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Dietary intake, nutritional status and energy metabolism in individuals with anorexia nervosa - Effects of specialized eating disorder hospital treatment
(2023-05-23) Pettersson, Cecilia
Objective: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a life-threatening condition affecting around 1% of the population. The aim of this thesis was to study nutritional aspects before and after specialized eating disorder hospital treatment of AN in adolescents and young adults. Methods: Data on 43 female patients was collected and used. Dietary intake was assessed by food records. Body composition was measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and resting energy expenditure by indirect calorimetry. Eating disorder symptoms were assessed by Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) and Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA). Gastrointestinal symptoms were assessed by Gastrointestinal Symptoms Rating Scale IBS (GSRS-IBS) and food related anxiety was measured using the Food Attitude Questionnaire. Results: Body weight increased by 22% and significant changes of improvement from admission to discharge were seen in body composition, energy expenditure, eating disorder symptoms, gastrointestinal symptoms and food related anxiety. At 3 year follow-up, 60% were recovered or in partial remission, 32% had very low energy intake, 85% had intakes below recommendations of iron, folate and vitamin D and subnormal values of body fat and skeletal muscle mass were present in 30% and 25%. Conclusions: Specialized eating disorder hospital treatment was successful regarding several nutritional aspects. Follow-up showed that 60% of young individuals with AN can reach full or partial symptom recovery, and that remission is possible also for patients with severe AN who need hospital treatment. Nutritional counseling is recommended during the whole treatment to reduce the risk of malnutrition in patients with anorexia nervosa. Keywords: Anorexia nervosa, body composition, skeletal muscle mass, energy intake, energy expenditure, gastrointestinal symptoms, food related anxiety
Märkt av det förflutna? Minnesproblematik och minnesestetik i den svenska 1990-talsromanen
(2009-11-05T15:41:01Z) Pettersson, Cecilia
In Western civilization memory has always attracted much interest. In the last decades, however, this interest has intensified at the same time as it has taken other expressions than before. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the narratives of memory manifested in the Swedish novel of the 1990’s and in a number of theories of memory central to the late 20th and the early 21st centuries. What concepts of memory are predominant when approaching and entering the new millennium? Do the same conceptions of memory appear in the novels as in the scholarly discourse, or are these genres in conflict? Among the numerous contemporary novels having memory as a crucial complication, the dissertation concentrates on five: Per Olov Enquist’s Kapten Nemos bibliotek (1991), Niklas Rådström’s Medan tiden tänker på annat (1992), Bodil Malmsten’s Nästa som rör mig (1996), Marie Hermanson’s Musselstranden (1998), and Cilla Naumann’s Dom (2000). The theories of memory investigated are principally taken from two of the areas in which memory has been debated most intensely during the last decades: trauma studies and memory psychology. The investigation begins with focusing on a paradox manifesting itself both in the novels and in contemporary memory research; At the same time as there is an urgent need to remember, the difficulties with memory are emphasized. Chapter 1 shows that this paradox is at least partially illusory. By analyzing statements about memory explicitly formulated in the novels, it is revealed that these statements are connected to two different questions. The first one concerns the problematic aspects of memory, and the second one the significance of memory and its function. Chapter 2 analyzes the memory-aesthetics in the novels and direct attention on the fact that the theories of memory also are based on unarticulated aesthetic assumptions. By placing the novels’ and the theories’ conceptions of form side by side, a number of similarities and differences are discerned. This discussion are deepened and elaborated in Chapter 3, which deals with conceptions concerning traumatic memories. The chapter shows that the novels and the scholarly literature have many points in common in how to view traumatic memories, although the novels have a more contradictory and nuanced approach. Chapter 4 focuses on conceptions of memory authenticity, and here another difference is brought to the fore. In both the novels and theory memory is perceived as consisting of a combination of “real” information and fantasy, but in contrast to the theories the novels highlight the possibilities contained in this composite. This more positive valuing of memory lays the ground for Chapter 5. In this last chapter, memory’s significance for questions of identity and ethics is discussed. The chapter also explores the metaphors of memory displayed in the novels and in the scholarly literature. By adopting these perspectives a tendency discernable throughout the dissertation is emphasized: whereas the greater part of contemporary memory research one-sidedly focuses on memory’s instability, the novels stress memory’s constancy as well as its volatility.
”Två sidor för Angered och en liten spalt”
(2011-02-22) Pettersson, Cecilia; Skoglund, Maria; Warg, Linn; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation; Göteborg University/Department of Journalism, Media and Communication
Titel: ”Två sidor för Angered och en liten spalt” En kvalitativ studie om ungdomars förhållningssätt till medier på uppdrag av Sveriges Radio. Författare: Cecilia Pettersson, Maria Skoglund och Linn Warg Kurs: Examensarbete i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap vid institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation, Göteborgs universitet. Termin: Höstterminen 2010 Handledare: Ingela Wadbring Uppdragsgivare: Sveriges Radio Stockholm. Kontaktperson: Ingrid Östlund, Chef Publik & Omvärld. Sidantal och ord: 62 sidor, exklusive bilagor. Totalt 19031 ord Syfte: Syftet är att studera individuella och strukturella faktorers betydelse för ungas förhållningssätt till medier. Metod och material: En kvalitativ metod i form av fyra fokusgruppsintervjuer med totalt 18 ungdomar. Huvudresultat: Studien visar att både strukturella och individuella faktorer har betydelse för ungas förhållningssätt till medier. Det finns dock en likvärdig tillgång till medier oavsett social klass. Det kan däremot konstateras att klasstillhörighet har betydelse för användningen och värderingen av medier. Strukturella faktorer som kompisgäng, familjeförhållanden och boendeområden har betydelse för vad man tar del av. Föräldrar spelar en avgörande roll, då de överför sitt kulturella kapital och sina medievanor till sina barn. Här har även etniskt härkomst visat sig ha en betydande roll i ungdomarnas värdering av medier. Man värderar medier olika beroende på kulturell och historisk bakgrund. Samtidigt har individuella faktorer som intresse och behov betydelse för användning och värdering av medier och utbud. Har man ett personligt intresse för nyheter och information värderas det högre och man tar del av det i större utsträckning. Det framgår i studien att ungdomarnas värdering hänger ihop med vilka medier de använder i vardagen, då resultaten visar att ungdomarna ofta litar på de medier de använder mest.
Vem fäller domen över ”Dom”? ”Vi”? - Om mediala och sociala domslut i Cilla Naumanns roman Dom
(Humanistiska fakultetsnämnden vid Göteborgs universitet, 2006) Pettersson, Cecilia
Women’s experience of reading fiction while on sick leave
(LIR. journal, 2016) Pettersson, Cecilia
The article presents an empirical study of women’s experi ences of reading fiction while on sick leave. The aim is to discuss questions concerning the choice of literature and the function of reading in a bibliotherapeutic context from the viewpoint of literary studies. The results presented shed new light on pre vious research on bibliotherapy. They also show that the surveyed women’s reading patterns correspond very well with how women have read historically. Thus, the literary studies perspective applied in the study opens up for a more broadminded approach to the selection of literature and to different kinds of reading in bibliotherapy than has been customary. In addition, it suggests that research on bibliotherapy has everything to gain from taking a gender perspective.