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Acceptability of an economic support component to reduce early pregnancy and school dropout in Zambia: a qualitative case study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: Cash Transfer (CT) schemes have become popular poverty reducing measures in many low and middle-income countries. Research indicates that when provided to girls in resource poor settings, cash transfers can ... -
Acceptability of HIV counselling and testing among tuberculosis patients in south Ethiopia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2007-05-30)Background: To benefit from available care and treatment options, patients should first be counselled and tested for HIV. Our aim was to assess the acceptability of HIV testing among tuberculosis patients under routine ... -
Acceptability of youth clubs focusing on comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education in rural Zambian schools: a case of Central Province
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background The youths in Zambia have limited access to information concerning Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) and this puts them at risk of unwanted pregnancies. Talking about other methods of preventing pregnancy or ... -
The acceptability, adoption, and feasibility of a music application developed using participatory design for home-dwelling persons with dementia and their caregivers. The “Alight” app in the LIVE@Home.Path trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: Music interventions for persons with dementia can improve health and interaction with caregivers, yet the reach is often restricted to institutions. We describe the participatory design process of a prototype ... -
The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09-27)Introduction: Unsafe abortion is a major contributor to the continued high global maternal mortality and morbidity rates. Legal abortion frameworks and access to sexuality education and contraception have been pointed out ... -
Access to and interest in assistive technology for home-dwelling people with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic (PAN.DEM)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The COVID-19 restrictions affect daily living in Norway, including home-dwelling people with dementia, and researchers conducting clinical trials in dementia care. In this paper, we 1) describe the development of a pandemic ... -
Access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health services in Uganda: Investigating the role of Primary Health Care and Traditional Healers
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-12-03)Introduction: Up to 20% of children and adolescents globally suffer from a debilitating mental illness and up to 50% of adult mental illness begins in adolescence. Early detection and management of Child and Adolescent ... -
Access to colorectal cancer screening for Pakistani immigrants in Norway – a qualitative study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024-07-11)Background: The Norwegian colorectal cancer (CRC) screening program started in May 2022. Inequalities in CRC screening participation are a challenge, and we expect that certain groups, such as immigrants, are at risk of ... -
Access to Norwegian healthcare system - challenges for sub-Saharan African immigrants
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-14)Background: Immigrants face barriers in accessing healthcare services in high-income countries. Inequalities in health and access to healthcare services among immigrants have been previously investigated. However, little ... -
Access to, use of, and experiences with social alarms in home-living people with dementia: results from the LIVE@Home.Path trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: Social alarms are considered an appropriate technology to ensure the safety and independence of older adults, but limited research has been conducted on their actual use. We, therefore, explored the access, ... -
Accessibility to tuberculosis control services and tuberculosis programme performance in southern Ethiopia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-11-20)Background: Despite the expansion of health services and community-based interventions in Ethiopia, limited evidence exists about the distribution of and access to health facilities and their relationship with the performance ... -
An accessible proteogenomics informatics resource for cancer researchers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Proteogenomics has emerged as a valuable approach in cancer research, which integrates genomic and transcriptomic data with mass spectrometry–based proteomics data to directly identify expressed, variant protein sequences ... -
Accessing public healthcare in Oslo, Norway: The experiences of Thai immigrant masseuses
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-10-21)Background: Thai massage is a highly gendered and culturally specific occupation. Many female Thai masseuses migrate to Norway as marriage migrants and as such are entitled to the same public healthcare as Norwegian citizens. ... -
Accidental exposure to electromagnetic fields from the radar of a naval ship; a descriptive study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)Part of a crew on a Norwegian naval ship was exposed to the radar waves for approximately 7 min from an American destroyer during an incident at sea in August 2012. Information about the exposure was not given by the navy. ... -
The accountability for reasonableness approach to guide priority setting in health systems within limited resources - findings from action research at district level in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08-20)Background: Priority-setting decisions are based on an important, but not sufficient set of values and thus lead to disagreement on priorities. Accountability for Reasonableness (AFR) is an ethics-based approach to a ... -
Accountable priority setting for trust in health systems - the need for research into a new approach for strengthening sustainable health action in developing countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-10-24)Abstract Despite multiple efforts to strengthen health systems in low and middle income countries, intended sustainable improvements in health outcomes have not been shown. To date most priority setting initiatives in ... -
Accounting for NAD Concentrations in Genome-Scale Metabolic Models Captures Important Metabolic Alterations in NAD-Depleted Systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is a ubiquitous molecule found within all cells, acting as a crucial coenzyme in numerous metabolic reactions. It plays a vital role in energy metabolism, cellular signaling, and DNA ... -
Accounting for symptom heterogeneity can improve neuroimaging models of antidepressant response after electroconvulsive therapy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Depression symptom heterogeneity limits the identifiability of treatment-response biomarkers. Whether improvement along dimensions of depressive symptoms relates to separable neural networks remains poorly understood. We ... -
Accumulation dynamics of transcripts and proteins of cold-responsive genes in fragaria vesca genotypes of differing cold tolerance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Identifying and characterizing cold responsive genes in Fragaria vesca associated with or responsible for low temperature tolerance is a vital part of strawberry cultivar development. In this study we have investigated the ... -
Accumulation of Globotriaosylceramide in Podocytes in Fabry Nephropathy Is Associated with Progressive Podocyte Loss
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background In males with classic Fabry disease, the processes leading to the frequent outcome of ESKD are poorly understood. Defects in the gene encoding α-galactosidase A lead to accumulation of globotriaosylceramide (GL3) ...