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Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences
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About: Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences is a education organization based out in Oslo, Norway. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 1420 authors who have published 3508 publications receiving 77843 citations.
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TL;DR: Because 44% of the patients had both anxiety and depression, clinicians need to evaluate patients for the co-occurrence of these two symptoms, evaluate its impact on pain management, hope, and QOL, and develop appropriate interventions to manage these symptoms.
Abstract: Objective: The study purposes were to describe the percentage of patients in one of four mood groups (i.e., neither anxiety nor depression [NEITHER], only anxiety [ANX], only depression [DEP], both anxiety and depression [BOTH]) and to evaluate how differences in mood states are related to pain, hope, and quality of life (QOL). Methods: Oncology inpatients (n = 225) completed Brief Pain Inventory, Herth Hope Index (HHI), and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Core QOL Questionnaire-C30. Research nurses completed Symptom Severity Checklist, Karnofsky Performance Status score, and medical record reviews. Data were analyzed using χ2, Kruskal-Wallis, one-way analyses of variance (ANOVAs), and analyses of covariance (ANCOVA). Results: Thirty-two percent of patients were categorized in the NEITHER group, 12% in the ANX group, 12% in the DEP group, and 44% in the BOTH group. Younger patients and women were more likely to be in the BOTH group. While only minimal differences we...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the quality of toddler childcare in Norway using the Infant Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition (ITERS-R), using the ITERA-R questionnaire.
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore the quality of toddler childcare in Norway using the Infant Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition (ITERS-R; [Harms, Thelma, Debby Cryer, and Rich...
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TL;DR: Examining quality of life (QoL) in patients with HHT in Norway substantiate that disease severity is associated with poorer QoL in this patients, and several HHT disease‐related variables were associated with reduced QoB on all three levels.
Abstract: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is a rare, autosomal dominant disease characterized by the presence of recurrent epistaxis and small characteristic malformations of the peripheral blood vessels near the surface of the skin or mucosal linings. Arteriovenous malformations (AVM) of the lung, liver, and CNS are also known clinical findings. The purpose of this study was to examine quality of life (QoL) in patients with HHT in Norway. Sixty-six affected patients (39 women and 27 men) were included. QoL on overall-, health-related (HR-QoL), and disease-specific levels were measured with Cantril's Ladder (CL), Short Form 36 (SF-36), and a Symptom-specific QoL question in HHT patients (SFB-HHT-Q), respectively. Comparisons were made between patients and an age and gender adjusted normative sample from the Norwegian population (N = 990). Overall, the results reflected that several HHT disease-related variables were associated with reduced QoL on all three levels; overall QoL (CL), HR-QoL (SF36) as well as disease-specific QoL (SFB-HHT-Q), while demographic variables impacted HR-QoL in HHT patients. Compared to the normative sample, all subscales of SF36, but bodily pain, were significantly poorer in the HHT patients. HHT disease variables had the strongest association with QoL compared to demographic variables. The results substantiate that disease severity is associated with poorer QoL in this patients. Pain contributed independently to all levels of QoL. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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TL;DR: The aim of this study was to analyze the characteristics of the most commonly used QA phantom in CT: Catphan 500/504/600, and to be aware of which phantom is used to study CT-numbers and low contrast resolution for a specific scanner.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the determinants of social assistance receipt among young adults in three Nordic countries, focusing on social-background and life-course events during early adulthood, were analyzed and compared.
Abstract: We analyse the determinants of social assistance receipt among young adults in three Nordic countries, focusing on social-background and life-course events during early adulthood. We ask whether they are related differently to short-term and long-term receipt. Short-term poverty could be more individualized than long-term poverty which can be expected to be more strongly related to social background. We applied generalized ordinal logit modelling to longitudinal register-based data. Both social-background and life-course factors were found to be important, but our results did not confirm the hypothesis of social background predicting mostly long-term receipt and life-course factors predicting mostly short-term receipt. Leaving the parental home early and parental social assistance receipt were important determinants of social assistance receipt, and both factors predicted longer duration of receipt as well. We found some differences between the countries, which may be related to differences in youth unemp...
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Thomas Hansen | 75 | 327 | 33818 |
Giske Ursin | 73 | 336 | 21680 |
Marianne Thoresen | 60 | 236 | 15860 |
Harald Steen | 51 | 235 | 9018 |
Ulrik Fredrik Malt | 50 | 240 | 9048 |
Petter Mowinckel | 50 | 160 | 8067 |
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc | 48 | 268 | 8061 |
Audun Stubhaug | 47 | 191 | 9007 |
Agneta Yngve | 47 | 219 | 22497 |
Kaare Magne Nielsen | 43 | 148 | 6819 |
Svein I. Johannessen | 42 | 125 | 7056 |
Milada Cvancarova | 42 | 111 | 4614 |
Vivi Ann Flørenes | 41 | 97 | 4751 |
Tone Rustøen | 40 | 165 | 5070 |
Kari Furu | 38 | 143 | 6472 |