Anna Paldam Folker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5899207 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anna Paldam Folker |
| NOMBRES | Anna Paldam |
| APELLIDO | Folker |
| FIRMA | FOLKER A P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3952-6918 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Validation of the Body Appreciation Scale - 2, and its short form in Danish youth (aged 15–25) with subgroup score comparison
Research interest in positive body image has increased in recent years, marking a shift away from a traditional focus on negative body image. We aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the Body Appreciation Scale 2 (BAS-2) and its short form (BAS-2SF) in a Danish sample aged 15-25 years and explore their level of measurement invariance across age and gender groups. In this cross-sectional study, respondents completed an online survey that…
Effectiveness of a peer-to-peer, self-management intervention for young people with depression and anxiety in Denmark
Objective: This study investigated the effectiveness of a 7-weeks peer-to-peer program for young people aged 15 to 25 years with depression or anxiety symptoms in Denmark. Methods: A total of 483 participants (72% women) participated in the program and the evaluation. The participants completed questionnaires at baseline, postintervention, and at 5-month follow-up to assess changes in depression symptoms (using Beck's Depression Inventory-II), an…
Understanding mental health promotion in organized leisure communities for young people
Introduction A large proportion of young people reports poor mental health, which is a major public health concern. Positive mental health is important for young people's development, quality of life, functioning in everyday life, and long-term possibilities. Thus, there is a great need to develop and implement mental health-promoting initiatives and activities in young people's lives. Participating in organized leisure communities has a positive…
Compassionate deception
This article uses the concept of compassionate deception to understand the complexity and duality at stake when health professionals and family members lie when caring for people with dementia. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at two Danish nursing homes, we argue that compassionate deception conceptually illustrates the fine balance we observed of using lies and deception, while simultaneously acting with recognition and care towards residents.…
‘You come as a human being…’
Research shows that the arts hold a particular potential for promoting health, well-being and social inclusion for vulnerable people. However, the use and consumption of the arts tend to be socially skewed in favour of people with high cultural, social and economic capital. While extensive research has been conducted on how to create equal access to arts activities for vulnerable groups, little research has investigated how to ensure meaningful e…
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health
A prevailing view holds that the main goal of mental health promotion is to maintain and improve positive mental health, which is not merely defined by the absence of mental disorders, but by the presence of certain abilities. There are, however, challenges associated with this view that this paper aims to identify and explore. We start by highlighting three requirements for an ethically and politically justified mental health promotion scheme: (…
“We're opening 20 doors!“
Retirement is a significant life transition, bringing with it structural and social alterations in everyday life. For older men, work life is an important source of identity and meaning, and retirement may therefore lead to diminished well-being due to loss of occupational attachments. This calls for a need to address men's life transitions in health-promoting interventions and to explore how to introduce positive changes in retired men's mental …
Why caregivers have no autonomy‐based reason to respect advance directives in dementia care
Advance directives (ADs) have for some time been championed by ethicists and patient associations alike as a tool that people newly diagnosed with dementia, or prior to onset, may use to ensure that their future care and treatment are organized in accordance with their interests. The idea is that autonomous people, not yet neurologically affected by dementia, can design directives for their future care that caregivers are morally obligated to res…
It's not that I don't have things to do. It just all revolves around me” – men's reflections on meaning in life in the transition to retirement in Denmark
Implementing a peer-to-peer, self-management intervention for young people with depression and anxiety in Denmark
Coping with Anxiety and Depression constitutes a feasible peer-to-peer, group-based community programme that is well-received by its target group. Recruitment and retention of participants and instructors is challenging but doable
Modern tragedies in self-help literature, blogs and online universes
Focusing on the configuration of the relationship between fate and freedom of action, this article analyses recent self-help literature and online communities, particularly the genre that centres on the concept of resilience. The selected works and websites all address readers who suffer from depression, anxiety and stress. The article focuses on how the relationship between fate and freedom is represented in three literary figures: the reader, w…
Birth weight and quality of life in midlife
The Well-Being Index WHO-5
Research and policymaking on positive mental health and well-being have increased within the last decade, partly fueled by decreasing levels of well-being in the general population and among at-risk groups. However, measurement of well-being often takes place in the absence of reflection on the underlying theoretical conceptualisation of well-being. This disguises the fact that different rating scales of well-being often measure very different ph…
Exploring Perceptions of Continuity of Care Among People With Long-Term Mental Disorders in Denmark
Continuity of mental health care is central to improve the treatment and rehabilitation of people with mental disorders. While most studies on continuity of care fail to take the perspectives of service users into account, the aim of this study was to explore the perceived meanings of continuity of care among people with long-term mental disorders. Fifteen service users participated in semi-structured in-depth interviews. We used template analysi…
The association between life satisfaction, vitality, self-rated health, and risk of cancer
Workplace sexual harassment and depressive symptoms
The association between sexual harassment and depressive symptoms differed for employees harassed by clients or customers and those harassed by colleagues, supervisors or subordinates. The results underline the importance of investigating sexual harassment from clients or customers and sexual harassment by colleagues, supervisors or subordinates as distinct types of harassment. We found no modification of the association between sexual harassment…
We Have to Go Where the Money Is’—Dilemmas in the Role of Nutrition Scientists
The factualization of uncertainty
The Well-Being Index WHO-5
Research and policymaking on positive mental health and well-being have increased within the last decade, partly fueled by decreasing levels of well-being in the general population and among at-risk groups. However, measurement of well-being often takes place in the absence of reflection on the underlying theoretical conceptualisation of well-being. This disguises the fact that different rating scales of well-being often measure very different ph…
The factualization of uncertainty
