Purpose: Although it is believed that involving the workplace and stakeholders in return-to-work interventions is beneficial, Norwegian occupational rehabilitation programmes rarely do. During 2015–2016, Hysnes Rehabilitation ...

Objective: Paths toward referral to involuntary psychiatric admission mainly unfold in the contexts where people live their everyday lives. Modern health services are organized such that primary health care services are ...

Background: This study follows a user involvement project in health care inspections of services for people with intellectual disabilities in three municipalities in Sør-Trøndelag. In these inspections users were interviewed ...

Stroke is a major cause of death worldwide, and a seriously disabling health condition often resulting in a persistent need for rehabilitation. New estimates show that there are between 11,000 and 12,000 people suffering ...

Background Governments in several countries attempt to strengthen user participation through instructing health‐care organizations to implement user participation initiatives. There is, however, little knowledge on the ...

Objectives This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a workplace intervention (WI) added to an inpatient multimodal occupational rehabilitation program (I-MORE) on sickness absence. Methods In this researcher-blinded ...

Purpose: Explore managers’ experiences regarding employees with hearing impairments. Materials and methods: Individual interviews with ten managers having employees with hearing impairment. The interviews were analyzed ...

Hearing loss is a highly prevalent condition with an estimated 1.4 billion people worldwide and among the five leading causes of years lived with disability. In Scandinavia, the prevalence is estimated to 10 to 13 % among ...

Background: Several hospitals in Norway provide short self-referral inpatient treatment to patients with severe mental diagnosis. No studies have compared the experiences of patients who have had the opportunity to ...