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Tanzania national survey on iodine deficiency: impact after twelve years of salt iodation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-09-03)Background: In many low-income countries, children are at high risk of iodine deficiency disorders, including brain damage. In the early 1990s, Tanzania, a country that previously suffered from moderate to severe iodine ... -
Target Values and Daytime Variation of Bone Turnover Markers in Monitoring Osteoporosis Treatment After Fractures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The serum bone turnover markers (BTM) procollagen type 1 N-terminal propeptide (P1NP) and C-terminal cross-linking telopeptide of type 1 collagen (CTX) are recommended for monitoring adherence and response of antiresorptive ... -
Target weight gain for moderately wasted children during supplementation interventions – a population-based approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-12)Objective: In malnourished populations, the weight-for-height Z-score (WHZ) distribution is shifted to the left. The aim of nutrition interventions should be to restore a normal WHZ distribution for the whole population. ... -
Targeted client communication to improve timely antenatal care utilization : Assessment, development and evaluation
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-09-09)Bakgrunn Rettidige svangerskapskontroller reduserer sykelighet og dødelighet hos mor og nyfødt ved at gravide med økt risiko for svangerskapsrelaterte komplikasjoner kan identifiseres i tide, sikres adekvat behandling og ... -
Targeting condom distribution at high risk places increases condom utilization-evidence from an intervention study in Livingstone, Zambia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-01-05)Background: The PLACE-method presumes that targeting HIV preventive activities at high risk places is effective in settings with major epidemics. Livingstone, Zambia, has a major HIV epidemic despite many preventive efforts ... -
Task-Shifting and Quality of HIV Testing Services: Experiences from a National Reference Hospital in Zambia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-11-25)Background: With new testing technologies, task-shifting and rapid scale-up of HIV testing services in high HIV prevalence countries, assuring quality of HIV testing is paramount. This study aimed to explore various cadres ... -
Teacher ratings of mental health among school children in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2005)Introduction: In Africa, little is known about child mental health. This study piloted the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in Kinshasa, investigated mental health problems and the association between these ... -
Team reflexivity and the shared mind in interprofessional learning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In interprofessional (IP) workplace education, course and project leaders need a deeper understanding of how students learn. Basically, in IP workplace learning students learn from each other, from the affected agents ... -
Teater som danning i helseprofesjonene
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Healthcare workers who watch a theatre play about dementia, gain experiential knowledge about living with dementia. In this essay we discuss the nature of this knowledge in light of the concept of bildung. This discussion ... -
Technology as ‘time saver’ and the ‘saviour’ of older adult care: Analysing doxical representations in Norwegian healthcare policies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this paper we analyse the political articulation and understanding of ‘technology-supported care’ for older adults in central Norwegian public policy documents. In these documents, technology is increasingly presented ... -
Telemedicine in diabetes foot care delivery: health care professionals’ experience
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-04-18)Background: Introducing new technology in health care is inevitably a challenge. More knowledge is needed to better plan future telemedicine interventions. Our aim was therefore to explore health care professionals’ ... -
Telemedicine Versus Standard Follow-Up Care for Diabetes-Related Foot Ulcers: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Noninferiority Trial (DiaFOTo)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-07-18)Background: This paper presents the protocol for an ongoing study to evaluate a telemedicine follow-up intervention for patients with diabetes-related foot ulcers. Diabetes-related foot ulcers represent challenges for ... -
Telephone counselling by nurses in Norwegian primary care out-of-hours services: a cross-sectional study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-09-06)Background: The primary care out-of-hours (OOH) services in Norway are characterized by high contact rates by telephone. The telephone contacts are handled by local emergency medical communication centres (LEMCs), mainly ... -
Telephone triage by nurses in primary care out-of-hours services in Norway: an evaluation study based on written case scenarios
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-01-24)Background: The use of nurses for telephone-based triage in out-of-hours services is increasing in several countries. No investigations have been carried out in Norway into the quality of decisions made by nurses regarding ... -
‘‘Telling my husband I have HIV is too heavy to come out of my mouth’’: pregnant women’s disclosure experiences and support needs following antenatal HIV testing in eastern Uganda
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-08-14)Introduction: Disclosure of HIV serostatus by women to their sexual partners is critical for the success of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programme as an integrated service in antenatal care. ... -
Temporal and geographical variations in survival of children born with congenital anomalies in Europe: A multi-registry cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: Congenital anomalies are a major cause of perinatal, neonatal and infant mortality. Objectives: The aim was to investigate temporal changes and geographical variation in survival of children with major ... -
Temporary Threshold Shifts among Iron and Steel Factory Workers in Tanzania: A Pre-Interventional Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: Workers in iron and steel factories in Tanzania are exposed to noise levels above recommended limit values, without using hearing protection devices. Exposure to noise levels above 85 dB(A) is associated with ... -
Ten years’ of Healthy Life Centres – research and directions for future work
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Ten-year changes in health-related quality of life after biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09)Background: Long-term data on health-related quality of life (HRQL) after biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (BPDDS) are scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in HRQL from baseline to 10 years ... -
Ten-year survival of children with trisomy 13 or trisomy 18: A multi-registry European cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Objective: To investigate the survival to 10 years of age of children with trisomy 13 (T13) and children with trisomy 18 (T18), born 1995–2014. Design: Population-based cohort study that linked mortality data to data ...