Lena Hedin

Karolinska University Hospital — Sweden

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Intimate Partner and Family Violence(7), Child Welfare and Adoption(7), Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse(6), Child Abuse and Trauma(5), Mobile Health and mHealth Applications(3)

Publications23 total

Physical Activity and Screen Time Trends in Swedish Youth: The Generation Pep Study 2018–2023
Acta Paediatrica·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Mediated effects of LIFE4YOUth—a mobile health intervention for multiple lifestyle behavior change among high school students in Sweden: findings from a randomized controlled trial
BMC Public Health·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Support and challenges in the process of leaving care: A Swedish qualitative follow-up study of foster youths’ lived experiences
Qualitative Social Work·2016· 25 cited
När krisen slår till : En kvalitativ studie av hur den nationella flyktingkrisen påverkat, hanterats och uppfattats i en kommunal verksamhet
KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)·2016Open Access
Good Relations between Foster Parents and Birth Parents: A Swedish Study of Practices Promoting Successful Cooperation in Everyday Life
Child Care in Practice·2015· 23 cited
Design of an online health-promoting community: negotiating user community needs with public health goals and service capabilities
BMC Health Services Research·2013· 12 citedOpen Access
A sense of belonging in a changeable everyday life – a follow‐up study of young people in kinship, network, and traditional foster families
Child & Family Social Work·2012· 36 cited
Foster youth's sense of belonging in kinship, network and traditional foster families. : An interactive perspective on foster youth's everyday life.
KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)·2012· 8 citedOpen Access
Jokes and routines make everyday life a good life—on ‘doing family’ for young people in foster care in Sweden
European Journal of Social Work·2011· 21 cited
Settling into a new home as a teenager: About establishing social bonds in different types of foster families in Sweden
Children and Youth Services Review·2011· 24 cited
Why one goes to school: what school means to young people entering foster care
Child & Family Social Work·2010· 41 cited
Bemötande av elever med utagerande beteende : En studie av fem lärares bemötande
KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)·2010Open Access
School and Family Life Empower Young People Entering Foster Care
PsycEXTRA Dataset·2010
[Abuse of women is a public health problem. All female patients over the age of 14 should be part of a routine screening program].
PubMed·2002· 3 cited
One in four women experience violence in their lifetime, which may lead to adverse effects on long-term morbidity
Evidence-based Healthcare·2002· 1 cited
Physical and sexual abuse against women and children
Current Opinion in Obstetrics & Gynecology·2000· 23 cited
Domestic violence during pregnancy
Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica·2000· 89 cited
Postpartum, also a risk period for domestic violence
European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology·2000· 78 cited
Domestic violence during pregnancy: The prevalence of physical injuries, substance use, abortions and miscarriages
Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica·2000· 124 cited
THE PREVALENCE OF PHYSICAL INJURIES, SUBSTANCE USE, ABORTIONS AND MISCARRIAGES
2000· 23 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Elinor Brunnberg(4), Per Olof Janson(3), Ingrid Höjer(3), Marie Löf(2), Hilde Grimstad(1), Anders Möller(1), Berit Schei(1), Patrick Janson(1), P. O. Janson(1), Joakim Ekberg(1), Toomas Timpka(1), Marianne Angbratt(1), Linda Frank(1), Anna-Maria Norén(1), Emelie Andersen(1), Elin Gursky(1), Boel Andersson Gäre(1), Nina Kaegi-Braun(1), Sophie Cassel(1), Anders Carlander(1)