Publications by authors named "Lilja Sigrun Jonsdottir"
Background: Concerns about protecting patient's privacy can interfere with proper stress adaptation which is associated with physician's health. It is important to investigate relevant organizational confounders to this phenomenon to enable interventions that can ameliorate the subjective burden of patient confidentiality.
Objectives: This study investigates factors in the psychosocial work environment that can explain patient confidentiality's prominence in social support seeking among physicians, and if these factors covary differently with support seeking according to country.
Concerns about protecting patient's privacy are experienced as a limitation in the opportunity to obtain and utilize social support by many physicians. As resources of social support can modify the process of burnout, patient confidentiality may increase risk of this syndrome by interfering with proper stress adaptation. This study investigates if experiencing limitations in seeking social support due to confidentiality concerns are associated with burnout.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The aim of this study was to assess if widowers had an increased mortality rate during the first 6 to 9 years after the death of their wife, compared initially to an age-matched control group and also compared to the general population of Iceland.
Methods: The study base was comprised of all 371 men born in 1924-1969 who were widowed in Iceland in 1999-2001 and 357 controls, married men, who were matched by age and residence.The widowers and controls were followed through the years 2002-2007 using information from Statistics Iceland.
Objective: The aim of this study is to analyze the level of autonomy of Nordic hospital physicians, to examine whether there is a noticeable gender difference, and to evaluate the relation between autonomy and the well-being of these professionals.
Participants: This quantitative study is based on 1697 questionnaires that were filled out by hospital physicians in Sweden, Norway and Iceland.
Methods: The quantitative data are analysed statistically.
Objective: To investigate how the subjective burden of confidentiality can act as a stressor that affects physicians' psychological health and wellbeing.
Method: Cross-sectional survey data from a sample of university hospital physicians (N=1,956) in four European countries (Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Italy) who participated in the HOUPE (Health and Organization among University hospital Physicians in Europe) study was analysed.
Results: About 25% of the participants reported that confidentiality impedes emotional support to a considerable degree.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to evaluate obesity rates and its links to smoking and education among young women in Iceland, focusing on those in urban and rural areas.
- A questionnaire was distributed to 28,000 women aged 18-45, resulting in a 54.6% response rate, with data analyzed through logistic regression to uncover associations with obesity.
- Results showed higher obesity rates outside the capital and among smokers and those without university education, indicating a complex relationship influenced by location, smoking habits, and educational background.