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  • Ekholm, Elin
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap.
    Painful Sex in Context: Understanding Vulvodynia from a Relational Perspective2024Doktoravhandling, med artikler (Annet vitenskapelig)
    Abstract [en]

    Vulvodynia is a multifactorial persistent pain condition, characterized by pain in the vulva upon touch or pressure. It negatively impacts sexual function, satisfaction, and relational wellbeing. Relational factors have been indicated as integral to the understanding and outcomes of vulvodynia. The overall aim of this dissertation was to further the understanding of women’s pain-related behaviors in relation to the dyadic and normative contexts of vulvodynia.

    Using a person-oriented approach, study I explored links between coping behaviors, i.e., avoidance and endurance on the one hand, and on the other, relational and pain catastrophizing, perceived partner responses, and motivational goals, in a sample of 128 women with vulvodynia. Study II explored the significance of normative context for the experience of vulvodynia by qualitatively investigating subjective experiences of five women living with dyspareunia in a queer relationship. Using behavioral observation and self-report, study III investigated patterns of sexual communication quality in heterosexual vulvodynia couples (n = 25) as compared to couples without pain (n = 37), and assessed potential associations with pain, self-disclosure, and sexual assertiveness.

    The findings from the three studies together highlight the significance of the normative context and relational factors such as the emotional quality of sexual communication and women’s relational cognitions, for women’s pain-related experiences and coping behaviors. A new theoretical model, the Interpersonal Pain Coping Model of Vulvodynia, is proposed as a way of integrating contextual factors such as partner behaviors and sexual scripts into the understanding of women’s behavioral response to vulvodynia.

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    1. Coping with Provoked Vestibulodynia in a Relational Context: A Cluster Analysis of Coping Patterns and Their Associations with Relational Cognitions and Goals
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Coping with Provoked Vestibulodynia in a Relational Context: A Cluster Analysis of Coping Patterns and Their Associations with Relational Cognitions and Goals
    (engelsk)Manuskript (preprint) (Annet vitenskapelig)
    HSV kategori
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-111216 (URN)
    Tilgjengelig fra: 2024-01-30 Laget: 2024-01-30 Sist oppdatert: 2024-01-30bibliografisk kontrollert
    2. "A lot to fall back on": experiences of dyspareunia among queer women
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>"A lot to fall back on": experiences of dyspareunia among queer women
    Vise andre…
    2022 (engelsk)Inngår i: Psychology & Sexuality, ISSN 1941-9899, E-ISSN 1941-9902, Vol. 13, nr 5, s. 1242-1255Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
    Abstract [en]

    This study explores the subjective experiences of dyspareunia among queer women in Sweden. Ten semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with five participants who were all interviewed on two separate occasions. Interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. Dyspareunia was described as affecting the participants' sexual activities, intimate relationships, and identity constructs. Reported struggles involved feelings of sadness, guilt, frustration, and fear of pain. Dyspareunia was described as threatening the participants' queer identities through its effect on their ability to be sexual in idealised ways. However, queer experiences and communities were also found to be associated with advantages in pain management, such as well-developed sexual communication skills, anatomic similarity to their partner, access to non-heteronormative sexual scripts and a focus on nurturing desire. Queer related advantages in pain management are proposed to buffer to some extent against pain interference with sexual function and desire. Findings indicate that it is important to consider the unique relational and social context of queer women to understand their experiences of dyspareunia. More research is needed on the role of differences of normativities, context and communication in dyspareunia.

    sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
    Routledge, 2022
    Emneord
    Dyspareunia, vulvodynia, female genital pain, sexual communication, queer, lesbian
    HSV kategori
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-95715 (URN)10.1080/19419899.2021.2007988 (DOI)000721745500001 ()2-s2.0-85119829599 (Scopus ID)
    Tilgjengelig fra: 2021-12-03 Laget: 2021-12-03 Sist oppdatert: 2024-01-30bibliografisk kontrollert
    3. Sexual communication patterns in couples with vulvodynia: a case-control behavioral observation study
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Sexual communication patterns in couples with vulvodynia: a case-control behavioral observation study
    Vise andre…
    2023 (engelsk)Inngår i: Journal of Sexual Medicine, ISSN 1743-6095, E-ISSN 1743-6109, Vol. 20, nr 8, s. 1103-1114Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
    Abstract [en]

    BACKGROUND: Sexual communication is a common target in psychological treatments for vulvodynia, and associations with sexual function and distress, as well as pain intensity, have been demonstrated. However, structured observations of the communication patterns of couples with vulvodynia are lacking, as these are needed to guide treatment efforts.

    AIM: To explore (1) the sexual communication patterns in couples with vulvodynia in terms of observed communication quality (operationalized as validating and invalidating responses), self-reported sexual assertiveness, and self-disclosure and (2) associations between sexual communication quality and pain intensity.

    METHODS: In a case-control design with within- and between-group comparisons, 62 couples engaged in videotaped discussions about their sexual relationship. Trained coders assessed the discussions by rating sexual communication (validation and invalidation) according to a structured behavioral coding scheme. Group differences in sexual communication quality were examined with parametric and nonparametric tests. Dyadic associations among observed communication quality, self-rated sexual assertiveness, and self-disclosure were examined within the actor-partner interdependence model. Multiple regression was used to test the predictive value of partners' validation/invalidation on the pain intensity of the women with vulvodynia.

    OUTCOMES: Observed communication quality (ie, validation and invalidation), self-reported sexual assertiveness, self-disclosure, and pain intensity.

    RESULTS: Partners of women with vulvodynia were more invalidating toward their partners than those of women without pain. There were no significant differences in validating/invalidating communication between women in the 2 groups or in validation between partners. Partners' validating communication were significantly associated with women's lower pain intensity. The sexual communication patterns differed between couples with and without vulvodynia, and the associations between validating/invalidating responses and sexual assertiveness were stronger in the vulvodynia group than in the group without pain. Results on validation/invalidation and self-disclosure were inconclusive.

    CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: The results indicate a need to direct treatment interventions toward couples' sexual communication quality (ie, levels of validation and invalidation).

    STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS: Strengths include systematic behavioral coding and dyadic analyses. Limitations include the cross-sectional design and self-selection of participants.

    CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated sexual communication patterns specific to couples with vulvodynia, and we conclude that validation and invalidation are important components of the sexual communication of couples with vulvodynia as they relate to sexual assertiveness, women's self-disclosure, and pain intensity.

    sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
    Elsevier, 2023
    Emneord
    APIM, couples, emotion regulation, empathy, genital pain, responsiveness, sexual assertiveness, sexual communication, vulvodynia
    HSV kategori
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-106573 (URN)10.1093/jsxmed/qdad085 (DOI)001029451900001 ()37350134 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85166383868 (Scopus ID)
    Tilgjengelig fra: 2023-06-26 Laget: 2023-06-26 Sist oppdatert: 2024-01-30bibliografisk kontrollert
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  • Bergh, Andreas
    et al.
    Department of Education, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
    Forsberg, Eva
    Department of Education, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
    Differentiation of education through juridification2023Inngår i: Journal of Curriculum Studies, ISSN 0022-0272, E-ISSN 1366-5839, s. 1-14Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    The objective of this article is to explore differentiation of education through juridification. We examine changes in school governing, including trends towards globalization and marketization, as well as increased regulatory intervention in addressing complex social problems. Drawing on Luhmann’s theory of functional differentiation and Teubner’s problematization of juridification, we scrutinize three sets of distinct legislative regulations in a Swedish context. We uncover a multifaceted juridification alongside a multifunctional school organization nested in a complex web of differentiated and interconnected subsystems. Traditional forms of differentiation persist, albeit with juridification as a lever, thus sparking renewed tensions.

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    Differentiation of education through juridification
  • Geidne, Susanna
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper.
    Ericson, Helena
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper.
    Quennerstedt, Mikael
    Gymnastik och Idrottshögskolan (GIH), Stockholm; Høgskolan i Innlandet, Norge.
    Idrottsföreningen som hälsofrämjande arena: Från fysisk aktivitet till hållbart idrottande - en fråga om hur!2023Inngår i: Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, ISSN 0037-833X, Vol. 100, nr 4, s. 589-600Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [sv]

    I årtionden har begreppen folkhälsa, hälsa och hälsofrämjande använts i relation till idrott på många sätt i såväl praktik, forskning som i policy. Att idrotten har någon slags betydelse för och koppling till folkhälsan torde vara helt klarlagt. Men hur kan vi förstå relationen eller kanske snarare relationerna mellan idrott och folkhälsa? Ett forskningsområde som tar tag i relationen idrott och folkhälsa och som också breddar vad relationen kan bestå av är forskningsfältet idrotten som hälsofrämjande arena (Health promoting sports clubs). I artikeln kommer vi därför att med utgångspunkt i forskning om idrotten som hälsofrämjande arena teoretisera relationen idrott - folkhälsa. Vi kommer därigenom diskutera och illustrera hur vi på fler än ett sätt kan öka förståelsen för idrotten som hälsofrämjande för så många som möjligt så länge som möjligt.

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    Idrottsföreningen som hälsofrämjande arena: Från fysisk aktivitet till hållbart idrottande – en fråga om hur!
  • Pauk, Viktoriia
    et al.
    National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine .
    Petrenko, Oksana
    National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine .
    Shchestyuk, Nataliya
    National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine .
    Two Approaches for Option Pricing under Illiquidity2022Inngår i: Mohyla Mathematical Journal, ISSN 2617-7080, Vol. 5, s. 38-45Artikkel i tidsskrift (Annet vitenskapelig)
    Abstract [en]

    The paper focuses on option pricing under unusual behaviour of the market, when the price may not be changed for some time what is quite a common situation on the modern financial markets. There are some patterns that can cause permanent price gaps to form and lead to illiquidity. For example, global changes that have a negative impact on financial activity, or a small number of market participants, or the market is quite young and is just in the process of developing, etc.

    In the paper discrete and continuous time approaches for modelling market with illiquidity and evaluation option pricing were considered.Trinomial discrete time model improves upon the binomial model by allowing a stock price not only to move up, down but stay the same with certain probabilities, what is a desirable feature for the illiquid modelling. In the paper parameters for real financial data were identified and the backward induction algorithm for building call option price trinomial tree was applied.Subdiffusive continuous time model allows successfully apply the physical models for describing the trapping events to model financial data stagnation's periods. In this paper the Inverse Gaussian process IG was proposed as a subordinator for the subdiffusive modelling of illiquidity and option pricing. The simulation of the trajectories for subordinator, inverse subordinator and subdiffusive GBM were performed. The Monte Carlo method for option evaluation was applied.

    Our aim was not only to compare these two models each with other, but also to show that both models adequately describe the illiquid market and can be used for option pricing on this market. For this purpose absolute relative percentage (ARPE) and root mean squared error (RMSE) for both models were computed and analysed.

    Thanks to the proposed approaches, the investor gets a tools, which allows him to take into account the illiquidity.

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    Two Approaches for Option Pricing under Illiquidity
  • Adami, Elisabetta
    et al.
    University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
    Archer, Arlene
    University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa.
    Björkvall, Anders
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap.
    Gualberto, Clarice
    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
    Jewitt, Carey
    Culture Communication and Media, University College London, London, UK.
    Vasudevan, Lalitha
    Mathematics, Science, and Technology, Teachers College of Columbia University, New York NY, USA.
    Lim, Fei Victor
    Nanyang Technological University National Institute of Education, Singapore.
    Editorial multimodality and society2024Inngår i: Multimodality & Society, ISSN 2634-9795, E-ISSN 2634-9809Artikkel i tidsskrift (Annet vitenskapelig)
    Abstract [en]

    This issue, the first of volume 4, marks the start of Multimodality & Society’s fourth year and provides a good moment to look across the past 3 years to review and reflect on the journal’s contribution to multimodality. Multimodality & Society aims to consolidate and advance multimodal theory, methodologies, and empirical understanding of interaction and communication. This editorial considers the collective contribution of the 12 issues published to date and points to how the journal can continue to push the boundaries of multimodality forward. We highlight the significance of the journal’s expansion of multimodal formats, and several directions embedded in the journal scope which we have advanced.

