Background
- 2022 - now: Postdoctoral researcher, SIFER-Vest, Helse Bergen
- 2019 - 2022: PhD, psychiatric epidemiology, UIO.
- 2016 - 2018: MA, Master's degree in political science, UIO.
- 2012 - 2015: BA, Bachelor's degree in political science, UIO.
- 2002 - 2018: Mental health care worker in acute and geriatric mental health care.
Research interests
- Compulsory mental health care
- Variation in health services
- Causal inference from observational data
- Registry data and data visualisation using R
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Publications
Hofstad, T., Nyttingnes, O., Markussen, S., Johnsen, E., Killackey, E., McDaid, D., ... & Mykletun, A. (2023). Long term outcomes and causal modelling of compulsory inpatient and outpatient mental health care using Norwegian registry data: Protocol for a controversies in psychiatry research project. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, e1980.
Nyttingnes, O., Benth, J. Š., Hofstad, T., & Rugkåsa, J. (2023). The relationship between area levels of involuntary psychiatric care and patient outcomes: a longitudinal national register study from Norway. BMC psychiatry, 23(1), 112.
Hofstad, T. (2022). Geographical variation in compulsory hospitalisation in Norway 2014-2018. PhD-thesis.
Hofstad, T., Husum, T. L., Rugkåsa, J., & Hofmann, B. M. (2022). Geographical variation in compulsory hospitalisation–ethical challenges. BMC Health Services Research, 22(1), 1-12.
Hofstad, T., Rugkåsa, J., Ose, S.O., Nyttingnes, O., Kjus, S.H.H., and Husum, T.L. (2021), Service Characteristics and Geographical Variation in Compulsory Hospitalisation: An Exploratory Random Effects Within–Between Analysis of Norwegian Municipalities, 2015–2018. Frontiers in Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.737698
Hofstad, T., Rugkåsa, J., Ose, S.O., Nyttingnes, O. and Husum, T.L. (2021), Measuring the level of compulsory hospitalisation in mental health care: The performance of different measures across areas and over time. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res e1881. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1881
Hofstad, T., Hampton, J. A., & Hofmann, B. (2020). What Makes Some Diseases More Typical than Others? A Survey on the Impact of Disease Characteristics and Professional Background on Disease Typicality. INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing.
Hofstad, Tore (2019). QCA & the Robustness range of calibration thresholds: how sensitive are solution terms to changing calibrations? COMPASSS Working Paper Series 2019-92.