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List of works by Leif Edvard Aarø

A population-based cohort study of the effect of common mental disorders on disability pension awards

scientific article published in August 2006

A review of studies of sexual behaviour of school students in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article

Adolescent smoking behavior and outcome expectancies

scientific article published on December 12, 2011

Adolescents' Communication with Parents, Other Adult Family Members and Teachers on Sexuality: Effects of School-Based Interventions in South Africa and Tanzania

scientific article published on 28 February 2015

Alcohol and Drug Use Among Internationally Adopted Adolescents: Results From a Norwegian Population-Based Study

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An HIV/AIDS knowledge scale for adolescents: item response theory analyses based on data from a study in South Africa and Tanzania

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Associations between adolescent socioeducational status and use of snus and smoking

scientific article published on 14 June 2010

Associations between attitudes toward violence and intimate partner violence in South Africa and Tanzania

scientific article published in January 2013

Associations between delayed completion of high school and educational attainment and symptom levels of anxiety and depression in adulthood

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Associations between schools' tobacco restrictions and adolescents' use of tobacco

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Attitudes towards smoking restrictions and tobacco advertisement bans in Georgia

scientific article published on 25 November 2013

Bar and restaurant workers' attitudes towards Norway's comprehensive smoking ban: a growth curve analysis

scientific article published in June 2010

Changes from 1986 to 2006 in reasons for liking leisure-time physical activity among adolescents

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Condom use and sexuality communication with adults: a study among high school students in South Africa and Tanzania

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Coping With Strain (CWS) course - its effects on depressive symptoms: A four-year longitudinal randomized controlled trial

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Correlates of intention to use condoms among Sub-Saharan African youth: the applicability of the theory of planned behaviour

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Co‐occurring development of early childhood communication and motor skills: results from a population‐based longitudinal study

scientific article published on September 13, 2012

Daily Smoking and Subjective Health Complaints in Adolescence

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Dating violence among school students in Tanzania and South Africa: prevalence and socio-demographic variations

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Decline in respiratory symptoms in service workers five months after a public smoking ban

scientific article published on June 2006

Depressive episodes and depressive tendencies among a sample of adults in Kielce, south-eastern Poland.

scientific article published on December 2011

Development and test-retest reliability of a research instrument designed to evaluate school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in South Africa and Tanzania

scientific article published on June 2009

Dimensionality and measurement invariance in the Satisfaction with Life Scale in Norway

scientific article published on February 10, 2011

Distal and proximal family predictors of adolescents' smoking initiation and development: A longitudinal latent curve model analysis

scientific article published on December 9, 2011

Dynamics of parent-adolescent communication on sexual health and HIV/AIDS in Tanzania

scientific article published on January 2014

Effect of the PREPARE intervention on sexual initiation and condom use among adolescents aged 12-14: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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Effects of PREPARE, a Multi-component, School-Based HIV and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Prevention Programme on Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviour and IPV: Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 03 May 2016

Effects of a School-Based Intervention on Frequency and Quality of Adolescent-Parent/Caregiver Sexuality Communication: Results from a Randomized-Controlled Trial in Uganda

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Effects of a school-based smoking prevention program among subgroups of adolescents

scientific article published in June 1998

Effects of the SATZ teacher-led school HIV prevention programmes on adolescent sexual behaviour: cluster randomised controlled trials in three sub-Saharan African sites

scientific article published in June 2012

Employment status and perceived health in the Hordaland Health Study (HUSK).

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Individual music therapy for mental health care clients with low therapy motivation: multicentre randomised controlled trial.

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Initial Results of Prompt Mental Health Care, the Norwegian Version of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies

scientific article published on 3 November 2017

Injury registration in a developing country. A study based on patients' records from four hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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Language Delay and Externalizing Problems in Preschool Age: A Prospective Cohort Study

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Late-onset smokers: How many, and associations with health behaviours and socioeconomic status

scientific article published on August 6, 2012

Measuring mental well-being in Norway: validation of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS).

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Mental Health in Internationally Adopted Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

Mental health problems and resilience in international adoptees: Results from a population-based study of Norwegian adolescents aged 16-19 years

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

Observed trends in mental health: a strategy to adjust for nonresponse bias and demographic changes in survey data

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Outcome expectations and use of smokeless tobacco (snus): a cross-sectional study among young Norwegian snus users

scientific article published in February 2011

Parental education as an indicator of socioeconomic status: improving quality of data by requiring consistency across measurement occasions

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Physical activity and health

scientific article published in January 1982

Predicting Primary and Secondary Abstinence Among Adolescent Boys and Girls in the Western Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 11 June 2016

Predicting adolescents' intentions to drink alcohol: outcome expectancies and self-efficacy

scientific article published on May 1995

Predicting condom use in South Africa: a test of two integrative models

scientific article published in January 2014

Predictors of early first sexual intercourse among adolescents in Cape Town, South Africa

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Pregnancy--a golden opportunity for promoting the cessation of smoking?

scientific article published in September 1994

Promoting sexual and reproductive health among adolescents in southern and eastern Africa (PREPARE): project design and conceptual framework.

