Sonja Wehberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1741260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonja Wehberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonja |
| FAMILY NAME | Wehberg |
| SIGNATURE | WEHBERG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1503-2649 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Three-phase development of the health capital questionnaire: A mixed methods operationalization study
Background Health capital is emerging as a widely used conceptual framework offering an integrative sociocultural, economic, and behavioral resource-based perspective on individual health practices related to disease management and illness prevention. However, the full realization of its potential as an explanatory and predictive framework is currently somewhat constrained by the lack of an instrument that renders health capital observable. Objec…
Impact of quality clusters on antibiotic prescribing patterns. A difference-in-differences study from Danish general practice
In 2018, quality clusters were introduced in Danish general practice. • In clusters, general practitioners engage in quality improvement topics. • Engaging in antibiotics increased the proportion of narrow spectrum antibiotics. • Engaging in antibiotics did not impact the total number of antibiotics prescribed. • Choice and number of quality improvement strategies seemingly did not matter. Globally, a more rational use of antibiotics is needed to…
Coping in the Danish general population: Psychometric properties of the Danish version of the Brief Approach/Avoidance Coping Questionnaire
Objective To enable measurement of coping in the general Danish population the aims of this study are to 1) describe the translation and cultural adaption of the Danish Brief Approach/Avoidance Coping Questionnaire (BACQ) and 2) investigate the psychometric properties of the Danish BACQ.Design The BACQ was translated and adapted into Danish, and the psychometric properties tested in two samples of adult Danish citizens: Sample A = 167, used for e…
The role of providers’ intrinsic motivation for quality of care and responses to a non-financial incentive
Providers' intrinsic motivation is deemed important for quality of care and responses to incentives. Building on self-determination theory, we test the hypotheses that more intrinsically motivated providers perform better and respond less to an external incentive. We exploit the introduction of a cluster randomised accreditation scheme in Danish general practice, where practices were randomised to accreditation in different years (2016-2018) at m…
Spiritual needs following cancer diagnosis: A national cross-sectional survey of randomly selected adults and cancer patients linked to nationwide registers
Spiritual needs were elevated in recently diagnosed cancer individuals, although most pronounced within the first half year following diagnosis. This knowledge could be valuable in guiding holistic care plans tailored to the spiritual well-being of cancer patients. Future research in this area should focus on the link between reported need and wanted care and test potentially effective spiritual care interventions
Salutogenic health measures: Psychometric properties of the Danish versions of the Flourish Index and the Secure Flourish Index
Measurement of human flourishing represents a salutogenic approach to epidemiological and behavioral research emphasizing factors contributing to “good lives” rather than pathology. The objective of this study was to translate and psychometrically test the 10‐item Flourish Index (FI) and 12‐item Secure Flourish Index (SFI) in a convenience sample of Danish adults. A total of 325 participants completed a cross‐sectional survey, with 148 of those p…
Individual differences in empathy in Danish university students: A cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Empathy is widely recognized as a multi-dimensional construct, involving emotional and cognitive components. These may cause distinct experiences and behaviors that can be both beneficial and deleterious to individuals' well-being and mental health. AIM: We wished to examine the association between emotional and cognitive empathy of Danish university students as measured by the multidimensional Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) and…
Do Common Risk Adjustment Methods Do Their Job Well If Center Effects Are Correlated With the Center-Specific Mean Values of Patient Characteristics
BACKGROUND: Direct and indirect standardization are well-established approaches to performing risk adjustment when comparing outcomes between healthcare providers. However, it is an open question whether they work well when there is an association between the center effects and the distributions of the patient characteristics in these centers. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: We try to shed further light on the impact of such an association. We construct …
The Association Between Individualised Religiosity and Health Behaviour in Denmark: Are Social Networks a Mediating Factor
The present study investigates whether social networks mediate the well-established positive association between religiosity and health behaviour. Most research has focused on traditional public religiosity (e.g. regular church attendance). This study, however, focuses on the Danish population in which non-traditional and private religiosity is common. We utilise data from the Danish population-based project, Early Detection and Prevention . Our …
Measuring Spiritual Needs in a Secular Society: Validation and Clinimetric Properties of the Danish 20-Item Spiritual Needs Questionnaire
In secular cultures, such as Denmark, tools to measure spiritual needs are warranted to guide existential and spiritual care. We examined the clinimetric properties of the Danish version of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (DA-SpNQ-20) based on a digital survey in a test-retest setup. A convenience sample was reached via social media and student platforms. A total of 325 (148 for retest) respondents were included in the analysis. The sample was …
The Norwegian Communicative Development Inventories: Reliability, main developmental trends and gender differences
This article presents results from a large population-based study of early communicative development in Norwegian children using an adaptation of the MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories, comprising 6574 children between 8 and 36 months. Data were collected via the Internet. In accordance with similar studies from other languages, it was found that vocabulary comprehension preceded vocabulary production, and that both use of gest…
