Solvig Ekblad
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 114967 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Solvig Ekblad |
| NOMBRES | Solvig |
| APELLIDO | Ekblad |
| FIRMA | EKBLAD S |
| AFILIACIONES | Karolinska Institutet |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8073-5415 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Increasing perceived health and mental health literacy among separated refugee Ukrainian families with urgent needs occasioned by invasion—a group intervention study with participatory methodology in …
Background With the increasing numbers of refugees from Ukraine affected by the ongoing war, there is a high risk of trauma-related stress due to low local health and mental health literacy care. Perceived good health is a human right. Earlier studies show that intervention for refugees can reduce and prevent post-migration stress and anxiety. The present explorative study aimed to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of a short, trauma-…
To Increase Mental Health Literacy and Human Rights Among New-Coming, Low-Educated Mothers With Experience of War
Due to the increasing numbers of newcomers with impacts of war, civil war and persecution, at high risk of trauma-related mental health problems, there is a need for increase the poor mental health literacy (MHL) and human rights among the new-comers, especially low-educated mothers with children. This article aimed to present a case study report of several years' experience of tailor-made group health promotion intervention. It describes as an e…
Making life work for both themselves and their parents alone- how children aged 11–16 view themselves in relation to their chronically ill parents in a primary health care setting
This study explores the main concern and life strategies of children whose parents are chronically ill in a Primary Health Care (PHC) center in Stockholm, Sweden. Data was collected through semi-structured individual interviews, and qualitative inductive constant comparative analysis resulted in a conceptual model. The two main strategies the children used were to understand the situation and to adopt a parental role. Children saw themselves as m…
Lifestyle Course as an Investment in Perceived Improved Health among Newly Arrived Women from Countries outside Europe
Family reunification was the most common reason (34%) for resettlement in Sweden in 2013. About one-fifth of the population is foreign-born. This study used mixed methods to evaluate a culturally tailored clinical health-promotion intervention. The intervention was conducted by licensed clinicians and a local coordinator. Sessions were five-weeks long, two hours a week. The quantitative data cover results from 54 participants, mainly Arabic and S…
Improving Early Detection of Refugee-Related Stress Symptoms
Twenty-three of 26 participants, mainly women from six local agencies involved in the reception of refugees, completed a university course titled “Refugee-related stress and mental health—local cooperation”, which was spread over seven days in 2011. The course was based on evidence and clinical experience and was commissioned to serve as competency training by Stockholm County Council and Södertälje Municipality. It received funding from the Swed…
Hospitalisation for depressive disorder following unemployment—differentials by gender and immigrant status
BACKGROUND: The association between unemployment and poor mental health in general is explained by both causation and selection. The aim was to study whether experiencing unemployment was a risk factor for hospitalisation for depressive disorder specifically, and whether gender and immigrant status modified the hypothesised risk. METHODS: A register-based prospective cohort study, 2000-2006, of persons aged 18-64 with a strong connection to the S…
Current research in transcultural psychiatry in the Nordic countries
This article discusses major themes in recent transcultural psychiatric research in the Nordic countries from 2008 to 2011: (a) epidemiological studies of migration, (b) indigenous populations, and (c) quality of psychiatric care for migrants. Over the past several decades, the populations of the Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, which were relatively homogeneous, have become increasingly culturally diverse. Many migrants to…
Unaiza Niaz, Wars, Insurgencies, and Terrorist Attacks
Gender-related mental health differences between refugees and non-refugee immigrants - a cross-sectional register-based study
Female refugees from low-income countries seem to be a risk group among immigrant women from low-income countries, whereas male refugees had the same risk patterns as non-refugee immigrants from low-income countries. This underlines the need for training of clinicians in order to focus on pre-migration stress and the asylum process, among female newcomers
How Iranian lay people in three ethnic groups conceptualize a case of a depressed woman
These data may have implications for mental healthcare practice, especially for the approach to diagnosis of depression. Moreover, there is a need for developing and integrating gender-relevant and cultural indicators in the existing national mental health systems in Iran
