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- Ericson, Helena, 1980-
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The art of ageing well : a salutogenic perspective on physical activity for older adults
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis examines older adults’ participation in physical activity, and is framed within a salutogenic theory regarding ageing well, or as others say, healthy ageing. Ageing well can be studied in numerous ways. Since this thesis is within the field of Sport Sciences, different physical activity initiatives for older adults are in focus. Population ageing is a global trend andrepresents a major societal challenge. Societies that adapt to this changing demographic situation and invest in healthy ageing or in how people can age well may enable people to live longer and healthier lives and reduce the burden of disease and disabilities. Therefore, strategies that offer environments that contribute to keeping people active are something that societies should prioritize. Current knowledge on issues relating to an ageing population are often based on an understanding of what causes illness, rather than what promotes health. Against this backdrop, it is essential to investigate those who are regularly physically active. The overall aim of the thesis is to contribute knowledge about older adults’ participation in sport and physical activity initiatives. The thesis will further contribute knowledge about who participates in the initiatives and what characterizes the different initiatives they participate in. This will be explored using salutogenic theory in relation to ageing well. Main findings are that older adult women and men are partly drawn to different physical activities and social relations were the most meaningful health resource. In conclusion, engaging in physical activity increases the odds of maintaining well-being in later life and of ageing well. Thus, offering and increasing physical activity is one way of meeting the challenge of an ageing population in society. From a salutogenic perspective, physical activity carried out to provides a meaningful, comprehensible and manageable way for older adults to engage in the ongoing process of maintaining health.
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- Arnell, Susann, 1971-, et al.
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Experiences of stakeholder collaboration when promoting participation in physical activity among adolescents with autism spectrum disorder
- 2022
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Ingår i: Disability and Rehabilitation. - : Informa Healthcare. - 0963-8288 .- 1464-5165. ; 44:9, s. 1728-1736
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PURPOSE: Various stakeholders contribute to the development of healthy physical activity habits in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Parents and stakeholders seek collaborative actions but little is still known about such efforts. The purpose of this study was thus to explore how professionals from different services experience stakeholder collaboration when promoting participation in physical activity for these adolescents.METHOD: Five focus group discussions were held with 17 professionals from education, health care, community, and sports organizations, engaged in the promotion of physical activity in adolescents with ASD. The data were analyzed with qualitative content analysis.RESULTS: . The professionals though experienced that this collaboration was hampered by the low priority given to physical activity issues within different organizations, by limited resources, lack of knowledge, and unclear roles.CONCLUSIONS: Notwithstanding the professionals' different roles, all agreed that physical activity issues need to be prioritized and that each stakeholder needs to acknowledge the shared responsibility of collaboration. However, more clear routines for collaboration that include joined efforts but also highlight the organization-specific responsibilities might enhance the collaborative efforts.In-depth understanding of both the adolescents' needs and the environments in which physical activity is promoted is required if participation in physical activity among adolescents with ASD is to be enhanced.Families and professionals within different organizations need to be supported to collaborate when mapping and meeting the adolescents' physical activity needs.Issues regarding developing physical activity habits need to be prioritized.Professionals, such as education, health, and community professionals who are important for the promotion of healthy physical activity habits need to be included in multi-stakeholder meetings.
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- Ericson, Helena, 1980-, et al.
