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Beckman, L., Unenge Hallerbäck, M., Persson, L. & Bäccman, C. (2023). Hur föräldrar med psykisk ohälsa upplever sitt behov av stöd i föräldraskapet. Karlstad: Karlstads universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hur föräldrar med psykisk ohälsa upplever sitt behov av stöd i föräldraskapet
2023 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Det finns ett starkt samband mellan psykisk ohälsa hos föräldern och psykisk ohälsa hos barnet. Barnen tycks även ha en förhöjd risk att utveckla psykisk och fysisk ohälsa som unga vuxna. Eftersom en stor del av patienter med psykisk ohälsa finns i öppenvårdspsykiatrin eller primärvård är andelen barn som lever med föräldrar med psykisk ohälsa  förmodligen mycket större än vad vi tror. Föräldrar med psykisk ohälsa kan behöva stöd i sitt föräldraskap för att bli den bästa föräldren de kan. Syftet med projektet är att identifiera behov av stöd i föräldraskapet som föräldrar eller blivande föräldrar med psykisk ohälsa upplever. Vi genomförde tio intervjuer med föräldrar med psykisk ohälsa och skickade ut en enkät. Slutsatserna från resultatet var att det finns ett behov av stöd i föräldraskapet bland föräldrar med psykisk ohälsa. Vi fann att Familjecentralen lyfts fram som ett gott exempel och här skulle ett samarbete med psykiatrin främja relationen barn - förälder, samt att patient-anhörigförening spelar en viktig roll för föräldrar med psykisk ohälsa. Att synliggöra dessa ännu mer kan bidra till situationen på ett positivt sätt. Slutligen, det behövs inte några komplexa insatser, för många handlar det om att få träffa likasinnade i grupp, eller en samtalskontakt i svåra situationer.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, 2023. p. 41
Series
Karlstad University Studies, ISSN 1403-8099 ; 2023:22
Keywords
psykisk ohälsa, föräldrar, stöd, intervjuer, enkät
National Category
Health Sciences Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Research subject
Public Health Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-95766 (URN)978-91-7867-388-9 (ISBN)978-91-7867-389-6 (ISBN)
Funder
Region Värmland, LIVFOU-969007
Available from: 2023-06-27 Created: 2023-06-27 Last updated: 2023-08-15Bibliographically approved
Persson, L. & Hagquist, C. (2021). Improvements in the school environment-results of a Swedish school project 2005-2011. Health Promotion International, 36(4), 1039-1049
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Improvements in the school environment-results of a Swedish school project 2005-2011
2021 (English)In: Health Promotion International, ISSN 0957-4824, E-ISSN 1460-2245, Vol. 36, no 4, p. 1039-1049Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

To examine whether a public health project to reduce problem behavior in schools and improve the classroom climate, undertaken among eight secondary schools in a municipality in Sweden, was accompanied by favorable changes in the school environment over time. Data were collected from ninth grade students (aged 15-16years) at three different time points: the year before the project began (2005), during the project (2008) and when the project finished (2011). Changes in the school environment, measured as damage, littering, noise and classroom disorder, were compared between the project municipality and a comparison group of other municipalities in the same county, using multinomial logistic regression analysis. Descriptive comparisons were made between the schools within the project municipality. The school environment improved significantly from 2005 to 2011 in the project municipality compared with the other municipalities. The school environment was improved in all schools within the project municipality. The biggest improvements took place in two schools which systematically worked with one program incorporated into the school schedule. This study demonstrates that it may be possible to improve the school environment by implementing health programs. Further studies based on experimental designs are required in order to confirm the potential and efficiency of school health programs.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2021
Keywords
health, schools, school environment, Sweden, quantitative study
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology Other Social Sciences
Research subject
Public Health Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-86173 (URN)10.1093/heapro/daaa130 (DOI)000696255500015 ()33305320 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85115016989 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2021-10-11 Created: 2021-10-11 Last updated: 2022-05-30Bibliographically approved
Persson, L. & Svensson, M. (2017). Classmate characteristic’s, class composition and children’s perceived classroom climate. Journal of Public Health, 25(5), 473-480
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Classmate characteristic’s, class composition and children’s perceived classroom climate
2017 (English)In: Journal of Public Health, ISSN 2198-1833, E-ISSN 1613-2238, Vol. 25, no 5, p. 473-480Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

AIM:

A beneficial classroom climate is vital for school achievements, health, well-being, and school satisfaction. However, there is little knowledge as to how the classmate characteristics and class composition are related to the level of a perceived messy and disorderly classroom climate and whether the estimated relationships vary between different groups of children. The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between classmate characteristics as well as class composition and children's perceived classroom climate.

