Career maturity: a latent means and covariance structure analysis of Daidalos.

A latent means and covariance structure analysis was conducted to assess the construct validity and construct comparability in the measuring of career maturity across boys and girls. The career maturity inventory has been coined Daidalos. The sample consisted of 2,443 high school students recruited from one county in Norway.

Why are some doctors high-prescribers of benzodiazepines and minor opiates? A qualitative study of GPs in Norway.

Background: Registration studies have shown great variations in prescribing volume and prescribing patterns of benzodiazepines (BZDs) and minor opiates among GPs.

Objectives: We aimed to form a basis for hypotheses and build theories about prescribing, in order to investigate how high-prescribing doctors can legitimize their own prescribing pattern.

Methods: A qualitative interview study of doctors with previously known high, medium and low prescribing volumes was performed.

[Control of prescriptions of B-preparations. A registry study of B-preparations in Oslo and Akershus].

In two Norwegian counties all prescriptions for benzodiazepines and analgesics containing codeine were registered over a two month period and the records were subsequently transferred to a database. 93,000 prescriptions were registered, equivalent to this 2.8 millions DDD.