Tine Tjørnhøj‐thomsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 166880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tine Tjørnhøj‐thomsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tine |
| FAMILY NAME | Tjørnhøj‐thomsen |
| SIGNATURE | THOMSEN T T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3621-6682 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Measuring child perspectives: Ethical and methodological considerations on the development and validation of a self-report questionnaire for children aged 5–10
This paper details the development, face, and content validation of a self-report questionnaire for children aged 5–10, which measures mental health, school thriving, class cohesion, and social inclusion. Originally designed for a school-based mental health intervention, the methodological and ethical challenges encountered, and insights gathered can offer valuable lessons for survey researchers working with young children in related fields. We d…
The maze of bureaucracy: Immigrant women in Denmark waiting to escape violence from their ex-partner
In Denmark, the welfare state has committed itself to offer all women exposed to intimate partner violence a temporary stay at a shelter to provide a safe platform for a future without violence. As this article displays, however, leaving the shelter and moving on in life is far from straightforward, particularly for immigrant women. Based on fieldwork in a Danish shelter, we demonstrate that the immigrant women’s challenges are associated with th…
It’s Akin to Standing Alone on the Platform”: A Qualitative Analysis of Family Caregivers’ Perceived Benefits of Conversations with Professional Dementia Caregivers
Family caregivers often face challenges in navigating care decisions and maintaining involvement after their relatives transition to long-term care facilities. This study explores family caregivers' perspectives on the benefits of engaging in conversations with professional caregivers in long-term dementia care. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 family caregivers in Denmark. Using thematic and template analysis, five core themes w…
Negotiating healthy food retail initiatives in the research project Healthier Choices in Supermarkets: An ethnographic study of a partnership between health intervention researchers, food retailers, a…
Using the lens of institutional logics, we show how differing interests and perspectives between partners - for example regarding health and consumer behaviour - can make it difficult to realize the original research ideas and build a trusting relationship. Overall, this study illustrates the complexity of research partnerships with commercial actors such as food retailers. To develop and implement effective health-promotion initiatives in a food…
Ethical reflexivity: A critical examination of ethics in public health intervention research
Intervention research, which encompasses the development, implementation, and evaluation of complex interventions, represents a significant area of study within public health. Nevertheless, ethical considerations are limited in prominent guidelines. This article aims to highlight and discuss the importance of ethical reflexivity in the context of public health interventions. The article examines and addresses ethical issues, challenges, and dilem…
The moral labour of food purchase decision-making – an ethnographic study among families in Denmark
Understanding families' food purchase decision-making is essential to developing successful interventions to promote healthier behaviours. Several factors can influence the foods people purchase. However, knowledge about how parents handle dilemmas in food purchase decisions and how these decisions affect families' food purchases is scarce. This study explores families' food purchase decisions in supermarkets and illustrates how parents navigate …
Exploring children and Adolescents experiences of a residential camp and the ambiguity of Reentering the everyday
Challenging temporal structures in job centre pathways towards labour market participation
This article investigates how tensions between temporal structures influence the perceptions of Danish job centre pathways among long-term unemployed citizens and frontline professionals, as well as the challenges they face in aligning with the temporal imperatives of the job centre's institutional time. This study draws on qualitative individual interviews with 28 long-term unemployed citizens, two focus group interviews with frontline professio…
“There’s so much wrong with me. I’ve just gotten a little sick”: Syndemic cancer experiences among people struggling with homelessness and severe substance use
This article investigates the complex ways that social conditions and illness experiences interact with cancer in a marginalised population. Drawing on the theoretical framework of syndemics, we explore how people living in circumstances of homelessness and severe substance use in Denmark experience and manage their cancer illness. We draw upon qualitative, partly longitudinal, interviews with marginalised people with current or previous cancer i…
“It's a part of what I am, but not all of who I am”: A qualitative study of identity formation in adolescents and emerging adults with type 1 diabetes