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    Editorial multimodality and society
  • Sjödin, Karin
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper.
    Friluftsliv och naturmöten i utbildningspraktik2024Doktoravhandling, med artikler (Annet vitenskapelig)
    Abstract [en]

    The overall interest of this thesis is to contribute with knowledge about meaning making processes in educational encounters with nature in different educational practices. The exploration consists of four studies based on a pragmatic perspective on meaning making inspired by the works of John Dewey and Ludwig Wittgenstein. A discourse analytical approach is also used in the first study to analyse the curriculum documents. The result confirms that encounters with nature have a clear position in the curriculum documents, and friluftsliv is a prioritised content in PETE. It is further confirmed that the field of outdoor education is a field of conflicting meanings that pose significant educational challenges. Indeterminate situations occur and may influence students’ possibilities to transform the educational content in PETE to a school context. Another conclusion from the results is that instrumental meanings and a sportification of friluftsliv often get precedence over more emotional based meanings connected to nature. The results also show empirical examples where encounters with nature enable participants to create moral relations towards nature. This potential is highlighted in previous research as one of the most important in order to (re)connect our relation towards nature and in extension better conditions to deal with environmental questions.

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    1. Motiv för undervisning i naturen i svensk skola
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Motiv för undervisning i naturen i svensk skola
    2022 (svensk)Inngår i: NorDiNa: Nordic Studies in Science Education, ISSN 1504-4556, E-ISSN 1894-1257, Vol. 18, nr 3, s. 275-289Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
    Abstract [en]

    The overall aim of this article is to contribute to a critical discussion about aims and goals of outdoor education in schools. The study examines motives for outdoor education in the national curricula in Sweden from the end of 19th century until today. The study relies on a discourse analysis methodology. Aspects of continuity and change connected to the identified motives are also included in the analyses. The results show that a scientific perspective on encounters with nature has dominated during the last hundred years. In recent years, more instrumental motives are expressed in the curricula, while students' personal experiences and feelings are less focused. © 2022 University of Oslo, Norwegian Centre for Science Education. All rights reserved.

    sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
    Naturfagsenteret, 2022
    HSV kategori
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-105112 (URN)10.5617/nordina.8888 (DOI)2-s2.0-85147288260 (Scopus ID)
    Merknad

    Export Date: 20 March 2023; Article; Correspondence Address: Andersson, K.; School of health Science, Sweden; email: karin.andersson@oru.se

    Tilgjengelig fra: 2023-03-20 Laget: 2023-03-20 Sist oppdatert: 2024-02-21bibliografisk kontrollert
    2. Moral relations in encounters with nature
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Moral relations in encounters with nature
    2015 (engelsk)Inngår i: Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, ISSN 1472-9679, E-ISSN 1754-0402, Vol. 15, nr 4, s. 310-329Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
    Abstract [en]

    The overall aim of this article is to develop in-depth knowledge about the connection between outdoor experiences and moral attitudes towards nature. The study focuses on processes in which moral relations are at stake in encounters between students and nature. The purpose is to identify such events, describe their specific circumstances and clarify how moral relations are established in these events. The empirical material consists of video-recordings of activities in three different outdoor education practices. In order to identify and categorise moral situations, an analytical tool called the ethical tendency is used. This tool is based on Wittgenstein’s language game method. The findings show that in the investigated outdoor education practices, moral relations towards nature are established in several different ways. The article concludes with four educational implications: responsibility when dealing with moral reactions; bring- ing ethical questions to the fore; different educational conditions create different encounters with nature; and the consequences of different language games. 

    sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
    Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2015
    Emneord
    outdoor education, nature experience, nature connectivity, moral relations, ethical reflections, environmental concern
    HSV kategori
    Forskningsprogram
    Pedagogik
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-44936 (URN)10.1080/14729679.2015.1035292 (DOI)000212207300004 ()2-s2.0-84942990656 (Scopus ID)
    Forskningsfinansiär
    Swedish Research Council, 2004-2295Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
    Merknad

    Funding agencies:

    Swedish Research Council 2004-2295 

    Swedish Environmental Protection Agency 

    Tilgjengelig fra: 2015-06-17 Laget: 2015-06-17 Sist oppdatert: 2024-02-21bibliografisk kontrollert
    3. The meanings of friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>The meanings of friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education
    2023 (engelsk)Inngår i: Sport, Education and Society, ISSN 1357-3322, E-ISSN 1470-1243Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Epub ahead of print
    Abstract [en]

    The aim with this article is to contribute knowledge about the meanings of friluftsliv in educational practice. This is done by investigating what friluftsliv becomes in the ongoing practices of PETE in Sweden and how these meanings are established in the studied activities. The empirical material consists of different kinds of material from friluftsliv activities in PETE programmes: study guides, field trip plans, students' vlogs from overnight stays outdoors, video recordings from two longer field trips, audio recordings from evening seminars during the field trips and students' written reflections after them. In order to identify meanings of friluftsliv and how these are established we used a transactional analysis based on Dewey. Five different ways of what friluftsliv becomes in PETE practice were identified in this study. The different meanings reflect the complex picture of contradictions and lack of common ground for the content and motives identified in the outdoor education field. Our study also confirms how the meaning of friluftsliv as skills is established by putting up tents, lighting fires, building wind shelters and so on, and how this contributes to a focus on the instrumental values in PETE. On the other hand, our study shows that other meanings of friluftsliv are established in the ongoing practice, where more intrinsic values are at stake even if they are often overshadowed in PETE practice. In conclusion the results also point to the potential of fritluftsliv in terms of a suggested move away from an activity-based personal and social development discourse in favour of experiences of educating for environmentally sustainable human-nature relations. The challenge is how to make these experiences educational in PETE and how to guide students in transforming experiences in more exclusive friluftsliv into pedagogical competence as future teachers using friluftsliv for different purposes in school PE.

    sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
    Routledge, 2023
    Emneord
    Outdoor education, friluftsliv, Physical Education Teacher Education, meanings and values of friluftsliv, transaction
    HSV kategori
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-105353 (URN)10.1080/13573322.2023.2187770 (DOI)000950679600001 ()2-s2.0-85150785713 (Scopus ID)
    Tilgjengelig fra: 2023-04-11 Laget: 2023-04-11 Sist oppdatert: 2024-02-21bibliografisk kontrollert
    4. Friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education practice: its challenges, conflicting meanings, and negotiations
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Friluftsliv in Physical Education Teacher Education practice: its challenges, conflicting meanings, and negotiations
    (engelsk)Manuskript (preprint) (Annet vitenskapelig)
    HSV kategori
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-111789 (URN)
    Tilgjengelig fra: 2024-02-21 Laget: 2024-02-21 Sist oppdatert: 2024-02-21bibliografisk kontrollert
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  • Geidne, Susanna
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper.
    Could Interdisciplinary Research be a Way to Re-think the Organization of Volunteers?2023Inngår i: Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences, E-ISSN 2594-3405, Vol. 7, nr 2, s. 1-26Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    Volunteering is a global phenomenon and different type of volunteers can be found in different types of organizations. Societal changes in how people volunteer and in how organizations use volunteers have made researchers call for a re-examining of organizing of volunteers. Therefore, this study aims to explore how different types of volunteering are organized in different types of organizations. The study uses an interdisciplinary research (IDR) approach with two perspectives, which in this paper are called Volunteer management (VM) and Volunteer coordination (VC). Four different Swedish organizations with different type of volunteers, two different types of sports organizations, one social organization and an entrepreneurial network are used as cases. The data consists of 18 interviews with project managers and volunteers. The data is analyzed in three IDR-inspired steps using both qualitative and quantitative analyses. This study reveals that understanding how to organize volunteering benefits from viewing volunteer organization in a proposed two-dimensional model. This model includes management strategies in different phases as well as relational perspectives and strikes a balance between organizational structure and climate. Merging research traditions can contribute to new knowledge in a changing society. Voluntary organizations need to work with everyday structures that allow them the flexibility to develop a sustainable volunteer organization by both managing and coordinating their volunteers.

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    Could Interdisciplinary Research be a Way to Re-think the Organization of Volunteers?
  • Fiedler, Heidelore
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för naturvetenskap och teknik.
    de Boer, Jacob
    Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    Abad, Esteban
    CSIC, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Laboratory of Dioxins, Barcelona, Spain.
    Persistent organic pollutants in air across the globe using a comparative passive air sampling method2024Inngår i: TrAC. Trends in analytical chemistry, ISSN 0165-9936, E-ISSN 1879-3142, Vol. 171, artikkel-id 117494Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    For the global monitoring plan (GMP) established under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), passive air samplers (PAS) equipped with polyurethane foam disks (PUFs) were recommended for generating comparative results on the presence of POPs in countries. One representative sampling location was designed in each of the 42 countries and the PAS/PUFs exposed for three months to collect POPs during 2017–2019. The PUFs were analyzed in three laboratories according to their chemical nature and concentrations reported per PUF and 90 ± 3 days of exposure. In total, 381 PUFs were analyzed for organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), industrial chlorinated POPs, dioxin-like POPs (dl-POPs), brominated flame retardants (BFRs), and perfluoroalkane substances (PFAS). Concentrations typically varied by a factor of up to three for a POP and often within the same geographic region or other denominator such as similar latitudes or altitudes. Maximum values were found for DDT (895 ng/PUF) in Africa, but the highest medium value was in the Latin American countries. Also, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) were most abundant across all parameters assessed. Noteworthy were high values in single countries, such as DDT in the Solomon Islands, toxaphene in Mexico, β-HCH and lindane in Tanzania, hexachlorobutadiene and hexabromocyclododecone in Mongolia, deca-BDE and PFOS in Zambia. Although we had two sampling locations at very high altitudes, >2000 m, we could determine increasing POPs concentrations with increasing altitudes only for HCB but not for other POPs. A general dependency on latitudes with higher concentrations towards the north and south pole could not be found, although the most northern station in Mongolia had two of the maxima and elevated values for some legacy POPs.

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    Persistent organic pollutants in air across the globe using a comparative passive air sampling method
  • Hearn, Jeff
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap. Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland; Sociology, University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK.
    de Boise, Sam
    Örebro universitet, Musikhögskolan.
    Goedecke, Klara
    Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.
    Men and Masculinities: Structures, Practices, and Identities2023Inngår i: The Palgrave Handbook of Power, Gender, and Psychology / [ed] Eileen L. Zurbriggen; Rose Capdevila, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 1, s. 193-213Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    This chapter reviews empirical and theoretical work within critical studies on men and masculinities (CSMM), drawing on extensive empirical and theoretical studies relevant to psychology and social psychology. The chapter focuses on gender relations and power dynamics, social structures, intersectionality, bodies, practices, and identities, both individual and collective. The chapter first maps the key theoretical developments of CSMM, historically and conceptually, before moving to focus on two important contemporary issues: first, the development of more egalitarian masculinities, and, second, the explanations for various non-egalitarian masculinities, such those linked to incel and Alt-Right movements, both online and offline. 

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    Men and Masculinities: Structures, Practices, and Identities
  • Larsson, Caroline
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper.
    Fernberg, Ulrika ()
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper.
    Johansson, Ina ()
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper.
    Kumawat, Ashok Kumar ()
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper.
    Marques, Tatiana M. ()
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper.
    Söderman, Annika ()
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper.
    Örebro University’s Nobel Day Festivities: Book of abstracts, 20232023Collection/Antologi (Annet vitenskapelig)
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  • Norén, Paulina
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper.
    Measurement properties of the Swedish self-administered version of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.02023Licentiatavhandling, med artikler (Annet vitenskapelig)
    Abstract [en]

    The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) is a leading patient-reported outcome measure of disability. However, patients' perspective of the WHODAS 2.0 self-administered Swedish version have not been sufficiently described. Similarly, knowledge of its construct validity in the general population is missing. This creates a gap because updated norm data to use as reference is also missing. The overall aim of this study was to establish evidence of the measurement properties of the self-administered Swedish version of the WHODAS 2.0.

    Both qualitative and quantitative methods were adopted. In Study I, interviews with patients (n = 12) with orthopaedic or psychiatric conditions were performed and data were analysed by deductive content analysis. In Study II, a cross-sectional general population survey (n = 3 482) was conducted, and statistical methods based on classical test theory were used in the data analysis.

    The results show that the items were well understood, acceptable and easy to answer by outpatients, with the exception of six items (Study I).The internal consistency reliability was good or excellent and the construct validity was overall acceptable, with partial support for the factor structure in the general populations (Study II).

    The self-administered Swedish 36-item version of the WHODAS 2.0 is comparable to other language versions of the instrument. Some of the previous known weaknesses of its construct validity in relation to the item content and insufficient instructions were confirmed. The evidence of overall good content and construct validity together with available norm data supports its use in clinical settings and research.

