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Arna Hauksdóttir - Professor
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Heilbrigðisvísindasvið
Arna Hauksdóttir
Íslenska
Professor
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Sturlugata 8
Phone
525 - 4071
Email
arnah [at] hi.is
Unit
Public Health Sciences
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4253-1059
Research portal – Arna Hauksdóttir
Courses 2023 - 2024
LÝÐ108F - Orientation seminar: public health, epidemiology and biostatistics
LÝÐ096F - Practical training in Public Health Sciences
Published works
2024
Developing a brief cognitive task intervention to reduce long-standing intrusive memories of trauma: A feasibility study with remote delivery for women in Iceland
Clinical Psychology in Europe
2023
Comment on: Strong site-specific association of pharyngeal cultures with the onset of psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis, regardless of pathogen: reply
Rheumatology
Strong site-specific association of pharyngeal cultures with the onset of psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis, regardless of pathogen
Rheumatology
2022
Using a Brief Mental Imagery Competing Task to Reduce the Number of Intrusive Memories: Exploratory Case Series With Trauma-Exposed Women
JMIR Formative Research
Using a Brief Mental Imagery Competing Task to Reduce the Number of Intrusive Memories: Exploratory Case Series With Trauma-Exposed Women (Preprint)
Optimal communication associated with lower risk of acute traumatic stress after lung cancer diagnosis
Supportive Care in Cancer
Lifetime exposure to violence and other life stressors and hair cortisol concentration in women
Stress
2021
Reducing Intrusive Memories of Childhood Trauma Using a Visuospatial Intervention: Case Study in Iceland (Preprint)
Reducing Intrusive Memories of Childhood Trauma Using a Visuospatial Intervention: Case Study in Iceland
JMIR Formative Research
Correction: Reducing Intrusive Memories of Childhood Trauma Using a Visuospatial Intervention: Case Study in Iceland (Preprint)
Correction: Reducing Intrusive Memories of Childhood Trauma Using a Visuospatial Intervention: Case Study in Iceland
JMIR Formative Research
2020
Mortality and major disease risk among migrants of the 1991–2001 Balkan wars to Sweden: A register-based cohort study
PLOS Medicine
The effect of the economic collapse in Iceland on the probability of cardiovascular events
Economics & Human Biology
2018
The association between different traumatic life events and suicidality.
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
Development and predictors of psychological outcomes following the 2008 earthquake in Iceland: a longitudinal cohort study.
Scandinavian journal of public health
Long-term health of children following the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption: a prospective cohort study.
European journal of psychotraumatology
Mental health effects following the eruption in Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland: A population-based study.
Scandinavian journal of public health
Psychosocial support after natural disasters in Iceland-implementation and utilization
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
2017
Exposure to Violence and Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness in Mexican Women.
Journal of the American Heart Association
Suicide attempts and self-harm during a dramatic national economic transition: a population-based study in Iceland.
European journal of public health
Care-related predictors for negative intrusive thoughts after prostate cancer diagnosis-data from the prospective LAPPRO trial.
Psycho-oncology
2016
Sixteen-year follow-up of childhood avalanche survivors.
European journal of psychotraumatology
Long-term health effects of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption: a prospective cohort study in 2010 and 2013.
BMJ open
Obstetric Outcomes of Mothers Previously Exposed to Sexual Violence.
PloS one
2015
Pregnancy-Induced Hypertensive Disorders before and after a National Economic Collapse: A Population Based Cohort Study.
PloS one
Smoking and obesity among pregnant women in Iceland 2001-2010.
The European Journal of Public Health
2014
Death talk: gender differences in talking about one's own impending death.
BMC palliative care
[Economic cycles and public health: The aftermath of the Iceland banking crisis].
Lakartidningen
2013
Increased stress among women following an economic collapse--a prospective cohort study.
American journal of epidemiology
Low preparedness before the loss of a wife to cancer and the widower's chronic pain 4-5 years later-a population-based study.
Psycho-oncology
Self-injury in teenagers who lost a parent to cancer: a nationwide, population-based, long-term follow-up.
JAMA pediatrics
2012
Health effects following the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption: a cohort study.
BMJ open
A survey of early health effects of the Eyjafjallajokull 2010 eruption in Iceland: a population-based study.
BMJ open
Economic crisis and smoking behaviour: prospective cohort study in Iceland.
BMJ open
2011
Long-term mental health of men who lose a wife to cancer--a population-based follow-up.
Psycho-oncology
Couples' communication before the wife's death to cancer and the widower's feelings of guilt or regret after the loss - a population-based investigation.
European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990)
2010
Long-term harm of low preparedness for a wife's death from cancer--a population-based study of widowers 4-5 years after the loss.
American Journal of Epidemiology
'A no means no'--measuring depression using a single-item question versus Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-D).
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology
2009
Health care-related predictors of husbands' preparedness for the death of a wife to cancer--a population-based follow-up.
Annals of Oncology
Unrelieved symptoms of female cancer patients during their last months of life and long-term psychological morbidity in their widowers: a nationwide population-based study.
European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990)
2008
Disclosure of incurable illness to spouses: do they want to know? A Swedish population-based follow-up study.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
2007
Parents' intellectual and emotional awareness of their child's impending death to cancer: a population-based long-term follow-up study.
The Lancet. Oncology
Measuring anxiety and depression in the oncology setting using visual-digital scales.
Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden)
2006
Towards better measurements in bereavement research: order of questions and assessed psychological morbidity.
Palliative medicine
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