Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Holen, Are"
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Adapting World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 for Nepal
Risal, Ajay; Kunwar, Dipak; Karki, Eliza; Adhikari, Shambhu Prasad; Bimali, Inosha; Shrestha, Barsha; Khadka, Subekshya; Holen, Are (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Disability is a vital public health issue for health care programs. Affluent countries usually prioritize disability-related research, while often it remains neglected in resource-poor countries like Nepal. The ... -
Anxiety and depression in Nepal: Prevalence, comorbidity and associations
Risal, Ajay; Manandhar, Kedar; Linde, Mattias; Steiner, Timothy J.; Holen, Are (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Background Anxiety and depression are two important contributors to the global burden of disease. In many developing countries, including Nepal, their prevalences are yet to be assessed. Methods A nationwide ... -
Assessing medical students' attitudes toward learning communication skills: which components of attitudes do we measure?
Anvik, Tor; Gude, Tore; Grimstad, Hilde; Bærheim, Anders; Fasmer, Ole Bernt; Holen, Are; Risberg, Terje; Vaglum, Per (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007) -
Can we rely on simulated patients' satisfaction with their consultation for assessing medical students' communication skills? A cross-sectional study
Gude, Tore; Grimstad, Hilde; Holen, Are; Anvik, Tor; Baerheim, Anders; Fasmer, Ole Bernt; Hjortdahl, Per; Vaglum, Per Jørgen Wiggen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-12-18)Background In medical education, teaching methods offering intensive practice without high utilization of faculty resources are needed. We investigated whether simulated patients’ (SPs’) satisfaction with a consultation ... -
Comorbidities of psychiatric and headache disorders in Nepal: implications from a nationwide population-based study
Risal, Ajay; Manandhar, Kedar; Holen, Are; Steiner, Timothy J.; Linde, Mattias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background Headache disorders, anxiety and depression – the major disorders of the brain – are highly comorbid in the western world. Whether this is so in South Asia has not been investigated, but the question is of ... -
Danger- and non-danger-based stressors and their relations to posttraumatic deprecation or growth in Norwegian veterans deployed to Afghanistan
Nordstrand, Andreas Espetvedt; Bøe, Hans Jakob; Holen, Are; Reichelt, Jon Gerhard; Gjerstad, Christer Lunde; Hjemdal, Odin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Objective: This study aimed to explore how exposure to danger-based and non-danger-based stressors may influence personal changes in veterans (N = 4053) after deployment to Afghanistan. Method: Twelve war zone related ... -
Descriptive epidemiology and burden estimations of headache disorders in Nepal: A nationwide population-based study
Manandhar, Kedar (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:222, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Norsk sammendrag (Summary in Norwegian) Bakgrunn: Hodepine, særlig migrene og hodepine av spenningstype (HST) tilhører de mest utbredte og belastende sykdomstilstander i verden. Medikamentoverforbrukshodepine (MOH) er en ... -
Diagnoses Related to Abuse of Alcohol and Addictive Substances after Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy – A Nation-Wide Registry Study from Norway
Strømmen, Magnus; Bakken, Inger Johanne Landsjøåsen; Kløckner, Christian; Sandvik, Jorunn; Kulseng, Bård Eirik; Holen, Are (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background After Roux-n-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) patients are at higher risk of alcohol problems. In recent years, sleeve gastrectomy (SG) has become a common procedure, but the incidence rates of alcohol abuse following ... -
Estimating prevalence and burden of major disorders of the brain in Nepal: cultural, geographic, logistic and philosophical issues of methodology
Risal, Ajay; Manandhar, Kedar; Steiner, Timothy J.; Holen, Are; Koju, Rajendra; Linde, Mattias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background Headache, anxiety and depression are major disorders of the brain in terms of their prevalence and the burdens and costs they impose on society. Nationwide population-based studies of these disorders are ... -
Estimating the prevalence and burden of major disorders of the brain in Nepal: methodology of a nationwide population-based study
