Bakgrund: Endometrios är en kronisk östrogenberoende inflammatorisk sjukdomsom drabbar omkring 10 % av alla kvinnor i fertil ålder runt om i världen. Vägen tilldiagnos är svår och behandlingen bör individanpassas. Kvinnor känner sig oftamisstrodda och erbjuds inte alltid en god vård för sina besvär. Sjuksköterskan behöverse kvinnan ur ett helhetsperspektiv och är ofta den första kontakten kvinnan möter.Livsvärldsperspektivet användes som teoretisk referensram. Syfte: Syftet var attbeskriva hur kvinnors vardagsliv påverkades av sjukdomen endometrios. Metod: Enlitteraturöversikt med kvalitativ design baserad på 12 artiklar söktes i databaserna CINAHL och PsycInfo. Artiklarna genomgick en kvalitetsgranskning utifrån ettgranskningsprotokoll. Dataanalysen är gjord utifrån Fribergs fem steg. Resultat:Resultatet presenterades i fyra kategorier och nio subkategorier: Påverkan på detpsykiska måendet (besvär av psykiska symtom och förändrad kroppsuppfattning),Påverkan på det sociala livet (ökad ensamhet, konsekvenser av fysiska symtom ochminskade sociala relationer), Påverkan på sexuella relationer (svårigheter medintimitet och oro för infertilitet) samt Påverkan på arbetslivet (utmaningar i arbetslivetoch påfrestad ekonomi). Slutsats: Endometrios begränsade kvinnors vardagsliv ochmedförde ett stort lidande. Sjukdomen påverkade kvinnor både psykiskt, fysiskt,socialt och sexuellt och resulterade i en känsla av ensamhet. Stöd och förståelse överkvinnans situation och individanpassad vård är centralt för sjuksköterskansomvårdnad och för att kunna erbjuda en god vård. / Background: Endometriosis is a chronic oestrogen-dependent inflammatory diseasethat affects about 10% of all women of reproductive age worldwide. The path todiagnosis is difficult and the treatment should be individualized. Women often feelmistrusted and are not always offered good care for their problems. The nurse needsto see the woman from a holistic perspective and is often the first contact the womanmeets. The lifeworld perspective was used as a theoretical framework. Aim: The aimwas to describe how women's everyday lives were affected by the diseaseendometriosis. Method: A literature review with a qualitative design based on 12articles searched in the databases CINAHL and PsycInfo. The articles were analyzedwith a quality protocol. Friberg´s analysis in five steps was used in the analysis process.Result: The results were presented in four categories and nine subcategories: Impacton psychological well-being (distress of psychological symptoms and changed bodyimage),Impact on social life (increased loneliness, consequences of physical symptomsand decreased social relationships), Impact on sexual relationships (difficulties withintimacy and concerns about infertility) and Impact on working life (challenges at workand strained economy). Conclusion: Endometriosis limited women's everyday livesand caused suffering. The disease affected the women mentally, physically, socially andsexually and resulted in a feeling of loneliness. Support and understanding of thewoman's situation and individualized care are central to the nurse's care and to beingable to offer good care.