The use of the Internet in collecting CDI data – an example from Norway
This article presents the methodology used in a population-based study of early communicative development in Norwegian children using an adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates communicative development inventories (CDI), comprising approximately 6500 children aged between 0 ; 8 and 3 ; 0. To our knowledge, this is the first CDI study collecting data via the Internet. After a short description of the procedures used in adapting the CDI to Norwegian and…
Differences between girls and boys in emerging language skills: Evidence from 10 language communities
The present study explored gender differences in emerging language skills in 13,783 European children from 10 non‐English language communities. It was based on a synthesis of published data assessed with adapted versions of the MacArthur‐Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) from age 0.08 to 2.06. The results showed that girls are slightly ahead of boys in early communicative gestures, in productive vocabulary, and in combining words…
The Danish Communicative Developmental Inventories: Validity and main developmental trends
This paper presents a large-scale cross-sectional study of Danish children's early language acquisition based on the Danish adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI). Measures of validity and reliability imply that the Danish adaptation of the American CDI has been adjusted linguistically and culturally in appropriate ways which makes it suitable for tapping into Danish children's language acquisition. The stud…
Early vocabulary development in Danish and other languages: A CDI-based comparison
The main objective of this paper is to describe the trajectory of Danish children's early lexical development relative to other languages, by comparing a Danish study based on the Danish adaptation of The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) to 17 comparable CDI-studies. The second objective is to address the feasibility of cross-linguistic CDI-comparisons. The main finding is that the developmental trend of Danish children…
Girls talk about dolls and boys about cars? Analyses of group and individual variation in Danish children's first words
Based on data from the Danish Longitudinal CDI study on 182 Danish children, we analyse aspects of variation in the children's first 100 words (produced). First, we demonstrate the effect of gender and birth order (number of siblings) on acquisition times of first words by identifying single words which are significantly earlier in the productive repertoire of, for instance, girls versus boys. We also investigate the effect of the same factors on…
Danish children's first words: Analysing longitudinal data based on monthly CDI parental reports
Using the Danish adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI), first language acquisition of 183 Danish children has been studied longitudinally on a monthly basis (8—30 months). Focussing on production, we study early lexical development from the very first word until roughly 100 words are produced, dividing this period into the stages of first-1, -10, -25, -50 and -100 words. We analyse Danish children's first w…
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Danish children's first words: Analysing longitudinal data based on monthly CDI parental reports
Using the Danish adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI), first language acquisition of 183 Danish children has been studied longitudinally on a monthly basis (8—30 months). Focussing on production, we study early lexical development from the very first word until roughly 100 words are produced, dividing this period into the stages of first-1, -10, -25, -50 and -100 words. We analyse Danish children's first w…
The Danish Communicative Developmental Inventories: Validity and main developmental trends
This paper presents a large-scale cross-sectional study of Danish children's early language acquisition based on the Danish adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI). Measures of validity and reliability imply that the Danish adaptation of the American CDI has been adjusted linguistically and culturally in appropriate ways which makes it suitable for tapping into Danish children's language acquisition. The stud…
Early vocabulary development in Danish and other languages: A CDI-based comparison
The main objective of this paper is to describe the trajectory of Danish children's early lexical development relative to other languages, by comparing a Danish study based on the Danish adaptation of The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) to 17 comparable CDI-studies. The second objective is to address the feasibility of cross-linguistic CDI-comparisons. The main finding is that the developmental trend of Danish children…
Girls talk about dolls and boys about cars? Analyses of group and individual variation in Danish children's first words
Based on data from the Danish Longitudinal CDI study on 182 Danish children, we analyse aspects of variation in the children's first 100 words (produced). First, we demonstrate the effect of gender and birth order (number of siblings) on acquisition times of first words by identifying single words which are significantly earlier in the productive repertoire of, for instance, girls versus boys. We also investigate the effect of the same factors on…
Differences between girls and boys in emerging language skills: Evidence from 10 language communities
The present study explored gender differences in emerging language skills in 13,783 European children from 10 non‐English language communities. It was based on a synthesis of published data assessed with adapted versions of the MacArthur‐Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) from age 0.08 to 2.06. The results showed that girls are slightly ahead of boys in early communicative gestures, in productive vocabulary, and in combining words…
The use of the Internet in collecting CDI data – an example from Norway
This article presents the methodology used in a population-based study of early communicative development in Norwegian children using an adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates communicative development inventories (CDI), comprising approximately 6500 children aged between 0 ; 8 and 3 ; 0. To our knowledge, this is the first CDI study collecting data via the Internet. After a short description of the procedures used in adapting the CDI to Norwegian and…
