Katarina Sjögren Forss, Doctoral student
Public Health Science
Title
BSc, MSc, Doctoral student Public Health Science
Department/unit
Blekinge Institute of Technology
School of Health Science
SE-371 79 Karlskrona
Sweden
Phone: +46 455 38 54 80
E-mail: katarina.sjogren.forss@bth.se
Title of thesis work
Participation in physical activity in relation to different life-change events.
Overall aim of the thesis
To study how life changes influences the performance physical activity.
Dissertation plan and preliminary time schedule
August 20th, 2013
Main supervisor
Name: Eva Ekvall Hansson
Title: PhD
Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Malmö, Lund University
E-mail: eva.ekvall-hansson@med.lu.se
Assistant supervisors
Name: Louise Stjernberg
Title: PhD, Senior Lecturer
Affiliation: Blekinge Institute of Technology
E-mail: louise.stjernberg@bth.se
Name: Margareta Troein Töllborn
Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Malmö, Lund University
E-mail: margareta.troein@med.lu.se
Financing and affiliations
School of Health Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology
"Peer Reviewed" Publications
Sjögren K, Ekvall Hansson E, Stjernberg L. Parenthood and factors that influence outdoor recreational physical activity from a gender perspective. BMC Public Health 2011, 11:93
Sjögren K, Stjernberg L. Factors influencing outdoor recreation physical activity among elderly. BMC Geriatrics 2010;10:34
Fochsen G, Sjögren K, Josephson M, Lagerström M. (2005) Factors contributing to the decision to leave nursing care: a study among Swedish nursing personnel. Journal of Nursing Management 13, 338-344.
Sjögren K, Fochsen G, Josephson M, Lagerström M. (2005) Reasons for leaving nursing care and improvements needed for considering a return: a study among Swedish nursing personnel. International Journal of Nursing Studies 42, 751-758.
Publikations under Peer-Review
Sjögren Forss K, Ekvall Hansson E, Troein M, Stjernberg L. Patterns of physical activity among women and men before and during pregnancy.
Sjögren Forss K, Stjernberg L, Troein M, Ekvall Hansson E. Physical activity among individuals with osteoarthritis.
Abstracts & Conference Presentations
Sjögren Forss K, Stjernberg L. (2012) Differences in physical activity patterns among women and men with and without children. 5th European Public Health Conference, 7-10 November, St Julians, Malta.
Sjögren K, Ekvall Hansson E, Stjernberg L. (2010) Outdoor recreational physical activity and parenthood in a gender perspective - a study from the south eastern part of Sweden. 3rd European Public Health Conference, 10-13 November, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sjögren K, Stjernberg L. (2009). Factors influencing outdoor recreational physical activity among elderly in the south eastern part of Sweden. 12th World Congress On Public Health, April 27 - May 1. Istanbul, Turkey.
Sjögren K, Stjernberg L. (2008). Parenting, recreation and physical activity. A study of expectant parents' activity patterns. Conference on outdoor recreation research, Karlstad University. (In Swedish)
Sjögren K, Fochsen G, Josephson M, Lagerström M. (2003) Reasons for leaving nursing care and improvements needed for considering a return: a study among Swedish nursing personnel. Annual EUPHA meeting, 20-22 November, Rome, Italy.
Networks
GAPA - Global Advocacy for Physical Activity
ISPAH - International Society for Physical Activity and Health
External funding and grants
The project "Faktorer som påverkar utövandet av friluftsliv och fysisk aktivitet före och under graviditet samt under spädbarnsperioden hos kvinnan och hennes partner" has been granted 100.000 SEK (year 2008) and 150.000 SEK (year 2010) by Blekinge Research Council.
Professional background/interests
I was educated at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, in Örebro and at Karolinska Institutet, in Stockholm.
I then worked at Karolinska Institutet, partly as a research assistant and partly as a lecturer in public health.
In the fall of 2005 I was employed as a lecturer in public health as well as a project coordinator for the EU project WelHops at the School of Health Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology.
Since the autumn of 2007 I am a doctoral student in Public Health Science and enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University.
My research is about how different life events affect the performance of physical activity and recreation. Life events that are studied include; getting older, expecting children and becoming a parent and to suffer from a chronic illness (arthrosis).
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