Background: Stigmatization of people with psychosis is a widespread and global issue that has been existing for a long time. While other psychological illnesses are getting less stigmatized, schizophrenia and psychosis tend to be unchanged. Aim: The aim of the study was to illuminate experiences of stigmatizations in people with psychosis. Method: This is a literature study based on qualitative research. Thirteen articles were analyzed according to Friberg's five-step model and resulted in four themes and seven sub-themes. Results: The main theme that emerged was: feeling powerless, experience of exclusion, being treated unfairly, a need to withdraw. The result showed that people with psychosis or schizophrenia experience stigma from different directions which includes family, society and healthcare. Conclusion: Stigma exist everywhere and to prevent stigmatization, more knowledge about the phenomenon is required. Stigmatization gives the person worse conditions in life. The recovery becomes more lengthy and complicated. / Med samhällets ökande stress och krav ökar också den psykiska ohälsan. Men vem vågar prata om sina psykiska problem i det rådande samhället? Vem vill bli kallad psykfall eller galning? När familj och vänner väljer att lämna dig på grund av dig och din sjukdom, och det enda som finns kvar är hemmets fyra väggar, vad gör du då? Psykisk ohälsa som schizofreni och psykos har en lång, mörk historia som präglats av stigmatisering. Utvecklingen går framåt, men i alldeles för långsam takt och dåtidens fördomar lever kvar. Medan behandlingsformerna har förändrats genom åren har stigman alltid funnits kvar, sida vid sida, inom vården men också i samhället. Stigma tar sig hänsynslöst över kulturer och länder och ter sig på ungefär samma sätt överallt. Stigma handlar om okunskap, fördomar, rykten och stereotyper, därför bör alla titta igenom sitt eget förråd av värderingar. Ger samhället de utsatta personerna förutsättningar att kunna leva fritt i samhället? Och vems ansvar är det att arbeta förebyggande för att krossa stigman? Personer som lider av psykossjukdom behöver få möjlighet till en hoppfull och ljus framtid efter allt mörker. I den här litteraturstudien har en kvalitativ metod använts och genom att ha sammanställt 13 vetenskapliga artiklar har fyra teman och sju underteman framkommit vilka visar att personer med psykos och schizofreni är en utsatt, stigmatiserad grupp i samhället och vården. Genom att belysa det här ämnet kan fler bli uppmärksammade på de fördomar som finns.

Orientador: Alfredo Pereira Júnior / Banca: Mariana Claudia Broens / Banca: João de Fernandes Teixeira / Resumo: A consciência é um conceito extremamente polêmico, gerando uma série de modelos e teorias na filosofia e na ciência. Um dos maiores problemas é a questão do aspecto qualitativo da consciência. Alguns teóricos preferem negar tal aspecto, tanto por sua dificuldade ontológica, como por sua dificuldade em termos metodológicos. Outros assumem a consciência como fenomênica, entretanto a qualificam como epifenomênica em relação ao mundo físico. Uma outra possibilidade é que a consciência seja fenomênica em sua definição e que tenha sido selecionada no processo evolutivo por apresentar vantagens adaptativas. O presente trabalho tem por objetivo estudar se a consciência pode ser uma estratégia adaptativa, considerando-a como sendo qualitativa, por definição. A idéia defendida, por nós, é que a consciência foi selecionada no percurso evolutivo, inicialmente, por ajudar o organismo a se afastar de situações perigosas e aproximar-se de situações benéficas, sendo que provavelmente, mais tarde, a consciência tenha se sofisticado, tornando-se uma via de contato social, propiciando a compreensão do contexto e a conseqüente resposta adequada a este. / Abstract: Click electronic access below. / Mestre

Background: Endometriosis is a disease which, though it impacts one of ten women, has a lack of knowledge in the society and among healthcare professionals. The lack of knowledge causes delays in diagnosis and a lack of comprehension for the women. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe women's experiences of living with endometriosis. Method: The method used in this study was a method to contribute to evidence-based nursing with ground in analysis of qualitative research. Through the similarities and contradictions in the analyzed studies, themes and under-themes were created. Result: Findings showed that the women's experiences often were negative. Friends, family and healthcare professionals normalized the pain and the women often endured the pain in belief that it was normal. The lack of knowledge in endometriosis caused misdiagnosis and diagnostic delays. The endometriosis limited the women's daily living, work and social life by decreasing their activity because of symptoms as pain, nausea, fatigue, heavy bleeding and diarrhea. The disease also affected the women's relationships and the feeling of being a woman. Conclusion: The lack of knowledge in endometriosis caused an unnecessarily suffering among the women with the disease. If the awareness of endometriosis would increase in the society and among healthcare professionals the time for diagnosis and the encounters with patients suffering from endometriosis could improve.

Este trabalho apresenta relatos, reflexões e memórias da formação artística e pessoal do pesquisador. Entendemos como formação não apenas as atividades desenvolvidas na educação formal, mas também os encontros dentro e fora de instituições de ensino. Entendemos também como formação a convivência com professores, colegas, funcionários, amigos e familiares nos mais diversos espaços ao longo da trajetória do pesquisador. Para que esta tarefa fosse realizada, procurou-se uma habitação entre experiências de escuta e escutas da experiência, para revelar, através da escritura, o saber de uma experiência de doutoramento. / This work presents reports, reflections and memories of the researcher\'s artistic and personal education. We understood as education not just the activities developed in the formal education, but also the encounters inside and outside of educational institutions. We also understood as education the coexistence with teachers, colleagues, employees, friends and family in the most several spaces along the researcher\'s trajectory. In order to accomplish this task, a place was sought between listening experiences and listening of the experience, to reveal through the scripture the knowledge of the subject of a doctoral experience

