Helga Bjørnøy Urke
Position
Associate Professor
Affiliation
Research
- Social inequality in mental health
- The school as setting for health promotion
- Physically active learning
- Psychosocial learning environments and drop-out in upper secondary school
- Positive Youth Development
- Social factors associated with infant and child nutritional status and health in the Global South
- Food security and child health in the Global South
- Intimate Partner Violence and child health
- Nurturing child care and Early child development
Teaching
- Global health
- Public health
- Prevention and health promotion
- Quantitative methods
Publications
Lecture
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- Danielsen, Anne G; Kristensen, Sara Madeleine; Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes et al. (2024). Positive Youth Development in Norwegian Upper Secondary: The Impact of Sex, Socio-economic Status, and Immigrant Background on the Developmental Trajectories of Academic Initiative, Academic Self-efficacy, and Grade Point Average. (external link)
- Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes; Holsen, Ingrid; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy et al. (2022). Doing Collaborative Health Promotion Research in a Complex Setting: Lessons Learned from the COMPLETE Project in Norway. (external link)
- Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes; Holsen, Ingrid; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy (2020). Social Justice for Children and Young People in Norway. (external link)
Academic article
- Brook, Martika Irene; Bøe, Tormod; Samdal, Oddrun et al. (2024). Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Family Affluence Scale in Norwegian Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Surveys: Implications for Time Trend Analysis. (external link)
- Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Kristensen, Sara Madeleine et al. (2023). Caring Climate and Support, Mental Health, and Academic Adjustment: Effects from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Upper Secondary Schools in Norway. (external link)
- Kristensen, Sara Madeleine; Danielsen, Anne G; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy et al. (2023). The positive feedback loop between academic self-efficacy, academic initiative, and Grade Point Average: a parallel process latent growth curve model. (external link)
- Kristensen, Sara Madeleine; Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy et al. (2023). Academic Stress, Academic Self-efficacy, and Psychological Distress: A Moderated Mediation of Within-person Effects. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes; Kristensen, Sara Madeleine (2023). Preventing Loneliness and Reducing Dropout: Results from the COMPLETE Intervention Study in Upper Secondary Schools in Norway. (external link)
- Kristensen, Sara Madeleine Eriksen; Jørgensen, Magnus; Meland, Eivind et al. (2023). The effect of teacher, parental, and peer support on later grade point average: The mediating roles of self-beliefs. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Kristensen, Sara Madeleine; Bøe, Tormod et al. (2023). Perceptions of a caring school climate and mental well-being: a one-way street? Results from a random intercept cross-lagged panel model. (external link)
- Wiium, Nora; Kristensen, Sara Madeleine; Årdal, Elisabeth et al. (2023). Civic engagement and mental health trajectories in Norwegian youth. (external link)
- Kristensen, Sara Madeleine; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes et al. (2022). Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: Moderating a Random Intercept Cross-lagged Panel Model of Loneliness and Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Holsen, Ingrid; Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes (2021). Positive Youth Development and Mental Well-Being in Late Adolescence: The Role of Body Appreciation. Findings From a Prospective Study in Norway. (external link)
- Kristensen, Sara Madeleine Eriksen; Danielsen, Anne G; Jeno, Lucas Matias et al. (2021). The Within-Person Effect of Psychological Distress on Social Self-Efficacy: A Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model . (external link)
- Geldhof, G. John; Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy et al. (2019). Indicators of positive youth development can be maladaptive: The example case of caring. (external link)
- Brandseth, Oda Lekve; Håvarstein, Malin Torstveit; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy et al. (2019). Mental well-being among students in Norwegian upper secondary schools: the role of teacher support and class belonging. (external link)
- Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Tobro, Marte et al. (2019). Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Loneliness in Upper Secondary School in Norway: Effects of a Randomized Controlled Trial. (external link)
- Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Holsen, Ingrid et al. (2018). COMPLETE - a school-based intervention project to increase completion of upper secondary school in Norway: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Contreras, Mariela; Matanda, Dennis Juma (2018). The influence of maternal and household resources, and parental psychosocial child stimulation on early childhood development: A cross-sectional study of children 36-59 months in Honduras. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Mittelmark, Maurice B; Amugsi, Dickson Abanimi et al. (2018). Resources for nurturing childcare practices in urban and rural settings: Findings from the Colombia 2010 Demographic and Health Survey. (external link)
- Agbadi, Pascal; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Mittelmark, Maurice B (2017). Household food security and adequacy of child diet in the food insecure region north in Ghana. (external link)