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Organized sport and physical activity for older adults - salutogenic settings-based recommendations
- 2023
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Ingår i: European Journal of Public Health. - : Oxford University Press. - 1101-1262 .- 1464-360X. ; 33:Suppl. 1, s. I83-I83
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sport and physical activity is important to address healthy aging. There are recommendations on how much physical activity people should do, but no recommendations for how organizations should organize activities to suit as many as possible.The purpose of this study was to explore the characteristics of sport and physical activity initiatives that older adults participate in. Different ongoing sport and physical activity initiatives that involve older adults were investigated regarding their focus, organization, intensity and organizer, and in relation to their costs, booking opportunities and recruitment. The study was conducted with a cross-sectional design using the Salutogenic Physical Activity Health Resources Questionnaire (SPAHRQ). The study included 27 different initiatives with 372 participants (60% women) ranging from 60 to 96 years of age. A health-promoting, salutogenic, settings-based approach, and specifically the concepts drop-in, drop-through and drop-over (Geidne and Quennerstedt, 2021) were used in discussing recommendations for the organization of sport and physical activity for older adults.The main findings were that who (sports clubs or senior associations) organizes the sport and physical activity initiative seems to affect the characteristics of how (for example intensity and characteristics of the activities) it is organized and what characterizes the participants in it. Despite the differing characters of sport and physical activity initiatives, the majority of older adults are recruited by internal contacts like friends and family. The lowest costs are found in senior associations, leisure-focused initiatives, individual initiatives, and low-intensity activities.In senior associations, most activities were booked per semester 60%. In sport clubs the most common bookingsystem was per occasion, 40%.In team sports (almost always in sport clubs), the most common way of booking was per semester (46%). Which older adults participate in which initiatives is explained mostly by the age and gender of the participants.In conclusion, to attract as many older adults as possible, organizations should work with lowering the thresholds into, as well as within and between, organizations, and raise the threshold for dropping out of sports and physical activity.
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- Ericson, Helena, 1980-, et al.
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Physical activity as a health resource : a cross-sectional survey applying a salutogenic approach to what older adults consider meaningful in organised physical activity initiatives
- 2021
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Ingår i: Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2164-2850. ; 9:1, s. 858-874
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives: Examine health resources that physically active older adults consider meaningful when participating in physical activity initiatives. Health resources are protective factors, including attitudes, knowledge, material factors or social support, that potentially enable people to understand and make sense of their lives or to cope with life stressors.Design and main outcome measures: A cross-sectional quantitative study was conducted with two questionnaires used to serve as a compiled ‘ageing well’ survey: the Salutogenic Physical Activity Health Resources Questionnaire (SPAHRQ) and the short form of the Sense of Coherence questionnaire, SOC-13.Results: The study included 372 participants ranging from 60 to 96 years of age (mean age: 74.4 ± 7 years; 60% women). Social relations, positive energy, the habit of exercising and embodied satisfaction were considered important by more than 70% of the participants. Social relations were the most meaningful health resource for both men and women (89%). Women rated positive energy as a significantly more important consequence of their participation in physical activity than men (W 88%, M 72%; p = .001). The three health resources that were considered less important were capability in and about physical activity, self-worth and identity as an exercising person. Those who were more physically active considered social relations, self-worth and the habit of exercising to a higher extent. Participants with higher sense of coherence consider the habit of exercising to a greater extent to be important.Conclusions: Findings that social relations, positive energy, the habit of exercising and embodied satisfaction were considered important by more than 70% of the participants, can contribute to a wider understanding of health resources that older adults consider meaningful in their participation in organised physical activity initiatives.
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- Ericson, Helena, 1980-, et al.
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The art of ageing well-a salutogenic study of physically active old adults
- 2022
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Ingår i: European Journal of Public Health. - : Oxford University Press. - 1101-1262 .- 1464-360X. ; 32:Suppl. 2
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: People aged 60 years and over has doubled since 1980 and WHO predicts that this population will reach 2 billion by the year 2050. However, increases in life spans do not directly lead to increases in health. An aging population poses both challenges and opportunities for society and for individuals. In order to address this, scholars argue for the benefits of being physically active, especially in a group of peers. However, the relation between physical activity and health is often based on an understanding of what causes or prevents illness rather than what promotes health. The purpose of this study is thus to contribute to knowledge about which health resources older adults develop in their participation in organised physical activity initiatives. The study will consider to what extent older adults develop health resources, differences in demographic background and the relation between the health resources and Sense of coherence (SOC).Methods: This is the first data collection in a longitudinal study. Participants were old adult men and women, 60 years and above. All participants were active in ongoing organised physical activity initiatives in different organisations on a voluntary basis. A survey included demographics, overall health, health resources (McCuaig & Quennerstedt, 2018) and SOC-13. The data collection is ongoing (preliminary n = 200) and ends spring 2020. Statistical analyses were descriptive and included bivariate analyses.Results: Preliminary results show that the most frequent health resources are social relations, positive energy and embodied identity for both men and women. A positive related correlation of the health resource habit of exercising were observed with a high sense of coherence.Conclusion: The Salutogenic idea of having access to various health resources linked to a high sense of coherence is in line with the result of a positively related correlation direction and also with the health resource habit of exercising. The results of the study can contribute to knowledge about which health resources older adults develop in their participation in organised physical activity initiatives.