Abstrakt Bakgrund: Hjärtinfarkt kan vara livshotande och kräver omedelbar sjukhusvård. För att reducera skada på hjärtat är det viktig att patienten kommer till omedelbar reperfusionsbehandling. Om symtom inte känns eller relateras till hjärtat, kan det göra att personen avvaktar med att söka vård och därmed försenas diagnos och behandling vilket kan leda en till ökad risk för att dö. För att öka kunskapen inom detta område vill vi med vår analys undersöka patienters upplevelse av symtom vid en akut hjärtinfarkt. Syfte: Att undersöka patientens upplevelse av symtom vid en akut hjärtinfarkt. Metod: En integrativ litteraturöversikt genomfördes vilken baserades på sökningar i Cinahl och Pubmed. Nio vetenskapliga artiklar med både kvalitativ och kvantitativ ansats valdes ut. Resultat: Studierna visade stor variation av patienternas upplevda symtom och symtomdebutens karaktär. Det fanns även skillnader mellan förväntade och upplevda symtom och resultatet visade att det råder en generell kunskapsbrist om AMI symtom bland allmänheten. Detta sammantaget leder till fördröjning i patienternas beslutsprocess för att uppsöka vård och behandling. Slutsats: Om tiden till behandling kortas, kan det leda till stora förbättringar vad gäller personens hälsa, välmående och livskvalitet. Det borde därmed finnas ett stort intresse att investera i strategier för att öka kunskapen om de olika och varierande symtom vid akut hjärtinfarkt hos allmänheten och även hos yrkesverksamma inom vård- och omsorg.

Patient feedback about practitioners’ and practices’ care is commonly used in UK general practice, sometimes by practitioner choice but often embedded in quality assurance and quality improvement programmes. Significant resources in NHS Scotland are spent gathering and reporting on patients’ reported experiences of care using a national GP patient experience survey – Better Together. There is however limited reference in current health policies to strong evidence demonstrating that this is an effective strategy to stimulate improvements in practice and patients’ experiences of care. This research study used realist review of existing literature to understand the impact of patient feedback at practice and practitioner level on patients’ experiences of general practice care, and realist evaluation of three general practices to understand how patient feedback is viewed and used for quality improvement in everyday general practice. Findings from the realist review indicate that there is little or no evidence that practice or practitioner level patient feedback leads to improvements in patients’ experiences of general practice care. The realist evaluation demonstrated great variance in how practice teams gather and respond to patient feedback and significant concerns about the validity of the Better Together survey. Variance in the strategies used to gather feedback and responses to it were predominantly influenced by collective staff beliefs about the quality of service they provided, their estimates of patients’ views of the service and their perceptions of patients’ preferences for providing feedback. While GPs mostly perceived that patients would be likely to tell someone in the practice when dissatisfied, interviews with patients indicated they had little understanding of how they could give feedback and an overall preference for doing this anonymously. One practice team was seen to initiate significant changes aimed at improving patients’ experiences but their ability to demonstrate improvements in experience were limited by changes in their workforce, conflicting externally set targets and methodological limitations of current patient experience measures. Further research is needed to understand how the findings from this study apply to general practice across Scotland and how practices can be best supported to use patient feedback to improve services.

abstract: Traditional autonomy within clinical supervision was reinterpreted by incorporating culturally-encompassing autonomy types (individuating and relating autonomy) from the dual autonomy scale. The relations of vertical collectivism and autonomy measures were examined. Lastly, potential moderating effects of vertical collectivism on experience level and autonomy were assessed. The sample consisted of 404 counseling trainees enrolled in graduate programs across the US, aged between 21 and 68. Results from the confirmatory factor analysis supported the proposed two-factor structure of individuating and relating autonomy among counseling trainees for the adapted dual autonomy scale. Results indicated that individuating autonomy was moderately correlated with relating and traditional autonomy, and relating autonomy was not correlated with traditional autonomy. Vertical collectivism was not correlated with relating autonomy, but significantly predicted individuating and traditional autonomy. Moderating effects of vertical collectivism on experience level and autonomy were not supported. Further implications and future directions are discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Counseling Psychology 2020

abstract: Providing the user with good user experience is complex and involves multiple factors. One of the factors that can impact the user experience is animation. Animation can be tricky to get right and needs to be understood by designers. Animations that are too fast might not accomplish anything and having them too slow could slow the user down causing them to get frustrated. This study explores the subject of animation and its speed by trying to answer the following questions – 1) Do people notice whether an animation is present 2) Does animation affect the enjoyment of a transition? and 3) If animation does affect enjoyment, what is the effect of different animation speeds? The study was conducted using 3 prototypes of an application to order bottled water in which the transitions between different brands of bottled water were animated at 0ms, 300ms and 650ms. A survey was conducted to see if the participants were able to spot any difference between the prototypes and if they did, which one they preferred. It was found that most people did not recognize any difference between the prototypes. Even people who recognized a difference between the prototypes did not have any preference of speed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Human Systems Engineering 2019

We have created a question type that allows teachers to easily create questions, helps provide an intuitive user experience for students to take questions, and reduces the time it currently takes teachers to grade and provide feedback to students. This question type, or an "annotated" question, will allow teachers to test students' knowledge in a particular subject area by having students "annotate" or mark text and video sources to answer questions. Through user testing we determined that overall the interface and the implemented system decrease the time it would take a teacher to grade annotated quiz questions. However, there are some limitations based on the way students answered text annotated questions that would require a rewrite of the user interface and system design to decrease the grading time even more for teachers.

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