The aim of the research group
The research group Health and Welfare in the Digital Society has a strong and distinct research profile aligned with HiØ’s strategic focus area “The Digital Society.”
The group’s main objective is to contribute interdisciplinary, socially relevant, and/or profession-oriented knowledge about how digital technologies and society mutually influence each other, with a focus on three overarching areas:
- The subjective and embodied experiences of individuals and groups in a digitalised society and their encounters with digital health and welfare services.
- The work, collaboration, and competencies of health and welfare professionals, and the conditions for their current and future roles and development.
- Innovation and development in health and welfare services and public health efforts, both within and across sectors and service levels.
The research draws on perspectives from nursing, public health science, and humanities and social scientific traditions such as critical psychology, social psychology, sociology, social anthropology, and media studies.
An additional key goal is for the research to strengthen HiØ’s educational programs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. levels. This is ensured in part through the group members’ responsibility for and/or teaching in:
- The Ph.D. course “Digital Health and Psychosocial Well-being”, offered within the Ph.D. program Digitalisation and Society.
- The course “Digitalisation and Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Health and Welfare” for all bachelor-level health and welfare programs.
Members of the research group also supervise master’s and Ph.D. projects that are thematically relevant to the Ph.D. program.
Ongoing Projects (incl. Ph.D. projects)
- NorDigHE – Nordic Digital Health & Education. Funding: Interreg ØKS. Participants from the group: Vigdis A. Grøndahl (Norwegian project lead), Ann Karin Helgesen, Tina C. Knudsen (Ph.D. candidate)
- NuPhaC – Nurse and Pharmaceutical Care. Robotics and pharmaceutical care. Participants: Ann Karin Helgesen, Vigdis A. Grøndahl
- Nursing students’ attitudes towards the use of technology in the healthcare of older people. Funding: Internal. Participants: Ann-Chatrin Linqvist Leonardsen, Camilla Hardeland, Vigdis A. Grøndahl, Ann Karin Helgesen, Carina Bååth
- Innovation for Sustainable Health Services. Funding: Internal HiØ funds. Participants: Ann-Chatrin Linqvist Leonardsen, Hanna Marie Ihlebæk, Gea Restad (Ph.D. candidate)
- Kontiki – AI-based Decision Support for Healthcare Services and Patients. Funding: Interreg. Participants: Ann-Chatrin Linqvist Leonardsen, Camilla Hardeland
- More Home Dialysis for Health, Quality of Life, and Cost Control through a Person-Centered Approach. Funding: Interreg. Participant: Ann-Chatrin Linqvist Leonardsen
- Pilot Health RespView. Funding: Research Council of Norway. Participant: Ann-Chatrin Linqvist Leonardsen
- Youth, Health Information, and Critical Media Literacy. Funding: Own research time. Participants: Lin Prøitz, Lilliana Del Busso
Systematic reviews
Ongoing:
- Digital prevention and intervention programs implemented for school refusal (Ihlebæk, H.M.; Knez, R.; Ihlebæk, C.; Løkkeberg, S.T.; Del Busso, L.; Femdal, I.; Prøitz, L.)
- Digitalization within advanced practice nurse settings in hospitals – a systematic review project with three arms (Leonardsen, A.C.L.; Hardeland, C.; Fosser Olsen, B.; Shresta, K.; Friman, K.; Nicolaysen, M.K.; Slang, R.; Westerlund, M.; Hovland, T.; Wevling, A.; Nygaard, A.M.; Ulvøy, L.; Olsen, R.M.; Gunheim Hatland, L.; Tsesmetsis, C.)
- A Scoping Review of Digital Interventions to Promote Communication Between Children and Their Parents (Bank, S.E.S.; Larsson, M.; Løkkeberg, S.T.; Del Busso, L.)
- Patient-nurse relationship in a remote monitoring setting – a scoping review EU Interreg Sweden–Norway. Registered on Open Science Framework (OSF): https://osf.io/t75dn
Published
- Løkkeberg, S.T., Ihlebæk, C., Brottveit, G., & Del Busso, L. (2024). Digital Violence and Abuse: A Scoping Review of Adverse Experiences Within Adolescent Intimate Partner Relationships. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 25(3), 1954–1965. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380231201816
- Leonardsen, A.C.L., Bååth, C., Helgesen, A.K., Grøndahl, V.A., Hardeland, C. Person-Centeredness in Digital Primary Healthcare Services—A Scoping Review. Healthcare. 2023; 11(9):1296. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11091296
- Leonardsen, A.C.L., Hardeland, C., Helgesen A.K., Bååth, C., Del Busso, L., Grøndahl, V.A. The use of robotic technology in the healthcare and social care of people above the age of 65 – a systematic review. Healthcare 2023, 11, 904. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11060904
- Del Busso, L., Brottveit, G., Løkkeberg S.T., Gluppe, G. Women's embodied experiences of using wearable digital self-tracking health technology: a review of the qualitative research literature. Health Care for Women International. 2021 Apr:1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2021.1884682
- Leonardsen, A.C.L., Hardeland, C., Helgesen, A.K., Grøndahl, V.A. Patient experiences with technology enabled care across healthcare settings – a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research. 2020 Aug;20(1):779. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05633-4