General practitioners' and district nurses' conceptions of the encounter with obese patients in primary health care.

Background: Primary health care specialists have a key role in the management of obesity. Through understanding how they conceive the encounter with patients with obesity, treatment may be improved. The aim of this study was thus to explore general practitioners' and district nurses' conceptions of encountering patients with obesity in primary health care.

Subjective quality of life in persons with low-grade glioma and their next of kin.

Patients with low-grade glioma have a longer survival than patients with highly malignant glioma, and for this reason questions of quality of life (QoL) are of particular importance to such patients as well as to their next of kin. No studies have been found in which both adult patients with low-grade glioma and their next of kin have estimated their own QoL. This study was therefore designed to investigate the subjective QoL of these two groups.

Unaccompanied young adult refugees in Sweden, experiences of their life situation and well-being: a qualitative follow-up study.

Objective: In the late 1980s unaccompanied children began arriving in Sweden. Many of them were teenage boys who had been called up or were at risk of being called up for military service in a war in their home country. Others had fled their homeland for political reasons.