Bakgrunn: Vi vet i dag lite om hva slags utredning som blir gjort blant hjerneslagspasienter i Tromsø. I henhold til nasjonale faglige retningslinjer bør man som hovedregel gjøre utredning med tanke på karotisstenose hos alle pasienter med hjerneinfarkt. I denne studien kartlegges utredningsfrekvensen for karotisstenose blant hjerneinfarktpasienter som deltok i den 5. tromsøundersøkelsen i 2001-02 ...

Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet lovfestet i 2015 at samtlige kommuner skal ha kommunepsykolog innen 2020. Med vedtaket ønsker man å styrke forebyggende tiltak, hvor kommunepsykologen får et bredt spekter av nye arbeidsoppgaver. Hvorvidt psykologer er forberedt på denne endringen av psykologens virke har blitt debattert de siste årene. Universitetet i Tromsø (UiT) er ett av universitetene som ...

Nocebo hyperalgesia has received sparse experimental attention compared to placebo analgesia. The aim of the present study was to investigate if personality traits and fear of pain could predict experimental nocebo hyperalgesia. One hundred and eleven healthy volunteers (76 females) participated in an experimental study in which personality traits and fear of pain were measured prior to induction ...

Placebo analgesia refers to a reduction in pain after a placebo treatment has been provided. Fear of pain has been shown reduce placebo analgesic response. The present study investigated if experimentally induced fear of pain reduces the efficacy of a placebo intervention on pain. A balanced within-group design (n = 45) with a natural history, a placebo, and a placebo+fear condition was employed. ...

Telemedicine networks, which deliver humanitarian services, sometimes need to share expertise to find particular experts in other networks. It has been suggested that a mechanism for sharing expertise between networks (a ‘clearing house’) might be useful. To propose a mechanism for implementing the clearing house concept for sharing expertise, and to confirm its feasibility in terms of acceptability ...

The risk of developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and subsequently dementia, increases with age. Early detection requires a comprehensive clinical examination, which is time consuming and expensive; a face-to-face examination can also be problematic for people living in rural areas which may result in unequal access to services. Telephone-based screening may provide a feasible method of ...

Bakgrunn: Denne oppgaven omhandler fedrenes erfaringer med å delta i fysioterapioppfølging til eget barn med Cerebral Parese, samt om hva fedrene legger vekt på i samarbeidet med fysioterapeut, og hva slags veiledning de ønsker fra fysioterapeuten. Det er dokumentert at alle foreldre til barn med Cerebral Parese, uansett type og grad av funksjonshemming, har utfordringer og trenger støtte fra ...

Replicating in-lab experiments online can ensure scientific progress when physical contact is discouraged, like during the covid-19 pandemic. In this thesis, we replicated the results from Boayue et al. (2021) in-lab Mind Wandering (MW) experiment online. The task uses the Finger-Tapping Random Sequence Generation Task, a sustained attention task, equating MW with Task Unrelated Thoughts (TUTs). In ...

Older employees are not only confronted with subtle negative stereotypes about cognitive decline, but they also tend to internalize these negative stereotypes (i.e., they agree with the idea that intellectual performance declines in old age and they feel affected by this decline). Previous research has shown that internalizing negative age stereotypes has detrimental effects on work-related outcomes. ...

Background: Research on perceived school safety has been largely limited to studies conducted in Western countries and there has been a lack of large-scale cross-national studies on the topic.<p> <p>Methods: The present study examined the occurrence of adolescents who felt unsafe at school and the associated factors of perceived school safety in 13 Asian and European countries. The data were based ...