METHOD:

Data from a cross-sectional survey administrated in 71 classes including 1,247 children in a mid-sized Swedish city were used. The analyses were conducted using multilevel models.

RESULTS:

A class with a higher proportion of girls was associated with a lower likelihood of perceiving the classroom climate as messy and disorderly. Moreover, a higher proportion of immigrant children in a class was associated with a perception of a messier and disorderly classroom climate among non-immigrant children, but not among immigrant children themselves.

CONCLUSION:

Classmate characteristics and class composition deserve more research attention and can be important considerations when aiming to improve the classroom climate and children's well-being in general.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Weinheim: , 2017
Keywords
Children, Class composition, Classroom climate, Public health sciences, School health promotion
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Research subject
Public Health Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-41220 (URN)10.1007/s10389-017-0809-0 (DOI)000418467900004 ()28959519 (PubMedID)
Note

Artikeln ingick som manuskript i Louise Perssons doktorsavhandling och hade då titeln: Classmate characteristic’s, class composition and children’s perceived classroom disruption

Available from: 2016-04-04 Created: 2016-04-04 Last updated: 2019-11-08Bibliographically approved
Persson, L. & Knutz, M. (2017). Folkhälsostudenters röster om folkhälsoutbildningen, anställningsbarhet och framtida arbetsmarknaden. Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift (3), 301-308
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Folkhälsostudenters röster om folkhälsoutbildningen, anställningsbarhet och framtida arbetsmarknaden
2017 (Swedish)In: Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, ISSN 0037-833X, no 3, p. 301-308Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [sv]

Artikeln belyser folkhälsostudenters anställningsbarhet och framtida arbets-marknad. Studenters olika bakgrunder och tidigare yrkeserfarenheter speg-lar i flera fall deras upplevelser av såväl den folkhälsovetenskapliga utbild-ningen som deras framtidsutsikter. Studenterna läste folkhälsovetenskap som kompetensutveckling, för att vidareutbilda sig, få fler karriärsmöjligheter och eller för att skaffa spetskompetens inom området barn och unga. Studenterna beskrev efter avslutad praktikkurs att arbetsgivaren initialt inte visste vilka kompetenser och kvalifikationer en folkhälsovetare besitter. Upplevelsen var därför att deras breda kunskap och kompetens inom folkhälsoområdet mottogs positivt överraskande från arbetsgivaren liksom förmågan att kunna arbeta och tänka tvärsektoriellt. Arbetsmarknaden för folkhälsovetare är bredare än den specifika titeln Folkhälsovetare, och ser därför bättre ut vid en bredare anblick. 

Keywords
anställningsbarhet, Folkhälsovetare, Arbetsmarknad, karriärmöjligheter, kompetensutveckling, folkhälsovetenskap
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Research subject
Public Health Science; Public Health Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-81890 (URN)
Available from: 2020-12-16 Created: 2020-12-16 Last updated: 2020-12-17Bibliographically approved
Persson, L. & Haraldsson, K. (2017). Health promotion in Swedish schools: School managers' views. Health Promotion International, 32(2), 231-240
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Health promotion in Swedish schools: School managers' views
2017 (English)In: Health Promotion International, ISSN 0957-4824, E-ISSN 1460-2245, Vol. 32, no 2, p. 231-240Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Schools are recognized worldwide as settings for health promotion, and leadership has a bearing on schools’ ability to be health promoting. School managers have a great influence on what is prioritized in school, which in turn affects students’ school performance and health. There is lack of research into school managers’ views on health promotion, and what they consider to be central to health promotion. The aim was therefore to examine school managers’ views about what health promotion in schools include. An explorative design, qualitative content analysis, was performed. In-depth interviews were conducted with all 13 school managers of a middle-sized municipality in central Sweden. The analysis had both manifest and latent content and three categories: ‘Organization and Collaboration’, ‘Optimize the arena’ and ‘Strengthen the individual’, and 10 subcategories emerged. The theme, ‘Opportunities for learning and a good life’, describes the latent content of these categories. Taking into account the views of school managers are important because these views help form a more complete picture of how school managers work with health promotion and what is needed to enhance health promotion to improve students’ opportunities for learning and a good life. The Ottawa Charter for Health promotion is thereby transformed into practice.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2017
Keywords
schools, qualitative methods, public health
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Research subject
Public Health Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-29918 (URN)10.1093/heapro/dat073 (DOI)000402060100006 ()
Available from: 2013-10-29 Created: 2013-10-29 Last updated: 2018-01-05Bibliographically approved
Persson, L. (2016). Health Promotion in Schools: Results of a Swedish Public Health Project. (Doctoral dissertation). Karlstad: Karlstads universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Health Promotion in Schools: Results of a Swedish Public Health Project
2016 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Alternative title[sv]
Hälsofrämjande arbete i skolan : Resultat från ett folkhälsoprojekt
Abstract [en]

