"Dare to feel full"-A group treatment method for sustainable weight reduction in overweight and obese adults: A randomized controlled trial with 5-years follow-up.

Objectives: To assess the long-term effects on weight reduction and health of a group-based behavioral weight intervention over six months focusing eating for fulfillment as compared to a control regime with brief intervention.

Method: Overweight or obese adults (n = 176, 80% female, mean BMI 33.8 ± 4.

Factors associated with increased physical activity among patients prescribed physical activity in Swedish routine health care including an offer of counselor support: a 1-year follow-up.

Background: The study addresses knowledge gaps in research regarding influences of routine health care delivery of physical activity on prescription (PAP). The aim was to investigate if patient and health care characteristics are associated with increased physical activity 1 year after prescription among patients offered counselor support in addition to health care professionals' prescription. The study was conducted in primary and secondary care in a Swedish health care region.

Physical Activity on Prescription in Routine Health Care: 1-Year Follow-Up of Patients with and without Counsellor Support.

The effectiveness of counsellor support in addition to physical activity on prescription (PAP) from health care professionals has rarely been evaluated. This observational follow-up study investigated differences in physical activity levels and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) one year after PAP regarding patients' use of counsellor support in addition to PAP in routine care. The study was conducted in a Swedish health care region in which all patients receiving PAP from health care professionals were offered counsellor support.

Obstetric and perinatal outcomes in pregnancies complicated by diabetes, and control pregnancies, in Kronoberg, Sweden.

Background: Diabetes during pregnancy is an increasingly common metabolic disorder, associated with significantly increased risks for both mother and child. Aim of this study was to compare maternal and perinatal outcomes in women with pregestational (PDM) type 1 (T1DM), type 2 diabetes (T2DM), gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and compare these to pregnancies not complicated with diabetes. This study also evaluated a specifically organized care-model mostly involving specialist diabetes nurses.

Patients' experiences of physical activity on prescription with access to counsellors in routine care: a qualitative study in Sweden.

Background: Physical activity on prescription (PAP) has been implemented in several countries, including Sweden, to support patients who might benefit from increased physical activity. This study explores the experiences of recipients of PAP in routine health care in Sweden that offers the recipients support from physical activity counsellors. The aim was to explore influences on engagement in physical activity by PAP recipients' from a long-term perspective.

Using the Internet as source of information during pregnancy - a descriptive cross-sectional study among fathers-to-be in Sweden.

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify how fathers-to-be used the Internet as a source of information during their partners' pregnancy and how it affected them.

Design And Setting: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted. Data were collected through a questionnaire and distributed at a maternity clinic in south of Sweden.

Physical Activity on Prescription with Counsellor Support: A 4-Year Registry-Based Study in Routine Health Care in Sweden.

: Public health gains from physical activity on prescription (PAP) depend on uptake in routine care. We performed an evaluation of the implementation, in a Swedish county council, of counsellors who give personalized support to PAP recipients aimed at facilitating PAP delivery. The aim was to compare characteristics between PAP recipients and the health care population as well as between PAP recipients who used and did not use counsellor support.

From passive passenger to participating co-pilot - Pregnant women's expectations of being able to access their online journal from antenatal care.

Objective: The aim of the study was to describe pregnant women's expectations of being able to access their electronic health records from antenatal care.

Methods: Nine pregnant women passing 25 full gestational weeks were interviewed individually. Collected data were analysed with an inductive approach using content analysis.

Midwifery students' experiences of simulation- and skills training.

Background: In Sweden, simulation- and skills training are implemented in midwifery education in order to prepare students for clinical practice. Research regarding the use of both low to high levels of fidelity in simulation in midwifery programme is limited.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore midwifery students' experiences of simulation- and skills training.

Using the Internet as a source of information during pregnancy - A descriptive cross-sectional study in Sweden.

Objective: The Internet plays a major role for pregnant women in seeking knowledge and for getting in touch with like-minded women. The information is available at all hours and can be accessed anywhere. The information provides the women with a sense of control and confidence but the large amount of information available can also be overwhelming.

Snus user identity and addiction: a Swedish focus group study on adolescents.

Background: The teenage years are the years when adolescents seek their identity, and part of this involves experimenting with tobacco. The use of tobacco as such, and norms among their friends, is more important to the adolescents than the norms of parents when it comes to using tobacco or not. The aim was to explore the significance of using snus for adolescents, and attitudes to snus, as well as the reasons why they began using snus and what maintained and facilitated the use of snus.

When do adolescents become smokers? Annual seven-year population-based follow-up of tobacco habits among 2000 Swedish pupils--an open cohort study.

Objective: To follow the development of a class of pupils' tobacco habits for seven years, and to study differences in tobacco use between girls and boys.

Setting: Kronoberg County in southern Sweden.

Subjects: All the approximately 2000 pupils were followed from approximately age 12 to approximately age 18.

Women's experiences of smoking during and after pregnancy as ascertained two to three years after birth.

Objective: to ascertain the significant factors that influence women to stop/not stop smoking during pregnancy and the postnatal period.

Design: Twenty-four women were interviewed two-three years after delivery with regard to their smoking habits during and after pregnancy. The material was analysed based on a phenomenological approach in order to provide an accurate description of lived experience.

[Pain relief in induced abortion--considerable differences between hospital departments].

Women undergoing medical abortions require different types of pain relief, severe pain being a problem. This study compared the pain relief required during a medical abortion at the Departments of Gynecology in Kalmar and Karlskrona. The case notes of 100 women at each department were examined.

Smoking during pregnancy: comparison of self-reports and cotinine levels in 496 women.

Objective: To validate self-reported smoking habits in smoking pregnant women and estimate the prevalence of substantial exposure to passive smoking in non-smoking pregnant women.

Design: Retrospective, quantitative study, consecutively collected samples.

Setting: One antenatal clinic in Blekinge County, Sweden.