Making meaningful space for oneself
The current study explores the use of children's photographs to establish a dialogue about everyday life with healthy siblings of refugee children with severe withdrawal symptoms (SWS). Asylum-seeking refugee children in Sweden with SWS have been officially observed since 2000, yet research has overlooked their healthy siblings. We studied three healthy siblings and found photography to be an applicable communicative tool. When parents focus thei…
Mental health of recently resettled refugees from the Middle East in Sweden
Introducing a Psychological Agenda for Understanding Somatic Symptoms—An Area of Conflict for Clinicians in Relation to Patients in a Multicultural Community
Protecting Professional Composure in Transcultural Pediatric Nursing
In this qualitative study, we used grounded theory to explore the category of "overwhelming emotional expressions" that emerged in a previous study. Using theoretical sampling, 12 individual interviews were conducted with nurses in Swedish pediatric care. Overwhelming emotional expressions have been found to override nurses' professional preparedness; they continuously resolve this by protecting professional composure. Various strategies are used…
Lay Concepts of Depression among the Baganda of Uganda
The literature indicates that although depression is highly prevalent, it is rarely recognized as such. The aim was to test the use of case vignettes in exploring the explanatory models of various subtypes of depression, in six individual interviews, and four focus-group discussions. Depressive symptoms presented in these vignettes seem to be conceptualized as a problem related to cognition (thinking too much) rather than emotion (sadness) and th…
Mental health, employment and gender. Cross-sectional evidence in a sample of refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina living in two Swedish regions
Historical Reflections on Mental Health Care in Sweden
This article discusses historical reflections on the response of Swedish mental health care to cultural diversity and immigration and our views regarding future directions for clinical care, research and training. Sweden has become increasingly multicultural through immigration. Mental health care in Sweden faces the challenges of encountering cultural diversity and the mental health consequences of forced immigration, acculturation, and refugee …
The Use of International Videoconferencing as a Strategy for Teaching Medical Students about Transcultural Psychiatry
Videoconferencing is an innovative method that potentially allows medical students exposure to international teachers in refugee mental health who would otherwise be inaccessible. This article reports a pilot study using videoconferencing with international teachers from Australia, Sweden and the USA participating in the training of ten senior Swedish medical students. Interviews with an actual and a simulated patient were conducted at the U.S. a…
Qualitative Research, Culture and Ethics
This article examines ethical issues for qualitative cross-cultural mental health research. Qualitative research methods may give access to intimate aspects of participants’ lives. Data collection can be intrusive and invasive regarding sensitive experiences. The research methods may generate unique and subtle ethical problems. A case illustrating an ethical conflict is presented along with the argument for applying guidelines for biomedical rese…
Qualitative Research, Culture and Ethics
Focus Group Interview Research in Transcultural Psychiatry
We discuss the use of focus group interviews as a research method in transcultural psychiatry. Focus groups are a new method in health research that can provide a contextual basis for making culturally sensitive interpretations. We illustrate advantages as well as disadvantages of this method with examples from our own research with immigrants and refugees in Sweden
Turkish Migrant Women Encountering Health Care in Stockholm
Migration Stress-Related Challenges Associated with Perceived Quality of Life
The question of how quality of life is expressed and perceived by refugee patients seeking health care has been neglected in the literature. This pilot study examined perceptions of quality of life among Iranian refugees in Sweden. Fourteen Iranian refugees and eight Swedish primary health care patients were interviewed using a qualitative method focusing on perceived quality of life. Among patients seeking health care, Iranians with war-related …
Stressful environments and their effects on quality ot life in Third World cities
Stressful environments and their effects on quality ot life in Third World cities outlines the linkages between environment related stress and ill-health and the many stressors that cause or contribute to ill-health. The author identifies buffering factors that help people cope with stress and considers how to enhance these buffers and in so-doing integrate a concern for people's quality of life within more conventional goals of city planning, en…
