Artikler, kapitler og presentasjoner fra NORCE Helse og samfunn: Recent submissions
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General practitioners’ drug treatment for depression by patients’ educational level: registry-based study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background: Antidepressant drugs are often prescribed in general practice. Evidence is conflicting on how patient education influences antidepressant treatment. Aim: To investigate the association between educational ... -
Enabling Cultural Policies? Culture, Capabilities and Citizenship
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article mobilizes the capabilities approach to offer a new and empirically grounded critical perspective on how cultural policy should promote citizenship to audiences. The capabilities approach posits that public ... -
The feasibility of the full and modified versions of the Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB) and the prevalence of social withdrawal in Infants in Nepal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background: Sustained social withdrawal in infancy may have organic and nonorganic causes and could hinder normal development. The Alarm Distress Baby (ADBB) scale is a widely validated screening tool of social withdrawal ... -
Physical inactivity, non-participation in sports and socioeconomic status: a large population-based study among Norwegian adolescents
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background: Physical activity in adolescence is found to promote both immediate and long-term health, as well as school- and work performance. Previous studies suggest that parental socioeconomic status (SES) may influence ... -
The association between symptoms of depression and school absence in a population-based study of late adolescents
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Objective: School attendance is an important functional marker in adolescence, and knowledge of the correlates of school absence is important to inform preventive efforts. The main aim of the present study was to investigate ... -
Life events and adolescent depressive symptoms: Protective factors associated with resilience
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Depression is a public health concern among youth, and it is pertinent to identify factors that can help prevent development of depressive symptoms in adolescence. This study aimed to investigate the association between ... -
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The safety attitudes questionnaire for out-of-hours service in primary healthcare—Psychometric properties of the Croatian version
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The aim of the study was to assess the reliability and construct validity of the Croatian trans- lation of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire—Ambulatory version (SAQ-AV) in the out-of- hours (OOH) primary care setting. A ... -
Coordinating wickedness: a comparative analysis of how Norway and Sweden organize for climate policies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Through the lenses of “wicked policy problems” this article compares how Norway and Sweden organize for climate policies and analyzes the coordination challenges encountered by the two countries. Both countries’ policy ... -
Industrial development in the North - Sámi interests squeezed between globalization and tradition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In this article, we analyse tensions in Sámi local communities meeting new industrial development. Indigenous communities experience outmigration and are in need of new business development and employment. Global extractive ... -
Developing consensus description of group music therapy characteristics for persons with dementia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Introduction Group music therapy (GMT) represents a promising person-centered approach facilitating emotional and social interaction and alleviating behavioral and psychological symptoms in people with dementia. The aim ... -
Physician factors associated with increased risk for complaints in primary care emergency services: a case - control study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background Patient safety incidents defined as any unintended or unexpected incident that could have or were judged to have led to patient harm, are reported as relatively common. In this study patient complaints have ... -
Generalization of Classic Question Order Effects Across Cultures
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Questionnaire design is routinely guided by classic experiments on question form, wording, and context conducted decades ago. This article explores whether two question order effects (one due to the norm of evenhandedness ... -
Explaining public acceptance of congestion charging: The role of geographical variation in the Bergen case
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Controversial policies introduced to improve public goods - such as the environment, mobility and public health - have shown patterns of initial opposition followed by broad acceptance once the public experiences positive ... -
Patient Safety Culture in Norwegian Home Health Care – a study protocol.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) is a widely used instrument to measure safety attitudes among health care providers. The overall aim of this project is to provide research that contributes to developing better ... -
Only the lonely: a study of loneliness among university students in Norway
(Journal article, 2020)Background: Loneliness is a major public health concern among college and university students, the evidence is inconsistent regarding whether there is an increasing trend or not. Furthermore, knowledge of the demographic ... -
Predictors of employment in people with moderate to severe mental illness participating in a randomized controlled trial of Individual Placement and Support (IPS)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Many people with moderate to severe mental illness have a desire to obtain ordinary employment. To aid further development of health and social services for this group, the aim of this study was to examine ... -
Variation in general practitioners’ depression care following certification of sickness absence: a registry-based cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Depression is more prevalent among women and people with low socio-economic status. Uncertainties exist about how general practitioner (GP) depression care varies with patients’ social position. Objective To ... -
Associations between characteristics of the patients at municipal acute bed unit admission and further transfer to hospital: a prospective observational study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background As an alternative to acute hospitalisations, all communities in Norway are required to provide inpatient care in municipal acute bed units (MAUs) for patients who can be treated at the primary care level. Patient ... -
Contact characteristics and factors associated with the degree of urgency among older people in emergency primary health care: a cross-sectional study.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background As the proportion of older people increases, so will the consumption of health services. The aim of this study was to describe the contact characteristics among older people and to identify factors associated ...