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    1. The Swedish self-administered version of WHODAS 2.0: Content validity among patients with physical or mental health problems
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>The Swedish self-administered version of WHODAS 2.0: Content validity among patients with physical or mental health problems
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    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-110555 (URN)
    Tilgjengelig fra: 2023-12-29 Laget: 2023-12-29 Sist oppdatert: 2023-12-29bibliografisk kontrollert
    2. Psychometric evaluation of the WHODAS 2.0 and prevalence of disability in a Swedish general population
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Psychometric evaluation of the WHODAS 2.0 and prevalence of disability in a Swedish general population
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    2023 (engelsk)Inngår i: Journal of patient-reported outcomes, E-ISSN 2509-8020, Vol. 7, nr 1, artikkel-id 36Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
    Abstract [en]

    BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS 2.0) is a generic questionnaire that captures health and disability-related functioning information corresponding to six major life domains: Cognition, Mobility, Self-care, Getting along, Life activities, and Participation. The WHODAS 2.0 is used in a wide range of international clinical and research settings. A psychometric evaluation of WHODAS 2.0, Swedish version, in the general population is lacking, together with national reference data to enable interpretation and comparison. This study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Swedish 36-item version of WHODAS 2.0 and describe the prevalence of disability in a Swedish general population.

    METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was performed. Internal consistency reliability was assessed with Cronbach's alpha. The construct validity was evaluated with item-total correlation, Pearson's correlation between the WHODAS 2.0 domains and the RAND-36 subscales, analysis of known groups by one-way ANOVA, and analysis of the factor structure by confirmatory factor analysis.

    RESULTS: Three thousand four hundred and eighty two adults aged 19-103 years (response rate 43%) participated. Significantly higher degrees of disability were reported by the oldest age group (≥ 80 years), adults with a low level of education, and those on sick leave. Cronbach's alpha was from 0.84 to 0.95 for the domain scores and 0.97 for the total score. The item-scale convergent validity was satisfactory, and the item-scale discriminant validity was acceptable except for the item about sexual activity. The data partially supported the factor structure, with borderline fit indices.

    CONCLUSION: The psychometric properties of the self-administered Swedish 36-item version of the WHODAS 2.0 are comparable to those of other language versions of the instrument. Data of the prevalence of disability in Swedish general population enables normative comparisons of WHODAS 2.0 scores of individuals and groups within clinical practice. The instrument has certain limitations that could be improved on in a future revision. The test-retest reliability and responsiveness of the Swedish version of WHODAS 2.0 for different somatic patient populations remain to be evaluated.

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    Springer, 2023
    Emneord
    Disability evaluation, Health surveys, Patient-reported outcome measures, RAND-36, Reference values, Validity and reliability
    HSV kategori
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-105444 (URN)10.1186/s41687-023-00580-0 (DOI)000963677200001 ()37020121 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85152640756 (Scopus ID)
    Forskningsfinansiär
    Örebro UniversityRegion Örebro County, OLL-506801
    Tilgjengelig fra: 2023-04-14 Laget: 2023-04-14 Sist oppdatert: 2024-01-02bibliografisk kontrollert
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  • Frih, Anna-Karin
    Örebro universitet, Akademin för humaniora, utbildning och samhällsvetenskap.
    The Girl in the Medicine: Gender, Youth and Illness in Sweden 1870-19302007Inngår i: "In the name of the child": The social and cultural history of children and youth, 2007Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
    Abstract [en]

    This abstract explores the intersection of gender, youth, and illness in Sweden from 1870 to 1930, focusing on the medical discourse surrounding the health of girls. The study, conducted by Anna-Karin Frih from Örebro University, investigates the construction of concepts related to childhood and adolescence in scientific medicine during this period. The late nineteenth-century discussions highlighted concerns about the poor health of girls, particularly ailments like chlorosis, attributed to factors such as sex, heredity, and living conditions. The evolving gender order and societal transformations, including educational reforms and women's changing roles, influenced medical perspectives on girls' health.

    The thesis employs discourse analysis, examining medical texts, health studies, and case records from Swedish spas. The first part delves into the portrayal of the "sick girl" between 1870 and 1900, addressing debates on coeducation and the impact of schooling on children's health. It challenges the one-dimensional view of girls as weak and chlorotic, emphasizing a more diverse reality. The second part explores the shift towards the "new girl" from 1900 to 1930, revealing contrasting opinions within scientific and popular medicine. The decline of chlorosis is scrutinized, highlighting disparities in medical discourse regarding girls' health. The study concludes by emphasizing the importance of contextualizing gender and illness constructions, drawing parallels with contemporary debates on eating disorders and reflecting on the implications for present-day medical opinions. 

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  • Garcia-Argibay, Miguel
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper. Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden; Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Hiyoshi, Ayako
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper. Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden; Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Montgomery, Scott
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper. Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK; Clinical Epidemiology Division, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden.
    Association between dementia risk and ulcerative colitis, with and without colectomy: a Swedish population-based register study2023Inngår i: BMJ Open, E-ISSN 2044-6055, Vol. 13, nr 12, artikkel-id e074110Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    OBJECTIVE: This study aims to investigate the association of ulcerative colitis (UC) with all-cause dementia and assess differences in those with and without a total colectomy.

    DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: This Swedish prospective register-based study comprised 4.8 million individuals aged at least 59 years between 1964 and 2018 with the linkage of several Swedish national registers.

    PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Individuals with dementia were defined according to International Classification of Diseases diagnostic codes and Anatomical Therapeutic Classification codes for medication prescriptions. Fitting Cox hazards models, the risk of developing all-cause dementia in individuals with and without UC was estimated. Further, we compared the risk of all-cause dementia among those with and without a colectomy.

    RESULTS: Among 4 821 488 individuals (52.6% females) followed for 84.1 million person-years between 1964 and 2018, the incidence rate of all-cause dementia was 63.90 (63.73-64.07) events per 10 000 person-years in individuals without UC, 94.80 (92.04-97.64) among those with UC, 95.01 (92.25-97.86) in those with UC but without colectomy and 63.42 (40.92-98.31) in those with UC and a colectomy. Adjusted Cox models showed an increased all-cause dementia risk in individuals with UC (HR 1.07, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.10). We found no differences between unexposed individuals and those with UC and a colectomy (HR 0.89, 95% CI 0.57 to 1.38).

    CONCLUSION: The findings are consistent with previous evidence suggesting a slightly increased dementia risk among individuals with UC. This study provided no evidence of further risk increase of dementia among those who had a colectomy.

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  • Sunnergren, Ola
    et al.
    Öron-, näs- och halskliniken, Region Jönköpings län.
    Alm, Fredrik
    Anestesi- och intensivvårdskliniken, Universitetssjukhuset i Örebro.
    Axelsson, Sara
    Öron-, näs- och halskliniken, Helsingborgs lasarett.
    Froissart-Nerfeldt, Pia
    Öron-, näs- och halskliniken, Karolinska universitetssjukhuset.
    Hemlin, Claes
    Aleris Specialistklinik, Sollentuna.
    Larsson, Torbjörn
    Öron-, näs- och halskliniken, Sunderby sjukhus.
    Lundström, Filip
    Öron-, näs- och halskliniken, Universitetssjukhuset i Linköping.
    Odhagen, Erik
    Öron-, näs- och halskliniken, Södra Älvsborgs sjukhus.
    Stalfors, Joacim
    Sahlgrenska akademin, Göteborgs universitet.
    Kalla tekniker för såväl dissektion som blodstillning bör användas vid tonsillektomi: En rekommendation från den nationella arbetsgruppen för tonsilloperation (NAG) och referensgruppen för Tonsilloperationsregistret2021Annet (Annet vitenskapelig)
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  • Kremel, Anna
    Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet.
    Consumer Behaviour in a Circular System – How Values Promote and Hinder the Participation of Young Adults in the Swedish Deposit-Refund System for Beverage Packaging2023Inngår i: Circular Economy and Sustainability, ISSN 2730-597X, E-ISSN 2730-5988Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    This study contributes to the understanding of how values promote and hinder circular consumer behaviour by examining and learning from the Swedish deposit-refund system for beverage cans and PET bottles. We have used the consumption value theory in our analysis, building on the concepts of circular economy, sustainable consumption and recycling. Data was collected from focus group interviews with young adults in order to identify and explore the ways that values promote and hinder participation. Functional values were found to be at the core of sustainable consumption as a result of financial incentives and the fact that consumers value convenience. The study also highlights the importance that young adults place on emotional values, in particular embarrassment, which hinders them from recycling. When it comes to sustainable consumption, young adults are driven by selfish behaviour, prioritising personal comfort. Social settings were also found to promote and hinder participation in the deposit-refund system. The study finds that an understanding of the reasons why different social groups and age groups approve or disapprove of participation in circular solutions may help design solutions to increase participation in circular solutions and circular economies. The results show that it is important to study the combinations of value dimensions to understand consumer behaviour in a circular system fully.

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    Consumer Behaviour in a Circular System – How Values Promote and Hinder the Participation of Young Adults in the Swedish Deposit-Refund System for Beverage Packaging
  • Tseronis, Assimakis
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap.
    Review of: D. Serafis (2023). Authoritarianism on the front page: Multimodal discourse and argumentation in times of multiple crises in Greece2023Inngår i: Journal of Argumentation in Context, ISSN 2211-4742, E-ISSN 2211-4750, Vol. 12, nr 3, s. 344-352Artikkel, omtale (Fagfellevurdert)
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  • Malmquist, Anna
    et al.
    Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
    Miscioscia, Marina
    Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padua, Padova, Italy; Neuropsychiatric Unit, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Padova University Hospital, Padova, Italy.
    Leal, Daniela
    Centre for Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
    Tasker, Fiona
    Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK.
    Bredenberg, Cecilia
    Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
    Gubello, Alessio
    Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
    Gato, Jorge
    Centre for Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
    Houghton, Marie
    Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK.
    Wurm, Matilda
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap.
    “Under House Arrest”: Mental Health and Minority Stress Experiences of LGBTQ+ Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Europe2023Inngår i: Sexuality Research & Social Policy, ISSN 1868-9884, E-ISSN 1553-6610Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    Introduction: Increased rates of mental health issues among LGBTQ+ people have been reported during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among young people.

    Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2021 with 61 young adult LGBTQ+ people residing in France, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, and the UK. Each interview was summarized on a template covering the participants’ experiences of pandemic restrictions, mental health, and minority stress during this period. A thematic analysis was conducted on the templates.

    Results: The pandemic restrictions had a large impact on the participants’ lives, leaving them stuck at home. Not having access to the LGBTQ+ community was an additional stress, as this is a venue for support. Half of the participants had suffered from mental health issues during the pandemic. Those who were living in non-affirmative households had a particularly difficult time and experienced overwhelming stress. Increased feelings of gender dysphoria were seen among trans participants due to the lack of access to gender-affirming healthcare. Most participants experienced less distal minority stress than usual due to social isolation restrictions.

    Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated social restrictions had a large impact on the lives of LGBTQ+ young adults. Many experience worse mental health, although relief from distal minority stress was common.

    Policy Implications: Policy makers must consider the needs of LGBTQ+ young adults as they seek to explore and establish their gender and/or sexual identity. During a pandemic, it is particularly important to help young LGBTQ+ people to engage with the LGBTQ+ community.

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    “Under House Arrest”: Mental Health and Minority Stress Experiences of LGBTQ+ Young Adults During the COVID‑19 Pandemic in Europe
  • Stenling, Cecilia
    et al.
    Umeå University, Sweden; Umeå School of Sport Sciences, Sweden; Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.
    Fahlén, Josef
    Umeå University, Sweden; Umeå School of Sport Sciences, Sweden; The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway.
    Strittmatter, Anna-Maria
    The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway.
    Skille, Eivind Åsrum
    Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.
    The meaning of democracy in an era of good governance: Views of representation and their implications for board composition2023Inngår i: International Review for the Sociology of Sport, ISSN 1012-6902, E-ISSN 1461-7218, Vol. 58, nr 1, s. 108-125Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    Contemporary sport governance contexts are marked by a trend towards efficiency-based board composition and an increasing use of instruments aimed to (re)shape boards. Yet, democratic governance is integral to many countries' sport systems, and research tells us that representation still matters in sport governance. Considering this, the aim with this paper is to provide researchers and practitioners with a vocabulary to understand and address issues of representation in board composition. The paper builds on interviews with nomination committee representatives of 62 Swedish national sport federations (NSFs). The analysis provides insights into the meaning and implications of four distinct views of representation, along with an interpretation of potential responses to board-shaping instruments engendered by these views.

