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Er verknaden av angst og depresjon på uføretrygding undervurdert?
(The University of Bergen, 2003)
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate anxiety and depression as risk factors for receiving disability pension. The empirical data originates from the Nord-Trøndelag health survey conducted in 1995-1997, and ...
Registry-based analysis of participator representativeness: a source of concern for sickness absence research?
(BMJ, 2016-10-21)
Objectives: Selective participation can bias results in epidemiological surveys. The importance of health status is often suggested as a possible explanation for non-participation but few empirical studies exist. In a ...
Associations between adverse childhood experiences and adversities later in life. Survey data from a high-risk Norwegian sample
(Elsevier, 2019)
Background: A history of childhood abuse and neglect (CAN) is associated with exposure to later negative life events. CAN at an early age, multiple cooccurring exposures (cumulative events), and a high severity and frequency ...
Do gastrointestinal complaints increase the risk for subsequent medically certified long-term sickness absence? The HUSK study
(BioMed Central, 2011-07-29)
Background: Gastrointestinal complaints are very common in the general population and very often co-occur with common mental disorders. We aimed to study the prospective impact of gastrointestinal complaints on long term ...
Seasonality and symptoms of depression: A systematic review of the literature
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-04-22)
Aims: Lay opinions and published papers alike suggest mood varies with the seasons, commonly framed as higher rates of depression mood in winter. Memory and confirmation bias may have influenced previous studies. We therefore ...
Early life factors in relation to cardiovacular disease in old age in Bergen: a Norwegian retrospective cohort study based on the Hordaland Study (HUSK)
(Royal Society of Medicine, 2014-07)
Objectives: The fetal origins of adult disease hypothesis describes associations found for fetal or early-life expos- ures with cardiovascular risk and disease in adulthood. The extension or not of these associations into ...
Verifiability of diagnostic categories and work ability in the context of disability pension award: A survey on "gatekeeping" among general practitioners in Norway
(BioMed Central, 2008-04-25)
Background Disability benefits exist to redeem social and financial consequences of reduced work ability from medical conditions. Physicians are responsible for identifying the medical grounds for benefit claims. The aim ...
The impact of early life factors on cognitive function in old age: The Hordaland Health Study (HUSK)
(BioMed Central, 2013-09-16)
Background Previous studies have shown that adverse conditions during fetal and early life are associated with lower performance on neurocognitive tests in childhood, adolescence and adult life. There is, however, a paucity ...
Lost Working Years Due to Mental Disorders: An Analysis of the Norwegian Disability Pension Registry
(PLOS, 2012-08-15)
Objectives: Mental disorders are prevalent diagnoses in disability benefit statistics, with awards often granted at younger age than for other diagnoses. We aimed to compare the number of lost working years following ...
An investigation of factors identified at birth in relation to anxiety and depression in old age: the Hordaland Health Study (HUSK)
(BioMed Central, 2013-05-10)
Background: Although life course influences have long been recognised in affective disorder, little is known about the influence of early life factors on late life anxiety and depression. The aim was to investigate the ...