Conference and Symposium Reports
Journal Article CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIUM REPORTS: The International Conference on the Mental Health and Wellbeing of the World's Refugees and Displaced Persons, Stockholm, Sweden, 6–11 October, 1991 Get access ASSEN JABLENSKY, ASSEN JABLENSKY Neurosciences & Behavioral Sciences Program, National Academy of MedicineSophia, Bulgaria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ANTHONY J. MARSELLA, ANTHONY J. MARSELLA Dep…
Turkish Migrant Women Encountering Health Care in Stockholm
Lay Concepts of Depression among the Baganda of Uganda
The literature indicates that although depression is highly prevalent, it is rarely recognized as such. The aim was to test the use of case vignettes in exploring the explanatory models of various subtypes of depression, in six individual interviews, and four focus-group discussions. Depressive symptoms presented in these vignettes seem to be conceptualized as a problem related to cognition (thinking too much) rather than emotion (sadness) and th…
Mental health, employment and gender. Cross-sectional evidence in a sample of refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina living in two Swedish regions
How Iranian lay people in three ethnic groups conceptualize a case of a depressed woman
These data may have implications for mental healthcare practice, especially for the approach to diagnosis of depression. Moreover, there is a need for developing and integrating gender-relevant and cultural indicators in the existing national mental health systems in Iran
Focus Group Interview Research in Transcultural Psychiatry
We discuss the use of focus group interviews as a research method in transcultural psychiatry. Focus groups are a new method in health research that can provide a contextual basis for making culturally sensitive interpretations. We illustrate advantages as well as disadvantages of this method with examples from our own research with immigrants and refugees in Sweden
Historical Reflections on Mental Health Care in Sweden
This article discusses historical reflections on the response of Swedish mental health care to cultural diversity and immigration and our views regarding future directions for clinical care, research and training. Sweden has become increasingly multicultural through immigration. Mental health care in Sweden faces the challenges of encountering cultural diversity and the mental health consequences of forced immigration, acculturation, and refugee …
Hospitalisation for depressive disorder following unemployment—differentials by gender and immigrant status
BACKGROUND: The association between unemployment and poor mental health in general is explained by both causation and selection. The aim was to study whether experiencing unemployment was a risk factor for hospitalisation for depressive disorder specifically, and whether gender and immigrant status modified the hypothesised risk. METHODS: A register-based prospective cohort study, 2000-2006, of persons aged 18-64 with a strong connection to the S…
Migration Stress-Related Challenges Associated with Perceived Quality of Life
The question of how quality of life is expressed and perceived by refugee patients seeking health care has been neglected in the literature. This pilot study examined perceptions of quality of life among Iranian refugees in Sweden. Fourteen Iranian refugees and eight Swedish primary health care patients were interviewed using a qualitative method focusing on perceived quality of life. Among patients seeking health care, Iranians with war-related …
Current research in transcultural psychiatry in the Nordic countries
This article discusses major themes in recent transcultural psychiatric research in the Nordic countries from 2008 to 2011: (a) epidemiological studies of migration, (b) indigenous populations, and (c) quality of psychiatric care for migrants. Over the past several decades, the populations of the Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, which were relatively homogeneous, have become increasingly culturally diverse. Many migrants to…
Making meaningful space for oneself
The current study explores the use of children's photographs to establish a dialogue about everyday life with healthy siblings of refugee children with severe withdrawal symptoms (SWS). Asylum-seeking refugee children in Sweden with SWS have been officially observed since 2000, yet research has overlooked their healthy siblings. We studied three healthy siblings and found photography to be an applicable communicative tool. When parents focus thei…
The Use of International Videoconferencing as a Strategy for Teaching Medical Students about Transcultural Psychiatry
Videoconferencing is an innovative method that potentially allows medical students exposure to international teachers in refugee mental health who would otherwise be inaccessible. This article reports a pilot study using videoconferencing with international teachers from Australia, Sweden and the USA participating in the training of ten senior Swedish medical students. Interviews with an actual and a simulated patient were conducted at the U.S. a…
