cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1647-v1
title: The Quality of Physiotherapy Services, 1994

description: The objective of "The Quality of Physiotherapy Services, 1994" was to map experiences and the opinion among users (patients) and physiotheraposts which can be related to the quality of physiotherapy services. The user survey focused on who the physiotherapy users are, why they seek physiotherapy services, which expectations they have for the treatment, what happens during the treatment process and how this experience is. The physiotherapy survey focused on attitudes and practice towards user-orientation, evaluation of the treatment/the results of treatment and evaluation of quality criterions.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1648-v2
title: Needs and access to services for speech therapists, 2000

description: The purpose of this project was to establish how speech therapist services for adults are organized and financed in the municipalities. A questionnaire survey and interviews were conducted as a part of the project. The data from the questionnaire survey are stored and documented at NSD. The sample consists of Norwegian municipalities.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1649-v1
title: Can’t Somebody Read for Me? Evaluation of Three Subprojects Affiliated with the Signal Project “Troll i ord”, 2000

description: The purpose of this survey was to evaluate three reading stimulation projects aimed at children from the age 2 to 6. The projects were three of “Troll i ord”s subprojects that intended to stimulate love of reading among children that had not begun formal reading education. The target groups were 2-year-olds, children in kindergarten and first graders and the reading stimulation should take place primarily by the help of the child's parents and by reading aloud. The evaluation survey is directed primarily towards the parents (questionnaire). Because “Troll i ord” also is a signal project, the evaluation survey also included other informants that had been involved in carrying out the subprojects (interview). Data from the evaluation survey showed generally a positive effect of the reading stimulation.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1651-v1
title: Between the Elite and the Audience. Literary Taste and the Promotion of Literature in Norwegian Public Libraries, 1998

description: The project's objective was to describe and characterize the literary taste of librarians, their attitudes towards fiction and the extent to which their tastes and attitudes affect their literature promotion practices. Librarians in public libraries play a crucial role in the promotion of fiction in Norway. Therefore, their preferences and attitudes concerning this type of literature are of interest. The questionnaire was sent to the entire population of educated librarians employed in public libraries. A series of qualitative interviews were also conducted as part of the project. However, these are not included in the present documentation.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1657-v1
title: A Comparative Study of Ultrasound Screening and Screening by AFP/HCG in the Detection of Neural Tube Defects, Abdominal Wall Defects and Down Syndrome, 1991

description: The aim of this project was to study selected Scandinavian University Hospitals ability to detect neural tube defects, abdominal wall defects and Down syndrome prenatally in a low risk population. All pregnant women in Scandinavia are offered routine ultrasound scan in the second trimester. Ultrasound scan can detect abnormalities. Some countries (not Norway) also offer serum screening (AFP/HCG) to pregnant women in order to detect neural tube defects, abdominal wall defects and Down syndrome. The study compared the two methods, (ultrasound scan and serum samples). The serum samples were analyzed by the State Serum Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. All blood sample data were therefore processed in Denmark and are not included in the dataset from the Women's clinic, Trondheim. It is data from the Norwegian part of the study that is prepared and made available by the NSD.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1658-v1
title: Perceptions of Immigrants in the Norwegian Population: Acculturation, Justice and Prejudice, 1998

description: The primary objective of the project was to map perceptions concerning immigrants from third world countries amongst adult Norwegians living in Bergen. At large, the project was a comparative study between adult Norwegians and Germans' attitudes towards immigrants in their respective countries. The project focused on opinions concerning how immigrants should adapt, what rights they should have, and which stereotypes the national population held towards immigrants. The project was initiated by the German professor Gunter Bierbrauer of the University of Osnabrük.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1659-v1
title: Welfare of International Students at the University of Bergen, 1998

description: The purpose of this survey was to examine and map out the living conditions of international students at the University of Bergen. The survey was carried out in collaboration with the Student Welfare Organization in Bergen (SiB). The aim was to find better solutions and offers that can help international students adapt to the student environment. The project aimed to analyze the students study environment, housing conditions and leisure activities, in addition to their social life and state of health.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1660-v2
title: International Comparativ Study of Ethnocultural Youths, 1997

description: The project's objective was to investigate psychological and socio-cultural adaptability amongst young immigrants in Norway and their parents in a comparative perspective with immigrants in other western countries. The project looked at a variety of aspects concerning adaptability, while special focus was paid psychological and socio-cultural aspects. Analysis has indicated that young immigrants are relatively well integrated. However, differences were found between the five immigrant groups studied. In some groups, there were no difference between the immigrant group and the Norwegian group. The sample was drawn from Oslo, Drammen, Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger. All Secondary- and high schools in these municipalities received an invitation to partake in the study. Only schools that accepted the invitation, and had students from Chile, Turkey, Pakistan and Vietnam were included in the project. Consent was also given by the students' parents.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1661-v2
title: Substance Abuse in a Society Characterized by Readjustment, 1992-93

