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How do males recover from eating disorders? An interview study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)<i>Objectives</i> - The aim of the current study is to investigate what males experience as helpful in their recovery process from eating disorders (ED).<p> <p><i>Methods</i> - Qualitative in-depth interviews within a phenomenological approach, and using content analysis to excavate overarching text themes.<p> <p><i>Setting</i> - Norway and Sweden.<p> <p><i>Participants</i> - Included were ... -
How do public health nurses in Norwegian school health services support siblings of children with complex care needs?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-29)Aims: There is a paucity of data regarding the care and support provided by Norwegian school health services to siblings of children with complex care needs. Public health nurses are an integral part of these universal services, which focus on health promotion and disease prevention in primary and secondary schools. This study aimed to explore health promotion interventions by public health ... -
How do we deal with multiple goals for care within an individual patient trajectory? A document content analysis of health service research papers on goals for care
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-12-10)Objectives: Patients with complex long-term needs experience multiple parallel care processes, which may have conflicting or competing goals, within their individual patient trajectory (iPT). The alignment of multiple goals is often implicit or non-existent, and has received little attention in the literature. Research questions: (1) What goals for care relevant for the iPT can be identified ... -
How do women with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis rate quality and coordination of health care services? A cross-sectional study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-01-18)Objective: To test the association between self-rated health and self-rated degree of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME), and CFS/ME patients’ assessment of quality of primary care, specialist care and coordination of care. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Self-reported questionnaire data from women members of The Norwegian ME Association obtained in ... -
How do women with eating disorders experience a new treatment combining guided physical exercise and dietary therapy? An interview study of women participating in a randomised controlled trial at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-12-19)Objectives: <br> To investigate how women with bulimia nervosa (BN) and binge eating disorder (BED) experience participating in a new treatment programme for eating disorders, based on guided physical exercise and dietary therapy. <br> Design and participants: <br> Six women with BN and four with BED were semistructurally interviewed. Transcribed interviews were analysed using a ... -
How docetaxel entrapment, vesicle size, zeta potential and stability change with liposome composition–A formulation screening study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-21)Limitations of the anticancer drug product Taxotere® have encouraged researchers to entrap the active ingredient docetaxel (DTX) into nanocarriers such as liposomes. However, until now no DTX-liposome formulation has reached the clinic. Hence, in the present study, different Soy-PC based DTX-liposome formulations were screened in an attempt to identify lipid-compositions with promising DTX-entrapment ... -
How does contextual information affect our understanding of numerical probabilities
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-05-02)Numerical probabilities representing health risks or treatment benefits are constantly communicated to the general public. These probabilities are often embedded in contextual information in the form of a personal patient narrative or newscasts. Previous research suggest that people’s perceptions of risk will be greater when probability information is communicated along with contextual information. ... -
How does indirect air-cooling influence pulp chamber temperature in different volume teeth and absence/presence of resin-based composite during light curing?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-24)<p><b> Background</b> Light-curing of materials during restorative dental procedures poses a risk for pulp tissue overheating. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of indirect air-cooling on pulp chamber temperatures during light-curing of varying volume teeth and absence/presence of resin-based composite (RBC) at different exposure time. <p><b> Methods</b> The ... -
How does nursing staff perceive the use of electronic handover reports? A questionnaire-based study
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How does the Kvello assessment framework attend to important dimensions of the children’s needs and welfare? A comparison with the BBIC and the ICS frameworks for child welfare investigations
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-25)This study aimed to compare the content of the Norwegian Kvello AF for child welfare investigations with similar frameworks from Sweden (BBIC) and Denmark (ICS). The comparison was based on detailed descriptions of each framework, retrieved from authorized websites, textbooks, manuals, course material, and, for the Kvello AF, also personal communication with the author. An ecological triangle model ... -
How Exercise May Amend Metabolic Disturbances in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-04-28)Significance: Over-nutrition and sedentary lifestyle has led to a worldwide increase in obesity, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes (T2D) associated with an increased risk of development of cardiovascular disorders. Diabetic cardiomyopathy, independent of hypertension or coronary disease, is induced by a range of systemic changes and may through multiple processes result in functional and ... -
How Is Adolescent Bone Mass and Density Influenced by Early Life Body Size and Growth? The Tromsø Study: Fit Futures—A Longitudinal Cohort Study From Norway
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-30)The effect of birth weight and childhood body mass index (BMI) on adolescents’ bone parameters is not established. The aim of this longitudinal, population‐based study was to investigate the association of birth weight, childhood BMI, and growth, with adolescent bone mass and bone density in a sample of 633 adolescents (48% girls) from The Tromsø Study: Fit Futures. This population‐based cohort study ... -
How is your life? understanding the relative importance of life domains amongst older adults, and their associations with self-perceived COVID-19 impacts
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-06)Purpose - This study aims to provide new knowledge on the relative importance of key life domains amongst older adults, and how the Coronavirus pandemic has influenced their life (domain) satisfaction.<p> <p>Methods - A cross-sectional survey was administrated to an online panel of the general public aged 65 years and older in Australia from 28 April to 26 May 2020. Life satisfaction was measured ... -
How language barriers affect the quality of health care in resettling refugees : a synthesis of studies about refugees' perceptions of health care, especially primary health care in European host countries
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-08-01)This thesis provides a wider insight and explores the multiple problems and challenges resettling refugees and other migrants do face settling in a new country. Pointing to the persistence of traumatic experiences at different levels and the high risk of diseases, the need for health services and care should be prioritized. However, the issue of language seems to be one of the major barriers refugees ... -
How life events are perceived to link to bodily distress: A qualitative study of women with chronic pelvic pain.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-28)Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is highly prevalent among women and the condition is poorly understood. In addition to multiple symptoms from the pelvis, CPP patients frequently suffer bodily distress like musculoskeletal pain and negative emotional, behavioral, and sexual implications. This paper is based on a qualitative study including semi-structured interviews with eight women with CPP. Our project ... -
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 ... -
How occupational health is assessed in mine workers in Murmansk Oblast
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012-05-10)<i>Objectives</i>: We aimed to describe how work exposure and occupational health is assessed for mine workers in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. <p> <p><i>Study design</i>: A descriptive study based on current practice, laws and available literature. <p> <p><i>Methods</i>: The information and data were obtained from scientific publications, reports, regional and federal statistics, legal documents, ... -
How physicians manage medical uncertainty: A qualitative study and conceptual taxonomy
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-01)Background - Medical uncertainty is a pervasive and important problem, but the strategies physicians use to manage it have not been systematically described.<p> <p>Objectives - To explore the uncertainty management strategies employed by physicians practicing in acute-care hospital settings and to organize these strategies within a conceptual taxonomy that can guide further efforts to understand ... -
How romantic relationships affect individual career goal attainment: A transactive goal dynamics perspective
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-11)Despite the importance of career goals for career self-management, we know little about the self-regulatory processes underlying career goal attainment. In this study, we draw on transactive goal dynamics theory to investigate whether and how romantic relationships impact career goal attainment. For testing our research model, we focused on the career goal of being successful in a political election, ... -
How should tranexamic acid be administered in haemorrhagic shock? - continuous serum concentration measurements in a swine model
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11)Background: Tranexamic acid (TXA) reduces mortality in trauma patients. Intramuscular (IM) administration could be advantageous in low-resource and military settings. Achieving the same serum concentration as intravenous (IV) administration is important to achieve equal mortality reduction. Therefore, we aimed to investigate whether dividing an IM dose of TXA between two injection sites and whether ...