Browsing Brage INN by Author "Heir, Trond"
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Chronic pain in multi-traumatized outpatients with a refugee background resettled in Norway: a cross-sectional study
Teodorescu, Dinu-Stefan; Heir, Trond; Siqveland, Johan; Hauff, Edvard; Wentzel-Larsen, Tore; Lien, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Traumatized refugees often report significant levels of chronic pain in addition to posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, and more information is needed to understand pain in refugees exposed to traumatic events. This ... -
A comparison between healthcare workers and non-healthcare workers’ anxiety, depression and PTSD during the initial COVID -19 lockdown
Bredal, Inger Schou; Bonsaksen, Tore; Ekeberg, Øivind; Skogstad, Laila; Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Heir, Trond (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objective Several studies have found that Healthcare workers are vulnerable to mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, few studies have made comparisons of healthcare workers (HCWs) and non-HCWs. The ... -
Concerns in the Norwegian population during the initial lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic
Bredal, Inger Schou; Skogstad, Laila; Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Bonsaksen, Tore; Ekeberg, Øivind; Heir, Trond (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Although concern affects one's welfare or happiness, few studies to date have focused on peoples' concerns during the initial COVID-19 lockdown. The aim of the study was to explore concerns in the Norwegian populations ... -
Concerns related to the COVID-19 in adult Norwegians during the first outbreak in 2020 – a qualitative approach
Skogstad, Laila; Bredal, Inger Schou; Bonsaksen, Tore; Heir, Trond; Ekeberg, Øivind; Grimholt, Tine Kristin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Concerns related to the first outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Norwegian population are studied in a cross-sectional web-survey conducted between 8 April and 20 May 2020. The qualitative thematic analysis of the ... -
Is mindfulness protective against PTSD? A neurocognitive study of 25 Tsunami disaster survivors
Hagen, Christina; Lien, Lars; Hauff, Edvard; Heir, Trond (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background: It has been suggested that mindfulness is a protective factor that buffers individuals from experiencing severe posttraumatic stress following exposure to a trauma. We aimed to examine the association between ... -
Optimists’ and pessimists’ self-reported mental and global health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway
Bredal, Inger Schou; Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Bonsaksen, Tore; Skogstad, Laila; Heir, Trond; Ekeberg, Øivind (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background The COVID-19 pandemic represents a global health crisis. How well people cope with this situation depends on many factors, including one’s personality, such as dispositional optimism. The aim of the study was ... -
Post-traumatic stress disorder and associated factors during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway
Bonsaksen, Tore; Heir, Trond; Bredal, Inger Schou; Ekeberg, Øivind; Skogstad, Laila; Grimholt, Tine Kristin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The COVID-19 outbreak and the sudden lockdown of society in March 2020 had a large impact on people’s daily life and gave rise to concerns for the mental health in the general population. The aim of the study was to examine ... -
Posttraumatic stress disorder in people with visual impairment compared with the general population
Bonsaksen, Tore; Brunes, Audun; Heir, Trond (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Background: People with a visual impairment appear to have an increased risk of experiencing potentially traumatizing life events and possibly also subsequently developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study ... -
Prevalence of suicide attempt and associations with deliberate self-harm, mental health problems, drug misuse and traumatic experiences - a cross sectional survey of the Norwegian population
Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Bonsaksen, Tore; Heir, Trond; Schou-Bredal, Inger; Skogstad, Laila; Ekeberg, Øivind (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background Monitoring self-reported suicide attempts (SA) with nationally representative surveys is important to initiate suicide prevention strategies. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of SA and compare ... -
Psychological responses and associated factors during the initial lockdown due to the corona disease epidemic (COVID-19) among Norwegian citizens
Bredal, Inger Schou; Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Bonsaksen, Tore; Skogstad, Laila; Heir, Trond; Ekeberg, Øivind (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)BACKGROUND Ongoing COVID-19 studies pay little attention to the risk or protective factors related to psychological stress. AIMS This study aims to estimate the prevalence of anxiety, depression and insomnia during the ... -
Quality of life in people with visual impairment compared with the general population
Bonsaksen, Tore; Brunes, Audun; Heir, Trond (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-07-08)Aim The aim of the present study was to examine quality of life and its associated factors among adults with visual impairment in Norway. Subject and methods Of the 1216 adults contacted, 736 (61% response rate) participated ... -
Right temporal cortical hypertrophy in resilience to trauma: an MRI study
Nilsen, Andre Sevenius; Hilland, Eva; Krogstad, Norunn; Heir, Trond; Hauff, Edvard; Lien, Lars; Endestad, Tor (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background: In studies employing physiological measures such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), it is often hard to distinguish what constitutes risk-resilience factors to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following ... -
Suicide Thoughts and Attempts in the Norwegian General Population during the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Outbreak
Bonsaksen, Tore; Skogstad, Laila; Heir, Trond; Ekeberg, Øivind; Bredal, Inger Schou; Grimholt, Tine Kristin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The aim of the study was to examine the prevalence of suicide thoughts and attempts during the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak and examine pandemic-related factors associated with suicide thoughts in the general ... -
Use of alcohol and addictive drugs during the COVID-19 outbreak in Norway: associations with mental health and pandemic-related problems
Bonsaksen, Tore; Ekeberg, Øivind; Bredal, Inger Schou; Skogstad, Laila; Heir, Trond; Grimholt, Tine Kristin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background: The outbreak of COVID-19 has had a major impact on people's daily life. This study aimed to examine use of alcohol and addictive drugs during the COVID-19 outbreak in Norway and examine their association with ... -
Validation of a short version of the Lee fatigue scale in adults living in Norway: a cross-sectional population survey
Lerdal, Anners; Gay, Caryl; Bonsaksen, Tore; Ekeberg, Øivind; Grimholt, Tine Kristin; Heir, Trond; Kottorp, Anders; Lee, Kathryn A.; Skogstad, Laila; Schou-Bredal, Inger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background Due to the nature of fatigue, a brief reliable measure of fatigue severity is needed. Thus, the aim of our study was to evaluate a short version of the Lee Fatigue Scale (LFS) in the Norwegian general population. ...