Health Promotion Research
 

Aims

This is a new research web database under construction, integrating the Salutogenesis (the origin of health) and health promotion research and practice.

The aims of this website is

  • to produce continuous systematic analytical updates on global research on the Salutogenesis in order to support research and development on the salutogenic framework
  • to developing the scientific salutogenic base for public health and health promotion practice and intervention

About the Database

An ongoing systematic and analytical research synthesis on the salutogenic research is running by Folkhälsan Research Centre, Health Promotion Research. The evidence base is the review protocols of studies using the SOC questionnaire or using the salutogenic approach in the study design. See The Database. The study is systematic in the sense that all included papers
have been critically examined according to a defined set of criteria.

In the analysis the following dimensions have been applied:

  1. the study objective (as the exploration of how SOC may effect health both as a dependent and an independent variable, the examination of predicting and maintaining value of the SOC regarding health, quality of life and wellbeing, the test of related measures to SOC, the exploration of the relation to different areas of life, the development of the theory base); 
  2. the study designs and methods for analysis;
  3. the applicability and practical use of the results, and
  4. studies using interviews for gathering data and quantitative methods for the analysis are categorized as quantitative studies.

The inclusion criteria are:

  1. papers dealing with the SOC concept and/or using some of the different versions of the SOC questionnaire published in scientific peer reviewed journals;
  2. postgraduate papers and doctoral thesis;
  3. quantitative, qualitative, and intervention studies with equal weight to the method used;
  4. in the first phase of building up the Database papers in English, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. In the second phase papers in German are included;
  5. papers with a careful description of the translation process to other languages than English;
  6. quantitative studies with an acceptable reliability and validity (face, consensual, construct, criterion, predictive, and esponsiveness);
  7. publication in the time span from 1992 and further.