My Sjunnestrand

PhD student at Department of food studies, nutrition and dietetics

E-mail:: my.sjunnestrand@ikv.uu.se
Visiting address:: BMC
Husargatan 3
752 37 Uppsala
Postal address:: Box 560
751 22 UPPSALA

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Short presentation

I am a nutritionist and PhD student interested in childhood obesity and stigma. My doctoral thesis aims to explore obesity stigma in young children, with particular focus on the preschool, healthcare and home environment.

Main supervisor: Paulina Nowicka

Co-supervisor: Nicklas Neuman, Kajsa Järvholm, Karin Eli, Ximena Ramos Salas

Keywords

social inequality
child health
childhood obesity
children
obesity stigma

Biography

I have previous experience in research aiming at preventing and treating childhood obesity. In 2019, I published my master thesis about child health care nurses experiences of talking about overweight and obesity with parents (Planting a seed - child health care nurses' perceptions of speaking to parents about overweight and obesity, BMC Public Health, 2019). The nurses expressed that many of the barriers to having effective conversations about children's weight related to the stigma attached to overweight and obesity. This finding made me interested in further exploring the causes and consequences of stigma, which is the main focus of my doctoral thesis.

In addition to my interest in childhood obesity and stigma, I have a background in implementation and partnership research.

I was admitted as a PhD student in November 2022 and plan to defend my thesis in 2026.

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Articles, review/survey

Fidelity to and Adaptation of Evidence-based Interventions in the Social Work Literature: A Scoping Review

Strehlenert, Helena; Hedberg Rundgren, Emma; Sjunnestrand, My; Hasson, Henna

Part of British Journal of Social Work, p. 1356-1376, 2023
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Implementing School-Based Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review of the Literature Summarizing the Factors That Affect Implementation

Richter, Anne; Sjunnestrand, My; Romare Strandh, Maria; Hasson, Henna

Part of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
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