Associations between food intake and psychosomatic symptoms in 16-year-old adolescents.

Aims: An increase in psychosomatic symptoms among adolescents has recently been reported. Few studies have examined the relation between food intake and psychosomatic symptoms. The aim was to study the association between food intake and overall psychosomatic burden and separate psychosomatic symptoms.

Exploring how people achieve recommended levels of physical activity, despite self-reported economic difficulties: a sense of coherence perspective.

Background: The salutogenic theory forms the basis for health promotion and describes health as a continuum from a dis-ease pole of health to an ease pole. The core concept for the salutogenic theory is sense of coherence (SOC). For a strong SOC, general resistance resources, such as solid economic situation, are essential.

Healthcare professionals' experiences of targeted health dialogues in primary health care.

Background: In Sweden, population-based targeted health dialogues are an important part of health promotion and disease prevention in primary health care. Targeted health dialogues are performed with a pedagogical approach to allow individuals to reflect over their resources, situation and motivation to change lifestyle habits together with a healthcare professional.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore healthcare professionals' experiences of targeted health dialogues in primary health care.

Agreement between questions about physical activity and sitting time, and device-based measures, used in Swedish targeted health dialogues in the context of primary health care.

Background: It is important that easy-to-use measures like subjective questions about physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour are valid and reliable providing accurate measures, when they are used in health promotion work aiming to support people to improve their lifestyle habits such as PA. The aim of this study was to evaluate the concurrent validity of a structured interview form estimating self-reported PA and a question about sitting time used in Swedish targeted health dialogues in the context of primary health care.

Method: The study was conducted in the southern part of Sweden.

Associations between intakes of foods and their relations to overweight/obesity in 16-year-old adolescents.

There is limited knowledge about the associations between intakes of different foods and inconsistency in the literature of the relation between the quality of food intake and bodyweight in adolescents. The aim of this study is to explore how healthy self-reported food intakes are associated with each other and with overweight/obesity in adolescents. This is a cross-sectional study of seven cohorts of adolescents ( 13 451) who turned sixteen from 2009/2010 up to 2015/2016 and responded to a health questionnaire used by the School Health Services in southeast Sweden.

Physical activity related to mastery and vitality in a Swedish adult population with economic difficulties.

Background: People with low socio-economic status report lower levels of physical activity (PA). There is insufficient knowledge about the availability of psychological resources for those who are physically active despite having a low socio-economic status. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between PA level and mastery and vitality, respectively, within an adult population with self-reported economic difficulties.

Food intake in children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study from 2009/2010 to 2015/2016.

The aim was to describe food intake over time in children and adolescents, with respect to age and gender. The present study was a repeated cross-sectional study using self-reported data from a health questionnaire. Data were collected from the School Health Services in south-east Sweden from 44 297 students, 10, 13-14 and 16 years of age, 48 % girls and 52 % boys from 2009/2010 to 2015/2016.

Can physical activity compensate for low socioeconomic status with regard to poor self-rated health and low quality-of-life?

Background: Both high socioeconomic status (SES) and high physical activity (PA) are associated with better self-rated health (SRH) and higher quality-of-life (QoL).

Aim: To investigate whether high levels of PA may compensate for the association between low SES and subjective health outcomes in terms of poorer SRH and lower QoL.

Method: Data from a cross-sectional, population-based study (n = 5326) was utilized.

All-cause mortality among young men 24-26 years after a lifestyle health dialogue in a Swedish primary care setting: a longitudinal follow-up register study.

Objectives: To compare mortality and socioeconomic status among men invited to a health dialogue with men from all of Sweden approximately 24 years after the start of the study, and to analyse the associations between lifestyle and all-cause mortality, incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer.

Design: Longitudinal follow-up register study of men 33-42 years old at baseline.

Setting: Primary care in a community in Sweden.

Trends in prevalence of thinness, overweight and obesity among Swedish children and adolescents between 2004 and 2015.

Aim: This study explored weight trends among children aged 4, 7, 11, 14 and 17 years in Jönköping County Sweden, from 2004 to 2015.

Methods: The study had a repeated cross-sectional design, and body mass index (BMI) was calculated based on height and weight measurements collected from child health and school health records. The prevalence of thinness, overweight and obesity was estimated with international cut-offs, with linear trends calculated separately for boys and girls.

The possibility of lifestyle and biological risk markers to predict morbidity and mortality in a cohort of young men after 26 years follow-up.

Objectives: To study the association between lifestyle and biological risk markers measured at one occasion, morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer, and morbidity from diabetes approximately 26 years later.

Design: A follow-up study of a cohort of men, 33-42 years old at baseline.

Setting: Primary healthcare centre in Sweden.

Health dialogues between pupils and school nurses: a description of the verbal interaction.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the content of and the verbal interaction in health dialogues between pupils and school nurses.

Methods: Twenty-four health dialogues were recorded using a video camera and the conversations were analysed using the paediatric version of the Roter Interaction analysis system.

Results: The results showed that the age appropriate topics suggested by national recommendations were brought up in most of the health dialogues.

Adolescents' and school nurses' perceptions of using a health and lifestyle tool in health dialogues.

