2015

We are very happy to welcome our new PhD candidates Gerd Marie Eskerud Harris, Johanne Naper Trønnes and Bich Thuy Truong, to the PharmaSafe research group!

PhD-student Richelle Vlenterie is visiting the Pharma-Safe research environment at University of Oslo to expand her knowledge, work together with people who have experience with regards to drug safety, and have access to the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) dataset.

Formidling av forskning tar mange former. Dr. Angela Lupatelli har blitt intervjuet av Titan, nyhetsavisen for Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet ved Universitetet i Oslo.

Guest researcher Dr. Michael Twigg visited Pharma-Safe 2 weeks in September 2015 to work on his project "Women’s beliefs about medication treatment of common conditions experienced during their pregnancy: a UK perspective."

Førsteforfatter og doktorgradsstipendiat Angela Lupattelli er intervjuet i Dagens Meidisin om sin siste publiserte studie som handler om legemiddelbruk før, under og etter svangerskap blant kvinner med spiseforstyrrelser.

Kvinner med spiseforstyrrelser har et høyt forbruk av medisiner under og etter svangerskapet. Ny studie utført av forskere fra PharmaSafe ved Universitetet i Oslo, St. Olavs Hospital i Trondheim, Spiseforstyrrelseklinikken i Oslo, og ”UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders” i North Carolina Universitetet i Chapel Hill, USA.

The PhD candidate Angela Lupattelli presented finding of her latest study about medication use among women with eating disorders in the time around pregnancy at the  PhD day 2015. Read more about the poster content here (pdf file).

Les intervju med Hedvig Nordeng på titan.uio.no.

New results from a recent study published in International Journal of Epidemiology by researchers from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), the University of Oslo (PharmaSafe) and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. For more information, click here

En litteraturgjennomgang viser at gravide kan bruke medisiner mot migrene. Les mere på forskning.no eller les orginal artikkelen. Publisert i Nature Reviews Neurology.

Social pharmacy is a small discipline with few researchers and environments in Norway. Therefore, Karin Svensberg from Pharmasafe and collages in Norway and Denmark decided to arrange a Scandinavian meeting/course in Copenhagen with PhD students primarily taking their thesis in the field of pharmaceutical policy or practice research. The aim was to network and to have informal discussions on methods and research with each other. Read more here.

A new study from the “Multinational Medication Use in Pregnancy Study” has been published. Researcher from Pharmasafe and the University of Belgrade found that the Serbian translation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) showed good consistency and good model characteristics in pregnant and postpartum women. High level of depression symptoms (score ≥13) was recorded in 27.6% and 24.8% (p>0.05) of pregnant and postpartum women, respectively.

Link to paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871519215000165

Optimal treatment of psychiatric disorders during pregnancy is of utmost importance to ensure maternal-fetal health. In this study, we found that 48.8% of women demonstrated low adherence to pharmacotherapy during pregnancy. Life-style factors, risk perception, depressive symptoms and individual beliefs are important factors related to adherence to psychotropic medication in pregnancy.

Link to paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/da.22352/abstract

Det nylig opprettet nasjonale forskerforumet for stipendiater og post doc innenfor samfunns- og klinisk farmasi møttes onsdag den 4. mars for sitt tredje møte.

Apokus ønsker å øke farmasøyters kompetanse knyttet til to viktige kundegrupper på apoteket: mor og barn. Hedvig Nordeng, professor ved Farmasøytisk institutt og leder av Pharmasafe, kommer støtte opp deltakerne gjennom den 8 uker lange stafetten.

Pharmacist-patient communication around prescription medications can optimize treatment outcomes. Society's expectations of pharmacist-patient communication around medications can be expressed in legislation, economic incentives, and authority control. In this study, the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden provide the legislative examples and can be used as a platform to discuss how society's expectations, professional visions, and practice are aligning.

Read more here

I alt starter 13 nye masterstudenter hos oss i 2015 på tema blant annet innen legemiddelinformasjon, farmasøytens rolle i primærapotek, pasienters oppfatning og holdning til forskjellige legemidler, og forskjeller i årsak til sykefravær i svangerskapet i Europa.