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QEPH - Questionnaire to map employees´ knowledge and opinion on the municipal public health work
(Master thesis, 2013)Background: There is an increasing focus on the need to work intersectoral with public health in municipalities, which imply that the employees in all sectors should work with public health. However, there are currently ... -
Quality assessment of structure and language elements of written responses given by seven Scandinavian drug information centres.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Purpose The aim of this study was to identify structure and language elements affecting the quality of responses from Scandinavian drug information centres (DICs). Methods Six different fictitious drug-related queries ... -
Quality of life and psychological and gastrointestinal symptoms after cholecystectomy, a population-based cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Objective The study aims to examine gastrointestinal symptoms, quality of life and the risk of psychological symptoms after cholecystectomy. Design This is a prospective population-based cohort study based on the ... -
Quality of life assessed with EQ-5D 3L in patients undergoing glioma surgery; What is the responsiveness and minimal clinically important difference?
(Master thesis, 2012)Background: There are few studies on the impact of glioma surgery on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The generic instrument EQ-5D 3L has been utilized in this context, but several questions concerning use and ... -
Quality of life in children and adolescents surviving cancer
(Journal article, 2012-04)Purpose: To explore subjective and proxy reported QoL (Quality of Life) in children and adolescents surviving cancer three years after diagnosis compared with healthy controls. Method: Case-control study including 50 ... -
Quantifying bone marrow inflammatory edema in the spine and sacroiliac joints with thresholding
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory arthritis that develops in patients with psoriasis. Inflammatory edema in the spine may reflect subclinical disease activity and be a predictor of radiographic ... -
Reading and writing difficulties in adolescence and later risk of welfare dependence. A ten year follow-up, the HUNT Study, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Background: Welfare dependence and low work participation among young people have raised concern in many European countries. Reading and writing difficulties (RWD) might make young people vulnerable to work integration ... -
Recovery after stroke - assessment and treatment; with focus on motor function
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2008:107, Doctoral thesis, 2008)The incidence of stroke has not changed significantly in recent decades. However, the actual number of strokes is likely to increase as a consequence of the increasing number of elderly people, creating a significant burden ... -
Reduced head steadiness in whiplash compared with non-traumatic neck pain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Objective: While sensorimotor alterations have been observed in patients with neck pain, it is uncertain whether such changes distinguish whiplash-associated disorders from chronic neck pain without trauma. The aim of this ... -
Reduced Th22 cell proportion and prevention of atopic dermatitis in infants following maternal probiotic supplementation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background In the randomized, controlled study Probiotics in the Prevention of Allergy among Children in Trondheim (ProPACT), maternal probiotic supplementation reduced the incidence of atopic dermatitis (AD) in the ... -
Refugees own perceptions of what is good health and quality of life
(Master thesis, 2017)Background: Immigration into Norway has been increasing the last years and will continue to increase over the years to come. There is an ongoing shift in the society when it comes to culture and ethnicity, where the diversity ... -
Rehabilitation in warm climate for young adults with inflammatory arthritis - A 12 months randomized controlled trial
(Master thesis, 2017)Background: Rehabilitation in warm climate has long been an established nonpharmacological treatment for patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA) in Norway. It has however not been tailored to the needs of young adults, ... -
Relationship between pubertal timing and chronic nonspecific pain in adolescent girls: The Young-HUNT3 study (2006-2008)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The aim of this study was to examine a possible relationship between early puberty and chronic nonspecific pain in 13- to 18-year-old girls. All adolescents in Nord-Trøndelag County, Norway, were invited to participate in ... -
Reliabilitet og validitet av temperatur målt over temporalarterie ved sammenligning med temperatur målt rektalt hos voksne pasienter i akuttmottak
(Master thesis, 2017)Bakgrunn Temperatur kan måles på mange ulike måter. Ved triage i akuttmottak benyttes enkle, noninvasive termometre med ulik validitet og reliabilitet. Hensikten med denne studien var å finne ut om temporaltermometeret ... -
Reliability and Validity of the Norwegian Family Sense of Coherence Scale
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Aims and Objectives: To investigate reliability and validity of the translated Norwegian version of the Family Sense of Coherence scale. Background: The Family Sense of Coherence scale measures the global sense of coherence ... -
Reliability of sickness certificates in detecting potential sick leave reduction by modifying working conditions: a clinical epidemiology study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004)Background: Medical sickness certificates are generally the main source for information when scrutinizing the need for aimed intervention strategies to avoid or reduce the individual and community side effects of sick ... -
Reproductive and hormonal risk factors of breast cancer: A historical perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The complexity of breast cancer etiology has puzzled scientists for more than 300 years. In this brief review, we emphasize the importance of reproductive and hormonal factors in relation to the risk of breast cancer. By ... -
Requests for new oral antibiotic prescriptions in children within 2 days: a Norwegian population-based study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Children commonly refuse to take antibiotics, which may induce parents to request new antibiotic prescriptions with different pharmaceutical characteristics. Objectives To investigate prescription changes ... -
Resistance band training or general exercise in multidisciplinary rehabilitation of low back pain? A randomized trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation has been recommended for chronic low back pain (LBP), including physical exercise. However, which exercise modality that is most advantageous in multidisciplinary biopsychosocial ... -
Resistance training in addition to multidisciplinary rehabilitation for patients with chronic pain in the low back: Study protocol
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Chronic low back pain (LBP) is a major health problem worldwide. Multidisciplinary rehabilitation and exercise is recommended for the management of chronic LBP. However, there is a need to investigate effective exercise ...