Publications by authors named "J D Skogen"
Alcohol-attributed disease burden and formal alcohol policies in the Nordic countries (1990-2019): an analysis using the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.
Eur J Public Health
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study analyzed the impact of alcohol control policies on health outcomes related to alcohol in Nordic countries from 1990 to 2019.
- More restrictive alcohol policies were generally linked to lower levels of alcohol-attributed harm, especially in Sweden and Norway, while Denmark, with the least restrictive policies, had higher harm levels.
- Findings suggest that while stricter policies can reduce alcohol-related disease burdens, other factors like sex and specific locations also play crucial roles, indicating that policy effectiveness is context-dependent.
The Norwegian Counties Public Health Survey (NCPHS): a design study.
Scand J Public Health
October 2024
Background: Effective public health initiatives should be founded on a comprehensive and robust understanding of health-related factors including societal and community contexts. The Norwegian Counties Public Health Survey (NCPHS) aims for insights into the adult population on topics relevant for planning public health practices at county and municipality levels.
Methods: The NCPHS includes a core questionnaire on public health-related topics and demographics, including indicators of socio-economy, with additional optional questions and scales varying across data collections.
Depressive symptoms, conduct problems and alcohol use from age 13 to 19 in Norway: evidence from the MyLife longitudinal study.
Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the developmental trends in depression, conduct problems, and alcohol use among Norwegian adolescents born in the 21st century, as previous research mainly focused on those from the early 2000s.
- It utilizes a sample of 3,436 adolescents, analyzing changes in behaviors and symptoms using various statistical models, while considering factors like sex and community type (rural vs. urban).
- Results indicate that symptoms of depression and conduct problems increase during adolescence, with girls experiencing more depression and boys showing more conduct issues; overall alcohol use rises sharply from age 14, particularly in rural areas, but shows similar trends across sexes.
Background: The intensive use of social media among adolescents has caused concern about its impact on their mental health, but studies show that social media use is linked to both better and worse mental health. These seemingly contradictory findings may result from the diverse motivations, interactions, and experiences related to social media use, and studies investigating specific facets of social media use in relation to mental health and well-being, beyond general usage metrics, have been called for. Aspects of self-presentation on social media, such as feedback-seeking and upwards social comparison have been linked to worse mental health, however, there is a need for more studies exploring the relationship between self-presentation on social media and adolescent mental health over time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMirror, mirror on my screen: Focus on self-presentation on social media is associated with perfectionism and disordered eating among adolescents. Results from the "LifeOnSoMe"-study.
BMC Public Health
September 2024
Background: Social media use, perfectionism, and disordered eating have all increased over the last decades. Some studies indicate that there is a relationship between self-presentation behaviors and being exposed to others' self-presentation on social media, and disordered eating. Studies also show that the relationship between focus on self-presentation and highly visual social media is stronger than for non-visual social media, hence facilitating upward social comparison.
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