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  • Stenling, Cecilia
    et al.
    Department of Education, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
    Fahlén, Josef
    Department of Education, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Sport and Social Sciences, The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
    Strittmatter, Anna-Maria
    Department of Sport and Social Sciences, The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
    Skille, Eivind Åsrum
    Department of Public Health, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Hamar, Norway.
    The gatekeepers of sport governance: nomination committees' shaping potential in national sport organizations' board composition processes2023Inngår i: European Sport Management Quarterly, ISSN 1618-4742, E-ISSN 1746-031X, Vol. 23, nr 2, s. 586-603Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    Research Question: The purpose of this paper is to construct knowledge on the working processes of nomination committees (NCs) in sport and analyze their potential to shape board composition. The significance of such an effort lies in its potential to shed light on the processes preceding the structures and practices created for the wielding of power in sport organizations.

    Research Methods: This paper reports findings based on telephone interviews with NCs of 64 Swedish national sport organizations.

    Results and Findings: The analyses show how NC processes may be distinguished into six components: election of the NC at the general assembly (GA), monitoring of the incumbent board, preparation for nominee identification, assembly of a list of potential nominees, evaluation of potential nominees, and submission of proposed nominees to the GA. Within and across these components, the analyses reveal three aspects particularly powerful in their potential to shape board composition: degree of formalization, network reliance, and transparency.

    Implications: These findings have implications for research and practice. Regarding the former, the study provides a baseline description that can be used in future explorations of the NC process and its determinants and effects in varying contexts. As for the latter, the findings suggest that sport organizations carry an untapped potential in considering NCs’ shaping potential, regardless of whether an ‘adequate’ board is one that is equipped to improve organizational efficiency or one that safeguards representation and democracy.

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  • Skille, Eivind Å.
    et al.
    Norway Inland University of Applied Sciences, Norway.
    Fahlén, Josef
    Umeå University, Sweden.
    Stenling, Cecilia
    Umeå University, Sweden; New Zealand Centre for Sport Policy & Politics, New Zealand.
    Strittmatter, Anna-Maria
    Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway.
    (Lack of) government policy for indigenous (Sámi) sport: A chain of legitimating and de-legitimating acts2022Inngår i: International Review for the Sociology of Sport, ISSN 1012-6902, E-ISSN 1461-7218, Vol. 57, nr 1, s. 112-128Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    While colonization as policy is formally a historic phenomenon in Norway and elsewhere, many former structures of state organization – including their relationship to sport – remain under post-colonial conditions. This paper is concerned with how the Norwegian government contributes to creating a situation, which includes the Norwegian sports confederation (NIF) but excludes the indigenous people Sámi's sports organisation. Based on existing data and literature, we analyse how the state favours NIF through a chain of legitimating acts. Thus, sport is a preserve of colonization, where a one-sided legitimation parallels a de-legitimation of the overarching sport policy goal of sport-for-all. However, there are signs of change whereby actors are challenging NIF’s monopoly and 'older' state-sport regimes.

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  • Stenling, Cecilia
    et al.
    Department of Education, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;b Centre for Sport Policy and Politics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
    Fahlén, Josef
    Department of Education, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Cultural and Social Studies, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
    Strittmatter, Anna-Maria
    Department of Cultural and Social Studies, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
    Skille, Eivind
    Innland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Elverum, Norway.
    Hierarchies of criteria in NSO board-nomination processes: insights from nomination committees' work2020Inngår i: European Sport Management Quarterly, ISSN 1618-4742, E-ISSN 1746-031X, Vol. 20, nr 5, s. 636-654Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    Research question: The purpose of this paper is to create knowledge on board-selection processes and their outcomes in terms of board composition. We address two research questions: (1) What evaluative criteria are at play in board-selection processes; and (2) what hierarchies of criteria are formed when evaluative criteria are ranked? The significance of the study lies in contemporary considerations of good governance, in sport members’ (un)equal access to positions of power, and in how issues of representation relate to the legitimacy of sport governance systems and to broader societal patterns of representation, influence, and democracy.

    Research methods: Nomination committees are increasingly used worldwide to further good governance in sport organizations. Our analysis builds on interviews with representatives of 61 out of 71 Swedish national sport organizations’ nomination committees.

    Results and Findings: Our study shows that trade-offs are made not between gender and merit, as previously suggested, but between and among a wide variety of representation criteria and a wide variety of efficiency criteria. We show how tensions between criteria result in trade-offs that imply a ranking of criteria into seven types of hierarchies, only one of which prioritizes a representation-based board composition.

    Implications: Because rankings of multiple evaluative criteria impact any single criterion of interest (e.g. gender), future studies should take into account the range of evaluative criteria at play. For sport management and policy practitioners alike, we provide a tool to understand and address (in)adequate representation but also an imperative to consider the meaning of adequate representation.

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  • Strittmatter, Anna-Maria
    et al.
    Department of Cultural and Social Studies, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
    Stenling, Cecilia
    Department of Education, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Centre for Sport Policy and Politics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
    Fahlén, Josef
    Department of Cultural and Social Studies, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway; Department of Education, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
    Skille, Eivind
    Faculty of Public Health, Norway Inland University of Applied Sciences, Elverum, Norway.
    Sport policy analysis revisited: the sport policy process as an interlinked chain of legitimating acts2018Inngår i: International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, ISSN 1940-6940, E-ISSN 1940-6959, Vol. 10, nr 4, s. 621-635Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    By providing an analytical framework that draws on a conceptualisation of legitimacy in organisation studies, this paper demonstrates that the sport policy process can be understood as an interlinked chain of legitimating acts. Based on recent suggestions in organisation theory literature on how to approach legitimacy and legitimation, we applied the framework on a small sample of published sport policy studies to demonstrate its utility. By applying the framework, six interweaved and interweaving elements of the legitimating act within sport policy processes were identified: legitimacy-seeking organisation, subject, source(s), strategy, bases and scenario. The analysis shows that each of the six elements works by intersecting within each phase of the policy process. The main conclusion is that consequences – often unintended – resulting from legitimating acts in one phase have legitimacy-related implications for the other phases of the policy process. As pressing as pinpointing the use of all elements of the framework is, it is equally important to distinguish each of the elements in order to fulfil the analytical potential of the proposed framework. Since sport policy processes in practice rely primarily on organisations and organisational action, future sport policy research would benefit from this type of framework connecting organisations and organising to policy processes.

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  • Axfors, Cathrine
    et al.
    Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
    Iliadis, Stavros I.
    Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
    Rasmusson, Lovisa L.
    Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
    Beckman, Ulrika
    Department of Psychiatry, Södra Älvsborgs Hospital, Alingsås, Sweden.
    Fazekas, Attila
    Department of Psychiatry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
    Frisén, Louise
    Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Sandström, Lotta
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
    Thelin, Nils
    Division of Psychiatry, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden.
    Wahlberg, Jeanette
    Department of Endocrinology and Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
    Skalkidou, Alkistis
    Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
    Papadopoulos, Fotios C.
    Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
    Preferences for Gender Affirming Treatment and Associated Factors Among Transgender People in Sweden2023Inngår i: Sexuality Research & Social Policy, ISSN 1868-9884, E-ISSN 1553-6610, Vol. 20, s. 479-490Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    Introduction: Gender affirming surgery of primary and/or secondary sex characteristics has been shown to alleviate gender dysphoria. A descriptive snapshot of current treatment preferences is useful to understand the needs of the transgender population seeking health care. This study aimed to describe preferences for gender affirming treatment, and their correlates, among individuals seeking health care for gender dysphoria in Sweden after major national legislative reforms.

    Methods: Cross-sectional study where transgender patients (n = 232) recruited from all six Gender Dysphoria centers in Sweden 2016-2019, answered a survey on treatment preferences and sociodemographic, health, and gender identity-related information during the same time-period. Factors associated with preferring top surgery (breast augmentation or mastectomy), genital surgery, and other surgery (e.g., facial surgery) were examined in univariable and multivariable regression analyses in the 197 people without prior such treatment. Main study outcomes were preferences for feminizing or masculinizing hormonal and surgical gender affirming treatment.

    Results: The proportion among birth assigned male and assigned female patients preferring top surgery was 55.6% and 88.7%, genital surgery 88.9% and 65.7%, and other surgery (e.g., facial surgery) 85.6% and 22.5%, respectively. Almost all participants (99.1%) wanted or had already received hormonal treatment and most (96.7%) wished for some kind of surgical treatment; 55.0% wanted both top and genital surgery. Preferring a binary pronoun (he/she) and factors indicating more severe gender incongruence were associated with a greater wish for surgical treatment. Participants with somatic comorbidities were less likely to want genital surgery, while aF with lacking social support were less likely to want internal genital surgery, in the multivariable analyses.

    Conclusions: In this sample of Swedish young adults seeking health care for gender dysphoria, preferences for treatment options varied according to perceived gender identity.

    Policy Implications: The study findings underline the need for individualized care and flexible gender affirming treatment options. The role of somatic comorbidities should be further explored, and support should be offered to transgender people in need. There is an unmet need for facial surgery among aM.

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    Preferences for Gender Affirming Treatment and Associated Factors Among Transgender People in Sweden
  • Wahlberg, Jeanette
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper. Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för kardiovaskulär medicin.
    Alstrand, N
    Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för medicin och hälsa.
    Bachrach-Lindström, Margareta
    Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för omvårdnad.
    Jenmalm, Maria C
    Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för inflammationsmedicin.
    Wahlberg, Jeanette
    Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för kardiovaskulär medicin.
    Altered Chemokine Th1/Th2 Balance in Addison's Disease: Relationship with Hydrocortisone Dosing and Quality of Life2014Inngår i: Hormone and Metabolic Research, ISSN 0018-5043, E-ISSN 1439-4286, Vol. 46, nr 1, s. 48-53Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    The adrenalitis found in autoimmune Addison’s disease (AAD) is considered having a Th1-driven pathogenesis. Circulating Th1- and Th2-associated chemokines responsible for the trafficking of leukocytes to inflammatory sites are markers for the Th1/Th2 balance. The aim of the study was to assess if the same daily hydrocortisone dose of 30 mg given in either 2 or 4 doses to patients with AAD could affect the Th1/Th2 balance of circulating chemokines.

    Fifteen patients (6 women) with AAD were included in this randomised, placebo controlled, double blind cross-over study. Samples for chemokines, Th1-associated (CXCL10, CXCL11) and Th2-associated (CCL17, CCL22), were drawn 5 times during a 24-h period at the end of each treatment period and analysed with Luminex. Seven control subjects did the same diurnal blood sampling once. Subjects with AAD had higher median diurnal levels of the Th1-associated chemokines than controls, CXCL10 [43 (33–56) pg/ml vs. 22 (19–34) pg/ml, p<0.01] and CXCL11 [37 (29–48) pg/ml vs. 16 (9–24) pg/ml, p<0.001], whereas no significant difference was found regarding the Th2-related chemokines. Similar chemokine levels were found when the same hydrocortisone dose of 30 mg was divided in 2 or 4 doses. Levels of CXCL11 correlated negatively with scores of SF-36 domains (high score indicate better health) of General Health (GH) and total score for Physical Component Summary (PCS), and these negative correlations were most pronounced at 04:00 h on the 2-dose regimen. Patients with AAD have a dominant Th1 chemokine profile that partially correlates to reduced quality of life.

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  • Johansson, Björn
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap.
    Brauer, John
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap.
    En utvärdering av projektet ”Din väg” – ett arbetssätt för att aktivera unga med en kriminell livsstil som varken arbetar eller studerar2023Rapport (Annet vitenskapelig)
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  • Sandlund, Christina
    et al.
    Karolinska Institutet, Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Stockholm, Sweden; Region Stockholm, Academic Primary Health Care Centre, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Westman, Jeanette
    Karolinska Institutet, Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Stockholm, Sweden; Region Stockholm, Academic Primary Health Care Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; Marie Cederschiöld University, Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Norell-Clarke, Annika
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap. Kristianstad University, Health Sciences, Kristianstad, Sweden.
    Characteristics of Patients with Subjective Sleep Problems after Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia: Secondary Analyses of a Randomized Controlled Trial2023Inngår i: Sleep Science, ISSN 1984-0659, E-ISSN 1984-0063, Vol. 16, nr 4, s. e417-e424Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    Objective: Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is the first-line treatment for insomnia, but half of the patients do not reach remission. This study aimed to explore subjective remission by investigating the characteristics of patients who reported lingering sleep problems after CBT-I.

