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C Sundelin

Publications and source records attributed to C Sundelin.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1995

Characteristics of school children who are choosy eaters.

Choosiness, manifested in refusal of foods, eating little, and disinterest in food, was studied with regard to prevalence, stability, sociodemographic characteristics, health problems, weight, and associated problem behaviors in a sample of 240 Swedish primary school children. Questionnaires were used, and data on sociodemographic variables, health problems, weight, and height were collected from child health-care and school health records. Choosiness was present in one third of the children, but only 8% showed choosy behavior both at home and in school. The choosy children had no more health problems than others, nor were they significantly thinner. Choosiness was not related to gender, social class, or ethnic background. The choosy children had modestly elevated levels of externalizing, hyperactive, and internalizing behavior. The choosy children with a history of refusal to eat in infancy or preschool age had more pronounced choosy behavior and had more problem behaviors than the other choosy children. Choosiness can not easily be categorized within an eating disorders or main problem syndromes of childhood frame of reference.

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PubMed1994

Children with early refusal to eat: follow-up during primary school.

Twenty-five children, previously investigated at 3-12 months of age for refusal to eat for at least four weeks with no apparent medical cause, have been followed-up prospectively with respect to feeding characteristics, general behaviour, somatic health and growth. In the present study, 18 of these children, still resident in Uppsala, were reinvestigated during the primary school period. Comparisons were made with 240 classmates. Information was obtained from school health records and from questionnaires completed by teachers and parents concerning the children's current eating behaviour and general behaviour. Compared with the controls, the children who refused to eat at an early age presented more eating problems both at home (p < 0.01) and at school (p < 0.01), but were not different with respect to general behaviour, somatic health or growth. We conclude that children with previous periods of refusal to eat continue to show problematic eating behaviour, not only at home but also at school.

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PubMed1994

Growing up in Uppsala: the "new morbidity" in the adolescent period. A longitudinal epidemiological study based on school data and some external sources.

The study comprised all 1805 children, most born in 1967, who were in grade 9 of the compulsory school in Uppsala in the spring of 1983 (cross-sectional population) and all 1723 children born in 1967 and resident in Uppsala at ages 10 and 15 years (longitudinal population). The aims were (1) to describe and analyse a normal population of 9th graders in social, medical, educational and psychological respects, (2) to assess relationships between risk level at 10 years, school-identified difficulties at 15 years and psychosocial problems up to age 18, (3) to assess relationships between intervention in school at 15 years and psychosocial problems up to 18 years. Ten-year data had been collected through teacher interviews and analysis of school health records in grade 3. Fifteen-year data were collected through interviews with school health staff and analysis of school health records in grade 9. School marks were gathered at the end of grade 9. Psychosocial problems up to 18 years were assessed on the basis of all registered contacts with official institutions outside school (authorities for care of the handicapped, Department of Child Psychiatry, social agencies, legal authorities). CROSS-SECTIONAL POPULATION. Children older than the grade norm and children of lower social class manifested a more problematic school adjustment and had lower mean marks than younger children and those of higher social classes. Twenty-five per cent of the population had entries in official registers up to age 18, indicating psychosocial problems. Social conditions were related both to the learning process and to psychological health. Educational and psychological problems were mutually correlated. Social problems increased the risk of a number of medical conditions. There were certain relationships between medical and educational problems as well as between medical and psychological problems. LONGITUDINAL POPULATION. Both 10- and 15-year data, particularly the latter, contributed independently to the prediction of psychosocial problems up to age 18. There was a considerably increased risk of psychosocial problems if there had been numerous school difficulties at age 15. Children who had been offered intervention in school at 15 years did not escape psychosocial problems up to 18 years more frequently than children without interventions. In fact, the contrary was the case: with more interventions, the frequencies of psychosocial problems up to age 18 increased.

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PubMed1992

Growing up in Uppsala. The role of public services in identification and treatment of health and adjustment problems. Part I. Definition and classification of dependent variables.

A comprehensive prospective longitudinal study of health, development and social adjustment from the age of four to 18 years has been carried out in Uppsala, Sweden. This report presents the accumulated psychosocial burden up to 18 years of age for all 1715 children born in 1965 and resident in Uppsala from age 10 to 18 years. The psychosocial burden up to 18 years of age was assessed through analysis of records and register information from school health services, authorities for care of the handicapped, the Department of Child Psychiatry, social agencies and legal authorities. The analysis showed that 11.8% of the adolescents had a severe psychosocial burden up to the age of 18 years which could hamper their future life as adults. It was possible to categorize the whole birth cohort into one subgroup without manifest psychosocial problems and five different subgroups with serious problems: the six groups (severe mental or physical handicap, antisocial behaviour, psychiatric problems, social support, multiple problems, "normal") had specific profiles concerning sex distribution, symptoms, social background, utilization of care services and delinquency.

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PubMed1992

Growing up in Uppsala. Part II. Could adolescents with severe psychosocial problems have been identified by symptoms observed in school at age 10 years?

