Dan Grabowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 328263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Grabowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Grabowski |
| SIGNATURE | GRABOWSKI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Steno Diabetes Centers |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4323-2974 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Children's Ambivalent Experiences of Leisure Screen Use: Acceleration, Alienation and Resonance in the Digital Age
Children today spend a significant part of their leisure time on digital activities. Research highlights the risks and benefits of screen use in relation to children's health and well‐being. In recent years, the topic has gained increasing attention in both research and public debate, with opinions divided between advocating for restrictions or bans on screen use and cautioning that overly restrictive approaches may do more harm than good. To nua…
It feels more natural for me to take a step back: Cross-cultural analysis of paternal care in paediatric diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is one of the most common chronic conditions among children globally. While advances in treatment have improved outcomes, paediatric diabetes remains an intensive condition that demands ongoing care and vigilance from parents. Despite growing attention to family-centred care, fathers' caregiving roles remain underexplored-particularly how they are shaped by cultural, institutional, and gendered expectations. This article addresses…
Intensified parenthood: A qualitative study exploring parents' gendered positions in the care of child‐onset diabetes
“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…
Mechanisms of Stigmatization in Family-Based Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Overweight and Obesity
It is well established that overweight and obesity are often accompanied by stigmatization. However, the influence of stigmatization on interventions for overweight and obesity remains unknown. Stigma may be particularly harmful to children. This study aimed to examine how stigmatization affects efforts to reduce childhood overweight and obesity through family interventions. This research was conducted in a socially disadvantaged area in Denmark.…
Stigma-Generating Mechanisms in Families Enrolled in a Pediatric Weight Management Program: A Qualitative Study of Health Identities and Healthcare Authenticity
In recent years, there has been increased awareness of obesity as a condition that carries a high level of stigma, as well as growing recognition of its prevalence and harm. Despite the increasing body of research on this topic, there is a gap in the literature regarding mechanisms that generate or exacerbate perceptions of weight stigma, especially within families and pediatric healthcare settings. The present study aims to identify potential st…
Complexity Theory in Health Promotion Research: Four Essential Principles Based on Niklas Luhmann’s Systems Theory
Complexity-oriented approaches built on complexity theories are not widely used in health promotion research. The field of health promotion faces significant difficulties in explaining and addressing unforeseen impacts and side effects due to the widespread tendency to implement health promotion initiatives that are considered best practices. It is important to theoretically embrace the fact that we operate in a complex world and that we, therefo…
Narrative and play-based interviewing - a framework for eliciting the perspectives of young children
The aim of this article is to provide researchers a detailed framework for conducting high-quality research with young children 3–6 years of age. We argue that young children’s insider perspectives, perceptions and experiences are underrepresented in research owing to methodological challenges. In this article, we present a narrative and play-based approach to eliciting the perspectives of young children, 3–6 years of age, through a developmental…
Communication and Social Relations: A Qualitative Study of Families’ Experience with Their Outpatient Pediatric Diabetes Visits
Clinical outpatient visits comprise a relatively small part of the lives of children with diabetes and their families, but there is evidence that these visits have a strong impact on the long-term management of diabetes. Because children with diabetes are looking at frequent hospital visits for the rest of their lives, it is important to explore their experiences to ensure visits meet their needs. This study aimed to investigate families' experie…
The Role of Trust in the Care of Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes
Using the theoretical framework of Guido Möllering conceptualising trust as a mental process composed of three elements-expectation, interpretation and suspension-we examined the role of trust in relation to young children's (age ≤ 7 years) psychosocial needs when diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Based on qualitative interviews with health care professionals (HPCs) from paediatric diabetes clinics in all regions of Denmark, we identified four main…
Sometimes You Just Need People around You Who Understand You”: A Qualitative Study of Everyday Life at a Residential Care Unit for Young People with Diabetes
Solglimt is the only long-term residential care facility in Denmark for young people with diabetes who, for various reasons, are particularly exposed or vulnerable. This target group is characterized by poorly regulated diabetes and psychosocial challenges. As this unique setting and specific target group has not been studied before, we designed a qualitative sociological study of the experiences and perceptions of everyday life from the perspect…
I Think It Will Be Like This Forever’: How Family Narratives Affect Participation in a Childhood Weight Management Intervention
