Department of Public Health

 Department of Public Health Research Research areas Clinical Public Health Nursing and Healthcare Existence and Rehabilitation

Existence and Rehabilitation

In the research group, we focus on existence and rehabilitation in cases where the circumstances for life are permanently changed or changing, either suddenly or due to long-term illness. Our research aims to answer the question of how healthcare professionals best support the respective individual in living a meaningful life with illness or disability.

We gain knowledge through a phenomenological approach to unravel and explore the meaning of living with changing life conditions, and to understand, identify and illuminate healing processes. Furthermore, we make use of a complex interventions approach to support the understanding and integration of individual experiences in a healthcare context with multiple agents.

Research areas

Currently, our research falls within these areas:

  • The meaning of narrative in the healing process
  • What it takes for nurses to support the patient’s healing process towards a meaningful life
  • Stay healthy despite low back pain  
  • Arts as means to maintenance of health and the healing process
  • Better living with Parkinson’s disease
  • Being a carer to a person with Parkinson’s disease
  • The experience of advanced treatment and Parkinson’s disease
  • What is it like to attend PD dance classes?

Recent publications

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Kirkevold, M., Kildal Bragstad, L., Bronken, B. A., Kvigne, K., Martinsen, R., Gabrielsen Hjelle, E., Kitzmüller, G., Mangset, M., Angel, S., Aadal, L., Eriksen, S., Wyller, T. B. & Sveen, U. (2018). Promoting psychosocial well-being following stroke: Study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial. BMC Psychology, 6(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-018-0223-6
Aadal, L., Angel, S., Langhorn, L., Pedersen, B. B. & Dreyer, P. (2018). Sygeplejerskens roller og funktioner målrettet pårørende under hospitalsbaseret neurorehabilitering efter apopleksi: Behov for omsorg og involvering. Abstract from Den 5. Nationale Neurokonference 2018, Middelfart, Denmark.
Nielsen, A. H., Angel, S., Egerod, I. & Hansen, T. B. (2018). The effect of diaries written by relatives for intensive care patients on posttraumatic stress (DRIP study): Protocol for a randomized controlled trial and mixed methods study. BMC Nursing, 17(1), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-018-0306-y
Haahr, A. & Martinsen, B. (2018). van Manens tænkning og metode - et overblik. In F. Alkier Gildberg & L. Hounsgaard (Eds.), Kvalitative analysemetoder i sundhedsforskning (1 ed., pp. 210). Klim.
Haahr, A., Brincks, J. & Sørensen, D. (2017). Coping with Parkinson's disease in everyday life: a systematic review protocol. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports , 15(5), 1288-1297. https://doi.org/10.11124/JBISRIR-2016-002989
Wagner, M., Nielsen, K., Jensen, P. E. & Haahr, A. (2017). Exploring lifestyle changes in women with ischemic heart disease. Nordic Journal of Nursing Research, 37(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/2057158517696039
Nielsen, A. H. & Angel, S. (2017). Intensive Care Unit Diaries. Achieving wellbeing through writing. Poster session presented at Ph.d. day, Aarhus, Denmark.

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