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Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis…
2020
BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents.
The healthy body image (HBI) intervention: Effects of a school-based cluster-randomized controlled trial with 12-months follow-up
2019
Published by Elsevier Ltd. Under a Creative Commons license We examined the effects of the Healthy Body Image (HBI) intervention on positive embodiment and health-related quality of life among Norwegian high school students. The intervention comprised three interactive workshops, with body image, media literacy, and lifestyle as main themes. In total, 2,446 12th grade boys (43%) and girls (mean age 16.8 years) from 30 high schools participated in a cluster-randomized controlled study with the HBI intervention and a control condition as the study arms. Data were collected at baseline, post-intervention, 3- and 12-months follow-up, and analysed using linear mixed regression models. The HBI in…
Peer Support for People Living With HIV: A Scoping Review
2021
Peer support for people living with HIV has gained increasing traction and is considered a way to take an active role in self-management. The existing research examining peer support interventions has reported promising evidence of the benefits of peer support. The purpose of our scoping review was to describe research on peer support for people living with HIV. We included 53 studies and sorted them into analytic categories and conducted descriptive analyses. The studies that were published between November/December 2000 and May 2021, had a range of study designs and heterogeneous priority groups, and included 20,657 participants from 16 countries. We identified 43 evaluations of the effe…
Livet som toppidrettsutøvere : langrennsløperes tanker og refleksjoner
2011
Masteroppgave i idrettsvitenskap -Universitetet i Agder 2011 De aller fleste i dagens samfunn, sportsinteresserte eller ikke, har en eller annen mening om toppidretten. Fra de som glorifiserer, nærmest tilber toppidrettsutøverne og mener det er nasjonens helter, til de som mener toppidretter fordummer samfunnet. Argumenter som at det opptar viktig radio/tv tid, er helseskadelig, sprer usunne holdninger, verdier, osv. er noen av de viktigste kjepphestene mot toppidretten. I denne oppgaven har jeg valgt å se toppidretten i lys av rasjonaliseringsteori, og forklare dens utvikling ut fra denne. Hensikten med denne oppgaven er å se hvordan fire toppidrettsutøvere tenker og reflekterer over livet…
Usage and acceptance of Moringa stenopetala in the diet in Ethiopia
2012
Masteroppgave folkehelsevitenskap- Universitetet i Agder, 2014 Moringa stenopetala er en plante rik på antioksidanter, som muligens kan ha en forebyggende effekt på utviklingen av leverfibrose. Mål: Å finne ut hvordan Moringa stenopetala brukes i kostholdet i et område i Sør-Etiopia, hvor prevalensen av leverfibrose er funnet lav og undersøke mulighetene denne planten kan ha for å bli akseptert og inkludert i kostholdet i et annet område nord i Etiopia hvor leverfibrose er funnet høy. Design/Metode/Utvalg: I Sør-Etiopia ble et utvalg av 21 tilfeldige kvinner fra Sille landsby som lager mat til sine respektive husholdninger bedt om å beskrive hvordan de tilberedte matretter som inneholder mo…
Effekten av en tilpasset og kostnadseffektiv telefon- og (e)post-basert fysisk aktivitetsintervensjon på blodtrykk blant fysisk inaktive voksne i ald…
2012
Masteroppgave i folkehelsevitenskap- Universitetet i Agder, 2012 The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of a tailored and costeffective telephone and (e)mail based physical activity intervention on blood pressure in a group of inactive adults aged 40-55 years. Furthermore it was of some interest to investigate the effect of aerob capasity and body composition on blood pressure. This master thesis consists of one article and a written assignment. The assignment is an elaboration of the theory and methods in which the article is based upon. The written assignment starts off with an introduction presenting the theme, definitions, the aim of the study and the study apporach.…
Selvopplevd helse og fysisk aktivitet : effekten av en tilpasset og (e)post basert fysisk aktivitetsintervensjon på selvopplevd helse blant fysisk in…
2012
Masteroppgave i folkehelsevitenskap- Universitetet i Agder, 2012 Background Physical inactivity is a leading risk factor for morbidity and mortality. The trend has become a major public health problem and burden on society, both economic and social are high. In order to monitor a population's health the traditionally measured parameters are birth-, mortality- and morbidity rates in the population. In recent years, an increased focus has been on individual’s subjective experience of his or her health. Existing research shows that monitoring self-perceived health can provide good information about populations sick leave, future morbidity and mortality. Physically inactive individuals report l…
Child poverty in a Scandinavian welfare context - from children's point of view
2011
Published version of an article published in the journal: Child Indicators Research. Also available from the publisher at: http;//dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-010-9092-0 The focus for this article is child poverty in a Nordic welfare state context. With data from two qualitative studies from Sweden and Norway, we discuss child poverty from the children's point of view, in the framework of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, articles 27 and 28. In article 27, food, housing and clothing are mentioned as particularly important for an adequate standard of living. In poverty studies where children's voices are being heard there has been little focus on these necessities. We find that a fe…
Implementing a health care reform through inter-municipal cooperation : Adaption and implementing the Norwegian cooperation-reform in three inter-mun…
2012
Presentation on department page: http://www.uia.no/no/portaler/om_universitetet/oekonomi_og_samfunnsvitenskap/statsvitenskap_og_ledelsesfag/ forskning_isl/isl_working_papers_series In this explorative article we will try to identify some issues and questions about how the Norwegian municipalities are preparing to implement the Cooperation reform and the new health care legislation. Our main focus is on examples of measures municipalities in three Norwegian inter-municipality regions so far have developed with respect to the Cooperation reform which will be implemented from spring 2012. By comparing and contrasting this three regions, with different history and adjustment patterns, our aim i…
Volunteering in dementia care – a Norwegian phenomenological study
2012
Ulrika Söderhamn1, Bjørg Landmark2,3, Live Aasgaard2, Hilde Eide3, Olle Söderhamn11Center for Caring Research – Southern Norway, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway; 2Institute of Research and Development for Nursing and Care Services, Municipality of Drammen, Drammen, Norway; 3Faculty of Health Sciences, Buskerud University College, Drammen, NorwayIntroduction: The number of people suffering from dementia will increase dramatically in the future, and this will be a great challenge and concern for health care services. It is assumed that volunteers will strengthen community health care services more in the future…