Carl Antonson's research while affiliated with Lund University and other places

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Background Adolescents are reporting increasing symptoms of anxiety, depression and somatization and an increase in perceived stress is a plausible explanation. The first aim of this study was to examine the occurrence of perceived stress and health outcomes in adolescents, and to evaluate if there are any sex differences. The second aim was to inv...
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Objectives: The Swedish surveillance system aiming to reveal undetected Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) in workers exposed for vibrations is regulated by the provision AFS 2019:3. The goal for the surveillance system is to diagnose HAVS, as well as to find workers at risk for developing HAVS due to other conditions. The national guidelines stip...
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Background: The aim was to conduct a time-lag study on how democracy and dictatorship may influence self-esteem in adolescents. Methods: Adolescents (aged 15-16) from Sweden and Bulgaria were compared using the ‘I Think I Am’ questionnaire measuring self-esteem 1989-1991 (T1) when Bulgaria was a communistic dictatorship and Sweden a parliamentary d...
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Background: Sleep affects psychiatric health and perceived stress during adolescence. Objective: The first aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of poor sleep in a sample of Swedish adolescents aged 15 to 19 years. The second aim was to investigate correlations between: a) sleep and psychiatric symptoms and; b) sleep and perceived...
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BACKGROUND: Democracy and dictatorship are opposite forms of governance and may influence children differently, partly through the school curriculum. METHODS: Data were collected in the communistic dictatorship of Bulgaria before the fall of the Berlin wall and in the West-European democracy of Sweden. The aims were to compare self-esteem between S...
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Psychiatric symptoms and stress are on the increase among Swedish adolescents. We aimed to study the potential effect and feasibility of two Internet-based self-help programmes, one mindfulness based (iMBI) and the other music based in a randomised controlled trial that targeted adolescents. A total of 283 upper secondary school students in two Swe...
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p> Background: Previous studies in adolescents have rarely used validated questionnaires to assess stress and psychiatric symptoms. The first aim of this study, which was conducted in 2011, was to examine the prevalence and potential sex differences of perceived stress and psychiatric symptoms among Swedish upper secondary school students for compa...
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Aims: Psychiatric symptoms, sleeping problems and stress are increasing in Swedish adolescents. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that a combination of two potential stressors (i.e., high academic proficiency and high urbanicity) in a school setting would be related to increased stress levels and stress-related symptoms among pupils....

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... Studies from Malaysia and Italy reported similar prevalence rates of 24.0 and 18%, respectively (19,20). However, the prevalence of poor sleep quality among high school students in Spain, Turkey and Sweden is close to or over 60%, with a prevalence of 76% among Swedish girls (21)(22)(23). Poor sleep quality among adolescents has become a serious public health problem worldwide, with many negative consequences (24)(25)(26). Numerous observational studies showed an association between poorer sleep quality and poorer learning capacity and academic performance (27, 28). ...
... For both digital and nondigital interventions, ensuring high-fidelity of implementation (FOI) in school settings is challenging. In one of the few published reports examining the effectiveness of digital attention training in a high school setting, only 1 of 85 students completed the full intervention (Antonson et al., 2018). ...
... Bergska skolan is the only upper secondary school in Finspång with national education programmes. Finspång is a small town (20,747 inhabitants in 2010) with heavy industry located in a rural area (22). An invitation to participate was sent by letter to all Swedish-speaking students aged 15 to 19 years. ...
... Future aims may include larger sample sizes to increase statistical power when investigating the effects of the various parameters. To increase variance, these samples may also include subjects that have substantially higher than average baseline sympathetic arousal, as is often the case in samples with psychiatric symptoms (Bergman et al., 2020;Pereira-Morales et al., 2019;Thorsen et al., 2016). Finally, our cognitive, self-report measures showed that more erotophilia (interest in various sexual activities) was strongly related to especially genital excitation transfer effects, which was in agreement with our expectations. ...