Thomas Westergren

ORCID: 0000-0003-4253-1996
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Research Areas
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • School Health and Nursing Education
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Pharmaceutical studies and practices
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods

University of Agder
2015-2024

University of Stavanger
2022-2024

Norwegian Institute of Public Health
2023

To examine qualified intensive care nurses' implicit and explicit attitudes towards obese patients whether their are associated with behavioural intentions these patients.Obese may experience more stress than do normal-weight patients. Intensive the way they address thus vital. Despite a range of studies revealing that health professionals hold anti-fat patients, there is lack knowledge about if such intention.A cross-sectional survey.From November 2017 - January 2018, web-based survey was...

10.1111/jan.14205 article EN Journal of Advanced Nursing 2019-10-01

Increased physical activity (PA) may be beneficial for children with asthma. Knowledge about how to intervene and encourage asthma physically active is required. In the present study, we aimed pilot a 6-week exercise intervention designed as play examine attendance rate, intensity children's perceptions of participating.6 (4 boys, 2 girls) aged 10-12 years, participated in 60 min twice weekly. A mixed-methods design was applied. The data analysed included assessed by heart rate (HR)...

10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009721 article EN cc-by-nc BMJ Open 2016-01-01

Abstract Background Qualitative longitudinal research (QLR) is an emerging methodology used in health research. The method literature states that the change a phenomenon through time should be focus of any QLR study, but empirical studies, analysis changes often poorly described, and emphasis on time/change findings varies greatly. This inconsistency might depend limitations existing terms describing how studies can present findings. aim this study was to develop describe typology...

10.1186/s12874-023-02105-1 article EN cc-by BMC Medical Research Methodology 2023-12-06

The Internet is increasingly being used as a health information resource. This meta-ethnography aimed to synthesize the literature on how parents of children aged below 5 years’ experienced using for purposes. We employed an interpretive meta-synthesis approach—meta-ethnography—according Noblit & Hare’s seven phases. A total 22 articles met inclusion criteria, representing four continents and with 650 participants, mainly mothers. analysed synthesized primary studies into following...

10.1177/23333936241259246 article EN cc-by-nc Global Qualitative Nursing Research 2024-01-01

Abstract Background Children with asthma may be less physically active than their healthy peers. We aimed to investigate whether perceived exercise limitation ( EL ) was associated lung function or bronchial hyper‐responsiveness BHR ), socioeconomic factors, prenatal smoking, overweight, allergic disease, severity, physical activity PA ). Methods The 302 children from the 10‐year examination of Environment and Childhood Asthma birth cohort study underwent a clinical including (structured...

10.1111/pai.12670 article EN Pediatric Allergy and Immunology 2016-10-13

ABSTRACT The purpose of this pilot study was to design and test research instruments measure qualified intensive care nurses’ implicit explicit attitudes behavioral intentions toward obese patients. In previous studies researchers have demonstrated that some health professionals hold negative patients; however, little is known about these Our cross‐sectional involved Implicit Association Tests, the Anti‐fat Attitude questionnaire, an bias scale comprising ratings beliefs feelings, assessment...

10.1002/nur.21914 article EN Research in Nursing & Health 2018-10-10

Abstract Background Parent reported mental health can be assessed by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Currently, Norwegian norms for parent-reported SDQ do not exist, whereas Swedish, Danish, United Kingdom (UK) have been published. We aimed to (1) describe among children aged 4 6 years in Southern Norway, (2) evaluate empirical cutoff values within context of Starting Right TM project relation UK cutoffs, (3) representativeness study sample with regard parental...

10.1186/s12887-023-03837-1 article EN cc-by BMC Pediatrics 2023-01-19

Physical activity (PA) is associated with health benefits. Children and adolescents asthma may be limited in their PA, particularly at vigorous intensity due to symptoms or poor psychological adjustment asthma. We aimed investigate if self-perceived competence, enjoyment, support from others social-physical environment were physical (VPA) secondarily assess such associations modified by severity.Data a nested case-control study 13 years of age within the birth-cohort Environment Childhood...

