Blar i HV - Institutt for rehabiliteringsvitenskap og helseteknologi på forfatter "Lerdal, Anners"
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A 1-year follow-up study exploring the associations between perception of Illness and health-related quality of life in persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Bonsaksen, Tore; Haukeland-Parker, Stacey; Lerdal, Anners; Fagermoen, May Solveig (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-12-19)Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive respiratory disease with an increasing prevalence worldwide. Its potential consequences, including reduced function and reduced social participation, are likely ... -
"A bit of everything": Health literacy interventions in chronic conditions- a systematic review
Larsen, Marie Hamilton; Mengshoel, Anne Marit; Andersen, Marit Helen; Borge, Christine Råheim; Ahlsen, Birgitte; Dahl, Kari Gire; Eik, Hedda; Holmen, Heidi; Lerdal, Anners; Mariussen, Kari; Thoresen, Lisbeth; Tschamper, Merete Kristin; Urstad, Kristin Hjorthaug; Vidnes, Tone Karine; Wahl, Astrid Klopstad (Patient Education and Counseling;Volume 105, Issue 10, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-08-30)Objective: To systematically evaluate health literacy (HL) interventions in chronic conditions by exploring theoretical perspectives, intervention content and effectiveness. Method: We searched MEDLINE, Cochrane, CINAHL, ... -
Daily use of alcohol in the Norwegian general population: Prevalence and associated factors
Bonsaksen, Tore; Heir, Trond; Skogstad, Laila; Grimholt, Tine K.; Ekeberg, Øivind; Lerdal, Anners; Schou-Bredal, Inger (Drugs and alcohol today;Volume 20, Issue 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-29)Purpose: Harmful use of alcohol is a major public health problem. While harm is often researched in the context of heavy drinking episodes, high-frequency drinking, even when drinking moderate quantities, constitutes a ... -
Differences and similarities in the trajectories of self-esteem and positive and negative affect in persons with chronic illness: An explorative longitudinal study
Bonsaksen, Tore; Lerdal, Anners; Småstuen, Milada C; Fagermoen, May Solveig (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08-18)Background: Chronic illness is a risk factor for low self-esteem, and the research literature needs to include more studies of self-esteem and its development in chronic illness groups using longitudinal and comparative ... -
Factors associated with self-efficacy in persons with chronic illness
Bonsaksen, Tore; Lerdal, Anners; Fagermoen, Solveig (Scandinavian Journal of Psychology;54 (3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 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
Bonsaksen, Tore; Fagermoen, May Solveig; Lerdal, Anners (Psychology, health & medicine;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 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 ... -
General self-efficacy in the Norwegian population: Differences and similarities between sociodemographic groups
Bonsaksen, Tore; Lerdal, Anners; Heir, Trond; Ekeberg, Øivind; Skogstad, Laila; Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Schou-Bredal, Inger (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Aims: General self-efficacy (GSE) refers to optimistic self-beliefs of being able to perform and control behaviors, and is linked with various physical and mental health outcomes. Measures of self-efficacy are commonly ... -
Group climate development in cognitive and interpersonal group therapy for social phobia
Bonsaksen, Tore; Lerdal, Anners; Borge, Finn-Magnus; Sexton, Hal; Hoffart, Asle (Group Dynamics;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-11-08)This study was designed as a longitudinal study of 80 participants in cognitive group therapy (RCT, n = 40) and interpersonal group therapy (RIPT, n = 40) for social phobia during 10 weeks of residential therapy. The aim ... -
Optimists report fewer physical and mental health conditions than pessimists in the general Norwegian population
Bredal, Inger Schou; Bonsaksen, Tore; Heir, Trond; Skogstad, Laila; Lerdal, Anners; Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Ekeberg, Øivind (Health Psychology Report;7 (1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-03)Background: Several studies have found that optimism is associated with better health. However, all those studies have investigated the subject in a specific context: gender, age group, diagnosis, situation, or population ... -
Personal factors associated with health-related quality of life in persons with morbid obesity on treatment waiting lists in Norway
Lerdal, Anners; Andenæs, Randi; Bjørnsborg, Eva; Bonsaksen, Tore; Borge, Lisbet; Christiansen, Bjørg; Eide, Hilde; Hvinden, Kari; Fagermoen, May Solveig (Quality of Life Research;20 (8), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-02-19)Purpose To explore relationships of socio-demographic variables, health behaviours, environmental characteristics and personal factors, with physical and mental health variables in persons with morbid obesity, and to ... -
Population-based norms of the Life Orientation Test–Revised (LOT-R)
