Publications by authors named "K Gustavson"
Purpose: The aim was to examine the association between a wide range of potentially traumatic events (PTEs) experienced in childhood, adulthood or both, and hazardous alcohol use, including the relationship between the total sum of PTEs and hazardous alcohol use in middle aged and elderly adults. Previous studies have predominantly focused on childhood PTEs or isolated PTEs and more severe alcohol problems, little focus has been given to middle aged and elderly adults with hazardous alcohol use and PTE experiences.
Methods: We used logistic regression analysis to study the relation between a broad range of PTEs and hazardous alcohol defined by the alcohol use disorder identification test (AUDIT) in 19,128 women and men aged 40 years and above participating in the seventh survey of the Norwegian population-based Tromsø Study in 2015-2016.
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- A study examined eating problems among adolescents during the pandemic compared to before, using data from 22,706 14-16-year-olds over six years.
- Results indicated that while all adolescents showed an increase in eating problems over time, the pandemic uniquely affected girls, who reported higher levels of dieting and body dissatisfaction during this period.
- The findings emphasize the need to address gender-specific issues related to eating problems and suggest that factors like screen time and mental distress may have worsened during the pandemic.
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- Adolescence is a crucial time when mental health issues like anxiety and depression can start to appear, and the COVID-19 pandemic's strict public health measures may have worsened these conditions for teens.* -
- The study investigated how public health restrictions and experiences with quarantine impacted mental distress in a group of 7,787 Norwegian adolescents aged 16 to 18 from April 2020 to February 2021.* -
- Findings showed that higher stringency of public health measures and recent or frequent quarantines were linked to increased mental distress, with no significant moderating effects from factors like sex or pre-existing mental health issues.*
In Norway, as in most Western countries, a growing proportion of parents living apart choose shared residence for their children. The aim of this study was to investigate trajectories of five interparental conflict dimensions across four child residence arrangement groups (and three combination groups) to improve understanding of different conflict trajectories when parents live apart. We used data from the Dynamics of Family Conflict study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpidemiological researchers often examine associations between risk factors and health outcomes in non-experimental designs. Observed associations may be causal or confounded by unmeasured factors. Sibling and co-twin control studies account for familial confounding by comparing exposure levels among siblings (or twins).
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