Finished research projects: Family-Centred Health

2017-2022 This project is an ongoing doctoral project at the University of Skövde. There is a global interest in and concern with various health issues. Globalization affects individuals’ health and well-being and leads to worldwide migration.

2019-2024 The research project Digital Parental Support research project was initiated in 2019 as a pilot project collaboration and includes researchers from the research group FamCeH at the University of Skövde (the School of Health Sciences), researchers from the School of Information Science at the University of Skövde, University of Borås, the Labor and Postnatal Ward at Skövde Skaraborgs Hospital and Antenatal Clinics Skövde and, Västra Götalandsregionen.

2016-2020 Students with neuropsychiatric disorders (such as autism or ADHD) have cognitive functional differences that are not always visible but significantly affect their opportunities in various educational settings. This issue is particularly relevant in the subject of Physical Education and Health. Despite its significant impact on students' learning and opportunities for physical activity, many students with neuropsychiatric disorders either do not participate in lessons or fail to meet the course objectives. This is particularly unfortunate since Physical Education and Health is one of the subjects that can support students' health from a lifelong perspective.

2017-2021 The number of people with poor mental health has doubled in Sweden since the mid-eighties. Symptoms related to poor mental health are sleeping disorder, anxiety, irritability, stomach ache, back pains or concentration difficulties. WHO highlights mental health in adolescents as a high priority area that needs to be addressed to promote the agenda for sustainable development.

2019 In the Western world, injections of sterile water (SWI) are used as pain relief during childbirth (~ 5% in Sweden) and even less in countries where health systems are less developed, especially in rural areas. The idea of the project is to use digital support to increase awareness of the use of SWI, especially in areas with low access to pain relief methods during childbirth.

2019-2024 The University of Skövde funds a doctoral project on parental support. The overall aim with this doctoral project is to examine existential health and sustainable development among women and partners during the transition to parenthood as well as explore midwifes understanding of existential health and sustainable development in a digital society relating to parenthood. This can be a basis for creating a care that contributes to sustainability for parents and society.

2014-2024 "The Study of Parental Support" is a research project into perceptions of and experience from support given to parents in relation to childbirth. Parents are included in the study in the middle of the pregnancy and are followed the first eight years postpartum.