-views of persons identifying themselves as homosexual, bisexual, transpersons and/or queer (H/B/T/Q) in Sweden today. We had an explorative approach to this aim and used Grounded theory as a research method. We interviewed 11 H/B/T/Q-persons living in Örebro, and we found some central themes wich were frequently described, generally about how the social interaction with others had an effect on their own processes to living an open H/B/T/Q-life or having a restrictive approach. We also found that living openly as an H/B/T/Q-person seemed to be a salutogene factor. Those factors that we found to be central in the interactional processes to openly or restrictive ways of living as a H/B/T/Q-person, were illustrated in theoretical models, where the relationships between heteronormativity, individual interactional strategies and social support were focused.

At certain stages of a bumblebee colony life cycle workers lay eggs. Not all workers reproduce, however, since many continue to forage and care for the nest. This leads to questions regarding what differentiates a reproductive worker from a non-reproductive one. It is hypothesized that a form of reproductive competition takes place, where the most behaviourally dominant worker becomes reproductively dominant. The behaviour of orphaned Bombus impatiens pairs was recorded and aggression, social interactions, egg-laying, and ovarian development were identified. Experiment 1 examined the association between aggression and egg-laying. Contrary to the hypothesis, the most aggressive worker did not lay more eggs. When the ovarian development of workers was manipulated and two workers with developed ovaries were paired (Experiment 3), they were more aggressive than pairs with discouraged ovarian development. This provides support for the supposition that aggression and reproduction are related, however, it is only partial support as worker pairs with encouraged ovarian development did not lay more eggs. Since aggression is believed to be only one part of behavioural dominance, Experiment 2 studied the association between social interactions and aggression and reproduction. Results showed that when two socially active bees were paired they were more aggressive than pairs including one or two socially inactive bumblebees. No significant difference in ovarian development between socially active pairs and socially inactive pairs was found. Brood presence was also predicted to affect reproductive control. Experiment 1 found egg-laying and aggression were more likely to co-occur in the absence of brood. Results from Experiment 2 supplemented the first experiment since the absence of brood increased rates of aggression and ovarian development in pairs. Whereas the results confirm aggression has a role in worker reproduction the findings also reveal that behavioural dominance does not equate to reproductive dominance under all conditions. The primary contributions of this thesis were the development of a method to distinguish behavioural dominance from reproductive dominance and determining their relationship under different environments (brood presence) and experimental manipulations (ovarian development). These contributions further define dominance in Bombus impatiens.

Com a popularidade e o crescimento das Redes Sociais Online, o interesse pelo entendimento de como seus usuários interagem entre si também tem crescido, configurando assim um cenário rico no qual são criadas oportunidades para melhorar o design de interfaces, compreender a organização de movimentos sociais, o marketing viral e a distribuição de conteúdos multimídia, dentre outros. Na investigação dessas oportunidades de pesquisa, um modelo de representação da atividade dos usuários amplamente empregado é baseado na construção de um grafo. Embora as atividades dos usuários em uma Rede Social Online sejam variadas, assim como as possibilidades de interação entre usuários, a construção de um grafo normalmente considera uma interação específica, que é então analisada a partir da interpretação de medidas baseadas em grafos ou de medidas estatísticas. Técnicas de mineração de dados podem ser empregadas de forma alternativa e complementar ao modelo baseado em grafos, possibilitando a extração e a avaliação de padrões das atividades de usuários. Entretanto, tanto na análise baseada em grafos quanto na utilização de técnicas de mineração de dados, a literatura reporta trabalhos em que são implicitamente representados elementos associados com a atividade dos usuários como ações executadas, mídias compartilhadas, aplicações e tipos de dispositivos utilizados. Nesse cenário, existe uma demanda por um modelo descritivo que permita a representação explícita dos elementos associados com as atividades dos usuários representação essa que possa ser utilizada na extração e na avaliação das interações entre usuários. Para atender essa demanda, nesta tese é apresentada uma técnica e um método para representar, extrair e avaliar interações entre usuários de Redes Sociais Online. São também reportados resultados de experimentos da aplicação da técnica e do método a partir de dados obtidos de uma Rede Social Online / The interest in understanding user interactions is increasing with the popularity of Online Social Networks. This scenario leads to rich opportunities to improve the design of interfaces, to understand the organization of social movements, to model the dynamics of viral marketing and to characterize the distribution of multimedia content, among others. In the investigation of these research opportunities, a widely used representation of users activities is based on graphs as underlying data models. Graph data models usually consider a specific interaction, which is analyzed based on the interpretation of statistical measures and graph-based measures. On the other hand, user activities and possibilities of interaction in social networks are multifaceted, so that singleinteraction graph-based approaches might prove to be unfeasible to properly model the problem. In order to deal with these limitations, data mining techniques may be employed as an alternative to graph-based modeling approaches, by enabling extraction and evaluation of users activities as patterns. However, both in the use of the model graph-based as in the use of data mining techniques, the literature reports an implicit representation of elements associated with the users activities such as executed actions, shared media, used applications and devices. In this scenario, there is a demand for a descriptive model which allows explicit representation of the elements associated with users activities - this representation can be used in the extraction and evaluation of interactions among users. To meet this demand, this thesis presents a technique and a method to represent, to extract and to evaluate interactions among users of Online Social Networks. Results of experimentation of applying the technique and method based on data obtained from an Online Social Network are also reported