The family represents the cause of as well as the solution to childhood overweight in many family-based childhood weight management interventions. Involving the family also entails involving the individual family members’ experiences with, attitudes towards, and understandings of obesity. This study explores how families with life-long experiences of overweight manage and experience a family-based childhood weight management intervention in North…
The Third Space Between Church and City: Coproduction in a Danish Municipality
The city is essentially a public arena where diverse people and multiple systems, networks and cultures encounter each other. It is where church interacts with all the other agents of the city. Understanding the implication of these encounters for church as well as city is notoriously difficult and ambiguous. As a result of an empirical study in the Danish city of Aarhus, eight ‘functions’ have been distinguished. This article asks what happens, …
Health, fun and ontonorms: Museums Promoting Health and Physical Activity
Recent years have seen an increase in health-related activities and exhibitions, as a rising number of museums are addressing global public health challenges. Museums have been identified as promising actors for the promotion of health and the communication of health knowledge, as they have the ability to provide meaningful and relevant learning experiences. However, we argue that the turn to health in museums risks the enactment of knowledge def…
Demanding devices - Living with diabetes devices as a pre-teen
A delicate balance between control and flexibility: Experiences of care and support among pre-teenage children with type 1 diabetes and their families
For children with type 1 diabetes, the period of adolescence is associated with higher blood glucose levels and increased psychological distress compared to other age groups. Focusing on pre-teens (9-12 years) with type 1 diabetes and their families has been suggested as key to understanding and reducing these challenges. The aim of this study was to explore: 1, how diabetes affects family life, 2, experiences of and needs for support and 3, how …
Contextual Complexities in Implementing a Family-Based Childhood Obesity Intervention: The Perspectives of Enrolled Children and Their Parents
Family interventions to treat childhood obesity are widely used, but knowledge about how family dynamics are affected by these interventions is lacking. The present study aims to understand how a family intervention impacts the context of family dynamics, and how different contexts affect the families' implementation of the intervention. Based on qualitative interviews, we studied families with a child between 9-12 years enrolled in a family inte…
Altered Self-Observations, Unclear Risk Perceptions and Changes in Relational Everyday Life: A Qualitative Study of Psychosocial Life with Diabetes during the Covid-19 Lockdown
When the Danish society went into COVID-19 lockdown, it dramatically changed the conditions for living with a chronic disease like diabetes. The present article highlights the psychosocial effects of this change. The dataset consists of 20 semi-structured online interviews with people with diabetes. The data were analyzed using radical hermeneutics and interpreted using Luhmann’s operative constructivist systems theory. The analysis produced thre…
In a vigilant state of chronic disruption: How Parents With a Young Child With Type 1 Diabetes Negotiate Events and Moments of Uncertainty
Living as a parent and self-care surrogate of a young child with type 1 diabetes (T1D) is demanding and a disruption to 'normal' routinised daily living. Research has mainly focused on the time of diagnosis as a one-time biographical disruption. In this article, we will show how, in the case of families with young children with T1D, the biographical disruption can be viewed as a continuous state of vigilance that affects family functioning and 'n…
Intra-familial health polarisation: How Diverse Health Concerns Become Barriers to Health Behaviour Change in Families With Preschool Children and Emerging Obesity
In a disadvantaged rural area in Denmark, severe challenges have been identified concerning overweight and obesity in families with preschool-age children. The present paper examines how families with young children and emerging obesity issues perceive 'healthy living' and barriers to practising it. Using data from qualitative workshops with families and professionals working with them, we reveal health perceptions and related family dynamics. Dr…
Co-Designing an Intervention to Prevent Overweight and Obesity among Young Children and Their Families in a Disadvantaged Municipality: Methodological Barriers and Potentials
Design-based research (DBR) is an innovative methodology for co-creation, but potentials, challenges, and differences between methodological ideals and the real-life intervention context are under-researched. This study analyzes the DBR process in which researchers, professionals, and families co-design a family-based intervention to prevent childhood overweight and obesity in a rural municipality. It involves interviews with six key stakeholders…
Mutual Involvement in Families Living with Type 2 Diabetes: Using the Family Toolbox to Address Challenges Related to Knowledge, Communication, Support, Role Confusion, Everyday Practices and Mutual W…
Family involvement plays a key role in diabetes management. Challenges related to type 2 diabetes (T2D) often affect the whole family, and relatives are at increased risk of developing diabetes themselves. Creating family involvement in families living with T2D is a complex matter. This article studies potential effects of working with dialogue tools specifically developed to create family involvement. The data consist of 18 semi-structured famil…
Principled Promotion of Health: Implementing Five Guiding Health Promotion Principles for Research-Based Prevention and Management of Diabetes
Background: Based on widespread critique of the moralizing paradigm that has long characterized much of the work conducted within the field of health promotion, Steno Health Promotion Research has developed a comprehensive health promotion approach consisting of five principles that constitute the framework for a new intervention paradigm. The five principles are: (1) A broad and positive health concept; (2) Participation and involvement; (3) Act…
