Browsing Faculty of Psychology by Subject "VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700"
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Are associations between electronic media use and BMI different across levels of physical activity?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-05-19)Background The use of electronic media has been found to be a risk factor for higher BMI and for being overweight. Physical activity has been found to be associated with lower BMI and lower risk for being overweight. Little ... -
The assessment of ongoing community-based interventions to prevent obesity: lessons learned
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-03-04)Background The assessment of real-life, community-based interventions to tackle obesity is an important step in the development of effective policies. Especially multi-level interventions have a high likely effectiveness ... -
Biological Risks and Neurodevelopment in Young North Indian Children
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-01-26)Background. Children growing up in poverty face multiple biological and psychosocial risks, some of which are primarily found in low to middle income countries. Unfavourable biological circumstances, such as inadequate ... -
The combined influence of hardiness and cohesion on mental health in a military peacekeeping mission: A prospective study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-06-16)A large number of studies have shown that hardiness and cohesion are associated with mental health in a military context. However, most of them are presented without controlling for baseline mental health symptoms, which ... -
Diarrhea, Stimulation and Growth Predict Neurodevelopment in Young North Indian Children
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-03-31)Background and Objective. Infants and young children in low to middle-income countries are at risk for adverse neurodevelopment due to multiple risk factors. In this study, we sought to identify stimulation and learning ... -
Facing the fear of failure: An explorative qualitative study of client experiences in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program for university students with academic evaluation anxiety
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-08-20)The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate the subjective experiences of 29 university students who participated in an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program for academic evaluation anxiety. ... -
Faktorer som influerer på ansattes trivsel og velvære - En intervju undersøkelse i et forsikringsselskap -
(Master thesis, 2007)The purpose of this study was to explore employees’ experiences of job-satisfaction and well-being to gain knowledge concerning the factors that influence job satisfaction and well-being. This is a study that used qualitative ... -
How uncommon is tickertaping? Prevalence and characteristics of seeing the words you hear.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-06-17)Tickertape experience is the subjective phenomenon of routinely visualizing the orthographic appearance of words that one hears, speaks, or thinks, like mental subtitles in the mind’s eye. It has been observed in grapheme-color ... -
Light mobilization treatment of subacute, non-spesific low back pain
(Doctoral thesis, 2006-02-03)Background: During the last decades there has been a major rise in sick leave due to low back pain, emphasising the need for interventions preventing chronicity and long term sick leave. Early intervention with information, ... -
Midlife mental distress and risk for dementia up to 27 years later: the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) in linkage with a dementia registry in Norway.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-03-10)Background Dementia is an increasing public health challenge, and the number of individuals affected is growing rapidly. Mental disorders and symptoms of mental distress have been reported to be risk factors for dementia. ... -
Multidisciplinary intervention in patients with musculoskeletal pain: a randomized clinical trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-02)Background Musculoskeletal pain is associated with comorbidity, extensive use of health services, long-term disability and reduced quality of life. The scientific literature on effects of treatment for musculoskeletal pain ... -
The neural correlates of sex differences in left-right confusion
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-03-14)Difficulties in left–right discrimination (LRD) are commonly experienced in everyday life situations. Here we investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms of LRD and the specific role of left angular gyrus. Given that previous ... -
Polypharmacy among anabolic-androgenic steroid users: A descriptive metasynthesis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-03-15)Background As far as we are aware, no previous systematic review and synthesis of the qualitative/descriptive literature on polypharmacy in anabolic-androgenic steroid(s) (AAS) users has been published. Method We systematically ... -
Psychometric Validation of the Revised Family Affluence Scale: a Latent Variable Approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)The aim was to develop and test a brief revised version of the family affluence scale. A total of 7120 students from Denmark, Greenland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Scotland and Slovakia reported on a list of 16 potential ... -
Psychophysiology, task complexity, and team factors determine emergency response teams' shared beliefs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-05-02)In field settings where the objective truth is not known, the extent to which you have the same understanding of the situation as your team leader may be used as an indicator for a team’s situation awareness. Two experiments ... -
Reduction in sick leave by a workplace educational low back pain intervention: A cluster randomized controlled trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-06-15)Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate whether a workplace educational low back pain intervention had an effect on sick leave at the individual level and to identify possible predictors of the effect of intervention. ... -
The Role of the Corpus Callosum and Interhemispheric Connectivity in Tourette Syndrome
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Safe male circumcision in Botswana: Tension between traditional practices and biomedical marketing
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-04-11)Botswana has been running Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) since 2009 and has not yet met its target. Donors like the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Africa Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership (funded by the ... -
Social inequalities in health: biological, cognitive and learning theory perspectives
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2002)Increasing social inequalities in health have been ascribed to unequal distribution of resources, and to exposure factors. We propose that these differences also may be explained by principles from cognitive stress theory. ... -
Sociocognitive Predictors of Condom Use and Intentions Among Adolescents in Three Sub-Saharan Sites
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-04-30)Many HIV intervention programs in sub-Saharan Africa have applied social cognitive theories such as the theory of planned behavior. However, a recent sub-Saharan African review was unable to show increased effectiveness ...