    Methods: Secondary analyses of a randomized controlled trial of group CBT-I in 72 primary care patients with insomnia disorder. Sociodemographic characteristics and outcomes (insomnia severity, sleep variables, hypnotics use, fatigue, depressive symptoms, and dysfunctional beliefs/attitudes), including baseline data and symptom change, were investigated in relation to patients' posttreatment response to the yes-or-no question “Would you say that you have sleep problems?”

    Results: A total of 56.9% of patients reported sleep problems after CBT-I. At baseline, they had worse depressive symptoms (14.9 (SD 7.5) vs. 10.2 (SD 5.9), p = 0.006) and more awakenings (2.6 (SD 1.5) vs. 1.8 (SD 1.3), p = 0.034) than those in subjective remission from sleep problems. Patients in the non-remission and remission groups showed similar improvements in sleep, fatigue, and depressive symptoms, but patients in the non-remission group had improved less in insomnia severity, dysfunctional beliefs/attitudes about sleep, and hypnotic use. In patients with more pronounced depressive symptoms before CBT-I, change in depressive symptoms during treatment partially explained subjective remission from sleep problems.

    Discussion: More severe depressive symptoms prior to CBT-I and less improvements in depressive symptoms during treatment predicted remaining subjective sleep problems after treatment. These findings highlight the importance of assessing depressive symptoms in primary care patients with insomnia, as patients with pronounced depressive symptoms may need tailored treatment.

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  • Dehlaghi Jadid, Kaveh
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper.
    Long-term outcome, socioeconomic aspects and postoperative inflammatory response in minimally invasive rectal cancer surgery2024Doktoravhandling, med artikler (Annet vitenskapelig)
    Abstract [en]

    In Sweden, more than 2,200 individuals are diagnosed with rectal cancer each year and surgical resection is the cornerstone of treatment. Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) was introduced for abdominal rectal cancer resection in the 1990s. Proven advantages of MIS in the short term include less intraoperative bleeding, less postoperative pain, faster postoperative mobilization, and shorter hospital stay. Large randomized studies have also shown that MIS is not inferior to OPEN with regard to the oncological short-term or long-term outcome.

    The aim of this thesis was to increase the knowledge of MIS from a Swedish perspective regarding long-term oncological outcome, socioeconomic aspects, and the postoperative inflammatory response in curative abdominal rectal cancer surgery.

    Study I included all patients who were diagnosed with clinical stage I-III rectal cancer during 2010-2016. More than 8,300 patients were identified via the Swedish Colorectal Cancer Registry (SCRCR). The study had a so-called non-inferiority design and investigated overall 5-year survival. The results showed that survival was not worse in patients who underwent minimally invasive surgery in comparison to patients who underwent open surgery.

    Study II included all patients who were diagnosed with pathological stage I-III cancer of the colon 2010-2016. More than 11,000 patients were identified via the SCRCR. The study was designed in the same way as Study I. The results demonstrated that minimally invasive surgery was not inferior to open surgery.

    Study III analysed the potential impact of socioeconomic status, measured as level of education and household income, regarding the likelihood of receiving minimally invasive surgery. All patients who underwent curative abdominal rectal resection surgery during 2010-2016 were included. More than 8,000 patients were identified. The results showed that patients with the highest level of education and those in the highest income quartile were more likely to be operated on with minimally invasive technique.

    Study IV analysed the inflammatory response, measured as serum C-reactive protein during postoperative days 1-5, in all 520 patients undergoing abdominal rectal resection in Örebro between 2011 and 2021. Following exclusions based on postoperative adverse events, 382 patients remained for final analysis. The study demonstrated a trend for a less pronounced inflammatory response in patients operated with robot-assisted laparoscopy compared with conventional laparoscopy.

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    1. Long term oncological outcomes for laparoscopic versus open surgery for rectal cancer: a population based nationwide non-inferiority study
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Long term oncological outcomes for laparoscopic versus open surgery for rectal cancer: a population based nationwide non-inferiority study
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    2022 (engelsk)Inngår i: Colorectal Disease, ISSN 1462-8910, E-ISSN 1463-1318, Vol. 24, nr 11, s. 1308-1317Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
    Abstract [en]

    AIM: The aim was to compare five-year overall survival in a national cohort of patients undergoing curative abdominal resection for rectal cancer by laparoscopic (LAP) or open (OPEN) technique.

    METHODS: All patients diagnosed with clinical stage I-III rectal cancer and who underwent LAP or OPEN abdominal curative surgery between 2010 and 2016 in Sweden were retrieved from the Swedish Colorectal Cancer Registry. A non-inferiority study design was employed with a statistical power of 90%, a one-side type I error of 2.5%, and a non-inferiority margin of 2%. The analyses were performed as intention-to-treat and the relationship between surgical technique and overall mortality within five years was analyzed. Multilevel regression models with the patients matched by propensity scores adjusted for patient and tumour related variables.

    RESULTS: A total of 8410 cancer stage I-III patients were included whereof 2094 LAP (24.9%) and 6316 underwent OPEN (74.9%) and were followed until December 31, 2020. Multivariable Cox regression demonstrated that five-year overall survival was higher in LAP; Hazard Ratio (HR): 0.877;(95% CI: 0.877-0.993). Outcome was similar when employing multiple imputation and propensity score matching. When excluding cT4 there was no difference; HR: 0.885;(95% CI: 0.790-1.033). At five years follow up, local recurrence was not different, 2.9% in LAP and 3.6% in OPEN (P=0.075), while metastatic disease was more frequent in OPEN, 19.6% compared with 15.6% in LAP (P<0.001).

    CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated that LAP was not inferior to OPEN with regard to overall five-year survival. These results support the use of laparoscopic surgery.

    sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
    Blackwell Publishing, 2022
    Emneord
    Rectal cancer, laparoscopy, minimally invasive surgery, multiple imputation, non-inferiority, oncological outcome, population based, propensity score, survival
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    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-99524 (URN)10.1111/codi.16204 (DOI)000822846800001 ()35656573 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85133674068 (Scopus ID)
    Merknad

    Funding agency:

    Research Committee, Region Örebro County, Örebro OLL-964736

    Tilgjengelig fra: 2022-06-15 Laget: 2022-06-15 Sist oppdatert: 2024-01-12bibliografisk kontrollert
    2. Long term oncological outcomes for minimally invasive surgery versus open surgery for colon cancer: A population-based nationwide study with a non-inferiority design
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Long term oncological outcomes for minimally invasive surgery versus open surgery for colon cancer: A population-based nationwide study with a non-inferiority design
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    2023 (engelsk)Inngår i: Colorectal Disease, ISSN 1462-8910, E-ISSN 1463-1318, Vol. 25, nr 5, s. 954-963Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
    Abstract [en]

    AIM: The study aimed to compare five-year overall survival in a national cohort of patients undergoing curative abdominal resection for colon cancer by minimally invasive surgery (MIS) or open (OPEN) technique.

    METHODS: All patients diagnosed between 2010 and 2016 in Sweden with pathological UICC stage I-III colon cancer localized in the cecum, ascending colon, hepatic flexure or sigmoid colon, and those who underwent curative right sided hemicolectomy, sigmoid resection or high anterior resection by MIS or OPEN were included. Patients were identified in the Swedish Colorectal Cancer Registry from which all data was retrieved. The analyses were performed as intention-to-treat and the relationship between surgical technique (MIS or OPEN) and overall mortality within five years was analysed. For the primary research question a non-inferiority hypothesis was assumed with a statistical power of 90%, a one-side type I error of 2.5%, and a non-inferiority margin of 2%. For the secondary analyses, multilevel survival regression models with the patients matched by propensity scores were employed, adjusted for patient- and tumuor-related variables.

    RESULTS: A total of 11605 pathological UICC cancer stage I-III patients were included with 3297 MIS (28.4%) and 8308 OPEN (71.6%) and were followed until December 31, 2020. The primary analysis demonstrated superiority for MIS compared to OPEN. The multilevel survival regression analyses confirmed that five-year overall survival was higher in MIS with a hazard ratio (HR) of 0.874 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.791-0.965), and if excluding pT4, outcome was similar, with a HR of 0.847 (95% CI: 0.756-0.948).

    CONCLUSION: This observational study demonstrated that MIS was favourable to OPEN with regard to five-year overall survival. These results support the use of laparoscopic colon cancer surgery in routine practise.

    sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
    Blackwell Publishing, 2023
    Emneord
    colon cancer, LAP, laparoscopy, long term outcome, minimally invasive surgery, MIS, non-inferiority, oncological outcome, overall survival, population based, propensity score
    HSV kategori
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-104137 (URN)10.1111/codi.16512 (DOI)000947019500001 ()36762443 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85150627454 (Scopus ID)
    Merknad

    Funding agency:

    Research Committee, Region Örebro County, Örebro

    Tilgjengelig fra: 2023-02-13 Laget: 2023-02-13 Sist oppdatert: 2024-02-08bibliografisk kontrollert
    3. Does socio-economic status influence the choice of surgical techniquein abdominal rectal cancer surgery?
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Does socio-economic status influence the choice of surgical techniquein abdominal rectal cancer surgery?
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    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-110694 (URN)
    Tilgjengelig fra: 2024-01-12 Laget: 2024-01-12 Sist oppdatert: 2024-01-12bibliografisk kontrollert
    4. Postoperative inflammatory response in patients undergoinglaparoscopic and robotic rectal cancer resection
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Postoperative inflammatory response in patients undergoinglaparoscopic and robotic rectal cancer resection
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    HSV kategori
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-110695 (URN)
    Tilgjengelig fra: 2024-01-12 Laget: 2024-01-12 Sist oppdatert: 2024-01-12bibliografisk kontrollert
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  • Masiero, Silvia
    et al.
    Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
    Hatakka, Mathias
    Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet.
    Antifascist ICT4D: The Need for an Agenda of Liberation2023Inngår i: After Latour: Globalisation, Inequity and Climate Change: IFIP WG 8.2 and WG 9.4 Joint Working Conference, IFIPJWC 2023, Hyderabad, India, December 7–8, 2023, Proceedings / [ed] Matthew R. Jones; Arunima S. Mukherjee; Devinder Thapa; Yingqin Zheng, Springer, 2023, s. 356-361Konferansepaper (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    The field of ICT4D has witnessed a crisis of its core assumptions in terms of usability of ICTs within development, as well as the meaning of “development” itself. Such a pars destruens (deconstructing the main assumptions of the field) should in our view be accompanied with a pars construens which embraces antifascism, an element of liberation movements opposing violently oppressive ideas and systems, as a core value. In this paper we set the epistemological basis for an antifascist view of ICT4D, positioning such a view in history and illuminating the contribution of antifascism to the core idea of “making a better world” that inspires ICT4D research. We contribute to the existing literature by spelling out antifascist values in relation to ICT4D, and articulating these with respect to research objects and philosophies that the field embraces.

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  • Arneback, Emma
    et al.
    Göteborgs universitet.
    Jämte, Jan
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap.
    En social samvaro för alla? Om betydelsen av omsorg, respekt och solidaritet i skolor präglade av mångfald2023Inngår i: Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige, ISSN 1401-6788, E-ISSN 2001-3345Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [sv]

    Hur formas en inkluderande social samvaro i skolan? Och hur uppstår motsatsen; sociala miljöer präglade av misstro, intern segregation och kränkningar? Frågorna är viktiga för alla skolor, men ställs på sin spets vid försök till styrd skolintegration, där kommuner arbetar aktivt för att skapa en mer socioekonomiskt och etniskt blandad elevsammansättning.

    Empiriskt fokus för denna artikel är ett kommunalt initiativ där elever flyttats från ett strukturellt missgynnat område till fyra andra skolor i en medelstor stad i Sverige. Med utgångspunkt i Axel Honneths teori om moraliska erkännanden analyseras de flyttade elevernas upplevelser av erkännanden och kränkningar och hur dessa påverkat deras förut-sättningar att bli en del av en ny gemenskap.