Health Identity: Theoretical and empirical development of a health education concept
In school-based health education, it is often difficult to present health in ways children and adolescents accept as relevant and meaningful. This often results in misconceived approaches that have little or no effect on acquisition of health knowledge or changes in health behaviour. Many approaches only manage to appeal to children and adolescents who are already healthy. One way to approach this is to look at the role identity plays in health. …
Adolescents' health identities: A qualitative and theoretical study of health education courses
Adolescents' health identities: A qualitative and theoretical study of health education courses
Health, fun and ontonorms: Museums Promoting Health and Physical Activity
Recent years have seen an increase in health-related activities and exhibitions, as a rising number of museums are addressing global public health challenges. Museums have been identified as promising actors for the promotion of health and the communication of health knowledge, as they have the ability to provide meaningful and relevant learning experiences. However, we argue that the turn to health in museums risks the enactment of knowledge def…
In a vigilant state of chronic disruption: How Parents With a Young Child With Type 1 Diabetes Negotiate Events and Moments of Uncertainty
Living as a parent and self-care surrogate of a young child with type 1 diabetes (T1D) is demanding and a disruption to 'normal' routinised daily living. Research has mainly focused on the time of diagnosis as a one-time biographical disruption. In this article, we will show how, in the case of families with young children with T1D, the biographical disruption can be viewed as a continuous state of vigilance that affects family functioning and 'n…
Intra-familial health polarisation: How Diverse Health Concerns Become Barriers to Health Behaviour Change in Families With Preschool Children and Emerging Obesity
In a disadvantaged rural area in Denmark, severe challenges have been identified concerning overweight and obesity in families with preschool-age children. The present paper examines how families with young children and emerging obesity issues perceive 'healthy living' and barriers to practising it. Using data from qualitative workshops with families and professionals working with them, we reveal health perceptions and related family dynamics. Dr…
Mutual Involvement in Families Living with Type 2 Diabetes: Using the Family Toolbox to Address Challenges Related to Knowledge, Communication, Support, Role Confusion, Everyday Practices and Mutual W…
Family involvement plays a key role in diabetes management. Challenges related to type 2 diabetes (T2D) often affect the whole family, and relatives are at increased risk of developing diabetes themselves. Creating family involvement in families living with T2D is a complex matter. This article studies potential effects of working with dialogue tools specifically developed to create family involvement. The data consist of 18 semi-structured famil…
Principled Promotion of Health: Implementing Five Guiding Health Promotion Principles for Research-Based Prevention and Management of Diabetes
Background: Based on widespread critique of the moralizing paradigm that has long characterized much of the work conducted within the field of health promotion, Steno Health Promotion Research has developed a comprehensive health promotion approach consisting of five principles that constitute the framework for a new intervention paradigm. The five principles are: (1) A broad and positive health concept; (2) Participation and involvement; (3) Act…
Complexity Theory in Health Promotion Research: Four Essential Principles Based on Niklas Luhmann’s Systems Theory
Complexity-oriented approaches built on complexity theories are not widely used in health promotion research. The field of health promotion faces significant difficulties in explaining and addressing unforeseen impacts and side effects due to the widespread tendency to implement health promotion initiatives that are considered best practices. It is important to theoretically embrace the fact that we operate in a complex world and that we, therefo…
A delicate balance between control and flexibility: Experiences of care and support among pre-teenage children with type 1 diabetes and their families
For children with type 1 diabetes, the period of adolescence is associated with higher blood glucose levels and increased psychological distress compared to other age groups. Focusing on pre-teens (9-12 years) with type 1 diabetes and their families has been suggested as key to understanding and reducing these challenges. The aim of this study was to explore: 1, how diabetes affects family life, 2, experiences of and needs for support and 3, how …
Altered Self-Observations, Unclear Risk Perceptions and Changes in Relational Everyday Life: A Qualitative Study of Psychosocial Life with Diabetes during the Covid-19 Lockdown
When the Danish society went into COVID-19 lockdown, it dramatically changed the conditions for living with a chronic disease like diabetes. The present article highlights the psychosocial effects of this change. The dataset consists of 20 semi-structured online interviews with people with diabetes. The data were analyzed using radical hermeneutics and interpreted using Luhmann’s operative constructivist systems theory. The analysis produced thre…
Adolescents' health identities: A qualitative and theoretical study of health education courses
Health Identity: Theoretical and empirical development of a health education concept
In school-based health education, it is often difficult to present health in ways children and adolescents accept as relevant and meaningful. This often results in misconceived approaches that have little or no effect on acquisition of health knowledge or changes in health behaviour. Many approaches only manage to appeal to children and adolescents who are already healthy. One way to approach this is to look at the role identity plays in health. …
