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FABEL - Designet for å la bruker skape
(Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus, 2014)This report describes the process of developing a gender neutral figure-toy concept with emphasis on encouraging the user to be creative. The process consists of a research phase that maps out the users habits around the ... -
Face-to-face promotive interaction leading to successful cooperative learning:Review study
(Cogent OA, 2019-09-03)The article presents a review of 34 studies conducted from 1995 to 2017 focusing on face-to-face promotive interaction (FtFPI) factors that may lead to successful cooperative learning (CL) in small groups, as guided by the ... -
Facebook News Use During the 2017 Norwegian Elections—Assessing the Influence of Hyperpartisan News
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-12-21)The paper at hand presents a comparative study on news use in relation to media content as posted to Facebook by a series of established and hyperpartisan media outlets during the 2017 Norwegian national election campaign. ... -
Facebook, Canvas and Social Presence in Online Discussions
(Associated University Presses, 2016)This paper focuses on student discussion fora in a Masters’ programme in ICT-Supported Learning. Previous course evaluations have shown that students were not satisfied with the chosen technology (Fronter VLE) and suggested ... -
Facilitating awareness of philosophy of science, ethics and communication through manual skills training in undergraduate education.
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-01-17)Background: Professional health science education includes a common theoretical basis concerning the theory of science, ethics and communication. Former evaluations by first-year students of the bachelor physiotherapy ... -
Facilitating Change, the Decision-maker’s Views of Municipality Organized Food Distribution to Elderly People Living at Home and Suggestions for Development – A Participatory Action Research Study
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2012-10-08)This study is the final part of a larger project with an action research approach focusing on food distribution (FD) within municipal service and care for elderly persons, living at home ( ≥ 65 years), from various ... -
Facilitating innovation in networks composed of non-mandated relations
(Reiner Hampp Verlag, 2014)This paper explores the processes of transforming a network of nonmandated exchange relations into a cohesive and innovative partnership. The question this paper attempts to answer is how to speed up innovation processes ... -
Facilitating labour migration from Latvia: strategies of various categories of intermediaries
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017)Within the broad category of migration industries, we focus on intermediaries between employers in Norway requiring migrant labour, and suppliers of Latvian workers willing to migrate. Mediation of labour power is a regulated ... -
Facilitators of and barriers to reducing thirty-day readmissions and improving patient-reported outcomes after surgical aortic valve replacement: a process evaluation of the AVRre trial
(BMC, 2020-03-27)Background: The Aortic Valve Replacement Readmission (AVRre) randomized control trial tested whether a telephone intervention would reduce hospital readmissions following surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). The ... -
Facing diversity under institutional constraints: Challenging situations for community nurses when providing care to ethnic minority patients
(Wiley, 2014-02-25)Aims. To explore the challenges faced by community nurses when providing home health care to ethnic minority patients. Background. Norway has a growing number of immigrants, including older immigrant patients. Community ... -
Factor analysis of the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST) in a cross-cultural sample of undergraduate occupational therapy students
(Wiley, 2018-07-31)Background/aim The Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST) has been used previously to assess the learning approaches among students in higher education, but reports of its use with occupational therapy ... -
Factors Associated With Academic Performance Among Second-Year Undergraduate Occupational Therapy Students
(Western Michigan University, 2018)Background: Research into occupational therapy education and its outcomes for students is growing. More research is needed to determine the factors of importance for occupational therapy students’ academic outcomes. This ... -
Factors associated with life-sustaining treatment restriction in a general intensive care unit
(PLOS, 2017-07-18)Abstract Purpose Few previous studies have investigated associations between clinical variables available after 24 hours in the intensive care unit (ICU), including the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), and decisions to ... -
Factors associated with maintenance of a healthy diet in weight reduction program participants
(Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus, 2012)Background and aim: Understanding why and how some people succeed in changing their weight-related behaviors, like dietary behaviors, whereas the majority does not, should be an essential research priority. Identifying ... -
Factors associated with occupational therapy students’ preferences for courses and teaching
(Cogent OA, 2018)Background: Students’ preferences for teaching have been associated with their own approaches to studying. However, whether teaching preferences are associated with a set of student characteristics is yet unknown. ... -
Factors associated with self-efficacy in persons with chronic illness
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-06-10)Change of lifestyle may be necessary for persons with chronic illnesses in order to manage their health situation and reduce symptom distress. Success in changing lifestyle partly depends on a person’s self-efficacy beliefs. ... -
Factors associated with self-esteem in persons with morbid obesity and in persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A cross-sectional study
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-09-15)Living with chronic illnesses can be stressful and may negatively impact persons’ self-esteem. Personal factors, like self-efficacy and illness perceptions, and also factors related to the environment, activity, and ... -
Factors Associated with Self-Rated Health Among Elderly People Living in Old Age Homes of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
(Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, 2016)Background: Self-rated health (SRH) is the subjective assessment of own general health. It has been used frequently to predict future health, disability, functional ability and mortality. Exploring factors associated with ... -
Factors contributing to health care utilization and costs after stroke: Secondary results from the LAST study
(Springer Nature, 2020-04-06)Background: The result from the Life After Stroke (LAST) study showed that an 18-month follow up program as part of the primary health care, did not improve maintenance of motor function for stroke survivors. In this study ... -
Factors influencing prescribing of fall-risk-increasing drugs to the elderly: A qualitative study
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)Objective. Explore the situations in which GPs associate drug use with falls among their elderly patients, and the factors influencing the prescribing and cessation of fall-risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs). Design. A qualitative ...
