Introduction: Active patient participation is an important factor in optimizing post-stroke recovery, yet it is often low, regardless of stroke severity. The reasons behind this trend are unclear.<p> <p>Purpose: To explore how people who have suffered a stroke, perceive the transition from independence to dependence and whether their role in post-stroke rehabilitation influences active ...

We explore the implementation and development of individual placement and support (IPS) in Norway. IPS is an evidence-based practice for supporting people experiencing mental illness to obtain and maintain competitive employment. Implementation of IPS into routine practice has been challenged by different paradigms in vocational rehabilitation, health and welfare policies. Data were mainly collected ...

<p>Objective: Team handball is a physically demanding sport. Research has not kept up with the increasing number of women participating in exercise and sports. The menstrual cycle (MC) is complex and should be included when conducting sport and exercise research on female athletes. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to investigate the potential effects of three different phases of the menstrual ...

De siste årene har fokus på kjønn fått stadig mer oppmerksomhet verden over. I takt med dette har også andelen personer som regner seg som trans økt betraktelig. En diskusjon har som følge av denne utviklingen vokst frem, og det er denne diskusjonen jeg i masteroppgaven har forsøkt å bevege meg inn i, fra ett idrettsperspektiv. I masteroppgaven har jeg undersøkt hvordan transkvinner endres gjennom ...

Denne kvalitative studien har hatt som formål å undersøke kroppsøvingslæreres forståelse av målsetningen livslang bevegelsesglede, og hvordan de tilrettelegger for dette i sin undervisning. Ut over dette ser studien på innføringen av den nye læreplanen (Kunnskapsløftet 2020) i kroppsøving, og dens betydning for lærerne. Det empiriske materialet baserer seg på et kvalitativt forskningsintervju ...

Introduction: Women’s football has developed rapidly in Europe over the last decades, and the number of women playing football in Europe continues rising. Despite rising numbers and interest in women’s football, scientific research is still lacking. With players competing 50-80 per season, sufficient recovery and understanding women footballer’s internal response to match load is important to ensure ...

In the face of the complexity of the interconnected processes involved in the relationships between cities and climate change this report researches the carbon-neutral city through a Bacchi-inspired governmentality lens, where the focus lies on how the physical structure and the technological choices are shaped and made in and through discursive problem representations. The field of carbon-neutral ...

Santiago de Chile is a world showcase for being framed under a pure neoliberal model implemented after a coup during a totalitarian regime. Despite its promises for a prosperous future, the city presents strong contrasts mainly understood as the neoliberal secondary effects, such as intense segregation, extreme real estate speculation, and a private sector that tends to be more influential than the ...

Detailed descriptions of theory, structure, and activities with causal links to specified outcomes of wilderness programs are lacking. Addressing this gap, the present qualitative study gives a thorough description of the development of the Wilderness programme for Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) cancer survivors (WAYA). WAYA is adapted to the individual needs of AYA cancer survivors. It was ...

Problemstillingen som reises gjennom oppgaven er om dagens lovgivning er hensiktsmessig utformet. Særlig med tanke på tilfeller der én person både er psykisk og somatisk syk. Er bestemmelsene utformet slik at den styrker pasientenes rettssikkerhet når tvangslovgivningen er delt inn etter ulike pasientgrupper? Oppgaven besvares gjennom en sammenligning av de materielle og prosessuelle vilkår for ...