The following documents a research through design inquiry into how socialites of a hospital environment are disrupted or improved by implementing a service robot. The robot, support for excessive work, represents a new intermediary between a patient and a caregiver. Robotic work routines appear as better, more efficient, and more affordable. Apart from other ethical and inclusive considerations given to this dialogue, the social values hidden in traditional workflows are of equal importance.  This thesis attempts to generate constructive design research about emergent social norms and social dynamics caused by service robots’ implementation. The lessons learned are presented in a final research discussion. Further applied, the knowledge held common grounds with a rehabilitation robot developed by Blue Ocean Robotics.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka sambandet mellan upplevelsen av meningsfullhet och olika typer av sociala interaktioner hos personer med beviljad insats i form av hemtjänst eller särskilt boende. Vi valde att genomföra en kvantitativ tvärsnittsstudie där pappersenkäter delades ut till personer som var 65 år eller äldre. Totalt deltog 130 respondenter. Empirin analyserades med linjär regression och resultatet tolkades med hjälp av Collins teori om interaktionsritualer och emotionell energi. Våra resultat visade att det fanns fyra faktorer som har ett samband med hur respondenterna skattade sin upplevelse av meningsfullhet i vardagen. Tre av fyra faktorer innefattade sociala interaktioner mellan respondenten och personal medan den fjärde rör familj, vänner och andra personer. Faktorerna benämndes bemötande från personal, stöd från familj, vänner och andra, fika med personalen på särskilt boende samt när personalen har tid att stanna. Resultaten kan bidra till vidare utvecklingsmöjligheter på flera samhällsnivåer samt vara intressanta för vidare forskning som kan visa på kausala samband då vår studie tyder på att det med små medel går att öka upplevelsen av en meningsfull vardag hos äldre personer. Det är också av vikt för personer som jobbar inom äldreomsorgen att förstå att dessa förhållandevis små faktorer har ett betydande samband med hur äldre personer uppfattar meningsfullhet i sin vardag. / The purpose of this study was to investigate the connection between the experience of meaningfulness and different types of social interactions among people with granted service of home care or nursing home. We chose to do a quantitative cross-sectional study with surveys that were handed out to people 65 years or older. The total amount of respondents was 130. The empirics was analyzed with linear regression and the results were interpreted with support of Collins theory of interaction rituals and emotional energy. Our results show that there are four factors that have a connection with how the respondents estimated their experience of meaningfulness in their daily lives. Three out of four factors included social interactions between the respondent and the caring staff while the fourth factor concerned family, friends and other people. The factors are called refutation from the staff, support from your family, friends and others and when the caring staff has time to stay for a while. The results can contribute to further development opportunities on several levels and could be interesting for future research that could show causal relationship implying that the experience of meaningful daily living can increase with small measures among elder people. It is also important that people working in elder care understand that these relatively small factors have a significant connection with how older people perceive meaningfulness in their everyday lives.