- E-mailtarjei.widding-havneras@uib.no
- Visitor AddressHaukeland Universitetssykehus Laboratoriebygget, 7. etg. Heis øst5009 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78045020 Bergen
My PhD uses a quasi-experimental approach to examine the effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on injury and crime using nationwide register data. I draw on the potential outcomes framework for causal inference and directed acyclic graphs for identification analyses.
Academic article
- (2022). Variation in attitudes toward diagnosis and medication of ADHD: a survey among clinicians in the Norwegian child and adolescent mental health services. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 11 pages.
- (2022). Geographical variation in ADHD: do diagnoses reflect symptom levels? European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 9 pages.
- (2022). A gentle introduction to instrumental variables. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 1-3.
- (2021). Causal modelling of variation in clinical practice and long-term outcomes of ADHD using Norwegian registry data: The ADHD controversy project. BMJ Open. 1-13.
- (2020). The role of welfare regimes in the relationship between childhood economic stress and adult health: a multilevel study of 20 European countries. SSM - Population Health. 1-9.
- (2019). A meta-regression of the impact of policy on the efficacy of individual placement and support. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 1-15.
- (2016). Unge voksne som verken er i arbeid eller utdanning : en registerbasert studie, 1993-2009. Søkelys på arbeidslivet. 360-378.
Lecture
- (2019). The prescription rate for ADHD-medication varies among children and young people’s psychiatric out-patient clinics (BUP): Which prescription rate gives best prognosis?
- (2019). Suicide can be prevented by training GPs: Evidence for effectiveness from a nation-wide naturalistic controlled trial.
- (2018). Effects of medication on long-term outcomes in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
- (2017). Karrieremuligheter for sosiologer i helsesektoren.
- (2016). Nye sosiale risikoer i den norske velferdsstaten?
Academic lecture
- (2019). Potential outcomes and instrumental variables: An introduction.
- (2018). Causal inference in observational data: Potential outcomes and its applications.
Reader opinion piece
- (2018). Statistisk teori og kausalitet i metodeundervisning. sosiologen.no.
Book review
- (2017). Forbi arv og miljø. sosiologen.no.
Academic literature review
- (2021). Preference-based instrumental variables in health research rely on important and underreported assumptions: a systematic review. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 268-278.
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