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Physical education teachers' and public health nurses' perception of Norwegian high school students' participation in physical education - a focus group study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-12-24)Background: High quality physical education programs in high schools may facilitate adoption of sustainable healthy living among adolescents. Public health nurses often meet students who avoid taking part in physical ... -
Physical health-related quality of life predicts disability pension due to musculoskeletal disorders: seven years follow-up of the Hordaland Health Study Cohort
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-02-14)Background: Musculoskeletal diseases are characterized by a high degree of comorbidity with common mental disorders and are a major cause of health-related exclusion from working life. Using a prospective design we aimed ... -
Physician factors associated with medical errors in Norwegian primary care emergency services
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the associations between characteristics of physicians working in primary care emergency units (PCEUs) and the outcome of assessments of the medical records. Design: Data ... -
Physiotherapists' attitudes and beliefs towards common low back pain: Factor structure and internal consistency of the Norwegian version of the PABS-PT
(Master thesis, 2013-08-05)Background: The Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale for Physiotherapists (PABS-PT) is a self-administrated questionnaire designed to discriminate between a biomedical and a biopsychosocial treatment orientation of therapists ... -
Physiotherapists' engagement in work ability and return to work issues of patients with musculoskeletal disorders. A cross-sectional survey in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Work and health are a national priority in Norway, and leading health authorities call for treatment approaches that incorporate these perspectives. We have little knowledge of how physiotherapists in private ... -
Physiotherapy for painful and hypomobile hip joints. Theoretical considerations and a trial comparing standard to forceful manual traction mobilization
(Master thesis, 2005)Objectives: To compare the effectiveness of forceful manual traction mobilization treatment to standard mobilization of unknown forces in patients with hip pain and hypomobility in private physiotherapy practise, and to ... -
Placental abruption and long-term maternal cardiovascular disease mortality: a population-based registry study in Norway and Sweden
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-05)Women with preeclamptic pregnancies have increased long-term cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. We explored this mortality risk among women with placental abruption, another placental pathology. We used linked Medical ... -
Placental epigenetic clocks: estimating gestational age using placental DNA methylation levels
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The human pan-tissue epigenetic clock is widely used for estimating age across the entire lifespan, but it does not lend itself well to estimating gestational age (GA) based on placental DNAm methylation (DNAm) data. We ... -
Plasma Biomarkers of Inflammation, the Kynurenine Pathway, and Risks of All-Cause, Cancer, and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality. The Hordaland Health Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)We aimed to evaluate 10 biomarkers related to inflammation and the kynurenine pathway, including neopterin, kynurenine:tryptophan ratio, C-reactive protein, tryptophan, and 6 kynurenines, as potential predictors of all-cause ... -
Plasma concentrations and dietary intakes of choline and betaine in association with atrial fibrillation risk: Results from 3 prospective cohorts with different health profiles
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Background: Although choline metabolism has been associated with atherosclerotic heart disease, less research attention has been paid to the associations of choline and its oxidative metabolite betaine with cardiac ... -
Plasma methionine, choline, betaine, and dimethylglycine in relation to colorectal cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08)Background Disturbances in one carbon metabolism may contribute to carcinogenesis by affecting methylation and synthesis of DNA. Choline and its oxidation product betaine are involved in this metabolism and can serve as ... -
Point-of-care testing in primary healthcare: a scoring system to determine the frequency of performing internal quality control
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objectives Internal quality control (IQC) plays an important role in quality assurance in laboratory medicine. However, there is no universal consensus or guideline on when and how IQC should be analyzed on point-of-care ... -
Point-of-care testing with CRP in primary care: a registry-based observational study from Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-11-19)Background: Norwegian primary health care is maintained on the regular general practitioners (RGPs), GP’s contracted to the municipalities in a list patient system, working at daytime and at out-of-hours services (OOH ... -
Point-of-care ultrasound in primary care: a systematic review of generalist performed point-of-care ultrasound in unselected populations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: Both the interest and actual extent of use of point-of-care ultrasound, PoCUS, among general practitioners or family physicians are increasing and training is also increasingly implemented in residency programs. ... -
Poisonous milk and sinful mothers: the changing meaning of breastfeeding in the wake of the HIV epidemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-10-26)Background Breastfeeding remains normative and vital for child survival in the developing world. However, knowledge of the risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) transmission through breastfeeding has brought to attention ... -
Policy, paperwork and 'postographs': Global indicators and maternity care documentation in rural Burkina Faso
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-10)Targets and indicators set at the global level are powerful tools that govern health systems in low-income countries. Skilled birth attendance at a health facility is an important indicator for monitoring maternal mortality ... -
Polish immigrants’ access to colorectal cancer screening in Norway – a qualitative study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-10)Background: The Norwegian colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programme started in May 2022. Inequities in uptake of CRC screening is a concern, and we expect that immigrants are at risk of non-uptake. Immigrants from Poland ... -
“Polish Women’s Adaptation Experience on the Norwegian Job Market” A Qualitative Study about Polish Women in The Norwegian Job Market
(Master thesis, 2023-05-15)Polske immigranter utgjør den største gruppen av arbeidsinnvandrere i Norge. For øyeblikket er det rundt 105 500 polske innvandrere bosatt i Norge. Mens sysselsettingsraten er relativt høy, har det blitt gjort lite forskning ... -
Polycystisk ovariesyndrom: svangerskapsomsorg og tidlig livsstilssamtale
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Pooled cohort study on height and risk of cancer and cancer death
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-10-31)Purpose: To assess the association between height and risk of cancer and cancer death. Methods: The metabolic syndrome and cancer project is a prospective pooled cohort study of 585,928 participants from seven cohorts in ...