10.3109/02770903.2014.955190 article EN Journal of Asthma 2014-08-19

Pain problems are a rapidly growing health problem found among both children and adolescent, about 15-30% have reported chronic pain problems. School nurses in Norway meet adolescents with various ailments, including pain. Yet research on how school perceive the experienced by is limited. The aim of present study was to explore explain experience everyday adolescents.A qualitative an explorative design comprising five focus group interviews. Each consisted three nurses. Seventeen female...

10.1186/s12912-017-0247-x article EN cc-by BMC Nursing 2017-09-13

Purpose Around 15%–30% of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) experience persistent or chronic pain. The purpose this study was to synthesise evidence from qualitative primary studies on how AYAs in a non-clinical population living with Method A metasynthesis guided by Sandelowski Barroso’s guidelines used. databases Medline, Embase, Cinahl, PsycINFO, Mednar ProQuest were searched for 1 January 2005 15 February 2021. Inclusion criteria aged 13–24 years first-hand persistent, recurrent...

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043776 article EN cc-by-nc BMJ Open 2021-04-01

More adolescents report pain now than previously. In Norway, episodic problems have been reported by 60% of children and aged 8-18 years, with 21% reporting duration more 3 months. Since spend much time at school, the attitude behaviour teachers play important roles regarding experience felt in everyday life. Yet research on how perceive experienced a school setting is limited. We therefore seek to gain insight teachers' classroom experiences (1) adolescent's self-reported symptoms; (2)...

10.1136/bmjopen-2015-007989 article EN cc-by-nc BMJ Open 2015-09-01

We explored motivation for physical activity (PA) and exercise in adolescents with asthma who entered continued a 10-week play-based intervention.Eighteen asthma, aged 13-17 years, participated play- interval-based indoor intervention during winter autumn months. Semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted weeks 2 8, focusing on PA exercise, as well field observations of sessions 2, 6, 8. The first interview was analyzed separately from the second one descriptive observational data...

10.1080/02770903.2020.1778025 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Journal of Asthma 2020-06-04

Asthma is a common chronic disease with gender differences in terms of severity and quality life. This study aimed to understand the gendered practices male asthmatic adolescents living managing their disease. The applied sociological perspective identify gender-related participants possible consequences for health disease.The used combined ethnomethodology grounded theory design, which was interpreted using Bourdieu's practice. We discover how social worlds create sense meaning everyday...

10.2147/jmdh.s37517 article EN cc-by-nc Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare 2012-11-01

Abstract Background Greater understanding about the prevention and treatment of overweight obesity in preschool children within public health care is needed. This study assessed impact The First Steps module routine primary including mapping height/weight diet followed by parental counselling healthy habits on aged 2 to 7 years. Further, we explored experiences nurses (PHNs) with module. Methods Body weight height obtained 2014 2016 were extracted retrospectively for 676 from records at 2,...

10.1186/s12889-021-11096-x article EN cc-by BMC Public Health 2021-05-26

Previous research on the association between sports participation and body composition has shown mixed findings. The family home is considered one of most influential environments childhood obesity. Thus, in children may be influenced by an obesogenic environment.To investigate if environment moderates children.A total 3999 (54% girls; 11.6 ± 0.7 years) their parent(s) were included from ENERGY project. A composite risk score was created 10 questionnaire items. Height, weight (to calculate...

10.1111/ijpo.13031 article EN cc-by Pediatric Obesity 2023-04-04

The transfer of adolescents and young adults (AYA) with long-term health conditions from pediatric to adult care is a multidisciplinary enterprise where nurses doctors play an important role. This review aimed identify synthesize evidence qualitative primary reports on how experience the AYA aged 13 24 years hospital setting. We systematically searched seven electronic databases for published between January 2005 November 2021 reporting nurses’ doctors’ experiences. meta-summarized data...

10.1177/23333936231189568 article EN cc-by-nc Global Qualitative Nursing Research 2023-01-01
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