Associate Professor

Ingvild Hernar

Department of Health and Caring sciences

Field of work

Associate professor at the master's programme in clinical nursing (specialisation in diabetes nursing) and the PhD programme Health, Function and Participation. Currently on 40% leave.

I also work at Haukeland University Hospital (HUH) as a senior advisor at the Centre for patient-reported outcomes data in the Department of Research and Development. I have extensive experience as a diabetes nurse in the Department of Internal Medicine at HUH. I have also been a postdoctoral fellow at the same clinic from January 2022 to September 2025.

I represent the nursing field in the Regional Ethics Committee (REK Vest) (2025-2029). In addition, I am a member of the National Council for Diabetes (Directorate of Health).

Courses Taught

On master level:

Clinical diabetes nursing
Diabetes treatment
Diabetes follow-up
Diabetes distress
Health literacy
Patient-reported outcomes
Research methods and ethics

On PhD level:

Patient-reported outcomes
Intervention studies

Research areas

Diabetes in adults
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in clinical practice and research
PROM data from the Norwegian Diabetes Register for Adults
Diabetes distress, diabetes self-management, hypoglycaemia symptom awareness, general well-being and depression in adults with type 1 diabetes
Diabetes and menopause
Patient activation in chronic diseases
Hypoglyceamia in elderly people with diabetes
Cardiac rehabilitation after coronary percutaneous intervention, diabetes and other comorbidities

DIA501B, Teaching and supervision to promote health and wellbeing, Fall 2025
KAS510, Patients with Complex and Long-Term Health Problems, Fall 2025
MKS592, Master's Thesis, Spring 2026, subject responsible

Publications

Comparison of information provided on diabetes distress when using PAID-20, PAID-11 or PAID-5. A registry-based study applying IRT analyses among 10,190 adults with type 1 diabetes in Norway

Anne Haugstvedt, Roy Miodini Nilsen, Kyrre Breivik, Marjolein M. Iversen, Ragnhild Bjarkøy Strandberg, Karianne Fjeld Løvaas (2025)

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 2025 ;Volum 225.
"Problem Areas in Diabetes" (PAID) for kartlegging av diabetes distress: Hvilken versjon av spørreskjemaet skal man velge i forskning og klinisk praksis?

Anne Haugstvedt, Ingvild Hernar (2025)

Diabetesfag 2025(4) s. 42-46
Prevalence and risk factors for impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia: A registry-based study of 10,202 adults with type 1 diabetes in Norway

Ingvild Hernar, Ragnhild Bjarkøy Strandberg, Roy Miodini Nilsen, John Cooper, Timothy C Skinner, Marjolein Memelink Iversen (2024)

Diabetic Medicine 2024
Sex differences in diabetes distress and general well-being among adults with type 1 diabetes: Insights from a population-based registry study

Ingvild Hernar, Ragnhild Bjarkøy Strandberg, Hilde Kristin Refvik Riise, John Graham Cooper, Karianne Fjeld Løvaas, Tone Vonheim Madsen (2024)

Quality of Life Research 2024 ;Volum 33.
Fagprosedyre for diabetes i kommunale helse- og omsorgstjenester

Marjolein M. Iversen, Ingvild Hernar, Tilla Landbakk, Anne Haugstvedt, Tore Julsrud Berg, Kariann Krohne (2023)

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Ingvild Hernar

Field of work

Publications

Comparison of information provided on diabetes distress when using PAID-20, PAID-11 or PAID-5. A registry-based study applying IRT analyses among 10,190 adults with type 1 diabetes in Norway

"Problem Areas in Diabetes" (PAID) for kartlegging av diabetes distress: Hvilken versjon av spørreskjemaet skal man velge i forskning og klinisk praksis?

Prevalence and risk factors for impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia: A registry-based study of 10,202 adults with type 1 diabetes in Norway

Sex differences in diabetes distress and general well-being among adults with type 1 diabetes: Insights from a population-based registry study

Fagprosedyre for diabetes i kommunale helse- og omsorgstjenester