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This review suggests that patients with heart failure should receive prompt follow-up after hospitalization, and eHealth interventions have the potential to improve their quality of life.
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Rosalynn Austin from the University of Southampton visited the Department of Public Health to discuss health promotion for people with health challenges. She comments on benefits of researcher mobility.
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All 10 Co-Researchers and two Researchers from SHARE attended the international youth mental health conference in Copenhagen in September and October. With more than 700 participants from 49 countries, the conference covered a wide range of topics to contribute with new knowledge and ideas on how mental health services can be developed, improved, implemented, and tested in research and innovation projects.
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The research project eHealth@hospital-2-home arranged a seminar at The Faculty of Health Sciences at UiS. It was held in English, and several international researchers traveled to Stavanger for the occasion.
In this new paper, researcher at the University of Stavanger explore the associations between burden of treatment, psychological distress and health–related quality of life. They suggest that the treatment regimens need to be simplified and tailored to the individual heart failure patient to reduce the burden related to treatment and self-care.
Health and social services in Norway have adapted recovery as base for the mental health and substance use services. Research shows that this is easier said than done.
Principal investigator Randi Wågø Aas is professor in Occupational Health at the Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences.
The department’s main objective is to contribute to the prevention of acute and chronic health problems and increase participation in school and work, by disability prevention strategies.