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- Ericson, Helena, 1980-, et al.
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The characteristics of organized sport and physical activity initiatives for older adults in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. - : Frontiers Media S.A.. - 2624-9367. ; 5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a common understanding that sport and physical activity can be important to address healthy aging. There are individual-level recommendations about how much physical activity people of different ages should engage in to gain health benefits, but at the same time there are no recommendations for how organizations should organize physical activities to suit as many people as possible for as long as possible. The purpose of this study was to explore the characteristics of sport and physical activity initiatives that older adults participate in. Different ongoing sport and physical activity initiatives that involve older adults were investigated regarding their focus, organization, intensity and organizer, and in relation to their costs, booking opportunities and recruitment. The study was conducted with a cross-sectional design using the Salutogenic Physical Activity Health Resources Questionnaire (SPAHRQ). The study included 27 different initiatives with 372 participants (60% women) ranging from 60 to 96 years of age. A health-promoting, salutogenic settings-based approach, and specifically the concepts drop-in, drop-through and drop-over were used in discussing recommendations for the organization of sport and physical activity for older adults. The main findings were that who organizes the sport and physical activity initiative seems to affect the characteristics of how it is organized and what characterizes the participants in it. Despite the differing characters of sport and physical activity initiatives, the majority of older adults are recruited by internal contacts like friends and family. Which older adults participate in which initiatives is explained mostly by the age and gender of the participants. In conclusion, to attract as many older adults as possible, organizations should work with lowering the thresholds, as well as within and between, organizations, and raise the threshold for dropping out of sports and physical activity.
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- Fredriksson, Ingela, 1967-, et al.
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Leisure-time youth centres as health-promoting settings : Experiences from multicultural neighbourhoods in Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. - : Sage Publications. - 1403-4948 .- 1651-1905. ; 46:Suppl. 20, s. 72-79
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims: The aim of this paper is to advocate for the importance of meaningful leisure time for young people from a health promotion perspective using experiences from two youth centres in multicultural neighbourhoods in Sweden. Methods: In this practice-based study, data were collected between 2012 and 2014 at two youth centres in multicultural, socially deprived suburbs in Sweden using surveys with 12- to 16-year-old adolescents (n = 207), seven individual interviews with staff and three cooperation partners in the neighbourhoods, and six group interviews with adolescents (50% girls). Quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods were used for analysis. Results: As part of the youth centres’ strategies, they are open and inclusive, foster supportive relationships, emphasise youth empowerment, and integrate family, school and community in their work. The youth centres are health-promoting settings with regard to four of the action areas in the Ottawa Charter: build healthy public policy, create supportive environments, strengthen community actions and develop personal skills.Conclusions: There is a need for a variety and a combination of various structured and unstructured leisure-time activities because young people’s background and life situation plays a role for their participation in leisure time activities. We conclude that youth centres are well placed to be or to become health-promoting settings if the activities takes place in a structured environment.
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- Geidne, Susanna, Docent, 1975-
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Could Interdisciplinary Research be a Way to Re-think the Organization of Volunteers?
