Department of Public Health

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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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Wieghorst, A. R. & Angel, S. (2023). Sygeplejerskens rehabiliterende indsat fremmes af helhedsorientering og kendskab til borgeren. Sundhedsprofessionelle studier, 7(2), Article 135907. https://tidsskrift.dk/Sundhedsprofessionnelle_studier/article/view/135907
Soilemezi, D., Palmar-Santos, A., Navarta-Sánchez, M. V., Roberts, H. C., Pedraz-Marcos, A., Haahr, A., Sørensen, D., Bragstad, L. K., Hjelle, E. G., Haavaag, S. B. & Portillo, M. C. (2023). Understanding support systems for Parkinson's disease management in community settings: A cross-national qualitative study. Health Expectations, 26(2), 670-682. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13691
Norlyk, A., Martinsen, B., Dreyer, P. & Haahr, A. (2023). Why Phenomenology Came Into Nursing: The Legitimacy and Usefulness of Phenomenology in Theory Building in the Discipline of Nursing. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231210433
Angel, S. (2022). Borgerens perspektiv i rehabilitering. In A. Bendix Andersen & K. Frederiksen (Eds.), Borgernær sygepleje (2 ed., pp. 233-248). Munksgaard .
Thomsen, T. H., Jørgensen, L. B., Kjær, T. W., Haahr, A., Vogel, A., Larsen, I. U. & Winge, K. (2022). Clinical Markers of 6 Pre-dominant Coping Behaviors in Living With Parkinson Disease: A Convergent Mixed Methods Study. Inquiry, 59. https://doi.org/10.1177/00469580221129929
Nielsen, T. L., Kruse, N. B., Haahr, A., Hjelle, E. G., Bragstad, L. K., Palmar-Santos, A., Navarta-Sánchez, M. V., Pedraz-Marcos, A., Pires, S. B., Roberts, H. C. & Portillo, M. C. (2022). Exploring health and social services in Denmark, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom for the development of Parkinson's care pathways: A document analysis. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(6), e3507-e3518. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13970
Angel, S. (2022). Helpful factors in a healthcare professional intervention for low-back pain: Unveiled by Heidegger's philosophy. Nursing Philosophy, 23(1), Article e12364. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12364

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