Utilization of Norwegian crisis shelters before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The measures introduced to control the COVID-19 pandemic, including lockdowns and physical distancing, exerted considerable influence on society.

Objectives: The aims of this study were to examine (1) the prevalence of people seeking Norwegian crisis shelters for domestic violence during the first period of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) compared to the year before, (2) the demography and type of violence among first-time visitors and (3) to compare the utilization of the crisis shelters and characteristics of the users between shelters in the capital and the other shelters throughout Norway.

Design: Observational study.

Service user involvement in a secure setting before and after the implementation of recovery-oriented practice: A quasi-experimental study.

Aim: To measure change in service user involvement in secure mental health units, before and after the implementation of recovery-oriented practice.

Design: Quasi-experimental study pretest-posttest design with non-equivalent comparison groups.

Methods: Data were collected from May 2018 to December 2019 in four medium-/high-security units in Norway.

Intimate partner violence associated with low quality of life - a cross-sectional study.

Background: Quality of life among abused women in Norway in 2006 was found to be significantly low compared to women at the same age in general. The aim of this study was to examine how quality of life is associated with experience of psychological and physical violence intimate partner violence among abused women seeking help after domestic partner abuse comparted to quality of life in a random sample of women in Norway.

Methods: A cross-sectional study in a random sample of 1500 women (response rate 36%, n = 469) in Norway were performed.

How Has Living with Intimate Partner Violence Affected the Work Situation? A Qualitative Study among Abused Women in Norway.

A qualitative study was conducted among 18 abused women from different parts of Norway to explore what paid work means for women exposed to partner violence and how living with an abusive partner affected their working life. Based on systematic text condensation analyses of their experiences as described in individual and focus group interviews, the study's findings reveal two major themes. The first is about recovery and survival, and the other about the spillover of problems caused by a violent partner into paid work.

Emergency primary care personnel's perception of professional-patient interaction in aggressive incidents -- a qualitative study.

Background: Incidents of aggression and violence from patients and visitors occur in emergency primary care. Most previous studies have focused on risk factors such as characteristics of patient, health personnel or situation. This study aimed to explore professional-patient interaction in aggressive situations.

Dealing with workplace violence in emergency primary health care: a focus group study.

Background: Prevention and management of workplace violence among health workers has been described in different health care settings. However, little is known about which phenomena the emergency primary health care (EPC) organization should attend to in their strategies for preventing and managing it. In the current study, we therefore explored how EPC personnel have dealt with threats and violence from visitors or patients, focusing on how organizational factors affected the incidents.

Menstrual characteristics and night work among nurses.

Night work has been associated with adverse effects in terms of reproductive health. Specifically, menstruation has been suggested to be negatively impacted by night work, which again may influence fertility. This study investigated whether working nights is related to menstrual characteristics and if there is a relationship between shift work disorder (SWD) and menstruation.

Sexual assault and other types of violence in intimate partner relationships.

Objective: To investigate whether sexual assaults are more likely to co-occur with some types of abuse rather than others in violent intimate relationships.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: A self-administered questionnaire was sent to all Norwegian women's shelters.

Health-related quality of life and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in accident and emergency attenders suffering from psychosocial crises: a longitudinal study.

Aims: This paper is a report of a study of health-related quality of life and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in patients attending an Accident and Emergency department because of psychosocial crises.

Background: Psychosocial crises are commonplace globally, but there is little knowledge about patients attending Accident and Emergency departments because of psychosocial crises.

Methods: Data were collected at an Accident and Emergency department in Norway from September 2008 to June 2009.

Threats and acts of intimate partner violence reported by users at Norwegian women's shelters.

Women (n = 87) at women's shelters in Norway, a country of high welfare and gender equality, reported a multitude of severe threats and actual acts of physical, sexual and psychological violence. An individual threatening to kill his partner represented a significant increased risk for experiencing serious acts of violence, especially when the threats were repeated. A self-administered questionnaire was sent to all the women's shelters.

Low health-related quality of life among abused women.

In a cross-sectional study, we sent a self-administered questionnaire to all the women's shelters in Norway to describe health-related quality of life among women who had experienced violence from an intimate partner. Every woman who could understand Norwegian and was staying at a women's shelter in Norway for more than 1 week from October 2002 to May 2003 was asked to participate. We described violence by intimate partners by using the Severity of Violence against Women Scale and the Psychological Maltreatment of Women Index.