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
An educational intervention for NICU staff decreased maternal postpartum depression (2019)
Pediatric Research
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Parents’ presence and participation in medical rounds in 11 European neonatal units (2019)
Early Human Development
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Coverage, associated factors, and impact of companionship during labour: A large-scale observational study in six hospitals in Nepal. (2019)
Birth
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Vanhempien osallistamisesta hyötyä vastasyntyneen sairaalahoitoon (2019)
Lääkärilehti
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1))
Pain process of patients with cardiac surgery — Semantic annotation of electronic patient record data (2019)
Journal of Clinical Nursing
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Feasibility of mobile health game “Fume” in supporting tobacco-related health literacy among early adolescents: A three-armed cluster randomized design (2018)
International Journal of Medical Informatics
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Hoitotiede Suomen yliopistoissa tänään : Turun yliopisto (2018)
Hoitotiede
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Clinging to closeness: The parental view on developing a close bond with their infants in a NICU (2018)
Midwifery
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Katsaus HTSS r.y.:n konferensseihin (2018)
Hoitotiede
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
IoT-Based Healthcare System for Real-Time Maternal Stress Monitoring (2018)
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))