Perioperative care
The research within Postoperative Care focuses on identifying vulnerable groups of persons undergoing surgery and to develop and test person-centered, safe, cost-effective eHealth solutions in order to systematically monitor and support patients in their postoperative recovery.
The research area
The research within the group is based on a person-centered approach. The research covers development and testing of instruments, health economy, health literacy, quality of life, symptoms and discomfort. The intervention studies take place in close collaboration between researchers, patients and health care. The goal is finding innovative solutions and evidence based knowledge to be implemented in clinical practice in order to increase the quality of patient's postoperative recovery.
Ongoing Projects
Postoperative recovery
Principal Investigator: Ulrica Nilsson
The project aims to describe, measure, define and explain postoperative recovery. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are used in order to search for differences and similarities, factors that influence postoperative recovery as well as create a model / theory and to further development of the Swedish version of Quality of Recovery (SwQoR). The project is based on the patient's perspective, but relatives and the staff's views are also studied.
Postoperative neurocognitive recovery
Principal Investigator: Ulrica Nilsson
This research programs overall aims to explore cognitive decline after surgery, test and evaluate a digital cognitive screening tool, investigate patients experiences of cognitive recovery, as well as to investigate potential associations between neurocognitive decline, health literacy, early postoperative confusion and dementia among older persons undergoing surgery. The research program consists of the following projects:
CoME- Cognitive Measurements and Experiences
The project aims to explore patients’ experiences of their early postoperative cognition after orthopaedic surgery in relation to postoperative neurocognitive function assessed with validated neuropsychological tests, inflammatory signalling molecules and quality of postoperative recovery as well as to describe the relative’s view of early postoperative cognition.
DiCASS-Digital Cognitive Assessment and Support after Surgery
The project aims to evaluate the effect of cognitive monitoring and support on patient's postoperative recovery and to study health economy aspects as well as to describe patients’ experience of the cognitive monitoring and support.
PICASU - Postoperative dIgital Cognitive Assessment and SUpport
The project aims to evaluate the effect of cognitive monitoring and support on patient's postoperative recovery and to study health economy aspects as well as to describe patients’ experience of the cognitive monitoring and support.
Health literacy
The project aims to psychometric evaluate health literacy instruments, and measure health literacy. The research program consists of the following projects:
Psychometric evaluation of HLS-EU-Q16 and eHEALS
Principal Investigator: Ulrica Nilsson
The overall aim is to psychometric evaluate the Swedish and Arabic versions of HLS-EU-Q16 and eHEALS, and to compare Arabic and Swedish speakers’ Health literacy, eHealth literacy levels and health in Sweden. HLS-EU-Q16 (The Health Literacy Survey European Questionnaire) measuring general health literacy and eHEALS (eHealth literacy scale) measuring electronic health literacy. The project also aims to study eHealth literacy among people that have suffered from Covid -19 and have been cared for in an Intensive care unit.
SEHLO - Self-efficacy and health literacy influence outcome after bariatric surgery
Principal Investigator: Maria Jaensson
The project aims to study health literacy, self-efficacy and registry data from the Scandinavian Obesity Surgery Registry (SOReg) in a group of people who have undergone bariatric surgery
Care in the Post anaesthesia Care Unit, PACU
Principal Investigator: Karuna Dahlberg
The project aims to explore and describe competences and care in the PACU from an organizational level to patients view. The research program consists of the following projects:
Defining the role and competence of the nurse working at the PACU
This project is an international and national collaboration with the aim to describe and compare the role and competence of the nurse working at the PACU both from a national as well as an international perspective.
Patients view of the care at the PACU
This project aims to describe patients experiences of the care at the PACU
Experiences among nurses working in a Covid-ICU
Principal Investigator: Ulrica Nilsson
The purpose of this international study is to describe and compare stress related to troubled conscience, i.e. stress of conscience, and fear of Covid-19 among perianaesthesia nurses who are or have been working in a Covid-ICU during the Corona pandemic. Stress of conscience can be explained as when health care personnel find themselves caught between their ideal image of health care and the reality resulting in a troubled conscience from not being able to do more. Countries included are: Australia, Belgium/Netherlands, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA.
Research leader
Ulrica Nilsson
Professor/nurseGroup members
Anahita Amirpour
PhD StudentKaruna Dahlberg
LectureProfilsida, Örebro universitet
Jeanette Eckerblad
LecturerLars I Eriksson
Professor/senior physicianMaria Jaensson
Associate professor/Senior lectureProfilsida, Örebro universitet
Martin Jarl
PhD StudentKarin Liander
PhD StudentErik Stenberg
Associate professor/Senior physicianProfilsida, Örebro Universitet
Anders Thorell
Affiliated to researchJosefin Wångdahl
ResearcherProfilsida, Uppsala Universitet