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Ingeborg Forthun

Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care
  • E-mailIngeborg.Forthun@uib.no
  • Visitor Address
    Alrek helseklynge, blokk D, Årstadveien 17
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7804
    5020 Bergen

I am a postdoctoral fellow at PraksisNett - the Norwegian Primary Care Research Network, and I conduct research relevant for primary care. I am the project leader of a research project on sleep problems and infections in primary care, and I do research on sleep medication use among nurses. I am also the project leader of a project on general practitioners experience with the Norwegian guideline for screening women for pregnancy diabetes.

I have a masters degree in social economics and a PhD in cerebral palsy epidemiology. 

Medical statistics: MEDSTA. 

Regression models in medical research: MEDSTA2.

Academic article
  • Show author(s) 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.
  • Show author(s) 2021. Maternal Chronic Conditions and Risk of Cerebral Palsy in Offspring: A National Cohort Study. Pediatrics.
  • Show author(s) 2020. Parental education and the risk of cerebral palsy for children: an evaluation of causality. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 1176-1181.
  • Show author(s) 2019. Cerebral palsy among children of immigrants in Denmark and the role of socioeconomic status. European journal of paediatric neurology. 507-516.
  • Show author(s) 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.
  • Show author(s) 2016. Maternal prepregnancy BMI and risk of cerebral palsy in offspring. Pediatrics. 9 pages.
  • Show author(s) 2016. Cohort profile: cerebral palsy in the Norwegian and Danish birth cohorts (MOBAND-CP). BMJ Open. 5 pages.
Lecture
  • Show author(s) 2017. Parental socioeconomic status and risk of cerebral palsy in offspring.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) 2020. Predictors of sleep medication use among Norwegian nurses - a cross-sectional study.
  • Show author(s) 2018. Inequality in risk of cerebral palsy by parental educational status - a population-based cohort study with sibling analysis.
  • Show author(s) 2017. Parental socioeconomic status and risk of cerebral palsy in offspring.
  • Show author(s) 2015. Maternal body mass index and risk of cerebral palsy.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) 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.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8097-6959

Priority setting and moral distress during COVID-19: 

  • Miljeteig, Ingrid; Forthun, Ingeborg; Hufthammer, Karl Ove; Engelund, Inger Elise; Schanche, Elisabeth; Schaufel, Margrethe; Onarheim, Kristine Husøy. 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 2021. 

 

Cerebral palsy epidemiology:

  • Petersen, Tanja Gram; Forthun, Ingeborg; Lange, Theis; Villadsen, Sarah Fredsted; Nybo Andersen, Anne-Marie; Uldall, Peter; Strandberg-Larsen, Katrine.Cerebral palsy among children of immigrants in Denmark and the role of socioeconomic status. European journal of paediatric neurology 2019 ;Volum 23.(3) s. 507-516
  • Forthun, Ingeborg; Strandberg-Larsen, Katrine; Wilcox, Allen J; Moster, Dag; Petersen, Tanja Gram; Vik, Torstein; Lie, Rolv T.; Uldall, Peter; Tollånes, Mette Christophersen.Parental socioeconomic status and risk of cerebral palsy in the child: evidence from two Nordic population-based cohorts. International Journal of Epidemiology 2018
  • Forthun, Ingeborg; Wilcox, Allen J.; Strandberg-Larsen, Katrine; Moster, Dag; Nohr, Ellen A.; Lie, Rolv T.; Surén, Pål; Tollånes, Mette Christophersen.Maternal prepregnancy BMI and risk of cerebral palsy in offspring. Pediatrics 2016 ;Volum 138.(4)
  • Tollånes, Mette Christophersen; Strandberg-Larsen, Katrine; Forthun, Ingeborg; Petersen, Tanja Gram; Moster, Dag; Nybo Andersen, Anne-Marie; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Olsen, Jørn; Wilcox, Allen J.Cohort profile: cerebral palsy in the Norwegian and Danish birth cohorts (MOBAND-CP). BMJ Open 2016 ;Volum 6.(9)

Research in primary care: 

Shift work, sleep problems and sleep medication use:  

Cerebral palsy epidemiology: 

Fields of competence 
Data Analysis
Epidemiology
Health Registry Research
Sleep