Manandhar, Kedar; Risal, Ajay; Steiner, Timothy J.; Holen, Are; Koju, Rajendra; Linde, Mattias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background The major disorders of the brain (MDBs), in terms of their prevalence and the burdens of ill health, disability and financial cost that they impose on individuals and society, are headache, depression and ... -
Former Work Life and People With Dementia
Nordtug, Bente; Torvik, Karin; Brataas, Hildfrid V.; Holen, Are; Knizek, Birthe Loa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Twelve persons with dementia were interviewed about their former work lives. Their motivation for choosing their past work was influenced by values of their contemporary culture. Those who had come to terms with their ... -
Gender and offender status predicting treatment success in refugees and asylum seekers with PTSD
Stenmark, Håkon Inge; Guzey, Ismail Cuneyt; Elbert, Thomas; Holen, Are (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background Current knowledge is limited regarding patient characteristics related to treatment outcome of posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD) in refugees and asylum seekers. Objective Gender, torture status, ... -
Have medical students’ attitudes towards clinical communication skills changed over a 12- year period? A comparative long-term study
Gude, Tore; Tyssen, Reidar; Anvik, Tor; Grimstad, Hilde; Holen, Are; Baerheim, Anders; Vaglum, Per Jørgen Wiggen; Løvseth, Lise T (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020) -
Learning as a liminal process. A student perspective of action-based entrepreneurship education
Brandshaug, Sigrid Westad (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2024:140, Doctoral thesis, 2024)English summary This thesis explores the phenomenon of learning challenges in action-based entrepreneurship education (EE) and how students learn from coping with such challenges. Action-based approaches comprise experiential ... -
Major Disorders of the Brain in Nepal:Prevalence, Associations, Interactions and Public-Health Implications
Risal, Ajay (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:221, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Utbredte hjerne-relaterte sykdommer i Nepal: prevalens, assosiasjoner, interaksjoner og implikasjoner for folkehelsen: Innledning: Hodepine, angst og depresjon er blant de hyppigst sykdomsgrupper med utgangspunkt i hjernen ... -
Nepali Version of Geriatric Depression Scale-15 - A Reliability and Validation Study
Risal, Ajay; Giri, E; Shrestha, Oshin; Manandhar, Sabina; Kunwar, Dipak; Amatya, R; Manandhar, Nirmala; Manandhar, Kedar; Holen, Are (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Geriatric depression is a significant problem in both the developed and the developing world. To identify this condition, Geriatric Depression Scale has been used in different languages and cultural settings; ... -
Nondirective meditation activates brain areas associated with retrieval of memories and emotional processing
Xu, Jian; Vik, Alexandra; Groote, Inge Rasmus; Lagopoulos, Jim; Holen, Are; Ellingsen, Øyvind; Håberg, Asta; Davanger, Svend (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Nondirective meditation techniques are practiced with a relaxed focus of attention that permits spontaneously occurring thoughts, images, sensations, memories, and emotions to emerge and pass freely, without any expectation ... -
Nondirective meditation activates default mode network and areas associated with memory retrieval and emotional processing
Xu, Jian; Vik, Alexandra; Groote, Inge Rasmus; Lagopoulos, Jim; Holen, Are; Ellingsen, Øyvind; Håberg, Asta; Davanger, Svend (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Nondirective meditation techniques are practiced with a relaxed focus of attention that permits spontaneously occurring thoughts, images, sensations, memories, and emotions to emerge and pass freely, without any expectation ... -
Prevalence of geriatric depression in the Kavre district, Nepal: Findings from a cross sectional community survey
Manandhar, Kedar; Risal, Ajay; Shrestha, Oshin; Manandhar, Nirmala; Kunwar, Dipak; Koju, Rajendra; Holen, Are (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background The increasing elderly population worldwide is likely to increase mental health problems such as geriatric depression, which has mostly been studied in high-income countries. Similar studies are scarce in ... -
The prevalence of primary headache disorders in Nepal: a nationwide population-based study
Manandhar, Kedar; Risal, Ajay; Steiner, Timothy J.; Holen, Are; Linde, Mattias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Background:Headache disorders are among the most prevalent and burdensome global public-health problems.Within countries, health policy depends upon knowledge of health within the local populations, but the South-East Asia ...