Principled Promotion of Health: Implementing Five Guiding Health Promotion Principles for Research-Based Prevention and Management of Diabetes
Background: Based on widespread critique of the moralizing paradigm that has long characterized much of the work conducted within the field of health promotion, Steno Health Promotion Research has developed a comprehensive health promotion approach consisting of five principles that constitute the framework for a new intervention paradigm. The five principles are: (1) A broad and positive health concept; (2) Participation and involvement; (3) Act…
Co-Designing an Intervention to Prevent Overweight and Obesity among Young Children and Their Families in a Disadvantaged Municipality: Methodological Barriers and Potentials
Design-based research (DBR) is an innovative methodology for co-creation, but potentials, challenges, and differences between methodological ideals and the real-life intervention context are under-researched. This study analyzes the DBR process in which researchers, professionals, and families co-design a family-based intervention to prevent childhood overweight and obesity in a rural municipality. It involves interviews with six key stakeholders…
Mutual Involvement in Families Living with Type 2 Diabetes: Using the Family Toolbox to Address Challenges Related to Knowledge, Communication, Support, Role Confusion, Everyday Practices and Mutual W…
Family involvement plays a key role in diabetes management. Challenges related to type 2 diabetes (T2D) often affect the whole family, and relatives are at increased risk of developing diabetes themselves. Creating family involvement in families living with T2D is a complex matter. This article studies potential effects of working with dialogue tools specifically developed to create family involvement. The data consist of 18 semi-structured famil…
Contextual Complexities in Implementing a Family-Based Childhood Obesity Intervention: The Perspectives of Enrolled Children and Their Parents
Family interventions to treat childhood obesity are widely used, but knowledge about how family dynamics are affected by these interventions is lacking. The present study aims to understand how a family intervention impacts the context of family dynamics, and how different contexts affect the families' implementation of the intervention. Based on qualitative interviews, we studied families with a child between 9-12 years enrolled in a family inte…
Altered Self-Observations, Unclear Risk Perceptions and Changes in Relational Everyday Life: A Qualitative Study of Psychosocial Life with Diabetes during the Covid-19 Lockdown
When the Danish society went into COVID-19 lockdown, it dramatically changed the conditions for living with a chronic disease like diabetes. The present article highlights the psychosocial effects of this change. The dataset consists of 20 semi-structured online interviews with people with diabetes. The data were analyzed using radical hermeneutics and interpreted using Luhmann’s operative constructivist systems theory. The analysis produced thre…
In a vigilant state of chronic disruption: How Parents With a Young Child With Type 1 Diabetes Negotiate Events and Moments of Uncertainty
Living as a parent and self-care surrogate of a young child with type 1 diabetes (T1D) is demanding and a disruption to 'normal' routinised daily living. Research has mainly focused on the time of diagnosis as a one-time biographical disruption. In this article, we will show how, in the case of families with young children with T1D, the biographical disruption can be viewed as a continuous state of vigilance that affects family functioning and 'n…
Intra-familial health polarisation: How Diverse Health Concerns Become Barriers to Health Behaviour Change in Families With Preschool Children and Emerging Obesity
In a disadvantaged rural area in Denmark, severe challenges have been identified concerning overweight and obesity in families with preschool-age children. The present paper examines how families with young children and emerging obesity issues perceive 'healthy living' and barriers to practising it. Using data from qualitative workshops with families and professionals working with them, we reveal health perceptions and related family dynamics. Dr…
The Role of Trust in the Care of Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes
Using the theoretical framework of Guido Möllering conceptualising trust as a mental process composed of three elements-expectation, interpretation and suspension-we examined the role of trust in relation to young children's (age ≤ 7 years) psychosocial needs when diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Based on qualitative interviews with health care professionals (HPCs) from paediatric diabetes clinics in all regions of Denmark, we identified four main…
Sometimes You Just Need People around You Who Understand You”: A Qualitative Study of Everyday Life at a Residential Care Unit for Young People with Diabetes
Solglimt is the only long-term residential care facility in Denmark for young people with diabetes who, for various reasons, are particularly exposed or vulnerable. This target group is characterized by poorly regulated diabetes and psychosocial challenges. As this unique setting and specific target group has not been studied before, we designed a qualitative sociological study of the experiences and perceptions of everyday life from the perspect…
I Think It Will Be Like This Forever’: How Family Narratives Affect Participation in a Childhood Weight Management Intervention
The family represents the cause of as well as the solution to childhood overweight in many family-based childhood weight management interventions. Involving the family also entails involving the individual family members’ experiences with, attitudes towards, and understandings of obesity. This study explores how families with life-long experiences of overweight manage and experience a family-based childhood weight management intervention in North…