- Pedersen, Sidsel Stormoen; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Tjomsland, Hege Eikeland et al. (2016). High school physical education: What contributes to the experience of flow?. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Mittelmark, Maurice B (2015). Associations between intimate partner violence, childcare practices and infant health: Findings from Demographic and Health Surveys in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. (external link)
- Matanda, Dennis Juma; Mittelmark, Maurice B; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy et al. (2014). Reliability of demographic and socioeconomic variables in predicting early initiation of breastfeeding: A replication analysis using the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey data. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Cao, Zhirong R.; Egeland, Grace M. (2014). Validity of a single item food security questionnaire in Arctic Canada. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Mittelmark, Maurice B; Valdivia, Martín (2014). Trends in stunting and overweight in Peruvian pre-schoolers form 1991 to 2011: findings from the Demographic and Health Surveys. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Bull, Torill; Mittelmark, Maurice B (2013). Child diet and healthy growth in the context of rural poverty in the Peruvian Andes: What influences primary caregivers' opportunities and choices?. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Bull, Torill; Mittelmark, Maurice B (2011). Socioeconomic status and chronic child malnutrition: wealth and maternal education matter more in the Peruvian Andes than nationally. (external link)
Chapter
- Mittelmark, Maurice B; Daniel, Marguerite Lorraine; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy (2022). Specific resistance resources in the salutogenic model of health. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Daniel, Marguerite Lorraine (2022). Innovative Pedagogies in a Health Promotion Specialisation: Knowledge, Practice and Research. (external link)
- Daniel, Marguerite Lorraine; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy (2022). Extending Student-Active Learning into Effective Practice in Global Development-Related Health Promotion.. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Hennessy, Emily A.; Sanmartino, Mariana et al. (2021). Exploring the Potential for the Arts to Promote Health and Social Justice. (external link)
- Corbin, J. Hope; Sanmartino, Mariana; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy et al. (2021). Arts, Health Promotion, and Social Justice: Synergy in Motion. (external link)
- Ayele, Christa; Corbin, J. Hope; Hennessy, Emily A. et al. (2021). Art and Innovation at International Health Promotion Conferences. (external link)
- Mittelmark, Maurice B; Bull, Torill; Daniel, Marguerite et al. (2016). Specific Resistance Resources in the Salutogenic Model of Health. (external link)
Academic lecture
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Tjomsland, Hege Eikeland (2022). Preliminary findings from a co-created PAL diary study. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Kristensen, Sara Madeleine; Bøe, Tormod et al. (2022). The within-person relationship of school climate and mental wellbeing in adolescence. (external link)
- Kristensen, Sara Madeleine; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes et al. (2022). The developmental dynamics of academic self-efficacy, initiative, and grade point average: A parallel process latent growth curve model. (external link)
- Agbadi, Pascal; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Mittelmark, Maurice B (2016). HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY AND CHILD DIET IN NORTHERN GHANA: EVIDENCE FROM THE 2012 GHANA FEED THE FUTURE POPULATION BASELINE SURVEY DATA. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Mittelmark, Maurice B; Amugsi, Dickson A. et al. (2016). Socio-economic conditions and childcare in Colombia: an urban-rural comparison. (external link)
- Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Mittelmark, Maurice B; Bull, Torill (2012). Socioeconomic status and Chronic Child Malnutrition: wealth and maternal education matter more in the Peruvian Andes than nationally. (external link)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Report
- Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes; Mathisen, Frida Kathrine Sofie; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy et al. (2020). Kan systematisk arbeid med det psykososiale miljøet bidra til bedre gjennomføring i videregående opplæring ?. (external link)
- Djupedal, Ingebjørg L.; Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes; Kristensen, Sara Madeleine et al. (2019). Andre delrapport fra COMPLETE-prosjektet - Kortversjon. (external link)
- Larsen, Torill Marie Bogsnes; Anvik, Cecilie Høj; Tobro, Marte et al. (2017). Delrapport fra Complete-prosjektet. (external link)
Doctoral dissertation
Academic literature review
- Matanda, Dennis Juma; Urke, Helga Bjørnøy; Mittelmark, Maurice B (2016). Changes in optimal childcare practices in Kenya: Insights from the 2003, 2008-9 and 2014 demographic and health surveys. (external link)
- Amugsi, Dickson Abanimi; Mittelmark, Maurice B; Lartey, Anna et al. (2014). Influence of childcare practices on nutritional status of Ghanaian children: A regression analysis of the Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys. (external link)
Projects
LONGTRENDS: Social inequality in adolescent mental health in a lifecourse perspective.
COMPLETE: Good psychosocial learning environments improve completion of upper secondary school. A randomized controlled trial in Norwegian upper secondary schools.
PhD project: Social and behavioural factors associated with child care, health and development in the Global South in collaboration with the research group MC Venues at the Department of Health Promotion and Development.