The study comprised all 1715 children born in 1965 and resident in Uppsala at age 10 and 18 years. Data were collected through teacher interviews and analysis of school health records in grade 3 at the age of 10 years. The psychosocial burden up to the age of 18 years was assessed on the basis of all registered contacts with official institutions outside school (authorities for care of the handicapped, Department of Child Psychiatry, social agencies, legal authorities). Approximately 12% of the adolescents were clearly in a situation of manifest psychosocial risk on the threshold of adult life. These adolescents were assigned to five mutually exclusive problem groups comprising different sex distribution, symptoms and utilization of institutional care. The analysis of the relationship between data from grade 3 and the psychosocial burden up to 18 years of age showed that the information available to the school did not permit reasonably secure predictions of the child's psychosocial situation at the end of adolescence. Observations in school of pre-adolescent children cannot be used as a basis for risk-group strategies aiming at concentrating early treatment measures and resources to a restricted number of children at risk. However, the prognosis is apparently serious for a limited number of 10-year-olds with serious problems in school.

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PubMed1992

Feeding problems in an affluent society. Follow-up at four years of age in children with early refusal to eat.

Twenty-four children, previously investigated at 3-12 months of age for refusal to eat during at least four weeks with no apparent medical cause, were followed up prospectively and reinvestigated at four years of age. Comparisons were made with 38 controls, selected from the same child health care districts. Information was obtained from parental interviews, medical records and assessments by a speech therapist. At four years of age, 17 of the 24 children with early refusal to eat (71%) were reported by the parents to still have feeding problems and 10 (42%) were reported as hyperactive. Compared to the controls, the children with early refusal to eat seemed to have an equally good prognosis with respect to health, growth and development, but were at risk of later problems with their eating patterns and behaviour.

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PubMed1992

Assessment of speech and language skills in children.

A speech and language assessment procedure was developed to study different aspects of speech and language skills in children 6.5 years old who had needed intensive care in the neonatal period. It was required that the procedure could be carried out at one examination session and that it should characterize a broad spectrum of language skills and permit detection of deviations in language development. The assessment comprises three parts. Part A is an evaluation of the child's spontaneous speech during a 10- to 15-minute conversation between the child and the assessor. Eight different variables are assessed, and an overview of the child's conversational behaviour is obtained. Part B is an assessment of speech and language skills. A set procedure is used to assess auditory discrimination, interaction between auditory and speech motor capacity, different comprehension functions, vocabulary and word fluency. Some motor tasks are included to elucidate the relationship between speech and non-linguistic fine motor activity. Part C is an interview with the parents. A control group of 40 children was tested. The assessment protocol is now being applied for follow-up examination of children who have needed neonatal intensive care at Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden.

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PubMed1991

Child health records as a database for clinical practice, research and community planning.

In considering health information systems, great hope is attached to the use of child health records as a data source for research and community planning. In order to test the completeness of child health records data and their agreement with other sources, information about living conditions, use of medical services and health problems in preschool children were studied in 707 child health centres' records. The results show a considerable number of deficiencies in the system which could, to a certain extent, be remedied by improved instructions to the staff. Health problems in the area of child care also need to be fully defined.

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PubMed1990

Services to families with children. A study of community work in Uppsala.

This article describes some of the results of a study of services to families and children in a suburban district, Sweden. Services included in the study were: maternal and child health care, child psychiatry, services for handicapped children, school health care, day care services, community social services and family counselling services. The baseline studies comprised analyses of official goals expressed in legislation and recommendations, interviews with local politicians and administrators, record studies, studies of working time distribution and questionnaires to field professionals and families. The results indicate that services with traditional goals and well-defined tasks (e.g. health supervision) were more satisfied with their goal attainment, less inclined to collaborate with other services, and more occupied with direct client work than services with non-traditional goals and vaguely defined tasks (e.g. strengthening democracy).

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PubMed1987

Early and late discharge after hospital birth: breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding was studied among women discharged early and late after normal delivery in a hospital. Early discharge was defined as leaving the hospital 24-48 h after delivery in combination with domiciliary visits, and late discharge as the regular hospital postpartum care (mean 6 days). 164 women interested in participating in the early discharge study were randomly allocated in late pregnancy to a group offered early discharge (Experimental group = EG) or a group offered the traditional later discharge (Control group = CG). After medical exclusions and non-medical withdrawals, 50 mother-infant couples remained in EG and 54 in CG. Regular breastfeeding at 6 months after birth was reported by 63% of the multiparae in EG and 41% in CG (p = 0.06). Thirty-three per cent of the primiparae in each group were still breastfeeding at 6 months. 2% of the infants in EG and 72% in CG received supplementary breastmilk at least once during their first week of life. Infants discharged early were breastfed more often on the 2nd (NS), 3rd (p less than 0.05) and 4th day (p less than 0.001) after birth, compared with infants who stayed longer in hospital. There were no statistically significant differences between EG and CG women in their experience of success in breastfeeding according to daily records from the first 14 days after the birth.

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