description: This project focus on drug cultures and preventive measures among youth in the local communities affected by the redirection. The aim of the project is to investigate how various conditions in the municipalities can influence through preventive measures among the youth. Substance use were studied in four point of intersection: working life, home life, school and measure. The methodical approach of the project: a) intensive field work in the local community, b) in-depth interviews with students, c) survey in the comprehensive school.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1661-v3
title: Substance Abuse in a Society Characterized by Readjustment, 1992-93

description: This project focus on drug cultures and preventive measures among youth in the local communities affected by the redirection. The aim of the project is to investigate how various conditions in the municipalities can influence 
through preventive measures among the youth. Substance use were studied in four point of intersection: working life, home life, school and measure. The methodical approach of the project: a) intensive field work in the local community, b) in-depth interviews with students, c) survey in the comprehensive school.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1664-v1
title: Battered Women - Reproductive Consequenses, 1988

description: The purpose of the project was to establish occurrence of violence against women and examine reproductive consequences; how gynecological disorders and adverse pregnancy outcomes are related to violence. The data collection was carried out as a personal interview where questions were raised about conditions, care work, education, housing, economics, religion, physical and mental illness history, physician contact, medical certificates, discounted functions, pregnancy / childbirth, contraception use, gynecological diseases, severe life events and sexual experiences. Various questionnaires were also used to map health: a questionnaire concerning ailments the past two weeks, the General Health Questionnaire, General Well Being Schedule, network map, a questionnaire concerning conflict mapping and a questionnaire concerning ailments for people who have been subjected to great stress.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1666-v1
title: Nurses learning climate and job satisfaction, 2001

description: Comparing the importance of the different learning condition factors for graduates versus more experienced nurses and degree of job satisfaction.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1667-v2
title: Evaluation of SYSLAB, 1996

description: "Evaluation of SYSLAB 1996" is the result of an evaluation of the SYSLAB employment and business development program, conducted by Møreforsking. The project was initiated by SYSLAB.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1668-v2
title: Survey of Patients Visiting Homeopaths in Norway, 1998

description: Survey of patients visiting homeopaths in Norway is intended to describe patients who attend Norwegian homeopaths, examining patient reported efficacy of treatment by a homeopath after six months, and describing homeopaths and their practices. 37% of Norway's population had in 1997 been to a homeopath at some point or another. Yet little is known about patient experiences. The sample was drawn out by members of the Norwegian Homeopaths Association, which recruited patients on request by the pricipal investigator.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1672-v2
title: When the hearts are sick: An evaluation of comprehensive secondary prevention program for heart patients, where changes in physical and mental health, lifestyles, and the patients' satisfaction with the health service given are in focus

description: Research questions: 1) Does physical and mental health improve in the first 6 weeks of the rehabilitation period? 2) Will the patients get a healthier lifestyle in the early rehabilitation phase? 3) Are the patients satisfied with the health service given at the Heart Outpatient Clinic? Design: Goal based evaluation research. Exploratory, quantitative pre-post-post study with semi structured self-reported questionnaires. Sample: The population was patients enrolled in a clinic's comprehensive prevention program for heart patients. The sample was a nonprobability single selected intervention group of 48 selected heart patients (31 men and 17 women) with cardiac infarction, angina pectoris and heart failure. Age ranged from 39 to 75. Mean age was 61,9. Stand. Dev. 9,31. The inclusion was consecutive. Results: 1) The results showed a significant improvement in both physical and mental health the first six weeks of the rehabilitation period. The improvement in physical health occurred mainly in the last three weeks, while the improvement in mental health occurred mainly in the first three weeks. 2) Significant changes in lifestyle were made in the following areas; physical activity and diastolic blood pressure increased, daily consume of cigarettes decreased, and the patients experienced a decreased amount of personal stress. The results showed no significant changes in body weight, alcohol consumption or systolic blood pressure. 3) The patients were in general very satisfied with the rehabilitation service given, but the findings suggest that there is room for improvement in the following areas; education (information, counselling and teaching), caring, communication and cooperation, motivation, use of written goals and plans for lifestyle changes, information on patients' rights, telephone support, discharge planning, continuity in doctor follow-up and contact with dietician, psychologist and physiotherapist. 4) Possible causes cannot be determined due to lack of control group. Some factors, such as gender, age, level of education, diagnosis, contact frequency with own children and friends, and health related opinions, seem to have had influence on the changes which took place. Implications for the rehabilitation team: Develop a standardized system to secure optimal rehabilitation. Include next of kin better in discharge planning, and the rehabilitation process. Show video films with a nurse present. Strengthen the patients' motivation for changes in lifestyle. Offer telephone follow up after discharge. Compose written goals and plans for life styles changes in cooperation with the patients. Give the patients a workbook including all relevant information. Improve communication, cooperation, and care. Improve patient education, and continuity in doctor follow-up. Offer contact with other health professionals.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1673-v2
title: Boys and Girls of Asker and Bærum - Youth Survey, 1996