    I artikeln fokuseras särskilt på hur förekomst av eller brist på omsorg, respekt och solidaritet påverkar elevers möjligheter att utveckla en positiv relation till sig själva och andra, något som spelar en avgörande betydelse för deras lärande och utveckling. Sammanfattningsvis presenteras en konceptualisering av olika former av erkännanden och kränkningar i skolans sociala samvaro och hur dessa kan komma till konkret uttryck.

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  • Tryggvason, Ásgeir
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap.
    Agonistic teaching: Four principles2023Inngår i: Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, ISSN 1550-5170, s. 1-21Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    The aim of this article is to synthesize theoretical and empirical research on agonism in education into teaching principles. Agonistic theory underscores the role of conflict, emotions, and collective identities in democratic classroom discussions. Empirical studies on agonism in education provide empirical insights into how these aspects are played out in teaching practices. By synthesizing both theoretical development and empirical findings on agonism in education, this article suggests four principles for agonistic teaching. The suggested principles aim to function as a synthetization of research valuable to the research field of democratic education and as tools for teachers who want to explore the possibilities of agonism in their teaching.

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    Agonistic teaching: Four principles
  • Svensson, Lotten
    et al.
    Högskolan Skövde.
    Stockhult, Helen
    Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet.
    Digitala lärmiljöer driver utveckling av interaktioner och lärande – ett sociokulturellt perspektiv2023Inngår i: Konferensen Forskning om högre utbildning, Stockholm 11-12 maj 2023: Översiktligt program och abstracts, 2023, s. 59-60Konferansepaper (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [sv]

    Undervisning i den högre utbildning har de senaste åren genomgått stora förändringar till följd av omställningen under pandemin och de förväntningar och erfarenheter som följt i spåren av detta. Lärare har utvecklat nya former av undervisning med digitala verktyg vilket också föranlett behov av support från nya roller kopplat till undervisning. Hrastinski (2018) poängterar att digitaliseringen kräver fortsatt pedagogisk utveckling och genomtänkta strategier. Detta innebär att lärare vid högskolor och universitet behöver delta i digitaliseringsprocessen, skapa välstrukturerade och ändamålsenliga studieanvisningar samt att använda rätt digitalt verktyg för rätt ändamål. Det krävs förändrade kunskaper, kompetenser och ett ökat lärande mellan olika roller för att undervisning ska ske med hög kvalitet. En viktig utgångspunkt är därmed att det inte bara handlar om att som lärare erhålla support utan det som tidigare i mångt och mycket var lärarprofessionens område och ansvar delas nu också med andra och nyare yrkesgrupper.

    Studien handlar om hur interaktionen mellan lärare och andra roller så som tex. IKT-medarbetare möjliggör och skapar förutsättningar för nya former av kollegialitet liksom organisering av undervisning i den högre undervisningen.

    När lärare, IKT-pedagoger och andra medarbetare i högre utbildning ställs inför nya utmaningar – såsom till exempel den ökade digitaliseringen i högre utbildning – sker det kollegiala lärandet utifrån nya premisser. Studiens teoretiska ramverk utgår från den sociokulturella synen på undervisning och lärande där lärandet är en ständigt pågående och social process vilket sker i nära samverkan med andra människor. Det betyder att det finns en kollektiv syn på bildande av kunskap där den omgivande sociala och kulturella omgivningen formar en individs sätt att tänka och agera (Elmgren & Henriksson, 2010).

    Syftet med studien är att synliggöra nya former av interaktioner mellan lärarkollegor och IKT-personal samt hur organiserandet av undervisning förändras utifrån den digitala lärmiljön. Studien undersöker på vilket sätt undervisningen och arbetet i lärarkollegiet med stödjande funktioner förändrats i övergången från campusbaserad undervisning till delvis eller helt distansbaserad undervisning under och efter pandemin.

    Analysen bygger på att lärande kan delas in i två delar, en intermental (tillsammans med andra) och en intramental (inom den enskilde) (Vygotskij, 1962, 1978). I studien analyserar vi hur olika roller kopplade till undervisning med ökade digitala inslag har supportat varandra liksom genom detta lärande skapat nya kollegiala lärmiljöer. Genom att studien lyfter fram och diskuterar aspekter av hur olika roller ser på sin egen kunskap och sin egen förmåga att bidra till andras kunskaper diskuterar vi i studien hur ett sociokulturellt synsätt på den digitala lärmiljön kan bidra till goda förutsättningar att organisera undervisning som främjar studenters lärande.

    Studien har en kvalitativ forskningsdesign där data samlats in med semistrukturerade intervjuer (15 stycken) vid två lärosäten i Sverige. Informanterna har olika roller i undervisning såsom, lärare, IKT-personal samt roller med lednings-chefsansvar.

    Preliminära slutsatser från studien pekar mot att fler roller än den traditionella lärarrollen har kommit att bli en viktig part i undervisning som sker i digital lärmiljö och ökat behov av interaktion för att utveckla lärarskapet. Interaktionen mellan lärare och övriga kollegor samt interaktion mellan lärare och studenter verkar kräva mer digital närvaro än fysisk närvaro vid traditionell undervisning. Behovet av att känna sig som en del i ett kollegium är viktig och den digitala utvecklingen skapar möjligheter till flexibilitet men också en känsla av ensamhet där kollegor inte finns i närheten som tidigare.

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  • Stockhult, Helen
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet.
    Svensson, Lotten
    Högskolan i Skövde.
    Digitala lärmiljöers möjligheter att bidra till studenters lärande i högre utbildning2023Inngår i: Konferensen Forskning om högre utbildning Stockholm 11-12 maj 2023: Översiktligt program och abstracts, 2023, s. 5-6Konferansepaper (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [sv]

    Olika former av digital undervisning har under flera år varit under utveckling i högre utbildning. Genom pandemin intensifierades denna utveckling och frågor om studenters lärande kopplat till olika former av digital undervisning är numer ständigt aktuella. I den här studien undersöks hur lärmiljö som innehåller hög grad av digitala inslag (helt och delvis), påverkar studenters lärande och motivation med utgångspunkt i teorin om Self Determination Theory (SDT) (Ryan & Deci, 2000). Studier av detta är i stark framväxt och till exempel så har den tidigare forskningen visat hur studenters upplevelse av de tre grundläggande behoven i SDT förstärkte lärandet och visade på hög grad av korrelation till lärandet, också i digital undervisning.

    En av utgångspunkterna i forskning om studenters lärande är att studenters uppfattning av lärmiljön antingen kan stödja eller hindra de grundläggande behoven av att känna sig autonom, kompetent och samhörig, vilket därmed också påverkar hur studenters lärande tar sig uttryck. (Aelterman et al., 2019). Denna studie ansluter till forskning av lärmiljöer som menar att lärmiljö är ett resultat av hur studenter uppfattar och förhåller sig till undervisning och lärande (se tex. Fraser, 1998). I studien definieras lärmiljö som; … the social, psychological and pedagogical contexts in which learning occurs and which affect student achievement and attitudes” (Fraser, 1998, p. 3). Denna tradition av lärmiljö omfattar enligt Abualrub et al. (2013) aspekter såsom tex. relationer och mellan studenter och lärare/studenter, lärstrategier/motivation, stödjande lärtekniker och undervisningsklimat liksom mer formella delar som kursplaner/anvisningar och mål. Aspekter som också har varit viktiga i genomförandet av föreliggande studie.

    Syftet med studien är att beskriva hur studenter uppfattar lärmiljön då hela, eller delar av undervisningen är digital, och utifrån SDT analysera vilken betydelse detta har för deras förhållningssätt till lärande. Ett specifikt bidrag om lärmiljöer är studiens utgångspunkt i tidigare forskning som konstaterat att osäkerheter i lärmiljön bidrar till att studenter antar ytinlärningsstrategier (Englund et al., 2022). Genom vår studie av digitala lärmiljöer kan vi fördjupa förståelsen om sådana osäkerheter liksom studenters strategier att hantera dem i digital undervisning, vilket i förlängningen också kan bidra till en diskussion om studenters lärande.

    Studien har en kvalitativ forskningsdesign och bygger på kvalitativa intervjuer med 18 studenter vid två svenska lärosäten. Genom att studera hur studenter som deltagit i online-undervisning under pandemin uppfattat sin lärmiljö - starkt präglad av digitala verktyg – och hur man motiverats av aspekter i lärmiljön, lämnas därmed ett teoretiskt bidrag till vad i digitala lärmiljöer som kan frammana olika typer av lärande och hur osäkerheter i lärmiljön bidrar till detta. En indelning av digital lärmiljö görs bland annat med en kategorisering i termer av asynkront- och synkront lärande. Studiens resultat ger även ett praktiskt bidrag till diskussionen om hur digitala lärmiljöer kan stärka respektive minska studenters uppfattningar av att känna sig autonoma, kompetenta och samhöriga. På så sätt undersöker studien på ett fördjupat sätt hur studenter uppfattar den digitala lärmiljön och hur den påverkar lärandet. Genom en sådan analys och diskussion, skapas insikter om hur undervisning i högre utbildning - som bygger på hög grad av digitala verktyg – kan planeras och genomföras för att det som tidigare litteratur benämnt djupinlärning kan främjas. Något som i förlängningen också kan ses som ett av målen i högre utbildning.

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  • Andersson, P.
    et al.
    Samrani, G.
    Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institute and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
    Andersson, M.
    Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
    Persson, J.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap. Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institute and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Hippocampal subfield volumes contribute to working memory interference control in aging: Evidence from longitudinal associations over 5 years2023Inngår i: Neuroimage: Reports, E-ISSN 2666-9560, Vol. 3, nr 4, artikkel-id 100189Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    In memory, familiar but no longer relevant information may disrupt encoding and retrieval of to-be-learned information. While it has been demonstrated that the ability to resolve proactive interference (PI) in working memory (WM) is reduced in aging, the neuroanatomical components of this decline have yet to be determined. Hippocampal (HC) involvement in age-related decline in control of PI is currently not known. In particular, the association between HC subfield volumes and control of PI in WM has not been examined previously. Here we investigate the associations between mean level and 5-year trajectories of gray matter subfield volumes and PI in WM across the adult life span (N = 157). Longitudinal analyses over 5-years across all participants revealed that reduced volume in the subiculum was related to impaired control of PI. Age-stratified analyses showed that this association was most pronounced in older adults. Furthermore, we found that in older adults the effect of age on PI was mediated by GM volume in the HC. The current results show that HC volume is associated with the ability to control PI in WM, and that these associations are modulated by age.

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  • Öhman, Johan
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap.
    Tryggvason, Ásgeir
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap.
    Manifesto for a critical pluralistic education2023Annet (Annet vitenskapelig)
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    Manifesto for a critical pluralistic education
  • Öhman, Johan
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap.
    Tryggvason, Ásgeir
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap.
    Manifest för en kritisk pluralistisk utbildning2023Annet (Annet vitenskapelig)
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    Manifest för en kritisk pluralistisk utbildning
  • Vikander, Martina
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap.
    Larsson, Anna-Karin L.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap.
    Källström, Åsa
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap.
    Managing post-separation violence: mothers’ strategies and the challenges of receiving societal protection2023Inngår i: Nordic Social Work Research, ISSN 2156-857X, E-ISSN 2156-8588, s. 1-14Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    Given the profound consequences of post-separation violence on the well-being and quality of life of many women and children, protecting victims from further violence is a paramount concern. Understanding the complex challenges faced by women at risk for such violence is crucial for improving strategies for managing this risk and ensuring the safety of these women and children. In Sweden, access to society’s protective interventions often relies on the women actively seeking them. The aim of this study was to analyse the process of protection against post-separation violence as described by women with children in Sweden. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with women who had experienced domestic violence and were assessed with low to moderate risk of revictimization. The interviews explored strategies they employed on their own and the risk management interventions they received. Through thematic analysis, we identified five themes: activating own safety strategies, seeking societal protection, utilizing societal protection, bridging gaps in societal protection, and resigning to live unprotected. Together, they form a process of protection characterized by mothers employing numerous strategies at different phases to safeguard themselves and their children, relying on their own initiative as well as the assistance offered by society. However, despite these efforts, some mothers and children remained unprotected and were obligated to resign to live with post-separation violence. This study underscores the extensive demands placed on women subjected to violence, despite the presence of relatively strong legal rights and a well-developed societal system.