Young people alternate between perceiving diabetes as an integrated part of their internal identity, and as separated from their external identity. • Young people contain their condition within their internal identity as a means of maintaining a sense of control over the impression they make on others. • The formation of their identity is closely intertwined with concepts of normality and deviance, with the latter leading to negative self-percept…
Young adults’ perceptions of information on social distancing measures and everyday life during the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark and Sweden: An interview study
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Denmark and Sweden's governments and health authorities implemented social distancing measures as the main strategy to limit the spread of the coronavirus. In Denmark, these were mostly mandatory, whereas in Sweden they were primarily voluntarily based. The aim of this study was to explore how young adults in Denmark and Sweden retrieved and perceived information during the COVID-19 pandemic and what th…
It's like you're almost being exposed to a flasher’ – Young people's experiences with gendered vulnerability and digital sexual harassment in Denmark
This paper explores the gendered dynamics and impacts of online and offline sexual harassment based on fieldwork among young people in Denmark. The paper argues that harm related to sexual harassment relies on the embodied duality of agency and vulnerability as the foundation for humans' sense of dignity. This argument is developed first by exploring how unwanted ‘dick pics’ confront girls with a gendered vulnerability that impacts girls' sense o…
Making it Work: Everyday Life and Healthcare with Multiple Chronic Illnesses in Denmark
A growing concern in clinical literature with the "treatment burden" of living with multimorbidity raises questions about how we can study and produce knowledge on the impact of health care. In this article, we draw on ethnographic material from fieldwork among people with multimorbidity in Denmark and recent theorization on "values" in health care, to show how an ongoing "trying out" and ways of "just getting on with it" are enacted in illness t…
Tinkering with symptoms, causes and solutions: Tracing the enactments of multiple chronic illnesses in specialised outpatient check-ups
People living with multiple chronic illnesses and an increasing need for acute care is a global health challenge, which questions the conventional ways of managing illness. A central issue is how medical practices can become more patient-centred and aligned with the everyday life of patients. Communicative strategies for eliciting the patient's goals and preferences are often proposed. In this article, we draw on ethnographic data from fieldwork …
Acceptability of restrictions in the Covid-19 pandemic: A population-based survey in Denmark and Sweden
Introduction: Denmark and Sweden initially adopted different responses to the COVID-19 pandemic although the two countries share many characteristics. Denmark responded swiftly with many mandatory restrictions. In contrast, Sweden relied on voluntary restrictions and a more "relaxed" response during the first wave of the pandemic. However, increased rates of COVID-19 cases led to a new approach that involved many more mandatory restrictions, thus…
Development of an intervention for the social reintegration of adolescents and young adults affected by cancer
Based on the perspectives of practitioners and AYAs affected by cancer, this study outlines an intervention designed as a care pathway in which a multidisciplinary team provides individual and tailored support to AYAs with cancer from the time of diagnosis during and beyond active cancer treatment
The Infant Health Study - Promoting mental health and healthy weight through sensitive parenting to infants with cognitive, emotional, and regulatory vulnerabilities: Protocol for a stepped-wedge clus…
www.ClinicalTrials.gov ; ID NCT04601779 ; Protocol ID 95-110-21307. Registered 25 June 2021
The role of cultural health capital in health care encounters – an ethnographic study of living with multiple chronic illnesses in Denmark
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Discharge readiness as an infrastructure: Negotiating the transfer of care for elderly patients in medical wards
The discharge from hospital is an essential care transition for elderly people with chronic illness, specifically because the responsibility for treatment and care is transferred between locations and healthcare staff. To optimise the use of healthcare resources in a time of progressively shorter hospital admissions and increasingly streamlined hospital care, discharges are highlighted as important moments to be handled with caution. Yet, dischar…
Is this something I should be worried about: A study of nurses' recontextualisation work when making clinical decisions based on patient reported outcome data
Peer mentors’ role in school-based health promotion: Qualitative findings from the Young & Active study
