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Coping with everyday life for home-dwelling persons with dementia: A qualitative study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Aim: This study aimed to gain insight into factors that influence everyday coping strategies as described by persons with early to intermediate dementia. Background: Living with dementia presents difficulties coping with ... -
Core competences : a mixed methods study of biomedical laboratory scientists in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Background: This study describes how a sample of Norwegian biomedical laboratory scientists perceive their profession's core competences. Method: An explorative sequential mixed method was conducted based on two rounds of ... -
The effect of using desktop VR to practice preoperative handovers with the ISBAR approach: a randomized controlled trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Aim The aim was to investigate whether second-year undergraduate nursing students practicing the Identification-Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (ISBAR) communication approach in a desktop virtual reality ... -
Effects of the Informed Health Choices secondary school intervention on the ability of students in Rwanda to think critically about health choices: A cluster-randomized trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Aim The aim of this trial was to evaluate the effects of the Informed Health Choices intervention on the ability of students in Rwandan to think critically and make Informed Health Choices. Methods We conducted a ... -
Effects of the Informed Health Choices secondary school intervention: A prospective meta-analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Aim The aim of this prospective meta-analysis was to synthesize the results of three cluster-randomized trials of an intervention designed to teach lower-secondary school students (age 14–16) to think critically about ... -
An efficient and lightweight multiperson activity recognition framework for robot-assisted healthcare applications
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Aging is inevitably associated with a decline in physical abilities and can pose challenges to the social lives of elderly individuals. In long-term care facilities, group exercise is instrumental for keeping elderly ... -
End-of-life care at home: Dignity of family caregivers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Background: Healthcare services are increasingly being shifted to home settings for patients nearing end-of-life. Consequently, the burden on family caregivers is significant. Their vulnerable situation remains poorly ... -
The Ethical Standpoints of Rehabilitation in the Nordic Countries- A Theoretical Study About Caring Sciences and Rehabilitation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Purpose: The study's purpose is to argue from a theoretical perspective, the importance of an ethical foundation or ontology in rehabilitation. The study aims to create a theoretical model where ethics and rehabilitation ... -
The Ethical Standpoints of Rehabilitation in the Nordic Countries- A Theoretical Study About Caring Sciences and Rehabilitation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Purpose: The study's purpose is to argue from a theoretical perspective, the importance of an ethical foundation or ontology in rehabilitation. The study aims to create a theoretical model where ethics and rehabilitation ... -
Exploring scientific writing as part of a learning model for interprofessional higher health education : a qualitative study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study investigated how students in interprofessional higher education experienced learning with a model including essay writing and perceived the effect on their learning outcomes. The study occurred at an institute ... -
Exploring sustainable care pathways : a scoping review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Background: Patients with mental health problems experience numerous transitions into and out of hospital. Aim: The review studies assessing clinical care pathways between psychiatric hospitalization and community health ... -
Formal caregivers’ perceptions of quality of care for older people: associating factors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Background Despite the growing number of studies concerning quality of care for older people, there is a lack of studies depicting factors associated with good quality of care from the formal caregivers’ perspective. The ... -
Free breathing VMAT versus deep inspiration breath-hold 3D conformal radiation therapy for early stage left-sided breast cancer
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The purpose of the in silico study was to compare free breathing volumetric modu-lated arc therapy (VMAT) to standard deep inspiration breathhold (DIBH) threedi-mensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) and determine ... -
Fully Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care Services at a Local Hospital in Mid-Norway: Development and Operation of an Innovative Care Delivery Model
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Introduction Early access to cancer palliative care is recommended. Descriptions of structures and processes of outpatient palliative care clinics operated within smaller hospitals are scarce. This paper presents the ... -
Games of uncertainty: the participation of older patients with multimorbidity in care planning meetings - a qualitative study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background Active patients lie at the heart of integrated care. Although interventions to increase the participation of older patients in care planning are being implemented in several countries, there is a lack of ... -
General practitioners’ description of functioning in sickness certificates
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In Norway, general practitioners (GPs) are the gatekeepers who provide written assessment of patients' functional ability to provide documentation for the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration for decisions about ... -
Geriatric assessment with management for older patients with cancer receiving radiotherapy. Protocol of a Norwegian cluster-randomised controlled pilot study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)About 50% of patients with cancer are expected to need radiotherapy (RT), and the majority of these are older. To improve outcomes for older patients with cancer, geriatric assessment (GA) with management (GAM) is highly ... -
Glucoregulatory Properties of a Protein Hydrolysate from Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar): Preliminary Characterization and Evaluation of DPP-IV Inhibition and Direct Glucose Uptake In Vitro
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Metabolic disorders are increasingly prevalent conditions that manifest pathophysiologically along a continuum. Among reported metabolic risk factors, elevated fasting serum glucose (FSG) levels have shown the most substantial ... -
Guidance from practice teachers - A qualitative study of nursing studentes in practice studies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)A qualitative study conducted at two universities in Norway that examines nursing students' experiences of guidance provided by the practice teacher in practice. Different factors in practice can impact the coping ability ... -
Hb Aalesund (HBA2: c.400_406delAGCACCG), an Unstable α-Globin Variant Found in a Norwegian Patient Causing Moderate Hemolytic Anemia and Falsely High Hb A1c Using Ion Exchange High Performance Liquid Chromatography
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)A new unstable hemoglobin (Hb) variant, named Hb Aalesund, was detected during Hb A1c measurement in a patient with a nearly compensated hemolytic anemia. Sequencing of the α-globin genes revealed a 7 bp deletion in exon ...