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Garnow, T., Einberg, E.-L., Edberg, A.-K. & Garmy, P. (2021). Ledsenhet och andra hälsobesvär hos ungdomar. In: : . Paper presented at Skolsköterskekongressen, virtuell online, 25-26 maj, 2021.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ledsenhet och andra hälsobesvär hos ungdomar
2021 (Swedish)Conference paper, Poster (with or without abstract) (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Introduktion

Ungdomars hälsobesvär betraktas i dag som ett globalt folkhälsoproblem. Hälsobesvär kan vara både kroppsliga och psykiska, och kan komma till uttryck genom exempelvis ledsenhet, sömnsvårigheter och smärta. Eftersom hälsobesvär uttrycks på olika sätt kan de vara svåra att förstå och därigenom bemöta. Ledsenhet är en känsla som människor återkommande erfar under livet, men ledsenhet är också ett av symtomen vid depression. Forskning har hittills fokuserat på depression hos ungdomar, men ledsenhet är däremot inte lika utforskad, och inte heller relationen mellan ledsenhet och andra hälsobesvär.

Syfte

Syftet var att utforska ledsenhet och andra hälsobesvär hos ungdomar.

Metod

En kvantitativ tvärsnittsstudie baserad på enkätdata insamlade på gymnasieskolor i södra Sverige (n = 1489; 15–17 år) (svarsfrekvens 71,3 %).

Resultat

Ledsenhet var vanligt hos ungdomar. 21,8 % av ungdomarna uppgav att de upplevde ledsenhet ofta eller alltid (flickor: 17,9 %, pojkar: 26,7 %, annat kön: 28,0 %). Ledsenhet var relaterat till sömnsvårigheter, huvudvärk, koncentrationssvårigheter, spänningar och nedsatt aptit.

Diskussion

Ett sätt att tolka relationen mellan ledsenhet och andra hälsobesvär är att förstå ledsenhet som en förkroppsligad känsla. Med förkroppsligande menas att känslor tar sig kroppsliga uttryck, och ledsenhet kan på så vis manifesteras genom exempelvis huvudvärk och sömnsvårigheter. Olika sätt att förstå hur känslor uppkommer och yttrar sig leder till olika behandling och stöd. Det finns en risk att vardagliga känslouttryck betraktas som sjukliga och därför medicineras. Tidigare forskning har visat att flickors och pojkars känslouttryck tolkas och bemöts på olika sätt, och att grunden till deras besvär inte alltid kommer upp till ytan.

Slutsats

Som hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal är det viktigt att försöka förstå vad hälsobesvär är ett uttryck för, för att kunna erbjuda personcentrerat stöd som har positiv effekt på den ungas välbefinnande.

Artikeln i sin helhet

Garnow, T.; Einberg, E.-L.; Edberg, A.-K.; Garmy, P. Sadness and Other Health Complaints among Swedish Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 3999. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18083999

Keywords
ledsenhet, hälsobesvär, ungdomar, omvårdnad, tvärsnittsstudie
National Category
Nursing
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-22615 (URN)
Conference
Skolsköterskekongressen, virtuell online, 25-26 maj, 2021
Available from: 2021-10-20 Created: 2021-10-20 Last updated: 2021-10-22Bibliographically approved
Garnow, T., Einberg, E.-L., Edberg, A.-K. & Garmy, P. (2021). Sadness among adolescents: An embodied emotion?. In: : . Paper presented at Nordic Conference in Nursing Research, Copenhagen, 4-6 oct 2021.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sadness among adolescents: An embodied emotion?
2021 (English)Conference paper, Poster (with or without abstract) (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Introduction

There is growing concern that adolescents’ mental health is deteriorating. Additionally, concepts of embodiment have gained increasing importance in research in recent decades. Since emotions are expressed in the body, it can be challenging to understand what adolescents’ health complaints stand for and how they can be responded to.Sadness is a common emotion that repeatedly occurs during life, but sadness is also one of the main symptoms of depression. A large body of previous research has examined depression among adolescents, but little is known about nonpathological sadness and the relationship between sadness and other health complaints.

Aim

The study aimed to investigate sadness and other health complaints among adolescents.

Methods

Swedish adolescents completed a survey with a cross-sectional design (n = 1489, 15–17 years old), and a logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the relationship between sadness and other health complaints.

