The association between patient characteristics, psychological distress, and coping in the diagnostic phase of prostate cancer - A cross-sectional multicenter study.

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the associations between patient characteristics, psychological distress, and coping in the diagnostic phase of prostate cancer.

Methods: A cross-sectional multicentre study was conducted from 2017 to 2019. A total of 250 patients were recruited from three hospitals in western Norway.

Long-term Recovery After Colorectal Cancer Surgery Among the Old: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Colorectal cancer is the third most frequently diagnosed cancer worldwide, disproportionally affecting older people. With modern treatment, older people are surviving cancer treatment and recovery. However, only a limited number of studies on the older person's experience of recovery exist.

Men's perception of information and psychological distress in the diagnostic phase of prostate cancer: a comparative mixed methods study.

Background: Previous studies indicate that men experience frustration and uncertainty when confronted with an elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA) test and during further diagnostics for prostate cancer. The novel Stockholm3 test is an algorithm-based test that combines plasma protein biomarkers, genetic markers and clinical variables in predicting the risk of PCa. The test was introduced in a western part of Norway as a new tool for detecting prostate cancer.

Exploring variables affecting sense of coherence and social support in recovery after colorectal cancer surgery among the oldest old.

Objective: To explore the associations between sense of coherence, perceived social support, and demographic and clinical characteristics among survivors ≥80 years treated for curable colorectal cancer.

Methods: This exploratory, cross-sectional survey investigates 56 individuals surgically treated for stage I-III colorectal cancer between one and five years prior. Statistical analysis permitted exploration of associations between sense of coherence, perceived social support, and demographic- and clinical variables.

Men's perception of information and descriptions of emotional strain in the diagnostic phase of prostate cancer-a qualitative individual interview study.

Objective: To explore men`s perception of information and their possible emotional strain in the diagnostic phase of prostate cancer.

Design, Setting, Patients: A qualitative explorative research design was employed. Data were collected from June to November 2017.

The balance between professional autonomy and organizational obligations in resilient management of specialized health care: A Norwegian document study.

Background: Adverse events in hospitals may jeopardize the safety of patients. Failure in professional autonomy, organizational learning or in the contact between these two factors may explain the occurrence of injurious incidents in hospitals.

Objective: To study reasons for failure in contact between professional autonomy and organizational learning in resilient management of specialized health care through document analysis.

Qualitative evaluation in nursing interventions-A review of the literature.

Aim: To identify and synthesize qualitative evaluation methods used in nursing interventions.

Design: A systematic qualitative review with a content analysis. Four databases were used: MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Embase and CINAHL using pre-defined terms.

The role of PhD-prepared, hospital-based nurses: an inter-Nordic study.

Background: Little is known about PhD-prepared nurses employed at Nordic university hospitals, how they are organised, what their practices look like or what career pathway they have chosen.

Aims: The purpose was to investigate and compare the prevalence of PhD-prepared nurses employed at university hospitals in the Nordic countries, to investigate what functions they fulfil and what research activities they undertake and to document how they describe their ideal work life.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study.

Drug monitoring of tamoxifen metabolites predicts vaginal dryness and verifies a low discontinuation rate from the Norwegian Prescription Database.

Purpose: Tamoxifen is an important targeted endocrine therapy in breast cancer. However, side effects and early discontinuation of tamoxifen remains a barrier for obtaining the improved outcome benefits of long-term tamoxifen treatment. Biomarkers predictive of tamoxifen side effects remain unidentified.

Neurofilaments and 10-year follow-up in multiple sclerosis.

Background: The role of biomarkers to predict clinical outcome in multiple sclerosis (MS) is still debated.

Objective: To test whether cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) light-chain neurofilament (NfL) levels in newly diagnosed patients with MS could predict clinical outcome over a 10-year period.

Methods: Patients with newly diagnosed MS underwent standardized clinical assessments at baseline and 5 and 10 years of follow-up.

Our genes, our selves: hereditary breast cancer and biological citizenship in Norway.

