80 research outputs found
Vemod, dunsar i gräset, och rop. Besök i ett par av Barbro Lindgrens barndomsvärldar
No full textA lecture on the "world" according two a couple of series by the author Barbro Lindgren written as much for children as for adults.</p
Kommunikationens betydelse för långtidsarbetslösa personer med ADHD
No full textAuthor: Barbro Liljegren Title: Importance of communication for long-term unemployed people with ADHD Supervisor: Yoshiko Boregren - Matsui Assessor: Hans Swärd With a high unemployment a more selective labormarket follows and it always remains a group of long-term unemployed during such circumstances. The aim with this essay was to examine the importance of communication for them who are longterm unemployed with ADHD by looking how concepts as longtime unemployment, network, environment, social security and relations affected their situation. By using qualitative method, interviews and literature studies and theories as careoriented communication and nursing theory i found out that communication have a great meaning and affects their situation. The result show that of the different concepts it appears that the most important is security and it seems to be the foundation of all communication for those with ADHD. Although network proved to be important for the long-term unemployed with ADHD and their opportunity to get out of work. We also need a stronger and more widespread communication between the various organisations that in their professional activities meets this group
Studies on children’s psychological adjustment to diabetes
No full textType I diabetes is a chronic disease that affects the daily life of the individual from diagnosis and for the rest of life. The patient is constantly reminded of the diabetes because of a daily, self-managed and demanding treatment. Good psychological adjustment to diabetes is important for psychological well-being and might influence the medical consequences of the disease. How the treatment is performed might affect both short-term as well as long-term outcome of the disease. It is also possible that psychological and behavioral factors early in the course diabetes of may predict the long-term outcome of the disease.The overall aim of this study was to investigate psychological adjustment to Type I diabetes in children and adolescents. The aims were addressed in two studies, one cross-sectional (C-study) and one longitudinal, multi-center study (M-study). The M-study investigated a cohort children up to 15 years of age who were admitted to five pediatric clinics after onset of diabetes. Psychological data was collected at diagnosis, after nine months disease duration and after five years from onset (n=51). Medical data for diabetes outcome (mainly Haemoglobin bA1c) were collected at two years after diagnosis and in parallel with the followup assessment at five-year disease duration. The C-study was performed at one diabetes clinic of children nine to 18 years of age with varying length of diabetes duration (n=62). The objectives of performing two studies were to complement one another as well as to form a group of children sufficiently large to explore psychological adjustment to diabetes.The methods in the M-study were behavioral ratings and interviews of children performed by hospital staff and investigators, and psychological tests and questionnaires completed by the children. In the C-study, parents and children filled out questionnaires. Psychological adjustment to diabetes was studied by diabetes-specific emotional and behavioral adaptation, by the child's perception of family support and own competence in taking care of diabetes. Methods for studying diabetes-related psychological adjustment were developed for both studies.Affective reactions during the first weeks after diagnosis were predictive of difficulties in psychological adjustment to diabetes at five years of disease duration. Diabetes-related psychological adjustment in the children was associated to general psychological factors in both children and parent. Depressive symptoms in the child were associated with increased emotional and behavioral problems of adaptation as well as less support from the family. Metabolic control was more associated with diabetes-related behavioral adaptation than with general psychological functioning of the child. Children's metabolic control was more associated with family factors than with parents' psychological well-being. The level of later metabolic control was predicted by psychological factors assessed during first year after diagnosis and by level of early metabolic control. Also, it was found that physicians were not always aware of the children's emotional difficulties with the adaptation to diabetes. By identifying children who are at risk for developing problems or by early recognition of problems, it might be possible to reduce or prevent emotional suffering and future risk for diabetes complications.</p
Cord blood islet autoantibodies are related to stress in the mother during pregnancy.
No full textA 2-month psychological questionnaire concerning pregnancy was answered by 20,920 nondiabetic mothers of singletons. Retrospective analysis showed increased levels of islet autoantibodies (1A) in 290 (1.4%) newborns. High IA levels in the child's cord blood correlated strongly with IA levels in the mother (GADA r = 0.91, P < 0.0001; IA-2A r = 0.75, P = 0.0001). High IA levels were found in newborns whose mothers during pregnancy had been more worried than usual (P = 0.04), had worried that the child would be sick (P = 0.01) or not survive (P = 0.002), or had experienced serious life events, like "serious accident in the family" (P < 0.0001) or "experienced violence" (P = 0.02). Associations with increased worries by the mother remained in newborns with high type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM)-human leukocyte antigen (HLA) risk, but not in non-HLA risk children. ne prospective follow-up of these children will determine the importance of this early 1A for postnatal islet autoimmunity, type I diabetes, or both
The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) Study: predictors of early study withdrawal among participants with no family history of type 1 diabetes.