The modern society is characterized by an increased implementation of digitalization. With new technological innovations our social lives are increasingly becoming more digitalized. The past two years the pandemic has set the conditions of human interaction, and therefore the pandemic increased digitalization further. Organizations that had the possibility to reconstruct their work towards more digital approaches did so and therefore the social premises of work changed where individuals are working from home to a greater extent. The aim of this essay is to investigate Swedish women and their perception of telework and the digitalization’s effects on social relations/communication between colleagues, and how the individual experiences telework in regards to the increased pace of life. Finally this essay will explore how individuals deal with work-life balance during telework. Previous research has shown that telework has negative effects on informal communication between colleagues, and that teleworking and its demands on autonomy, flexibility and efficiency leads to increased emotions of stress for the individual. Finally, previous research showed difficulties with the managing of the work-life balance during telework, especially for women. This essay is based on qualitative interviews with six women and has shown that teleworking enables them to become more flexible and effective in their life, which has made it easier for them to manage the work-life balance than before. Another result of the essay is that telework has had a negative effect on informal communication between colleagues. / Det moderna samhället karaktäriseras av ökad implementering av digitalisering. Med nya tekniska innovationer blir våra sociala liv alltmer digitaliserade. De senaste två åren har pandemin satt nya förutsättningar för interaktionen mellan människor, och därmed ökat implementeringen av digitalisering ytterligare. Organisationer som haft möjligheten att omstrukturera sitt arbete mot mer digitala lösningar har gjort det och därmed förändrat de sociala aspekterna av arbete - där individer arbetar alltmer hemifrån. Syftet med studien är att undersöka svenska kvinnor och deras upplevelser av distansarbete och digitaliseringens effekter på sociala relationer/kommunikation mellan kollegor, och om distansarbete och digitaliseringen har lett till ett ökande livstempo. Slutligen intresserar sig denna uppsats för kvinnors gränsdragning mellan arbets- och privatliv under distansarbete. Tidigare forskning visar att distansarbete har negativa effekter på informell kommunikation mellan kollegor, att distansarbetets krav på autonomi, flexibilitet och effektivitet lett till ökad upplevelse av stress. Slutligen visar tidigare forskning problematik med work-life balansen under distansarbete, speciellt för kvinnor. Denna studie, som är baserad på kvalitativa intervjuer med sex kvinnor, har resulterat i att distansarbete tillåter dem att vara mer flexibla och effektiva i sitt arbete, vilket underlättat balansen mellan arbets- och privatlivet och lett till att kvinnorna känner sig mindre stressade än vid arbete på plats. Ett ytterligare resultat av uppsatsen är distansarbetets negativa påverkan på informell kommunikation mellan kollegor.

Bakgrund: Inflammatorisk tarmsjukdom (IBD) är en term som innefattarsjukdomarna Ulcerös kolit och Crohns sjukdom samt ospecificerad kolit. För attkunna få en större förståelse av sjukdomen och dess påverkan på individer, är detviktigt att djupare undersöka personers upplevelser av att leva med IBD. Dennaförståelse ska användas för att kunna ge en bättre vård av drabbade personer.Syfte: Syftet med denna litteraturstudie är att beskriva personers upplevelser av attleva med IBD.Metod: Metoden som har använts är litteraturstudie och innefattar n=10 artiklardär urvalet fokuserar på personer med IBD över 18 år och som alla berättar omupplevelser om att leva med IBD. Analysen gjordes genom syntetisering avresultat vilket resulterade i tre huvudteman och sju subteman, dessa teman varMiljö, Mat och Social påverkan. Resultat: Temat Miljö speglar kampen förpersonen att anpassa sig till den nya miljön där sjukdomen och symtomen styr.Temat Mat speglar verkligheten att behöva ändra sin diet kring sjukdomen för attundvika onödigt obehag. Sociala påverkan speglar personens egen syn på sig självmen även vänner och familjens stöd och påverkan på personens självkänsla.Resultatet visar också hur personer med IBD har upplevt hanteringen avsjukdomens symtom och på vilket sätt de har valt att hantera de olika hindernasom sjukdomen har skapat. Slutsats: Upplevelserna som personer med IBD ställsinför är olika och i många fall obehagliga. Eftersom IBD är en kronisk sjukdom såär det viktigt för sjuksköterskor inom vården att få en inblick i hur personer medIBD upplever sin sjukdom och hur dem hanterar den när sjukdomen är som värstför att kunna ge bättre stöd och information kring sjukdomen. / Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a term that includes thediseases Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease as well as unspecified colitis. Inorder to gain a greater understanding of the disease and its impact on individuals,it is important to more deeply examine people's experiences of living with IBD.This understanding should be used to be able to provide better care for affectedpeople.Aim: The aim of this literature review is to describe people's experiences of livingwith IBD.Method: The method that has been used is a literature review and includes n=10articles where the focus of the sample is on people over the age of 18 and who alltell about experiences of living with IBD. The analysis was made usingsynthesizing results which resulted in three main themes and seven sub-themes,these themes were Environment, Food and Social impact.Results: The theme Environment reflects the struggle for the person to adapt tothe new environment where the disease and symptoms rule. The theme Foodreflects the reality of having to change your diet around the disease to avoidunnecessary discomfort. Social impact reflects the person's own view of himselfbut also friends and family's support and influence on the person's self-esteem.The results also show how people with IBD have experienced the management ofthe disease's symptoms and in what way they have chosen to deal with the variousobstacles that the disease has created.Conclusion: The experiences that people with IBD are faced with are differentand in many cases unpleasant. Since IBD is a chronic disease, it is important forhealthcare professionals to get an insight into how people with IBD experiencetheir disease and how they handle it when the disease is at its worst in order toprovide better support and information about the disease.

