Master in Public Health Mashhood Ahmed Sheikh disputerer for ph.d.-graden i helsevitenskap og vil offentlig forsvare avhandlingen:
“Childhood disadvantage, and health and well-being in adulthood”
Kort sammendrag av avhandlingen:
Several previous studies from many parts of the world have shown that childhood disadvantages are associated with lower health and well-being in adulthood. However, the life course mechanisms of childhood disadvantages have rarely been investigated in Norway. The aim of this study was to assess the mediating role of education level, perceived social support, and behavioral factors in the association between childhood disadvantages, and health and well-being in adulthood. Self-reported, questionnaire-based data from two waves of the Tromsø study (IV, and VI) was used in this study. We used ordinary least square regression models, and Poisson regression models to assess mediation with the difference-in-coefficients method. Low parental education, low self-rated childhood financial conditions, psychological abuse, and physical abuse in childhood were associated with increased psychological distress, and lower health and well-being in adulthood. Childhood abuse and education mediated some of the effect of childhood socioeconomic disadvantage on health and well-being in adulthood. Perceived social support and behavioural factors mediated some of the association between childhood abuse and health, and well-being in adulthood.
Veiledere
Hovedveileder professor Jan Abel Olsen
Biveileder forsker Birgit Abelsen
Bedømmelseskomiteen
Professor Pernille Due, Statens Institut for Folkesundhed, Syddansk Universitet, København, Danmark – 1. opponent
Professor Lars Wichstrøm, Institutt for psykologi, NTNU, Trondheim – 2. opponent
Professor Maja-Lisa Løchen, Institutt for samfunnsmedisin, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet – leder av komité
Disputasleder Professor Anne-Sofie Furberg, Institutt for samfunnsmedisin, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Prøveforelesning over oppgitt emne holdes kl. 10.15, samme sted: “The causes of mental health problems illustrated by examples from observational epidemiology versus findings from alternative designs”