Evaluation of a Health-Management Course for Recently Settled Immigrants
| Autor: | Rita Sjöström, Lars Söderström, Gunilla Kaev |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Cultural Studies
Gerontology media_common.quotation_subject Health-related quality of life Local authority Immigration Language instruction 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life (healthcare) Intervention (counseling) 030212 general & internal medicine Recently arrived Migration Demography media_common Working life Health management system 030503 health policy & services Public Health Global Health Social Medicine and Epidemiology Mental health Health promotion school Folkhälsovetenskap global hälsa socialmedicin och epidemiologi Anthropology Civic orientation 0305 other medical science Psychology |
| Popis: | This study aims to evaluate an intervention, consisting of nine weeks of health-management course, combined with social and working life orientation and language instruction for recently settled immigrants in Sweden. One hundred one participants in the intervention groups and 48 participants in the control group participated. The intervention consisted of a health management course combined with social and working life orientation and the control group participated in the regular local authority program for social and working life orientation. Measurement instruments were health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and registration of work rate. Several participants in the groups were in work, primarily in subsidized employment, after six months. Recently settled men were employed to a greater extent than the women, where poorer physical and mental health could be observed among women in this study. Participants in the intervention and the control groups had maintained HRQoL from pre-intervention to six months post-intervention. More studies investigating the participants experiences of the health-managing course but also more homogenous measurements in studies for recently settled immigrants are needed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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