No full textJohnson SB, Lee H-S, Baxter J, Lernmark B, Roth R, Simell T for the TEDDY Study Group. The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) Study: predictors of early study withdrawal among participants with no family history of type 1 diabetes. Objective: The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study seeks to identify environmental triggers of autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in children at increased human-leukocyte-antigen conferred genetic risk for this disease. The objective of this study was to identify predictors of early withdrawal from TEDDY among families with no immediate family history of T1DM. Method: Logistic multiple regression was used to discriminate 2994 (83%) families currently active in the TEDDY study for ≥1 yr from 763 (17%) families who withdrew in the first year. Data collected on the screening form at the time of the child's birth and from interview and questionnaire data obtained at the baby's first study visit (at ≤4.5 months of age) were used. Results: Significant and independent predictors of early withdrawal included country of residence, young maternal age, no father participation, and female gender of the study participant. Mothers of children who withdrew were more likely to report smoking during pregnancy, abstaining from alcohol, and reducing their work hours or not working at all during pregnancy. Mothers who withdrew were also more likely to underestimate their child's risk for T1DM and fail to respond to multiple items on the enrollment questionnaires or interview. Among mothers with accurate risk perceptions, those experiencing high anxiety about their child's risk were more likely to be early withdrawals. Conclusions: Identifying families at high risk for study withdrawal at the time of enrollment allows for targeting these families with individually tailored plans to help maintain their participation in the study
Ingrid Ylva och tornet i Bjälbo
No full textThe article discusses the background to the erection of the huge church tower in Bjälbo, Östergötland, Sweden. It also focuses on medieval women as founders of churches. The author maintains that new dendrochronological dating of the tower could mean that founder of this building piece was not one of the male members of the important Bjälbo dynasty, but Ingrid Ylva the mother of Birger Jarl
Extracellular matrix of the human cyclic corpus luteum
No full text© The Author 2006Extracellular matrix regulates many cellular processes likely to be important for development and regression of corpora lutea. Therefore, we identified the types and components of the extracellular matrix of the human corpus luteum at different stages of the menstrual cycle. Two different types of extracellular matrix were identified by electron microscopy; subendothelial basal laminas and an interstitial matrix located as aggregates at irregular intervals between the non-vascular cells. No basal laminas were associated with luteal cells. At all stages, collagen type IV 1 and laminins 5, ß2 and 1 were localized by immunohistochemistry to subendothelial basal laminas, and collagen type IV 1 and laminins 2, 5, ß1 and ß2 localized in the interstitial matrix. Laminin 4 and ß1 chains occurred in the subendothelial basal lamina from mid-luteal stage to regression; at earlier stages, a punctate pattern of staining was observed. Therefore, human luteal subendothelial basal laminas potentially contain laminin 11 during early luteal development and, additionally, laminins 8, 9 and 10 at the mid-luteal phase. Laminin 1 and 3 chains were not detected in corpora lutea. Versican localized to the connective tissue extremities of the corpus luteum. Thus, during the formation of the human corpus luteum, remodelling of extracellular matrix does not result in basal laminas as present in the adrenal cortex or ovarian follicle. Instead, novel aggregates of interstitial matrix of collagen and laminin are deposited within the luteal parenchyma, and it remains to be seen whether this matrix is important for maintaining the luteal cell phenotype.Helen F. Irving-Rodgers, Barbro E. Friden, Stephanie E. Morris, Helen D. Mason, Mats Brannstrom, Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi, Noriko Sanzen, Lydia M. Sorokin, Yoshikazu Sado, Yoshifumi Ninomiya, and Raymond J. Rodger
Property formation and three-dimensional property units in sweden
No full textLegislative work is currently in progress in Sweden aimed at making possible the formation of properties in strata. At the moment, the government is preparing the bill. The proposed law may get legal force not earlier than 2003. A Commission proposed in 1996 that real property will consist of either a part of the surface of the ground or a three-dimensional space which contains a building or part of a building. Thus it will not be possible to create properties which permanently will consist merely of air or a volume of rock. The subdivision into horizontal strata must be terminated if the building is not erected or is destroyed. Today a Commission investigate the possibility of also introducing strata titles or condominiums in Swedish law. At the National Land Survey of Sweden, Lantmäteriet, a pre study is currently investigating how to implement the new law within the Real Property Register and the digital Cadastral Index Map
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