The Salute Programme
Creator/Principal investigator(s):
Anneli Ivarsson - Umeå University, Department of Public Helath and Clinical Medicin, Unit for Epidemiology and Global Health
Eva Eurenius - Umeå University, Department of Public Helath and Clinical Medicin, Unit for Epidemiology and Global Health
Marie Lindkvist - Umeå University, Umeå School of Business and Economics, Department of Statistics
Description:
The Salute Programme is a health initiative for children and adolescents in Västerbotten. The programme was initiated in 2005 by the Västerbotten County Council in response to increased prevalence of overweight, obesity and tooth decay in children and adolescents in the county. The initiative aims to develop and strengthen health promotion interventions in maternity care, Child Health, dental care, kindergartens and schools and is based on the interaction between them. The main focus areas in the programme are: Conditions during childhood and adolescence, Physical activity and Eating habits.
The goal with the programme is to support each child and their parents throughout childhood, starting during pregnancy when the child is still unborn. The initiative takes its name from the word "salutogenic" as a basic concept is to promote processes that give children and their parents an opportunity to increase control over their health and ability to improve health. The initiative includes both health promotion and disease prevention that seeks equality in health.
The Salute Programme is divided into
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Keywords:
health, public health, mental health, Health Services, Environment and Public Health, Dental Care, Life Style, Interview, Exercise, Diet, Child, Family, Obesity, Parturition, Pregnancy, Oral Health, Mental Health, Social Conditions, qualitative data, quantitative data, parent participation, lifestyle factors
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Creator/Principal investigator(s):
Anneli Ivarsson - Umeå University, Department of Public Helath and Clinical Medicin, Unit for Epidemiology and Global Health
Eva Eurenius - Umeå University, Department of Public Helath and Clinical Medicin, Unit for Epidemiology and Global Health
Marie Lindkvist - Umeå University, Umeå School of Business and Economics, Department of Statistics
Identifiers:
SND-ID: EXT 0082
Purpose:
Description:
The Salute Programme is a health initiative for children and adolescents in Västerbotten. The programme was initiated in 2005 by the Västerbotten County Council in response to increased prevalence of overweight, obesity and tooth decay in children and adolescents in the county. The initiative aims to develop and strengthen health promotion interventions in maternity care, Child Health, dental care, kindergartens and schools and is based on the interaction between them. The main focus areas in the programme are: Conditions during childhood and adolescence, Physical activity and Eating habits.
The goal with the programme is to support each child and their parents throughout childhood, starting during pregnancy when the child is still unborn. The initiative takes its name from the word "salutogenic" as a basic concept is to promote processes that give children and their parents an opportunity to increase control over their health and ability to improve health. The initiative includes both health promotion and disease prevention that seeks equality in health.
The Salute Programme is divided into
Geographic spread:
Geographic location: Västerbotten County
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Population:
The population in the Salut Programme includes all children and adolescents in Västerbotten, and parents during pregnancy.
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Sampling procedure:
To evaluate the interventions, both quantitative and qualitative studies are conducted. Quantitative studies are conducted either with a total survey of the population or with a representative sample within the four pilot areas. In qualitative studies the sample are hand picked to be as wide as possible with the aim to get as much variety as possible.
The four pilot areas are Lycksele, Byske, Robertsfors and Ersboda. The interventions are evaluated through questionnaires, interviews, observations and logbooks.
Funding:
FAS Centre for Global Health Research at the Medical Faculty of Umeå University
Subject area:
Keywords:
health, public health, mental health, Health Services, Environment and Public Health, Dental Care, Life Style, Interview, Exercise, Diet, Child, Family, Obesity, Parturition, Pregnancy, Oral Health, Mental Health, Social Conditions, qualitative data, quantitative data, parent participation, lifestyle factors
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Publications
Kristina Edvardsson, Anneli Ivarsson, Rickard Garvare, Eva Eurenius, Marie Lindkvist, Ingrid Mogren, Rhonda Small, Monica E Nyström. Improving child health promotion practices in multiple sectors - outcomes of the Swedish Salut Programme. BMC Public Health 2012, 12:920.
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Masoud Vaezghasemi, Marie Lindkvist, Anneli Ivarsson, Eva Eurenius. Overweight and lifestyle among 13 to 15 year olds: A cross-sectional study in northern Sweden. Scand J Public Health 2012;40:221–228.
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Kristina Edvardsson, Rickard Garvare, Eva Eurenius, Anneli Ivarsson, Ingrid Mogren och Monica Nyström. Sustainable practice change: Professionals’ experiences with a multisectoral child health promotion programme in Sweden. BMC Health Services Research 2011;11:61.
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Eva Eurenius, Marie Lindkvist, Magdalena Sundkvist, Anneli Ivarsson, Ingrid Mogren. Maternal and paternal self-rated health and BMI in relation to lifestyle in early pregnancy - the Salut Programme in Sweden. Scand J Public Health 2011;39:730-41.