Applicability of olweu' aggression inventory in a sample of chinese primary school children
A sample of Chinese children in Grade 4 (155 boys and 135 girls with an average age of 10.3 years) completed Olweu' Aggression Inventory, an instrument developed for the assessment of aggressive and aggression controlling behavior tendencies in a Western culture. Results indicated that the questionnaire gave quite meaningful information when used with the Chinese children. Two interpretable factors, general aggression and aggression control, were…
Housing and Health in Beijing
The authors are at present engaged in a Swedish-Chinese interdisciplinary and crossectional project on housing and health in Beijing. This article is concerned with a literature review on the topic and general observations during two recent visits to China. After some basic assumptions concerning high-rise dwellings, private space and life style, this paper contains explicit comparisons of the design, use and experience of traditional courtyard h…
Conference and Symposium Reports
Journal Article CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIUM REPORTS: The International Conference on the Mental Health and Wellbeing of the World's Refugees and Displaced Persons, Stockholm, Sweden, 6–11 October, 1991 Get access ASSEN JABLENSKY, ASSEN JABLENSKY Neurosciences & Behavioral Sciences Program, National Academy of MedicineSophia, Bulgaria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ANTHONY J. MARSELLA, ANTHONY J. MARSELLA Dep…
Stressful environments and their effects on quality ot life in Third World cities
Stressful environments and their effects on quality ot life in Third World cities outlines the linkages between environment related stress and ill-health and the many stressors that cause or contribute to ill-health. The author identifies buffering factors that help people cope with stress and considers how to enhance these buffers and in so-doing integrate a concern for people's quality of life within more conventional goals of city planning, en…
Migration Stress-Related Challenges Associated with Perceived Quality of Life
The question of how quality of life is expressed and perceived by refugee patients seeking health care has been neglected in the literature. This pilot study examined perceptions of quality of life among Iranian refugees in Sweden. Fourteen Iranian refugees and eight Swedish primary health care patients were interviewed using a qualitative method focusing on perceived quality of life. Among patients seeking health care, Iranians with war-related …
Turkish Migrant Women Encountering Health Care in Stockholm
Qualitative Research, Culture and Ethics
This article examines ethical issues for qualitative cross-cultural mental health research. Qualitative research methods may give access to intimate aspects of participants’ lives. Data collection can be intrusive and invasive regarding sensitive experiences. The research methods may generate unique and subtle ethical problems. A case illustrating an ethical conflict is presented along with the argument for applying guidelines for biomedical rese…
Qualitative Research, Culture and Ethics
Focus Group Interview Research in Transcultural Psychiatry
We discuss the use of focus group interviews as a research method in transcultural psychiatry. Focus groups are a new method in health research that can provide a contextual basis for making culturally sensitive interpretations. We illustrate advantages as well as disadvantages of this method with examples from our own research with immigrants and refugees in Sweden
The Use of International Videoconferencing as a Strategy for Teaching Medical Students about Transcultural Psychiatry
Videoconferencing is an innovative method that potentially allows medical students exposure to international teachers in refugee mental health who would otherwise be inaccessible. This article reports a pilot study using videoconferencing with international teachers from Australia, Sweden and the USA participating in the training of ten senior Swedish medical students. Interviews with an actual and a simulated patient were conducted at the U.S. a…
Mental health, employment and gender. Cross-sectional evidence in a sample of refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina living in two Swedish regions
Historical Reflections on Mental Health Care in Sweden
This article discusses historical reflections on the response of Swedish mental health care to cultural diversity and immigration and our views regarding future directions for clinical care, research and training. Sweden has become increasingly multicultural through immigration. Mental health care in Sweden faces the challenges of encountering cultural diversity and the mental health consequences of forced immigration, acculturation, and refugee …
Lay Concepts of Depression among the Baganda of Uganda
The literature indicates that although depression is highly prevalent, it is rarely recognized as such. The aim was to test the use of case vignettes in exploring the explanatory models of various subtypes of depression, in six individual interviews, and four focus-group discussions. Depressive symptoms presented in these vignettes seem to be conceptualized as a problem related to cognition (thinking too much) rather than emotion (sadness) and th…
