Lena Uvhagen
Lena Uvhagen Position: Doctoral Student School/office: School of Health SciencesEmail: bGVuYS51dmhhZ2VuO29ydS5zZQ==
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About Lena Uvhagen
Lena Uvhagen has her educational background in public health and works as a development manager/project manager at Regional Development and as a doctoral student at the University Health Care Research Center, Region Örebro County.
Lena's research focuses on different aspects of adolescent mental health. The thesis work focuses on mental well-being in young people: level, change over time and distribution between different groups, and how it can be promoted. The thesis includes description and evaluation of the intervention SIM - Solution focused intervention for mental health.
Lena has previously worked as a project manager, development manager in public health and education, and in strategic support and investigative work in municipal health and social care.
Publications
Articles in journals
- Uvhagen, L. , Gustafsson, J. & Söderqvist, F. (2025). Mental well-being in Swedish adolescents 2014-2023: A repeated population-based cross-sectional study focusing on temporal variations and differences between groups. PLOS ONE, 20 (5). [BibTeX]
- Söderqvist, F. , Uvhagen, L. , Gustafsson, J. & Franklin, C. (2025). The Solution-focused Intervention for Mental health (SIM): description and feasibility testing of a positive psychology intervention in Swedish adolescents. SSM - Mental Health (SSM-MH), 8. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Söderqvist, F. & Uvhagen, L. (2023). Assessing the mental health among adolescents using a two continua model approach. In: European Journal of Public Health. Paper presented at 16th European Public Health Conference: Our Food, Our Health, Our Earth: A Sustainable Future for Humanity, Dublin, Ireland, November 8–11, 2023. (pp. ii105-ii105). Oxford University Press. [BibTeX]
- Uvhagen, L. & Söderqvist, F. (2023). Mental health in Swedish adolescents prior to and three years after the Covid-19 outbreak. In: European Journal of Public Health. Paper presented at 16th European Public Health Conference: Our Food, Our Health, Our Earth: A Sustainable Future for Humanity, Dublin, Ireland, November 8–11, 2023. (pp. ii105-ii106). Oxford University Press. [BibTeX]