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Use of social media for sexual health promotion: a scoping review
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-09-19)
<b>Background: </b>
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In order to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the World Health Organization recommends educating people on sexual health. With more than 2 billion active users worldwide, online social media potentially represent powerful channels for health promotion, including sexual health.
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<b>Objective: </b>
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To review the scientific literature on the use of ...
Responsibilities with conflicting priorities: A qualitative study of ACT providers’ experiences with community treatment orders
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-18)
<p><i>Background - </i>Patients with severe mental illness may be subjected to Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) in order to secure that the patients adhere to treatment. Few studies have investigated the use of CTOs within an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) setting, and little is known about how the tension between the patients’ autonomy and the clinicians’ responsibility to act in the patients’ ...
Telemental health in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-01)
<p><i>Introduction</i>: The rising incidence of mental illness and its impact on individuals, families, and societies is becoming a major public health concern, especially in resource-constrained countries. Consequently, there is an increasing demand for mental health services in many middle- and low-income countries (LMIC). Challenges such as inequality in access, lack of staff and hospital beds, ...
How mental health service systems are organized may affect the rate of acute admissions to specialized care: Report from a natural experiment involving 5338 admissions
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-07-10)
Objectives: Studies on the dynamics between service organization and acute admissions to psychiatric specialized care
have given ambiguous results. We studied the effect of several variables, including service organization, coercion, and
patient characteristics on the rate of acute admissions to psychiatric specialist services. In a natural experiment-like study in
Norway, we compared a ...
Involuntary admission in Norwegian adult psychiatric hospitals: A systematic review
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-22)
Background: It is an important objective of the psychiatric services to keep the use of involuntary procedures to a minimum, as the use of coercion involves clinical, ethical, and legal issues. It has been claimed that Norway has a relatively high rate of involuntary admissions. We reviewed the peer-reviewed literature on the use of involuntary admission in Norway, with the purpose of identifying ...
Patients'and therapists' experiences with a new treatment programme for eating disorders that combines physical exercise and dietary therapy: the PED-t trial. A qualitative study protocol.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-08)
Introduction:<br> Women with bulimia nervosa and binge
eating disorder often suffer for many years before they
seek professional help. Evidence-based treatments
like cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) might be
poorly accessible, and about 50% of those who receive
CBT respond to it. Such outcome may reflect the
heterogeneous nature of eating disorders, and addressing
this heterogeneity calls ...
Social media use in interventions for diabetes: Rapid evidence-based review
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-10)
<p><i>BACKGROUND</i>: Health authorities recommend educating diabetic patients and their families and initiating measures aimed at improving self-management, promoting a positive behavior change, and reducing the risk of complications. Social media could provide valid channel to intervene in and deliver diabetes education. However, it is not well known whether the use of these channels in such ...
Using Noninferiority Tests to Evaluate Telemedicine and E-Health Services: Systematic Review
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
Background: An increasing number of studies within the field of telemedicine and e-health are designed as noninferiority studies, aiming to show that the telemedicine/e-health solution is not inferior to the traditional way of treating patients. Objective: The objective is to review and sum up the status of noninferiority studies within this field, describing advantages and pitfalls of this approach. ...
Is there a negative impact of winter on mental distress and sleeping problems in the sub-arctic?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
Clinical confidence following an interprofessional educational program on eating disorders for health care professionals: a qualitative analysis
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
There are an increasing number of educational programs to improve clinical competence and skills to treat mental disorders. For complex disorders there is also a focus on improving the quality of interprofessional work. This paper reports on interprofessional outputs of an educational program on eating disorders. A total of 207 professionals who completed the program were requested to describe up ...