This article presents a qualitative study following a 6-month Taiji (T'ai Chi)/Qigong (Ch'i Kung) intervention for older adults. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews of eight selected participants who elected to continue practicing Taiji after the intervention ended, in order to explore their subjective experiences of Taiji's effects and their motivations for continuing to practice. We...

We discuss the subjective experiences of elderly people who show suicidal ideation and/or attempts at suicide, based on their own reports. We understand the concept of 'subjective' as referring to intra-psychic experience resulting from social, economic, relationship or biographical conditions. Although the subject is sparsely covered in the literature, it is important, because it is in the fie...

OBJECTIVE To investigate patient's visual experience during vitreous surgery under local anesthesia. METHODS A prospective and randomized study of 76 patients that underwent vitreous surgeries in our hospital between July 2010 and December 2010 was designed. All patients were interviewed half an hour before and within 1 hour after the surgery using a standardized questionnaire. Basic characte...

This paper documents the development and validation of the three-factor Subjective Exercise Experiences Scale (SEES), a measure of global psychological responses to the stimulus properties of exercise. Two of these factors correspond to the positive and negative poles associated with psychological health, Positive Well-Being and Psychological Distress, whereas the third factor represents subjec...

An adolescent’s subjective experiences of mindfulness were explored in a single case study of a 17-yearold female. Data were created by means of ‘mindfulness sessions’, unstructured interviews, creative expression, journals and field notes. The data were analysed and interpreted using a combination of typological and interpretive analysis strategies. Findings are presented within a conceptual f...

Background. An expanding body of research has focused on a range of consequences of TIA. However, no work has been conducted on the patient's subjective experience of TIA. Aim. To capture patients' first-hand experiences of TIA. Method. Using Q-methodology which employs both qualitative and quantitative approaches, 39 statements relating to the clinical, physical, affective, and psychological i...

Cedervall, Y. 2014. Physical Activity and Alzheimer's Disease. Measurements, Observations and Subjective Experiences. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1008. 82 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-8967-0. Gait disturbances such as slow walking speed and step-to-step variability have been reported among people with mild...

Antipsychotic drugs produce unpleasant subjective experiences, which have been associated with high levels of dopamine D2 receptor occupancy. Aripiprazole is a partial agonist antipsychotic, which is hypothesized to produce a different subjective experience profile compared to standard D2 antagonist antipsychotics. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of D2 occupancy produced by a pa...