Peer-led interventions are highlighted as promising strategies to promote health among adolescents, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying this approach. To better understand the role of peer mentors (PMs) as implementers in school-based health promotion, we combined participant observations, focus group interviews and video recordings to explore high school students’ reception of a peer-led intervention component (Young & Active). Y…
Social Distancing Policies in the Coronavirus Battle: A Comparison of Denmark and Sweden
Social distancing measures have been a key component in government strategies to mitigate COVID-19 globally. Based on official documents, this study aimed to identify, compare and analyse public social distancing policy measures adopted in Denmark and Sweden regarding the coronavirus from 1 March 2020 until 1 October 2020. A key difference was the greater emphasis on laws and executive orders (sticks) in Denmark, which allowed the country to adop…
Places to Smoke: Exploring Smoking-Related Practices among Danish Adolescents
Several established school smoking prevention initiatives involve restrictions on places to smoke. The focus on tobacco control in schools is due to the risk of smoking initiation during adolescence and the perception of this life stage as a period of time when health behavior is established. Hence, this period of time is considered to be ideal for health-promoting initiatives. This paper is part of an ethnographic study on adolescents' perceptio…
Female partner experiences of prostate cancer patients’ engagement with a community-based football intervention: A qualitative study
This study indicates that partners of prostate cancer survivors' engaging with community-based football align to idealized gender relations, roles and identities. In many instances, these gendered dimensions aided positive dyadic coping and long-term exercise adherence
Dementia-friendliness – A matter of knowledge, responsibility, dignity, and illusion
Cancer Rehabilitation in Denmark: The Growth of a New Narrative
A fundamental assumption behind cancer rehabilitation in many Western societies is that cancer survivors can return to normal life by learning to deal with the consequences of their illness and their treatment. This assumption is supported by increasing political attention to cancer rehabilitation and a growth in residential cancer-rehabilitation initiatives in Denmark ( Danish Cancer Society 1999 ; Government of Denmark 2003 ). On the basis of t…
Encounters in Cancer Treatment: Intersubjective Configurations of a Need for Rehabilitation
Based on extensive ethnographic material from in-depth interviews with Danish cancer patients after treatment, this study analyzes their stories to explore how interactions with the physician configures and situates a need for rehabilitation. We identify three themes in the illness stories: (1) attentiveness and care; (2) fragmentation and objectification; and (3) mistrust and dehumanization. These are all closely tied to the concept of recogniti…
Discharge readiness as an infrastructure: Negotiating the transfer of care for elderly patients in medical wards
The discharge from hospital is an essential care transition for elderly people with chronic illness, specifically because the responsibility for treatment and care is transferred between locations and healthcare staff. To optimise the use of healthcare resources in a time of progressively shorter hospital admissions and increasingly streamlined hospital care, discharges are highlighted as important moments to be handled with caution. Yet, dischar…
Like a soccer camp for boys’: A qualitative exploration of gendered activity patterns in children’s self-organized play during school recess
Boys are more physically active than girls and the greatest gender difference in children’s physical activity is found in institutional settings such as school recess. However, research on gender relations, performances and practices that maintain gendered differences in physical activity during recess is still limited. Drawing on a qualitative dataset and a social constructivist gender view, the aim of this study was to investigate how construct…
You can Feel that on the Person” – Danish Young People’s Notions and Experiences of Sexual (Non)Consenting
This paper seeks to gain insight into the experiential dimensions of sexual consent as the basis for distinguishing sex from a sexual violation. Based on focus group and individual interviews with young people in Denmark we seek to explore how sexual experiences are co-constituted by discourses and experiences. We do this by exploring how young people interpret, what we conceptualize as consenting vis-à-vis non-consenting to sex and analysing how…
Managing type 1 diabetes in the context of work life: A matter of containment
Giving children a voice: Exploring qualitative perspectives on factors influencing recess physical activity
Facilitators and barriers to recess physical activity are not well understood. To date, research on recess physical activity has predominantly focused on quantitative measures typically focusing on a narrow set of predefined factors, often constructed by adults. To really understand the factors affecting recess physical activity it is crucial to observe and listen to children to know how they engage in and perceive recess physical activity. The a…
The Ritualization of Rehabilitation