Results

Sadness was related to health complaints[headache (OR: 1.58), sleeping difficulties (OR: 2.00), reduced appetite (OR: 1.43), tension (OR: 2.44), and concentration difficulties (OR: 2.75)].

Conclusion

A possible interpretation of the relationship between sadness and other health complaints may be an embodiment of emotions. Different understandings of how emotions arise and are expressed lead to different treatments and care. By not considering embodied emotions, there is a risk of medicating a normal emotional state. Therefore, it is important to reflect on what adolescents’ health complaints are an expression of and take into account the body as physical and psychological intertwined. This might entail person-centered support that hopefully leads to an improvement in adolescents’ well-being.

Reference

Garnow, T.; Einberg, E.-L.; Edberg, A.-K.; Garmy, P. Sadness and Other Health Complaints among Swedish Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 3999. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph1808999

Keywords
sadness, embodiment, adolescents, nursing
National Category
Nursing
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-22616 (URN)
Conference
Nordic Conference in Nursing Research, Copenhagen, 4-6 oct 2021
Available from: 2021-10-20 Created: 2021-10-20 Last updated: 2021-10-21Bibliographically approved
Garnow, T., Einberg, E.-L., Edberg, A.-K. & Garmy, P. (2021). Sadness and other health complaints among Swedish adolescents: a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(8), 1-10, Article ID 3999.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sadness and other health complaints among Swedish adolescents: a cross-sectional study
2021 (English)In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, ISSN 1661-7827, E-ISSN 1660-4601, Vol. 18, no 8, p. 1-10, article id 3999Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Health complaints are increasing among adolescents and are recognized as a global public health issue. Health complaints are an indicator for subjective ill-being, but little is known about the relationship between sadness and other health complaints. The aim of this study was to investigate sadness and other health complaints among Swedish adolescents. A survey with a cross-sectional design was completed by adolescents (n = 1489, 15–17 years old) in the south of Sweden. A logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the relationship between sadness and other health complaints. The result show that sadness and other health complaints were common among adolescents, and sadness was related to health complaints (headache (OR: 1.58), sleeping difficulties (OR: 2.00), reduced appetite (OR: 1.43), tension (OR: 2.44), and concentration difficulties (OR: 2.75)). When adolescents express sadness or other health complaints it is important to reflect on what these complaints are an expression of, and take into account the body as physical and psychological intertwined. This might entail person-centered support that hopefully leads to an improvement in adolescents’ well-being. Future research that profoundly highlights adolescents’ existential health is needed.

Keywords
Adolescents, sadness, health complaints, embodied emotions, a cross-sectional study
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-21812 (URN)10.3390/ ijerph18083999 (DOI)000644114500001 ()33920254 (PubMedID)
Funder
The Crafoord Foundation
Available from: 2021-04-16 Created: 2021-04-16 Last updated: 2021-05-20Bibliographically approved
Edberg, A.-K. & Skovdahl, K. (2020). Hälsofrämjande aktiviteter (3ed.). In: Anna-Karin Edberg (Ed.), Att möta personer med demenssjukdom: (pp. 251-276). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
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2020 (Swedish)In: Att möta personer med demenssjukdom / [ed] Anna-Karin Edberg, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2020, 3, p. 251-276Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2020 Edition: 3
National Category
Nursing
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-21442 (URN)978-91-44-12077-5 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-12-17 Created: 2020-12-17 Last updated: 2020-12-21Bibliographically approved
Trogu, G., Manattini, A., Renn-Żurek, A., Modrzejewska, D., Woźnicka, E., Popovici, S., . . . Virbalienė, A. (2020). Limitations in caring older persons: related to existential loneliness encountered by healthcare professionals.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Limitations in caring older persons: related to existential loneliness encountered by healthcare professionals
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2020 (English)Report (Other academic)
Publisher
p. 38
National Category
Health Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-21447 (URN)
Funder
EU, European Research Council, 2019-1-PL01-KA202-064933
Available from: 2020-12-21 Created: 2020-12-21 Last updated: 2020-12-21Bibliographically approved
Edberg, A.-K. (2020). Personcentrerad omvårdnad (3ed.). In: Anna-Karin Edberg (Ed.), Att möta personer med demenssjukdom: (pp. 131-148). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Personcentrerad omvårdnad
2020 (Swedish)In: Att möta personer med demenssjukdom / [ed] Anna-Karin Edberg, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2020, 3, p. 131-148Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2020 Edition: 3
National Category
Nursing
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-21441 (URN)978-91-44-12077-5 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-12-17 Created: 2020-12-17 Last updated: 2020-12-21Bibliographically approved
Edberg, A.-K. (2020). Personen kommer först (3ed.). In: Anna-Karin Edberg (Ed.), Att möta personer med demenssjukdom: (pp. 25-38). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Personen kommer först
2020 (Swedish)In: Att möta personer med demenssjukdom / [ed] Anna-Karin Edberg, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2020, 3, p. 25-38Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2020 Edition: 3
National Category
Nursing
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-21440 (URN)978-91-44-12077-5 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-12-17 Created: 2020-12-17 Last updated: 2020-12-21Bibliographically approved
Sjöberg, M., Edberg, A.-K., Rasmussen, B. H. & Beck, I. (2019). Being acknowledged by others and bracketing negative thoughts and feelings: frail older people's narrations of how existential loneliness is eased. International Journal of Older People Nursing, 14(1)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Being acknowledged by others and bracketing negative thoughts and feelings: frail older people's narrations of how existential loneliness is eased
2019 (English)In: International Journal of Older People Nursing, ISSN 1748-3735, E-ISSN 1748-3743, Vol. 14, no 1Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to describe how EL was eased, as narrated by frail older people.

