Hälsosam 1997-2001, A targeted health examination for women employees in childcare, Huddinge Municipality
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Carl-Erik Håkanson - Huddinge Municipality, Occipational Health Care
Berit Tärnell - Huddingen Municipality, Occupational Health Care
Tore Hällström - Karolinska Institute, Huddinge university hospital, Department M57
Kerstin Olson - Huddinge Municipality
Description
The Hälsosam project is an unpublished targeted survey of health and work environmental factors in a group of female professionals in the Municipality of Huddinge (1997-2001).
The Occupational health physician in the municipality who considered female employees in the childcare services vulnerable in terms of health initiated the study. The municipal Work Environment Committee (1997) delegated the conduct of the targeted survey to the Occupational Health Care Service (Företagshälsovården).
The project is presented in two documents: Hälsosam and Intervention 4.
The report consists of more than 100 tables interpreting collected data, which contain working environment and body measurements, blood tests and interviews. The entire occupational group's health and working environment has been described.
The surveys were conducted as a Field Work Study (97-09-01) where three nursing teams visited the municipality's schools, preschools and after school centers. 1,162 women with 19 different occupational roles in the childcare sector were examined during personal meetings.
During the years, 19
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Responsible department/unit
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Carl-Erik Håkanson - Huddinge Municipality, Occipational Health Care
Berit Tärnell - Huddingen Municipality, Occupational Health Care
Tore Hällström - Karolinska Institute, Huddinge university hospital, Department M57
Kerstin Olson - Huddinge Municipality
Identifiers
SND-ID: 2020-13
Description
The Hälsosam project is an unpublished targeted survey of health and work environmental factors in a group of female professionals in the Municipality of Huddinge (1997-2001).
The Occupational health physician in the municipality who considered female employees in the childcare services vulnerable in terms of health initiated the study. The municipal Work Environment Committee (1997) delegated the conduct of the targeted survey to the Occupational Health Care Service (Företagshälsovården).
The project is presented in two documents: Hälsosam and Intervention 4.
The report consists of more than 100 tables interpreting collected data, which contain working environment and body measurements, blood tests and interviews. The entire occupational group's health and working environment has been described.
The surveys were conducted as a Field Work Study (97-09-01) where three nursing teams visited the municipality's schools, preschools and after school centers. 1,162 women with 19 different occupational roles in the childcare sector were examined during personal meetings.
During the years, 19
Language
English
Swedish
Time period(s) investigated
1997-04-01 — 2001-12-30
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Huddinge Municipality
Unit of analysis
Population
A targeted health examination for 1162 women employees for childcare in Huddinge municipality.
Study design
Experimental study
Diagnostic study
Description of study design
Design: descriptive, analytical, interventive, developing Fieldwork at workplaces, interviews, body measurements, blood tests, questionnaires, and 4 interventions.. The main goal, identifying risk groups for cardiovascular diseases.
Sampling procedure
This childcare environment consists of 19 different professions all of them participates in this project. The population consists 1294 persons, excluded 48 men. During the FIeld Work 1162 women participated, Missing 84 women.
Between the years 1997-1998, 79 women quit their employment in childcare.
Selection 2. : Identifying riskgroups for cardiovascular diseases; women with BMI 30 and above, women with LDL-cholesterol 4,5 and above and women with mental illness, such as depression,
Data contains personal data
No
Ethics Review
Stockholm — Ref. 288/ 99 (Intervention 4)
Stockholm — Ref. 257.97 (Projekt Hälsosam)
Funding
Funding agency: Huddinge Municipality
Funding agency’s reference number: KS 2019 / 3235. 116
Funding agency: Land-och Sjöfonden Scholarships, The Swedish Insurance Society
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Associated documentation
Publications
Stahre, L., Tärnell, B., Håkanson, C. E., & Hällström, T. (2007). A randomized controlled trial of two weight-reducing short-term group treatment programs for obesity with an 18-month follow-up. International journal of behavioral medicine, 14(1), 48–55. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02999227
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02999227
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Dataset 1
Hälsosam 1997-2001. A targeted health examination for women employees in childcare, Huddinge Municipality,
Citation
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Carl-Erik Håkanson - Huddinge Municipality, Occipational Health Care
Berit Tärnell - Huddingen Municipality, Occupational Health Care
Tore Hällström - Karolinska Institute, Huddinge university hospital, Department M57
Kerstin Olson - Huddinge Municipality
Description
Contains data for :
- Fieldwork (1997)
- Survey 1. (1997) and 2. (1998) , 2B. (2000), 288/ 99 Intervention 4. Hälsosam, 3. Questionnaire 3 (3-7) (2000-2001)
- Intervention 1: Dietary intervention. Dietary information to the whole population orally and in writing (1997)
- Intervention 2. Diary-kept exercise for three months. Targeted to risk group women with BMI 30 and above and women with LDL cholesterol 4.5 and above. (1998).
- Intervention 3. Pravachol treatment to risk group LDL cholesterol
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Data format / data structure
Numeric
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Still image
Data collection
Mode of collection: Self-administered writings and/or diaries
Time period(s) for data collection: 1997-09-01 — 1997-12-15
Source of the data: Population group
Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire
Time period(s) for data collection: 1998-07-01 — 1998-09-30
Source of the data: Population group
Mode of collection: Self-administered writings and/or diaries
Time period(s) for data collection: 1998-07-01 — 1998-09-30
Source of the data: Population group
Mode of collection: Physical measurements and tests
Time period(s) for data collection: 1999-05-15 — 1999-05-30
Source of the data: Population group
Time period(s) investigated
1997-04-28 — 2001-12-01
Number of individuals/objects
1162
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Dataset 2
Hälsosam 1997-2001: Intervention 4 (1999-2001)
Citation
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Carl-Erik Håkanson - Huddinge Municipality, Occipational Health Care
Berit Tärnell - Huddingen Municipality, Occupational Health Care
Tore Hällström - Karolinska Institute, Huddinge university hospital, Department M57
Kerstin Olson - Huddinge Municipality
Description
All women with BMI 30 and above were invited to participate in one of two training program aimed at weight reduction. The training includes two different program and the participants are distributed by lot.
One program is based on a psycho-educational method and is led by a trained cognitive bait scientist. The second program is led by the occupational doctor in Huddinge Municipality. Initially
Keywords
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Text
Data collection
Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire
Time period(s) for data collection: 1999-09-15 — 2000-06-21
Source of the data: Population group
Mode of collection: Physical measurements and tests
Time period(s) for data collection: 1999-09-15 — 2000-06-21
Source of the data: Population group
Time period(s) investigated
1999-09-15 — 2001-12-31
Variables
126
Number of individuals/objects
43