Background: Obesity is one of the most common causes of illness among children and adolescents. School nurses work includes health examination and health interviews including growth follow-up, prevention of illness and health framing. In health interviews the school nurse have possibility to support student to a more helthy lifestyle. Purpose: To study school nurses experiences of how they can affect overweight students to more healthy lifestyle. Method: The study has been conducted with a qualitative method. School nurses have been interviewed by semi structured questions. The data from the interviews were analyzed by a qualitative content analysis with an inductive approach. Results: In health interviews, the school nurse needs to establish a relationship that is built with a respectful approach in which recurring health interviews, the school nurse needs to establish a relationship that is built up by a respectful approach where autonomy is well preserved. Through encouragement and confirmation, the student can be motivated to reduce overweight if the family is involved too. Conclusion: It is important to involve the whole family in health-framing nursing. School nurses experiences shows that it is important to focus on living habits instead of obesity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:his-13846 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Englund, Maria, Öbrell, Marie-Louise |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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