The sociocultural economic, and political participation of girls has become a prevalent focus of policy. research, and practice. Despite their increasing visibility in the demographic composition of Canadian society. however, racialized minority girls remain largely invisible in these debates. Monolithic discourses of girl power. 'at risk' girls. youth participation and feminist activism do not account for the complex and uneven ways in which minority girls engage as knowledge producers, advocates, and community participants within cultural contexts that foster the depoliticization and social exclusion of young women of colour. Minority girls face intersecting barriers to civic participation and social inclusion `on their own terms' related to race. gender. age, citizenship. language, class and religion, among other factors. As rapid global change reconfigures girls' local realities and thus their practices of engagement, our traditional models and discourses of participation must be expanded. To problematize the relations of power under which minority girls constitute their practices of engagement and community building. I constructed a transdisciplinary conceptual framework grounded in postcolonial and transnational feminist theories. The research examined minority girls' practices of 'transformative engagement' (TE) in a collaborative, community-based, feminist Participatory Action Research project entitled "It's About Us." The study was based in Victoria. British Columbia. a predominantly Euro-Western Canadian city. "It's About Us" responded to minority girls' requests for a minority- and girl-centered epistemic space from which to explore their experiences of gendered racialization. Expressive methods including popular theatre. photography. and art served as vehicles for their engagement. The iterative feminist research design yielded data garnered from focus groups. theatre sessions. and scripts. participant-observation, journaling and photo-ethnography. This design provided the enabling conditions to deepen and sustain the girls' practices of oppositional agency and thus the emergence of transformative engagement. I developed an Interpretive Spiral Model (ISM) to extricate the difficulties of translating a feminist conceptual framework into a sustainable girl-centered project. My findings characterize transformative engagement as a multisited. precarious, generative form of praxis, rather than a formulaic process with guaranteed outcomes. I propose that the facilitation of transformative engagement entails four intersecting strategies: border crossing into exclusionary spaces. resources. and lines of power; developing safe, strategic communities of belonging: producing disruptive. critical knowledge; and engaging in public and social action. Overall. the girls' strategies of transformative engagement reveal a spectrum of subversive, deeply contextualized, multifaceted feminisms congruent with their own needs and experiences. The transformative engagement process resulted in multiple successful outcomes including theatre and conference presentations, media and website productions, and, most notably, contribution to the creation of a network of over 100 racialized girls and women called Anti-dote. The research findings illustrate how girl-centered. feminist action research can provide avenues to support minority girls' unique practices of resistance and social change. and feature their voices more prominently in community, policy, research, and practice.

Bakgrund: Kommunikationssvårigheter inom vården är vanligt förekommande och bidrar till många utmaningar vilket påverkar vårdkvalitén. Detta ställer höga krav på vårdpersonal, patient och deras omgivning. Det finns en kunskapslucka gällande forskning inom barnhabilitering utifrån fysioterapeuters perspektiv. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka fysioterapeuters upplevelser av att bemöta barn i skolålder (6–18 år) inom habilitering som har kommunikationssvårigheter. Metod: För denna studie användes en kvalitativ design i beskrivande intervjuform. Data analyserades genom kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Fyra huvudkategorier kunde identifieras utifrån fysioterapeuternas svar: “Känslor kopplade till lyckad och misslyckad kommunikation”, “Fysioterapeuternas tillvägagångssätt för att hantera kommunikation med barn”, “Kommunikationens betydelse i mötet med barn” och “Omständigheter som påverkar kommunikationen”. Detta innefattade bland annat att en fungerande kommunikation är särskilt beroende av fysioterapeutens tillvägagångsätt, kunskap och erfarenheter inom området. Det framkom att kommunikationen hade betydelse för barnets delaktighet och effekten av habiliteringen. Slutsats: Studien har visat att kommunikationssvårigheter hos barn skapar utmaningar för fysioterapeuter och har betydelse för barnets delaktighet och effekten av habiliteringen. Fungerande kommunikation behövs för ett gynnsamt samarbete och effektiv och anpassad behandling för barnet. Fler studier behövs för att öka förståelsen och kunskapen inom området. / Background: Communication deficit is a commonly occouring condition whitin healthcare and often creates challenges and puts higher demands on both healthcare workers, patients and their surroundings. This affects the quality of care and the received treatment. There is a lack of studies from a physiotherapeutic perspective working with habilitation for children.  Aim: The aim of this study was to explore experiences of physiotherapists of working with children (6-18 years) with communication deficits within habilitation. Method: Qualitative study design was employed and data were collected by semi-structured interviews with six physiotherapists. Data were analysed based on qualitative content analysis with inductive approach. Result: Based on the physiotherapists´ narrative four categories emerged: “Feelings connected to successful and unsuccessful communication”, “Physiotherapists´ approach of handling communication with children”, “The importance of communication when working with children” and “Emerged circumstances that affects communication”. The physiotherapists reported that non-functioning communication had a direct effect on the child’s participation and the treatments’ outcome. Conclusion: Physiotherapists experienced that communictaion deficit affects the outcome of habilitation and the participation of the child. Their knowledge of communication strategies and their ability to include and collaborate with the child and their surroundings were aspects for successful communication. Further research is needed to gain a better understanding of the results as current evidence within this field is limited.

