Ph.D's at NAFKAM

Ph.D-projects completed at/ supervised by NAFKAM

Hansen, Frank (2023): On the path to healing - A qualitative longitudinal study of colorectal cancer patients’ accounts of trajectories to healing in Norway

Risvoll, Hilde (2023): Health care professionals’ caretaking of persons with dementia who use dietary supplements

Mora, Dana Catalina (2023): Complementary and alternative medicine use for supportive care in childhood cancer - Prevalence of use, effectiveness, safety and clinical practice 

Hämäläinen, Soile Päivikki (2023): "I sound" - yoik as embodied health knowledge

Skowronski, Magdalena (2019): ‘Will I get cancer again?’ An ethnography of worries, healing landscapes and sensation-to-symptom processes among people living in the aftermath of cancer in rural Norway

Larsen, Anette Langås (2018): Mapping the experience and use of traditional healing in Northern Norway. Among conventional health care providers, users and traditional healers

Liodden, Ingrid (2016): Acupuncture for postoperative morbidities in children, and placebo by proxy

Stub, Trine (2014): Safety of treatment provided by homeopaths. Homepathic aggravations, adverse effects and risk assessment 

Salamonsen, Anita (2013): Boundary walkers. The use of complementary and alternative medicine in a Scandinavian health care context 

Kristoffersen, Agnete Egilsdatter (2013): Use of complementary and alternative medicine among Norwegian cancer patients 

Borud, Einar Kristian (2010): Acupuncture treatment for postmenopausal hot flashes 

Norheim, Arne Johan (2005): Acupuncture in health care - Attitudes to, and experiences with acupuncture in Norway

Alræk, Terje (2004): Acupuncture in the prevention of recurrent uncomplicated lower urinary tract infection in adult women

Relevant links:

NAFKAM-publications about CAM and cancer

NAFKAM-publications about CAM and COVID-19

NAFKAM-publications in Munin

NAFKAM-publications in PubMed

NAFKAM in the public debate (list of media clips, interviews, press features, mentionings etc)

Latest publications from NAFKAM (compiled list)

Summarized research from NAFKAM 

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