Abstract

The overall aim of this thesis was to explore adolescents' relationship with food, body weight, and health communication in online digital media, as well as how adolescents experience participating in a health promotion intervention regarding food and physical activity habits. Health promotion as a research area served three purposes: to inform the research questions, to direct the data collection, and to identify implications from the research findings. The four included studies explored how adolescents portray food in a widely used image-sharing application, why and how adolescents in treatment for obesity engaged with online health-related information, and how these adolescents experienced presenting themselves on social media. The fourth study explored adolescents' experiences of participating in a healthpromoting intervention, focusing on their experiences of using a social media group within the intervention.

Author Details

Christopher Bjorn Holmberg, PhD, RN

Sigma Membership

Tau Omega

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Other

Research Approach

Mixed/Multi Method Research

Keywords:

Adolescence, Digital Media, eHealth Literacy

Advisor

Christina Berg

Second Advisor

John Chaplin

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

University of Gothenburg

Degree Year

2018

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2019-05-17

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