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1 Research areas among academic staff at the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg Name and title Population of interest Methodological expertise Research areas of interest Research profile at Institute of Health and Care Sciences Other info care Karin Ahlberg Cancer Cross-sectional and longitudinell questionnaire data Grounded Theory Symptom management process. Patient perspective Tone Ahlborg RN, RM, in Public Health Couples of different kind Families Qualitative and quantitative methods: Phenomenology, Qualitative content analysis Surveys, Longitudinal studies Couple relationships, marital quality, instrument development: QDR36, Quality of Dyadic Relationship Åsa Axelsson (Med Sc) Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) Cardiac arrest (CA) Patients/family In- and prehospital Qualitative and quantitative methods Surveys Phenomenography Critical Incident technique Qualitative content analysis Quality of life after CA - patient and family Support in relation to ACS and CA - patient and family CPR - professionals and laypeople care Ann Bengtson RNT, Acute coronary syndrome, CHD, CABG, PCI, Hypertension Randomized clinical trials, Quantitative analysis, Interventions studies Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Primary and Secondary Prevention, Quality of Life 1

2 Linda Berg, RNT Patients with longterm- illness and theirs experiences of caring especially relationships in care and nurses experiences of caring in nursing as well as relatives specific perspective in this problem area. The environment in which this phenomenon take place. Qualitative research methods especially phenomenology and hermeneutic as well as content analysis Patients with longtermillness and theirs experiences of caring especially relationships in care and nurses experiences of caring in nursing as well as relatives specific perspective in this problem area, and also the environment in which this phenomenon take place. Nurses documentation Integrate theory and praxis in advanced level of nurses Marie Berg RN, RM, MPH, MNSc, Childbearing women, their partners and families 1. Phenomenolog ical approach based on lifeworld theory including both descriptive and interpretive analysis 2. Have also performed observational, descriptive studies and statistics, and randomised controlled studies Supportive care in childbearing (i.e. pregnancy, delivery and post-delivery period) My research is within reproductive and perinatal health and includes all the profiles in the institution: 1. Symptoms in health and care 2. Significance of environment including both the micro- and macro level, i.e. a) intersubejctive relationship, b) the room and space (architecture and emotional feeling) and c) the organisation. 3. Professional s learning in health care and health care, and students (Midwifery) learning in Ingrid Bergh Heart failure and symptoms, particularly pain Intervention studies Quantitative Acute and chronic pain Expressions of pain and impact of psychosocial variables on pain experiences 1. Symptoms in health and care Adjunct, College of Nursing at the University of Rhode Island, USA 2

3 Ingegerd Bergbom RN NT,, Eva Brink Patients with experiences from critically, severe disease/injury, families, carers Former pat exp. Chronic illness, patients with myocardial infarction Qualitative methodologies: hermeneutics, hermeneutic/phenomenological Intervention and evaluation studies Multi method design, combining quantitative and qualitative methods Intensive care and recovery following severe, critically disease/injury High technology and caring Psychosocial aspects of living and coping with chronic illness Eric Carlström, Ella Danielson, Lisen Dellenborg, Senior managers, middle managers and operating staff in health care organizations Chronic Illness Palliative Care Patients, but also health care staff and relatives are involved in the studies Circumcised women. Patients with various cultural backgrounds. Midwives. Health care personnel. Chritical studies Case studies Description, exploration and predicition Quantitative methods : Ethnography Participant observation Anthropological fieldwork Health management Health organizing Organizational cultures Leadership and management control Experience, Management, Quality of Life Transcultural care encounters Female genital mutilation/cutting Ethnicity, Religion, Gender, and Sexuality Implementation and change processes in health care industry The influence of organizational cultures in health organizations Learning and leadership in health care during change and fiscal limitations in Social Anthropology 3

4 Inger Ekman, Kristin Falk Chronic illness, patients with chronic heart failure Patients with chronic illness, patients with heart failure Evaluation of interventions Description/explorat ion Quantitative and qualitative methods (GT) Symptoms Patient Adherence to treatment Symptoms (fatigue) and strategies for symptoms alleviation. Anna Forsberg R.N. Organ transplant recipients Organ donors Patients admitted to the intensive and critical care unit Health care professionals working in the field of organ transplantation and organ donation Morbidly obese patients awaiting and going through bariatric surgery. Statistical analysis and quantitative design Hermenutical phenomenology Phenomenography Grounded Theory Personal models of explanation of illness after organ transplantation Health related quality of life and long term consequences after organ transplantation Perceptions of experiences of graft rejection Motives for and/or attitudes towards organ donation Dying in the ICU Experiences of being awake during ventilator treatment in the ICU. Personal models of explanation of illness in relation to morbid obesity and bariatric surgery. Process of transition before and after bariatric surgery. Personal models of explanation of illness after organ transplantation Health related quality of life and long term consequences after organ transplantation Personal models of explanation of illness in relation to morbid obesity and bariatric surgery. Process of transition before and after bariatric surgery. Dying in the ICU Experiences of being awake during ventilator treatment in the ICU. Perceptions of experiences of graft rejection Motives for and/or attitudes towards organ donation Also performing research regarding effects of using individual or standardized nursing care plans. 4

5 Febe Friberg,, Patients Health Care Professionals Patient teaching and patient learning Isabell Fridh, RN, CCN, Intensive care patients, families and nurses Quantitative and qualitative methods Surveys Qualitative content analysis Phenomenological hermeneutics End-of-life care in high technological environments Health care environments Significance of environment for health and care Carina Furåker, Staff and leaders in hospitals and community health care. Students and teachers in higher Higher, competence and knowledge Pedagogic and didactic issues Elisabeth Hansson Olofsson All kind of patients Methods for economic evaluation in health care Health economy 1. Symptoms health and care Anna-Lena Hellström,, Children, adolescents and family Not focused on any particular method Urinary bladder function and development Long term illness in daily life Eva Jakobsson, RN, RNT, Patients with: heart failure, co morbidities, chronic diseases and elderly patients Qualitative and quantitative approaches Well-being Palliation End-of-life care Palliative care 5

