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- Larsson, Ann-Christine, 1961-, et al.
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Brukardelaktighet och inflytande
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Ingår i: Brukardelaktighet och inflytande i äldreomsorg. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144131399 ; , s. 19-33
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Larsson, Ann-Christine, 1961-
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Empowermentprocesser – ett sätt att öka långtidssjukskrivna kvinnors resurser? : En studie om att återta balansen i arbetslivet att återta balansen i arbetslivet
- 2007
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of the thesis is to understand and explain how a group of women have ended up on the long-term sick-list and how a return to working life can be brought about. Support for their return is organized within the framework of a R&D project within the EU-program EQUAL, where empowerment is one of the key principles.The research has been carried out using an interactive approach in close collaboration with the women in the project who have been signed-off long-term on medical grounds. Group discussions, questionnaires and individual interviews have provided the basis for collective analyses. This learning process, which is the central core in the interactive research, has, resulted in a deeper and more valid understanding of the reasons leading to ill-health and of the return to working life.The empirical part of the study and the analyses are divided into three parts. The first part I call the powerlessness process, namely tha which the women describe as a contributory factor to ill-health, caused by diminishing resources and increasing demands both in working life and in private life, and which eventually initiates a long-term signing-off on medical grounds. The second part is concerned with regaining and/or changing the resources that have been lost during the powerlessness process. The third part illustrates the return to working life, which is described in different steps.The thesis shows the worth of looking at the interplay between individual, organizational and community levels when trying to understand the reasons underlying ill-health and how changes at these different levels can affect the individual.The thesis shows also the importance of looking at ”life as a whole” and not just working life, where a return to work is concerned. In order to achieve a sustainable working life, attention must also be paid to gender structures and work-life balance.
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- Nordmark, Sofia, 1978-, et al.
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Empowering Dialogues : A Way to Democratise Knowledge Production?
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Ingår i: Action Research for Democracy. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138961227 - 9781315659909 ; , s. 75-89
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter explores the use of dialogues as a research method to create democratic settings for knowledge production. Action Research could be understood as a specific form of democracy, namely deliberative democracy. Deliberative democracy focuses on ways in which opinions and definitions of problems and solutions are produced through dialogues, which should be characterised by a willingness to understand each other's arguments. This requires participants to have the ability to clarify and justify their opinions. In the chapter we draw on this specific understanding of democracy and discuss how different kinds of dialogues were used in a research and development project. The dialogues consisted of both occasional and regular meetings over time and had different purposes. We call these dialogues empowering dialogues since they contributed, in different ways, to building up participants’ capacities to empower themselves.The use of a democratic setting for knowledge production in the project resulted in development of a different kind of knowledge that was more socially robust, making visible a wider range of voices and perspectives than what would have been produced without the dialogues. Another result of the project was that the researcher and the participants together identified and presented concrete proposals for social change. The chapter describes how dialogues, used as a method, created these results and problematises the conditions and opportunities for empowering dialogues and democratic settings in Action Research.
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- Pivodic, Aldina, 1978, et al.
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Development and validation of a new clinical decision support tool to optimize screening for retinopathy of prematurity
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Ingår i: British Journal of Ophthalmology. - : BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. - 0007-1161 .- 1468-2079. ; 106:11, s. 1573-1580
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND/AIMS: Prematurely born infants undergo costly, stressful eye examinations to uncover the small fraction with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) that needs treatment to prevent blindness. The aim was to develop a prediction tool (DIGIROP-Screen) with 100% sensitivity and high specificity to safely reduce screening of those infants not needing treatment. DIGIROP-Screen was compared with four other ROP models based on longitudinal weights.METHODS: Data, including infants born at 24-30 weeks of gestational age (GA), for DIGIROP-Screen development (DevGroup, N=6991) originate from the Swedish National Registry for ROP. Three international cohorts comprised the external validation groups (ValGroups, N=1241). Multivariable logistic regressions, over postnatal ages (PNAs) 6-14 weeks, were validated. Predictors were birth characteristics, status and age at first diagnosed ROP and essential interactions.RESULTS: ROP treatment was required in 287 (4.1%)/6991 infants in DevGroup and 49 (3.9%)/1241 in ValGroups. To allow 100% sensitivity in DevGroup, specificity at birth was 53.1% and cumulatively 60.5% at PNA 8 weeks. Applying the same cut-offs in ValGroups, specificities were similar (46.3% and 53.5%). One infant with severe malformations in ValGroups was incorrectly classified as not needing screening. For all other infants, at PNA 6-14 weeks, sensitivity was 100%. In other published models, sensitivity ranged from 88.5% to 100% and specificity ranged from 9.6% to 45.2%.CONCLUSIONS: DIGIROP-Screen, a clinical decision support tool using readily available birth and ROP screening data for infants born GA 24-30 weeks, in the European and North American populations tested can safely identify infants not needing ROP screening. DIGIROP-Screen had equal or higher sensitivity and specificity compared with other models. DIGIROP-Screen should be tested in any new cohort for validation and if not validated it can be modified using the same statistical approaches applied to a specific clinical setting.
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