All children have the right to a safe school environment that promotes good health. The fact that children’s feeling of well-being is declining is a vital public health concern. Health promotion in schools can help to create an environment that fosters good health, and the Swedish school environment is in need of improvement.

The main aim of the thesis was to examine the health promotion activities that have been performed in Karlstad municipality primary schools between 2006 and 2012, from different perspectives, focusing on the school environment.

This thesis includes four studies. Studies I and II are qualitative, and are based on interviews with all school managers in a municipality and children’s suggestions for improvement, respectively. Studies III and IV are quantitative and feature a cross-sectional design based on a questionnaire that was distributed at different points in time.

In study I the categories: ‘Organization and collaboration’, ‘Optimize the arena’ and ‘Strengthening the individual’ emerged as vital by the school managers in health promotion, to enable ‘Opportunities for learning and a good life’. In Study II, ‘Psychosocial climate’ and ‘Influence’ emerge by the children as essential to increase school satisfaction and improve social relations among peers. Study III shows that classmates’ characteristics and class composition were associated with different perceptions of the classroom climate. Study IV shows that the school environment improved during 2005-2011 in the project municipality schools, and compared to the other municipalities in the county.

In sum, it is always important to endeavor to provide a health supportive school environment, as it is a vital prerequisite for children’s health, well-being and academic achievements. This thesis contributes to the field by showing what is needed to enhance future health promotion in Swedish schools from different perspectives, to improve children’s opportunities for learning and a good life.

Abstract [en]

All children have the right to a safe school environment that promotes good health. Health promotion in schools can help to create an environment that fosters good health. The aim of this thesis was to examine the health promotion activities that have been performed in Karlstad municipality primary schools, between 2006 and 2012 from different perspectives, focusing on the school environment. The results complement with new knowledge about how schools work with health promotion, and describe how school satisfaction and social relations might be improved, if children’s perspectives are considered in the planning of health promotion. The school environment has improved in the Karlstad municipality secondary schools 2005-2011, at both the municipality- and school level. The thesis contributes to the field of public health sciences, by showing what might be needed to further enhance school health promotion in Sweden and thereby improving schoolchildren’s opportunities for learning and living a good life.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, 2016. p. 106
Series
Karlstad University Studies, ISSN 1403-8099 ; 2016:24
Keywords
Children, Health Promotion, Mental Health, Schools, School Environment, Sweden
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Research subject
Public Health Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-41218 (URN)978-91-7063-702-5 (ISBN)
Public defence
2016-05-13, Agardh 11D257, Karlstad, 11:00 (Swedish)
Opponent
Supervisors
Funder
Public Health Agency of Sweden
Available from: 2016-04-25 Created: 2016-04-04 Last updated: 2020-07-02Bibliographically approved
Persson, L., Haraldsson, K. & Hagquist, C. (2016). School satisfaction and social relations: Swedish schoolchildren's improvement suggestions. International Journal of Public Health, 61(1), 83-90
Open this publication in new window or tab >>School satisfaction and social relations: Swedish schoolchildren's improvement suggestions
2016 (English)In: International Journal of Public Health, ISSN 1661-8556, E-ISSN 1661-8564, Vol. 61, no 1, p. 83-90Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Objectives: The aim was to explore schoolchildren’sviews on how to increase school satisfaction and improvesocial relations among peers at school.

Method: Improvement suggestions were collected fromschool children aged 10–12 years with the help of a feed-back model developed for the purpose. Qualitative contentanalysis was used.

Results: Two categories emerged from the analysis:‘psychosocial climate’, which included the subcategories‘adults’ roles and responsibilities’ and ‘classmates’ normsand values’; ‘influence’, which included the subcategories‘changes in the physical environment’ and ‘flexible learn-ing’. The categories are seen as important to increaseschool satisfaction and improve social relations amongpeers at school.