The Norwegian Communicative Development Inventories: Reliability, main developmental trends and gender differences
This article presents results from a large population-based study of early communicative development in Norwegian children using an adaptation of the MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories, comprising 6574 children between 8 and 36 months. Data were collected via the Internet. In accordance with similar studies from other languages, it was found that vocabulary comprehension preceded vocabulary production, and that both use of gest…
The Association Between Individualised Religiosity and Health Behaviour in Denmark: Are Social Networks a Mediating Factor
The present study investigates whether social networks mediate the well-established positive association between religiosity and health behaviour. Most research has focused on traditional public religiosity (e.g. regular church attendance). This study, however, focuses on the Danish population in which non-traditional and private religiosity is common. We utilise data from the Danish population-based project, Early Detection and Prevention . Our …
Measuring Spiritual Needs in a Secular Society: Validation and Clinimetric Properties of the Danish 20-Item Spiritual Needs Questionnaire
In secular cultures, such as Denmark, tools to measure spiritual needs are warranted to guide existential and spiritual care. We examined the clinimetric properties of the Danish version of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (DA-SpNQ-20) based on a digital survey in a test-retest setup. A convenience sample was reached via social media and student platforms. A total of 325 (148 for retest) respondents were included in the analysis. The sample was …
Salutogenic health measures: Psychometric properties of the Danish versions of the Flourish Index and the Secure Flourish Index
Measurement of human flourishing represents a salutogenic approach to epidemiological and behavioral research emphasizing factors contributing to “good lives” rather than pathology. The objective of this study was to translate and psychometrically test the 10‐item Flourish Index (FI) and 12‐item Secure Flourish Index (SFI) in a convenience sample of Danish adults. A total of 325 participants completed a cross‐sectional survey, with 148 of those p…
Individual differences in empathy in Danish university students: A cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Empathy is widely recognized as a multi-dimensional construct, involving emotional and cognitive components. These may cause distinct experiences and behaviors that can be both beneficial and deleterious to individuals' well-being and mental health. AIM: We wished to examine the association between emotional and cognitive empathy of Danish university students as measured by the multidimensional Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) and…
Do Common Risk Adjustment Methods Do Their Job Well If Center Effects Are Correlated With the Center-Specific Mean Values of Patient Characteristics
BACKGROUND: Direct and indirect standardization are well-established approaches to performing risk adjustment when comparing outcomes between healthcare providers. However, it is an open question whether they work well when there is an association between the center effects and the distributions of the patient characteristics in these centers. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: We try to shed further light on the impact of such an association. We construct …
Coping in the Danish general population: Psychometric properties of the Danish version of the Brief Approach/Avoidance Coping Questionnaire
Objective To enable measurement of coping in the general Danish population the aims of this study are to 1) describe the translation and cultural adaption of the Danish Brief Approach/Avoidance Coping Questionnaire (BACQ) and 2) investigate the psychometric properties of the Danish BACQ.Design The BACQ was translated and adapted into Danish, and the psychometric properties tested in two samples of adult Danish citizens: Sample A = 167, used for e…
The role of providers’ intrinsic motivation for quality of care and responses to a non-financial incentive
Providers' intrinsic motivation is deemed important for quality of care and responses to incentives. Building on self-determination theory, we test the hypotheses that more intrinsically motivated providers perform better and respond less to an external incentive. We exploit the introduction of a cluster randomised accreditation scheme in Danish general practice, where practices were randomised to accreditation in different years (2016-2018) at m…
Spiritual needs following cancer diagnosis: A national cross-sectional survey of randomly selected adults and cancer patients linked to nationwide registers
Spiritual needs were elevated in recently diagnosed cancer individuals, although most pronounced within the first half year following diagnosis. This knowledge could be valuable in guiding holistic care plans tailored to the spiritual well-being of cancer patients. Future research in this area should focus on the link between reported need and wanted care and test potentially effective spiritual care interventions
Three-phase development of the health capital questionnaire: A mixed methods operationalization study
Background Health capital is emerging as a widely used conceptual framework offering an integrative sociocultural, economic, and behavioral resource-based perspective on individual health practices related to disease management and illness prevention. However, the full realization of its potential as an explanatory and predictive framework is currently somewhat constrained by the lack of an instrument that renders health capital observable. Objec…
Impact of quality clusters on antibiotic prescribing patterns. A difference-in-differences study from Danish general practice
In 2018, quality clusters were introduced in Danish general practice. • In clusters, general practitioners engage in quality improvement topics. • Engaging in antibiotics increased the proportion of narrow spectrum antibiotics. • Engaging in antibiotics did not impact the total number of antibiotics prescribed. • Choice and number of quality improvement strategies seemingly did not matter. Globally, a more rational use of antibiotics is needed to…
Psychology (14 works) · Danish (10 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Language Development and Disorders (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (3 works) · Population (3 works)