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Bakgrund: Barns delaktighet i sin vård uppmuntras i flera lagar. Forskning visar att sjuksköterskor upplever det som viktigt att barnet är delaktig i sin vård och att delaktigheten måste anpassas efter barnets mognad. Inom psykiatrin har forskning visat att barns delaktighet är svårare att tillgodose. För sjuksköterskor finns det olika vårdmodeller att arbeta efter och även utarbetade delaktighetsmodeller för att synliggöra barns delaktighet. Sjuksköterskors erfarenhet av barns delaktighet inom den svenska öppenvårdspsykiatrin finns det fortfarande behov av att utforska.  Syfte: Att belysa sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av barns delaktighet i sin vård inom barn och ungdomspsykiatrisk öppenvård.  Metod: Kvalitativ intervjustudie utförd med Stimulated Recall Interview. Totalt 12 stycken sjuksköterskor intervjuades och det transkriberade materialet analyserades med hjälp av innehållsanalys. Resultat: Dataanalysen resulterade i två huvudkategorier: Att anpassa det unika mötet och Att balansera mellan barnet och föräldrarna.  Slutsats: Sjuksköterskorna inom barn och ungdomspsykiatrins öppenvård arbetar aktivt för att göra barn delaktiga i sin vård. Detta ansågs som både viktigt och centralt i deras yrkesutövning. De använde sig själva och relationen till barnet som en del i att göra barnet delaktig. Anpassningar i mötet med barnet var en del av det dagliga arbetet. Sjuksköterskor upplevde att de behövde balansera på en fin linje mellan barn och föräldrar. Detta kunde ses som ett etiskt dilemma. / Background: Children's participation in their care is encouraged in several laws. Research suggests that nurses experience that it is essential that the child is involved in their care, and that the involvement must be adjusted depending on the maturity of the child. Within child psychiatry, research shows that participation is more difficult to achieve. For nurses there are different care models to work from, and even models of participation to make children's participation visible. Nurses’ experiences of children's participation within the Swedish psychiatric outpatient care, is so far an unexplored area. Method: Qualitative interview study with 12 participants. Implemented through the method Stimulated Recall Interview. The transcribed data was analyzed with content analysis. Purpose: To highlight nurses experiences of children´s participation in their care within child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinics. Results: The findings resulted in two main categories: To adapt the unique meeting and To balance between the child and the parents. Conclusions: Nurses at child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinics work actively to make children involved in their care. This was experienced as important and central in their professional practice. They used themselves and the relationship with the child as a way to make the child involved.  Adaptations in the meeting with the child was part of the daily work. Nurses experienced that they had to balance on a fine line between the children and the parents. This could be seen as an ethical dilemma.

<p>This study aims to examine how adolescents with diabetes describe and value their experience of participating in a support group and how they describe the issues of being a teenager with diabetes. This is a qualitative study and we have interviewed three young women who have been participating in a support group. The results of the interviews were analyzed through a phenomenological method and then compared to earlier research and interpreted through symbolic interactionism and Erikson's development-theory, which were our theories of choice. Our findings support earlier research when stating that support groups are important and necessary for adolescents with chronic illnesses. Our interviewees stated that they think that one of the most important benefits of support groups is to meet other people in their situation; same age and same chronic illness.</p>

This study aims to examine how adolescents with diabetes describe and value their experience of participating in a support group and how they describe the issues of being a teenager with diabetes. This is a qualitative study and we have interviewed three young women who have been participating in a support group. The results of the interviews were analyzed through a phenomenological method and then compared to earlier research and interpreted through symbolic interactionism and Erikson's development-theory, which were our theories of choice. Our findings support earlier research when stating that support groups are important and necessary for adolescents with chronic illnesses. Our interviewees stated that they think that one of the most important benefits of support groups is to meet other people in their situation; same age and same chronic illness.

