Principal Investigator Kåre Rønn Richardsen

Post Doctor Olaf Fjeld

PhD Student Martin Gorosito

Collaborators Hårek Haugerud (OsloMet), Anis Yasidi (OsloMet), Britt Elin Øiestad (OsloMet), Parisa Gazerani (OsloMet), Synne Stensland (Oslo University Hospital, Norwegian Centre for Violence & Traumatic Stress Studies), Gertrud Sofie Hafstad (Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies)

The co-occurrent pain and psychological distress project is part of the Health in young adults (HEYoung) project (PI Britt Elin Øiestad). The project is organized as two sub-projects, a Postdoc-project (sub-project 1) and a PhD-project (sub-project 2). Both sub-projects are 3-year full time projects funded by CIM.

Sub-project 1 aim to analyze data from cohort studies linked with prospective data from health and administrative registries to investigate the association between co-occurrent pain and psychological distress in adolescence and emerging adulthood AND academic achievement, labour market participation and health trajectories. Sub-project 2 aim to 1) identify factors associated with co-occurrent pain and psychological distress in adolescence and emerging adulthood by applying machine learning, 2) apply machine learning in development of prognostic models for adulthood disability benefit and long-term sickness absence in tandem with co-occurrent pain and psychological distress, and 3) compare the predictive performance of different machine learning methods, and, to compare machine learning methods and traditional statistical approaches.