Background - Caregivers take on several tasks to support the patients during their disease trajectory. The price caregivers pay might have impact on their health, schedule, necessity of support from others, economic situation, and quality of life. Therefore, health care personnel need assessment tools to capture the caregivers’ reaction and situation. Clinical practice is characterized as a busy ...

Background - Self-harm, self-poisoning or self-injury, irrespective of the motivation, is a central risk factor for suicide. Still, there is limited knowledge of self-harm among patients with substance use disorders (SUDs) who die by suicide. <p> <p>Aims We aimed to describe the prevalence of a history of self-harm and identify the factors associated with self-harm, comparing individuals who died ...

Foraminifera are shell-bearing microorganisms that are commonly found in marine deposits on the seabed. They are important indicators in many analyses, are used in climate change research, monitoring marine environments, evolutionary studies, and are also frequently used in the oil and gas industry. Although some research has focused on automating the classification of foraminifera images, few have ...

This study explores the experiences of pre- and in-service teachers using AI chatbots in Pedagogical Information and Communication Technology (ICTPED) Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), an online course designed to develop professional digital competence. Data was collected through an online questionnaire completed by 46 participants and follow-up interviews with eight students. The findings ...

Den 27. november 2024 ble det første nasjonale symposium for meritterte undervisere i Norge arrangert ved NMBU. Formålet var å skape en arena for dialog og erfaringsutveksling på tvers av institusjonene, for å lære av hverandre og diskutere hvordan meritterte undervisere best kan bidra til økt undervisningskvalitet. <p> <p>Erfaringer fra symposiet viser et tydelig behov for nasjonal samordning ...

Det er et stort potensial og behov for flere amatører/frivillige i eldreomsorgen. Frivillighet Norge viser til at rundt 500 000 personer kan tenke seg å være frivillig. Det fremkommer ikke hvor de kan tenke seg å være frivillig, men det er sannsynlig at noen kan tenke seg å bidra i eldreomsorgen. I Norge er det en rekke frivillighetskoordinatorer som jobber med frivillighet i eldreomsorgen. Denne ...

This study examines the influence of Olympism in a cross-cultural context within the Youth Olympic Games educational program. A mixed methods approach was used to analyse both quantitative data (surveys; n = 173) and qualitative data (semi-structured interviews; n = 30) from former Singaporean and Norwegian Youth Olympic Games athletes. The cross-cultural aspect of the current investigation was ...

Rapporten presenterer resultatene fra en studie om foreldreveiledningstilbudet ved krisesentrene i Norge, med særlig vekt på ICDP-veiledning i foreldregrupper. Studien er utført på oppdrag for Barne-, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet (Bufdir) og er et av prosjektene som Fafo, Nordlandsforskning og Velferdsforskningsinstituttet NOVA gjennomfører under det felles overordnede prosjektet «Utvikle likeverdige ...

Growing concerns over the lack of transparency in AI, particularly in high-stakes fields like healthcare and finance, drive the need for explainable and trustworthy systems. While Large Language Models (LLMs) perform exceptionally well in generating accurate outputs, their “black box” nature poses significant challenges to transparency and trust. To address this, the paper proposes the TranspNet ...