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Promoting sexual and reproductive health in early adolescence in South Africa and Tanzania: development of a theory- and evidence-based intervention programme

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Provocative appeals in anti-smoking mass media campaigns targeting adolescents--the accumulated effect of multiple exposures

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Psychological Reactance and Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Tobacco-Control Measures

RETRACTION: Sociodemographic variations in communication on sexuality and HIV/AIDS with parents, family members and teachers among in-school adolescents: A multi-site study in Tanzania and South Africa

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Reaching the hard to reach: longitudinal investigation of adolescents' attendance at an after-school sexual and reproductive health programme in Western Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 4 July 2015

Recruitment and participation of general practitioners in a multipractice study of smoking cessation

scientific article published on September 1, 1992

Research priorities for public mental health in Europe: recommendations of the ROAMER project

scientific article published on 11 February 2015

Revisiting the continuum of resistance model in the digital age: a comparison of early and delayed respondents to the Norwegian counties public health survey

scientific article published on 15 April 2021

Risk factors for coronary heart disease among seamen. Health examination data from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Enterprises Ltd

scientific article published on December 1983

Sleep patterns and insomnia in young adults: A national survey of Norwegian university students

scientific article published on 04 December 2018

Smoking among schoolchildren: prevention of onset--a challenge for primary health care

scientific article published in September 1988

Smoking and use of alcohol among Norwegian school children: trends in the 1980s

scientific article published in September 1991

Smoking cessation among Norwegian adolescents and young adults: preferred cessation methods

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Smoking during consecutive pregnancies among primiparous women in the population-based Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study

scientific article published on August 2012

Smoking habits in early pregnancy and attitudes towards smoking cessation among pregnant women and their partners

scientific article published on December 1, 1992

Smoking habits in early pregnancy related to age of smoking debut

scientific article published in March 1993

Smoking in relation to anxiety and depression: evidence from a large population survey: the HUNT study

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Social Cognition Variables and Victimization as Predictors of Sexual Debut Among Adolescents in South Africa and Tanzania: A Multi-group SEM Analysis

scientific article published on 10 May 2015

Social outcome expectations regarding delayed sexual debut among adolescents in Mankweng, South Africa

scientific article published in June 2009

Sociocognitive Predictors of Condom Use and Intentions Among Adolescents in Three Sub-Saharan Sites

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Sociodemographic variations in communication on sexuality and HIV/AIDS with parents, family members and teachers among in-school adolescents: a multi-site study in Tanzania and South Africa

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Subjective attractiveness and perceived trendiness in smoking and snus use: a study among young Norwegians

scientific article published on 8 October 2008

Subjective health complaints in adolescence: dimensional structure and variation across gender and age.

scientific article published in January 2002

Supportive of a smoke-free campus but opposed to a 100% tobacco-free campus: Identification of predictors among university students, faculty, and staff

scientific article published on 23 October 2016

The association between smoking and depression from adolescence to adulthood

scientific article published on 25 March 2014

The association between students' perceptions of a caring teacher and sexual initiation. A study among South African high school students

scientific article published on 16 May 2011

The distribution and role of causal beliefs, inferences of responsibility, and moral emotions on willingness to help addicts among Norwegian adults

journal article; published in Addiction Research & Theory in 2014

The effects of tobacco sales promotion on initiation of smoking--experiences from Finland and Norway.

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The factor structure of the Hopkins Symptoms Checklist (HSCL-25) in a student population: A cautionary tale

scientific article published on April 2017

The life style of Morgan Kane

scientific article published in December 1993

The perceived constraints subscale of the Sense of Mastery Scale: dimensionality and measurement invariance

scientific article published on 6 July 2016

The theory of planned behaviour as a framework for predicting sexual risk behaviour in sub-Saharan African youth: A critical review

scientific article published on July 2012

Theory of behavior and preventive health care in medical practice

scientific article published in January 1993

To be in good trim. A campaign for the promotion of physical activity in Sogn and Fjordane 1983-84

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Tobacco use by early adolescents in Norway

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Unsafe sexual behaviour in South African youth

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Young people's understanding of HIV: a qualitative study among school students in Mankweng, South Africa

scientific article published in June 2009