About the research group
The aim of the research group is to contribute to research on musculoskeletal health, pain, and non-specific health problems in primary health care.
The research includes both intervention studies aimed at patients and general practitioners, epidemiology, quantitative and qualitative research on patients' and general practitioners' experiences, registry research, collaboration projects, as well as quality projects.
The group has 6 meetings per year, and the time is often divided between presenting and discussing a specific project, as well as planning new research projects. In the development of new projects, we seek to identify knowledge gaps in this field in primary health care based on the members' extensive experiences from their respective research projects.
Projects
- Individual Challenge Inventory Tool (ICIT)
- Pain And Coordination plan (PAC-plan)
- Salutogenesis among patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms
- Confident on shoulder
- MyShips
- START-exercises
- Subjective health complaints in women – etnic differences?
- The Ullensaker Study
- Non-specific health complaints over time
- The HEYoung study
Collaboration
The group's members collaborate with a variety of institutions and organizations, including Oslo University Hospital (OUS), The Norwegian Primary Care Research Network, The Norwegian Research Fund for General Practice, Helse Fonna, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI), The Mind Body Lab at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, National Competence Service for Neuropathic Pain (NaKoNev), Regional Competence Service for Pain (ReKS), Personskadeforbundet LTN, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), the Norwegian Medical Association, the Research and Dissemination Unit for Musculoskeletal Health (FORMI), Norwegian Musculoskeletal Research Network (MUSS), the Spine Society of Europe (Eurospine), and other departments at the Institute of Health and Society (Helsam).