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Associate professor health sciences Department of Health and Care Sciences anja.davis.norbye@uit.no +4777644867 You can find me here

Anja Margrete Davis Norbye

Job description

Head of the MSc program in neurological physiotherapy

  • Farhiyo Ahmed Osman, Astrid Margrethe Anette Eriksen, Anja Margrete Davis Norbye :
    The association between emotional abuse in childhood and healthcare utilization in adulthood among sami and non-sami: the SAMINOR 2 questionnaire survey
    BMC Health Services Research 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Christoffer Lilja Terjesen, Nils Fleten, Anje Christina Höper :
    The level of health anxiety before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
    PLOS ONE 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, Birgit Abelsen, Olav Helge Førde, Unni Ringberg :
    Health anxiety is an important driver of healthcare use
    BMC Health Services Research 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, Birgit Abelsen, Olav Helge Førde, Unni Ringberg :
    The association between health anxiety, physical disease and cardiovascular risk factors in the general population – a cross-sectional analysis from the Tromsø study: Tromsø 7
    BMC Primary Care 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Anja M. Davis Norbye, Birgit Abelsen, Olav Helge Førde, Unni Ringberg :
    Distribution of health anxiety in a general adult population and associations with demographic and social network characteristics
    Psychological Medicine 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Anja M. Davis Norbye, Rune Midgard, Gyrd Thrane :
    Spasticity, gait, and balance in patients with multiple sclerosis: A cross‐sectional study
    Physiotherapy Research International 2019 FULLTEKST / ARKIV / DOI
  • Anja M. Davis Norbye, Marit Eikrem Nygaard, Aina Vedvik Omdal, Guttorm Eldøen, Ulla Kristina Romild, Rune Midgard :
    Do patients with chronic low back pain experience pain reduction and functional improvement after treatment at a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic?
    International Journal of Physiotherapy 2017 ARKIV / DOI
  • Anja M. Davis Norbye, Aina Vedvik Omdal, Marit Nygaard, Ulla Kristina Romild, Guttorm Eldøen, Rune Midgard :
    Do Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain Benefit From Early Intervention Regarding Absence From Work? A randomized, controlled, single-center pilot study
    Spine 2016 ARKIV / DOI
  • Daniel Ursin, André Henriksen, Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, Erlend Hoftun Farbu :
    Towards Automatic Migraine-Event Prediction Using Continuous Sensor Data
    Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2024 DOI
  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, André Henriksen, Gunnar Hartvigsen, Erlend Hoftun Farbu :
    Predicting Epileptic Seizures Using Biometric Sensors - A Pilot Study Protocol
    Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2024 DOI
  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Christoffer Lilja Terjesen, Nils Fleten, Anje Christina Höper :
    Health anxiety and COVID-19: Examining changes before and during the pandemic
    2023
  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, Birgit Abelsen, Olav Helge Førde, Unni Ringberg :
    Assosiasjonen mellom helseangst, kreft og kardiovaskulære sykdommer
    2023
  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye :
    Tromsøundersøkelsen feirer forsksningsartikkel nr 1000
    20. September 2022
  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye :
    Tromsøværinger lite bekymret for helsa
    UiT Forskerhjørnet 2022
  • Lisbeth Nilsen, Anja Margrete Davis Norbye :
    Kobler helseangst til hyppigere legebesøk
    28. April 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, Birgit Abelsen, Olav Helge Førde, Unni Ringberg :
    Health anxiety is an important driver of healthcare use
    2022
  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, Birgit Abelsen, Olav Helge Førde, Unni Ringberg :
    The association between health anxiety, cancer and cardiovascular disease – preliminary results from the Tromsø study: Tromsø7
    2022
  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, Birgit Abelsen, Olav Helge Førde, Unni Ringberg :
    Distribution of health anxiety in a general adult population and associations with demographic and social network characteristics
    2021
  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, Birgit Abelsen, Olav Helge Førde, Unni Ringberg :
    The association between health anxiety and number of physical diseases in a general population
    2021
  • Anja M. Davis Norbye :
    Spastisitet påvirker gangfunksjon allerede fra symptomdebut – resultater fra en tverrsnittsstudie av pasienter med multippel sklerose
    Best Practice Psykiatri/Nevrologi 2020

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    Research interests

    - Health anxiety

    - Epidemiology and public health

    - Health services reserarch

    - Neurology and neurological physiotherapy

    Teaching

    Teaching in neurological physioterapy. 

    Course leader for: 

    • HEL-3222: Neurological physiotherapy
    • HEL-3229: Specialisation in neurological physiotherapy for adults
    • HEL-3966: Master thesis neurological physiotherapy
    ResearchGate
    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3529-1111

    Member of research group

    Folkehelse og rehabilitering   English content Health Informatics and -Technology (HIT)   English content

    CV

    Education

    2022: PhD Health Sciences, UiT: Health anxiety as a continuous construct in the general population – measuring the distribution of health anxiety and the associations with healthcare use, physical disease and cardiovascular risk factors

    2016: MSc Neurological Physiotherapy

    2011: BSc Physiotherapy

    Current and previous positions

    2022 - : Associate professor, Department of health and care sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway

    2018-2022: PhD, Department of community medicine, UiT the Arctic University of Norway

    2018: Physiotherapist, geriatric department, University Hospital of North Norway

    2016-2018: Physiotherapist, Department of neurology, University Hospital of North Norway

    2012-2016: Physiotherapist, Molde Hospital. Combined position: Department of neurology and multidisciplinary back clinic. 

    2011-2012: Physiotherapist, internship. Molde Hospital and Molde municipality

    Publications:

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