Malin BergströmKarolinska Institutet | KI · Center for Health Equity Studies - CHESS
Malin Bergström
PhD
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January 2011 - present
January 2006 - December 2010
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Publications (47)
Background:
Child health and development can be promoted by strengthening and supporting parents. Research on parental support programs based on positive psychology and a health-promoting approach aimed at all parents, and in particular parents of infants is limited. All Children in Focus (ACF) is a parental support program that has been evaluated...
Objectives: To investigate associations between family structure, family complexity, and sleep in adolescence. Background: Family structure may be associated with sleep patterns and sleep problems among adolescents. Yet, research documenting this association has not captured the complexity of modern families and used crude measures of sleep.
Metho...
Aim
The aim of this study was to describe sociodemographic and family predictors for behavioural and emotional problems in pre-schoolers.
Methods
This was a cross-sectional study including 30 795 children in the Stockholm region whose parents had completed the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) prior to a routine visit to a well-baby cl...
This study investigated mental health in schoolchildren in different living arrangements after parental separation. The study population included 31,519 children from the Danish National Birth Cohort, followed-up at age 11 in 2010–2014. Child mental health was measured with a maternal report of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Ass...
Aim
This study compared mental health after parental separation in seven‐year‐old children living in joint physical custody with sole physical custody family arrangements.
Methods
The study population included 39,661 children from the Danish National Birth Cohort, living in a nuclear family at age six months. Child mental health was measured at ag...
Background
Parental separation has been associated with adverse child mental health outcomes in the literature. For school-aged children, joint physical custody (JPC), that is, spending equal time in both parents’ homes after a divorce, has been associated with better health and well-being than single care arrangements. Preschool children’s well-be...
Aim
Parental separation has been associated with poor mental health in children. with better outcomes in children living in joint physical custody compared to those living with one parent after the separation. In this study we investigated socioeconomic and relational predictors in early childhood of later parental separation and family arrangement...
Aim:
The aim of this narrative review was to evaluate the evidence for interventions for children's secure attachment relationships and parents' caregiving sensitivity that could potentially be implemented in the context of a well-baby clinic.
Methods:
Literature search on programmes for parental caregiving sensitivity and secure attachment for...
Joint physical custody (JPC) refers to a practice where children with separated parents share their time between the parents’ respective homes. Studies on parents’ views of JPC for young children are scarce. The aim of this interview study was to explore parents’ perceptions on how they experience and practice equally shared JPC for their 1–4 year-...
De-identified interview excerpts.
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Among children with separated parents, shared residence – i.e., joint physical custody where the child is sharing his or her time equally between two custodial parents’ homes – is increasing in many Western countries and is particularly common in Sweden. The overall level of living among children in Sweden is high; however, the potential structural...
Aim:
Joint physical custody, children spending equal time in each parents' respective home after a parental divorce, is particularly common in Nordic compared with other Western countries. Older children have been shown to fare well in this practice but for young children there are few existing studies. The aim of this paper is to study psychologi...
Joint physical custody (JPC) refers to children living alternatively and about equally with both parents after a parental separation or divorce. The practice has been debated in relation to child well-being because of the frequent moves imposed on children and the potential stress from living in 2 homes. This study describes the background to the h...
This study addressed school-contextual features of social disorder in relation to sixth-grade students' experiences of bullying victimization and mental health complaints. It investigated, firstly, whether the school's concentrations of behavioural problems were associated with individual students' likelihood of being bullied, and secondly, whether...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apa.14046
Aim:
Joint physical custody (JPC), where children spend about equal time in both parent's homes after parental separation, is increasing. The suitability of this practice for preschool children, with a need for predictability and continuity, has been questioned.
Methods:
In this cross-sectional study, we used data on 3656 Swedish children aged t...
Objectives
Parental support has been shown to be important for children's self-esteem, which in turn is related to later important life outcomes. Today, an increasing number of children in the Western world spend time in both the parents' respective households after a separation. Children who live with both parents report more parental support than...
Aim:
This study focused on Swedish child health nurses' attitudes and the support they provided to fathers and mothers, highlighting changes from 2004 to 2014.
Method:
In 2014, 363 child health nurses in Stockholm County completed a 23-item questionnaire, similar to the questionnaire by Massoudi et al in 2004, on their attitudes and the support...
Table S1. Newly occurred paternal/maternal depression and risks of spontaneous/medically indicated very (≤31 weeks) preterm birth and moderately (32–36 weeks) preterm birth (n = 341 827) .
Table S2. Paternal and maternal depression and risks of very preterm birth (≤31 weeks of gestation) and moderately preterm birth (32–36 weeks of gestation) amon...
Data S1. Powerpoint slides summarising the study.
