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Influence of childcare practices on nutritional status of Ghanaian children: a regression analysis of the Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11-03)Objectives: Guided by the UNICEF framework for childcare, this study examined the association of childcare practices (CCP) with infant and young children’s growth (height-for-age Z-scores, HAZ), and investigated ... -
The influence of fatalism on health beliefs of diabetic patients in Khartoum: A comparison between the Copts and Muslims
(Master thesis, 2014-05-19)Objectives: The objectives of this research was to explore how the belief in fatalism influences health beliefs in diabetic patients and to compare the differences in fatalistic beliefs between Coptic and Muslim diabetics ... -
The influence of public opinion on tobacco control policy-making in Georgia: Perspectives of governmental and non-governmental stakeholders
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-01)Introduction: Georgia has one of the highest smoking rates (36%) in Europe. This may be due partly to the fact that the present Georgian tobacco control regulations are weakly enforced. It is unclear if the authorities are ... -
Innovative Pedagogies in a Health Promotion Specialisation: Knowledge, Practice and Research
(Chapter, 2022)Educating health promotion professionals must involve learning activities that not only facilitate for attainment of health promotion knowledge but that also develop students’ competencies in health promotion. The objective ... -
Inside the Outdoor Experience. On the distinction between pleasant and interesting feelings and their implication in the motivational process
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-08-24)Inspired by the functional well-being approach (Vittersø, 2013a, 2013b), this study set out to explore the distinction between hedonic and eudaimonic dimensions of feeling states to understand more about the variety ... -
An Integral Approach to Health: Perspectives on Health from Mayan-Tz'utujil Women in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. A Photovoice study
(Master thesis, 2018-06-19)Background: Health is a complex issue and can be approached from varying perspectives, from a technology-driven biomedical approach to a more intricate understanding of health as a result of social surroundings. In Guatemala, ... -
An Integral Approach to Menstrual Hygiene Management - Understanding adolescent girls’ experiences of menstruation in Sri Puram, India
(Master thesis, 2018-06-09)Background: Menstruation and menstrual hygiene management are central to the lived experiences of most girls and women around the world for much of their lives, yet is often under researched and ignored on the development ... -
"Integrering er ikke bare å sitte i samme rom, altså". En studie av lærernes erfaringer med integrering av fysisk funksjonshemmede elever i grunnskolen
(Master thesis, 2000)Integration of children with disabilities is regulated through legislation aiming at normalising and improving children's quality of life. School is an important arena for realisation. The aim of the study is to examine ... -
Integrering gjennom organisert fysisk aktivitet: Hva sier unge gutter med flerkulturell bakgrunn?
(Master thesis, 2013-05-16)Background: An important social objective is that all children should have equal opportunity to participate regardless of background. This may entail the need to facilitate things even more to ensure that vulnerable groups ... -
Interaction between Norwegian counties and municipalities to reduce social health inequalities: an exploratory study
(Master thesis, 2015)Background: Social inequalities in health are systematic differences in health between social groups, and are considered as unjust. The social determinants of health are factors external to the human body, which affects ... -
Interaction with potential donors’ families : the professionals’ community of concern - a phenomenological study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)The aim of this paper was to explore the health professionals’ experiences and gain a deeper understanding of interaction with families of critically ill or traumatized patients with severe brain injuries. The methodological ... -
Intergenerational perspectives on refugee children and youth's adaptation to life in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Refugees from the Global South face many challenges when they arrive in Europe, not least having their subjectivities and beliefs questioned as part of requests for them to adapt to the norms of the destination context. ... -
Internalizing Symptoms Among Youth in Foster Care: Prevalence and Associations with Exposure to Maltreatment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-11)Among youth in foster care (N = 303, aged 11–17 years), we investigated prevalence of internalizing symptoms; associations between symptom level and maltreatment types and numbers; and the interaction between gender and ... -
Interrater reliability and experiences of Assessment, Intervention, and Moving-on 3 Assessment Model in a multidisciplinary Norwegian sample
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-05)Background: Assessing minors with harmful sexual behavior (HSB) is a complex and sensitive task. The AIM3 Assessment Model was developed to assist practitioners with information collection and HSB evaluations. Objective: ... -
Intervention to Enhance Empowerment in Breast Cancer Self-Help Groups
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-03)As arduous psychological reactions and loss of control almost inevitably represent a challenge for women diagnosed and treated for breast cancer, a participatory intervention study was initiated that aimed to enhance ... -
Intimate partner violence among adolescents in South Africa and Tanzania
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-09-04)Background The aims of this dissertation were to study intimate partner violence among adolescents in Tanzania and South Africa, particularly prevalences and associated factors. Furthermore, to examine the relation between ... -
The intraindividual relations between social and academic self-efficacy, loneliness, academic stress and psychological distress in adolescence
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-10-20)Det overordnede målet i denne avhandlingen er å øke vår forståelse av intraindividuelle sammenhenger mellom akademisk og sosial mestringstro og akademisk stress, ensomhet og symptomer på angst og depresjon. I dag er det ... -
Introducing payment for performance in the health sector of Tanzania- the policy process
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-09-02)Background: Prompted by the need to achieve progress in health outcomes, payment for performance (P4P) schemes are becoming popular policy options in the health systems in many low income countries. This paper describes ... -
Introduction to the Bergen Social Relationships Scale (BSRS): A short questionnaire for the measurement of psychosocial stress in epidemiological studies (update 2018)
(Working paper, 2018-02-14)The assessment of stress in epidemiological studies is challenging. Stress has many conceptualisations: chronic versus acute, objective versus subjective, stimulus versus response, and individual versus organisational/societal ... -
An investigation of factors identified at birth in relation to anxiety and depression in old age: the Hordaland Health Study (HUSK)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-05-10)Background: Although life course influences have long been recognised in affective disorder, little is known about the influence of early life factors on late life anxiety and depression. The aim was to investigate the ...