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Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Internal medicine
  • Surgery
  • Cancer

Ásgeir R. Helgason mainly investigates Environmental health, Clinical psychology, Public health, Sexual function and Incidence. His Environmental health research includes themes of Adolescent smoking, Peer group and Parental monitoring. His research investigates the connection with Clinical psychology and areas like Motivational interviewing which intersect with concerns in Quitline.

His study on Biostatistics is often connected to Cross-sectional study, Icelandic and Social research as part of broader study in Public health. His study in Sexual function is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Gynecology, Prostate cancer and Prostate. The Incidence study combines topics in areas such as Intervention, Adolescent substance, Substance abuse and Preventive healthcare.

His most cited work include:

  • Waning sexual function-the most important disease-specific distress for patients with prostate cancer (147 citations)
  • Sexual Desire, Erection, Orgasm and Ejaculatory Functions and Their Importance to Elderly Swedish Men: A Population-based Study (131 citations)
  • Decreased sexual capacity after external radiation therapy for prostate cancer impairs quality of life (122 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Ásgeir R. Helgason focuses on Quitline, Environmental health, Public health, Response rate and Family medicine. His Quitline research includes elements of Motivational interviewing, Health psychology, Abstinence and Clinical psychology. He merges Environmental health with Cross-sectional study in his study.

His Public health study combines topics in areas such as Smoking habit, Epidemiology and Risk factor. His work deals with themes such as Logistic regression and Pediatrics, which intersect with Response rate. The concepts of his Family medicine study are interwoven with issues in Tobacco prevention, Intervention, Palliative care and Population study.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Quitline (39.22%)
  • Environmental health (33.33%)
  • Public health (28.43%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2013-2019)?

  • Quitline (39.22%)
  • Family medicine (27.45%)
  • Injury prevention (22.55%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of study are Quitline, Family medicine, Injury prevention, Randomized controlled trial and Response rate. His Quitline study deals with Clinical psychology intersecting with Cohort. Ásgeir R. Helgason interconnects Intervention, Terminal care, Palliative care, Health psychology and Do not resuscitate in the investigation of issues within Family medicine.

His Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test study in the realm of Injury prevention interacts with subjects such as Transtheoretical model, Cross-sectional study and Affect. His Randomized controlled trial research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Odds ratio, Logistic regression, Abstinence and Substance abuse. His Response rate research integrates issues from Odds, Headaches and Media use.

Between 2013 and 2019, his most popular works were:

  • Death talk: gender differences in talking about one’s own impending death (33 citations)
  • Death talk: gender differences in talking about one’s own impending death (33 citations)
  • Effectiveness of proactive and reactive services at the Swedish National Tobacco Quitline in a randomized trial (12 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Internal medicine
  • Surgery
  • Cancer

Ásgeir R. Helgason mainly focuses on Family medicine, Psychological intervention, Intervention, Terminal care and Palliative care. His Family medicine research incorporates elements of Prevalence, Health psychology, Public health and Substance abuse. His research links Do not resuscitate with Psychological intervention.

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Best Publications

Waning sexual function-the most important disease-specific distress for patients with prostate cancer

A Helgason;J Adolfsson;P Dickman;Mats Fredrikson.
British Journal of Cancer (1996)

224 Citations

Sexual Desire, Erection, Orgasm and Ejaculatory Functions and Their Importance to Elderly Swedish Men: A Population-based Study

Ásgeir R. Helgason;Jan Adolfsson;Paul Dickman;Stefan Arver.
Age and Ageing (1996)

200 Citations

Decreased sexual capacity after external radiation therapy for prostate cancer impairs quality of life

Asgeir R. Helgason;Mats Fredrikson;Mats Fredrikson;Jan Adolfsson;Gunnar Steineck.
International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics (1995)

184 Citations

Symptom Documentation in Cancer Survivors as a Basis for Therapy Modifications

Gunnar Steineck;Karin Bergmark;Lars Henningsohn;Massoud Al-Abany.
Acta Oncologica (2002)

155 Citations

General practitioners' perceived barriers to smoking cessation - results from four Nordic countries

Ásgeir R. Helgason;Karl E. Lund.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (2002)

129 Citations

Adolescent substance use, parental monitoring, and leisure-time activities: 12-year outcomes of primary prevention in Iceland

Alfgeir Logi Kristjansson;Alfgeir Logi Kristjansson;Jack E. James;John P. Allegrante;Inga Dora Sigfusdottir.
Preventive Medicine (2010)

124 Citations

Factors associated with waning sexual function among elderly men and prostate cancer patients

Asgeir R. Helgason;Jan Adolfsson;Paul Dickman;Stefan Arver.
The Journal of Urology (1997)

123 Citations

Awareness of husband's impending death from cancer and long-term anxiety in widowhood: a nationwide follow-up.

Unnur Valdimarsdóttir;Ásgeir R Helgason;Carl-Johan Fürst;Jan Adolfsson.
Palliative Medicine (2004)

120 Citations

The unrecognised cost of cancer patients' unrelieved symptoms:a nationwide follow-up of their surviving partners

Valdimarsdóttir U;Helgason Ar;Fürst Cj;Adolfsson J.
British Journal of Cancer (2002)

118 Citations

Parental divorce and adolescent cigarette smoking and alcohol use: assessing the importance of family conflict

Alfgeir Logi Kristjansson;Inga Dora Sigfusdottir;John P. Allegrante;John P. Allegrante;Asgeir R Helgason;Asgeir R Helgason.
Acta Paediatrica (2009)

93 Citations

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