Canivet, Catarina Nilsson, Anton Björk, Jonas Moghaddassi, Mahnaz Östergren, Per-Olof
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Scandinavian journal of public health
Aims: To investigate potential differences between participants and dropouts in the 2005 follow-up of the Scania Public Health Cohort Study regarding the prevalence of commonly studied health determinants and whether these factors had differential associations with three health outcomes: all-cause mortality and purchase of prescribed cardiovascular...
Hellgren, Margareta I Kitsche, Emelie Groot-Zevert, Marieke Lindblad, Ulf Daka, Bledar
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Scandinavian journal of public health
Aims: We aimed to investigate (a) the association between body mass index (BMI) and self-rated health (SRH) and (b) BMI's predicted value for SRH within a representative population in the Skaraborg Project. Methods: This was a longitudinal observational study. A random population of 2816 individuals were included in the study between 2002 and 2005,...
Alwin, Jenny Karlson, Björn W Husberg, Magnus Carlsson, Per Ekerstad, Niklas
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Scandinavian journal of public health
Aims: The aims of this study are to describe informal care activities and to estimate the societal cost of informal care of community-dwelling frail elderly people in Sweden. Methods: This study was performed within the frame of the TREEE project that included 408 frail elderly patients. At index hospitalisation (baseline), primary informal caregiv...
Hemmingsson, Erik Ekblom, Örjan Kallings, Lena V Andersson, Gunnar Wallin, Peter Söderling, Jonas Blom, Victoria Ekblom, Björn Ekblom-Bak, Elin
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Scandinavian journal of public health
Aims: The purpose of this research was to describe the current prevalence and historic trends in overweight, obesity and severe obesity in Sweden. Methods: Data on BMI, age, gender, education and geographic region were obtained in n=447,925 Swedish adults through a nationwide screening test (1995-2017). To account for sampling variations, we quanti...
Aaltonen, Mari S Van Aerschot, Lina H
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Scandinavian journal of public health
Aims: Ageing in place has become a policy priority. Consequently, residential care has been reduced, and more older people with multiple care needs reside at home with the help of informal care and home care services. An increasing share of these people has memory disorders. We examined the extent to which memory problems, in addition to other indi...
Bonander, Carl Nilsson, Anton Bergström, Göran M L Björk, Jonas Strömberg, Ulf
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Scandinavian journal of public health
Aims: Selective participation may hamper the validity of population-based cohort studies. The resulting bias can be alleviated by linking auxiliary register data to both the participants and the non-participants of the study, estimating propensity scores for participation and correcting for participation based on these. However, registry holders ma...
Heradstveit, Ove Skogen, Jens Christoffer Brunborg, Geir Scott Lønning, Kari Jussi Sivertsen, Børge
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Scandinavian journal of public health
Aims: The aim of the current study was to provide estimates of the distribution of alcohol-related problems in a large sample of college and university students. We also sought to examine trends in the distribution of alcohol-related problems from 2010 to 2018. Methods: Data stem from a recent national health survey from 2018 for higher education i...
Derwig, Mariette Tiberg, Irén Björk, Jonas Hallström, Inger
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Scandinavian journal of public health
Aims: The aim of this study was to test a Child-Centred Health Dialogue model for primary prevention of obesity for 4-year-old children in Child Health Services, for its feasibility and the responsiveness of its outcomes. Methods: A feasibility study was set up with a non-randomised quasi-experimental cluster design comparing usual care with a stru...
Mörelius, Evalotte Elander, Anna Saghamre, Emmy
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Scandinavian journal of public health
Aim: This study aimed to test initial validity, reliability, and feasibility of the Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale in a sample of Swedish mothers. Methods: A translation was performed through 11 steps using a forward-backward bilingual technique. For criterion validity, the Swedish translation of the Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale (S-MIBS) was comp...
Hovdenak, Ingrid Marie Stea, Tonje Holte Magnus, Per Krokstad, Steinar Samdal, Oddrun Bere, Elling
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Scandinavian journal of public health
Aim: From August 2007 to June 2014, the Norwegian School Fruit Scheme (NSFS) legally established that all pupils in junior high and combined schools (275,000 pupils every year), but not those in primary schools (343,000 pupils every year), were entitled to a free piece of fruit or vegetable every school day. The NSFS is a natural experiment, unique...