Mental health of recently resettled refugees from the Middle East in Sweden
Introducing a Psychological Agenda for Understanding Somatic Symptoms—An Area of Conflict for Clinicians in Relation to Patients in a Multicultural Community
Protecting Professional Composure in Transcultural Pediatric Nursing
In this qualitative study, we used grounded theory to explore the category of "overwhelming emotional expressions" that emerged in a previous study. Using theoretical sampling, 12 individual interviews were conducted with nurses in Swedish pediatric care. Overwhelming emotional expressions have been found to override nurses' professional preparedness; they continuously resolve this by protecting professional composure. Various strategies are used…
Making meaningful space for oneself
The current study explores the use of children's photographs to establish a dialogue about everyday life with healthy siblings of refugee children with severe withdrawal symptoms (SWS). Asylum-seeking refugee children in Sweden with SWS have been officially observed since 2000, yet research has overlooked their healthy siblings. We studied three healthy siblings and found photography to be an applicable communicative tool. When parents focus thei…
How Iranian lay people in three ethnic groups conceptualize a case of a depressed woman
These data may have implications for mental healthcare practice, especially for the approach to diagnosis of depression. Moreover, there is a need for developing and integrating gender-relevant and cultural indicators in the existing national mental health systems in Iran
Gender-related mental health differences between refugees and non-refugee immigrants - a cross-sectional register-based study
Female refugees from low-income countries seem to be a risk group among immigrant women from low-income countries, whereas male refugees had the same risk patterns as non-refugee immigrants from low-income countries. This underlines the need for training of clinicians in order to focus on pre-migration stress and the asylum process, among female newcomers
Unaiza Niaz, Wars, Insurgencies, and Terrorist Attacks
Improving Early Detection of Refugee-Related Stress Symptoms
Twenty-three of 26 participants, mainly women from six local agencies involved in the reception of refugees, completed a university course titled “Refugee-related stress and mental health—local cooperation”, which was spread over seven days in 2011. The course was based on evidence and clinical experience and was commissioned to serve as competency training by Stockholm County Council and Södertälje Municipality. It received funding from the Swed…
Hospitalisation for depressive disorder following unemployment—differentials by gender and immigrant status
BACKGROUND: The association between unemployment and poor mental health in general is explained by both causation and selection. The aim was to study whether experiencing unemployment was a risk factor for hospitalisation for depressive disorder specifically, and whether gender and immigrant status modified the hypothesised risk. METHODS: A register-based prospective cohort study, 2000-2006, of persons aged 18-64 with a strong connection to the S…
Current research in transcultural psychiatry in the Nordic countries
This article discusses major themes in recent transcultural psychiatric research in the Nordic countries from 2008 to 2011: (a) epidemiological studies of migration, (b) indigenous populations, and (c) quality of psychiatric care for migrants. Over the past several decades, the populations of the Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, which were relatively homogeneous, have become increasingly culturally diverse. Many migrants to…
Lifestyle Course as an Investment in Perceived Improved Health among Newly Arrived Women from Countries outside Europe
Family reunification was the most common reason (34%) for resettlement in Sweden in 2013. About one-fifth of the population is foreign-born. This study used mixed methods to evaluate a culturally tailored clinical health-promotion intervention. The intervention was conducted by licensed clinicians and a local coordinator. Sessions were five-weeks long, two hours a week. The quantitative data cover results from 54 participants, mainly Arabic and S…
Making life work for both themselves and their parents alone- how children aged 11–16 view themselves in relation to their chronically ill parents in a primary health care setting
This study explores the main concern and life strategies of children whose parents are chronically ill in a Primary Health Care (PHC) center in Stockholm, Sweden. Data was collected through semi-structured individual interviews, and qualitative inductive constant comparative analysis resulted in a conceptual model. The two main strategies the children used were to understand the situation and to adopt a parental role. Children saw themselves as m…
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