Published in Scandinavian journal of public health
Aim: This study aimed to explore the knowledge on the second victim phenomenon (SVP) in health care, more specifically within the speciality of obstetrics. Methods: An extensive electronic search of multiple databases, with additional hand searching of the reference lists of pertinent articles regarding the SVP, was performed from May 2017 to Decem...
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Negative control exposure analysis is a very effective tool in evaluating the effect of unmeasured confounding in observational epidemiological studies. Several biases, including recall bias, time-varying confounding factors, measurement bias and so on, can affect the credibility of negative control exposure analysis for causal interpretations. The...
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Background: The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has increased in Western societies in recent years. In a national health survey conducted in 2006 in Iceland, 31.8% of the population had used CAM in the past 12 months; however, the trend of CAM use since then is unknown. This study's aim was to describe participants' use of CAM p...
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Aims: We aimed to map out the scope and type of health research studies with patients involved as co-researchers throughout the research process and to explore the outcomes and experiences of such research. Methods: We conducted a narrative review by systematically searching selected databases. A total of 1451 hits were identified and screened, and...
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Aims: Swedish smokeless tobacco (snus) is a lower-risk tobacco product than cigarette smoking for individuals. However, the public health impact of snus use is less well studied. Critically, it is uncertain whether use of snus leads to the onset of smoking. This study aimed to investigate prospectively the association between snus experimentation i...
Published in Scandinavian journal of public health
Published in Scandinavian journal of public health
Aim: To examine trends in socioeconomic differences in daily smoking among 15-year-old Danes between 1991-2014, using occupational social class as indicator of socioeconomic status. Methods: The study included 15-year-olds participating in seven Danish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children studies between 1991-2014, n = 8,641. The analyses focus...
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Aim: The aim of this study is to analyse the development of Scandinavian research on complementary and alternative medicine in terms of publication pattern and general content. Furthermore we will map research networks. Methods and data: This study is based on bibliometric methods. The dataset consists of 1441 publications with at least one author ...
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Aims: The aim was to investigate associations between the experience of parental separation/divorce in childhood and tobacco smoking in adulthood, adjusting for economic stress in childhood and adulthood and psychological health (General Health Questionnaire GHQ12). Methods: The 2012 public-health survey in Skåne, southern Sweden, is a cross-sectio...
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Aims: This ongoing study is investigating the implementation and long-term impact of Healthy Life Centres (HLCs), a primary-care service intervention for behaviour change in Norway. The primary aim is to study changes in objectively measured physical activity (PA) levels following a HLC intervention in the short (three months) and long term (15 mon...
