Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen

Datos Biográficos

ID177221
NOMBREIngunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen
NOMBRESIngunn Marie Stadskleiv
APELLIDOEngebretsen
FIRMAENGEBRETSEN I M S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Bergen
ORCID0000-0001-5852-3611
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS34
TOTAL DE CITAS1
TOTAL COMO AUTOR34
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2008
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Community knowledge, attitudes, and preferences towards vitamin A supplementation in a semi-rural health zone, Kasai Oriental, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Open AccessLandry Egbende, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    BACKGROUND: Vitamin A deficiency remains a critical public health challenge and affects children under 5 years of age in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. OBJECTIVE: We investigated the community-level knowledge, preferences, and attitudes towards vitamin A supplementation in a semi-rural Health Zone, Kasaï-Oriental province. METHODS: = 420). Qualitative data were analysed using thematic analysis supported by NVivo 14. The primary respondents…

  • Acceptability of alcohol-based hand rub during neonatal care in rural Ugandan households

    Open AccessHeidi H Thorsdalen, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    BACKGROUND: Poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene exacerbates the spread of infections among newborns. The BabyGel cluster randomised trial assessed the effectiveness of a community-level alcohol-based hand rub with a training component in reducing infection or death rates among newborns in Uganda. OBJECTIVE: Nested in the BabyGel trial, this study investigated the acceptability of the BabyGel intervention among mothers and household membe…

  • Improving school-age nutrition and school performance through amaranth plus flaxseed food product distribution in Sidama, Ethiopia

    Open AccessAlemselam Zebdewos Orsango, Aberash Eifa Dadhi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    Primary school-age children are particularly vulnerable to undernutrition, especially anaemia and underweight. School feeding programs in food-insecure areas aim to reduce undernutrition, but many vulnerable children in Ethiopia have not benefitted due to inadequate food quality and sustainability challenges. Exploring underutilized nutrient-rich foods may help address the shortage of energy-dense supplements for these programs. Amaranth, with it…

  • Term stillbirths in Eastern Uganda

    Open AccessMartin Chebet, Peter Olupot‐Olupot et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    BACKGROUND: Every year, 1.9 million stillbirths occur worldwide, of whom 1.5 million occur in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Southeast Asia. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to determine the incidence and risk factors and to describe underlying causes for term stillbirths in Eastern Uganda. METHODS: This was a cohort study of pregnant women enrolled at 34 weeks of gestation or more and followed to birth between January 2021 and January 2024. Enrolment a…

  • Factors associated with mental health stigma among teachers and caregivers of primary school children in Uganda

    Open AccessNora Braathu, Mukisa Marjorie Kabatooro et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Higher levels of stigma were associated with lower mental health knowledge and higher frequencies of psychological aggression among teachers and caregivers. Additionally, lower caregiver education was associated with higher levels of stigma. This underscores the importance of targeted interventions to enhance mental health awareness and reduce aggressive disciplinary practices. Additionally, the observed associations with caregiver education emph…

  • Association between early alcohol use and academic achievement among primary school children in Uganda

    Open AccessJoyce Nalugya, Joyce S Nalugya et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Child alcohol use is a public health concern in Uganda. This study assessed academic achievement skills and their association with alcohol use among primary school children in Mbale district, Uganda. This cross-sectional study assessed academic achievement skills (word reading, sentence comprehension, spelling, and math computation) in 6–13-year-old primary school children using the Wide Range Achievement Test, Fifth Edition (WRAT-5). Participant…

  • Alcohol education in Ugandan primary schools

    Open AccessNeda Valeckaite, Melf-Jakob Kühl et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    This study shows that teachers considered alcohol education as an important topic aiming to teach children about the dangers and negative effects of alcohol use

  • Prevalence of probable substance use disorders among children in Ugandan health facilities

    Open AccessHarriet Aber, Harriet Aber-Odonga et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Our findings suggest a high prevalence of probable AUD and SUD among children and adolescents visiting healthcare facilities for other conditions, along with a strong link between AUD and SUD prevalence and social factors. The implication for our healthcare system is to actively screen for and treat these conditions at primary healthcare facilities

  • Older adults’ perceptions about meat consumption

    Open AccessTheogene Habumugisha, Inger E Måren et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    The findings revealed a low and declining meat consumption among older adults due to poverty. Improving financial capacity or strategic public health work to improve protein consumption in the elderly is necessary to meet nutritional needs and facilitate healthy aging

  • Predicting adherence to postdischarge malaria chemoprevention in Malawian pre-school children

    Open AccessMelf-Jakob Kühl, Thandile Nkosi-Gondwe et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Chemoprevention with antimalarials is a key strategy for malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa. Three months of postdischarge malaria chemoprevention (PDMC) reduces malaria-related mortality and morbidity in pre-school children recently discharged from hospital following recovery from severe anemia. Research on adherence to preventive antimalarials in children is scarce. We aimed to investigate the predictors for caregivers’ adherence to three co…

  • She gives it to her child who doesn’t even talk”

    Open AccessJoyce Nalugya, Joyce Sserunjogi Nalugya et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Children eligible for primary education in Uganda can easily access and use AOD. Several factors were identified as contributing to alcohol and other drug use among children, including availability and accessibility, advertising, lack of parental awareness and supervision, peer influence, adverse childhood experiences, socioeconomic factors, and cultural norms. There is a need for multi-sectoral action for awareness of childhood AOD use and delib…

  • Health care workers' perspectives on the challenges and possibilities of music therapy within medication-free treatment services

    Open AccessChristine Henriksen Oedegaard, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen et al.ARTICLENordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 34