There is widespread and increasing political interest in devising plans to support people who have or have had cancer to recover and recommence 'normal' lives. Educating cancer patients for this purpose is a central element in cancer rehabilitation in both Europe and the United States. One of the challenges in intervention research pertaining to rehabilitation is how to measure and explain the effects of a particular rehabilitation program. The s…
Tinkering with symptoms, causes and solutions: Tracing the enactments of multiple chronic illnesses in specialised outpatient check-ups
People living with multiple chronic illnesses and an increasing need for acute care is a global health challenge, which questions the conventional ways of managing illness. A central issue is how medical practices can become more patient-centred and aligned with the everyday life of patients. Communicative strategies for eliciting the patient's goals and preferences are often proposed. In this article, we draw on ethnographic data from fieldwork …
Dementia-friendliness – A matter of knowledge, responsibility, dignity, and illusion
Lonely, but Not Alone: Qualitative Study among Immigrant and Native-Born Adolescents
This paper explores loneliness as it is understood and experienced by adolescents, with a special focus on the importance of their migration status. We recruited students from five schools following a maximum variation sampling scheme, and we conducted 15 semi-structured, individual interviews with eighth-grade adolescents (aged 14-15 years) that were immigrants, descendants, and with a Danish majority background. A thematic analysis was applied …
Temporality and timework: Danish endometrial cancer patients' experiences of an accelerated cancer patient pathway
Early diagnosis and rapid treatment are deemed essential in relation to cancer. In 2007, Denmark implemented accelerated cancer patient pathways with predetermined time frames to reduce waiting time. In this article, based on fieldwork with observations at two hospitals and ethnographic interviews, we examine temporal experiences of the cancer patient pathway for endometrial cancer of the uterus at stage I. Results show that while the cancer pati…
Exploring children and Adolescents experiences of a residential camp and the ambiguity of Reentering the everyday
It's like you're almost being exposed to a flasher’ – Young people's experiences with gendered vulnerability and digital sexual harassment in Denmark
This paper explores the gendered dynamics and impacts of online and offline sexual harassment based on fieldwork among young people in Denmark. The paper argues that harm related to sexual harassment relies on the embodied duality of agency and vulnerability as the foundation for humans' sense of dignity. This argument is developed first by exploring how unwanted ‘dick pics’ confront girls with a gendered vulnerability that impacts girls' sense o…
Making it Work: Everyday Life and Healthcare with Multiple Chronic Illnesses in Denmark
A growing concern in clinical literature with the "treatment burden" of living with multimorbidity raises questions about how we can study and produce knowledge on the impact of health care. In this article, we draw on ethnographic material from fieldwork among people with multimorbidity in Denmark and recent theorization on "values" in health care, to show how an ongoing "trying out" and ways of "just getting on with it" are enacted in illness t…
Is this something I should be worried about: A study of nurses' recontextualisation work when making clinical decisions based on patient reported outcome data
Bodywork and bodily capital among youth using fitness gyms
In this article, we explore what had become a predominant focus on the body and on shaping and refining the body through frequent, intensive workout and strict, controlled diets among a group of young people engaged in strength training in fitness gyms in Denmark. Theoretically and analytically, we draw inspiration from French sociologist Loïc Wacquant’s ethnographic study of professional boxers in Chicago around 1990. First, we use the concept o…
Illness, everyday life and narrative montage: The visual aesthetics of cancer in Sara Bro's Diary
This article presents a study of Sara Bro's Diary (2004), a book montage of images and texts recording the experiences of a Danish breast cancer survivor, Sara Bro. It examines two montages of photography and text, drawing on Roland Barthes' concept of 'the third meaning' to explain and discuss the effect of the layered meanings in the montage alongside their multi-medium and self-referential expression. The discussion is centred on the aesthetic…
Fra barnløshed til forældreskab
At blive forældre ved hjælp af medicinsk teknologi og ekspertise er en belastende proces, der gør tilblivelsen anderledes og sætter spor i den efterfølgende graviditet
Det føles ikke-mandigt på en måde
The article addresses the theme of "masculinities" from the perspective of infertile men and their partners. It argues that experiences of infertility should be understood as disruption in relation to the body and in relation to the narrative of life that is informed by cultural notions of kinship and gender. These notions are closely connected to a culturally specific story of coming-into-being, which gives symbolic priority to biological procre…
