Norbye disputerer for ph.d.-graden i helsevitenskap og vil offentlig forsvare avhandlingen:
“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”
Avhandlingen er tilgjengelig her!
The doctoral thesis!Prøveforelesning og disputas will bli strømmet her/ The trial lecture and defence will be streamed!
Prøveforelesning starter kl. 09.15
Prøveforelesningens tittel er «Health Anxiety – can we, and when should we treat it?»
Prøveforelesningen kan strømmes her/The Trial lecture will be streamed here!
Disputasen starter 11.15:
Disputasen vil bli strømmet her/ The defence will be streamed!
Opptak av disputasen vil være tilgjengelig i et døgn.
The auditorium is open to the public. The defense will still be streamed here:
A recording of the disputation will be available for 24 hours.
Populærvitenskapelig sammendrag av avhandlingen:
Health anxiety (HA) concerns worry about disease, and this thesis perceives HA as ranging on a continuum from mild worry to excessive anxiety. The aim of this thesis was to study the distribution of HA in the general population, and to examine the relationship between HA, healthcare use, physical disease and cardiovascular risk factors. 21 083 participants from the Tromsø study: Tromsø7 (2015-2016) aged 40 years or older gave self-reported information on physical diseases, cardiovascular risk factors and their healthcare use. HA was measured with the questionnaire Whiteley Index. The results showed that most people had low levels of HA. Nevertheless, higher levels of HA were associated with higher healthcare use, even among those with low HA. People with current and previous disease as well as cardiovascular risk factors had higher HA than the healthy reference group. This indicates that all levels of HA deserves attention, both in research and clinical practice.
Hovedveileder
Førsteamanuensis Unni Ringberg, Institutt for Samfunnsmedisin, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Biveileder
Professor Olav Helge Førde, Institutt for Samfunnsmedisin, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Professor Birgit Abelsen, Institutt for Samfunnsmedisin, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Bedømmelseskomité
Professor Per Fink, Aarhus Universitetshospital - 1. opponent.
Dr. Polit, seniorforsker Berit Bringedal, legeforskningsinstituttet - 2. opponent.
Professor Sameline Grimsgaard, Institutt for Samfunnsmedisin, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet – leder av komitè
Disputasleder: Professor Jan Abel Olsen, Institutt for Samfunnsmedisin Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet
When: 07.11.22 at 09.15–15.15
Where: Aud cortex
Location / Campus: Tromsø
Target group: Employees, Students, Guests, Invited
Contact: Andrea Jennerwein
E-mail: andrea.jennerwein@uit.no