    Introduction\nIn 2015, the Norwegian Regional Health Authorities introduced the possibility for people with psychotic disorders to choose medication-free services, with music therapy as a treatment option. This study aimed to explore the health care workers’ perspectives on challenges and possibilities of music therapy within these services.\n\nMethod\nThis is a qualitative study by an interdisciplinary research team, including experts by experie…

  • Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response

  • Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Over the past three decades, the increase \nin funding for priority public health issues \nlargely affecting low/middle-income countries (LMICs) has led to the growth in international research involving researchers \nor research sponsors from a high-income \ncountry (HIC) conducting research in \nLMICs. The ethical considerations in such \ninternational research were raised in the \n1990s and several ethical guidelines specifically addressing int…

  • Child and Caregiver Reporting on Child Maltreatment and Mental Health in the Philippines Before and After an International Child Development Program (ICDP) Parenting Intervention

    Open AccessEmil Graff Ramsli, Ane‐Marthe Solheim Skar et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child & Adolescent…2022

    Child maltreatment is a serious problem affecting millions of children. Research on self-reporting of child maltreatment has shown a difference in reporting between caregivers and children. Increased understanding of this has implications for further evaluations of parenting programmes and assessment of violence and maltreatment. The purpose of this study was to explore caregiver-child reporting discrepancies on child maltreatment and emotional h…

  • Anaemia, anthropometric undernutrition and associated factors among mothers with children younger than 2 years of age in the rural Dale district, southern Ethiopia

    Open AccessTsigereda Kebede, Selamawit Mengesha et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    Mothers in resource-poor settings are affected by different forms of undernutrition. However, the nutritional status of mothers in rural areas, particularly after delivery, is not well documented. This study assessed haemoglobin levels and body mass index (BMI) of mothers with children below 2 years of age in a rural district of southern Ethiopia. Factors associated with low haemoglobin levels and low BMI were analysed. A community-based cross-se…

  • There is nowhere to take the child’

    Open AccessVilde Skylstad, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The participants were concerned about childhood alcohol and substance use, but the complexity and magnitude of the problem left them feeling incapacitated in responding. Relevant factors were identified on the community, institutional, and the government level, such as a lack of leadership in addressing it, a loss of mandate to interfere in child-rearing, inadequate services, weak legal structures, and missing government action. A strengthening o…

  • As soon as they can hold a glass, they begin taking alcohol’

    Open AccessVilde Skylstad, Joyce Nalugya et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    To our knowledge, this is the first study to describe the context and conditions of childhood substance use before age 10 in Mbale District, Uganda. The study shows that community members attributed early childhood substance use to a social context of widespread use in the community, which was exacerbated by conditions of material and emotional deprivation. These social determinants for this practice deserve public health attention and interventi…

  • I am not only beneficial to the community but to the entire country, I am trained as a researcher now’

    Open AccessAnne Hatløy, Silondile Luthuli et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2021

    Partnerships between Higher Education Institutions in the global South and North have potential for building capacity in public health research in low-resource countries. We present experiences of partners involved in a North-South-South partnership between universities in Norway, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Africa. The partnership aimed to establish a postgraduate programme in nutritional epidemiology at the University of Ki…

  • Infant feeding, growth monitoring and the double burden of malnutrition among children aged 6 months and their mothers in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa

    Open AccessSiri Kaldenbach, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    South Africa has a documented high prevalence of stunting and increasing obesity in children as well as obesity in adults. The double burden of malnutrition, which can be on an individual-, household- or population level, has implications for both health and the economic development of a community and country. This paper describes a large-scale survey (N = 774) of infant feeding, growth monitoring and anthropometry among mother and child pairs ag…

  • Are we doing enough? Improved breastfeeding practices at 14 weeks but challenges of non-initiation and early cessation of breastfeeding remain

    Open AccessChristiane Horwood, Lyn Haskins et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Despite improvements to exclusive breastfeeding, failure to initiate and sustain breastfeeding is a challenge to achieving optimal breastfeeding practices. Interventions are required to address these challenges and support breastfeeding particularly among working mothers and HIV positive mothers

  • Caries experience and oral health related quality of life in a cohort of Ugandan HIV-1 exposed uninfected children compared with a matched cohort of HIV unexposed uninfected children

    Open Accessfor the ANRS and study groups, Nancy Birungi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The prevalence of untreated caries in primary teeth and quality of life impacts was high in this study population. HIV-1 exposed uninfected children were not more likely than HUU children to experience dental caries or have impaired oral health related quality of life. Given the global expansion of the HEU child population, the present findings indicating no adverse effect of pre- and post-natal HIV-1 exposure on caries in deciduous teeth are rea…

  • Breastfeeding advice for reality

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Christiane Horwood et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    Breastfeeding education and support are critical health worker skills. Confusion surrounding infant feeding advice linked to the HIV epidemic has reduced the confidence of health workers to support breastfeeding. High antiretroviral therapy coverage of breastfeeding women living with HIV, and an Infant Feeding policy supportive of breastfeeding, now provides an opportunity to improve breastfeeding practices. Challenges remain in restoring health …

  • An educational intervention to update health workers about HIV and infant feeding

    Open AccessChristiane Horwood, Lyn Haskins et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    Clinical guidelines are used to translate research findings into evidence-based clinical practice but are frequently not comprehensively adopted by health workers (HWs). HIV and infant feeding guidelines were revised by the World Health Organization to align feeding advice for HIV-exposed and unexposed infants, and these were adopted in South Africa in 2017. We describe an innovative, team-based, mentoring programme developed to update HWs on the…

  • Does mhGAP training of primary health care providers improve the identification of child- and adolescent mental, neurological or substance use disorders? Results from a randomized controlled trial in …

    Open AccessAngela Akol, Frederick Makumbi et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2018

    In this setting, mhGAP CAMH training of PHC providers increases PHC clinics' identification and reporting of non-epilepsy CAMH cases but this increase did not reach statistical significance