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Parent's self-reported tooth brushing and use of fluoridated toothpaste: Associations with their one-year-old child's preventive oral health behaviour
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objective The aim of the study was to examine if the tooth brushing frequency and use of fluoridated toothpaste of the mother and father were associated with the tooth brushing frequency and use of fluoridated toothpaste ... -
Parent-child communication about sexual issues in Zambia: a cross sectional study of adolescent girls and their parents
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Parent-child communication about sexual issues can reduce risky sexual behaviour amongst adolescents. Risky sexual behaviour is of concern in sub-Saharan Africa where the prevalence of early pregnancy, unsafe ... -
Parent-of-origin-environment interactions in case-parent triads with or without independent controls
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-03)With case–parent triad data, one can frequently deduce parent of origin of the child's alleles. This allows a parent‐of‐origin (PoO) effect to be estimated as the ratio of relative risks associated with the alleles inherited ... -
Parental anxiety related to referral of childhood heart murmur; an observational/interventional study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-11-21)Background: Detection of a heart murmur in healthy children is common, but may generate anxiety among parents. Many parents believe a heart murmur is a sign of heart disease, although the majority of heart murmurs are ... -
Parental beliefs and attitudes towards child caries prevention: Assessing consistency and validity in a longitudinal design
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-01-23)Background: Exploring the stability of self-reports over time in observational studies may give valuable information for the planning of future interventions. The aims of the present study were: 1) to explore the consistency ... -
Parental body size and offspring lung health: preparing for parenthood already in childhood?
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-01-21)Background: In parallel with the increase in asthma and allergies there has been a dramatic increase in overweight and obesity during the last decades. Being overweight or obese is a known risk factor for asthma, and ... -
Parental education and the risk of cerebral palsy for children: an evaluation of causality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Aim To explore whether increasing parental education has a causal effect on risk of cerebral palsy (CP) in the child, or whether unobserved confounding is a more likely explanation. Method We used data from Norwegian ... -
Parental income gradients in child and adolescent mortality: Norwegian trends over half a century
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: Child mortality has declined rapidly over the last century in many high-income countries. However, little is known about the socio-economic differences in this decline and whether these vary across causes of ... -
Parental involvement in decision-making about their child's health care at the hospital
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-07-30)Aim: To explore parents’ experiences on parental involvement in decision‐making about their child’s health care at the hospital and to identify how health professionals can improve parental involvement. Design: An explorative ... -
Parental Prepuberty Overweight and Offspring Lung Function
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In a recent study we found that fathers’ but not mothers’ onset of overweight in puberty was associated with asthma in adult offspring. The potential impact on offspring’s adult lung function, a key marker of general and ... -
Parental smoking and risk of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-11)Background: A few prospective studies suggest an association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and lower risk of type 1 diabetes. However, the role of unmeasured confounding and misclassification remains unclear. ... -
Parental socioeconomic status and risk of cerebral palsy in the child: evidence from two Nordic population-based cohorts
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-06-26)Background We investigated whether the risk of cerebral palsy (CP) in the child varies by parents’ socioeconomic status, in Denmark and Norway. Methods We included almost 1.3 million children born in Demark during 1981–2007 ... -
Parental TB associated with offspring asthma and rhinitis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)BACKGROUND: Infections in early life are associated with asthma and allergies in one-generation settings; however, the link between parental infection and offspring phenotype is rarely investigated. We aim to study the ... -
Parenteral nutrition in patients with incurable cancer: A retrospective study of current practice at Haukeland University Hospital
(Master thesis, 2020-06-17)Background: The use of PN therapy in patients living with incurable cancer is understudied, and there is a need for a stronger evidence base regarding this treatment in patients with incurable cancer. Aims: This study aimed ... -
Parenteral Vaccination against Influenza Does Not Induce a Local Antigen-Specific Immune Response in the Nasal Mucosa
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2002-03-19)The immune response in the nasal mucosa to influenza vaccination in 23 patients scheduled for tonsillectomy was studied. A statistically significant increase in influenza virus–specific serum and oral fluid antibodies was ... -
Parenting children with type 1 diabetes. A cross-sectional study of associations between the psychological and contextual characteristics of parents, parenting behaviour and the characteristics of children in a population-based sample
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-12-10)Background: Insulin treatment of children with type 1 diabetes requires multiple medical decisions and technical procedures every day. Although previous studies have mostly included mothers, parenting style has been ... -
Parents' lived experience of living with and caring for their burn-injured child in a home setting
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Purpose When a burn injured child is discharged from hospital to its home, the responsibility for the after-care treatment is transferred to the parent(s). A knowledge gap exists concerning how parents experience caring ... -
Parents' lived experiences of parental needs for support at a burn centre
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Purpose: A burn injury to a child is a traumatic event and the parent’s emotional reactions and coping strategies affect the child’s adaptive outcome. It is therefore important that parents get the right support. The aim ... -
Parents’ Attitudes toward Clinical Genetic Testing for Autism Spectrum Disorder—Data from a Norwegian Sample
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-05-18)Clinical genetic testing (CGT) of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may have positive and negative effects. Knowledge about parents’ attitudes is needed to ensure good involvement of caregivers, which is crucial ... -
Parents’ smoking onset before conception as related to body mass index and fat mass in adult offspring: Findings from the RHINESSA generation study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Emerging evidence suggests that parents’ preconception exposures may influence offspring health. We aimed to investigate maternal and paternal smoking onset in specific time windows in relation to offspring body mass index ...