Contexte : L’obésité est une problématique multifactorielle qui peut s’accompagner d’un lot de complications autant chez les enfants que chez les adultes. Certains comportements alimentaires ont été associés à l’obésité pédiatrique, comme manger en absence de faim (MAF). Or, les déterminants de MAF n’ont pas tous été élucidés, en partie parce que ce comportement est difficile à évaluer. Objectifs : Le premier objectif est d’effectuer une revue systématique sur les déterminants individuels, familiaux et environnementaux de MAF chez les enfants et les adolescents âgés de 3 à 17 ans. Le deuxième objectif est de valider une traduction française d’un questionnaire permettant de mesurer MAF chez les enfants québécois de 7 à 15 ans. Méthodes : Pour la revue systématique (objectif #1), les critères d’éligibilité incluaient, entre autres, une population pédiatrique (3 à 17 ans) et l’évaluation d’au moins un facteur associé à MAF. Pour la validation transculturelle du questionnaire (objectif #2), des garçons et des filles âgés de 7 à 15 ans ont rempli le questionnaire à deux reprises dans un intervalle de 4 semaines. Nous avons évalué la validité de construit (structure et association avec le score z d’IMC) et la fidélité du questionnaire (cohérence interne et stabilité temporelle). Résultats : La synthèse des 81 articles inclus dans la revue systématique a révélé que chez les enfants, MAF était positivement associé à l’âge, à l’adiposité et à la présence de l’allèle A du gène FTO (fat mass and obesity associated gene). MAF semblait également davantage présent les garçons que chez les filles, mais certains facteurs familiaux, comme l’utilisation de pratiques parentales restrictives, étaient davantage associés à la présence de MAF chez les filles. MAF semble se stabiliser et persister à l’adolescence. L’étude sur la validation du questionnaire a montré que le questionnaire traduit possède une structure similaire à celle du questionnaire original. Chacune des 3 dimensions (émotions négatives, la fatigue ou l’ennui et les facteurs externes) avait une cohérence interne et une stabilité adéquate et MAF en réponse aux émotions négatives était associé à un score z d’IMC plus élevé. Conclusion : Ce mémoire contribuera au développement des connaissances sur le comportement MAF chez les enfants et les adolescents, en faisant le point sur les facteurs qui sont associés à MAF et en fournissant un outil permettant de mesurer facilement MAF en français / Background: Obesity is a multifactorial problematic which can lead to a variety of complications in both children and adults. Eating behaviors have been associated with obesity during childhood, such as eating in the absence of hunger (EAH). However, not all determinants of EAH have been elucidated, in part because this behavior is difficult to assess. Objectives: The first objective is to conduct a systematic review of the literature on individual, familial and environmental factors associated with EAH in children and adolescents aged 3-17 years old. The second objective is to perform a transcultural validation of a French translation of a questionnaire for the assessment of EAH in children and adolescents aged 7-15 years old. Methods: For the systematic review (objective #1), eligibility criteria for the study selection included a pediatric population (3-17 years of age) and evaluation of at least one factor potentially associated with EAH. For the transcultural validation of the questionnaire (objective #2), boys and girls aged 7-15 years old completed the questionnaire twice within 4 weeks. We assessed construct validity (structural validity and associations with BMI z-score) and reliability (internal consistency and temporal stability) of the questionnaire. Results: Synthesis of the 81 included studies in this systematic review revealed that among children, EAH is positively associated with age, with adiposity and with the presence of the A allele of the FTO gene (fat mass and obesity associated gene. This behavior is also more prevalent among boys than girls, but some familial factors, such as parental restrictive feeding practices, were associated with more EAH in girls. EAH also appears to remain present into adolescence. The transcultural validation revealed that the French translated version of the questionnaire had a similar structure compared to the original questionnaire. All dimensions (negative affect, fatigue/boredom and external cues) had an adequate internal consistency and temporal stability and EAH in response to negative affect was associated with a higher BMI z-score. Conclusions: This dissertation will contribute to fill the knowledge gaps about EAH in children and adolescents, by identifying factors associated with EAH and by providing a tool to easily measure EAH in French.

The purpose of the study was to examine the perception of female and male high school students regarding perpetrators and victims of teen dating violence. The purpose was furthermore to examine how the interviewees biological sex effects their description of the perpetrator and victim. The empirical material has been gathered through three groupintervies with a total of twelve interviewees. The main result shows that both girls and boys had easier to see boys as perpetrators and that high school students condemn teen dating violence. The high school students discussed the victims responsibility to handle the situation and that they diminishes the actions of the female perpetrator. The high school students also expressed that the victim may suffer negative consequences if he or she decides to leave the abusive relationship. / Studiens syfte var att undersöka kvinnliga och manliga högstadieungdomars föreställningar om gärningsperson och offer gällande ungas våld i nära relation. Syftet var dessutom att undersöka hur respondentens kön påverkar beskrivningen av gärningsperson och offer. Insamling av empiri har skett genom tre fokusgruppsintervjuer med totalt tolv respondenter. Huvudresultatet visar att både tjejer och killar hade lättare att se killar som förövare och att högstadieungdomarna fördömde våld i nära relation. Högstadieungdomarna beskrev också att offer har ett ansvar för att hantera situationen och att dom förminskar den kvinnliga gärningspersonens agerande. Högstadieungdomarna uttryckte också att den våldsutsatta kan drabbas av negativa konsekvenser vid separation.