The trial lecture is: "Evidence-based treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain: What is hot and what are the outcomes?".
Time and place: December 15, 2022 10:15 AM, Nucleus, Bikuben, The Kristine Bonnevie building.
Main research findings
Being exposed to psychosocial stress activates biological processes that is normally self-regulating. However, if this self-regulation fails it might have consequences. In this thesis it was shown that abusive supervision has an influence on patterns of subjective health complaints, spinal pain, and headache. Further, the influence of several genetic factors, age, and gender was proven to have an influence, thus important to consider when investigating health complaints.
This knowledge provides further support for the biopsychosocial model and the importance of implementing this model in a treatment setting. Moreover, these results provide further understanding as to why different people in the same situation may respond differently. The results also provide an indication as to the importance of work environment, in particular a leader’s behaviour. By being conscious of the type of leadership style might help reduce sick-leave and/or absenteeism among employees.
Adjudication committee
Professor Jan Hartvigsen, University of Southern Denmark
Dr. Cecilia Bergström, Umeå University
Professor Marianne Fyhn, University of Oslo
Chair of defence
Professor Kristian Gundersen
Supervisors
Head of Department Johannes Gjerstad, Oslo Metropolitan University
Senior Researcher Jan Olav Christensen, The National Institute of Occupational Health in Norway