Is parental sense of coherence associated with child health?

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 195-201

  Grøholt, Else Karin ^a   Stigum, Hein ^a   Nordhagen, Rannveig ^a   Köhler, Lennart ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chronic health conditions; Nordic countries; Parents; Sense of coherence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; ICELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NORWAY; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; SWEDEN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCANDINAVIA; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0141737055     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/13.3.195     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Antanovsky A. Unraveling the mystery of health: how people manage stress and stay well. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc, 1987.
2. Lundberg O, Nyström Peck M. Sense of coherence, social structure and health: evidence from a population based survey in Sweden. Eur J Publ Health 1994;4:252-7.
3. Due EP, Holstein BE. 'Sense of coherence', social class and health in a Danish population study. Ugeskr Laeger 1998;160(51):7424-9.
4. Larsson G, Kallenberg KO. Sense of coherence, socioeconomic conditions and health: interrelations in a nation-wide Swedish sample. Eur J Publ Health 1996;6:175-80.
5. Geyer S. Some conceptual considerations on the sense of coherence. Soc Sci Med 1997;44(12):1771-9.
6. Antonovsky A. Complexity, conflict, chaos, coherence, coercion and civility [see comments]. Soc Sci Med 1993;37(8):969-74.
7. Lundberg O. Childhood conditions, sense of coherence, social class and adult ill health: exploring their theoretical and empirical relations. Soc Sci Med 1997;44(6):821-31.
8. Carmel S, Bernstein J. Trait-anxiety and sense of coherence: a longitudinal study. Psychol Rep 1989;65(1):221-2.
9. Margalit M, Leyser Y, Avraham Y. Classification and validation of family climate subtypes in kibbutz fathers of disabled and nondisabled children. J Abnorm Child Psychol 1989;17(1):91-107.
10. Berntsson L. Health and well-being of children in the five Nordic countries in 1984 and 1996 [Dissertation]. Nordic School of Public Health, Göteborg, Sweden, 2000.
11. Teigum HM. Barns helse og velferd 1996. Dokumentasjon og frafallsanalyse. 97/64. 1997. Statistics Norway.
12. Lundberg O, Nyström Peck M. A simplified way of measuring sense of coherence: experiences from a population survey in Sweden. Eur J Publ Health 1995;5:56-9.
13. Statistics Sweden SCB. Socio-economic classification (SEI). 1982:4. 1982. Nordic School of Public Health, Göteborg.
14. Fokus 2000. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget, 2000.
15. Stata.Stata Corp.2001. Stata statistical software: release 7.0. College Station. TX: Stata Corporation, 2001.
16. Hosmer DW, Lemeshow S. Applied logistic regression. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1989.
17. Gilbert GH, Longmate J, Branch LG. Factors influencing the effectiveness of mailed health surveys. Public Health Rep 1992;107(5):576-84.
18. Locker D. Effects of non-response on estimates derived from an oral health survey of older adults. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 1993;21(2):108-13.
19. Lund E, Gram IT. Response rate according to title and length of questionnaire. Scand J Soc Med 1998;26(2):154-60.
20. Kohler L. Children with and without disabilities in the Nordic countries: a Nordic project. Scand J Soc Med 1993;21(3):146-9.
21. Lundberg O. Sense of coherence och befolkningens hälsa. Sosiaalilääketieteellinen aikakauslehti 1996;33:265-73.
22. Kumlin Tr. Känsla av sammanhang i teori, empiri och kritik. Stockholm: Ord & Form AB, Uppsala, 1998.
23. Alm S. The resurgence of mass employment: studies on social consequences of joblessness in Sweden in the 1990's [Dissertation]. Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, 2001.
24. Schilling RF, Schinke SP, Kirkham MA. Coping with a handicapped child: differences between mothers and fathers. Soc Sci Med 1985;21(8):857-63.
25. Frey KS, Greenberg MT, Fewell RR. Stress and coping among parents of handicapped children: a multidimensional approach. Am J Ment Retard 1989;94(3):240-9.
26. Kazak AE. Families with disabled children: stress and social networks in three samples. J Abnorm Child Psychol 1987;15(1):137-46.