Nissen, Alexander

Scientific articles and chapters

Solberg, Ø., Sengoelge, M., Nissen, A., & Saboonchi, F. (2021). Coping in limbo? The moderating role of coping strategies in the relationship between post-migration stress and well-being during the asylum-seeking process. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), 18(3), 1-16. doi:10.3390/ijerph18031004

Berthelsen, M., Hansen, M. B., Nissen, A., Nielsen, M. B., Knardahl, S., & Heir, T. (2020). Effects of exposure to workplace terrorism on subsequent doctor certified sickness absence, and the modifying role of psychological and social work factors: a combined survey and register study. BMC Public Health, 20(1). doi:10.1186/s12889-020-08465-3

Grønning Dale, M. T., Nissen, A. F. W., Berthelsen, M., & Heir, T. (2020). Post-traumatic stress reactions and doctor-certified sick leave after a workplace terrorist attack: Norwegian cohort study. BMJ Open, 10(2). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032693

Nissen, A., & Heir, T. (2020). Security interventions and perceived safety and threat following workplace terrorism: a three-wave longitudinal study of ministerial employees in Norway. Journal of Risk Research, 1-15. doi:10.1080/13669877.2020.1848903

Nissen, A., Berthelsen, M., Grønning Dale, M. T., Hansen, M. B., & Heir, T. (2020). Is perceived safety and threat after workplace terrorism linked to employee sick-leave? A registry-based longitudinal study of governmental employees in Norway. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 11:185249(1), 1-13. doi:10.1080/20008198.2020.1785249

Nissen, A., Cauley, P., Saboonchi, F., Andersen, A. J., & Solberg, Ø. (2020). Cohort profile: Resettlement in Uprooted Groups Explored (REFUGE) – A longitudinal study of mental health and integration in adult refugees from Syria resettled in Norway between 2015 and 2017. BMJ Open, 10(7). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036101

Sengoelge, M., Solberg, Ø., Nissen, A., & Saboonchi, F. (2020). Exploring Social and Financial Hardship, Mental Health Problems and the Role of Social Support in Asylum Seekers Using Structural Equation Modelling. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Solberg, Ø., Nissen, A., Vaez, M., Cauley, P., & Saboonchi, F.Eriksson, A. K. (2020). Children at risk: A nation-wide, cross-sectional study examining post-traumatic stress symptoms in refugee minors from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan resettled in Sweden between 2014 and 2018. Conflict and Health, 14:67, 1-12. doi:10.1186/s13031-020-00311-y

Nissen, A., Hansen, M., Bang Hansen, M., Nielsen, M. B., Birkeland Nielsen, M., Knardahl, S., & Heir, T. (2019). Employee safety perception following workplace terrorism. A longitudinal study. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10. doi:10.1080/20008198.2018.1478584

Hansen, M., Bang Hansen, M., Berthelsen, M., Nissen, A., & Heir, T. (2018). Sick leave before and after a work-place targeted terror attack. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. doi:10.1007/s00420-018-1390-8

Hansen, M., Birkeland, M. S., Nissen, A., Blix, I., Solberg, Ø., & Heir, T. (2017). Prevalence and course of symptom-defined PTSD in individuals directly or indirectly exposed to terror: A longitudinal study. Psychiatry, 80(2), 171-183. doi:10.1080/00332747.2016.1230983

Nissen, A., Cook, J., Loha, E., & Lindtjorn, B. (2017). Proximity to vector breeding site and risk of Plasmodium vivax infection: a prospective cohort study in rural Ethiopia. Malaria Journal, 16:380, 1-11. doi:10.1186/s12936-017-2031-5

Blix, I., Kanten, A. B., Birkeland, M. S., Solberg, Ø., Nissen, A., & Heir, T. (2016). Thinking About What Might Have Happened: Counterfactual Thinking and Post-traumatic Stress in Individuals Directly and Indirectly Exposed to the 2011 Oslo Bombing. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30(6), 983-991. doi:10.1002/acp.3289

Nissen, A., & Heir, T. (2016). Perceived safety at work in the wake of terror: The importance of security measures and emergency preparedness. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 10(6), 805-811. doi:10.1017/dmp.2016.45

Nissen, A., Nielsen, M. B., Solberg, Ø., Hansen, M., & Heir, T. (2015). Perception of threat and safety at work among employees in the Norwegian ministries after the 2011 Oslo bombing. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 28(6), 650-662. doi:10.1080/10615806.2015.1009831

Blix, I., Hansen, M., Birkeland, M. S., Nissen, A., & Heir, T. (2013). Posttraumatic growth, posttraumatic stress and psychological adjustment in the aftermath of the 2011 Oslo bombing attack. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 11:160. doi:10.1186/1477-7525-11-160

Hansen, M., Nissen, A., & Heir, T. (2013). Proximity to terror and post-traumatic stress: a follow-up survey of governmental employees after the 2011 Oslo bombing attack. BMJ Open, 3(7). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002692

Nissen, A., & McKee, H. (2003). Yale project for health action: AIDS education in South Africa. The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine.

Reports

Solberg, Ø., Nissen, A., Cauley, P., & Andersen, A. J. (2020). Mental health and quality of life among refugees from Syria after forced migration to Norway: Main findings from the REFUGE study. Nasjonalt kunnskapssenter om vold og traumatisk stress. (Rapport 1/2020).

Other publications

Nissen, A. (2016). Data analysis project exploring the effect of proximity to vector breeding site on P.vivax infection using data from a prospective cohort study of residents in a rural village in Ethiopia. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. (Master’s thesis).

Nissen, A. (2014 November). Opplevelse av sikkerhet blant ansatte i departementene etter 22. juli. Foredrag på 10-års jubileum NKVTS, NKVTS.

Nissen, A. (2013 June). Perception of Threat and Safety at Work among Ministerial Employees after the 2011 Oslo Bombing. Paper presented at 13th European Conference on Traumatic Stress, Bologna.