Background: Severe self-harm leading to extensive hospitalization generates extreme challenges for patients, families, and health services. Controversies regarding diagnoses and health care often follow. Most evidence-based treatments targeting self-harm are designed for borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, current knowledge about mental health status among individuals with severe self-harm ...

Aim: We aimed to describe clinical practices and criteria for discharge of very preterm infants in Nordic neonatal units.<p> <p>Methods: Medical directors of all 89 level-2 and level-3 units in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden were invited by e-mail to complete a web-based multiple-choice survey with the option to make additional free-text comments. <p>Results: We received responses ...

Oxidized albumin (oxHSA) is elevated in several pathological conditions, such as decompensated cirrhosis, acute on chronic liver failure and liver mediated renal failure. Patient derived oxidized albumin was previously shown to be an infammatory mediator, and in normal serum levels of oxHSA are low. The removal from circulation of oxidized albumins is therefore likely required for maintenance of ...

Objective<p> <p>To explore attendance at organised mammographic screening among immigrant groups that received an invitation letter and information leaflet (invitation) in their language of origin and Norwegian compared with Norwegian only.<p> <p>Design <p>Randomised controlled trial. <p>Setting <p>Population based screening programme for breast cancer in Norway (BreastScreen Norway), which invites ...

Nucleic acid-based materials showcase an increasing potential for antimicrobial drug delivery. Although numerous reports on drug-loaded DNA nanoparticles outline their pivotal antibacterial activities, their potential as drug delivery systems against bacterial biofilms awaits further studies. Among different oligonucleotide structures, micellar nanocarriers derived from amphiphilic DNA strands ...

Aims - To estimate sick leave (SL) duration after first-time elective open-heart surgery and identify factors contributing to increased SL.<p> <p>Methods and results - A retrospective nationwide cohort study combined data from the Norwegian Register for Cardiac Surgery and SL data from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administrations. All able-bodied adults who underwent first-time elective ...

Background: In the later years, interdisciplinary rehabilitation for patients with PPCS after mTBI have been developed in several locations in Norway. Physical therapy is a natural part of the rehabilitation; however, little is known about their contribution towards the interdisciplinary rehabilitation of patients with PPCS. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide increased insight regarding ...

Bakgrunn og hensikt: Rock steady boksing, en terapeutisk boksestil, har de siste årene fått fotfeste i Norge som et alternativt behandlingskonsept for personer med Parkinsons sykdom (PS). Denne behandlingsformen tilbys primært av kampsportklubber. Det er lite kunnskap om hvordan terapeutisk boksing knyttet til fysioterapi erfares for denne pasientgruppen. Hensikten med denne studien er å få innsikt ...

Public health nursing is grounded in public health ideologies and fundamental nursing values. Researchers have argued that ethical responsibility from the perspective of the nurse is an understudied phenomenon. This meta-ethnography provides in-depth knowledge of how public health nurses (PHNs) experience ethical responsibility when working to prevent injury and disease, and promote health and ...

Individuals with physical and mental disabilities can be stigmatized and perceived in terms of their disabilities in the public domain. This is less pervasive in the private domain, because of the presence of individuating information. We argue that disabilities decrease individuals’ everyday opportunities to receive basic equality-based respect experiences in the public domain and thus makes it ...