description: This project aims to investigate leisure, network, relation to school and drug use of youth in Asker and Bærum. The survey was conducted in 1996, and includes students in secondary schools and high schools in Asker and Bærum.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1674-v2
title: Single Mothers’ Adjustments on the Labour Market, 1990

description: The purpose of «Single Mothers' Adjustments on the Labour Market, 1990” was to analyse how tax and social security rules affected single mothers' adjustments in the labour market. It was particularly interesting to compare the situation of single mothers with the situation of those who were not alone when it came to child care. The topics of the survey were employment, employment history, income, education and child care.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1676-v1
title: Vagal Tone and Epigastric Discomfort in Response to Rapid Soup Ingestion in Healthy People, 1996

description: The data set is obtained from the survey "Vagal Tone and Epigastric Discomfort in Response to Rapid Soup Ingestion in Healthy People, 1996". The purpose was to investigate whether a quick food intake gave more symptoms than a slow food intake. The background for the study is that patients with functional dyspepsia (FD) show signs of symptoms after a meal of 500 ml Toro clear meat soup, drunk within 4 minutes. They also have low activity in the autonomic (non-voluntary) nervous system that controls your bowels (vagal tone is low). Many FD patients also have psychosomatics implicated in their symptom picture. We would therefore see if the healthy subjects showed signs of the same kind of symptoms by rapid consumption of the meal, if the degree of symptoms followed vagal tone and also look at the association between symptoms and neurotissisme in healthy subjects. The subjects met fasting twice. The one time they drank 500 ml Toro clear broth over one minute, the second time within four minutes. Both times they filled out a symptom questionnaire before and after consumption of soup, and the new methods were measured. The first time the subjects participated, classic tests of their autonomic nervous system were undertaken and they also filled out a questionnaire about neuroticism (general tendency to hypersensitivity). Ten of the subjects met a third time and drank soup in 1 minute again, so the experiment was in an ABA model. The main findings are that healthy people become more nauseated and fulfilled by drinking soup in 1 minute than 4 minutes and that the old and new tests for the autonomic nervous system have some correlations (and that healthy people do not have neuroticism and therefore it cannot be correlated with abdominal pain).
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1682-v1
title: Email as a Communication Medium: A Study of Email in the Workplace, 2000

description: The purpose of this study was to examine some of the aspects of communicating through communication medium. In this process, the use of e-mail was compared to traditional forms of communication, where the assumption was that this could create a framework for evaluating areas of application. This was based on that e-mail as a communication technology, created a basis for new interactions between people. These interactions differ from traditional modes of communication, but there were also a lot of similarities.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1684-v1
title: Dying at the Diakonhjemmet Hospital in 1977, 1987 and 1997 - Assessment of the Next of Kin, 1998

description: In 1977, there was little discussion about the needs of dying persons. Treatment, not relief, was focused on. The research work conducted in 1977 was therefore groundbreaking in Norway. The follow-up study in 1987 showed that at there was improvment in some areas. Doctors were more reluctant to give purposeless life-prolonging treatment and pain treatment had improved - but openness about death had not improved. In 1997, health professionals, theoretically, had far better knowledge concerning the needs of dying persons. The relatives experiences that symptom relief had improved, but they felt that they actually were less informed that death was imminent than in 1987.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1685-v2
title: Physical Avtivity Among Weak-Sighted Students in Elementary Schools, 1998