We Have to Go Where the Money Is’—Dilemmas in the Role of Nutrition Scientists
It's not that I don't have things to do. It just all revolves around me” – men's reflections on meaning in life in the transition to retirement in Denmark
Exploring Perceptions of Continuity of Care Among People With Long-Term Mental Disorders in Denmark
Continuity of mental health care is central to improve the treatment and rehabilitation of people with mental disorders. While most studies on continuity of care fail to take the perspectives of service users into account, the aim of this study was to explore the perceived meanings of continuity of care among people with long-term mental disorders. Fifteen service users participated in semi-structured in-depth interviews. We used template analysi…
The factualization of uncertainty
We Have to Go Where the Money Is’—Dilemmas in the Role of Nutrition Scientists
Workplace sexual harassment and depressive symptoms
The association between sexual harassment and depressive symptoms differed for employees harassed by clients or customers and those harassed by colleagues, supervisors or subordinates. The results underline the importance of investigating sexual harassment from clients or customers and sexual harassment by colleagues, supervisors or subordinates as distinct types of harassment. We found no modification of the association between sexual harassment…
The association between life satisfaction, vitality, self-rated health, and risk of cancer
Birth weight and quality of life in midlife
The Well-Being Index WHO-5
Research and policymaking on positive mental health and well-being have increased within the last decade, partly fueled by decreasing levels of well-being in the general population and among at-risk groups. However, measurement of well-being often takes place in the absence of reflection on the underlying theoretical conceptualisation of well-being. This disguises the fact that different rating scales of well-being often measure very different ph…
Exploring Perceptions of Continuity of Care Among People With Long-Term Mental Disorders in Denmark
Continuity of mental health care is central to improve the treatment and rehabilitation of people with mental disorders. While most studies on continuity of care fail to take the perspectives of service users into account, the aim of this study was to explore the perceived meanings of continuity of care among people with long-term mental disorders. Fifteen service users participated in semi-structured in-depth interviews. We used template analysi…
Modern tragedies in self-help literature, blogs and online universes
Focusing on the configuration of the relationship between fate and freedom of action, this article analyses recent self-help literature and online communities, particularly the genre that centres on the concept of resilience. The selected works and websites all address readers who suffer from depression, anxiety and stress. The article focuses on how the relationship between fate and freedom is represented in three literary figures: the reader, w…
Implementing a peer-to-peer, self-management intervention for young people with depression and anxiety in Denmark
Coping with Anxiety and Depression constitutes a feasible peer-to-peer, group-based community programme that is well-received by its target group. Recruitment and retention of participants and instructors is challenging but doable
“We're opening 20 doors!“
Retirement is a significant life transition, bringing with it structural and social alterations in everyday life. For older men, work life is an important source of identity and meaning, and retirement may therefore lead to diminished well-being due to loss of occupational attachments. This calls for a need to address men's life transitions in health-promoting interventions and to explore how to introduce positive changes in retired men's mental …
Why caregivers have no autonomy‐based reason to respect advance directives in dementia care
Advance directives (ADs) have for some time been championed by ethicists and patient associations alike as a tool that people newly diagnosed with dementia, or prior to onset, may use to ensure that their future care and treatment are organized in accordance with their interests. The idea is that autonomous people, not yet neurologically affected by dementia, can design directives for their future care that caregivers are morally obligated to res…
It's not that I don't have things to do. It just all revolves around me” – men's reflections on meaning in life in the transition to retirement in Denmark
Effectiveness of a peer-to-peer, self-management intervention for young people with depression and anxiety in Denmark
Objective: This study investigated the effectiveness of a 7-weeks peer-to-peer program for young people aged 15 to 25 years with depression or anxiety symptoms in Denmark. Methods: A total of 483 participants (72% women) participated in the program and the evaluation. The participants completed questionnaires at baseline, postintervention, and at 5-month follow-up to assess changes in depression symptoms (using Beck's Depression Inventory-II), an…
Understanding mental health promotion in organized leisure communities for young people
Introduction A large proportion of young people reports poor mental health, which is a major public health concern. Positive mental health is important for young people's development, quality of life, functioning in everyday life, and long-term possibilities. Thus, there is a great need to develop and implement mental health-promoting initiatives and activities in young people's lives. Participating in organized leisure communities has a positive…
Compassionate deception
This article uses the concept of compassionate deception to understand the complexity and duality at stake when health professionals and family members lie when caring for people with dementia. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at two Danish nursing homes, we argue that compassionate deception conceptually illustrates the fine balance we observed of using lies and deception, while simultaneously acting with recognition and care towards residents.…
‘You come as a human being…’
Research shows that the arts hold a particular potential for promoting health, well-being and social inclusion for vulnerable people. However, the use and consumption of the arts tend to be socially skewed in favour of people with high cultural, social and economic capital. While extensive research has been conducted on how to create equal access to arts activities for vulnerable groups, little research has investigated how to ensure meaningful e…
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health
A prevailing view holds that the main goal of mental health promotion is to maintain and improve positive mental health, which is not merely defined by the absence of mental disorders, but by the presence of certain abilities. There are, however, challenges associated with this view that this paper aims to identify and explore. We start by highlighting three requirements for an ethically and politically justified mental health promotion scheme: (…
Validation of the Body Appreciation Scale - 2, and its short form in Danish youth (aged 15–25) with subgroup score comparison
Research interest in positive body image has increased in recent years, marking a shift away from a traditional focus on negative body image. We aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the Body Appreciation Scale 2 (BAS-2) and its short form (BAS-2SF) in a Danish sample aged 15-25 years and explore their level of measurement invariance across age and gender groups. In this cross-sectional study, respondents completed an online survey that…
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