Kristine Pape
Background and activities
Background
- Medical studies NTNU 1993 – 1999
- 2000 – 2005: Work as medical doctor
- 2006 – d.d: Employed in Trondheim Kommune, currently working 20-30 % at Strindheim helsestasjon
- 2008 – 2013: PhD in Public Health
- 2014 – : Postdoctoral fellowship
- Main interests: Social medicine, social epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, family medicine, paediatrics
PhD in Public Health 2013
Dissertation “Health, school and family factors in adolescence and labour market integration problems in young adulthood” http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-21577
Research group
Social epidemiology, work and health
Ongoing projects/articles
- Life course influences on mental health and social outcomes in early adulthood (postdoc project)
- Risk and resilience in adolescents and young adults born preterm- A nationwide population-based register study (PhD project Christine Bachmann)
- Health care services under pressure - Consequences for patient flows, efficiency and patient safety (grant from Norwegian Research Council 2016, start 2017)
- Unemployment and mental health (PhD project Silje Kaspersen)
- Gestational age and mortality (Kari Risnes)
- Effects of multicomponent rehabilitation programs for sick listed persons with common somatic and/or mental health problems on return to work; a randomized controlled trial with health-economic evaluation (PhD project Lene Aasdal)
- Follow-up of a cohort of severely injured patients (PhD project Oddvar Uleberg)
Other activities
- Leader of study programme «Master in Public Health» from febr 2018.
- Teaching: Lecture series (10 hours) in clinical decision making/knowlegde base and reading of research for medical students. Participate in PhD course SMED 8002 (Epidemiology 2). Master in public health: courses in child and adolescent health (FH3003), master thesis (FH3901) + teaching in FH3000, MH3000/3005.
- 2014-2015: Involved in HUNT4 (Nord-Trøndelag Health Study), participant in group assessing scientific content for Young-HUNT4 (adolescent survey), and in groups responsible for the questionnaires for HUNT4 and Young-HUNT4.
Medical and academic interests
Paediatrics, social medicine, family medicine, preventive medicine
Social epidemiology, life-course epidemiology, health services research, health inequalities, epidemiological modelling, STATA.
Methods and data in use
- Ung-HUNT/HUNT
- National register data and linkages( FD-Trygd, Medical Birth Registry, The Cause of Death Registry, Prescription Database)
- Stata
- Epidemiological methods; sibling comparison, multilevel analysis
Courses
- FH3011 - Children and Youth: A Fundament for Public Health
- SMED8002 - Epidemiology II
- FH3010 - Systematic Work in Public Health
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2022) Caregiving, Participation, and Quality of Life of Closest Next of Kin of Persons Living with Spinal Cord Injury in Norway. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine. vol. 54.
- (2021) Association of Preterm Birth With Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs in Adolescence and Young Adulthood. JAMA Network Open. vol. 4 (3).
- (2021) Participation and quality of life in persons living with spinal cord injury in Norway. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine. vol. 53.
- (2021) How does general practitioner discontinuity affect healthcare utilisation? An observational cohort study of 2.4 million Norwegians 2007-2017. BMJ Open. vol. 11.
- (2021) Effects of GP characteristics on unplanned hospital admissions and patient safety. A 9-year follow-up of all Norwegian out-of-hours contacts. Family Practice.
- (2020) Inpatient multimodal occupational rehabilitation reduces sickness absence among individuals with musculoskeletal and common mental health disorders: a randomized clinical trial. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health. vol. 46 (4).
- (2020) Changes in General Practitioners’ consultation frequency over time for patients with hypertension or anxiety/depression symptoms: a 10-year follow-up of the Norwegian HUNT study. Family Practice. vol. 37 (2).
- (2019) Contact with primary health care physicians before an acute hospitalisation. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. vol. 37 (3).
- (2019) Increasing workload in Norwegian general practice – a qualitative study. BMC Family Practice. vol. 20 (68).
- (2018) Improved expectations about length of sick leave during occupational rehabilitation is associated with increased work participation. Journal of occupational rehabilitation.
- (2018) Population-based analysis of the impact of trauma on longer-term functional outcomes. British Journal of Surgery. vol. 106 (1).
- (2017) Associations between the readiness for return to work scale and return to work: a prospective study. Journal of occupational rehabilitation. vol. 28 (1).
- (2017) Effect of inpatient multicomponent occupational rehabilitation versus less comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation on sickness absence in persons with Musculoskeletal- or Mental Health Disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Journal of occupational rehabilitation. vol. 28 (1).
- (2017) Anxiety and depression symptoms and alcohol use among adolescents - a cross sectional study of Norwegian secondary school students. BMC Public Health.
- (2017) Employees' drug purchases before and after organizational downsizing: a natural experiment on the Norwegian working population (2004-2012). Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health. vol. 43 (4).
- (2017) Trauma care in a combined rural and urban region: an observational study. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica. vol. 61 (3).
- (2017) Temporal changes in health within 5 years before and after disability pension-the HUNT Study. European Journal of Public Health. vol. 27 (4).
- (2016) Effects of Inpatient Multicomponent Occupational Rehabilitation versus Less Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation on Somatic and Mental Health: Secondary Outcomes of a Randomized Clinical Trial. Journal of occupational rehabilitation.
- (2016) Unemployment and initiation of psychotropic medication: a case-crossover study of 2 348 552 Norwegian employees. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. vol. 73.
- (2016) Health and unemployment: 14 Years of follow-up on job loss in the Norwegian HUNT Study. European Journal of Public Health. vol. 26 (2).