Anna
Axelin
Associate Professor, Department of Nursing Science
Associate Professor
Areas of expertise
Family Centered Neonatal Care
Maternity Care, Pain Management
Sleep
Development of IT tools for data collection and IT-based health interventions
Experimental Research
Implementation research
Biography
My academic career has included conducting quantitative and qualitative research in multidisciplinary research groups. In the Academic year 2011-2012, I joined the faculty of Department of Family Health Care Nursing in University of California San Francisco for my post-doctoral research. In 2018, I was appointed to Associated researcher in international Maternal
and Child Health (IMCH), University of Uppsala, Sweden. In collaboration with my collogues in Uppsala university, I have gain expertise on implementation science and global health. In addition to the academic career, I have ten-year working experience as a NICU nurse.
Teaching
Research methodology; Nursing theory; Evidence based practice; Transferable skills
Research
I am leading the
Connected Health - UTU research program which aims through the use of information technology and digital solutions to support effective and personalized health care. My special interest is to promote health and welfare of parents and infants in the early stages of life. In addition, I serve as the Director for Separation and Closeness Experiences in Neonatal Environment (SCENE) research group which aims to improve parents' and infants' experiences and outcomes of neonatal care.
Publications
Hospital routines promote parent–infant closeness and cause separation in the birthing unit in the first 2 hours after birth: A pilot study (2017)
Birth
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Vanhempien osallistuminen keskosen hoitoon (2017)
(Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa (D2))DESCRIPTION OF CARDIAC SURGERY PATIENT’S PAIN PROCESS BASED ON SEMANTIC ANNOTATION OF ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD DATA (2017)
Advances in Health Care Sciences Conference
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
Parents ' presence and parent-infant closeness in 11 neonatal intensive care units in six European countries vary between and within the countries (2017)
Acta Paediatrica
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Designing a Health-Game Intervention Supporting Health Literacy and a Tobacco-Free Life in Early Adolescence (2017)
Games for Health
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Video education for critical care nurses to assess pain with a behavioural pain assessment tool: A descriptive comparative study (2017)
Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Effects of single-family rooms on nurse-parent and nurse-infant interaction in neonatal intensive care unit (2017)
Early Human Development
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
OPIOID-DEPENDENT MOTHERS IN MEDICAL DECISION MAKING ABOUT THEIR INFANTS’ TREATMENT: WHO IS VULNERABLE AND WHY? (2017)
Les Ateliers de l'Ethique
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Close Collaboration with ParentsTM Intervention to Improve Parents' Psychological Well-being and Child Development: Description of the Intervention and Study Protocol (2017)
Behavioural Brain Research
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Sleep in the intensive care unit – nurses' documentation and patients' perspectives (2017)
Nursing in Critical Care
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))