Forfatter: Minna Lind Christiansen. Veiledere: Elfrida Hartveit Kvarstein (hovedveileder), Line Indrevoll Stänicke (medveileder) Hovedproblemstilling: Hva er den kliniske nytteverdien av behandling ved en psykodynamisk, ...

Aims Having a substance use disorder (SUD) is associated with impaired reflective functioning (RF) or mentalizing, implying reduced capacity to reflect on internal mental states of the self and others. This has adverse ...

Background: The combination of eating disorder (ED) and the experience of childhood trauma leads to significant impairment and suffering. To improve treatment, it is critically important to study treatment effects, and the ...

Formål: En stadig økende andel eldre i befolkningen øker behovet for mer kunnskap om psykisk helse i denne aldersgruppen. Denne studien kartlegger depresjons- og angstsymptomer hos et utvalg norske eldre, inkludert kjønns- ...

Formål: En stadig økende andel eldre i befolkningen øker behovet for mer kunnskap om psykisk helse i denne aldersgruppen. Denne studien kartlegger depresjons- og angstsymptomer hos et utvalg norske eldre, inkludert kjønns- ...

Aims/hypothesis MODY can be wrongly diagnosed as type 1 diabetes in children. We aimed to find the prevalence of MODY in a nationwide population-based registry of childhood diabetes. Methods Using next-generation ...

Genetic influences on psychiatric disorders transcend diagnostic boundaries, suggesting substantial pleiotropy of contributing loci. However, the nature and mechanisms of these pleiotropic effects remain unclear. We performed ...

Bakgrunn: Atferdsvansker forekommer hyppigere i høyrisikoutvalg, slik som hos barn av mødre i legemiddelassistert rehabilitering (LAR), og representerer en potensiell risiko for senere skjevutvikling. Det er derfor interesse ...

Bakgrunn: Atferdsvansker forekommer hyppigere i høyrisikoutvalg, slik som hos barn av mødre i legemiddelassistert rehabilitering (LAR), og representerer en potensiell risiko for senere skjevutvikling. Det er derfor interesse ...

Bakgrunn: Drømmer har fascinert mennesker i mange årtusener, men en felles forståelse for drømmens mening og funksjon er ennå ikke oppnådd. Noen ser på drømmer som beskjeder fra underbevisstheten som kan gi informasjon om ...

Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness with severe consequences for patients and society. However, a large degree of heterogeneity is apparent. Research on First-Episode Schizophrenia (FES) shows better outcome ...

Objective: Psychological predictors of breast cancer screening, and in particular screening avoidance, have not been a focus of research in Norway. Studying psychological predictors may help to understand why some women ...

Purpose: The Little in Norway (LiN) project is a cross-disciplinary prospective longitudinal study starting in pregnancy. It was set up to investigate maternal and paternal mental health functioning in the transition to ...

Formålet med denne hovedoppgaven er å utforske hvordan unge voksne pasienter og deres behandlere opplever overgangen fra barne- og ungdomspsykiatrisk poliklinikk (BUP) til Distriktspsykiatrisk poliklinikk (DPS), for dermed ...

Forfatter: Peder Frogner Tittel: For hvem og hvordan fungerer CBT-I: En litteraturstudie av moderatorer og mediatorer i CBT-I Veileder: Silje Endresen Reme Innledning: Cognitive Behavioral Theraphy for Insomnia (Heretter ...

Background There is a lack of knowledge of possible cognitive side effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) beyond the first few months after treatment. We aim to describe cognitive effects and symptom remission 2 years ...

Bakgrunn: Formålet med studien har vært å belyse selvrapportert eksekutiv funksjon i dagliglivet, helserelatert livskvalitet og fatigue blant barn og ungdom som har overlevd hjernesvulst eller traumatisk hjerneskade. Metode: ...

Bakgrunn: Formålet med studien har vært å belyse selvrapportert eksekutiv funksjon i dagliglivet, helserelatert livskvalitet og fatigue blant barn og ungdom som har overlevd hjernesvulst eller traumatisk hjerneskade. Metode: ...

Bakgrunn: Blant faktorer som kan forbedre effekten av kognitiv atferdsterapi (KAT) for barn og unge med angst, er behandlingsmotivasjon en av faktorene som kan være av betydning. På tross av en gjeldende forståelse i ...

Rationale and aims There is a growing expectation of implementing shared decision making (SDM) in today's health care service, including mental health care. Traditional understanding of SDM may be too narrow to capture ...

Author: Kristin Samuelsen. Title: Emerging Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Prenatal and Postnatal Depression. Supervisors: Main supervisor Eivind Ystrøm, and co-supervisors Line C. Gjerde and Espen M. Eilertsen. ...

Study Objectives To assess brain activation patterns in response to fun-rated and neutral-rated movies we performed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during a humor-paradigm in narcolepsy type ...