description: The primary objective of the project was to investigate the contemporary situation concerning weak-sighted students' participation in gym class in elementary school, and their level of physical activity after school, with the intention of suggesting remedies to improve their conditions for participation. The variables included were the following: Knowledge, information, planning, cooperation, the role of physical educators, individual learning plans, exercise choices, integration, resources, organizational actions and the students' attitudes towards physical education and activity. The study found that the majority of weak sighted students looked forward to gym class, but had little physical activity in their spare time. For the weakly impaired, the primary motivation for physical activity was friends. While the strongly impaired and the blind put primary importance on facilitation and follow up. More than half of the group claimed a shortage of available activities after school, while three out of four blind students claimed a complete lack of available activities. Teachers were generally found to be well educated in their field, but lacked specific knowledge concerning the weak-sighted and blind. Few had specialized learning plans, and there was a lack of cooperation and exchange of information and knowledge between teachers. The sample consisted of weak sighted students from ten counties in southern Norway. The sample was drawn by visual educators in each county.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1686-v2
title: Effectiveness of the Primary General Medical Services, 1998

description: The purpose of this study was to elucidate the views of the Chief Municipal Health and Social Welfare Officers on the primary general medical services and the regular general practitioner scheme, in addition to the contractual relationship between the municipality and the doctors. The Chief Municipal Health and Social Welfare Officers were mostly satisfied with the medical services in their municipality. They experienced a lack of influence on contractual decisions and that it was the doctor's wishes that were influential. When it comes to the regular general practitioner scheme, the majority wished that the per capita grant should be determined centrally, and it was mostly the small municipalities with a high physician density that feared recruitment problems.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1687-v2
title: Evaluating Drug and Alcohol Treatment in Norway in a Women’s Perspective, 1992

description: The purpose of “Evaluating Drug and Alcohol Treatment in Norway in a Women's Perspective, 1992” was to map women's conditions in institutions for substance abuse; gender distribution in clients and staff, treatment ideology, knowledge and awareness of female client's problems and needs, and measures directed particularly at women. The background for this was that the substance abuse treatment historically was developed for male clients, and to a large degree further developed without considering that female clients might have special problems and needs. The female share among clients were at the point of the study, at 30 % and increasing, and at that point in research on women it was documented that female substance abusers often had special traits in their prehistories, their course of abuse, problems related to the abuse (particularly related to shame, sexuality, child care, power in close relations), and sometimes aims and methods for a good treatment. The main question in the study was how the institutions for substance abuse handled these challenges. These were the main findings in the study: Institutions for substance abuse appeared to be quite complex, and varied strongly in a lot of ways that were relevant for a good treatment of female clients. Large parts of the treatment system had inadequate knowledge about women's special needs, poor routines for follow ups, cooperation and further referrals, and they had to a very limited degree incorporated basic traits of already existing knowledge about female substance abusers. Measures made at polyclinics continuously had a higher share of women among their clients, and conditions that looked after many of the special needs of women (separating male clients from female clients, long-lasting relations to their therapist, flexibility regarding changing life situations and commitments), but many clients would also have needed the offer of around-the-clock treatment. Institutions that offered such treatment with a mixed clientele of men and women, risked locking and amplifying the women's problem. Measures that were conscious of female clientele had continuous, open, self-reflecting and client centered models of treatment.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1692-v1
title: Foreign Tourist's Destination Image of Norway, 1998

description: The study "Foreign Tourist's Destination Image of Norway, 1998" is based on a survey that students studying tourism at Lillehammer University College conducted among foreign tourists who used Color Line traveling to or from Norway in 1998. The purpose of the project was to examine Norway's image among foreign tourists, and to analyze the variations in these images. The project was part of a more extensive research activity covering the theme of travel and leisure behavior at Lillehammer University College. The project focused on certain aspects of the tourists' decision-making process (holiday motives, sources of information etc.) and activity patterns during the stay in Norway.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1694-v2
title: Evaluation of the Norwegian Bereavement Care Project, 1993

description: The Norwegian Board of Health Supervision gave funds to evaluate the Norwegian Bereavement Care Project, and the evaluation took place in 1993. The survey was based on participants in the bereavement groups, group leaders and members of the local committes that organized the groups. On each of these levels, those involved were largely satisfied with the project.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1694-v3
title: Evaluation of the Norwegian Bereavement Care Project, 1993

description: The Norwegian Board of Health Supervision gave funds to evaluate the Norwegian Bereavement Care Project, and the evaluation took place in 1993. The survey was based on participants in the bereavement groups, group leaders and members of the local committes that organized the groups. On each of these levels, those involved were largely satisfied with the project.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1695-v2
title: Examination of Waste and Waste Reduction, 1998

description: The purpose of "Examination of Waste and Waste Reduction, 1998" was to obtain reliable and detailed information on household waste. The data were collected in order to say something about the possbilites of waste reduction. Information about the households was gathered by the primary investigator through a questionnaire, and the analysis of each household's waste was also carried out by the primary investigator. The data was part of a master thesis at NTNU.