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Nutritional status among pregnant women in rural Malawi

We executed a randomized study to examine the effect of an education intervention to improve their dietary habits and their children's birth weight.

Publications:

  • Hjertholm, K.G., Iversen, P.O., Holmboe-Ottesen, G., Mdala, I., Munthali, A., Maleta, K., Shi, Z., Ferguson, E. & Kamudoni, P. Maternal dietary intake during pregnancy and its association to birth size in rural Malawi – a cross-sectional study. Matern Child Nutr 14: e12433, 2017.

  • Hjertholm, K.G., Holmboe-Ottesen, G., Iversen, P.O., Mdala, I., Munthali, A., Maleta, K., Shi, S., Ferguson, E. & Kamudoni, P. Seasonality in associations between dietary diversity scores and nutrient adequacy ratios among pregnant women in rural Malawi - a cross sectional study. Food Nutr Res 63, 2019.

  • Katenga-Kaunda, L.Z., Iversen, P.O., Holmboe-Ottesen, G., Fjeld, H., Mdala, I. & Kamudoni, P.R. Dietary intake and processes of behaviour change in a nutrition education intervention for pregnant women in rural Malawi: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Publ Health Nutr 23; 2345-2354, 2020.

  • Katenga-Kaunda, L., Kamudoni, P.R., Holmboe-Ottesen, G., Fjeld, H.E., Mdala, I., Shi, Z. & Iversen, P.O. Enhancing nutrition knowledge and dietary diversity among rural pregnant women in Malawi: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Pregn Child 21: 644, 2021.

  • Katenga-Kaunda, L., Iversen, P.O., Kamudoni, P.R., Holmboe-Ottesen, G & Fjeld, H.E. Food-based nutrition counselling and education intervention for improved diets of pregnant women in rural Malawi: A qualitative study of factors influencing dietary behaviour change. Publ Health Nutr 25: 2436, 2022.

  • Hjertholm, K.G., Holmboe-Ottesen, G., Mdala, I., Shi, Z. & Iversen, P.O. The impact of dietary diversity and seasonality in food availability on the quantile distribution of birth size among pregnant women in rural Malawi – a cross-sectional study. BMC Pregn Child 22: 602, 2022.

Nutritional status among small children in rural Uganda: the effect of landslides on food insecurity and the right to adequate food

We studied the nutritional health effects among small children following the devastating landslides in 2010 and 2018 in rural Uganda.

Publications:

  • Rukundo, P.M., Iversen, P.O., Andreassen, B.A., Oshaug, A., Kikafunda, J. & Rukooko, B. Perceptions on the right to adequate food after a major landslide disaster: a cross-sectional survey of two districts in Uganda. BMC Int J Health Hum Rights 15: 9, 2015.

  • Rukundo, P.R., Andreassen, B.A., Kikafunda, J., Rukooko, B., Oshaug, A. & Iversen, P.O. Household food insecurity and diet diversity after the major 2010 landslide disaster in Eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional survey. Br J Nutr 115: 718-729, 2016.

  • Rukundo, P.M., Oshaug, A., Andreassen, B.A., Kikafunda, J., Rukooko, B. & Iversen, P.O. Food variety consumption and household food insecurity coping strategies after the 2010 landslide disaster –The case of Uganda. Publ Health Nutr 19: 3197-3209, 2016.

  • Rukundo, P.M., Rukooko, B., Andreassen, B.A. & Iversen, P.O. Housing, water and sanitation implications on food insecurity and diet diversity in landslide affected communities: A cross-sectional survey of two districts in Uganda. Clin Nutr ESPEN 33: 47-56, 2019.