BACKGROUND: Existential loneliness (EL) is an unavoidable part of the human condition. It is a complex phenomenon that has been described as disconnection from life. If EL is acknowledged in the care of older people, the experience of EL can be reduced.

DESIGN: In this qualitative study, we used an exploratory and descriptive design.

METHODS: The study was based on 22 narrative interviews with frail older people, 76 to 101 years old, who were receiving long-term care and services. We analysed the data using conventional content analysis.

RESULTS: Being acknowledged by others, that is, being the focus of others' concern, eased the experience of EL, as did encountering intimacy and having meaningful exchanges of thoughts and feelings. Further, EL was pushed into the background and eased when participants could bracket negative thoughts and feelings, that is, when they could adjust and accept the present situation, view life in the rear-view mirror, be in contact with spiritual dimensions and withdraw and distract themselves.

CONCLUSION: Existential loneliness can be eased by experiencing meaningful togetherness with others and oneself when something else comes to the forefront, pushing EL to the background. Frail older peoples' opportunities to ease EL may be facilitated by health care staff (HCS) providing person-centred care and create possibilities for solitary time and meaningful togetherness.

IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: If frail older people's ongoing processes of adjusting and accepting their situation are understood and confirmed by people in their environment, for example, by nurses, family and friends, the experience of living a meaningful life can be supported, which, in turn, can ease EL.

Keywords
Content analysis, existential loneliness, experiences, frail older people, home care, palliative care, residential care facilities
National Category
Nursing
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-18820 (URN)10.1111/opn.12213 (DOI)000459481400006 ()30403002 (PubMedID)
Available from: 2018-11-09 Created: 2018-11-09 Last updated: 2022-11-01Bibliographically approved
Petersson, P., Westergren, A., Haak, M. & Edberg, A.-K. (2019). Developing a model that support preventive home visit for seniors – a collaborative development and research project. In: : . Paper presented at International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress (IAGG-ER)..
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Developing a model that support preventive home visit for seniors – a collaborative development and research project
2019 (English)Conference paper, Poster (with or without abstract) (Refereed)
National Category
Health Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-19304 (URN)
Conference
International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress (IAGG-ER).
Available from: 2019-05-15 Created: 2019-05-15 Last updated: 2019-09-05Bibliographically approved
Edberg, A.-K. & Orrung Wallin, A. (2019). Kognitiv svikt (3ed.). In: A.-K. Edberg & H. Wijk (Ed.), Omvårdnadens grunder: hälsa och ohälsa (pp. 676-704). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kognitiv svikt
2019 (Swedish)In: Omvårdnadens grunder: hälsa och ohälsa / [ed] A.-K. Edberg & H. Wijk, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB , 2019, 3, p. 676-704Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2019 Edition: 3
National Category
Nursing
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-21297 (URN)9789144123165 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-10-16 Created: 2020-10-16 Last updated: 2020-10-19Bibliographically approved
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