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Kirsti Riiser

Kirsti Riiser

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 44, 0167 Oslo
  • Office number: V422
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 917 57 485
  • Office: +47 672 36 173
E-mail
  • kirsti.riiser@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

My research interests are physical activity, health-related quality of life and health literacy in children and adolescents. I teach and supervise students at bachelor-, master and PhD level in topics related young peoples health and quality of life. I am a member of the MUSKHealth research group and Quality of Life research group at OsloMet, a boardmember of the Norwegian national research network HELINOR (HEalth LIteracy NORway) and member of the national research networks LIVSFORSK and CHIP (Children in Palliative Care).

Field of study

Play   Motivation   Physical activity   Health Related Quality of Life   School health services   Measures   Health behaviour   Well-baby clinics   Health Literacy   Intervention studies

Research groups

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Completed research projects

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Höfers, Wiebke; Riiser, Kirsti ; Jørgensen, Vivien; Hauger, Solveig Lægreid; Roaldsen, Kirsti Skavberg (2025). Resilience and adaptations—insights from Norwegian adolescents with pediatric-onset spinal cord injury. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences. Vol. 6.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2025.1526431

Bjørnerud, Erik; Steindal, Simen Alexander; Hofmann, Bjørn Morten; Winger, Anette ; Riiser, Kirsti ; Chen, Weiqin ; Holmen, Heidi (2025). Ethical, legal, and social aspects of health technologies for home-based paediatric palliative care – a systematic review. BMC Palliative Care. Vol. 24.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-025-01774-7

Flølo, Tone Nygaard ; Tørris, Christine ; Riiser, Kirsti ; Almendingen, Kari ; Chew, Han Shi Jocelyn; Fosså, Alexander; Früh, Elena Albertini ; Hennessy, Erin; Leung, May May; Misvær, Nina ; Pavel, Nenad ; Sundar, Turid Kristin Bigum ; Sæterstrand, Torill Margaret; Torbjørnsen, Astrid ; Løyland, Borghild ; Holmen, Heidi (2025). Digital health interventions to treat overweight and obesity in children and adolescents: An umbrella review. Obesity Reviews. Vol. 26.
https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13905

Holmen, Heidi ; Flølo, Tone Nygaard ; Tørris, Christine ; Torbjørnsen, Astrid ; Almendingen, Kari ; Riiser, Kirsti (2025). The role of health literacy in intervention studies targeting children living with overweight or obesity and their parents—a systematic mixed methods review. Frontiers in Pediatrics. Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2024.1507379

Göthner, Anniken; Riiser, Kirsti ; Tveten, Kine Melfald (2025). Validity of the Alberta Infants Motor Scale in Norwegian infants aged 6–9 months through comparison with Canadian and Dutch scores. Frontiers in Pediatrics. Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2024.1511965

Schröder, Judith; Riiser, Kirsti ; Holmen, Heidi (2024). Healthcare personnel’s perspectives on health technology in home-based pediatric palliative care: a qualitative study. BMC Palliative Care. Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-024-01464-w

Schröder, Judith; Riiser, Kirsti ; Holmen, Heidi (2024). The needs of healthcare personnel who provide home-based pediatric palliative care: a mixed method systematic review. BMC Health Services Research. Vol. 24.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-10495-7

Bjørnsen, Hanne Nissen; Haugen, Anders L Hage ; Riiser, Kirsti (2024). Helsekompetanse i skolen. Helseth, Sølvi; Pettersen, Kjell Sverre; Wahl, Astrid Klopstad (Ed.). Helsekompetanse Teori, forskning og praksis. p. 206-212. Fagbokforlaget.

Riiser, Kirsti ; Haugen, Anders L. Hage ; Helseth, Sølvi ; Bjørnsen, Hanne Nissen; Le, Christopher (2024). The Norwegian Perspective. Nash, Rosie; Vaughan, Cruickshank; Shandell, Elmer (Ed.). Global Perspectives on Children’s Health Literacy. p. 175-189. Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63840-4

Tveten, Kine Melfald; Olsen, Silje Aasjord; Riiser, Kirsti (2024). Å teste eller ikke teste? - En studie av norske fysioterapeuters praksis for kartlegging av motorisk funksjon. Fysioterapeuten. Vol. 91.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3186770



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Research reports

Riiser, Kirsti ; Helseth, Sølvi ; Løndal, Knut ; Ommundsen, Yngvar (2015). Young & Active: development and evaluation of an internet intervention to increase fitness and health-related quality of life in adolescents with overweight and obesity. ISBN: 9788250205123. Norges idrettshøgskole.