Fra barnløshed til forældreskab
At blive forældre ved hjælp af medicinsk teknologi og ekspertise er en belastende proces, der gør tilblivelsen anderledes og sætter spor i den efterfølgende graviditet
Slægtskab Med Dyr
This article discusses the different forms of connections and relatedness between human beings and animals under the heading: Kinship with animals. It is based on an ethnographic study of involuntary childlessness and procreative technologies in Denmark and takes as its starting point the multiple ways childless people make analogies to the animal kingdom when they reflect on and recount their infertility and childlessness. As an example infertil…
Cancer Rehabilitation in Denmark: The Growth of a New Narrative
A fundamental assumption behind cancer rehabilitation in many Western societies is that cancer survivors can return to normal life by learning to deal with the consequences of their illness and their treatment. This assumption is supported by increasing political attention to cancer rehabilitation and a growth in residential cancer-rehabilitation initiatives in Denmark ( Danish Cancer Society 1999 ; Government of Denmark 2003 ). On the basis of t…
Hjem Uden Børn
This article explores how childless men and women in Denmark connect their longings for children and their purchase of a house with notions of home and kinship. It investigates thereby how their stories about hopes and longings for children stage and confi gure relationships between materiality and sociality. I draw primarily upon an ethnographic study of interfi le men and women in Denmark in the late nineties and their encounter with procreativ…
Illness, everyday life and narrative montage: The visual aesthetics of cancer in Sara Bro's Diary
This article presents a study of Sara Bro's Diary (2004), a book montage of images and texts recording the experiences of a Danish breast cancer survivor, Sara Bro. It examines two montages of photography and text, drawing on Roland Barthes' concept of 'the third meaning' to explain and discuss the effect of the layered meanings in the montage alongside their multi-medium and self-referential expression. The discussion is centred on the aesthetic…
The spirit of the intervention: Reflections on social effectiveness in public health intervention research
This paper suggests that public health intervention research would benefit from more thorough considerations of the social dynamics in which public health interventions are embedded. Rather than simply asking ‘What works?’, researchers should examine the social effectiveness of intervention programmes; i.e. (i) the creation of shared understandings among researchers and practitioners and (ii) the ways in which programmes reconfigure social relati…
The Ritualization of Rehabilitation
There is widespread and increasing political interest in devising plans to support people who have or have had cancer to recover and recommence 'normal' lives. Educating cancer patients for this purpose is a central element in cancer rehabilitation in both Europe and the United States. One of the challenges in intervention research pertaining to rehabilitation is how to measure and explain the effects of a particular rehabilitation program. The s…
Implementing a free school-based fruit and vegetable programme: Barriers and facilitators experienced by pupils, teachers and produce suppliers in the Boost study
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN11666034
Barriers for recess physical activity: A gender specific qualitative focus group exploration
Based on the results from this study, we recommend promoting recess physical activity through a combination of actions, addressing barriers within the natural, social, physical and organizational environment
Recognition as care: A longitudinal study of Arabic immigrants’ experiences of diabetes training in Denmark
This longitudinal study provides critical insight into the social processes of municipal diabetes training for Arabic-speaking immigrants in Denmark focusing on participants’ experiences. Our study builds on observations of three diabetes courses and 36 interviews with participants at the start of, immediately following or 30–36 months after the courses. Lifestyle change and responsibility were dominant messages in the courses; over time and depe…
Like a soccer camp for boys’: A qualitative exploration of gendered activity patterns in children’s self-organized play during school recess
Boys are more physically active than girls and the greatest gender difference in children’s physical activity is found in institutional settings such as school recess. However, research on gender relations, performances and practices that maintain gendered differences in physical activity during recess is still limited. Drawing on a qualitative dataset and a social constructivist gender view, the aim of this study was to investigate how construct…
Encounters in Cancer Treatment: Intersubjective Configurations of a Need for Rehabilitation
Based on extensive ethnographic material from in-depth interviews with Danish cancer patients after treatment, this study analyzes their stories to explore how interactions with the physician configures and situates a need for rehabilitation. We identify three themes in the illness stories: (1) attentiveness and care; (2) fragmentation and objectification; and (3) mistrust and dehumanization. These are all closely tied to the concept of recogniti…