Bredal, Inger Schou; Heir, Trond; Skogstad, Laila; Bonsaksen, Tore; Lerdal, Anners; Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Ekeberg, Øivind (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background/Objective: The most common used instrument to measure optimism, both in psychological and medical research, is the Life Orientation Test- Revised (LOT-R). A multi-countries study using the future item from the ... -
Predictors of physical and mental health in persons with morbid obesity attending a patient education course - a two-year follow-up study
Lerdal, Anners; Gay, Caryl; Bonsaksen, Tore; Fagermoen, May Solveig (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background People with morbid obesity (body mass index ≥40) may experience changes in their health after participating in a tailored patient education course. The aims of this study were to assess the changes in physical ... -
Rasch analysis of the general self-efficacy scale in a sample of persons with morbid obesity
Bonsaksen, Tore; Kottorp, Anders; Gay, Caryl; Fagermoen, May Solveig; Lerdal, Anners (Health and Quality of Life Outcomes;11(202), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Background: Self-efficacy is needed for effectuating lifestyle changes, and it is therefore an important target related to health. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the General ... -
Rasch analysis of the sense of coherence scale in a sample of people with morbid obesity – a cross-sectional study
Lerdal, Anners; Fagermoen, May Solveig; Bonsaksen, Tore; Gay, Caryl L; Kottorp, Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background: The prevalence of morbid obesity is an increasing health problem in most parts of the world and is related to lower quality of life. Sense of coherence, or the perception that the world is meaningful and ... -
Self-diagnosed depression in the Norwegian general population - associations with neuroticism, extraversion, optimism, and general self-efficacy
Bonsaksen, Tore; Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Skogstad, Laila; Lerdal, Anners; Ekeberg, Øivind; Heir, Trond; Bredal, Inger Schou (BMC Public Health;18:1076, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-29)Background: Multi-item rating scales for depression informs about the level of depression, but does not allow individuals to state by self-evaluation whether they feel depressed or not. The insider perspective on depression ... -
Self-evaluated anxiety in the Norwegian population: Prevalence and associated factors
Bonsaksen, Tore; Heir, Trond; Ekeberg, Øivind; Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Lerdal, Anners; Skogstad, Laila; Bredal, Inger Schou (Archives of Public Health;77, Article number: 10 (2019), Journal article, 2019-03-18)Background: Self-evaluations of mental health problems may be a useful complement to diagnostic assessment, but are less frequently used. This study investigated the prevalence of self-evaluated current and lifetime anxiety ... -
Self-rated global health in the Norwegian general population
Bonsaksen, Tore; Ekeberg, Øivind; Skogstad, Laila; Heir, Trond; Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Lerdal, Anners; Bredal, Inger Schou (Health and Quality of Life Outcomes;17, Article number: 188 (2019), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-09)Background. Prevalence studies are needed to assess the distribution of diseases. However, in a contrasting health promotion perspective, self-rated health is in itself an important field of study. This study investigated ... -
Serious life events and post-traumatic stress disorder in the Norwegian population
Heir, Trond; Bonsaksen, Tore; Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Ekeberg, Øivind; Skogstad, Laila; Lerdal, Anners; Bredal, Inger Schou (BJPsych Open;5(e82), Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background It has been suggested that countries with more resources and better healthcare have populations with a higher risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Norway is a high-income country with good public ... -
Sexual assault and the association with health, quality of life and self-efficacy in the general Norwegian population
Bredal, Inger Schou; Bonsaksen, Tore; Ekeberg, Øivind; Skogstad, Laila; Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Lerdal, Anners; Heir, Trond (Journal of Interpersonal Violence;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-09)The lifetime prevalence of sexual assault was examined in a representative sample of the general Norwegian adult population (n¼1,792), in addition to the association between sexual assault and health, quality of life, ... -
Substance use in the Norwegian general population: Prevalence and associations with disease
Bonsaksen, Tore; Skogstad, Laila; Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Heir, Trond; Ekeberg, Øivind; Lerdal, Anners; Bredal, Inger Schou (Journal of Substance Use;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-13)Objective: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of substance use in the Norwegian general population and examine whether the risk of various psychiatric or somatic diseases varied according to alcohol- and substance ...