Publications by authors named "Elisabeth O'Regan"

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  • - The study examines the prevalence and impact of fatigue experienced by individuals after recovering from COVID-19, highlighting that existing research mostly focuses on specific groups and lacks comparisons with non-infected individuals.
  • - The objective was to analyze how SARS-CoV-2 infection affects self-reported fatigue and malaise over time, considering factors like the severity of initial infection and existing mental health conditions.
  • - Utilizing data from the EFTER-COVID survey with over 50,000 participants, the research compared fatigue symptoms between those who tested positive and negative for COVID-19 over a span of 2 to 18 months post-infection.
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Purpose: People are shaped holistically by dynamic and interrelated individual and social-ecological systems. This perspective has been discussed in the context of varied aspects of bilingual experiences, namely language acquisition and development. Here, we applied a to language attitudes, which may be especially responsive to social-ecological influences.

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Many individuals who refuse COVID-19 vaccination have concerns about long-term side effects. Here, we report findings on self-reported symptoms from a Danish survey- and register study. The study included 34,868 vaccinated primary course recipients, 95.

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Background: Post COVID-19 condition (PCC) can lead to considerable morbidity, including prolonged sick-leave. Identifying risk groups is important for informing interventions. We investigated heterogeneity in the effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection on long-term sick-leave and identified subgroups at higher risk.

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Post-acute sick leave is an underexplored indicator of the societal burden of SARS-CoV-2. Here,  we report findings about self-reported sick leave and risk factors thereof from a hybrid survey and register study, which include 37,482 RT-PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases and 51,336 test-negative controls who were tested during the index- and alpha-dominant waves. We observe that an additional 33 individuals per 1000 took substantial sick leave following acute infection compared to persons with no known history of infection, where substantial sick leave is defined as >1 month of sick leave within the period 1-9 months after the RT-PCR test date.

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Purpose: Children with cerebral palsy (CP) have an increased risk of cognitive difficulties and should be offered cognitive assessments. In Sweden, the CP protocol recommends children with CP undergo cognitive assessments at the start of primary and secondary school. To assess children with CP can be challenging, in particular when children are non-vocal or do not speak the local language.

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Diverse bilingual experiences have implications for language comprehension, including pragmatic elements such as verbal irony. Irony comprehension is shaped by an interplay of linguistic, cognitive, and social factors, including individual differences in bilingual experience. We examined the relationship between individual differences related to bilingualism, specifically, the capacity to understand others' mental states and ambient exposure to language diversity, on irony comprehension.

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Purpose: Children with cerebral palsy (CP) are at risk of cognitive impairments and need to be cognitively assessed to allow for individualized interventions, if applicable. Therefore, a systematic protocol for the follow-up of cognition in children with CP, CP, with assessments offered at five/six and 12/13 years of age, was developed. This report presents and discusses assessment practices in Sweden and Norway following the introduction of CP and a quality improvement project in Norway aimed at increasing the number of children offered cognitive assessments.

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Mentalizing, or reasoning about others' mental states, is a dynamic social cognitive process that aids in communication and navigating complex social interactions. We examined whether exposure to diverse perspectives, afforded by occupying influential social network positions, predicted bilingual adults' performances on a behavioral mentalizing rating task in regions of high and low linguistic diversity. We calculated the degree to which respondents' social network position generally bridged unconnected others (i.

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