Space, body, time and relationship experiences of recess physical activity: A qualitative case study among the least physical active schoolchildren
We found that the four existential lifeworlds provided an in-depth understanding of the least physically active children's "lived experiences" of recess physical activity. Our findings imply that specific intervention strategies might be needed to increase the least physically active children's physical activity level. For example, rethinking the classroom as a space for physical activity, designing schoolyards with smaller secluded spaces and va…
How can we strengthen students’ social relations in order to reduce school dropout? An intervention development study within four Danish vocational schools
The development of new intervention programs might benefit from adopting a theoretical and methodological perspective that enables a closer exploration of the everyday social practices in which interventions are embedded. Thus, we aimed to create a comprehensive intervention that worked through organizational changes in everyday school practices. Intervention programs must be planned in dialogue and collaboration with practitioners in the field t…
A welfare recipient may be drinking, but as long as he does as told – he may drink himself to death”: A qualitative analysis of project implementation barriers among Danish job consultants
ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01416103
I Sort of Live for My Kids’ Sake Only”: Characteristics and Meaning of Parent–Child Relations Among Socially Marginalized Parents
The authors explored the characteristics and meaning of social relations between marginalized parents and their children, from the perspective of the parents, and the significance of these relations for parents’ mental well-being and life perspective. Based on in-depth interviews with 20 users of shelters and drop-in centers in Denmark, the authors show that a sociocultural notion of “appropriate” parenting shape parents’ practices. Irrespective …
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Intersectoriality in Danish municipalities: Corrupting the social determinants of health?
Action on the social determinants of health (SDH) through intersectoral policymaking is often suggested to promote health and health equity. This paper argues that the process of intersectoral policymaking influences how the SDH are construed and acted upon in municipal policymaking. We discuss how the intersectoral policy process legitimates certain practices in the setting of Danish municipal health promotion and the potential impact this can h…
Bodywork and bodily capital among youth using fitness gyms
In this article, we explore what had become a predominant focus on the body and on shaping and refining the body through frequent, intensive workout and strict, controlled diets among a group of young people engaged in strength training in fitness gyms in Denmark. Theoretically and analytically, we draw inspiration from French sociologist Loïc Wacquant’s ethnographic study of professional boxers in Chicago around 1990. First, we use the concept o…
Giving children a voice: Exploring qualitative perspectives on factors influencing recess physical activity
Facilitators and barriers to recess physical activity are not well understood. To date, research on recess physical activity has predominantly focused on quantitative measures typically focusing on a narrow set of predefined factors, often constructed by adults. To really understand the factors affecting recess physical activity it is crucial to observe and listen to children to know how they engage in and perceive recess physical activity. The a…
Ambiguous expectations for intersectoral action for health: A document analysis of the Danish case
Ideas about intersectoral action and policy-making for health (ISA) are prominent among public health professionals. They are often presented as effective ways to address root causes of poor health and health inequality, and as such the best way to promote population health. The implementation of such ideas has proven difficult though. In this paper we argue that neo-institutional theory can help us conceptualize implementation challenges by poin…
Mellemrum tre - køn, etnografi og antropologi
Managing type 1 diabetes in the context of work life: A matter of containment
‘It can’t do any harm’: A qualitative exploration of accounts of participation in preventive health checks
Assessing and managing risk are central to participation in preventive health checks, as the purpose is to identify adverse health behaviours and risk factors. Drawing on the cultural theory of risk, we explore why people without formal education participate in preventive health checks and discuss how this is related to their understandings of risk and health. With this aim, we conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with people without …
Psychology (38 works) · Medicine (36 works) · Sociology (34 works) · Nursing (24 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Public health (16 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Qualitative research (13 works) · Danish (11 works)