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- Nygren, Karina, 1974-
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Adolescent self-reported health in the Umeå region : Associations with behavioral, parental and school factors
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis consists of a quantitative and a qualitative study. The quantitative study (articles I-III) aimed to examine how self-reported health in adolescence is associated with behavioral, parental, and school factors. Through a survey directed at all adolescents in grades 7-9, data were collected in 2005 in a region in northern Sweden (n=5060). Statistical methods were used to analyze the survey data: chi2tests, multivariate logistic regressions and multilevel logistic regressions. Results showed that even though most adolescents reported good health, there were also rather large proportions of adolescents who reported headaches, stomach aches and feelings of stress. Girls reported poor health to a higher extent than boys, a difference that was larger in grade 9 than in grade 7. The results also showed that being norm compliant was associated with good self-reported health. Furthermore, perceiving relations and communication with parents as poor was associated with poor self-reported health; however, this relationship could not explain gender differences in self-reported health. Continuing on, analyses showed that there exist greater variations in self-reported health between students (within a school) than between different schools. On an individual level, poor relations to teachers, bullying and truancy were associated with poor general health. The qualitative study (article IV) sought to examine barriers to and facilitators of utilization of local school survey results within a school setting. In 2011, 21 school district managers and principals within a Swedish municipality were interviewed. Analyses were performed using a qualitative content analysis. The results from the qualitative study showed that the dissemination and utilization of school survey results appeared as two interrelated phases in one process. Barriers and facilitators differed qualitatively depending on the phase, dissemination or utilization.In conclusion, professionals as well as researchers need to consider the complexity of adolescent health and its social determinants. Adolescent health is a concern for multiple sectors in society, which highlights the need for further development of collaborations between professionals in relevant fields, such as health care, school and social services.
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- Nygren, Karina, 1974-, et al.
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Norm compliance and self-reported health among Swedish adolescents
- 2011
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. - : SAGE Publications. - 1403-4948 .- 1651-1905. ; 39:1, s. 44-50
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims: This study examines the relationship between norm compliance and self-reported health in adolescents, and how this differs between genders. Our specific aim was to investigate if extremely high norm compliance revealed any particular health patterns. Methods: This empirical study used a web-based survey from 2005, which was distributed to all students (n = 5,066) in years 7—9 of compulsory school within six municipalities in northern Sweden. The respondents answered questions about their general health as well as specific health problems such as headaches, stomach ache, sleeping difficulties and stress. Compliance was measured according to different norm-related behaviour, such as truancy, crime and use of tobacco, alcohol and narcotics. Results: The majority of respondents reported good health and norm-compliant behaviour. Girls reported more health problems than boys, a difference that increased with age. Those who were more norm compliant reported better health, fewer somatic complaints and less stress, which goes against our initial hypothesis that extremely high norm compliance and self-reported ill-health are related. There seemed to be a stronger relationship between self-reported health and norm compliance for girls than boys, in absolute terms. Conclusions: The results clearly show a relationship between norm compliance and health, and suggest inequalities between genders.
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- Nygren, Karina, 1974-, et al.
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Parents matter : but relations to parents do not explain gender differences in self-reported health in adolescents
- 2012
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. - : Wiley. - 0283-9318 .- 1471-6712. ; 26:4, s. 643-653
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the study was to explore whether parent-adolescent relations are associated to self-reported health of adolescents. Logistic regression analyses were performed on a cross-sectional data set consisting of 5060 adolescents, grades 7-9, from six municipalities in the northern part of Sweden. The study was approved by the Regional Ethical Review Board in Umeå, Sweden. Results showed that, in both boys and girls, experiencing low parental demands as well as perceiving the relationship quality and the communication with parents as poor were significantly associated with having poor general health, somatic complaints and feelings of stress. In general, girls scored lower on self-reported health than boys, but our findings indicate that these gender differences could not be explained by relations to parents. In conclusion, relations to parents play an important role for self-reported health of adolescents. Although no causal-effect statements can be determined in this study, it is implied that there is a need for health professionals, such as school nurses, school welfare officers, etc., to pay special attention to parent-adolescent relations in their work with adolescents.
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- Nygren, Karina, 1974-, et al.
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The Notion of Family in Lithuanian and Swedish Social Legislation
- 2018
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Ingår i: Social Policy and Society. - : Cambridge University Press. - 1474-7464 .- 1475-3073. ; 17:4, s. 651-663
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines the conceptualisation of family in key social legislative documents guiding social workers in two European countries, whose welfare systems have previously been labelled as re-familialised (Lithuania) or de-familialised (Sweden). The focus is on the concept of family as delineated on three legislative levels: the constitutional level, the general family policy level, and the child welfare policy level. ‘Family’ is explicit in Lithuanian law, and the regulation of family formation and responsibility is imperative, while this is much less so in Swedish law. The analysis reveals how general welfare systems (regime-types) are linked to legislative frameworks, which, in turn, provide fundamentally different conditions for social work in different contexts.
