Subject area: Caring Science

Direction: High-tech healthcare environments in homes and hospitals

Current research

I lead the programme known as The Life situation for people (children, adolescents, and adults) on long-term ventilator treatment. This programme is also an interdisciplinary collaboration project with other universities, companies, and clinical settings. One example of collaboration is the publication of the handbook "Breathe at home," which is a collaborative project between the University of Borås and the Respiratory Resource Team at Södra Älvsborg Hospital, Borås. Another example is a doctoral project entitled ”Equal and close care and professional support for children and young people living with ventilator treatment at home” where I am the principal supervisor and which is linked to the research school SHIFT CARE.

Research School SHIFT CARE

Furthermore, I am part of an interdisciplinary research group working on the development of a project on lighting in enclosed healthcare spaces. The project is funded by the Svensson Foundation for Lighting Technology. I am also a senior advisor in an interdisciplinary research collaboration based at the Institute of Health and Care Sciences at the University of Gothenburg, focusing on sound, light, and design in intensive care.

Read more about the project SoLiDe – ICU at gu.se

Research networks

1. Part of the Nordic research network in intensive care (NOFI) and was Chair 2018-2022, thereafter honorary member. Part of the Nordic College of Caring Science (NCCS) and the European Federation for Critical Care Nursing's (EfCCNa-DEN) research network and is a member of the European Academy for Nursing Science (EANS).
2. Part of the national research network “Vårdandets plats och rum.”

Previous research

Leader of the programme Evidence-based design in high-tech healthcare environments – a future challenge. The programme was started together with Professor (Emerita) Ingegerd Bergbom at the University of Gothenburg and is an interdisciplinary collaboration with several other universities, companies and the intensive care unit at Södra Älvsborg Hospital, Borås.

Publications in PubMed

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Awards

The “Evidence-Based Design” programme received funding from the Swedish Research Council for four years starting in 2014.

Researcher's publications in DiVA (Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet)

Doctoral thesis title

Lindahl, B. (2005). The meeting between people and technology: interpretation of the narratives of ICU nurses and people using ventilators in their own homes. Department of Nursing, Umeå University Medical Dissertations, New Series No 950 - ISSN 0346-6612. Umeå, Sweden.