Joint physical custody, i.e., children spending an equal amount of time in both parents' home after a separation or divorce, is increasing in many countries. In line with the national policy to promote paternal involvement in parenting, two-thirds of Swedish preschoolers with non-cohabiting parents live in two homes. Internationally, there has been...
Rapporten ger en sammanfattning av den forskningsbaserade kunskapen om hälsa och välbefinnande hos barn i växelvis boende. När det gäller barn under sex år, där kunskapsläget är mest osäkert, ger rapporten en heltäckande bild av den internationella forskningen, inklusive en översikt av den psykologiska teoribildningen på området. För skolbarnen fin...
Objective:
To investigate the effects of maternal and paternal depression on the risk for preterm birth.
Design:
National cohort study.
Setting:
Medical Birth Register of Sweden, 2007-2012.
Population:
A total of 366 499 singleton births with linked information for parents' filled drug prescriptions and hospital care.
Methods:
Prenatal dep...
Aims:
Increasing proportions of Scandinavian children and children in other Western countries live in joint physical custody, moving between parents' homes when parents live apart. Children and parents in non-intact families are at risk of worse mental health. The potential influence of parental ill-health on child well-being in the context of dif...
Background:
In many Western countries, an increasing number of children with separated parents have joint physical custody, that is, live equally much in their parent's respective homes. In Sweden, joint physical custody is particularly common and concerns between 30% and 40% of the children with separated parents. It has been hypothesised that th...
Background: Each year, around 50.000 children in Sweden experience a separation between their parents. Joint physical custody (JPC), where the child alternates homes between the parents for about equal amount of time, has become a common living arrangement after parental separation. Children in two homes could benefit from everyday contact with bot...
Aims:
Among children with separated parents, the arrangement of joint physical custody, i.e. children living equally much in both parents' homes, has increased substantially during the last decades in Sweden. To date, empirical research on the living conditions of this group is limited. This study analyses family type differences in turning to par...
The practice of joint physical custody, where children spend equal time in each parent's home after they separate, is increasing in many countries. It is particularly common in Sweden, where this custody arrangement applies to 30 per cent of children with separated parents. The aim of this study was to examine children's health-related quality of l...
Background:
The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of migrant density in school on the well-being of pupils with a migrant origin in first as well as second generation.
Methods:
Cross-sectional analysis of data from a national classroom survey of 15-year-old Swedish schoolchildren. The study population included 76 229 pupils (86.5%...
To explore if antenatal fear of childbirth in men affects their experience of the birth event and if this experience is associated with type of childbirth preparation.
Data from a randomized controlled multicenter trial on antenatal education.
15 antenatal clinics in Sweden between January 2006 and May 2007.
762 men, of whom 83 (10.9%) suffered fro...
Objective:
to investigate first-time fathers' expectations and experiences of childbirth and satisfaction with care in relation to paternal age.
Design:
data from a randomised controlled trial of antenatal education were used for secondary analysis. Data were collected by questionnaires in mid-pregnancy and at three months after the birth. Compa...
New fathers may be as vulnerable as new mothers to depression, and their symptoms also can affect the mother and child. The purpose of this study was to investigate depressive symptoms and associations with paternal age, sociodemographic characteristics, and antenatal psychological well-being in Swedish first-time fathers.
Depressive symptoms, defi...
To study women's and men's satisfaction with two models of antenatal education: natural childbirth preparation with psychoprophylaxis, and standard antenatal education including preparation for childbirth and parenthood but no psychoprophylaxis.
Randomised controlled multicentre trial.
15 Antenatal clinics in Sweden between January 2006 and May 200...
To study whether use of psychoprophylaxis during labor affects course of labor and experience of childbirth in nulliparous women.
Cohort study.
Women were recruited from 15 antenatal clinics in Sweden between October 2005 and January 2007.
A total of 857 nulliparous women with a planned vaginal delivery.
Using data from a randomized controlled tria...
To examine the effects of antenatal education focussing on natural childbirth preparation with psychoprophylactic training versus standard antenatal education on the use of epidural analgesia, experience of childbirth and parental stress in first-time mothers and fathers.
Randomised controlled multicentre trial.
Fifteen antenatal clinics in Sweden...
Projects
Projects (2)
Single parents face a triple bind of inadequate resources, employment, and policies, which in combination further complicate their lives.
This edited book - multi-disciplinary and comparative in design - shows evidence from over 40 countries, along with detailed case studies of Sweden, Iceland, Scotland, and the UK. It covers aspects of well-being that include poverty, good quality jobs, the middle class, wealth, health, children’s development and performance in school, and reflects on social justice.
Leading international scholars challenge our current understanding of what works and draw policy lessons on how to improve the well-being of single parents and their children.
How do Children fare in Joint physical custody (JPC) in Sweden?
JPC refers to the practice where a child lives approximately equally much in the parent’s respective homes. This project investigates the wellbeign and mental health of children living in two homes compared with children in other family types.
