Our PhD projects
Nicoline Lokdam, MS Public Health
Anne Bukten, Researcher OUH
Marianne Riksheim Stavseth, PostDoc, OUH.
Background
Morgan Scarth, MS Epidemiology
Astrid Bjørnebekk, Researcher OUH
Lars Westlye, Professor at the University of Oslo.
Dr. Hans Christian Bordado Henriksen
Anders Jørgensen, UIO
Sudan Neupane, Researcher OUH
Astrid Bjørnebekk, Researcher OUH.
PhD candidate:
Erlend M. Aas, MS Sociology
Main Supervisor:
Eline Borger Rognli, Researcher OUH
Co-supervisiors:
Ingrid Amalia Havnes, Reseracher OUH
Silje Endresen Reme, Professor UIO.
Kristoffer A. A. Andersen, Cand.Psychol/ MSc Psychology
Main Supervisor:
Ph.D Eline Borger Rognli, Researcher, RusForsk – OUS
Co-Supervisor:
Marianne Riksheim Stavseth, Reseacher, Rusforsk - OUS,
Ph.D Espen Ajo Arnevik,Head or project board, Rusforsk/UiO
Background:
The multi-method project “Hooked on Work” is based on data from two large trials: One randomized controlled trial (IPS-SUD Trial) which started in 2021; And an observational study conducted in 2020. The target group are Norwegian SUD patients currently undergoing out- and in-patient drug treatment. Helping SUD patients achieve a better quality of life by enabling them take part in more stable social groups and obtain paid employment is a treatment goal in which many patients strive for, however SUD is associated with high rates of unemployment, ranging from 80-91%. This project wants to assess whether the vocational method “Individual placement and support” (IPS), which have good effect in patients with moderate to severe mental disorder, will be effective in helping SUD patients reach their goal of paid employment and better quality of life.
Methods and design:
The efficacy of IPS for SUD patients will be investigated through the IPS-SUD trial. In this trial 200 SUD patients was randomized to receive IPS or TAU. The group was followed-up for 18 months. The main outcome is whether they have achieved one day of paid work. Secondary outcomes are related to Employment related outcomes (total time worked, time to obtain first job, duration, number of jobs) and Non employment-related outcomes (Psychiatric distress, drug use, quality of life).
The observational study is an assessment of the applicability of the method in Norwegian healthcare setting for the SUD population. The target group is SUD-patients at Oslo municipal addiction outpatient clinic, Haugenstua resource center and the Tyrili Foundation. In addition, data from the IPS-SUD Trial Intervention group will be combined with data from the observational IPS study and then analyzed for potential variables which may predict or moderate employment and health-related outcomes.
PhD candidate:
Vegard Haukland, MS, Sociology
Main Supervisor:
Ph.D Rune Ellefssen, Researcher, RusForsk - OUS
Co-Supervisor:
Professor Sveinung Sandberg, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, UiO
Background:
The 5-year long trial period of Heroin Assisted Treatment (HAT) started in January of 2022. It is an intense form of treatment where people with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) meet up twice a day at a clinic to receive medical grade heroin (diacetylmorphine). The target group is people with long-term OUD who up until this point has not benefitted from traditional opioid addiction treatment. The shift from daily use of illegal street heroin to receiving heroin as medicine brings with it a new set of labels, from “drug addict” to “patient”. The project seeks to investigate if being in HAT has an impact of the patients self-identity and sense of stigmatization, and how these mechanisms works from an institutional level. The project also aims to describe how the patients experience the treatment in general, and how it affects their everyday life.
Methods and design:
The project has an qualitative longitudinal design. 10 to 15 newly enrolled HAT patients will be recruited and interviewed separately at three separate instances over the course of 18 months. 10 to 15 staff members will also be interviewed over the same time span. Around 300 hours of ethnographic field observations will be conducted in the two clinics (Oslo and Bergen). The data will be coded with the involvement from the user-organization ProLAR-nett. As a method for analysis, three separate dimensions of HAT will be described and investigated in three separate articles; the relational dimension, the medical dimension and the structural dimension.