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Dissemination

Guddal, Maren Hjelle ; Johansen, Simon Kristoffer; Riiser, Kirsti ; Sundar, Turid Kristin Bigum ; Skonnord, Trygve; Rathleff, Michael S.; Dunn, Kate M.; Smedbråten, Kaja ; Øiestad, Britt Elin ; Jahre, Henriette (2025). Samskaping av en persontilpasset intervensjon for ungdom med langvarige smerter: Funn fra workshops med ungdom, foreldre og fagpersoner. Nasjonale forskningskonferanse- muskelskjeletthelse (MUSS). Norwegian Musculoskeletal research network.

Höfers, Wiebke; Jørgensen, Vivien; Riiser, Kirsti ; Roaldsen, Kirsti Skavberg (2025). Global voices: Adolescents’ perceptions of pediatric SCI rehabilitation. 64th International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) . ISCoS/NoSCoS.

Kalleson, Runa ; Riiser, Kirsti ; Jørgensen, Vivien; Roaldsen, Kirsti Skavberg (2025). I'm still me. Paradoxes, ambiguities and ambivalences –the lived experience of adolescents with pediatric-onset spinal cord injury. 64th International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) . ISCoS/NoSCoS.

Holmen, Heidi ; Winger, Anette ; Steindal, Simen Alexander; Riiser, Kirsti ; Bjørnerud, Erik; Chen, Weiqin ; Martinsen, Linda Johanne ; Schröder, Judith (2025). CHIP homeTec – health technology in pediatric palliative care. InterSurg. InterSurg.
https://doi.org/https://www.ous-research.no/files/

Holmen, Heidi ; Winger, Anette ; Steindal, Simen Alexander; Martinsen, Linda Johanne ; Schröder, Judith; Bjørnerud, Erik; Chen, Weiqin ; Riiser, Kirsti (2025). Health technology in home-based pediatric palliative care?. InterSurg. InterSurg.
https://doi.org/https://www.ous-research.no/files/

Holmen, Heidi ; Winger, Anette ; Steindal, Simen Alexander; Riiser, Kirsti ; Bjørnerud, Erik; Chen, Weiqin ; Martinsen, Linda Johanne ; Schröder, Judith (2025). CHIP homeTec – health technology in pediatric palliative care. The 14th International Seminar of the European Palliative Care Research Centre (PRC). the European Palliative Care Research Centre (PRC).
https://doi.org/https://www.oslo-universitetssykeh

Macintyre, Anna Kloster-Jensen ; Hesselberg, Heidi; Helseth, Sølvi ; Haraldstad, Kristin; Riiser, Kirsti (2025). Fra innsikt til tiltak: Kartlegging av helsekompetanse hos småbarnsforeldre med innvandrerbakgrunn i Bydel Bjerke og samskaping av tiltak. Fagdag i migrasjonshelse: Helsekompetanse blant personer med innvandrerbakgrunn. Helseetaten, Oslo.

Macintyre, Anna Kloster-Jensen ; Helseth, Sølvi ; Haraldstad, Kristin; Hesselberg, Heidi; Riiser, Kirsti (2025). Helsekompetanse blant foreldre med innvandrerbakgrunn (OPAL). FORSKHE Nettverkssamling. FORSKHE – forskningsnettverk for helsestasjons- og skolehelsetjenesten.

Riiser, Kirsti ; Macintyre, Anna Kloster-Jensen ; Rivelsrud, Silje; Hesselberg, Heidi; Haraldstad, Kristin; Helseth, Sølvi (2025). Helsekompetanse hos foreldre med innvadrerbakgrunn (OPAL). Et inkluderende, behovsidentifisert forskningsprosjekt. Arena Unikom.

Guddal, Maren Hjelle ; Johansen, Simon Kristoffer; Riiser, Kirsti ; Sundar, Turid Kristin Bigum ; Skonnord, Trygve; Rathleff, Michael S.; Dunn, Kate M.; Smedbråten, Kaja ; Øiestad, Britt Elin ; Jahre, Henriette (2025). Utvikling av persontilpassede tiltak mot smerter med brukermedvirkning i sentrum: HEYoung intervensjonsstudien. Fysioterapikongressen 2025. Norsk Fysioterapiforbund.



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