Bakgrunn og formål: Vold i parforhold har en rekke alvorlige konsekvenser som underbygger viktigheten av å forstå hvilke mekanismer som ligger til grunn for atferden. Flere forskningsoppsummeringer finner i lys av dette ...

The close connection between psychology and human rights is discussed through a presentation of the Human Rights Committee in the Norwegian Psychological Association. The importance of human rights education for a human ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine whether reaction time parameters in adult patients with ADHD could predict their response to methylphenidate (MPH). Method: Previously unmedicated patients (N = 123) were ...

Susceptibility to schizophrenia is inversely correlated with general cognitive ability at both the phenotypic and the genetic level. Paradoxically, a modest but consistent positive genetic correlation has been reported ...

Bakgrunn: Denne studiens formål var todelt. Formålet var innledningsvis å kartlegge forekomst av masturbasjon hos eldre menn og kvinner i Norge. Dernest ønsket man å utforske hvordan sosiodemografiske faktorer som blant ...

Formålet med denne hovedoppgaven er å utforske hvordan unge voksne pasienter og deres behandlere opplever overgangen fra barne- og ungdomspsykiatrisk poliklinikk (BUP) til Distriktspsykiatrisk poliklinikk (DPS), for dermed ...

Å ta vare på andre versus å ta vare på seg selv kan anses som «det store menneskelige drama». For psykoterapeuter som bruker seg selv i det endringsfremmende arbeidet blir denne balansegangen av stor betydning. Å møte en ...

Å ta vare på andre versus å ta vare på seg selv kan anses som «det store menneskelige drama». For psykoterapeuter som bruker seg selv i det endringsfremmende arbeidet blir denne balansegangen av stor betydning. Å møte en ...

I Norge er en rutineultralydundersøkelse ved uke 17-19 inkludert i det anbefalte svangerskapsprogrammet. Selv om ultralydundersøkelsen er høyt verdsatt av vordende foreldre, har teknologisk utvikling ført til at stadig ...

Purpose: To assess the feasibility of recruitment procedures and delivery of a Norwegian adaptation of a manualized cognitive intervention to a civilian sample with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Materials and methods: ...

This study examines client utterances that can be understood as ambivalent in violence-focused therapy. The purpose is to enrich our scientific understanding of client contributions to therapy when they appear ambivalent ...

Disruption of non-drug reward processing in addiction could stem from long-term drug use, addiction-related psychosocial stress, or a combination of these. It remains unclear whether long-term opioid maintenance treatment ...

Objectives Perceived/experienced stigma and its relationship with clinical outcome were investigated across the first year of treatment in a large sample with first-episode psychosis (FEP). Methods FEP participants ...

Objective To examine whether individuals with schizophrenia (SCZ) or bipolar disorder (BD) had equal likelihood of not being diagnosed with cardiovascular disease (CVD) prior to cardiovascular death, compared to individuals ...

Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) including 20,352 cases and 31,358 controls of European descent, with follow-up analysis of 822 variants with ...

Childhood and adolescence captures a remarkable period of change, and is the central period for major reorganization and optimization of the cerebral cortex. This maturation is mirrored by major cognitive improvements ...

Studies report increased risk of congenital heart defects (CHD) in the offspring of mothers with diabetes, where high blood glucose levels might confer the risk. We explored the association between intake of sucrose-sweetened ...

Objective Although cigarette smoking has been linked to weight‐related concerns and unhealthy weight control practices, little is known about weight dissatisfaction and eating among adolescents who use smokeless tobacco ...

While snus has been the focus of increasing public health interest, twin studies have examined neither sources of individual variation for its use nor the sources of resemblance between snus and cigarette use. Twins from ...

Are people with superior intelligence also superior in interpreting the emotions of others? Some studies find that an underlying g-factor links all mental processes leading to an expectation of a positive answer to the ...

In a series of eye-tracking studies, we investigated preverbal infants’ understanding of social exclusion by analyzing their gaze behaviors as they were familiarized with animations depicting social acceptance and explicit ...

The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review assessing workplace factors related to work retention (or return to work) in employees with acquired brain injury (ABI). Additionally, we aimed to synthesise ...

In recent years, narcissism has been reconceptualized as a multi‐dimensional feature of human psychology. The Five Factor Narcissism Inventory (FFNI ) has been proposed as a measure for two distinguishable dimensions of ...

Background Women with bipolar disorder (BD) have a high risk of illness relapse postpartum. The risk coincides with the period when mother-infant interactions are evolving. We compared mother-infant ...

Exposures to life stressors accumulate across the lifespan, with possible impact on brain health. Little is known, however, about the mechanisms mediating age-related changes in brain structure. We use a lifespan sample ...

