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QEPH - Questionnaire to map employees´ knowledge and opinion on the municipal public health work
(Master thesis, 2013)Background: There is an increasing focus on the need to work intersectoral with public health in municipalities, which imply that the employees in all sectors should work with public health. However, there are currently ... -
A qualitative study of bereaved family caregivers: feeling of security, facilitators and barriers for rural home care and death for persons with advanced cancer
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background For cancer patients and their family, an important factor that determines the choice to die at home is the caregivers’ feeling of security when caring for the patient at home. Support to caregivers from healthcare ... -
Qualitative study of pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal care experiences of Filipino immigrant women in Norway
(Master thesis, 2020)Abstract Background: The last 50 years have seen a significant increase in both the childbearing age and diversity of women migrating to Norway. The Norwegian health care system may be well organized and equipped to diagnose ... -
Quality assessment of structure and language elements of written responses given by seven Scandinavian drug information centres.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Purpose The aim of this study was to identify structure and language elements affecting the quality of responses from Scandinavian drug information centres (DICs). Methods Six different fictitious drug-related queries ... -
Quality indicators for patients with traumatic brain injury in European intensive care units: a CENTER-TBI study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background The aim of this study is to validate a previously published consensus-based quality indicator set for the management of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) at intensive care units (ICUs) in Europe and ... -
Quality of life and fear of COVID-19 in 2600 baccalaureate nursing students at five universities: a cross-sectional study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruptions in the implementation of programs across educational institutions. Nursing students, being both young adults and by practical training, part of the health ... -
Quality of life and psychological and gastrointestinal symptoms after cholecystectomy, a population-based cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Objective The study aims to examine gastrointestinal symptoms, quality of life and the risk of psychological symptoms after cholecystectomy. Design This is a prospective population-based cohort study based on the ... -
Quality of life assessed with EQ-5D 3L in patients undergoing glioma surgery; What is the responsiveness and minimal clinically important difference?
(Master thesis, 2012)Background: There are few studies on the impact of glioma surgery on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The generic instrument EQ-5D 3L has been utilized in this context, but several questions concerning use and ... -
Quality of life in children and adolescents surviving cancer
(Journal article, 2012-04)Purpose: To explore subjective and proxy reported QoL (Quality of Life) in children and adolescents surviving cancer three years after diagnosis compared with healthy controls. Method: Case-control study including 50 ... -
Quantifying bone marrow inflammatory edema in the spine and sacroiliac joints with thresholding
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory arthritis that develops in patients with psoriasis. Inflammatory edema in the spine may reflect subclinical disease activity and be a predictor of radiographic ... -
Quantifying the impact of genes on body mass index during the obesity epidemic: Longitudinal findings from the HUNT Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Objectives: To study the trajectories of body mass index (BMI) in Norway over five decades and to assess the differential influence of the obesogenic environment on BMI according to genetic predisposition. Design: ... -
Quantifying tumour vascularity in non-luminal breast cancers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Aims Microvessel density (MVD), proliferating MVD (pMVD) and vascular proliferation index (VPI) are methods used to quantify tumour vascularity in histopathological sections. In this study, we assessed MVD, pMVD and VPI ... -
A questionnaire of knowledge, attitude and practices on tuberculosis among medical interns in Nepal
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health problem worldwide, including in Nepal where around 33,000 new cases of TB were diagnosed in 2018 and 5400 patients died. There are challenges in the diagnostic process, ... -
Quorum sensing in Aliivibrio wodanis 06/09/139 and its role in controlling various phenotypic traits
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background Quorum Sensing (QS) is a cell-to-cell communication system that bacteria utilize to adapt to the external environment by synthesizing and responding to signalling molecules called autoinducers. The psychrotrophic ... -
Radikal prostatektomi og livskvalitet
(Bachelor thesis, 2020)Tittel: Radikal prostatektomi og livskvalitet Hensikt: Hensikten med denne studien er å undersøke hvordan sykepleier gjennom undervisning og veiledning kan bidra til å øke livskvaliteten til pasienter som behandles med ... -
Random error units, extension of a novel method to express random error in epidemiological studies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Currently used methods to express random error are often misinterpreted and consequently misused by biomedical researchers. Previously we proposed a simple approach to quantify the amount of random error in epidemiological ... -
Rapportert søvnmangel blant småbarnsmødre med revmatisk sykdom – Hvordan kan sykepleier hjelpe?
(Bachelor thesis, 2020)Innledning: Fagartikkelen tar for seg hvilke problemer småbarnsmødre med revmatisk sykdom har knyttet til søvnmangel, og hvordan sykepleiere kan hjelpe mødrene til å mestre utfordringer i dagliglivet. Metode: Spørreundersøkelsen ... -
Rapportert søvnmangel blant småbarnsmødre med revmatisk sykdom – Hvordan kan sykepleier hjelpe?
(Bachelor thesis, 2020)Innledning: Fagartikkelen tar for seg hvilke problemer småbarnsmødre med revmatisk sykdom har knyttet til søvnmangel, og hvordan sykepleiere kan hjelpe mødrene til å mestre utfordringer i dagliglivet. Metode: Spørreundersøkelsen ... -
A rare case of Waardenburg syndrome with unilateral hearing loss caused by nonsense variant c.772C>T (p.Arg259*) in the MITF gene in Yakut patient from the Eastern Siberia (Sakha Republic, Russia)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Waardenburg syndrome (WS) is an orphan genetic disease with autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance characterised by varying degrees of hearing loss accompanied by skin, hair and iris pigmentation abnormalities. Four ...