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Kristina Edvardsson, Anneli Ivarsson, Eva Eurenius, Rickard Garvare, Monica E Nyström, Rhonda Small and Ingrid Mogren. Giving offspring a healthy start: parents’ experiences of health promotion and lifestyle change during pregnancy and early parenthood. BMC Public Health 2011;11:936
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Kristina Edvardsson, Marie Lindkvist, Eva Eurenius, Ingrid Mogren, Rhonda Small, Anneli Ivarsson. A poulation-based study of overweight and obesity in expectant parents: socio-demographic patterns and within-couple associations. BMC Public Health 2013:13(1):923.
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Dataset EXT 0082-001
Health questionnaire to expectant parents
Description:
The objective of the Salut Child-Health Intervention Programme in module I have been consensus and collaboration on health promotion efforts directed at expectant parents in the County of Västerbotten. The aim was to prepare the expectant parents in a secure and shared parenting. Furthermore, the aim has also been to promote good health and good lifestyle to, if possible, improve fetal environment and ultimately improve the child's prospects for good health. Expectant parents, early in pregnancy
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Data format / data structure:
Numeric
Collection methodology:
Survey to expectant parents.
Time period(s) investigated:
2006 — ongoing
Response rate/participation rate:
ca 50-55 %
Dataset EXT 0082-002
Professionals involved in the Salut-initiative's pilot areas
Description:
Data format / data structure:
Numeric
Collection methodology:
Interviews.
Time period(s) investigated:
2009-05 — 2009-09
Number of individuals/objects:
23
Response rate/participation rate:
100 %
Dataset EXT 0082-003
Professionals involved in the Salut Programme
Description:
Interventions in the Salut programme’s first two modules (from pregnancy to 18 months of age) were developed and tested in four pilot areas from 2005 to 2007. From 2008 to 2010 they were implemented in the rest of the county in three sequences. This study investigated the early outcomes of this attempt to improve health promotion practices and collaboration between antenatal care, child health care, dental services and open pre-schools. A before-and-after design was used to measure programme out
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Numeric
Collection methodology:
Two different surveys were repeated twice each. One of the questionnaires consisted closed response options and the other one consisted open responses.
Time period(s) investigated:
2009 — 2011
Number of individuals/objects:
144
Response rate/participation rate:
81-96%
Dataset EXT 0082-004
Expectant parents' experiences of health promotion and lifestyle changes
Description:
The study was carried out in four pilot areas where the Salut Programme was first established within the regular Swedish antenatal care, child health care, dental services and open pre-schools. A qualitative study design was adopted using in-depth semi-structured interviews with first-time mothers and fathers when their child had reached 18 months of age. The aim was to explore their experiences of health promotion and lifestyle change during pregnancy and early parenthood. Eight child health ca
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Numeric
Collection methodology:
A qualitative study design was adopted using in-depth semi-structured interviews.
Time period(s) investigated:
2010-06 — 2010-12
Number of individuals/objects:
24
Response rate/participation rate:
73 %
Dataset EXT 0082-005
The child's health on focus
Description:
The aim of the study was to increase knowledge on 1½ years olds health and wellbeing, family lifestyle and living conditions within the Salut Programme in Västerbotten. Participating infants in the age of 1½ year old children was 697, mothers 697 and fathers 674. The parents received a letter with information and a questionnaire with a request to bring their completed questionnaire to the ordinary health and development check-up at 18 months of age to the CHC centre. Child health nurses at seven
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Numeric
Collection methodology:
Survey.
Time period(s) investigated:
2008-04 — 2012-06
Number of individuals/objects:
697
Dataset EXT 0082-006
3 years old survey
Description:
A pilot study performed during 2012 at eleven specially trained child health care centers in Västerbotten to study usability and feasibility of the questionnaire ASQ:SE. 175 families and nurses participated. Now the Strategic Development Office and the Child Health Care Unit are working closely together towards phasing in mental health surveillance countywide for 3-year old children, using ASQ:SE at the basis, planned full-scale from 2014. This process will also include collection of data on chi
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Numeric
Collection methodology:
Survey
Time period(s) investigated:
2012 — ongoing
Number of individuals/objects:
2500
Response rate/participation rate:
ca 85 %
Dataset EXT 0082-007
Description:
In October 2007, all adolescents attending lower-secondary schools (grades 7, 8, and 9 corresponding to
13, 14, and 15 years of age) in well-defined geographical areas in Västerbotten County, were invited to participate in a school-based on-line survey. The questionnaire included questions about demographics, self-rated health, BMI and lifestyle. The total population of adolescents in this age group in all 15 municipalities in the county was 10,432. In our study, including nine municipalities,
Data format / data structure:
Numeric
Collection methodology:
Web-based student survey.
Time period(s) investigated:
2007-10 — 2007-10
Number of individuals/objects:
5546
Response rate/participation rate:
82 %