Oddrun Samdal

Title: Professor

Phone: +47 55 58 25 60

Cellphone: +47 970 70 904 SMS

E-mail: Oddrun.Samdal@iuh.uib.no

Visiting address: Christiesgt. 13

• School as students' work environment
• Health promotion in school
• Evaluation of health promotion interventions in school and leisure
• Physical activity and life satisfaction in children and adolescents

• Head (with Bente Wold) of the SIPA-group, a thematic research group on social processes on subejctive health and lifestyles among adolescents.
• Norwegian Principal Investigator for the "Health Behaviour in School-aged Children.A WHO Cross-national Study"
• Databank manager for the "Health Behaviour in School-aged Children. A WHO Cross-national Study"
• Norwegian Principal Investigator and International Data Bank Manager (with Bente Wold) in the PAPA study (Promoting adolescent health through an intervention aimed at improving the quality of their participation in Physical Activity)

Publications in Cristin

Publications 2009-2010

Peer review journal articles

 1. Samdal, O., Viig, N.G. and Wold, B. (2010). “Health promotion integrated into school policy and practice: experiences of implementation in the Norwegian network of health promoting schools”. Journal of child and adolescent psychology, 2:43-72.

2. Tjomsland, H.E., Larsen, T. Samdal, O. & Wold, B. (2010). Sustaining comprehensive Physical Activity Practice in Elementary School: A Case Study applying mixed Methods., Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 16 (1), 73 – 95.

3. Sandvik, C. Gjestad, R., Samdal, O. Brug, J.& Klepp, K.-I. (2010). Does socio-economic status moderate the associations between psychosocial predictors and fruit intake in schoolchildren? The Pro Children Study. Health Education Research, 25:121-134.

4. Holthe, A, Larsen, T & Samdal, O. (2010). Understanding barriers to implementing the Norwegian national guidelines for healthy school meals: a case study. Journal of Maternal & Child Nutrition.

5. Haug, E, Torsheim, T, Sallis, J & Samdal, O. (2010). The characteristics of the outdoor school environment associated with physical activity in school. Health Education Research, 25(2) s. 248-256.

6. Haug, E, Torsheim, T, & Samdal, O (2010). Local school policies increase physical activity in Norwegian secondary schools. Health Promotion International, 25.(1) s. 63-72.

7. Roberts, C, Freeman, J, Samdal, O Schnohr, C, de Looze, ME, Nic Gabhainn, S, Iannotti, R, Rasmussen, M, and the International HBSC Study Group (2009). The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study: methodological developments and current tensions, Int J Public Health 54 (2009) S140-S150.

8. Haug, E, Rasmussen, M, Samdal, O, Iannotti, R, Kelly, C, Borraccino, A, Vereecken, C, Melkevik, O, Lazzeri, G, Giacchi, M, Ercan, O, Due, P, Ravens-Sieberer, U, Currie, C, Morgan, A, Ahluwalia, N and the HBSC Obesity Writing Group (2009). Overweight in school-aged children and its relationship with demographic and lifestyle factors: results from the WHO-Collaborative Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study. Int J Public Health 54 (2009) S167-S179.

9. Freeman, JG, Samdal, O, Klinger, DA, Dur, W, Griebler, W, Currie, D, Rasmussen, M (2009). The relationship of schools to emotional health and bullying. Int J Public Health 54 (2009) S251-S259.

10. Holthe, A, Larsen, T & Samdal, O (2009). The role of physical structures in implementing the Norwegian guidelines for healthy school meals. Health & Place, 11 September, doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.09.001

11. Sandvik, C., Gjestad, R., Samdal, O. Brug, J., & Klepp, K.-I. (2009). Does socio-economic status moderate the associations between psychosocial predictors and fruit intake in schoolchildren? The Pro Children study. Health Education. Research; 0: cyp055v1-cyp055.

12. Rustad, EC & Samdal, O (2009). Hvilken betydning har støtte fra foreldre, venner og lærere for norske 15-åringers livstilfredshet? (How important is support from parents, friends and teachers for Norwegian 15-year olds life satisfaction?) Sykepleien Forskning, 2(4), 90-99.

13. Danielsen, A.G., Samdal, O., Hetland, J. & Wold, B. (2009). School-related Social Support and Students' Perceived Life Satisfaction. The Journal of Educational Research, pp 303-318.

 

Book chapters and reports

1. Samdal, O & Haug, E (2010). Betydningen av et sunt kosthold og fysisk aktivitet for helse og læring. I: Wilhelmsen, BU & Holthe, A (2010): Måltider og fysisk aktivitet i barnehagen: barnehagen som arena for folkehelsearbeid. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, pp. 32-47.

2. Haug, E., Haug, G., Jacobsen, S., Oien, H., Oelnes, N.S., Roenning, V., & Samdal, O. (2010). Norway: reducing inequality gaps in physical activity through school-based interventions  In: Addressing the socio-environmentally determined health inequities among children and adolescents, pp. 132-139. Copenhagen: World Health Organization.

3. Samdal, O, Leversen, I, Torsheim, T, Manger MS, Brunborg, G og Wold, B (2009). Trender i helsevaner blant skoleelever i perioden 1983-2005. Resultater fra studien "Helsevaner blant skoleelever. En WHO-undersøkelse i flere land". HEMIL-rapport 3/2009. Bergen: HEMIL-senteret, Universitetet i Bergen.

4. Samdal, O (2009). Sammenhengen mellom psykisk helse, skolemiljø, skoletrivsel og skoleprestasjoner. HEMIL-rapport 4/2009. Bergen: HEMIL-senteret, Universitetet i Bergen.

5. Samdal, O. (2009). Trivsels- og miljøfremmende arbeid. I: Haugland, S.  & Misvær, N: Håndbok for skolehelsetjenesten. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.

6. Samdal, O. (2009).Trivsels- og helsefremmende arbeid i skolen. I: Klepp, K-I & Aarø, LE (red) Ungdom, livssrtil og helsefremmende arbeid, pp 321-345.

7. Wold, B. & Samdal, O. (2009). Levevaner: individuelle valg eller sosiokulturelle produkter? I Mæland, J.G., Elstad, J.I., Næss, Ø., Westin, S. (red.) Sosial epidemiologi. Sykdommers sosiale årsaker. Gyldendal Akademisk, pp 83-95.

8. Wilhelmsen, BU & Samdal, O (2009). Skolen som arena for helsefremmende kostholdsarbeid. I. Wilhelmsen, BU & Holthe, A (red), Mat og helse i skolen, s 9-22. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget

9. Samdal, O & Torsheim, T (2009). Skolen som arena for helsefremmende kostholdsarbeid. I. Wilhelmsen, BU & Holthe, A (red), Mat og helse i skolen, s. 50-59. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.