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Blir behovet for søvn prioritert på intensiv? : - en kvantitativ undersøkelse av norske intensivavdelingers praksis rundt søvn og sedering

2014

Masteroppgave i spesialsykepleie – Universitetet i Agder 2014 Background: Patients in the intensive care units suffer from sleep disturbances. The lack of sleep may cause physical and psychological disturbances, increased morbidity and prolonged stay. The nurses evaluate patients’ sleep mainly on their own perception. No registration of sleeping and sedation practices has been conducted in intensive care units in Norway. Aim: To get insight into Norwegian intensive care nurses sleeping and sedation practices and what kind of interventions are common to conduct promoting better sleep and to explore if sedation- or sleep assessment tools, or sedation- or sleep protocols were used. Method: A s…

Postmenopausal women with osteopenia and a healed wrist fracture have reduced physical function and quality of life compared to a matched, healthy co…

2014

Published version of an article from the journal: BMC Women's Health. Also available from the publisher: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6874-14-92 Background: Fractures lead to reduced physical function and quality of life (QOL), but little is known about postmenopausal women with osteopenia and a healed wrist fracture. The purpose was to evaluate physical function in terms of quadriceps strength, dynamic balance, physical capacity and QOL in postmenopausal women with osteopenia and a healed wrist fracture compared to a matched, healthy control group with no previous fracture. Methods: Eighteen postmenopausal women with osteopenia (patients) (mean age 59.1 years, range 54 – 65) and a healed…

Future sport, exercise and physical education professionals' perceptions of the physical self of obese children

2010

Published version of an article from the journal:International Journal of Fundamental and Applied Kinesiology. Also available from the publisher:http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=82637 Anti-fat bias has been previously identified amongst practising obesity health care specialists, physical education (PE) teachers and students of exercise science and PE in samples in the USA and New Zealand. The present research investigated the perceptions of the physical self of 'fat' versus 'normal-weight' children held by 167 students studying sport exercise and PE related programmes in higher education in England. Onesample t-tests identified that the sample held negative percep…

Antiretroviral treatment reverses HIV-associated anemia in rural Tanzania

2011

Published version of an article from the journal: BMC Infectious Diseases. Also available from the publisher: hhtp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-190 . Open Access BACKGROUND:HIV-associated anemia is common and associated with poor prognosis. However, its response to antiretroviral treatment (ART) in rural Africa is poorly understood.METHODS:HIV-infected adults ([greater than or equal to]15 years) who enrolled in HIV care at Haydom Lutheran Hospital in northern Tanzania were included in the study. The effect of ART (zidovudine/stavudine + lamivudine + efavirenz/nevirapine) on HIV-associated anemia was studied in a subset of patients who were anemic at the time they started ART and had a …

Diversity, complexity and ordinality: Mental health services outside the institutions—service users’ and professionals’ experience-based practices an…

2021

Usability Evaluation of Electronic forms and Collaborative Assessment Report in an Inter-municipality Health Care team for Dementia Diagnose

2014

Despite that paper-based medical procedures have historically been the most common way of registering and exchanging patient data; it does not avoid the potential risks of unauthenticated access; unregistered data loss; legibility and difficulty to share the data with third parties. The Coordination Reform 2009 (Samhandlingsreformen) has demanded from municipalities to implement health services for citizens based on electronic messaging that eases the access to and sharing of patient data. In the context of the Research project “Collaboration without borders” (Samhandling uten grenser); electronic forms and collaborative assessment report by videoconference have been usability tested in thi…

Opplevelsene av å få og leve med en psykiatrisk diagnose

2013

Author's version of an article in the journal: Tidsskrift for psykisk helsearbeid. Also available from the publisher at: http://www.idunn.no/ts/tph/2013/01/opplevelsene_av_f_og_leve_med_en_psykiatriskdiagnose In Norway, clinicians (doctors and psychologists) are required to give patients a diagnosis. The purpose of the study this article is based on was to gain insight into how people experience living with a psychiatric diagnosis. The findings are based on qualitative interviews with four participants who have had a psychiatric diagnosis for at least five years. Findings show that having a psychiatric diagnosis affects how people are met by others; individuals with such a diagnosis can hav…

Adolescent boys with asthma : a pilot study on embodied gendered habits

2012

Publkished version of an article from the journal: Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare. Also available from Dove Press:http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/jmdh.s37517 Purpose: Asthma is a common chronic disease with gender differences in terms of severity and quality of life. This study aimed to understand the gendered practices of male asthmatic adolescents in terms of living with and managing their chronic disease. The study applied a sociological perspective to identify the gender-related practices of participants and their possible consequences for health and disease. Patients and methods: The study used a combined ethnomethodology and grounded theory design, which was interpreted using Bourd…

Er det for dyrt? Om barns deltakelse og valg av organiserte fritidsaktiviteter når familiens økonomi er svak

2012

Author's version of an article in the journal: Fontene forskning. Also available from the publisher at: http://www.fontene.no/fontene_i_pdf/fontene_forskning_i_pdf/ I denne artikkelen studerer jeg hva som styrer barn i lavinntektsfamiliers deltakelse i organiserte fritidsaktiviteter, i lys av økonomi og sosial kapital. Datamaterialet er fra den kvalitative delen av prosjektet; Barns levekår – betydningen av familiens inntekt (Sandbæk og Pedersen (red.) 2010). 26 barn i alderen 11 – 13 år er intervjuet om sitt hverdagsliv. Barna beskriver at det enten er venners deltakelse eller egne interesser som styrer hvilke aktiviteter de velger. Ved å gå nærmere inn i historiene viser det seg at famili…

Collaborative Process Modelling and Evaluation in E-health

2014

Published version of a paper from the conference:Scandinavian Conference on Health Informatics; August 22; 2014; Grimstad; Norway There is a gap in Design Science Research literature regarding context and methodologies for Evaluation. The Evaluation stage is the bridge between Design (or procurement); and Benefit management. Taking a constructive approach to the many challenges this poses; we propose a framework for e-health design science research evaluation. We also perform a systematic literature review for the use of process modelling notation in e-health; as a prerequisite for process and service co-creation and evaluation; and assess these; as they are applied in the literature; for c…