HV - PhD in Health Sciences
Recent Submissions
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Lifestyle Factors Across the Life Course and Age at Menopause - Population-Based Studies of Women in Norway
(OsloMet Avhandling;2025 nr. 28, Doctoral thesis, 2025)Introduction: Menopause marks the end of a woman’s reproductive period and may serve as an indicator of health and fecundity. The individual variation in age at menopause is large, ranging between 40 and 60 years of age. ... -
The Impact of Dry Eye Disease before and after cataract surgery
(OsloMet Avhandling;2025 nr. 23, Doctoral thesis, 2025)The outcomes of modern cataract surgery are generally very good. About 80% of patients achieve the intended refractive precision within 0.5 diopters. Only a few patients experience refractive errors of more than 0.75 or ... -
The Patient-Specific Functional Scale (PSFS) for measuring rehabilitation goals for patients with stroke
(OsloMet Avhandling;2025 nr. 18, Doctoral thesis, 2025)Background: Approximately 10,000 people are hospitalized due to a stroke annually in Norway, often requiring multidisciplinary rehabilitation. Goal-setting is an essential component of the rehabilitation, with literature ... -
Cataract Surgery and Dry Eye Disease - Prevalence, Effects of Preservative-Free Eyedrops and Artificial Tears in Pre-and Postoperative Care
(OsloMet Avhandling;2025 nr. 20, Doctoral thesis, 2025)Modern cataract surgery, utilizing advanced lens technology, has evolved into a refractive procedure with a strong emphasis on refractive precision. Achieving this precision requires thorough preoperative assessment and ... -
Vulvodynia in heterosexual relationships - Understanding the role of social context and interpersonal dynamics
(OsloMet Avhandling;2025 nr. 16, Doctoral thesis, 2025)Vulvodynia, a chronic genital pain disorder affecting about 15% of women, is linked to health issues like anxiety, depression, sexual dysfunction, distress, and other pain conditions. Often invisible beyond the woman's ... -
The impact of L-carnitine on human semen quality upon cryopreservation, its association with sperm fatty acids, and assessment of a novel analytical tool for DNA fragmentation in mammals
(OsloMet Avhandling;2025 nr. 14, Doctoral thesis, 2025)Reduced male fertility is associated with reduced semen quality and can result from medical conditions, such as infections or blockages in the reproductive organs, and lifestyle factors like obesity. However, the cause of ... -
Between patient participation and healthcare standardization - The ordering of work in managing hand osteoarthritis
(OsloMet Avhandling;2025 nr. 4, Doctoral thesis, 2025)In this dissertation, I have explored the ordering of healthcare work in managing and coping with chronic illness, hand osteoarthritis, at the intersection of patient participation and healthcare standardization. The rising ... -
Hand hygiene, infection prevention and antibiotic use in nursing homes
(OsloMet Avhandling;2025 nr. 12, Doctoral thesis, 2025)Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) pose a major threat to patient safety. Nursing home residents are particularly vulnerable to severe consequences of infections, including hospital admission and death, ... -
Patient engagement in the development and delivery of healthcare services
(OsloMet Avhandling;2024 nr. 54, Doctoral thesis, 2024)Background: Patient engagement (PE) has gained significant international prominence at the societal level (macro), the organizational and system level (meso) and the individual level (micro) in recent decades. PE is ... -
Generation of full-length mRNA transcriptome and miRNA target prediction resources utilized in the study of miRNAs associated with response to Moritella viscosa infection in Atlantic salmon
(OsloMet Avhandling;2025 nr. 3, Doctoral thesis, 2025)Atlantic salmon (salmo salar) is an important aquaculture species around the world. Infectious diseases, including the bacterial pathogen Moritella viscosa, which causes Winter Ulcer disease, remains a significant issue ... -
Utvikling av Åpen dialog som tilnærming i offentlige psykiske helsetjenester - Erfaringer fra en norsk kontekst
(OsloMet Avhandling;2024 nr 47, Doctoral thesis, 2024)Denne doktorgradsavhandlingen er en del av et større forskningsprosjekt, ”Åpen dialog i nettverksmøter”, der formålet var å lære opp klinikere i den dialogbaserte tilnærmingen Åpen dialog, for deretter å undersøke erfaringene ... -
The Indirect Costs of Caring for a Child with a Disability
(OsloMet Avhandling;2024 no 46, Doctoral thesis, 2024)Caring for a child with a disability can be both challenging and enriching. The ground reality is that most families are facing challenges in balancing paid work and family responsibilities. This raised an ongoing question ... -
Flexible and individually tailored homebased healthcare services – with the trust model as context
(OsloMet Avhandling;2024 nr 51, Doctoral thesis, 2024)This thesis draws attention to home-based healthcare services and the trust model as a new means of structuring these services into interdisciplinary teams; it also discusses the involvement of next of kin in the process ... -
Exploring persistent postsurgical pain from the patient’s perspective 5 years after total knee arthroplasty: A mixed-methods study
(OsloMet Avhandling;2024 nr 3, Doctoral thesis, 2024)Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is a common ailment and is estimated to affect 240 million people globally, with 10% of men and 18% of women over 60 years having symptomatic knee OA. The main symptom of OA is ... -
Mental disorders among young migrant and non-migrant women in Norway. Risk factors for and consequences of mental disorders across the life course
(OsloMet Avhandling;2022 nr 30, Doctoral thesis, 2024)Background: An increasing number of individuals live with a mental disorder, yet not everyone has the same risk of developing one. Studies indicate that young women as well as migrants may be at particular risk. Thus, being ... -
The community pharmacist’s position and qualitative means to influence use of antibiotics – An exploration of patient needs for informed counselling and involved dialogue on antibiotics
(OsloMet Avhandling;2024 no 30, Doctoral thesis, 2024)The overarching goal of this project was to leave no stone unturned in the global fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The main drivers of AMR are misuse and overuse of antibiotics and new approaches to combat AMR ... -
Cost of Illness due to Back Pain in Older People. Healthcare utilization, modifiable prognostic factors, and the measurement properties of self-reported productivity loss using the iMTA Productivity Cost Questionnaire
(Doctoral thesis, 2022)Introduction: Back pain imposes substantial individual and societal costs, and with an aging population and an increasing number of older people with back pain, these costs are likely to increase in the years to come. To ... -
Characterization of differentially expressed miRNAs and their predicted target transcripts associated with smoltification and seawater adaptation in Atlantic salmon
(OsloMet Avhandling;2023 nr 39, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Smoltification, or parr-smolt transformation, is a complex pre-adaptive process of behavioral, developmental, biochemical, and physiological changes that transforms an Atlantic salmon parr living in freshwater (FW) into a ... -
Somatocognitive Therapy in the Management of Women with Provoked Vestibulodynia - A multimodal physiotherapy intervention
(OsloMet Avhandling;2023 nr 8, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Background: Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is a prevalent chronic pain condition adversely affecting women’s sexual life, the relation to their partners and their psychological health. Pain is localised to the vulvar vestibule ... -
Exercise-induced brain plasticity − potential roles of lactate receptor HCA1 in neurogenesis and mood regulation, and neurotrophic factors in stroke
(OsloMet Avhandling;2023 nr 19, Doctoral thesis, 2023)The brain is highly plastic. It responds to changes in the environment by reorganizing pathways, creating new connections, or strengthening existing ones, rewiring itself, as well as by creating new blood vessel and neurons. ...
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