Dette prosjektet vil bestå av 6 casestudier på pasienter med uspesifikke nakkesmerter. Prosjektet har som mål å integrere teori om funksjonell motorisk kontroll i vår behandling av disse pasientene. Gjennom aksjonsforskning vil prøver vi å utvikle vår personlige praksis med bakgrunn i teorien, og vurdere om teorien må endres på bakgrunn av denne erfaringen med reelle praksissituasjoner.

To assist in improving early interventions for psychosis, this study explored how adult people narrated their experience of becoming psychotic, and how contact with mental health personnel was established. Narrative interviews were conducted with 12 participants with psychotic illnesses recruited from acute psychiatric wards. The interviews were content analysed. Participants described being in ...

Artikkelen utforsker og beskriver berøringens betydning og potensial i fysioterapi til barn som er født for tidlig. Gjennom å forstå berøring som et intersubjektivt kroppslig fenomen sentralt for barns utvikling og forståelse av seg selv og sine omgivelser, beskriver artikkelen hvordan berøring er del av bevegelse, persepsjon og handling og alltid inngår i terapiprosesser. Berøring fremstår i denne ...

Background: <br> Recurrent cardiovascular events after myocardial infarction (MI) are frequent, and gender differences in blood pressure treatment have been reported. Despite increased focus on secondary prevention, recent reports indicate that treatment targets are not achieved. There is a need for gender-specific analyses of post-MI blood pressure treatment target achievement and ...

Objective This study investigated the association between obesity, assessed using body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC), and pre-frailty/frailty among older adults over 21 years of follow-up. <p>Design Prospective cohort study. <p>Setting Population-based study among communitydwelling adults in Tromsø municipality, Norway. <p>Participants 2340women and 2169 men aged ≥45 years ...

This study explores stroke survivors’ experience of being part of an institutional rehabilitation context and what it means for the immediate experience of discharge home. The aim is to develop a deeper understanding of how the dynamic phenomenon body, participation in everyday life and sense of self interrelates and changes through stroke survivors’ movement in and between the two contexts and ...

Background - Health services worldwide have provided incentives for establishing teams to accommodate complex health care tasks, enhance patient outcomes and organizational efficiency, and compensate for shortages of health care professionals. Parallel to and partly due to the increased focus on teamwork, task shifting has become a health policy. Task shifting involves new tasks and responsibilities, ...

Purpose - To investigate radiologists’ interpretation scores of screening mammograms prior to diagnosis of screen-detected and interval breast cancers retrospectively classified as missed or true negative.<p> <p>Methods - We included data on radiologists’ interpretation scores at screening prior to diagnosis for 1223 screen-detected and 1007 interval cancer cases classified as missed or true ...

User participation in psychiatric institutions - Practicing of "user participation" through milieu therapeutic activities. The purpose of this article is to examine how user participation is enabled in practice. Fieldwork is conducted in three Norwegian District Psychiatric Centres (DPCs), with an emphasis on observations of staff working with patients and interviews. The theoretical framework ...

Brukermedvirkning er et ideal for norske myndigheter og helsevesen, og en rettighet for personer som benytter seg av tjenester, også innen psykisk helsevern. Et relevant spørsmål er om brukermedvirkning representerer en majoritetsforståelse for brukerorienterte tjenestetilbud, og om en slik forståelse direkte kan overføres til arbeid med samisk befolkning. Hensikten med vår studie er å få økt ...