“I Just Want to Be Left Alone”: Novel Sociological Insights Into Dramaturgical Demands on Professional Athletes

‘I just don't want to get bullied anymore, then I can lead a normal life’; Insights into life as an obese adolescent and their views on obesity treatment

BACKGROUND Adolescent obesity is a complex condition involving social, emotional, behavioural and cultural issues. DESIGN One-to-one interviews and small focus groups with overweight and obese young people were conducted. Qualitative research is an appropriate method to explore the complexity of this issue. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Overweight and obese adolescent's attending a community wei...

You Want to Be

raud is the bane of the financial industry's existence. Financial institutions are constantly battling forgery , impersonation, and outright theft, and the advent of computers and the Internet, while increasing capability and efficiency, has exacerbated the problem. Visa has stepped in and started an information security program that seeks to revolutionize the industry. Today, average people ar...

Identity and schizophrenia: Who do I want to be?

Many individuals with schizophrenia have occasional difficulty defining both to themselves and to others who they truly are. Perhaps for this reason they make attempts to change core aspects of themselves. These attempts may be delusional, but are too often unjustly dismissed as delusional before the potential value of the change is considered. Instead of facilitation, obstacles are placed in t...

P-40: "I Want to Bring God in": ReligiousWomen

'I just want to be normal' - A qualitative study of pregnant women's blogs who present themselves as overweight or obese.

OBJECTIVE to describe what pregnant women who present themselves as overweight or obese write about their pregnancy in their blogs. SETTING Swedish private blogs. DESIGN a qualitative study, using 13 Internet blogs as the source of data. Google was used to find the blogs. The blog content was analysed using thematic analysis. FINDINGS three main themes were identified: Pregnancy as an exc...