Health and Welfare
Care, Recovery and Health
The group’s research is directed towards developing and applying scientific knowledge of how different forms of care and nursing can contribute towards human recovery and health.
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A common starting point for the research is to seek understanding of the unique individual and to find ways of strengthening people’s personal resources for health and well-being. Apart from research that enhances knowledge of care and nursing, recovery and health, research is also conducted that focuses on how this knowledge can be disseminated and applied in education, health and welfare as well as in social work.
The goal of the group’s scientific work is to contribute knowledge that can form the basis for developing support, care and nursing to promote health and to ease suffering.
Ongoing research projects
The project aims to integrating findings from qualitative studies in order to promote a deeper understanding of the meaning of recovery.
Project manager at MDU: Lena Wiklund Gustin
Main financing: MDU
The overall purpose of this project is to explore newly graduated registered nurses' (NGRNs’) experiences of encountering work-related stress and of caring for patients in the emergency department (ED) during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Project manager at MDU: Petra Heideken Wågert
Main financing: Akademin för hälsa vård och välfärd MDU
The aim of this project is to modify a Cognitive Relational Group Program, originally designed for treatment of clients that had been on long term sick-listing, and use it preventively to reduce experiences of work-related stress and increase self-compassion among people who experience work related stress without being sick-listed.
Project manager at MDU: Lena Wiklund Gustin
The overall purpose is to investigate the work situation of newly graduated registered nurses (NGRN’s) working in emergency units during the Covid-19- pandemic, their experiences, and management of stress, the significance of stress on their own health and on the care they provide.
Project manager at MDU: Petra Heideken Wågert
Main financing: Akademin för hälsa vård och välfärd MDU
The overall aim of this project is to study how students in psychiatric nursing can develope in their Professional role and how their integration of theory and practice can be supported. A part of the project is dedicated to Developing a recovery-oriented curriculum for mental health nursing. This minor project focus on the process of developing and implementing a new curriculum for the psychiatric nurse education.
Project manager at MDU: Lena Wiklund Gustin
Main financing: MDU
The aim is to develop, conduct and evaluate a professional developing program (PDP) to support newly graduated nurses role clarity, ability to act, social integration, reduce stress and increase recovery. The target is to increase job satisfaction.
Project manager at MDU: Margareta Asp
Main financing: Afa Försäkring
Before suicide and suicide attempts, most people come in contact with the healthcare system and they show great ambivalence, meaning that there are numerous occasions for people whom come in contact with the patient to interfere and prevent suicide. Ambulance care traditionally have a distinct medical perspective on the patient with focus on severe somatic disease and previous research have shown that mental illness can be considered as secondary and even obstructing from what is considered as legit assignments.
Main financing: Centrum för klinisk forskning Region Sörmland