Sit, Eat, Drink, Talk, Laugh – Dining and Mixed Media, is an exploratory study of qualities in everyday life and challenges people to enjoy the qualities of mundanity. Seeking inspiration in ethnographic studies, field work was conducted in domestic settings, returning an extensive body of material to work from. The study challenges people to absorb the moment, reflect and enjoy, rather than pacing through a lifetime, with a constant focus on the future instead of the present. This work takes a starting point in food and dining as a social activity, where interactive sound and a reference to online social media is explored through two interventions. The results of these are discussed with central findings around food and dining in the area of sociology, the use of sound in ambient computing and on a higher level around the topic of temporality.

This study examines the everyday racism (as defined by Essed, 1991) experiences of Swedes adopted from Korea, through a narrative analysis of two autobiographical novels by adoptees, Lundberg’s Gul utanpå (2013) and Trotzig’s Blod är tjockare än vatten (1996). It also discusses the role and implications of everyday racism.The study suggests that everyday racism is a constant feature in the adoptee’s life, with much of it relating to the adoptee being racially categorised as Chinese. This paper argues that racism against adoptees is used by white Swedes to maintain boundaries of privileged white space, and stems from a fear that adoptees, Swedish in everything but skin colour, threaten to blur the boundaries of white Swedishness. The covert nature of everyday racism, combined with Sweden’s colour-blind discourse and a national myth of tolerance and anti-racism, means that such racism is often denied or goes unrecognised, and is thus legitimised.

This thesis critically examines the role of suffering in violence, by applying a postmodern perspective to empirical examples gathered during fieldwork in Malmö in 2011.by Combing Bourdieu’s perspectives on practice with Turner’s concepts of space and liminality, Malmö takes on a new light. Through the criminalization of rejected asylum seekers, Malmö — otherwise a location of everyday peace — becomes an inside-out space defined by suffering where the clandestine asylum seekers are physically located within Swedish society, yet legally, culturally and socially located outside. Within this space bought into existence through the creation of clandestine asylum seekers new social relationships are formed — new ways of ‘being in the world’. In this thesis the clandestine asylum seekers are facilitating the altruistic and philanthropic practices of volunteers, whilst simultaneously becoming a utility for personal gain through exploitation. By examining these newly created social relations this thesis explores the experiences of suffering from an emic perspective, which provides an alternative and holistic approach to understanding the relationalities of experiences of suffering, personhood and the social field. These relationalites of suffering are exhibited through postulates of identity, performances, ways of doing and being, subjectivities and difference, as tools for viewing the social encounters taking place in a specific field.

Some elderly people with deteriorating abilities who receive home care service and do not use new technologies miss social content in their everyday lives. In my thesis, I research which role technology can play for these home care receivers in experiencing culture and how social interaction with peers from the same urban neighborhood can be embedded in this cultural experience. Based on my findings, I defined culture as little special moments in everyday life which change the perception of a day positively. Outgoing from fieldwork and literary research, I developed two scenario-based designs, PeerRadio and PeerLight, with the aim to create these moments at home in the elderly people’s everyday lives. PeerRadio is a radio program for home care receivers from the same neighborhood which sends contributions made by the elderly people themselves and gives them a reason to talk to each other. PeerLight is a connected lamp which makes the user’s activity visible at a peer’s home and vice versa and thereby supports caring for each other. Finally, my thesis clarifies how these concepts are answers to the named research questions and how they should be developed further in future works.