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  • Le, Klara
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap.
    Äldres sexuella behov får inte ignoreras2023Annet (Annet (populærvitenskap, debatt, mm))
    Abstract [en]

    This article discusses the imperative of recognizing the sexual aspect of older audults, particularly within residental aged care. By acknowledging sexuality as an integral facet of overall health, the argument posits that staff can foster a secure and supportive environments. However, to achieve this, staff must enhance their awareness and undergo training. The article underscores the significance of promoting and supporting residents' sexual needs and health to cultivate a more holistic and well-being-oriented care environment.

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    Äldres sexuella behov får inte ignoreras
  • Arnison, Tor
    Region Örebro län.
    Sambandet mellan sömnbesvär och smärta hos ungdomar2023Inngår i: Sömn och Hälsa, ISSN 2003-234X, nr 10, s. 13-25Artikkel i tidsskrift (Annet vitenskapelig)
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  • Webster, Natasha A.
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Zhang, Qian
    Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Butler, Olivia
    Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Dissing Christensen, Mathilde
    Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom.
    Duss, Katrine
    Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
    Floros, Konstantinos
    IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
    Kusk, Kalle
    Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
    Roelofsen, Maartje
    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain.
    Thinking through digital mediations and spatialities of platform based work: A roundtable reflection2023Rapport (Annet vitenskapelig)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper is a unique roundtable discussion between geographers to explore, contextualize and problematize the role of geography in the gig economy. It brings together eight researchers from across Europe all working with qualitative methods and studying the gig economy. Based on reflections and commentaries regarding the spatialities and temporalities in and of the gig economy, we offer an innovative approach to exploring complicated factors in an emerging and rapidly growing field. We highlight the multiple layers of geography in physical and digital spaces and the, sometimes blurry, interactions between these. We also show how temporalities shape the geographies of the gig economy. This paper contributes to developing, deepening and advancing theoretical challenges in understanding the gig economy. It also brings these challenges into an accessible, yet thorough publication that can be used in teaching about the gig economy and digital geography. We provide a pedagogical tool to support university teachers in using this document in their courses.

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    Thinking through digital mediations and spatialities of platform based work: A roundtable reflection
  • Tolgfors, Björn
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper.
    Quennerstedt, Mikael
    The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH), Stockholm, Sweden; Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Elverum, Norway.
    Backman, Erik
    School of Health and Welfare, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden; Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.
    Nyberg, Gunn
    Department of Sport Science and Physical Education, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway; School of Education and Learning, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden.
    A PE teacher’s tale: journeying from teacher education to teaching practice in physical education2023Inngår i: Sport, Education and Society, ISSN 1357-3322, E-ISSN 1470-1243Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    As part of a longitudinal research project on the transition from physical education teacher education (PETE) to school physical education (PE) in Sweden and exploring whether and how PETE matters, this article uses narrative inquiry to ‘represent’ a PE teacher’s professional journey from PETE to the induction phase of PE teaching. The study focuses on his use of, and reflections on, ‘assessment for learning’ (AfL) at different stages of his teaching experience. The purpose of the study is to contribute knowledge about how positive experiences of AfL during PETE can enable the use of AfL in school PE for a newly qualified teacher. This is done by analysing one male PETE student’s reflections on AfL in the context of a campus-based course on PE assessment, his use of and reflections on AfL during his practicum, and in school PE as a newly qualified teacher. The data generation consisted of recordings of a PETE seminar, a stimulated recall interview with the participant during his final school placement, and two interviews with him in his role as a newly qualified PE teacher at two different schools. Through the PE teacher’s tale, we show how the campus-based course on PE assessment in PETE and the student teacher’s positive experience of using AfL during his practicum seem to have inspired him in his later positions. The results are discussed in relation to the perspective of occupational socialisation theory. This narrative inquiry suggests that PETE can make a difference for student teachers who are prepared to face the challenges of the induction phase of PE teaching and are able to navigate between the barriers that get in their way. We conclude the paper with some considerations regarding the study’s potential strength (trustworthiness), sharing (transferability) and service (usefulness).

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  • Larsson, Anna-Karin
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap.
    Petersson, Joakim
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap.
    Strand, Susanne
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap.
    Att bedöma och hantera risk för våld i nära relation i gles- och landsbygd: Nyttiggörande av forskningsresultat från RISKSAM-projektet i dialog med socialtjänst och polis2023Rapport (Annet vitenskapelig)
    Abstract [sv]

    Syftet med projektet har varit att förmedla forskningsresultat om riskhantering och samverkan avseende våld i nära relation, stalkning och hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck till yrkesverksamma inom polis och socialtjänst, samt att undersöka utmaningar och behov rörande frågor om riskbedömning, riskhantering och samverkan kring våld i nära relationer i gles- och landsbygdskommuner.

    Projektet knyter an till forskningsprogrammet RISKSAM som syftar till att implementera och utvärdera en hållbar och evidensbaserad arbetsmodell, RISKSAM, för arbetet med riskhantering och samverkan vad gäller våld i nära relation. RISKSAM är en förkortning för RISKhantering och SAMverkan. En huvudsaklig ambition med nyttiggörandeprojektet har varit att medverka till att sprida information om RISKSAM och i dialog med de yrkesverksamma utveckla modellen ännu mer specifikt till de utmaningar som gles- och landsbygd står inför.

    Under våren 2023 har vi således besökt praktiker inom socialtjänst och polis i gles- och landsbygd. Forskare och doktorander inom RISKSAM-programmet besökte regionerna Dalarna, Värmland, Västra Götaland, Västerbotten, Örebro och Östergötland, där ett eller flera kommunbesök genomfördes i varje region. Varje besök har bestått av presentationer om RISKSAM och preliminära resultat ur detta projekt, samt fokusgruppsintervjuer om gles- och landsbygdens specifika utmaningar och de yrkesverksammas behov och stöd.

    Våra resultat visade att det finns både utmaningar och möjligheter med arbetet med riskbedömning, riskhantering och samverkan kring ärenden med våld i nära relationer i gles- och landsbygdskommuner. I riskbedömningsarbetet fann vi att det fanns utmaningar i att identifiera våld men också att det kan finnas bristande organisatorisk kompetens att riskbedöma. Enskilda medarbetare har kompetens men omsättningen av personal och svårigheter att rekrytera, försvårar upprätthållandet av kompetens inom organisationen. Arbetet med riskbedömning kan även försvåras på grund av olika faktorer och brist på erfarenhet då dessa ärenden är sällan-ärenden.

    I rapportens andra del redovisas utmaningar och möjligheter med riskhantering. Vi belyser verksamheternas bristande förutsättningar och de få insatser som finns att erbjuda på hemmaplan, att verktygslådan att arbeta med är liten, och att det finns en svårighet att hantera möjligheten till anonymitet på mindre orter. Vi lyfter både utmaningar och möjligheter med glesbefolkade samhällen, som fördelen med närhet till varandra och en känsla av att ta hand om varandra, men också nackdelarna med att det är svårt att vara anonym, ta emot insatser och att återvända till hemorten efter våldet och en vistelse i ett skyddat boende.

    I del tre i rapporten beskriver vi de utmaningar och möjligheter som yrkesverksamma upplever i relation till samverkan – både intern och extern – i ärenden med våld i nära relation. Detta innefattade, bland annat, hur den geografiska närheten (till exempel att sitta i samma byggnad) mellan yrkesverksamma underlättar samverkan. Samtidigt är samverkansformerna sårbara utifrån att de baseras på person snarare än funktion och den externa samverkan som sker är nästan uteslutande ostrukturerad. Det finns dock en vilja till ökad samverkan och existerande plattformar för detta, dock upplever flera yrkesverksamma att det saknas rätt verktyg för att åstadkomma detta.

    Rapporten avslutas med en sammanfattande diskussion om utmaningar och möjligheter i arbetet med våld i nära relation i gles- och landsbygd. Här lämnas även konkreta förslag på hur praktiker i gles- och landsbygd kan stärkas i sitt arbete i relation till riskbedömning, riskhantering och samverkan.

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  • Granath, Annika
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper. Centre for Innovation, Research and Education, Region Vastmanland, Vastmanland Hospital Vasteras, Sweden.
    Pettersson, Susanne
    Rheumatology Unit, Inflammation and Ageing Theme, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Gunnarsson, Iva
    Rheumatology Unit, Inflammation and Ageing Theme, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Welin, Elisabet
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper.
    Dahlberg, Karuna
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper.
    How is the patient perspective captured in ANCA-associated vasculitis research? An integrative review2023Inngår i: Rheumatology: Advances in Practice, E-ISSN 2514-1775, Vol. 7, nr 3, artikkel-id rkad092Artikkel, forskningsoversikt (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    OBJECTIVE: The aim was to describe how the patient perspective is captured in clinical research on ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV).

    METHODS: This integrative review included 2149 publications found in four different databases and manual searches. After screening, 156 articles remained. All articles were sorted and categorized, and 77 original articles were analysed further.

    RESULTS: The patient perspective was captured with patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), single-item questionnaires, project-specific questionnaires and interviews. The most common aspects measured were health-related quality of life, anxiety and depression, and fatigue, and the least common were lifestyle habits, relationships and self-management.

    CONCLUSION: The patient perspective was captured predominantly with generic PROMs and occasionally with a qualitative approach. AVV is a lifelong disease, and the results from this review show that not all aspects of importance to patients are covered with the PROMs used in research. Future studies should include the areas that are the most important for patients.

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  • Zetterberg-Pettersson, Eva
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap.
    Ideology in Swedish ELT: A case study of a multilingual secondary school classroom2023Inngår i: Apples - Journal of Applied Language Studies, ISSN 1457-9863, Vol. 17, nr 3, s. 1-22, artikkel-id 125894Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    Grounded in scholarship on multilingualism, this multimodal case study aims toidentify factors related to ideologies of language and culture in an Englishlanguage classroom in a public lower secondary school in Sweden for an enhancedunderstanding of learning conditions for multilingual students. Using atriangulation of methods, participant observation, materials analysis, andinterviews, the study examines teaching practice, materiality, language use andteachers’ perspectives on multilingualism and their own teaching practices in themultilingual classroom. The study finds a predominance of factors rooted ideologiesof monolingualism and monoculturalism. Teaching practice was marked by thetraditional approach to teaching English with a focus on Britain/the U.K. as ahomogenous monocultural and monolingual nation and a Swedishness normdominated teaching practice and classroom interaction: extensive usage of theSwedish language, examples of teaching strategies related to a contrastive Swedish -English grammar approach and a study of target language culture from a nationalSwedish perspective. An application of Nancy Hornberger’s model of the continuaof biliteracy to the data identifies teaching practice in the classroom as close to the privileged ends. The analysis of interviews suggests that the traditional approach was normalized and that teachers had limited awareness of pedagogical strategiesfor the inclusion of multilingual students.

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  • Camacho Doyle, Maria
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap.
    Forecast: Crime with a chance of feeling unsafe: Examining unsafety (crime and fear of crime) within the context of the surrounding environment2023Doktoravhandling, med artikler (Annet vitenskapelig)
    Abstract [en]

    In environmental criminology, various methods exist to forecast unsafety. Some are more complex than others. To determine their practicality, we must compare the accuracy of simple, transparent, and functional methods with slightly more complex methods and those requiring more data collection.

    The overall aim of the current dissertation was to examine the relationship between crime history, environmental and neighborhood characteristics in forecasting unsafety, both crime and fear of crime, in various geographical locations. Study I compared the predictive accuracy of two methods using historical crime exposure and different crime-time-periods for violent and property crimes. Study II compared the predictive accuracy of prior crime, place attributes, ambient population, and community structural and social characteristics for various crime types. Study III examined the relationship between violent and property crime, as well as community structural and social characteristics, and different types of fear of crime.

    The findings of the current dissertation suggest that, overall, a one-size-fits-all approach is not effective. Simpler methods are generally comparable to more complex ones in long-term crime forecasting at the micro-level. However, at the neighborhood level, social integration plays a significant role in determining levels of perceived safety and fear of crime.

