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- Eriksson, Linn, 1982-, et al.
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Social physique anxiety and sociocultural attitudes toward appearance impact on orthorexia test in fitness participants
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. - Copenhagen : Munksgaard Forlag. - 0905-7188 .- 1600-0838. ; 18:3, s. 389-394
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates how scores on the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS) and the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire (SATAQ) relate to Bratman's orthorexia test (BOT) scores with regard to age, sex, and self-reported exercise frequency and duration in a sample of Swedish participants in fitness center activities. A total of 251 participants (166 women and 85 men) completed the SPAS, the SATAQ, and a questionnaire focusing on exercise frequency and duration. The results indicated that the SATAQ subdomain internalization could itself explain the variation in BOT results. In women, the results indicated that exercise frequency, followed by SPAS score and the SATAQ subdomains internalization and awareness, could together explain the variation in BOT results. Fitness centers could make a point of emphasizing that some physical ideals are neither healthy nor realistic, thus strengthening member self-image and preventing social physique anxiety, eating disorders, and negative attitudes toward appearance.
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- Haraldsson, Katarina, 1958, et al.
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Evaluation of a school-based health promotion programme for adolescents aged 12-15 years with focus on well-being related to stress.
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Ingår i: Public health. - London : Elsevier BV. - 0033-3506 .- 1476-5616. ; 122:1, s. 25-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate a school-based adolescent health promotion programme with focus on well-being related to stress. STUDY DESIGN: Interventional and evaluative with tests before and after the intervention. The study was performed in two secondary schools in a town on the west coast of Sweden. METHODS: A health promotion programme comprising massage and mental training was implemented for a single academic year in one school (intervention school, 153 participants) in order to strengthen and maintain well-being. No intervention was implemented in the other school (non-intervention school, 287 participants). A questionnaire was developed and tested, resulting in 23 items distributed across the following six areas: self-reliance; leisure time; being an outsider; general and home satisfaction; school satisfaction; and school environment. RESULTS: A pre- and postintervention comparison of the six areas was made within each school. In the intervention school, the boys maintained a very good or good sense of well-being related to stress in all six areas, while the girls' sense of well-being was maintained in five areas and deteriorated in one area. In the non-intervention school, the boys maintained a very good or good sense of well-being related to stress in four areas and deteriorated in two areas, while the girls' sense of well-being was maintained in two areas and deteriorated in four areas. CONCLUSION: Massage and mental training helped to maintain adolescents' very good or good sense of well-being related to stress. A questionnaire with acceptable validity and reliability was developed and tested in order to evaluate the health promotional approach. However, there is a need for further study to develop both the intervention and the questionnaire for young people.
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- Ström, Mayvor, et al.
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Callers' perceptions of receiving advice via a medical care help line
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Telephone consultations with specially trained nurses are becoming an increasingly common form of care.Aim: To describe patients' perceptions of receiving advice via a medical care help line.Results: The patients perceived the help line as a professional, reliable and easily accessible asset in everyday life, that self-care is promoted through personal advice and that the help line is apartner with whom one can discuss reflections and feelings. It is also a kind of ́back uṕ. The advice service is perceived as satisfactory when the nurse is calm, friendly, confirming and shows respect. Compliance and acceptance are enhanced when patients feel involved in the decision-making process. The fact that the service is easily accessible is perceived as simple and time saving.Conclusions: Seen from the patients perspective, the telephone contact with the help line is a simple, easily accessible and secure alternative that is appreciated and used. Caring encounters gave rise to feelings, influenced by the agreement between onés own needs and expectations, the encounter between human beings and the care provided. More in-depth studies is needed focusing on the patient́s perspective and characterizes of the caring encounter over the telephone. Relevance to clinical nursing: Improved understanding of the patient́s perspective on the care provided leads to increased staff satisfaction and motivation. Care encounters over the phone are common today for nurses and their well-being at work is beneficial for both themselves and thecare they provide and thereby for the patients.
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