Martin Inge Standal
Background and activities
I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the department of psychology. My current research is in the field of long-term sick leave and return to work.
I am affiliated with the research project "Motivational interviewing in long-term sickness absence: A randomized controlled trial with mixed methods". This project is a cooperation between the Department of Public Health and Nursing (ISM), the Department of Psychology (IPS) at NTNU, and the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV). This project attempts to measure the effectiveness of motivational interviewing as a counceling technique used by NAV to help long-term sick listed achieve a faster return to work.
In my PhD project I attempt to examine how the sick listed at an early stage of long-term sick leave view their work ability and quality of life, and how this is associated with other factors (e.g. symptoms, family situation, personal- or other factors).
Research interests:
- Work and health.
- Long-term sick leave and return to work.
- Public health and inequity in health..
- Human factors and safety.
Positions:
- Representative for the temporary employees at the department board at IPS, NTNU (2017-2018).
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
- (2021) Barriers and Facilitators for Implementing Motivational Interviewing as a Return to Work Intervention in a Norwegian Social Insurance Setting: A Mixed Methods Process Evaluation. Journal of occupational rehabilitation. vol. 31.
- (2021) Health, Work, and Family Strain – Psychosocial Experiences at the Early Stages of Long-Term Sickness Absence. Frontiers in Psychology. vol. 12.
- (2021) Workplace flexibility important for part-time sick leave selection—an exploratory cross-sectional study of long-term sick listed in Norway. BMC Public Health. vol. 21.
- (2020) Sick-listed workers’ experiences with motivational interviewing in the return to work process: a qualitative interview study. BMC Public Health. vol. 20 (276).
- (2020) Complex return to work process – caseworkers’ experiences of facilitating return to work for individuals on sick leave due to musculoskeletal disorders. BMC Public Health. vol. 20.
- (2020) Subgroups of long-term sick-listed based on prognostic return to work factors across diagnoses – A cross-sectional latent class analysis. Journal of occupational rehabilitation.
- (2018) Motivational interviewing in long-term sickness absence: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial followed by qualitative and economic studies. BMC Public Health. vol. 18 (756).
- (2015) Task complexity as a performance shaping factor: A review and recommendations in Standardized Plant Analysis Risk-Human Reliability Analysis (SPAR-H) adaption. Safety Science. vol. 76.
Report/dissertation
- (2022) Læringspraksis og læringskultur i NAV – Arbeids- og tjenestelinjen : En ståstedsanalyse. 2022. ISBN 978-82-7570-676-6.