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- Nygren, Karina, 1974-, et al.
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What happens with local survey findings? : a study of how adolescent school surveys are disseminated and utilized in Swedish schools
- 2013
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0031-3831 .- 1470-1170. ; 57:5, s. 526-543
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aimed at examining the barriers to and facilitators of disseminating and utilizing the results of a local Swedish school survey. Interviews with 21 school district managers/principals were performed. Results showed that dissemination and utilization of local survey data appeared as two interrelated processes. With those processes, various barriers and facilitators were mentioned. The barriers and facilitators were not merely the opposites of each other; instead they qualitatively differed from each other depending on what phase in the process the manager/principal referred to. The results also showed that the dissemination phase was both a prerequisite for and interwoven with the utilization phase, e.g. dissemination efforts were important for how the survey results were utilized.
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- Nygren, Karina, 1974-, et al.
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Gender, Parenting and Practices in Child Social Work? : A comparative study fråm England, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: British Journal of Social Work. - : Oxford University Press. - 0045-3102 .- 1468-263X. ; 51:6, s. 2116-2133
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores ways in which gender equality, family policy and child welfare social workintersect in four countries: England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. Over time, conditions for genderequality in parenting have improved, partly due to family policy developments removing structuralbarriers. These changes, however, vary between countries; Sweden and Norway are consideredmore progressive as compared to the UK and Ireland. Here, we draw on focus group data collectedfrom child welfare social workers in England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden to compare thesedifferent contextual changes and how these are reflected in related social work practice decisions.The focus group discussions were based on a vignette, and thematic analysis was applied. Overall,welfare social workers are aware of the need to support gender equality in parenting, there is aheavy focus on mothers in child welfare practice decisions, and fathers are largely absent. Uniquely,we show that this is influenced by both a strong child-centred perspective, and a gendered riskperspective, in which fathers are seen to pose more risk to the children than mothers.
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- Nygren, Karina, 1974-
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Ungas fysiska och psykiska hälsa
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: Socialt arbete i skolan. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144109640 ; , s. 125-137
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Nygren, Karina, 1974-, et al.
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What about the fathers? The presence and absence of the father in social work practice in England, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden : A comparative study
- 2019
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Ingår i: Child & Family Social Work. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1356-7500 .- 1365-2206. ; 24:1, s. 148-155
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Within northern Europe, gendered roles and responsibilities within the family have been challenged through an emergence of different family forms, increasing cultural diversity, and through progressive developments in welfare policies. To varying degrees, welfare policies in different EU countries support a dual-earner model and encourage men to be more active as fathers by reinforcing statutory rights and responsibilities. In child welfare practice, there has traditionally been a strong emphasis on women as mothers being primary carers for the children, while fathers are less active or absence carers. This paper explores, in four national welfare contexts, how child welfare social workers include fathers in practice decisions. Data was collected using focus group interviews with social workers from England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. Similarities and differences emerge in relation to services and the focus of social work assessments. However, overall, the research suggests that despite gains in policy and legislation that promote gender equality, fathers remain largely absent in child welfare practice decisions about the parenting of their children. From the research, we raise questions for social work practice and the development of welfare policies.
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- Walsh, Julie, et al.
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'Everyday Bordering’ in England, Sweden and Bulgaria: social work decision making processes when working with migrant family member
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of International Migration and Integration. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1488-3473 .- 1874-6365. ; 23:1, s. 343-361
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The global movement of people is a growing feature of contemporary life and it is essential that professionals providing support services know how to best engage with migrant families. However, despite globalisation and the related processes of de-bordering, borders continue to remain significant and, in contemporary life, the ways in which immigration is controlled and surveilled – bureaucratically and symbolically – are multiple. The paper draws on data gathered in the immediate period following the so called 2015 European ‘migration crisis’ and examines whether and in what ways social workers in three European countries – Bulgaria, Sweden and England – enact bordering in their work with migrant family members. We apply the concept of ‘everyday bordering’ to the data set: whilst borders are traditionally physical and at the boundary between nation states, bordering practices increasingly permeate everyday life in bureaucratic and symbolic forms. Overall, the data show that everyday bordering affects social work practice in three ways: by social workers being required to engage in bordering as an everyday practice; by producing conditions that require social workers to negotiate borders; and in revealing aspects of symbolic everyday bordering. Our analyses shows that ‘everyday bordering’ practices are present in social work decision-making processes in each country, but the forms they take vary across contexts. Anlaysis also indicates that, in each country, social workers recognise the ways in which immigration control can impact on the families with whom they work, but that they can also inadvertently contribute to the ‘othering’ of migrant populations.
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