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Interventions to improve breastfeeding outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-11-04)Aim. To provide comprehensive evidence of the effect of interventions on early initiation, exclusive, continued and any breastfeeding rates when delivered in five settings: (i) Health systems and services (ii) Home and ... -
Interviewing adolescent girls about sexual and reproductive health: a qualitative study exploring how best to ask questions in structured follow-up interviews in a randomized controlled trial in Zambia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Numerous studies have documented inconsistent reporting of sexual behaviour by adolescents. The validity and reliability of self-reported data on issues considered sensitive, incriminating or embarrassing, is ... -
Intimate partner violence against women in eastern Uganda: implications for HIV prevention
(Journal article, 2006-11-20)Background: We were interested in finding out if the very low antenatal VCT acceptance rate reported in Mbale Hospital was linked to intimate partner violence against women. We therefore set out to i) determine the prevalence ... -
Intimate partner violence among pregnant teenagers in Lira district, northern Uganda: a cross-sectional study
(Journal article, 2020)Background/aims: Intimate partner violence during pregnancy is associated with adverse health outcomes for mothers and their unborn babies. Whereas the literature on intimate partner violence in the general population is ... -
Intimate partner violence and infant morbidity: evidence of an association from a population-based study in eastern Uganda in 2003
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2007-11-07)Background: Although recent studies suggest that there is an association between intimate partner violence and child mortality, the underlying mechanisms are still unknown. It is against this background that as a secondary ... -
Intimate partner violence and maternal depression during pregnancy: A community-based cross-sectional study in Ethiopia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Introduction: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is regarded an important public health and human rights issue, characterized by physical, sexual or emotional abuse. Globally more than one in three women report physical or ... -
Intimate partner violence associated with low quality of life - a cross-sectional study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-09-04)Background Quality of life among abused women in Norway in 2006 was found to be significantly low compared to women at the same age in general. The aim of this study was to examine how quality of life is associated with ... -
Intimate partner violence in pregnant women in Ethiopia: Occurrence, consequences and health care
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-05-09)Bakgrunn: Graviditet beskytter ikke kvinner mot vold. Partner vold (partner vold, intimate partner violence, IPV) i svangerskapet er assosiert med dårlig helse både for mor og nyfødt. Flere studier har også vist sammenheng ... -
Intra –og intertester reliabilitet for ultralydsmålinger af patellarsenens tykkelse hos individer med symptomatiske og asymptomatiske patellarsener
(Master thesis, 2017-08-19)Background: RTUS is increasingly used as an available measuring instrument among physiotherapists for diagnosing superficial structures like tendons. Although RTUS is frequently used in scientific studies of patellar ... -
Intra-tester og inter-tester reliabilitet av senetykkelsesmåling med diagnostisk ultralyd hos pasienter med skuldertendinopati
(Master thesis, 2016-10-31)Background and purpose: Shoulder tendinopathy is a common reason for shoulder pain and represents a great socioeconomic burden. Ultrasonography is used increasingly in primary care. In order to apply clinical measurement ... -
Intra-tester reliability of the Resource Oriented Assessment of Movement (ROAM) applied in healthy young adolescents
(Master thesis, 2009-05-25)Background and purpose: With the knowledge of the Norwegian Global Physiotherapy Examination (GPE) method, an examination method based on psychosomatic physiotherapy with tests related to general aspects of respiration, ... -
Intrauterine foetal and child growth in the context of Ethiopian Health system: Implications for Prenatal care : Intrauterine foetal growth and child linear growth in Ethiopia
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-03-09)Fostervekst og vekst hos små barn på den etiopiske landsbygd. Etiopia er fortsatt et av verdens fattigste land, og bruken av helsetjenester er lav. Mødre dødeligheten er også høy. Og, mange barn har både akutt og kronisk ... -
Intrauterine growth patterns in rural Ethiopia compared with WHO and INTERGROWTH-21st growth standards: A community-based longitudinal study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Introduction Children’s well-being is highly influenced by their fetal growth. Adequate intrauterine growth (IUG) is a basic feature of a healthy pregnancy. The aim of our study was to assess IUG patterns in a rural and ... -
Introducing debate as a pedagogical tool in pharmacy education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Communication skills are crucial for pharmacists’ role in counselling and providing information to patients, other healthcare practitioners, and the community. This study explores the implementation of debate as a pedagogical ... -
Introducing post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) for management of severe anemia in Malawian children: a qualitative study of community health workers’ perceptions and motivation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-19)Severe malarial anaemia is one of the leading causes of paediatric hospital admissions in Malawi. Post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) is the intermittent administration of full treatment courses of antimalarial ... -
Introduction of birth dose of hepatitis B virus vaccine to the immunization program in Ethiopia: An economic evaluation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is an important cause of morbidity and mortality with a very high burden in Africa. The risk of developing chronic infection is marked if the infection is acquired perinatally, ... -
The Inverse Association of Body Mass Index with Lung Cancer: Exploring Residual Confounding, Metabolic Aberrations and Within-Person Variability in Smoking
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: The inverse observational association between body mass index (BMI) and lung cancer risk remains unclear. We assessed whether the association is explained by metabolic aberrations, residual confounding, and ... -
Investigating trends in HIV transmission and risk factors in Zambia
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-04-25)The objective of HIV surveillance is to document trends in HIV prevalence and transmission risk in order to make informed policies and to guide prevention and care/treatment programmes. Zambia established a comprehensive ... -
Investigation of mechanisms leading to early aseptic loosening of hip prostheses. A retrieval study of 27 failed cases of cemented Spectron EF stem in combination with Reflection acetabular cup
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)Background: More than 1 million people with arthroplasties undergo total hip arthroplasty (THA) surgery every year worldwide. In Norway more than 10 % of the THA cases needed revision operations due to aseptic loosening. ... -
Involvement in emergency situations by primary care doctors on-call in Norway - a prospective population-based observational study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-03-06)Background: Primary care doctors on-call in the emergency primary health care services in Norway are, together with the ambulances, the primary resources for handling emergencies outside hospitals. There is a lack of ...