The diminished ability to perform everyday tasks is a salient problem for individuals diagnosed with a dementia. Recent research suggest that dementia patients detect significantly fewer action errors than age-matched controls; however, very little is known about the derivation of their error monitoring difficulties. The primary aims of my dissertation were to evaluate a novel, task training action intervention (TT-NAT) designed to increase error monitoring in dementia patients, and to pinpoint the relation between error monitoring and neuropsychological processes in participants who receive the task training intervention. Results indicated that dementia participants in the TT-NAT condition produced fewer total errors and detected significantly more of their errors than individuals in the Standard condition (z = 3.0 and t = 3.36, respectively; p < . 05). Error detection in the TT-NAT condition was strongly related to the language/semantic knowledge composite index only (r = .57, p = .00), whereas it was moderately related to both the language and executive composite indices in the Standard condition. No differences in error correction rates were noted, although patients in all groups corrected the majority of errors detected. The findings suggest that the TT-NAT may be a promising intervention for error monitoring deficits in dementia patients, and have considerable implications for neuropsychological rehabilitation. / Psychology

Objective: Grit is a noncognitive trait related to perseverance and consistent pursuit of long-term goals. Research on grit and aging provides evidence that grit increases with age and may be protective of cognitive and everyday functioning. However, no studies to date have examined relations between concurrently measured grit, cognitive abilities, and everyday functioning. This study tested two hypotheses: 1) that grit would predict cognitive performance and that this relation would be moderated by clinical diagnosis of cognitive status (i.e., healthy vs. mild cognitive impairment; MCI), and 2) that grit would predict everyday functioning and that this effect would be mediated by compensatory strategy use. Methods: Sixty-one older adults were recruited from the Penn Memory Center’s National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) cohort, including forty healthy controls with normal cognition and twenty-one individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Participants completed tests of verbal episodic memory, executive functioning, grit, compensatory strategy use, and everyday functioning. Results: Grit was not associated with cognitive functioning in either domain. Instead, memory performance was predicted only by clinical status (healthy vs. MCI), and executive functioning was predicted by clinical status, depressive symptoms, and years of education. Grit was negatively associated with everyday functional difficulties; however, there was no indirect effect of compensatory strategy use. Additionally, grit was moderately correlated with depression symptoms (r = -0.41). Conclusions: Grit is predictive of preserved everyday functioning, but not cognitive functioning, in a sample of healthy older adults and individuals with MCI. Mechanisms explaining the role of grit on everyday function remain elusive, though secondary analyses support that grit also influences affective well-being and may have a weaker role in the context of cognitive impairment. / Psychology

United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations are regularly evaluated and critiqued by both scholars and policy-makers, however this scrutiny is commonly restricted to program- and project-level effects. This neglects the unique impacts that emerge from the individuals who populate interventions and those they encounter in conflict-affected communities. The objective of this research is to place these individuals, and their actions and relationships, at the centre of analysis and investigate their impacts independent of, or distinct from, program-level effects. Through the case study of south Lebanon and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), this dissertation explores the social and physical spaces that connect peacekeepers and Lebanese individuals in the course of their everyday lives and actions. Through the theoretical lenses of cultural peacebuilding and hybridity, I conceptualize the meaning of these relationships to the individuals involved, to the UNIFIL mission, and to peace at a broader level. This political ethnography undertakes a complex, relational approach to understanding intervention impacts and effectiveness, thereby 'peopling' a UN peacekeeping operation. Based on original empirical data consisting of 82 ethno-biographical interviews with Lebanese individuals and UNIFIL veterans, alongside 14 months of participant and field observation, I argue that Lebanese people agentially transform superficial, formal encounters with peacekeepers into substantial, impactful relationships through the Lebanese culture of hospitality. In informal, private and local spaces and contexts, 'thick' identities are enacted and cultural exchange occurs, which transforms and hybridizes the knowledges and identities of both peacekeepers and Lebanese people. Through this process of hybridization, interlocutors emerge who facilitate the connections of others in their social networks and function as bridges across the international-local divide. This hybridization augments UNIFIL's access to local knowledge, which improves local support and operational effectiveness. Further, the relationships and connections between peacekeepers and Lebanese people contribute to the restoration or amelioration of Lebanese human identity needs, which are threatened by the conflict with Israel and the ways in which it intersects with intrastate tensions. This constitutes incremental change productive to complex pathways toward peace in south Lebanon.