Kirsti Malterud
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 128761 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kirsti Malterud |
| PRENOMES | Kirsti |
| SOBRENOME | Malterud |
| ASSINATURA | MALTERUD K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9556-616X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 990 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Life satisfaction and mental health among transgender students in Norway
The findings call for increased awareness about welfare and health for transgender students in Norway. Higher education institutions need to consider measures at various levels to establish a learning environment that is more inclusive for gender minorities
Kunnskap for politikk og praksis? En analyseav Stoltenbergutvalgets kunnskapssyn
I februar i år kom Stoltenbergutvalget med sin innstilling om kjønnsforskjeller i skoleprestasjoner (NOU 2019:3). Ut fra en sammenfatning av tilgjengelig forskningskunnskap, la man frem en rekke forslag til tiltak som muligens kan redusere slike kjønnsforskjeller. Det kan riktignok diskuteres om gutters lavere karakterer og større frafall i skolen utgjør et stort problem. Så langt er det ikke noe som tyder på at de stiller dårligere enn jentene p…
The Impact of Evidence-Based Medicine on Qualitative Metasynthesis
Qualitative metasynthesis, developed as an interpretative and inductive methodology, is increasingly influenced by standards from evidence-based medicine, established as a strategy to support policy decisions and guidelines. Currently, principles and procedures from the format developed for systematic reviews are often applied for review and synthesis of all kinds of evidence, including results from qualitative studies. In this article, I substan…
Time to challenge the spurious hierarchy of systematic over narrative reviews?
Cynthia Mulrow's important paper calling for literature reviews to be undertaken more systematically (and hence be more informative and reliable) is now 30 years old.1 A recent paper in BMC Medical Research Methodology compared the proportion of reviews that were systematic (as opposed to narrative) in five leading biomedical journals.2 The authors found significant diversity: from New England Journal of Medicine (0%) and Lancet (11%) to Annals o…
Systematic Reviews for Policymaking
AffiliationsTrisha Greenhalgh is with the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Kirsti Malterud is with the Research Unit for General Practice, Uni Research Health, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway
Self-esteem Among Young Bisexual Women in Norway
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between self-esteem, perception of social acceptance and feeling of loneliness in a sample of young bisexual, lesbian and heterosexual women, including assessing self-esteem longitudinally across 13 years. The analyses were based on self-completed questionnaires from the longitudinal study “Young in Norway” (13 years follow-up, 1992-2005). N=1,598 female participants at baseline and follo…
Sample Size in Qualitative Interview Studies
Sample sizes must be ascertained in qualitative studies like in quantitative studies but not by the same means. The prevailing concept for sample size in qualitative studies is "saturation." Saturation is closely tied to a specific methodology, and the term is inconsistently applied. We propose the concept "information power" to guide adequate sample size for qualitative studies. Information power indicates that the more information the sample ho…
The Invisible Work of Closeting
The last decades have offered substantial improvement regarding human rights for lesbian and gay (LG) persons. Yet LG persons are often in the closet, concealing their sexual orientation. We present a qualitative study based on 182 histories submitted from 161 LG individuals to a Web site. The aim was to explore experiences of closeting among LG persons in Norway. A broad range of strategies was used for closeting, even among individuals who gene…
Balancing needs as a family caregiver in H untington's disease
Family members in families with severe chronic disease play important roles in care-giving. In families affected by Huntington's disease (HD), caregivers encounter practical and emotional challenges and distress. Enduring caregiver burdens may lead to problems and caregivers are in need of social support and health services to deal with challenges. We wanted to explore coping strategies and behaviour patterns used by family caregivers to care for…
Systematic text condensation
Aims: To present background, principles, and procedures for a strategy for qualitative analysis called systematic text condensation and discuss this approach compared with related strategies. Methods: Giorgi’s psychological phenomenological analysis is the point of departure and inspiration for systematic text condensation. The basic elements of Giorgi’s method and the elaboration of these in systematic text condensation are presented, followed b…
Toward an Agenda for Evaluation of Qualitative Research
Evaluation is essential for research quality and development, but the diversity of traditions that characterize qualitative research suggests that general checklists or shared criteria for evaluation are problematic. We propose an approach to research evaluation that encourages reflexive dialogue through use of an evaluation agenda . In proposing an evaluation agenda we shift attention from rule-based judgment to reflexive dialogue. Unlike criter…
Metaphorical mediation in women's perceptions of risk related to osteoporosis
When risks affecting the body are identified and made visible through medical technologies, individuals need to find ways to communicate and express them through metaphorical projection. We used cognitive metaphor theory to explore women's conceptions of the risk inherent in osteoporosis. Data were drawn from focus group discussions with women who had no personal experience of osteoporosis, and individual interviews with women perceiving themselv…
Making the invisible body visible. Bone scans, osteoporosis and women's bodily experiences
Responsible and responsive knowing in medical diagnosis
The medical gaze has long been privileged over the voice of the patient as the source of medical knowledge, in western societies. The ontology (that is, the very existence) of symptoms invisible to scientific observation will thus tend to be questioned by medical professionals. Yet any gaze, even the medical one, is refracted through the lenses both of social‐cultural stereotypes and of gender, and its seeings are shaped by these refractions. In …
