Julia Lindblom

Research

Julia Lindblom is a PhD student in Health and Welfare at the School of Health and Welfare. Her project focuses on the interactions between parents with overweight, their children with overweight, and nurses working in Child Health Service (CHS). The project also includes a test of the validity and reliability of the Caring Professional Scale (CPS), an instrument that measures parents’ experiences of caring in CHS.

The first two sub-studies examine how CHS nurses experience conversations about children’s overweight when the parent also has overweight, how they understand and relate to overweight, and how this affects their role in these consultations. In Sub-study I, individual interviews were conducted, and the results formed the basis for short fictional vignettes used in Sub-study II. In Sub-study II, data collection is currently ongoing through focus group interviews, where participants discuss the vignettes and talk about meetings with families where both the child and parent have overweight.

The final two sub-studies focus on the CPS. Sub-study III involved expert review and cognitive interviews with parents, and Sub-study IV is a survey study examining the instrument’s validity and reliability using classical test theory and item response theory.

Biography 

Julia Lindblom is a doctoral student in Health and Welfare at the research school of Health and Welfare. Her project focuses on parents with overweight who have a child with overweight and their interaction with the Child Health Care nurse. The overarching aim is to investigate how parents with or without overweight, who have a child with or without overweight, describe their health and their experiences of consultations with the Child Health Care nurse, as well as how the Child Health Care nurse describes these consultations