Eivind Schjelderup Skarpsno
Background and activities
Eivind Schjelderup Skarpsno is a researcher at the Department of Public Health and Nursing. He is a part of the research groups Musculoskeletal Research and Epidemiology and Medical Statistics. He teaches at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. His research focuses on how sleep quality is associed with the risk and prognosis of several diseases.
Research interests
- Sleep problems across the lifespan
- Sleep and mental health in adolescents
- Personalized sleep medicine
- Sleep, circadian rhytms, and shift work
- Causality in epidemiological research
Ongoing research projects
- Objectively measured sleep: causal relations between insomnia phenotypes and ill-health
- Digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in patients with chronic pain
- Non-pharmacological treatment of sleep problems in primary care: A pragmatic multicentre study
- SmaRTWork: a digital system for facilitating the return to work for people suffering from musculoskeletal diseases.
- St. Olavs Undersøkelsen - new technology and health (STUNTH): sleep, circadian rhytms, and work in hospital workers
- Objectively measured physical activity behaviour: the effect on public health
- Familial risk of chronic pain, physical activity, and sleep
Scientific, academic and artistic work
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Journal publications
- (2022) A bidirectional study of the association between insomnia, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, and comorbid low back pain and lower limb pain. Scandinavian Journal of Pain.
- (2022) The interplay between multisite pain and insomnia on the risk of anxiety and depression: the HUNT study. BMC Psychiatry. vol. 22 (1).
- (2021) Genetic variants related to physical activity or sedentary behaviour: a systematic review. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. vol. 18:15.
- (2021) Insomnia is Associated with the Effect of Inpatient Multimodal Occupational Rehabilitation on Work Participation in Workers with Musculoskeletal or Mental Health Disorders: Secondary Analyses of a Randomized Clinical Trial. Nature and Science of Sleep. vol. 13.
- (2021) Long‐term changes in self‐reported sleep quality and risk of chronic musculoskeletal pain: The HUNT Study. Journal of Sleep Research. vol. 30 (6).
- (2021) The effect of long-term poor sleep quality on risk of back-related disability and the modifying role of physical activity. Scientific Reports. vol. 11.
- (2021) Subtypes of insomnia and the risk of chronic spinal pain: the HUNT study. Sleep Medicine. vol. 85.
- (2020) Novel approach towards musculoskeletal phenotypes. European Journal of Pain. vol. 24.
- (2020) It is never too late to start: adherence to physical activity recommendations for 11–22 years and risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality. The HUNT Study. British Journal of Sports Medicine.
- (2020) Number of Chronic Nighttime Insomnia Symptoms and Risk of Chronic Widespread Pain and Pain-Related Disability: The HUNT Study. Nature and Science of Sleep. vol. 12 (1227).
- (2019) Long-term changes in body weight and physical activity in relation to all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: the HUNT study. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. vol. 16 (45).
- (2019) Representative pasientutvalg er unødvendig i klinisk forskning [Representative patient samples are unnecessary in clinical research]. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. vol. 139 (4).
- (2019) Influence of sleep problems and co-occurring musculoskeletal pain on long-term prognosis of chronic low back pain: the HUNT Study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
- (2019) The interplay between sleeplessness and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein on risk of chronic musculoskeletal pain: longitudinal data from the Tromsø Study. Sleep. vol. 42 (9).
- (2019) The joint effect of insomnia symptoms and lifestyle factors on risk of self-reported fibromyalgia in women: longitudinal data from the HUNT Study. BMJ Open. vol. 9 (8).
- (2019) Work-Related Mental Fatigue, Physical Activity and Risk of Insomnia Symptoms: Longitudinal Data from the Norwegian HUNT Study. Behavioral Sleep Medicine.
- (2018) Objectively measured occupational and leisure-time physical activity: cross-sectional associations with sleep problems. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health. vol. 44 (2).
- (2018) The joint association of musculoskeletal pain and domains of physical activity with sleep problems: cross-sectional data from the DPhacto study, Denmark. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health.
- (2018) Physical work exposure, chronic musculoskeletal pain and risk of insomnia: longitudinal data from the HUNT study, Norway. Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
- (2017) Sleep positions and nocturnal body movements based on free-living accelerometer recordings: association with demographics, lifestyle, and insomnia symptoms. Nature and Science of Sleep. vol. 9.
- (2017) Do physical activity and body mass index modify the association between chronic musculoskeletal pain and insomnia? Longitudinal data from the HUNT study, Norway. Journal of Sleep Research. vol. 27.
Report/dissertation
- (2019) The bidirectional association between sleep problems and chronic musculoskeletal pain: influence of lifestyle, physical work exposure and systemic inflammation. 2019. ISBN 978-82-326-4296-0. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (350).