In this paper we explore the rise of 'the breast cancer gene' as a field of medical, cultural and personal knowledge. We address its significance in the Norwegian public health care system in relation to so-called biological citizenship in this particular national context. One of our main findings is that, despite its claims as a measure for health and disease prevention, gaining access to medical knowledge of BRCA 1/2 breast cancer gene mutations can also produce severe instability in the individuals and families affected.

The influence of coping styles on long-term employment in multiple sclerosis: A prospective study.

Background: The aim was to investigate predictive values of coping styles, clinical and demographic factors on time to unemployment in patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) during 1998-2002 in Norway.

Method: All patients ( N = 108) diagnosed with MS 1998-2002 in Hordaland and Rogaland counties, Western Norway, were invited to participate in the long-term follow-up study in 2002. Baseline recordings included disability scoring (Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS)), fatigue (Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS)), depression (Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)), and questionnaire assessing coping (the Dispositional Coping Styles Scale (COPE)).

Impact of Falls on Physical Activity in People with Parkinson's Disease.

Background: A complex relationship exists between motor impairment, physical activity (sedentary behavior, standing and ambulatory activity) and falls in people with Parkinson's disease (PD).

Objective: To explore associations between recent fall history and the ability to retain an active lifestyle as determined by the volume, pattern and variability of physical activity in people with PD.

Methods: Forty-eight participants with PD were recruited from the Norwegian ParkWest study.

Capturing the Experience: Reflections of Women With Breast Cancer Engaged in an Expressive Writing Intervention.

Background: Expressive writing has been shown to improve quality of life, fatigue, and posttraumatic stress among breast cancer patients across cultures. Understanding how and why the method may be beneficial to patients can increase awareness of the psychosocial impact of breast cancer and enhance interventional work within this population. Qualitative research on experiential aspects of interventions may inform the theoretical understanding and generate hypotheses for future studies.

Illness uncertainty in breast cancer patients: validation of the 5-item short form of the Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale.

Purpose: Several studies have shown that uncertainty about disease and fear of disease progression affects psychosocial adjustment and quality of life. The purpose of this study was to validate a Norwegian short version of the "The Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale" (SF-MUIS) and to examine the impact of uncertainty in illness in breast cancer patients.

Method And Sample: 209 patients in breast cancer treatment completed questionnaires for SF-MUIS, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast (FACT-ES), and eight questions concerning quality of the patient information provided (IQP).

Natural history of falls in a population-based cohort of patients with Parkinson's disease: an 8-year prospective study.

Background: Prospective long-term studies of falls in Parkinson's disease (PD) are scarce.

Objective: To examine the development of falls over 8 years in a population-based cohort of ambulatory patients with PD, and to investigate predictors of future falls in non-fallers at baseline.

Methods: All patients were examined at baseline and after 4 and 8 years, including the UPDRS, MMSE, Montgomery and Aaberg Depression Rating Scale, Functional Comorbidity Index, and a clinical dementia interview.

Brain atrophy and disability progression in multiple sclerosis patients: a 10-year follow-up study.

Objectives: To identify MRI biomarkers associated with long-term disability progression in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), and to define the rate of evolution of global, tissue-specific and regional atrophy in patients with MS over long-term.

Methods: MRI of the brain and clinical neurological assessment was performed in 81 patients at time of first visit and after 5 and 10 years of follow-up. MRI was acquired on 1.

Clinical nurses' research capacity in a Norwegian university hospital: part 2.

Aim: To examine clinical nurses' research capacity and investigate related factors (i.e. the different phases of the research process).

Clinical nurses' attitudes towards research, management and organisational resources in a university hospital: part 1.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine clinical nurses' interest in and motivation for research. An additional aim was to identify management and organisational resources in order to improve nurses' research capacity in practice.

Background: Clinical nurses find conducting research challenging, which accords with observations of the continuing research-practice gap.

Norwegian standards.

I live in Stavangar, a town on the southwest coast of Norway, facing Britain and mostly known as the oil capital of Norway. We have a hospital of 690 beds, recently built, where I have worked for most of the time since graduating in1980. I worked as a ward sister for about five years and have recently taken up the post of assisant head nurse within the same orthopaedic unit.