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- Nygren, Karina, et al.
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Adolescent self-reported health in relation to school factors : a multilevel analysis
- 2014
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In: Journal of School Nursing. - : Sage Publications. - 1059-8405 .- 1546-8364. ; 30:2, s. 114-122
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of the study was to examine school-related determinants of self-reported health among adolescents. Questionnaire survey data comprising 4,972 students, Grades 7 through 9, from 20 schools in northern Sweden were used. Also, complimentary data about each school were collected from the Swedish National Agency for Education. Using multilevel logistic regression analyses, results showed that most variation in self-reported health was explained by individual-level differences. Truancy, bullying, and poor relations with teachers significantly increased the odds ratio of reporting poor general health, for boys and for girls. Most variables at the school level, for example, school size and student-teacher ratio, did not render significant associations with students' self-reported health. In conclusion, this study indicates that health promotion at school, including school health services, may benefit from focusing primarily on individual-level determinants of health, that is, students' relations to peers and teachers, without ignoring that bullying and weak student-teacher relationships also may induce school-level interventions.
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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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In: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. - : SAGE Publications. - 1403-4948 .- 1651-1905. ; 39:1, s. 44-50
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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In: Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. - : Wiley. - 0283-9318 .- 1471-6712. ; 26:4, s. 643-653
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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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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In: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0031-3831 .- 1470-1170. ; 57:5, s. 526-543
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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, Lennart, 1953-, et al.
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Socialt arbete i granskningssamhället
- 2011. - 1
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In: Utvärdering i socialt arbete. - Stockholm : Natur & Kultur. - 9789127119826 ; , s. 300-314
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- Blom, Björn, 1965-, et al.
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Analysing written narratives : considerations on the ‘code-totality problems’
- 2010
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In: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - Lillehammer : The Centre for Public Policy Innovation, Lillehammer University College (HiL). - 1892-2783. ; 1:1, s. 1-20
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article describes and discusses a number of fundamental aspects of analysing short written narratives. Of particular interest are the code-totality problems that arise during the transformation of several individual stories into a collective narrative. This article starts with a brief introduction to our previous narrative research on Swedish social-work students, which is followed by a description of textual interpretation according to Paul Ricoeur’s theory of interpretation, and a discussion and elaboration on the different concepts of meaning within his theory. The core of this article is an account of four models for analysing narrative data from several informants. This is followed by a concrete example of the implications that follow from the implementation of these models. We conclude that the degree of heterogeneity in the narrative material affects the choice of the mode of textual analysis and the code compilation.
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- Blom, Björn, 1965-, et al.
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Inledning : Utvärdering i socialt arbete
- 2011. - 1
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In: Utvärdering i socialt arbete. - Stockholm : Natur & Kultur. - 9789127119826 ; , s. 17-33
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- Blom, Björn, 1965-, et al.
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Olikheter och beröringspunkter
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In: Kunskap i socialt arbete. - Stockholm : Natur och kultur. - 9789127134065 ; , s. 176-179
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- Blom, Björn, 1965-, et al.
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Perspektiv och utvecklingslinjer
- 2013. - 2
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In: Kunskap i socialt arbete. - Stockholm : Natur och kultur. - 9789127134065 ; , s. 79-82
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- Nasseh Lotf Abadi, Mozhdeh, 1977-, et al.
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Birth weight, domestic violence, coping, social support and mental health of young Iranian mothers in Tehran
- 2013
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In: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. - : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. - 0022-3018 .- 1539-736X. ; 201:7, s. 602-608
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of this study was to investigate associations of birth weight with sociodemographic variables, domestic violence, ways of coping, social support, and general mental health of Iranian mothers. Six hundred mothers aged 15 to 29 years participated between June 2009 and November 2010. t-Test, analysis of variance, Spearman's correlation, and multiple regression were used. The results showed that there was no significant association between birth weight and general mental health of the mothers. Prenatal care visits, the mothers' history of having children with low birth weight (LBW), and weight gain during pregnancy were significantly associated with birth weight. The women who reported physical abuse during pregnancy had infants with lower birth weight. Satisfaction with social support and use of positive reappraisal were significantly associated with higher birth weight. In conclusion, a high quality of prenatal care and screening of pregnant women are recommended. Social environments good enough during pregnancy have protective effects against LBW.
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- Nygren, Lennart, 1953-
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Sociala strukturer och sociala problem
- 2013. - 2
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In: Perspektiv på sociala problem. - Stockholm : Natur och kultur. - 9789127134287 ; , s. 150-166
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- Nygren, Lennart, 1953-
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Sociale strukturer og sociale problemer
- 2014
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In: Perspektiver på sociale problemer. - Köbenhavn : Hans Reitzels Forlag. - 9788741258638 ; , s. 153-170
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- Oltedal, Siv, et al.
