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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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
React and act: a qualitative study of how nursing home leaders follow up on staff-to-resident abuse
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background Elder abuse in nursing homes is a complex multifactorial problem and entails various associations across personal, social, and organisational factors. One way leaders can prevent abuse and promote quality and ... -
Reading and writing difficulties in adolescence and later risk of welfare dependence. A ten year follow-up, the HUNT Study, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Background: Welfare dependence and low work participation among young people have raised concern in many European countries. Reading and writing difficulties (RWD) might make young people vulnerable to work integration ... -
Reasons for participation and non-participation in a diabetes prevention trial among women with prior gestational diabetes mellitus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes. Lifestyle intervention can prevent progression to type 2 diabetes in high risk populations. We designed a randomised ... -
Recovery after stroke - assessment and treatment; with focus on motor function
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2008:107, Doctoral thesis, 2008)The incidence of stroke has not changed significantly in recent decades. However, the actual number of strokes is likely to increase as a consequence of the increasing number of elderly people, creating a significant burden ... -
Reduced head steadiness in whiplash compared with non-traumatic neck pain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Objective: While sensorimotor alterations have been observed in patients with neck pain, it is uncertain whether such changes distinguish whiplash-associated disorders from chronic neck pain without trauma. The aim of this ... -
Reduced Th22 cell proportion and prevention of atopic dermatitis in infants following maternal probiotic supplementation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background In the randomized, controlled study Probiotics in the Prevention of Allergy among Children in Trondheim (ProPACT), maternal probiotic supplementation reduced the incidence of atopic dermatitis (AD) in the ... -
Reforming disease definitions: A new primary care led, people-centred approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Expanding disease definitions are causing more and more previously healthy people to be labelled as diseased, contributing to the problem of overdiagnosis and related overtreatment. Often the specialist guideline panels ...