Anna
Axelin
Associate Professor, Department of Nursing Science
Associate Professor
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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
Investigating the construct and concurrent validity of the Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire with intensive care unit patients and home sleepers (2021)
Australian Critical Care
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Good interaction skills are not enough - competency in mental health issues in child health clinics and school health services (2021)
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Identifying target behaviors for weight management interventions for women who are overweight during pregnancy and the postpartum period: a qualitative study informed by the Behaviour Change Wheel (2021)
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Long-Term IoT-Based Maternal Monitoring: System Design and Evaluation (2021)
Sensors
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Effectiveness of the Close Collaboration with Parents intervention on parent-infant closeness in NICU (2021)
BMC Pediatrics
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Lasten ja nuorten mielenterveysongelmat - terveydenhoitaja tarvitsee monenlaista osaamista (2021)
Terveydenhoitaja
(D1 Artikkeli ammattilehdessä)
Mothers' experiences of parenting and everyday life of children born at 23 weeks of gestation – a qualitative descriptive study (2021)
BMC Pediatrics
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Pregnant women's daily patterns of well-being before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland: Longitudinal monitoring through smartwatch technology (2021)
PLoS ONE
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Emotional Closeness Among NICU Fathers: A Qualitative Descriptive Study (2021)
Advances in Neonatal Care
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Evaluating the content validity of two versions of an instrument used in measuring pediatric pain knowledge and attitudes in the Ghanaian context (2020)
PLoS ONE
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)