Objective: To explore the health situation and identify specific health challenges in non-Western immigrants with polio in Norway, by comparing their status with Western immigrants with polio and native Norwegians with ...

Introduction Long-term sick leave and disabilities due to common mental disorders are challenging for society, employers, and individuals. Hence, we wanted to investigate whether psychosocial work environments experienced ...

Background Recovery is the ultimate goal of psychosis treatment . Basic self-disturbances (BSDs) are non-psychotic phenomena associated with clinical outcome, present in prodromal, psychotic and residual phases of psychotic ...

Objectives Individual placement and support (IPS) is an effective approach for helping people with severe mental illness gain employment. This study aimed to investigate if IPS can be effectively repurposed to support young ...

This study investigated how doctors communicate the uncertainties of survival prognoses to patients recently diagnosed with life‐threatening cancer, and suggests ways to improve this communication. Two hundred thirty‐eight ...

Taushet i psykodynamisk terapi har vært drøftet og forstått på ulike måter. Dette er en kvalitativ studie av en studentterapi, som har undersøkt problemstillingen: På hvilken måte kan oppmerksomhet på episoder med taushet ...

Background: Studies reveal that users of mental health care services sometimes experience humiliation during care. These experiences may influence the users' recovery process and treatment satisfaction. Method: Thirteen ...

Chatbots are predicted to play a key role in customer service. Users’ trust in such chatbots is critical for their uptake. However, there is a lack of knowledge concerning users’ trust in chatbots. To bridge this knowledge ...

Background: In many European countries, the rate of childlessness has increased and this increase is disproportionately large among men. It is thus important to study the antecedents of childlessness. Intelligence as a ...

Schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) are severe mental disorders associated with cognitive impairment, which is considered a major determinant of functional outcome. Despite this, the etiology of the cognitive ...

Objective: We investigated whether levels of current physical activity (PA) contribute to the established relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and cognition in schizophrenia and whether brain-derived ...

The use of interval forecasts allows climate scientists to issue predictions with high levels of certainty even for areas fraught with uncertainty, since wide intervals are objectively more likely to capture the truth than ...

Increasing walking and cycling is important both for population health and, if done through active transportation, for the local and global climate. In addition to infrastructural and regulatory measures, voluntary behavior ...

Innenfor utviklingspsykologien har det lenge blitt undersøkt hvilke faktorer som bidrar til at noen barn utvikler seg normalt, mens andre barn utvikler psykiske vansker. En betydelig andel av denne forskningen er drevet ...

Studien har undersøkt norske virksomheters praktiske bruk og erfaring med evidensbaserte seleksjonsmetoder i lederseleksjon. Formålet med studien var å sammenligne evidensbaserte standarder og virksomhetenes reelle HR-praksis ...

27 toppledergrupper fra den norske statsforvaltningen ble undersøkt for å kunne svare på om teamutvikling virker i ledergrupper. Toppledergruppene ble målt to ganger på 26 ulike variabler som omhandler effektivitet i ...

This study aimed to investigate for the first time the relationship between attachment, information seeking and epistemic trust in adults. The study takes a relational approach by investigating information seeking in the ...

Systematic analyses of initiatives and responses from mediators working with parents in intense conflicts about child custody and care brought forward variations in effective strategies. The findings are presented along ...

Bakgrunn: Depresjon er en svært forekommende psykisk lidelse som kan ha ødeleggende konsekvenser for den som rammes. Det eksisterer likevel få kvalitative undersøkelser av hvordan depresjonen oppleves og forstås fra et ...

Research indicates that lower-caste Dalits and Adivasis make up the overwhelming majority of Indians living in exploitative work conditions termed modern or contemporary slavery. This thesis set out to evaluate if an ...

Etter signeringen av fredsavtalen mellom FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) og den colombianske staten i 2016, har Colombia vært vitne til en ”babyboom” blant tidligere FARC-stridende kvinner. Denne studien ...

I dagens Norge er monogami ansett som den mest naturlige og selvsagte formen for samlivsorganisering. Norge kan derfor kalles en mononormativ kultur. Personer som praktiserer poly lever åpent med flere romantiske og/eller ...

The purpose of the current thesis was to elucidate the impact of the different social withdrawal subtypes (unsociability, avoidance, shyness, isolation) on several psychological outcomes - life satisfaction, loneliness and ...

This dissertation is based on a prospective longitudinal study of fathers’ adverse childhood experiences, partner attachment style, anxious and depressive feelings during pregnancy, and experience of parenting stress in ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine people’s understanding and evaluation of uncertainty intervals produced by experts as part of a quality assurance procedure of large public projects. Design/methodology ...

Denne studien har utforsket hvordan psykologer og terapeuter vurderer betydningen av parterapi for flerkulturelle par i Norge, hva som er tilbudet til disse parene og hva terapeutene vurderer som særlig vesentlige elementer ...