Doktorsavhandlingar / Doctoral Theses - C7 (LIME)
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Persistent crisis in healthcare : psychological stress reactions and psychological support for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2024-08-09)Background: Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers were affected by high job demands and had an increased risk of developing psychological stress symptoms. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevalence of ... -
Enhancing hospital care coordination : a resilience-centric approach to challenges and potential strategies
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2024-05-14)Background: The realms of patient flow management and care coordination, both aiming to optimize care delivery, are governed by distinct operational logics. Patient flow management is primarily a strategic tool concerned ... -
The motives and ethical justifiability of treating patients with borderline personality disorder under compulsory care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2024-04-25)This thesis aims to investigate what motives psychiatrists have for detaining patients with BPD under compulsory care. Also, to examine hospital staff’s experiences of treating patients with BPD under involuntary care and ... -
Supportive resources for self-care and informal care : uncovering the role of patient-driven innovations
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2024-04-02)Background: Persons living with long-term conditions and informal caregivers are often dependent on support for their self-care and informal care. The experience of insufficient support may lead some to develop health ... -
The usability, acceptability, and satisfaction of a digital mental health tool for patients with breast and prostate cancer
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2023-11-16)The impact and use of digital health tools vary considerably among individuals dealing with somatic illnesses, such as cancer. This variability can be attributed to several factors, such as sociodemographic characteristics, ... -
The adoption, adaptation, and abandonment of value-based health care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2023-11-02)Introduction: Value-based health care (VBHC) is a strategic framework designed to improve care in parallel with lowered or sustained costs. It was soon touted as “the strategy that will fix health care”, garnering increased ... -
Motivational factors, job satisfaction and job stress among Omani medical laboratory scientists
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2023-08-11)Job satisfaction is a quality indicator that measures the cognitive and behavioral aspects of workers’ attitudes toward their job. A World Health Organization (WHO; 2013) report predicts that a world-wide shortfall of 12.9 ... -
Mapping the structure of science through clustering in citation networks : granularity, labeling and visualization
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2023-05-09)The science system is large, and millions of research publications are published each year. Within the field of scientometrics, the features and characteristics of this system are studied using quantitative methods. Research ... -
Ethical and clinical aspects of restraint in neurosurgical care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2023-05-04)Background: Compulsory care, manifest in the form of restraint measures, is common in somatic healthcare settings and occurs in many countries. However, studies of restraint use in somatic care in Sweden are scarce and ... -
Feeling ready and always more to learn : students’ journeys towards becoming a professional nurse
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2023-03-30)Background: Well-educated competent professional nurses are needed to ensure sustainable healthcare systems and reduce health inequalities. Nursing is a global profession, and the requirements and competences vary between ... -
Learning to reason like a doctor: a theoretical and empirical examination of medical students’ sensemaking in the clinical context
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2023-03-09)The overall aim of this thesis is to explore how the concept of clinical reasoning is understood in the literature, and its relationship with context, as well as to develop a conceptual learning model of how medical students ... -
Patients' self-empowerment : patients and informal caregivers taking the lead
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2023-02-15)Background: It is rather common for patients and informal caregivers affected by chronic conditions to experience aspects of disempowerment being in a paternalistic structure. Patient empowerment is often understood as a ... -
Tipping the scale of resources : de-implementation of low-value care from an operant perspective
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2023-02-15)Background: The overarching goal within the field of implementation science is to generate knowledge that can contribute to bridging the gap between research and practice. Most studies focus on how to implement research ... -
Do patients behave as expected on a healthcare market in transition? Consequences of expanding patient choice and introducing telemedicine in primary healthcare
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2022-04-29)Background: Political governance and technological development have transitioned the Swedish primary healthcare market from a centrally planned, community-oriented model with limited choice for patients to a quasi-market ... -
Measurement and valuation of health among children and adolescents using the EQ-5D-Y : methodological considerations and implications
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-11-26)Introduction: Around the world, life expectancy is increasing but not all years are lived in full health. Hence it is important to look beyond survival rates and also measure healthrelated quality of life. Measurement of ... -
Refugees and asylum seekers : their social networks and encounter with the mental health services
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-11-09)Background: Migrants run a greater risk of poor mental health than host populations, but there are large variations depending on diagnosis, pre- and postmigration experiences, gender, and regions of origin. Some studies ... -
On designing educational portals for self-management of type 2 diabetes : lessons learnt from an Iranian context
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-11-04)Introduction: The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) has been rising steadily and more rapidly in middle- and low-income countries. It is estimated that, by 2040, about 640 million people will have diabetes. Web-based ... -
Tying the knot between faculty development and educational change in clinical settings
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-10-27)Clinical workplaces offer important learning experiences for the next generation of health professionals, and clinicians serving as supervisors and educators are a critical determinant of the quality of learning in these ... -
Just responsibilities? On responsibility for health in Swedish healthcare priority setting
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-10-22)The overarching aim of this project is to explore, empirically as well as philosophically, the arguments for and against making Swedish healthcare priority setting decisions sensitive to patients’ degree of responsibility ... -
A view from the top : the local politico-administrative leadership in implementing evidence-based practice in social services
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-09-30)Background: Evidence-based practice is a way to integrate three knowledge sources into decision-making: research evidence, professional expertise, and client preferences and experience. It is argued that evidence-based ...