Ingrid Weiber, Doctoral student

Public Health Science

Title/titles

RN, Doctoral student Reg. Nurse, Master of Science in Medical Science, Doctoral student in Public Health.

Department/unit

School of Health Science
Blekinge Institute of Technology
School of Health Science
SE-371 79 Karlskrona
Sweden
Phone: +46 455 38 54 51
E-mail: ingrid.weiber@bth.se

Title of Thesis work

To grow up with a mother with mental retardation

Overall aim of the thesis

To describe the situation for children living with mothers with mental retardation.

Dissertation plan and preliminary time schedule

Half time seminar: autumn 2010.

Main supervisor

Name: Mona Eklund
Title: Professor
Affiliation: Lund University
E-mail: mona.eklund@med.lu.se

Assistant supervisors/s

Name: Johan Berglund
Title: Professor
Affiliation:Blekinge Institute of Technology, School of Health Science, SE-371 79 Karlskrona, Sweden
E-mail: johan.berglund@bth.se

Name: Per-Anders Tengland
Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Malmö University
E-mail: per-anders.tengland@mah.se

Peer reviewed Publications

Weiber I, Berglund J, Tengland PA, Eklund M. (2011) Children born to women with intellectual disabilities - 5-year incidence in a Swedish county. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. Vol. 55, part: 11, pp: 1078-1085.

Financing and affiliations

Position as a doctoral student financed by BTH. Grant from Blekinge Research Council, Scholarship from the Ebba Danelius Scholarship Fund.

Professional background/interests

As a nurse I have been working with children and adolescents for 25 years. My parents had for many years, all through my childhood, a nursing home for mentally retarded persons. When I found out how little research had been done on the situation for children living with parents with mental retardation, I realised that this was a gap I could contribute to filling.