Conclusion: Examining children’s opinions is requestedand promoted by the UN convention on the Rights of theChild. The findings contribute to the field by showing howschool satisfaction and social relations might be improved,if the child perspective is considered in the planning ofhealth promotion activities in school

Keywords
Public health, Schoolchildren, School satisfaction, Social relations, Qualtive content analysis
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Research subject
Public Health Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-38733 (URN)10.1007/s00038-015-0696-5 (DOI)000367692400010 ()26012848 (PubMedID)
Funder
Public Health Agency of Sweden
Available from: 2015-11-27 Created: 2015-11-27 Last updated: 2017-12-06Bibliographically approved
Hellström, L., Persson, L. & Hagquist, C. (2015). Understanding and defining bullying - adolescents' own views. Archives of Public Health, 73, 1-9, Article ID 4.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Understanding and defining bullying - adolescents' own views
2015 (English)In: Archives of Public Health, ISSN 0778-7367, E-ISSN 2049-3258, Vol. 73, p. 1-9, article id 4Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Background

The negative consequences of peer-victimization on children and adolescents are major public health concerns which have been subjected to extensive research. Given all efforts made to analyze and estimate the social and health consequences of peer-victimization, the adolescents' own experiences and understandings have had surprisingly little impact on the definition of bullying. Therefore, the aim of the current study is to explore adolescents' definitions of bullying.

Methods

A questionnaire study (n = 128) and four focus group interviews (n = 21) were conducted among students aged 13 and 15. First, gender and age differences were analyzed with respect to what behaviors are considered bullying (questionnaire data). Second, analysis of what bullying is (focus group interviews) was conducted using qualitative content analysis.

Results

The adolescents own understanding and definition of bullying didn't just include the traditional criteria of repetition and power imbalance, but also a criterion based on the health consequences of bullying. The results showed that a single but hurtful or harmful incident also could be considered bullying irrespective of whether the traditional criteria were fulfilled or not. Further, girls and older students had a more inclusive view of bullying and reported more types of behaviors as bullying compared to boys and younger students.

Conclusions

The results of the current study adds to the existing literature by showing that adolescents consider the victim's experience of hurt and harm as a criterion for defining bullying and not only as consequences of bullying. This may be of special relevance for the identification and classification of bullying incidents on the internet where devastating consequences have been reported from single incidents and the use of the traditional criteria of intent, repetition and power imbalance may not be as relevant as for traditional bullying. It implies that the traditional criteria included in most definitions of bullying may not fully reflect adolescents' understanding and definition of bullying. Assessments of bullying behaviors that ask adolescents to strictly adhere to the traditional definition of bullying might not identify all adolescents experiencing peer victimization and therefore not provide estimates of prevalence rates reflecting adolescents' own understanding of bullying.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
BioMed Central, 2015
Keywords
Adolescents, Bullying, Definition, Qualitative content analysis
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Research subject
Public Health Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-35108 (URN)10.1186/2049-3258-73-4 (DOI)000210223000001 ()2-s2.0-84927745455 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish National Institute of Public HealthForte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
Available from: 2015-02-02 Created: 2015-02-02 Last updated: 2020-10-02Bibliographically approved
Hagquist, C., Beckman, L., Bergh, D., Hellström, L. & Persson, L. (2012). Främjande av psykisk hälsa och förebyggande av mobbning bland barn och unga, samverkansprojekt mellan Karlstads kommun och Karlstads universitet. Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, Centrum för forskning om barns och ungdomars psykiska hälsa
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Främjande av psykisk hälsa och förebyggande av mobbning bland barn och unga, samverkansprojekt mellan Karlstads kommun och Karlstads universitet
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2012 (Swedish)Report (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, Centrum för forskning om barns och ungdomars psykiska hälsa, 2012
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology Social Work
Research subject
Public Health Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-13178 (URN)
Available from: 2012-05-04 Created: 2012-05-04 Last updated: 2020-10-02Bibliographically approved
Persson, L.Can school health promotion improve the school environment?: Results of a Swedish Public Health School Project.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Can school health promotion improve the school environment?: Results of a Swedish Public Health School Project
(English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
National Category
Medical and Health Sciences Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Research subject
Public Health Science; Public Health Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-41221 (URN)
Available from: 2016-04-04 Created: 2016-04-04 Last updated: 2016-05-09Bibliographically approved
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