Resilience has become increasingly important in clinical and health psychology, but only few scales have received good psychometric ratings for assessing various outcomes of resilience. The Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) is one of the best psychometrically rated scales and has been validated among Norwegian samples. The purpose of this study was to explore the construct validity of the RSA in an ...

<i>Objectives</i> - A health care reform will replace the health care and social services centred on public provision with a market-oriented system and enhanced competition between public and private sectors. The aim was to ascertain Public Dental Services (PDS) changes personnel anticipated and how dental services in the new “public” undertakings could be made more cost-efficient.<p> <p><i>Materials ...

<i>Background</i> - The Public Dental Service (PDS) in Finland has catered for the overwhelming majority of the young for more than 50 years. They have had examinations, preventive measures and all other necessary treatment free of charge. This study aimed to survey the treatment needs and treatment measures provided for children and adolescents and changes in these during the period 2001–2013.<p> ...

The aim of this study is to identify the environmental impact of drill cuttings (DC) released around three wells drilled in 1992, 2000 and 2012 in the SW Barents Sea. Foraminiferal assemblages are studied in cores taken along transects <250 m from wells. Well E-1992 shows no impact of DC on foraminifera indicating that low amounts of released DC limit environmental impact. Impact at wells G-2000 and ...

The Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG) is the most widely used instrument to assess the severity of prolonged grief reactions after the loss of a loved one. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Norwegian ICG by examining its reliability, factor structure, and relationships with the anxiety and depression subscales of the Brief Symptom Inventory, ...

The focus of this article is risky behavior in traffic. What do people learn from accidents and near-accidents? Experience with accidents may demand increased caution. However, near-accidents are inherently ambiguous: On the one hand, they signal that margins were good enough, inspiring increased risk-taking; on the other hand, they signal danger that could induce increased caution. To explore these ...

There is limited research on the perceptions of substance use (SU) and treatment goals among patients with substance use disorders (SUD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We investigate whether SU perceptions and treatment goals were different among SUD patients with (SUD+ADHD) and without (SUD-ADHD) ADHD. Twelve SUD+ADHD patients (39.5 ± 8.5 years, 10 men), and 10 age- and substance ...

Nye og flere oppgaver i sykehjem krever at sykepleierne er faglig oppdatert, og i stand til å observere og vurdere pasientens tilstand. Sykepleierutdanningen har i samarbeid med ledere i sykehjem et ansvar for at nyutdannede sykepleiere er rustet til å møte dagens faglige utfordringer.<p> <p>Artikkelen har til hensikt å belyse hva sykehjemsledere forventer av nyutdannede sykepleieres utøvelse ...

<p><i>Formål - </i>Å beskrive forbruksmønsteret av kosttilskudd blant middelaldrende norske kvinner med tanke på sammenheng med brukerkarakteristika, inkludert legemiddelbruk og sosioøkonomiske faktorer. <p><i>Metode - </i>Studien er en tverrsnittsanalyse av spørreskjemadata fra 3231 deltakere (født 1943-57) i Kvinner og kreftstudien. Data ble innsamlet i 2003-2006, responsrate 72 %. <p><i>Resultat ...

Two batches of lumpfish eggs were incubated at three temperature regimes; 1-Ambient seawater 4–6 °C (cold), 2-Ambient seawater for 10 days followed by a gradual increase to 10 °C (gradient), 3-Constant 10 °C seawater (warm). The eggs incubated in cold water had the highest egg mortality (38.5% ± 15.7) and lowest hatching success (46.1% ± 7.2), while the gradient group regime showed highest hatching ...