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Preben Bendtsen

Preben Bendtsen

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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5621
World Ranking
4519
National Ranking
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Overview

Preben Bendtsen is affiliated with Linköping University in Sweden and focuses their research on areas spanning psychology, health professions, and medicine. Their main fields of study include psychology, health professions, and medicine, with notable subfields such as general health professions, applied psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, physiology, and sociology and political science.

Their work covers a range of topics including behavioral health and interventions, mobile health and mHealth applications, obesity, physical activity, and diet, digital mental health interventions, health literacy and information accessibility, smoking behavior and cessation, and the impact of technology on adolescents.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Preben Bendtsen include Marcus Bendtsen, Kristin Thomas, Marie Löf, Ulrika Müssener, and Hanna Henriksson.

Publication venues where Preben Bendtsen has contributed multiple articles include JMIR mhealth and uhealth, JMIR Research Protocols, BMC Public Health, BMJ Open, and Addiction.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Bendtsen are:

  • Text messaging interventions for reducing alcohol consumption among risky drinkers: systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Addiction
  • Health Care Professionals' Experience of a Digital Tool for Patient Exchange, Anamnesis, and Triage in Primary Care: Qualitative Study, 2020, JMIR Human Factors
  • A Human, Organization, and Technology Perspective on Patients' Experiences of a Chat-Based and Automated Medical History-Taking Service in Primary Health Care: Interview Study Among Primary Care Patients, 2021, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • The Mobile Health Multiple Lifestyle Behavior Interventions Across the Lifespan (MoBILE) Research Program: Protocol for Development, Evaluation, and Implementation, 2020, JMIR Research Protocols
  • Six-Month Outcomes from the NEXit Junior Trial of a Text Messaging Smoking Cessation Intervention for High School Students: Randomized Controlled Trial With Bayesian Analysis, 2021, JMIR mhealth and uhealth

Best Publications

  • A systematic review of emergency care brief alcohol interventions for injury patients

    Per Nilsen;Janette Baird;Janette Baird;Michael J. Mello;Michael J. Mello;Ted Nirenberg;Ted Nirenberg

  • Alcohol consumption is associated with progression of hepatic fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

    Mattias Ekstedt;Lennart E Franzén;Marika Holmqvist;Preben Bendtsen

  • A 6-month controlled naltrexone study: Combined effect with cognitive behavioral therapy in outpatient treatment of alcohol dependence

    J Balldin;Mats Berglund;S Borg;Marianne Månsson

  • Effectiveness of strategies to implement brief alcohol intervention in primary healthcare. A systematic review.

    Per Nilsen;Mauri Aalto;Preben Bendtsen;Kaija Seppä

  • Key factors influencing adoption of an innovation in primary health care: a qualitative study based on implementation theory

    Siw Carlfjord;Malou Lindberg;Preben Bendtsen;Per Nilsen

  • Comorbidity of Adult ADHD and Its Subtypes With Substance Use Disorder in a Large Population-Based Epidemiological Study:

    Andrea Johansson Capusan;Preben Bendtsen;Ina Marteinsdottir;Henrik Larsson

  • What are the qualities of dilemmas experienced when prescribing opioids in general practice

    Preben Bendtsen;Gunnel Hensing;Charlotte Ebeling;Anna Schedin

  • ATTITUDES OF SWEDISH GENERAL PRACTITIONERS AND NURSES TO WORKING WITH LIFESTYLE CHANGE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION

    Magnus Geirsson;Preben Bendtsen;Fredrik

  • Early intervention for problem drinkers: readiness to participate among general practitioners and nurses in Swedish primary health care.

    Kjell A. Johansson;Preben Bendtsen;Ingemar Åkerlind

  • Improving the delivery of brief interventions for heavy drinking in primary health care: outcome results of the optimizing delivery of health care intervention (ODHIN) five-country cluster randomized factorial trial

    Peter Anderson;Peter Anderson;Preben Bendtsen;Fredrik;Jillian Reynolds

  • Effectiveness of Short Message Service Text-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention Among University Students: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Ulrika Müssener;Marcus Bendtsen;Nadine Karlsson;Ian R. White

  • Does a physical activity referral scheme improve the physical activity among routine primary health care patients

    Matti E. Leijon;Preben Bendtsen;Per Nilsen;Karin Festin

  • Factors associated with patients self-reported adherence to prescribed physical activity in routine primary health care

    Matti E Leijon;Matti E Leijon;Preben Bendtsen;Agneta Ståhle;Kerstin Ekberg

  • Prescribing benzodiazepines: a critical incident study of a physician dilemma

    Preben Bendtsen;Gunnel Hensing;Lotta McKenzie;Anna-Karin Stridsman

  • Alcohol use among university students in Sweden measured by an electronic screening instrument

    Agneta Andersson;Ann-Britt Wiréhn;Christina Ölvander;Diana Stark Ekman

  • Advice to patients in Swedish primary care regarding alcohol and other lifestyle habits: how patients report the actions of GPs in relation to their own expectations and satisfaction with the consultation

    Kjell Johansson;Preben Bendtsen;Ingemar Åkerlind

  • Health related quality of life in Crohn's proctocolitis does not differ from a general population when in remission.

    Peter Andersson;Gunnar Olaison;Preben Bendtsen;Pär Myrelid

  • Changes in attitudes and practices in primary health care with regard to early intervention for problem drinkers.

    Preben Bendtsen;Ingemar Åkerlind

  • Who is not adhering to physical activity referrals, and why?

    Matti E. Leijon;Johan Faskunger;Preben Bendtsen;Karin Festin

  • Role of preexisting disease in patients' perceptions of health-related quality of life after intensive care.

    Lotti Orwelius;Anders Nordlund;Ulla Edéll-Gustafsson;Eva Simonsson

  • Effectiveness of a Proactive Mail-Based Alcohol Internet Intervention for University Students: Dismantling the Assessment and Feedback Components in a Randomized Controlled Trial

    Preben Bendtsen;Jim McCambridge;Marcus Bendtsen;Nadine Karlsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Per Nilsen
Per Nilsen Linköping University
Jim McCambridge
Jim McCambridge University of York
Colin Drummond
Colin Drummond King's College London
Eileen Kaner
Eileen Kaner Newcastle University
Paolo Deluca
Paolo Deluca King's College London
Paul K. Wallace
Paul K. Wallace Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Ralf Kuja-Halkola
Ralf Kuja-Halkola Karolinska Institute
Peter M. Monti
Peter M. Monti Brown University
John R. Knight
John R. Knight Boston Children's Hospital
Nathan B. Hansen
Nathan B. Hansen University of Georgia

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