SAM - Institutt for sosialfag
Recent Submissions
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Entering the mainstream economy? Workplace segregation and immigrant assimilation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Why do foreign-born immigrant workers often concentrate in low-wage, minority-dense workplaces? Do immigrants’ native-born children—who typically acquire better language skills, education, and country-specific knowledge—experience ... -
Health literacy profiles in kidney transplanted patients: A cluster analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background: Health literacy is important in chronic conditions, such as kidney transplantation. Understanding patients' health literacy profiles can assist tailoring follow‐up and educational programmes to the health ... -
Social Media use and Associations with Psychological Distress among Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Social media may have the double potential to support and undermine mental health, and research is needed to investigate these relationships in age-specified populations. The purpose of this study was to investigate ... -
Carbon emission reductions and offsets: Consumer perceptions of firm environmental sustainability
(Journal of Cleaner Production;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This paper studies how carbon emission reductions and offsets influence consumer perceptions of firm environmental sustainability. We hypothesize that consumers perceive firms that reduce (vs. offset) internally (vs. in ... -
Shifting the gaze on welfare-state sustainability in Norway: a proposal for a relational global view
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Norway is an excellent case for studying the ambiguities and competing interests attached to climate change and global sustainability. The country is at the forefront in the use of “clean energy,” yet has long been one of ... -
What kind of a problem is loneliness? Representations of connectedness and participation from a study of telepresence technologies in the UK
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Loneliness is represented in UK policy as a public health problem with consequences in terms of individual suffering, population burden and service use. However, loneliness is historically and culturally produced; ... -
Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of supportive parents – coping kids (SPARCK)—a transdiagnostic and personalized parent training intervention to prevent childhood mental health problems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background To meet the scientific and political call for effective prevention of child and youth mental health problems and associated long‑term consequences, we have co‑created, tested, and optimized a transdiagnostic ... -
Is the degree of religiosity related to community belonging and trust in society? A cross-sectional study among Muslims in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Introduction: It is unclear if the degree of religiosity within Muslim minority groups causes health inequality because of poor community belonging and lack of trust in society. We aimed to investigate the association of ... -
Activation by technology: Young people’s use of digital tools provided by the government
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Modern welfare agencies are increasingly offering clients digital tools in their service delivery. Since young people are prolific users of digital technology, this trend should be to their advantage. However, the quantitative ... -
Barnevernsarbeidere i møte med etniske minoritetsfamilier
(Bachelor thesis, 2024)Det flerkulturelle samfunnet vi lever i har utviklet seg gravis gjennom årene. For flere mennesker har det blitt mulig å flytte til et annet kontinent for å blant annet studere, søke arbeid eller flykte fra politiske ... -
Samplassering av søsken i fosterhjem - ser vi bare det vi vil se?
(Bachelor thesis, 2024)Forskningen om søsken i fosterhjem er samstemt om at samplassering kan være en fordel for de aller fleste barn. Denne oppgaven utforsker først hvilke fordeler og ulemper som er forbundet med samplassering og splittelse av ... -
Hjernen i barnevernet : en drøfting av nevrovitenskapens plass og betydning i barnevernet - belyst av traumebevisst omsorg
(Bachelor thesis, 2024)Barnevernsfeltet er et sammensatt og omdiskutert fagområde i løpende utvikling, og med stadig større betydning i samfunnet. Et tema som har fått større aktualitet i de senere år, er hvilken betydning hjerneforskningen har ... -
Standardisert forløp i institusjonsbarnevernet : Hvordan påvirker Standardisert forløp det miljøterapeutiske arbeidet i institusjonsbarnevernet?
(Bachelor thesis, 2024)26. oktober 2023 overleverte Barnevernsinstitusjonsutvalget 50 forslag til å bedre tilbudet for barn og unge som bor i barnevernsinstitusjoner (NOU 2023:24). De vektlegger at en felles systematisk miljøterapeutisk praksis ... -
Forebyggende arbeid i oppsøkende ungdomstjenester - Sett i lys av Foucaults maktkritiske perspektiver
(Bachelor thesis, 2024)Denne bacheloroppgaven tar for seg sosialfaglig profesjonsutøvelse i oppsøkende ungdomstjenester sett i lys av Foucaults maktkritiske perspektiver. Forfatteren tar for seg sentrale begreper knyttet til oppsøkende arbeid ... -
Imprisoned in an analogue bubble in digital society: Re/integration work in Norwegian high security prisons
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This article explores how the rise of the digital society affects re/integration work in prisons. In this context, we examine how employees involved in this work handle the disparity between the almost entirely analogue ... -
Correlation Visualization Under Missing Values: A Comparison Between Imputation and Direct Parameter Estimation Methods
(Chapter, 2024)Correlation matrix visualization is essential for understanding the relationships between variables in a dataset, but missing data can seriously affect this important data visualization tool. In this paper, we compare the ... -
AI-Based Cropping of Soccer Videos for Different Social Media Representations
(Chapter; Peer reviewed; Conference object; Journal article, 2024)The process of re-publishing soccer videos on social media often involves labor-intensive and tedious manual adjustments, particularly when altering aspect ratios while trying to maintain key visual elements. To address ... -
Kvasir-VQA: A Text-Image Pair GI Tract Dataset
(Chapter; Peer reviewed; Conference object, 2024)We introduce Kvasir-VQA, an extended dataset derived from the HyperKvasir and Kvasir-Instrument datasets, augmented with questionand-answer annotations to facilitate advanced machine learning tasks in Gastrointestinal (GI) ... -
Validating polyp and instrument segmentation methods in colonoscopy through Medico 2020 and MedAI 2021 Challenges
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Automatic analysis of colonoscopy images has been an active field of research motivated by the importance of early detection of precancerous polyps. However, detecting polyps during the live examination can be challenging ... -
Emosjonell omsorg i sosialfaglig praksis – eksemplifisert gjennom mødres fortellinger om omsorgsovertakelser
(Fokus på familien;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Med utgangspunkt i mødres erfaringer med omsorgsovertakelser utforsker artikkelen emosjonell omsorg som begrep. Ved å analysere mødres fortellinger i lys av Daniel Sterns selvutviklingsmodell retter vi fokus mot emosjonelle ...