Publications by authors named "S Torp"
The United Nations declares that the global degradation of ecosystems represents a danger to human health. Deterioration of forests is one of several threats against the natural systems. The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate people's experiences with clear-cutting and how it had affected their health and well-being.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Physical therapists play a vital role in the Norwegian health care system, and their work environment may be a significant determinant for their wellbeing and job performance.
Objective: 1) Assess differences in work environment, mental health problems, and work engagement between physical therapists working in specialist versus municipal health care services. 2) Assess the relationships between work environment factors and work engagement and mental health problems.
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- The Kaplan-Meier method can overestimate the risk of cancer coming back, especially when other events like death happen first, but the Aalen-Johansen method can give a more accurate picture by considering these events.
- A study looked at research articles about meningiomas (a type of brain tumor) since 2020 and found that only a few used the better method.
- It showed that not using the Aalen-Johansen method mostly led to overestimating the recurrence risk, especially in older patients with more serious tumors.
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains a challenging malignancy, mainly due to its resistance to chemotherapy and its complex tumour microenvironment characterised by stromal desmoplasia. There is a need for new strategies to improve the delivery of drugs and therapeutic response. Relevant preclinical tumour models are needed to test potential treatments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Sense of coherence (SOC) is a global orientation to life that may affect a person's way of acting and living within his or her life context, which can have an impact on general and oral health. The aims of this study were (i) to describe the distribution of SOC in a general adult population; (ii) to explore whether sociodemographic characteristics, oral health-related behaviours, self-reported oral health, and clinical oral status were associated with SOC; and (iii) to explore whether SOC was associated with self-reported oral health, controlling for sociodemographic characteristics, oral health-related behaviours, and oral clinical status.
Methods: This study was based on data from the cross-sectional population-based study Oral Health in Northern Norway (N = 1819 individuals, 923 women, mean age 47.