Aim And Objective: To describe and explore adolescents' and nurses' perceptions of using a health and lifestyle tool in health dialogues in the School Health Service.

Background: In Sweden, dialogues concerning health and lifestyle are offered to adolescents aged 14 years with the purpose of encouraging an interest in a healthy lifestyle. A health and lifestyle tool including a health questionnaire and a health profile has recently been developed, with the aim of facilitating the communication about health and lifestyle in these dialogues.

Health counselling: parental-oriented health dialogue -- an innovation for child health nurses.

The Health Curve, used by nurses in community-based health care, is an educational tool for conducting goal-directed dialogues concerning lifestyle and health. The aim of this study was to investigate how child health nurses experienced the Health Curve as a tool for conducting dialogues with parents. Fourteen nurses were interviewed.

Effects of a global health and risk assessment tool for prevention of ischemic heart disease in an individual health dialogue compared with a community health strategy only results from the Live for Life health promotion programme.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of an individual health dialogue on health and risk factors for ischemic heart disease in addition to that of a community based strategy.

Method: Inhabitants in four communities in the area of Skaraborg, Sweden were invited to a health examination including a health dialogue both at the age of 30 and 35 (target communities). In another four communities inhabitants were invited only at the age of 35 (reference communities).

The Swedish National Programme for Quality Control of Secondary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease--results after one year.

Background: Guidelines for the prevention of coronary artery disease (CAD) have been developed both in Europe and in the USA. However, several surveys have shown that these guidelines are poorly implemented in clinical practice.

Design/methods: The Swedish Quality Control Programme on Secondary Prevention of CAD includes patients after myocardial infarction, or having undergone coronary artery surgery or percutaneous coronary intervention.

Lifestyle changes after a health dialogue. Results from the Live for Life health promotion programme.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of a health dialogue on lifestyle habits, and to relate the lifestyle changes to changes of biological risk markers for ischaemic heart disease.

Design: Cross-sectional study, intervention and follow-up.

Setting: The community of Habo, population 9500, located in Skaraborg, Sweden.

Gender differences in secondary prevention of coronary heart disease: reasons to worry or not?

Objective: To analyse potential gender differences in cardiovascular risk factors and treatment patterns, reflecting clinical practice in secondary prevention.

Design: Observational national study during 3 years of patients eligible for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD).

Setting: Fifty-two healthcare districts in Sweden, involving primary health care and hospitals in collaboration, participating in a national quality assurance programme for the prevention of CHD.

Time for a "vision zero" concerning premature death from ischaemic heart disease?

Objective: To study the trend in premature mortality (before 75 years of age) from ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in a Swedish primary health care district compared to communities of similar demographic situation and all Sweden.

Design: Mortality from IHD in men and women was compared between the community of Habo and other Swedish communities of similar size and all Sweden for the period 1984-96.

Setting: The community of Habo in Sweden with about 9600 inhabitants.

[Quality assurance of secondary prevention of coronary artery disease. Ongoing project offers possibilities for improved treatment].

Regional programs for secondary prevention of coronary artery disease have been under development for nearly a decade in Sweden. To achieve maximum adherence these programs were created in close collaboration between hospital and primary care physicians. The programs are local applications of national guidelines and aim to support compliance among both patients and physicians.

Evaluation of "Live for Life", a health promotion programme in the County of Skaraborg, Sweden.

Study Objective: To evaluate a health promotion programme, combining a population and individual based strategy, in the County of Skaraborg, Sweden, with special attention to outcome.

Design: The evaluation was subdivided into structure, process and outcome. The evaluation procedure as a total is described here, but the results presented refer only to outcome.

Quality improvement in primary health care using computerised journal, exemplified by a smoking cessation programme for diabetic patients.

Objective: To study the possibility of using the computerised journal for quality improvement in diabetes care.

Design: The computerised journal was used to reach all diabetic smokers aged 30-75 years and to invite them to a structured smoking cessation programme. The follow-up time was 18 months.

Cardiovascular risk during early adult life. Risk markers among participants in "Live for Life" health promotion programme in Sweden.

Study Objective: To study differences in cardiovascular lifestyle risk factors and biological risk markers in early adult life, with special attention to age and sex differences. Lifestyle cardiovascular risk factors included dietary habits, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol habits, psychosocial strain, and mental stress. Biological risk markers included anthropometric variables, arterial blood pressure, and serum cholesterol concentration.

Results from an intervention programme dealing with cardiovascular risk factors. Experiences from a study of men aged 33-42 in Habo, Sweden.

Objective: To evaluate the long-term effect of a health examination and intervention programme in a Swedish community.

Design: A health examination was carried out with the purpose of improving cardiovascular risk factors. A health profile was created as an educational tool, by means of which a nurse discussed the results of the health examination with the participants.

Interrelation between risk factors for cardiovascular disease in men aged 33-42. A study from Habo in Skaraborg County, Sweden.

Objectives: The main purpose was to study associations between different risk factors for coronary heart disease in order to find out whether such associations already exist during the fourth decade of life.

Setting: A study carried out by the primary healthcare staff in the community of Habo in Skaraborg County in south-western Sweden.

Subjects: All men living in Habo aged 33-42 years who were willing to participate in the study--in total 652 men (participation rate 86%).