- E-mailingeborg.forthun@uib.no
- Visitor AddressAlrek helseklynge, blokk D, Årstadveien 175009 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78045020 Bergen
I am a postdoctoral fellow at PraksisNett - the Norwegian Primary Care Research Network. I have a masters degree in social economics and a PhD in cerebral palsy epidemiology.
Academic article
- (2023). The association between self-reported sleep problems, infection, and antibiotic use in patients in general practice. Frontiers in Psychiatry.
- (2023). Søvnforstyrrelser og forskrivning av hypnotika i allmennpraksis – en PraksisNett-studie. SØVN. 11-15.
- (2022). Sykepleiere sover dårlig og bruker stadig mer sovemedisiner. Sykepleien Forskning. 19 pages.
- (2022). Shift workers are at increased risk of severe COVID-19 compared with day workers: Results from the international COVID sleep study (ICOSS) of 7141 workers. Chronobiology International. 9 pages.
- (2022). Prevalence of insomnia and hypnotic use in Norwegian patients visiting their general practitioner. Family Practice. 352-359.
- (2022). Association of sweetened carbonated beverage consumption during pregnancy and ADHD symptoms in the offspring: a study from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa). European Journal of Nutrition. 2153-2166.
- (2022). A shift to something better? A longitudinal study of work schedule and prescribed sleep medication use in nurses. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 752-757.
- (2021). Sleep medication and melatonin use among Norwegian nurses – A cross-sectional study. Nursing Open. 233-244.
- (2021). Priority-setting dilemmas, moral distress and support experienced by nurses and physicians in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway. Nursing Ethics. 66-81.
- (2021). Maternal Chronic Conditions and Risk of Cerebral Palsy in Offspring: A National Cohort Study. Pediatrics. 10 pages.
- (2020). Parental education and the risk of cerebral palsy for children: an evaluation of causality. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 1176-1181.
- (2019). Cerebral palsy among children of immigrants in Denmark and the role of socioeconomic status. European journal of paediatric neurology. 507-516.
- (2018). Parental socioeconomic status and risk of cerebral palsy in the child: evidence from two Nordic population-based cohorts. International Journal of Epidemiology. 1298-1306.
- (2016). Maternal prepregnancy BMI and risk of cerebral palsy in offspring. Pediatrics. 9 pages.
- (2016). Cohort profile: cerebral palsy in the Norwegian and Danish birth cohorts (MOBAND-CP). BMJ Open. 5 pages.
Lecture
- (2017). Parental socioeconomic status and risk of cerebral palsy in offspring.
Academic lecture
- (2022). The association between insomnia, sleep duration and infections among patients in general practice.
- (2022). Guideline on screening for gestational diabetes – General practitioners’ perspectives.
- (2022). A longitudinal study of work time schedule and prescribed sleep medication use in Norwegian nurses.
- (2020). Predictors of sleep medication use among Norwegian nurses - a cross-sectional study.
- (2018). Inequality in risk of cerebral palsy by parental educational status - a population-based cohort study with sibling analysis.
- (2017). Parental socioeconomic status and risk of cerebral palsy in offspring.
- (2015). Maternal body mass index and risk of cerebral palsy.
Doctoral dissertation
- (2019). Socioeconomic inequalities in risk of having a child with cerebral palsy in Denmark and Norway. The roles of parental educational level and body mass index.
Article in business/trade/industry journal
- (2021). Maternal Chronic Conditions and Risk of Cerebral Palsy in Offspring: A National Cohort Study. Pediatrics.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
Research in primary care:
- PraksisNett
- General practitioners’ perspectives on the national guideline for screening for gestational diabetes in Norway
Research on health care workers:
- The Survey of Shift work, Sleep and health (SUSSH)
- Priority-setting dilemmas and moral distress among nurses and physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic
Perinatal epidemiology:
Fields of competence