I am not the kind of woman who complains of everything
Encountering the Continuing Challenges for Women With Chronic Pain
This work is based on experiences from a group treatment for women with chronic musculoskeletal pain. The authors explored the nature and consequences of the reported benefits from being met with recognition in the groups, focusing the potential usefulness in everyday life. In-depth interviews of six participants of various age and backgrounds were conducted. The women’s answers reflected how recognition had enhanced strength, confidence, and awa…
It is hard work behaving as a credible patient
Feministisk teori kan utmana medicinsk kunskap
Feminist theory has achieved a prominent position in gender studies. But questions about aims and domains for utilization of the theories that would be necessary to assess their strength and relevance are often lacking. In this artide, I discuss feminist theory from my own position as a feminist researcher in family medicine. I explore some epistemological foundations of medical theory and practice, focusing the conceptual understanding of facts,…
The art and science of clinical knowledge
Qualitative research
Strategies for empowering women's voices in the medical culture
Power and knowledge are closely connected, and this is no less true for the medical profession than it is for any other sphere of life. Knowledge is constructed by voice. Unfortunately, women's voices are often silent in the factory where medical knowledge is produced. Medicalization and ignoring are symptoms of the medical oppression of women's voices. Empowerment of women's voices at various levels within the medical culture is essential for in…
Sample Size in Qualitative Interview Studies
Sample sizes must be ascertained in qualitative studies like in quantitative studies but not by the same means. The prevailing concept for sample size in qualitative studies is "saturation." Saturation is closely tied to a specific methodology, and the term is inconsistently applied. We propose the concept "information power" to guide adequate sample size for qualitative studies. Information power indicates that the more information the sample ho…
It is hard work behaving as a credible patient
I am not the kind of woman who complains of everything
Toward an Agenda for Evaluation of Qualitative Research
Evaluation is essential for research quality and development, but the diversity of traditions that characterize qualitative research suggests that general checklists or shared criteria for evaluation are problematic. We propose an approach to research evaluation that encourages reflexive dialogue through use of an evaluation agenda . In proposing an evaluation agenda we shift attention from rule-based judgment to reflexive dialogue. Unlike criter…
Making the invisible body visible. Bone scans, osteoporosis and women's bodily experiences
The Invisible Work of Closeting
The last decades have offered substantial improvement regarding human rights for lesbian and gay (LG) persons. Yet LG persons are often in the closet, concealing their sexual orientation. We present a qualitative study based on 182 histories submitted from 161 LG individuals to a Web site. The aim was to explore experiences of closeting among LG persons in Norway. A broad range of strategies was used for closeting, even among individuals who gene…
Balancing needs as a family caregiver in H untington's disease
Family members in families with severe chronic disease play important roles in care-giving. In families affected by Huntington's disease (HD), caregivers encounter practical and emotional challenges and distress. Enduring caregiver burdens may lead to problems and caregivers are in need of social support and health services to deal with challenges. We wanted to explore coping strategies and behaviour patterns used by family caregivers to care for…
Responsible and responsive knowing in medical diagnosis
The medical gaze has long been privileged over the voice of the patient as the source of medical knowledge, in western societies. The ontology (that is, the very existence) of symptoms invisible to scientific observation will thus tend to be questioned by medical professionals. Yet any gaze, even the medical one, is refracted through the lenses both of social‐cultural stereotypes and of gender, and its seeings are shaped by these refractions. In …
The Impact of Evidence-Based Medicine on Qualitative Metasynthesis
Qualitative metasynthesis, developed as an interpretative and inductive methodology, is increasingly influenced by standards from evidence-based medicine, established as a strategy to support policy decisions and guidelines. Currently, principles and procedures from the format developed for systematic reviews are often applied for review and synthesis of all kinds of evidence, including results from qualitative studies. In this article, I substan…
Strategies for empowering women's voices in the medical culture
Power and knowledge are closely connected, and this is no less true for the medical profession than it is for any other sphere of life. Knowledge is constructed by voice. Unfortunately, women's voices are often silent in the factory where medical knowledge is produced. Medicalization and ignoring are symptoms of the medical oppression of women's voices. Empowerment of women's voices at various levels within the medical culture is essential for in…
The art and science of clinical knowledge
Qualitative research
Feministisk teori kan utmana medicinsk kunskap
Feminist theory has achieved a prominent position in gender studies. But questions about aims and domains for utilization of the theories that would be necessary to assess their strength and relevance are often lacking. In this artide, I discuss feminist theory from my own position as a feminist researcher in family medicine. I explore some epistemological foundations of medical theory and practice, focusing the conceptual understanding of facts,…
Encountering the Continuing Challenges for Women With Chronic Pain
This work is based on experiences from a group treatment for women with chronic musculoskeletal pain. The authors explored the nature and consequences of the reported benefits from being met with recognition in the groups, focusing the potential usefulness in everyday life. In-depth interviews of six participants of various age and backgrounds were conducted. The women’s answers reflected how recognition had enhanced strength, confidence, and awa…
