NAMN Sweden

www.umo.se

2009-11-14T10:54:00.000-08:00

This is a new site, financed by the state, for young people in Sweden.

Turkish and Finnish adolescents in Sweden

2009-02-16T00:26:00.000-08:00

Characteristics of relevance for health in Turkish and Middle Eastern adolescent immigrants compared to finnish immigrants and ethnic Swedish teenagers
Holmberg LI, Hellberg D: The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics 2008;50:418-425
"Immigrants are exposed to considerable changes in their social and cultural environment...
We concluded that adolescent immigrants from Turkey and the Middle East seem to be well adapted to Sweden and also have ambitions for a higher education. Differences in risky behaviours were particularly pronounced in comparisons with immigrants from Finland for both boys and girls"

Sleeping problems and health

2009-01-22T10:39:00.000-08:00

Behavioral and other characteristics of relevance for health in adolescents with self-percieved sleeping problems
Lars I Holmberg and Dan Hellberg
Int J Adolesc Med Health 2008;20(3):353-365
"Many of these adolescents feel very poorly, as is evident from the magnitude of the problems. Poor sleepers form an easily recognized group, but it seems unlikely that therapy for sleepng problems alone would be successful in a large proportion of these adolescents"

Essay /Master of Public Health

2008-02-28T10:24:00.000-08:00

The decision of making smoking a habit in adolescents with diabetes: an interviewstudy, MPH 2003:9
Susan Regber,Reg.Paediatric nurse
Nordic School of Public Health, Göteborg, www.nhv.se
In Swedish!
"This essay aims to increase the knowledge about how smoking adolescents with diabetes think about smoking, illness and health"

Acta Paediatrica: Medical problems in adolescents with myelomeningocele

2008-02-20T13:14:00.000-08:00

"In a retrospective study, we identified all adolescents with MMC, born during 1986-1989 and living i Sweden on July 1,2004. An inventory was agreed upon with questions concerning their medical problems and need for medical care"
"The majority had motor impairments. Clean intermittent catheterisation for bladder emtying was used by 85%, and 59% used enemas on a regular basis because of the neurogenic bowel dysfunction. Renal dysfunction was seen in 1.7% of the adolescents"

I Olsson(ingrid.b.olsson@vgregion.se) et al
"Medical problems in adolescents with myelomeningocele (MMC): an inventory of the Swedish MMC population born during 1986-1989"
Acta Paediatrica 2007 96,pp.446-449

Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury

2008-02-18T12:34:00.000-08:00

Dissertation presented by Marika Augutis at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm , 2007.

Abstract:
Sustaining a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) alters every aspect of a person’s life significantly and irreversibly. Since SCI of traumatic etiology predominately occurs in young adult males, most research has focused on this group. Other demographic groups, such as children and women, have received much less attention. A SCI striking a child or adolescent, i.e. “pediatric SCI” (pedSCI), presents unique challenges due to ongoing physical and psycho-social development. As long as knowledge about pedSCI remains incomplete, effective targeting of high risk groups and situations for purposes of prevention is impossible. Additionally, the organization of care and rehabilitation for pedSCI requires a solid understanding of the scope of the problem.
ISBN: 978-91-7357-129-6
marika.augustis@lvn.se

Psychosocial aspects of traumatic spinal cord injury with onset during adolescence - a qualitative study.Augutis M, Levi R, Asplund K, Berg-Kelly KThe Journal of Spinal Cord Injury Medicine, Accepted.

Health, Risk-Taking Behaviour and Sexuality in Swedish Adolescents

2008-01-03T07:11:00.000-08:00

Dissertation presented 2007 at Uppsala University by Lars I Holmberg.
The thesis includes views regarding young men involved i decisions on abortion and the need of support.
ISBN 978-91-554-6821-7
lars.i.holmberg@ltdalarna.se