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    1. Exploring Violent and Property Crime Geographically: A Comparison of the Accuracy and Precision of Kernel Density Estimation and Simple Count
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Exploring Violent and Property Crime Geographically: A Comparison of the Accuracy and Precision of Kernel Density Estimation and Simple Count
    2021 (engelsk)Inngår i: Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing, E-ISSN 2703-7045, Vol. 8, nr 1, s. 1-21Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
    Abstract [en]

    There are multiple geographical crime prediction techniques to use and comparing different prediction techniques therefore becomes important. In the current study we compared the accuracy (Predictive Accuracy Index) and precision (Recapture Rate Index) of simply counting crimes: Simple Count with Kernel Density Estimation in the prediction of where people are reported to commit violent crimes (assault and robbery) and property crimes (residential burglary, property damage, theft, vehicle theft and arson), geographically. These predictions were done using a different number of years into the future and based on a different number of years combined to do the crime prediction, in a large Swedish municipality. The Simple Count technique performed quite well in comparison to simple Kernel Density Estimation no matter what crime was being predicted, making us conclude that it may not be necessary to use the more complex method of Kernel Density Estimation to predict where people are reported to commit crime geographically.

    sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
    Universitetsforlaget, 2021
    Emneord
    Hotspot Mapping, Predictive Accuracy Index, Recapture Rate Index, Simple Count, Kernel Density Estimation
    HSV kategori
    Forskningsprogram
    Kriminologi
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-94809 (URN)10.18261/issn.2703-7045-2021-01-02 (DOI)2-s2.0-85106300358 (Scopus ID)
    Tilgjengelig fra: 2021-10-06 Laget: 2021-10-06 Sist oppdatert: 2023-11-23bibliografisk kontrollert
    2. Exploring Hotspots of Violent and Property Crime in Malmö, Sweden
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Exploring Hotspots of Violent and Property Crime in Malmö, Sweden
    (engelsk)Manuskript (preprint) (Annet vitenskapelig)
    HSV kategori
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-109863 (URN)
    Tilgjengelig fra: 2023-11-23 Laget: 2023-11-23 Sist oppdatert: 2023-11-23bibliografisk kontrollert
    3. Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime: The Role of Violent and Property Crime, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Prior Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime
    Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime: The Role of Violent and Property Crime, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Prior Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime
    2022 (engelsk)Inngår i: Deviant behavior, ISSN 0163-9625, E-ISSN 1521-0456, Vol. 43, nr 11, s. 1347-1365Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
    Abstract [en]

    Perceived unsafety, fear of crime, and avoidance were studied in relation to different types of crime, crime in different time perspectives, concentrated disadvantage, collective efficacy, urbanity, age structure, and neighborhood disorder. Four data sources were used on a large Swedish city; a community survey from 2012 and 2015 among residents, census data on socio-demographics, police data on reported violent (assault and robbery in the public environment), and property crimes (arson, property damage, theft, vehicle theft, and residential burglary) and geographical information on local bus stops and annual passengers visiting these bus stops. Collective efficacy primarily, but also concentrated disadvantage, was strongly related to perceived unsafety, across 102 neighborhoods. Collective efficacy was strongly related to fear of crime. It was not viable to relate the neighborhood variables with avoidance, however. Fear of specific violent crimes was different from fear of specific property crimes and should for future reference be examined separately. Crime, visible disorder, urbanity, and age structure do not seem as important.

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    Routledge, 2022
    Emneord
    perceived unsafety, fear of crime, avoidance, violent crime, property crime, neighborhood variables
    HSV kategori
    Forskningsprogram
    Kriminologi
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-94811 (URN)10.1080/01639625.2021.1982657 (DOI)000702674400001 ()2-s2.0-85116314497 (Scopus ID)
    Tilgjengelig fra: 2021-10-06 Laget: 2021-10-06 Sist oppdatert: 2023-11-23bibliografisk kontrollert
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  • Nestor, David
    et al.
    Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden.
    Thulin Hedberg, Sara
    Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden; Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.
    Lignell, Marie
    Department of Bacteriology, Clinical Microbiological Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
    Mölling, Paula
    Region Örebro län. Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Microbiology.
    Skovbjerg, Susann
    Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden; Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.
    Sundqvist, Martin
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper. Region Örebro län. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Microbiology.
    Evaluation of the FilmArray™ Meningitis/Encephalitis panel with focus on bacteria and Cryptococcus spp2019Inngår i: Journal of Microbiological Methods, ISSN 0167-7012, E-ISSN 1872-8359, Vol. 157, s. 113-116Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    Purpose: Molecular methods provide fast and accurate detection of both bacteria and viruses in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) causing infection in the central nervous system (CNS). In the present study we evaluated the bacterial detection performance of the fully automated FilmArray™ Meningitis/Encephalitis (ME) panel (bioMérieux) by comparing it with culture and multiplexed in-house PCR.

    Methods: Three sample types were analysed; Contrived samples with known bacterial/fungal concentration (n = 29), clinical samples from patients with verified cause of CNS infection (n = 17) and external quality assessment (EQA) samples (n = 11). Another six samples were purposely prepared with multiple targets to evaluate multiplex capacity.

    Results: The FilmArray™ had a slightly higher limit of detection for Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis, Listeria monocytogenes and Streptococcus agalactiae compared to in-house PCR methods but performed equal or better when compared to culture. The FilmArray™ ME panel detected the expected pathogen in 17 of 17 clinical samples and yielded detection of three additional viruses of which one was confirmed with comparator techniques. All but one of the EQA samples were correctly detected.

    Conclusions: The results of this study are promising and the FilmArray™ ME panel could add to the diagnostic algorithm in CNS-infections. However, the limit of detection for the important pathogens N. meningitidis and S. pneumoniae could be improved.

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  • Karimzadeh, Sara
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap.
    Boström, Magnus
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap.
    Ethical consumption in three stages: a focus on sufficiency and care2024Inngår i: Environmental Sociology, ISSN 2325-1042, Vol. 10, nr 1, s. 1-11Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    Given the excessive consumption of natural resources in affluent contexts across the world, this paper argues that there is a need to discuss, critique, and advance the concept of ethical consumption, which is commonly understood as involving only relatively minor practices of consumption refinement, such as acts of boycotting and buycotting. The paper does so by linking ethical consumption to the concepts of sufficiency and care and suggesting a temporal categorization. The sufficiency lens is applied to show why and how the understanding of ethical consumption cannot be restricted to that of consumption refinement but must also address consumption reduction, due to high ecological and climate footprints in many coun-tries. A temporal categorization is helpful for further expanding on this idea. Therefore, we propose understanding ethical consumption in three stages; pre-consumption, consumption and post-consumption. Finally, we emphasize the need to nurture a culture of responsibility and a sense of caring for others, including people, materials, and nature. Such a more comprehen-sive framework could help bring attention to both the promises and contradictions within ethical consumption, and some avenues for further research are suggested in the conclusion.

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  • Lorz, Oliver
    et al.
    RWTH Aachen University, School of Business and Economics, Aachen, Germany.
    Thede, Susanna
    Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet. University of Malta, Institute for European Studies, Msida, Malta.
    Tariff overhang and aid: Theory and empirics2024Inngår i: Journal of Development Economics, ISSN 0304-3878, E-ISSN 1872-6089, Vol. 166, artikkel-id 103209Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    In this paper, we consider aid payments as a possible explanation for tariff overhangs. We set up a theoretical model in which rich countries use development aid to pay for tariff concessions by poorer countries. The more aid they receive as compensation, the more poor countries reduce the applied tariff below the bound tariff rate. Anticipating this mechanism, countries can negotiate a bound tariff rate that induces the joint optimal applied tariff and aid as outcomes. We empirically examine the relationship between tariff overhangs and donor aid preferences using detailed data on WTO members’ bound and applied tariff rates under the Uruguay agreement. The data sample contains a predominant majority of WTO members that are aid recipients under the Uruguay agreement. Our results provide support for the model’s aid-for-trade mechanism.

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  • Sjögren, Hanna
    et al.
    Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland; Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland.
    Niemistö, Charlotta
    Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland.
    Hearn, Jeff
    Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland.
    Viallon, Margaux
    University of Lille, France; Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland.
    What’s the problem with older people? A policy analysis of selected Finnish reports and documents on ageing, care and digitalisation2023 (oppl. 1)Bok (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    This project report derives from the ‘Equal Care - Alone but connected? Digital (in)equalities in care work and generational relationships among older people living alone’ (EQualCare), that is part of the Joint Programming Initiative More Years, Better Lives (JPI MYBL) funding programme. To quote from the original project proposal:

    “EQualCare aims to further understanding of, and policy development on, the intersections of digitalisation with intergenerational care work and care relationships of older people living alone, and to contribute to reducing inequalities through collaboration and co-design. EQualCare interrogates inequalities by gender, cultural and socio-economic background both between and within countries, with their very different demographics and policy backgrounds.” (Equal Care - Alone but connected? …, 2020, p. 2)

    The background to the project concerns the recognition that digitalisation has brought significant changes to perceived and enacted care relationships in terms of distance and proximity between people. Whilst the digital age adds new cultural expectations of care, collaboration and mutuality, it also has the potential to perpetuate inequalities between generations, income groups and countries. This is due at least in part to the care resources and infrastructure that are readily available. Moreover, as people live longer, seek more autonomous living, do not tolerate unsatisfactory family or household relationships, and are obliged for various reasons to live alone, either temporarily or on a more permanent basis, living alone has become a central theme to understanding later life. Living alone raises further specific challenges to care work and on- and off-line care relationships, particularly in contexts and situations where tensions with close or immediate hands-on physical caring, as well as caring responsibilities involving younger generations, arise. Thus, the relation of (self)care and digital webs of caring work towards and from family members, friends and indeed wider circles of neighbours, acquaintances and those of similar service or mutual co-operation organisations and networks is of great empirical, policy and societal interest. (Equal Care -Alone but connected? …, 2020, p. 2)

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  • Hearn, Jeff
    et al.
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap. Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland; University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK.
    Hall, Matthew
    Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology, Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Research (KIMEP University), Almaty Kazakhstan.
    Lewis, Ruth
    Northumbria University, Department of Social Sciences, Newcastle, UK.
    Men Talking, Writing, and Imaging Violence against Women: (Dis)continuities Offline and Online2021Inngår i: Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, ISSN 1946-2204, Vol. 13, nr 1, s. 23-48Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    How to represent violence— that is, talk about, write about, and image violence—without reproducing violence/violation is a challenge. Violence can be presented, re-presented, and represented in many ways, and through diverse narratives. In this article we analyze the narratives of those using violence, either when subsequently talking about the violence or in doing violation itself. Thus, we write on violence and violation, and we explore how men’s violence and violation are talked of, written, and imaged by men, even while they may well not be aware that they are enacting violence/violation. We attend to some of the continuities and discontinuities in men’s narratives between those talking about their use of immediate, direct physical violence/violation, especially against women, and those doing various forms of digital violence/violation through writing violence/violation. In the latter case, two examples are fore grounded: first, what is popularly known as “revenge pornography,” that is, nonconsensual sharing and distribution of sexual images and texts; and second, “upskirting,” that is, nonconsensual taking of photographs and videos of (usually) women’s bodies and clothing. We draw on or analyze these practices through understandings of men, masculinities, and variable masculinist narratives. The final part of the article compares the three examples and considers their implications, the overlaps and blurrings between offline physical violence and digital violence/violation, and future challenges.

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    Men Talking, Writing, and Imaging Violence against Women: (Dis)continuities Offline and Online
  • Hall, Matthew
    et al.
    Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, British University in Egypt, El Shorouk City, Egypt.
    Hearn, Jeff
    Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap. Department of Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland; School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK.
    Lewis, Ruth
    Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
    Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Online Gender-Sexual Violations2023Inngår i: Encyclopedia, E-ISSN 2673-8392, Vol. 3, nr 1, s. 327-339Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    Image-based sexual abuse describes the offline or online non-consensual sharing of real or fake images or videos with (un)known others of a person that are either sexually explicit or sexually suggestive. New information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide many open-ended and undefined possibilities for image-based sexual abuse (IBSA), such as ‘revenge pornography’, ‘upskirting’, deepfake pornography, sexual spycamming, and cyberflashing, to name just a few. These forms of abuse refer to the online, and also at times offline, non-consensual distribution or sharing of explicit images or videos of someone else by ex-partners, partners, others, or hackers seeking revenge, entertainment, or peer group status. The vast majority of these are committed by men against women. Given the many adverse impacts on physical and psychological health and well-being it has on its victim-survivors, exploring this form of online gender-sexual abuse and violation becomes an important endeavor. Situating the discussion within debates on gender and sexuality, the entry discusses the increasing use of new technologies for online gender-sexual abuse and violation, highlighting the motivations of those perpetrating IBSA, the negative physical and psychological impacts of IBSA on victim-survivors, and what has been, and could be, done to combat image-based sexual abuses and other misuses of new technologies, notably through legal, policy, and practice interventions within and between nations.

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    Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Online Gender-Sexual Violations