Principal Investigator:
Dr Oddrun Samdal

Address:
Research Centre for Health Promotion
University of Bergen
Christiesg 13
N-5015 Bergen
NORWAY

Web address:
www.uib.no/psyfa/hemil

Tel: +47 55 58 25 60
Fax: +47 55 58 98 87
Email: oddrun.samdal@psych.uib.no

Team members:
Ms Ingrid Leversen
Ms Ellen Haug
Mr Torbjørn Torsheim
Dr Jørn Hetland
Mr Fredrik Hansen
Mrs Marianne Skogbrott Birkeland
Mr Ole Melkevik
Ms Anne Danielsen (PhD Student)

Surveys Conducted:
1983/84, 1985/86, 1989/90, 1993/94, 1997/98, 2001/02, 2005/06

Areas of expertise:

• School as a resource or risk to students' health and health behaviours
• Subjective health complaints
• Student role strain and health complaints
• Measurement and structure of health complaints
• Social inequalities in adolescent health and health behaviours
• Adolescent substance use
• Policy and adolescent smoking control
• Physical activity and health
• Survey instrument methodology
• Evaluation methodology

National Publications

Journal articles
Reports
Other publications

Journal articles

Johnsen, Søviknes, Torsheim T. (in press). Mestringsressurser og opplevd skole-relatert stress hos skoleungdom: en prospektiv studie av gjensidige sammenhenger [Coping resources and perceived school-related stress in adolescents : a prospective study of reciprocal associations]. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening [Journal of Psychologist Federation].

Klepp KI, Halvorsen M, Bjørneboe GEA, Wold B. (1996) Evaluering av Mat i skolen. Endring over tid i måltidsmønsteret blant norsk skoleungdom. [Evaluation of "Food in school". Changes in meal regularity among Norwegian schoolchildren. English abstract]. Näringsforskning [Scandinavian Journal of Nutrition],40 (3), 113-116.

Osen E, Torsheim T, Wold B. (2000). Skolerelatert støtte som moderator av kjønnsforskjeller i subjektive helseplager hos norsk skoleungdom [School-related support as a moderator of gender differences in subjective health complaints in Norwegian adolescents], Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening [Journal of Pyschologist Federation], 37(19), 900-907.

Von Mehren B, Kallhovd AG, Torsheim T, Wold B. (2001) Subjektive helseplager blant 15-årige skole-elever: modererer fysisk aktivitet effekten av skolerelaterte belastninger ? [Subjective health complaints in 15-year old students : does physical activity moderate the effect of school-related strain?] Nordisk Psykologi [Nordic Pscyhology], 53 (1), 39-53.

Wold B & Klepp KI. (1996) Helsefremmende arbeid i skolen. En utfordring for norske psykologer [Health promotion in school. A challenge for Norwegian psychologists. English abstract], Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening [Journal of the Norwegian Psychology Association]. 8, 734-742.

Reports:

Aarø LE, Wold B, Samdal O, Haugland S. (1998). Psychological and somatic complaints among adolescents. Searching for psychosocial risk factors. I S.Einarsen (Ed.), Forskning ved Institutt for samfunnspsykologi 1998 (s.1-19). Bergen: Universitetet i Bergen, Institutt for samfunnspsykologi.

Wold B. (1989), Lifestyles and physical activity: a theoretical and empirical analysis of socialization among children and adolescents. PhD Dissertation, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen.

Wold B, Aasen H, Aarø LE, Samdal O. (1995) Health and lifestyles among children and adolescents in Norway (in Norwegian) (Helse og livsstil blant barn og unge i Norge). HEMIL-report nr. 14. Research Centre for Health Promotion, University of Bergen, Norway.

Wold B, Hetland J, Aarø LE, Samdal O, Torsheim T (2000) Utviklingstrekk i helse og livsstil blant barn og unge fra Norge, Sverige, Ungarn og Wales. Resultater fra landsomfattende spørreskjema-undersøkelser tilknyttet prosjektet "Helsevaner blant skoleelever. En WHO-undersøkelse i flere land" (HEVAS). [Trends in health and lifestyle in children and adolescents in Norway, Sweden, Hungary and Wales. Results from nationwide surveys in Health Behaviour in School-aged Children, a WHO Cross-National Study (HBSC)]. HEMIL report no 1, Research Centre for Health Promotion, University of Bergen. ISBN 82-7669-075-0

Other publications:

Haugland S. Health and well-being among adolescents : A computerbased educational package. Student's book. University of Bergen: Research Center for Health Promotion and Norwegian Social Science Data Services. (Norwegian)

Samdal O, Wold B. School as students' work place : A computerbased educational package. Student's book. University of Bergen: Research Center for Health Promotion and Norwegian Social Science Data Services. (Norwegian)

Samdal O, Wold B, Tjomsland H, Haugland S. (in press): Well-being and strain in school : A computerbased educational package. Teachers' book. University of Bergen: Research Center for Health Promotion and Norwegian Social Science Data Services. (Norwegian)

Tjomsland HE, Samdal O. Bullying in school : A computerbased educational package. Students' book. University of Bergen: Research Center for Health Promotion and Norwegian Social Science Data Services. (Norwegian)