It is hard work behaving as a credible patient
Responsible and responsive knowing in medical diagnosis
The medical gaze has long been privileged over the voice of the patient as the source of medical knowledge, in western societies. The ontology (that is, the very existence) of symptoms invisible to scientific observation will thus tend to be questioned by medical professionals. Yet any gaze, even the medical one, is refracted through the lenses both of social‐cultural stereotypes and of gender, and its seeings are shaped by these refractions. In …
I am not the kind of woman who complains of everything
Making the invisible body visible. Bone scans, osteoporosis and women's bodily experiences
Metaphorical mediation in women's perceptions of risk related to osteoporosis
When risks affecting the body are identified and made visible through medical technologies, individuals need to find ways to communicate and express them through metaphorical projection. We used cognitive metaphor theory to explore women's conceptions of the risk inherent in osteoporosis. Data were drawn from focus group discussions with women who had no personal experience of osteoporosis, and individual interviews with women perceiving themselv…
Toward an Agenda for Evaluation of Qualitative Research
Evaluation is essential for research quality and development, but the diversity of traditions that characterize qualitative research suggests that general checklists or shared criteria for evaluation are problematic. We propose an approach to research evaluation that encourages reflexive dialogue through use of an evaluation agenda . In proposing an evaluation agenda we shift attention from rule-based judgment to reflexive dialogue. Unlike criter…
Systematic text condensation
Aims: To present background, principles, and procedures for a strategy for qualitative analysis called systematic text condensation and discuss this approach compared with related strategies. Methods: Giorgi’s psychological phenomenological analysis is the point of departure and inspiration for systematic text condensation. The basic elements of Giorgi’s method and the elaboration of these in systematic text condensation are presented, followed b…
Balancing needs as a family caregiver in H untington's disease
Family members in families with severe chronic disease play important roles in care-giving. In families affected by Huntington's disease (HD), caregivers encounter practical and emotional challenges and distress. Enduring caregiver burdens may lead to problems and caregivers are in need of social support and health services to deal with challenges. We wanted to explore coping strategies and behaviour patterns used by family caregivers to care for…
Sample Size in Qualitative Interview Studies
Sample sizes must be ascertained in qualitative studies like in quantitative studies but not by the same means. The prevailing concept for sample size in qualitative studies is "saturation." Saturation is closely tied to a specific methodology, and the term is inconsistently applied. We propose the concept "information power" to guide adequate sample size for qualitative studies. Information power indicates that the more information the sample ho…
The Invisible Work of Closeting
The last decades have offered substantial improvement regarding human rights for lesbian and gay (LG) persons. Yet LG persons are often in the closet, concealing their sexual orientation. We present a qualitative study based on 182 histories submitted from 161 LG individuals to a Web site. The aim was to explore experiences of closeting among LG persons in Norway. A broad range of strategies was used for closeting, even among individuals who gene…
Systematic Reviews for Policymaking
AffiliationsTrisha Greenhalgh is with the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Kirsti Malterud is with the Research Unit for General Practice, Uni Research Health, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway
Self-esteem Among Young Bisexual Women in Norway
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between self-esteem, perception of social acceptance and feeling of loneliness in a sample of young bisexual, lesbian and heterosexual women, including assessing self-esteem longitudinally across 13 years. The analyses were based on self-completed questionnaires from the longitudinal study “Young in Norway” (13 years follow-up, 1992-2005). N=1,598 female participants at baseline and follo…
Time to challenge the spurious hierarchy of systematic over narrative reviews?
Cynthia Mulrow's important paper calling for literature reviews to be undertaken more systematically (and hence be more informative and reliable) is now 30 years old.1 A recent paper in BMC Medical Research Methodology compared the proportion of reviews that were systematic (as opposed to narrative) in five leading biomedical journals.2 The authors found significant diversity: from New England Journal of Medicine (0%) and Lancet (11%) to Annals o…
Kunnskap for politikk og praksis? En analyseav Stoltenbergutvalgets kunnskapssyn
I februar i år kom Stoltenbergutvalget med sin innstilling om kjønnsforskjeller i skoleprestasjoner (NOU 2019:3). Ut fra en sammenfatning av tilgjengelig forskningskunnskap, la man frem en rekke forslag til tiltak som muligens kan redusere slike kjønnsforskjeller. Det kan riktignok diskuteres om gutters lavere karakterer og større frafall i skolen utgjør et stort problem. Så langt er det ikke noe som tyder på at de stiller dårligere enn jentene p…
The Impact of Evidence-Based Medicine on Qualitative Metasynthesis
Qualitative metasynthesis, developed as an interpretative and inductive methodology, is increasingly influenced by standards from evidence-based medicine, established as a strategy to support policy decisions and guidelines. Currently, principles and procedures from the format developed for systematic reviews are often applied for review and synthesis of all kinds of evidence, including results from qualitative studies. In this article, I substan…
Life satisfaction and mental health among transgender students in Norway
The findings call for increased awareness about welfare and health for transgender students in Norway. Higher education institutions need to consider measures at various levels to establish a learning environment that is more inclusive for gender minorities
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