Advisory groups of children in research on gender-based violence.

Involving children in research is not only advisable but mandatory from both a child rights and an academic perspective. Indeed, recent research has shown that children's participation enriches knowledge and contributes to an in-depth understanding of complex issues, even in sensitive questions such as gender-based violence, leading to improved policy and practice interventions. This article analyses the participation of children both as experts and informants in a research project aimed at creating an early detection model of gender violence applicable in schools.

Do dialogues about concepts of pain reduce immigrant patients' reported spread of pain? A comparison between two consultation methods in primary care.

Objectives: Do dialogues about concepts of pain reduce the reported spread of pain more than the usual consultations?

Setting: A 4-week programme in primary care for immigrants on sick-leave, aged 16-45 years, containing daily exercises and randomised to either four interviews and dialogues about pain with a female doctor (group A) or the usual consultations with a male doctor (group B).

Methods: Two doctors made the first and the last evaluations (before and after the programme) containing diagnostics of tender-structure locations and depression (yes-no), and ratings of severity of psychosocial stressors. Anxiety about pain was noted (yes-no).

Migration status and limiting long-standing illness: a longitudinal study of women of childbearing age in Sweden.

Background: Despite a number of studies focusing on the health of immigrants, our knowledge of the risk of limiting long-standing illness (LLSI)) in migrant women of reproductive age is restricted.

Methods: A simple random sample of 5037 Swedish-born and 629 foreign-born women (aged 20-41 at the first occasion) were interviewed over the periods 1983-1990 and 1991-1998. The risk of LLSI was estimated by applying logistic regression for correlated data.

Women, international migration and self-reported health. A population-based study of women of reproductive age.

Although our knowledge of the relationship between migration and health in women is increasing, we still have a limited knowledge of the migration and health of women of reproductive age. A cross-sectional analysis of a simple random sample of 10,661 women aged 20-49 in Sweden in 1980-1985 and 9585 such women in 1992-1997 was carried out to assess their health. The risk factors for self-reported, poor health and psychosomatic complaints for female refugees and women from Finland, Southern Europe, Western countries and Sweden were examined.