6 Margareta Jerlock Patients with chest pain Content analysis Nurse and Pedagogics Nursing Jan Karlsson, Overweight, obesity Chronic illness General population Quantitative methods Questionnaire development Psychometric analysis Quality of life Eating behavior Health psychology Karin Kjellgren RN,, Cardiovascular diseases Qualitative (communication studies) and quantitative Preventive cardiology, Adherence to treatment Patient 3. Learning in health care and health Ingalill Koinberg (Med Sc) Breast cancer or cancer in general Patient care Annette Lennerling RN, MSc in Nursing, (Med Sc) Living kidney donors, Kidney transplant patients, Chronic kidney disease patients (CKD) Quantitative and, Surveys, Living kidney donationpsychosocial and ethical issues Kidney transplantation Nonadherence, patient, quality of life, Chronic kidney diseasesymptoms in early stages of CKD 6

7 Margret Lepp, Students Schoolteachers Patients Health care professionals Research methodologies for drama Learning trough Drama Personal and Professional Development in Health and Care Preceptorship in Health Care Empowerment International Nursing Education, Global Nursing and Cultural Competency in Health Care Adolescence, Conflict and Health Drama and Conflict Management Core Conflict Competency in Nursing and Teacher Education President of Tau Omega Chapter in Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), at the Sahlgrenska Academy University of Gothenburg Eva Lidén Elderly people, patients with FSS (functional somatic syndromes), Discourse analysis Institutional conversations Interdisciplinary and organizational collaboration care Barbro Lundblad Children 0-16 years Descriptions School health care Significance of environment for healthy toilet habits in schoolchildren Ingela Lundgren, RN, RM (Med.Sc) Childbearing with focus on support and strengthening factors Women s experiences of childbirth Support during childbirth 7

8 Solveig Lundgren, Kerstin Nilsson, Lars-Eric Olsson Harshida Patel, Post-doc fellow Nurses and patients in home care in multicultural contexts. Nursing students bachelor thesis Health care managers first line nurse managers in particular, Health care employees Elderly patients in acute orthopaedic, medical and geriatric care: Chronic illness, patients with chronic heart failure Qualitative method Grounded Theory Qualitative approaches Quantitative, randomized clinical trials and observational cross-sectional studies Qualitative analysis Interventions Health economic evaluations Psychometric validation Municipal Home care Nurse students Leadership and management qualities and competence; health care employees competence, work and health Health economics Integrated care pathways (ICP) Patient centered care Symptoms Health economic evaluations Self Care Patient care care,, Senior lecturer, Adjunct, College of Nursing at the University of Rhode Island, US Lars-Olof Persson, prof. Chronic Illness Questionnaires measuring Health Status, Quality of Life, Coping, Personality Quality of Life and Coping among people with chronic somatic conditions 8

9 Barbro Robertsson Elderly, dementia delirium Instrumentation General overview of research methods Intervention Focus groups Patients' experience and perspective Effect of nursing interventions Carola Skott, Patients, health professionals, vulnerable groups Ethnography Narrative research Hermeneutics Health anthropology Communication of symptoms Care encounters Care in multicultural contexts Ingela Skärsäter, Persons with mental illness, with special focus on affective disorders. Qualitative and quantitative methods, intervention studies. Response to stress, burden, recovery path, impact of, quality of life in both patients and population. Carina Sparud Lundin RN, RNT, Children, adolescents and young adults with diabetes type 1, Quantitative and qualitative approaches Grounded theory method Computer assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDAS) Health, wellbeing and experiences of professional care and support from significant others when living with chronic illness Experiences of childbirth/ postpartum period among women with obesity or type 1 diabetes Charles Taft,, General, Chronic illness, Elderly Univariate & multivariate methods; psychometrics; questionnaire development & evaluation Health-related quality of life/ health status in clinical and epidemiological applications 9

10 Margareta Warren Stomberg RNA, Day surgery patients Qualitative and quantitative methods Recovery and postoperative symptoms following day surgery 1. Symptoms in health and care 2. Significance of environment including both the micro- and macro level, i.e. a) intersubjective relationship, b) the room and space (architecture and emotional feeling) and c) the organisation. Helena Wigert New born children and their parents/family ; phenomenological, hermeneutic method; Content analysis Neonatal intensive care, New born children, Parental presence and participation in the care of their children Family-friendly care.. Kerstin Wikström Ene Patients Quantitative Pain Helle Wijk RN RNT Elderly in general and elderly specifically with dementia and cognitive decline using as well quantitative and qualitative analysis, the latter mainly using content analysis. Predictors and symptoms of health and unhealth among elderly persons. Environmental impact on activities of daily living, behavior and well being My main research profile is 2. Significance of the environment for health and care. But I am involved in research projects both concerning symptoms, health and care and the elderly population, and concerning integration of the practical and theoretical parts of the nursing. Joakim Öhlén, RNT, Patients at the end-of-life and their significant others; palliative care, cancer patients Narrative analysis, life world phenomenology, hermeneutics, grounded theory, action research, mixed methods design Communication in palliative care; suffering, safety and comfort. Practice and praxis. Outcome of and didactic development in nursing. 10

School of Nursing & Health Sciences, University of Dundee Researchers Information

School of Nursing & Health Sciences, University of Dundee Researchers Information Introduction Dear All, This booklet presents information about our current research staff, their areas of interest, expertise