The Third Space Between Church and City: Coproduction in a Danish Municipality
The city is essentially a public arena where diverse people and multiple systems, networks and cultures encounter each other. It is where church interacts with all the other agents of the city. Understanding the implication of these encounters for church as well as city is notoriously difficult and ambiguous. As a result of an empirical study in the Danish city of Aarhus, eight ‘functions’ have been distinguished. This article asks what happens, …
Health, fun and ontonorms: Museums Promoting Health and Physical Activity
Recent years have seen an increase in health-related activities and exhibitions, as a rising number of museums are addressing global public health challenges. Museums have been identified as promising actors for the promotion of health and the communication of health knowledge, as they have the ability to provide meaningful and relevant learning experiences. However, we argue that the turn to health in museums risks the enactment of knowledge def…
Demanding devices - Living with diabetes devices as a pre-teen
A delicate balance between control and flexibility: Experiences of care and support among pre-teenage children with type 1 diabetes and their families
For children with type 1 diabetes, the period of adolescence is associated with higher blood glucose levels and increased psychological distress compared to other age groups. Focusing on pre-teens (9-12 years) with type 1 diabetes and their families has been suggested as key to understanding and reducing these challenges. The aim of this study was to explore: 1, how diabetes affects family life, 2, experiences of and needs for support and 3, how …
Communication and Social Relations: A Qualitative Study of Families’ Experience with Their Outpatient Pediatric Diabetes Visits
Clinical outpatient visits comprise a relatively small part of the lives of children with diabetes and their families, but there is evidence that these visits have a strong impact on the long-term management of diabetes. Because children with diabetes are looking at frequent hospital visits for the rest of their lives, it is important to explore their experiences to ensure visits meet their needs. This study aimed to investigate families' experie…
Mechanisms of Stigmatization in Family-Based Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Overweight and Obesity
It is well established that overweight and obesity are often accompanied by stigmatization. However, the influence of stigmatization on interventions for overweight and obesity remains unknown. Stigma may be particularly harmful to children. This study aimed to examine how stigmatization affects efforts to reduce childhood overweight and obesity through family interventions. This research was conducted in a socially disadvantaged area in Denmark.…
Stigma-Generating Mechanisms in Families Enrolled in a Pediatric Weight Management Program: A Qualitative Study of Health Identities and Healthcare Authenticity
In recent years, there has been increased awareness of obesity as a condition that carries a high level of stigma, as well as growing recognition of its prevalence and harm. Despite the increasing body of research on this topic, there is a gap in the literature regarding mechanisms that generate or exacerbate perceptions of weight stigma, especially within families and pediatric healthcare settings. The present study aims to identify potential st…
Complexity Theory in Health Promotion Research: Four Essential Principles Based on Niklas Luhmann’s Systems Theory
Complexity-oriented approaches built on complexity theories are not widely used in health promotion research. The field of health promotion faces significant difficulties in explaining and addressing unforeseen impacts and side effects due to the widespread tendency to implement health promotion initiatives that are considered best practices. It is important to theoretically embrace the fact that we operate in a complex world and that we, therefo…
Narrative and play-based interviewing - a framework for eliciting the perspectives of young children
The aim of this article is to provide researchers a detailed framework for conducting high-quality research with young children 3–6 years of age. We argue that young children’s insider perspectives, perceptions and experiences are underrepresented in research owing to methodological challenges. In this article, we present a narrative and play-based approach to eliciting the perspectives of young children, 3–6 years of age, through a developmental…
Intensified parenthood: A qualitative study exploring parents' gendered positions in the care of child‐onset diabetes
“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…
Children's Ambivalent Experiences of Leisure Screen Use: Acceleration, Alienation and Resonance in the Digital Age
Children today spend a significant part of their leisure time on digital activities. Research highlights the risks and benefits of screen use in relation to children's health and well‐being. In recent years, the topic has gained increasing attention in both research and public debate, with opinions divided between advocating for restrictions or bans on screen use and cautioning that overly restrictive approaches may do more harm than good. To nua…
It feels more natural for me to take a step back: Cross-cultural analysis of paternal care in paediatric diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is one of the most common chronic conditions among children globally. While advances in treatment have improved outcomes, paediatric diabetes remains an intensive condition that demands ongoing care and vigilance from parents. Despite growing attention to family-centred care, fathers' caregiving roles remain underexplored-particularly how they are shaped by cultural, institutional, and gendered expectations. This article addresses…
Psychology (20 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Qualitative research (12 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Diabetes mellitus (7 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (7 works)