  • Nahalomo, A., Iversen, P.O., Andreassen, B.A., Kaaya, A.N., Rukooko, A.B., Tushabe, G., Nateme, N.C. & Rukundo, P.M. Malnutrition and associated risk factors among children 6-59 months old in the landslide-prone Bududa district, eastern Uganda: A cohort study. Curr Dev Nutr 6:nzac005, 2022.
  • Nahalomo, A., Iversen, P.O., Andreassen, B.A., Kaaya, A.K., Rukooko, A.B. & Rukundo, P.M. Seasonality- and disaster effects on food variety and food insecurity coping strategies among a landslide-prone cohort.  Clin Nutr Espen 52:229-239, 2022.
  • Nahalomo, A., Iversen, P.O., Andreassen, B.A., Kaaya, A., Rukooko, A.B. & Rukundo, P.M. Food insecurity, dietary diversity and the right to adequate food among households in landslide-prone communities in Eastern Uganda: a cohort study. PLoS One 18(4):e0283078, 2023.

A framework for improving the effectiveness of integrated nutrition interventions in Uganda

This is an ongoing study to examine the effect of a community-based intervention to improve food security and nutritional status among the residents in various parts of Uganda.

Cardiovascular risk reduction-diet in pregnancy: CARRDIP

This is a follow-up study of a randomized trial examining the effects of a Mediterranean diet among healthy pregnant women conducted 20 years ago.  We now re-examine these women and their children.

Publication:

  • Troensegaard, T., Khoury, J., Westerberg, A.V., Tonstad, S., van Lennep, J.R., Veierød, Iversen, P.O., Holven, B. & Retterstøl, K. Protocol for a 20 years' follow-up after a randomized controlled trial of a Mediterranean diet in pregnancy: maternal and offspring risk factors for cardiovascular disease Front Ped 11: 1256815, 2023.

Individualized nutrition for adult allogeneic stem cell transplanted patients - effect on quality of life: NASQ

We performed a randomized trial to examine if optimizing protein- and energy-intake would improve quality of life among recipients of stem cell transplantation as therapy against malignant blood disease.

Publications:

  • Skaarud, K.J., Hjermstad, M.J., Bye, A., Veierød, M.B., Gudmundstuen, A.M., Lundin, K.E.A., Distante, S., Brinch, L., Tjønnfjord, G.E. & Iversen, P.O. Effects of individualized nutrition after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation following myeloablative conditioning; a randomized controlled trial. Clin Nutr ESPEN 28: 59-66, 2018.
  • Skaarud, K.J., Veierød, M.B., Lergenmuller. S., Bye, A., Iversen, P.O. & Tjønnfjord, G.E. Body weight, body composition and survival after one year: follow-up of a nutritional intervention trial in allo-HSCT recipients. Bone Marrow Transplant 54:2102-2109, 2019.
  • Anderson Tvedt, T.H., Skaarud, K.J., Tjønnfjord, G.E., Gedde-Dahl, T., Iversen P.O. & Bruserud, Ø. The systemic metabolic profile early after allogeneic stem cell transplantation: effects of adequate energy support administered through enteral feeding tube. Biol Bone Marrow Transplant 26: 380-391, 2020.
  • Skaarud, K.J., Hov, J.R., Hansen, S.H., Kummen, M., Valeur, J., Seljeflot, I., Bye, A., Paulsen, V., Lundin, K.E.A., Trøseid, M., Tjønnfjord, G.E. & Iversen, P.O. Mortality and microbial diversity after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: secondary analysis of a randomized nutritional intervention trial. Sci Rep 11: 11593, 2021.
  • Gudmundstuen, A.M., Efficace, F., Tjønnfjord, G.E., Skaarud, K.J., Cottone, F., Hjermstad, M.J. & Iversen, P.O. The prognostic value of patient-reported outcomes in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: exploratory analysis of a randomized nutrition intervention trial. Ann Hematol 102: 927-935, 2023.

Study on organic diet in pregnancy: OrgDiet

This is an ongoing randomized trial testing the health effects among women and their offspring of consuming an organic diet during pregnancy

Reducing depressive symptoms among Unviersity students in Uganda: NutriMind 

This is an ongoing randomized trial using a combined intervention with a Mediterranen diet and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to reduce depressive symptoms among University-students in Uganda.

The child nutrition and development study in Uganda: CHNUDEV 

This is a follow-up study of a randomized education trial testing the effects on child growth and developmental outcomes of an education intervention among their mothers in rural Uganda in 2013-2014.

 

 

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