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences. - : ORDT: Organization for Research Development and Training (P) Ltd. - 2594-3405. ; 7:2, s. 1-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Volunteering is a global phenomenon and different type of volunteers can be found in different types of organizations. Societal changes in how people volunteer and in how organizations use volunteers have made researchers call for a re-examining of organizing of volunteers. Therefore, this study aims to explore how different types of volunteering are organized in different types of organizations. The study uses an interdisciplinary research (IDR) approach with two perspectives, which in this paper are called Volunteer management (VM) and Volunteer coordination (VC). Four different Swedish organizations with different type of volunteers, two different types of sports organizations, one social organization and an entrepreneurial network are used as cases. The data consists of 18 interviews with project managers and volunteers. The data is analyzed in three IDR-inspired steps using both qualitative and quantitative analyses. This study reveals that understanding how to organize volunteering benefits from viewing volunteer organization in a proposed two-dimensional model. This model includes management strategies in different phases as well as relational perspectives and strikes a balance between organizational structure and climate. Merging research traditions can contribute to new knowledge in a changing society. Voluntary organizations need to work with everyday structures that allow them the flexibility to develop a sustainable volunteer organization by both managing and coordinating their volunteers.
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- Geidne, Susanna, Docent, 1975-, et al.
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De äldre och föreningsidrotten
- 2022
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Idrottsrörelsen har tilldelats ekonomiska resurser av regeringen för att arbetamed utvecklingsarbete hos målgruppen äldre. Regeringens önskemål de närmaste åren är att skapa bättre förutsättningar för äldre att idrotta i organiseradform och på så sätt bland annat bryta oönskad ensamhet hos målgruppen samtöka den fysiska aktiviteten. I den studie som ligger till grund för denna rapportundersökte vi äldres upplevelser och erfarenheter av föreningsdeltagande inomidrott. I fokus var de värden som fysisk aktivitet och idrott i organiserad formpotentiellt kan ge beträffande välmående, hälsa, meningsfullhet och minskadupplevelse av ensamhet.Vi använde ett hälsofrämjande perspektiv på föreningsidrotten som arena, vilketinnebär att vi ställde frågor om på vilka sätt föreningsidrott för äldre kan varahälsofrämjande. Studien genomfördes som en tvärsnittsstudie, närmare bestämtsom en enkätundersökning där data av både kvantitativ och kvalitativ art samlades in. Datainsamlingen resulterade i svar från 4 837 personer över 60 år, varavungefär två tredjedelar bestod av män och en tredjedel kvinnor. Den högstaandelen respondenter återfinns i åldern 65–70 år, men det finns ett flertal somär över 90 år. Mer än hälften av respondenterna har högskoleutbildning och bori en stad. Den övervägande majoriteten är födda i Sverige. Över 80 procent avrespondenterna anger en veckomängd av fysisk aktivitet över de rekommendationer som i dag finns för äldre.Av rapporten framgår att majoriteten av de äldre känner att deltagande i föreningsidrott ger dem energi, är en god vana, bidrar till deras sociala liv samt göratt de känner sig nöjdare med sin kropp. Det förekommer skillnader mellan mänoch kvinnor samt avseende ålder. Ett exempel är att kvinnor anger fler saker sommeningsfulla med deltagande i idrott och att sociala aspekter blir viktigare medstigande ålder. Det är en stor variation i vad de äldre ser fram emot i sin föreningsidrott. Det handlar om sociala aspekter, träning och glädje, men även om attdet är en vana, viljan att få tävla och att de ser fram emot att lära sig nya saker.Även hur deltagarna rekryterats till idrotten skiljer sig åt. Oftast har det skett viavänner, endast cirka fem procent har kommit i kontakt med idrottsföreningengenom externa kontakter. Enligt de äldre är en förening hälsofrämjande om denhar en anpassad verksamhet med ett varierat utbud, hög trivsel i föreningen samtatt det är enkelt att börja och att fortsätta i föreningen.Rapporten visar dessutom att det redan görs mycket bra för äldre i föreningsidrotten. Men också att mycket viktigt arbete kvarstår i fråga om hur idrott skullekunna organiseras för att nå och tilltala fler, det vill säga för att kunna erbjudaen verksamhet för så många som möjligt, så länge som möjligt. Centralt är dåfyra faser: drop-in, drop-through, drop-over och drop-out. Begreppen beskrivsoch utvecklas som rekommendationer för idrotten att arbeta med för att sänkatrösklarna såväl in i som mellan olika aktiviteter och verksamheter för att främjafortsatt deltagande och förhindra att äldre lämnar verksamheten.
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