ArticleHealth promotion international2021
Elucidating the child's perspective in health promotion: children's experiences of child-centred health dialogue in Sweden.
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- A Systematic Review on Children's Participation in Healthcare From a Child's Perspective.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2025Pooled it
- The role of health literacy in intervention studies targeting children living with overweight or obesity and their parents-a systematic mixed methods review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
- 'Saga Stories in health talks' for health promotion in Swedish child healthcare: results from a cluster-randomised hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation study.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Not for children's ears? Parents' insights into early childhood overweight and obesity treatment.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2026Article
- Children's perspectives on preventive youth health services: a focus group study among Dutch children.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Digital tools to promote or measure health literacy in children aged 3-5 years: scoping review.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- A New Genre of Digital Texts That Explore Children's Frame of Mind, Health Literacy Skills, and Behavioral Intentions for Obesity Prevention.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Myopia Prevalence and Associated Factors IN School-Aged Children in Southern Morocco: A Cross-Sectional Study.The British and Irish orthoptic journal · 2025Article
- The Concept of Child-Centred Care in Healthcare: A Scoping Review.Pediatric reports · 2024Article
- To capture the child's interest - nurses experiences of 'Saga stories in health talks'.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Parents' recalled experiences of the child centred health dialogue in children with overweight: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Involving Children in Health Literacy Research.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Study protocol for an effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial to evaluate a health promotion intervention in parents and their 5-year-old child: Saga Stories in health talks in Swedish child healthcare.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Health Literacy in Early Childhood: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- A child-centered health dialogue for the prevention of obesity in child health services in Sweden - A randomized controlled trial including an economic evaluation.Obesity science & practice · 2022Article
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Abstract
Promoting young children's health through health promotion activities is an investment for the future. In the Child Health Services in the south of Sweden a structured Child-Centred Health Dialogue (CCHD) directed to all 4-year-old children was developed using illustrations based on the most important health messages associated with the promotion of healthy lifestyle in preschool children. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of children participating in CCHD using 21 non-participant observations during their 4-year health visit and additionally 16 individual interviews 0-7 days after their visit, conducted in the child's home in the presence of a caregiver. Children participated as social actors when guided to express their views based upon their own understanding was the overall main category generated from the qualitative content analysis. The children showed that they liked to participate actively but could influence their choice to participate. They expressed their views based on their daily life and wanted to understand the meaning of the information with which they interacted. The study revealed that 4-year-old children given the opportunity to speak for themselves-elucidating the child's perspective-interpreted the health messages in a different way than the intended meaning of the illustrations developed by adults. These findings are important for the improvement of CCHD and underline the utmost importance of including children in research on health promotion. This study supports the view that 4-year-old children can take an active role in their health and are capable of making health information meaningful.
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