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Editorial: Families in context
- 2014
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In: Journal of Comparative Social Work. - : Universitetet i Stavanger. - 0809-9936. ; :2, s. 1-4
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- Padyab, Mojgan, 1976-, et al.
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Client violence and mental health status among Iranian social workers : A national survey
- 2012
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In: British Journal of Social Work. - : Oxford University Press. - 0045-3102 .- 1468-263X. ; 42:1, s. 111-128
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Client violence towards social workers is common and its impact on their practice, physical and psychological health is well documented. The majority of research in this field has emerged from the UK and USA, and is limited in developing countries such as Iran. Thus, the aim was to determine the one-year prevalence of client violence in Iran and its association with the mental health status of social workers. A national survey of 390 social workers from the Centres for Socially Injured People affiliated to the Social Affairs Department of the State Welfare Organisation, Iran, was conducted. The results showed that 67 per cent of Iranian social workers had experienced violence with a considerably higher magnitude of psychological violence than physical violence. Psychological violence was associated with poorer health characterised by physical symptoms, anxiety and sleep disorders, and social dysfunction.
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- Rasmusson, Bodil, et al.
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Child-centered social work practice : three unique meanings in the context of looking after children and the assessment framwork in Australia, Canada and Sweden
- 2010
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In: Children and youth services review. - New York : Pergamon Press. - 0190-7409 .- 1873-7765. ; 32:3, s. 452-459
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- This paper explores different orientations to child-centered social work as conveyed in the training materials and guidelines of Looking After Children and Assessment Framework in Australia, Canada and Sweden. ‘Child centered’ is shaped by contextual factors and influences social work practices. We found differences in these approaches as needs based and/or rights based and in relation to how each emphasizes the three P's — Provision, Protection and Participation. Substantial differences were identified both in how references to a child-centered approach appear in theoretical frameworks, values, motives and use of concepts in training materials and guidelines, and in the instructions given as to how to apply these approaches. It appears that Australia balances needs and rights, while Canada is more needs-oriented and Sweden more rights-oriented. Swedish materials show a more explicit emphasis on participation than Australian and Canadian materials. Differences between the three countries indicate the importance of structural, contextual factors shaping orientations to child-centered practice.
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- Rostami, Arian, et al.
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Health-related quality of life, marital satisfaction and social support in medical staff in Iran
- 2013
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In: Applied Research in Quality of Life. - : Springer. - 1871-2584 .- 1871-2576. ; 8:3, s. 385-402
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Quality of life is a subjective and multidimensional concept that includes all aspects of an individual’s life. Many investigations indicate that marital satisfaction is an important determinant of quality of life and social support affects both marital satisfaction and quality of life. Since medical staff face job stressors in their everyday life, in the present cross-sectional study, the relationships between quality of life, marital satisfaction, and social support in medical staff in Tehran were analyzed. Data collection was performed in 653 medical staff using socio-demographic questions, the SF-36 questionnaire, the ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Inventory, and the Social Support Questionnaire. The results revealed that men reported significantly higher quality of life and marital satisfaction than women, but there was no gender difference in social support. The quality of life and marital satisfaction domains were found to be differentially correlated among male and female participants. All domains of marital satisfaction were found to be significantly associated with the “vitality” and “mental health” domains among females and “physical functioning” domain in the male. Also, social support was associated with almost all quality of life domains in both sexes. The multiple regression analyses indicated that all the study variables combined with socio-demographic factors can explain between 12 % and 28 % of the variance in quality of life domains. Therefore, focusing on these factors could be an effective approach to improve quality of life in medical staff as a group with a stressful job.
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Utvärdering i socialt arbete : Utgångspunkter, modeller och användning
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- För att kunna utföra ett socialt arbete som ger resultat för de som berörs, behövs en ständig granskning av de metoder och tillvägagångssätt som används. Men vad innebär det att utvärdera socialarbetares enskilda insatser, liksom hela verksamhetsfält?I den här boken diskuterar författarna utmaningar och möjligheter när man planerar och genomför olika typer av utvärderingar inom socialt arbete. Aktuella modeller och begrepp granskas kritiskt, och läsaren får bland annat kunskaper om kvalitet och evidensbasering kopplat till utvärdering. Dessutom diskuteras utvärdering inom bl.a. äldreomsorg, individ- och familjeomsorg samt i anslutning till etnicitet, kön och funktionshinder.
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