The ReAction group – Resilient healthcare and patient activation
Our research aims to improve the ability of healthcare systems to provide high quality, safe and equitable care throughout the patient’s care journey. To enhance individuals’ ability to promote their own health, sustainable healthcare system is required. A sustainable healthcare system can adapt to changing conditions and recover after additional strain. This is known as resilience. Resilient healthcare systems are becoming increasingly important to ensure proactive, safe, and secure care for individuals with complex care needs. Working towards increased resilience thus means responsibly and sustainably utilizing the resources of individuals, systems, and the planet.
Our vision is
- To conduct nationally and internationally distinguished, clinically relevant research of high scientific quality through multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration with individuals and organizations in healthcare and industry.
- To explore, develop, test, implement, and evaluate methods, interventions, and digital tools that promote and motivate health.
- To enhance self-care competence for healthy lifestyles, active symptom control, medication management, and rehabilitation.
- To develop conditions for coordinated, proactive, and sustainable work processes so that all individuals with long-term or complex care needs are actively involved in co-creating safe and secure care.
- To strengthen organizational and individual conditions for precise, proactive, person-centered, and sustainable care and rehabilitation.
The research focuses on
- Individuals living with chronic or complex care needs, such as those resulting from pelvic cancer, heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, or hard-to-heal wounds.
- Decision support, digital methods, and tools for increased precision and person-centered care.
- Methods that promote and motivate healthy habits and competence to prevent and manage symptoms, medications, self-care, and rehabilitation.
- Self-assessment instruments (PROM/PREM) that evaluate, among other things, patient-perceived continuity in primary care.
- Proactive work processes that promote safe and secure care, care continuity, and support for self-care.
- Organizational and individual conditions for working proactively, person-centered, and sustainably.
Research projects
Ongoing projects
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Project: Confidence in every step 2.0 In this project, we will explore how a digital tool as part of a peer-to-peer intervention can be integrated into the home healthcare, to sustainably support and…
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Project: KalmCaRe Personcentred care KalmCaRe is a collective name for the research projects within the ReAction group that focus on cancer research and are led from Kalmar County. This project has a…
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Project: KalmCaRe Sexual Health KalmCaRe is a collective name for the research projects within the ReAction group that focus on cancer research and are led from Kalmar County. This project builds on…
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Project: TimelyCare The TimelyCare project evaluates whether a proactive primary care intervention aimed at improving coordination, continuity, and accessibility of care for individuals at risk of…
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Seed project: SAT - Movement Analysis – developing a prototype for an AI-trained tool, to evaluate movement quality In this cross-disciplinary project, we want to explore and learn from the…
Concluded projects
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Doctoral project: Seamless care transitions for elderly people in need of coordinated care The project aims to explore how integrated care and a cohesive care chain can maintain good quality and safe…
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Doctoral project: Supporting patients and informal carers in their active participation in self-care at home Society faces the challenge of meeting the needs of an aging population where the majority…
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Project: A co-created solution for a personal self-care planning process to prevent recurrence in hard-to-heal ulcers The aim of the project was to prevent recurrence of hard-to-heal ulcers, improve…
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Project: Best practice of integrated care Optimizing health and quality of life for people living with chronic complex conditions requires radically rethinking ways to coordinate care and support…
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Project: Confidence in every step 1.0 In this co-design project we are exploring, together with older adults, how technology can be developed and used by older adults to enhance functional mobility,…
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Project: Confidence in every step 3.0 This project is about interprofessional knowledge sharing about retaining, training and maintaining physical functioning among older adults integrated into daily…
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Project: eHealth support to enhance self-management in men with prostate cancer This project address the difficulties prostate cancer patients experiences to be actively engaged in their self-care…
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Project: Gut microbiota composition and digestion of animal foods The gut with its microorganisms - the gut flora - is of importance to health. We aim to study how the gut flora in persons with and…
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Project: Sedentary behavior in older persons and supportive methods for breaking sedentary for sustainable aging This project aimed to map older people's (65+) activity behaviour to identify unhealthy…
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Project: The ties that bind fragmented care – best practices definitions and measures of continuity of care Continuity in healthcare is considered to create safe and effective healthcare. The problem…
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Seed project: Developing the Skeleton Avatar camera Technique (SAT) as a rapid, valid and sensitive measurement of mobility in elderly persons The main objective for this seed project within Linnaeus…
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Seed project: Mitigating Health Inequalities in the Kronoberg Region - A Transdisciplinary System Thinking Approach The main objective for this seed project within the Knowledge environment Digital…
Staff members
Scientific leader
Strategy group
- Amanda Hellström Associate professor
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- Anna Sandgren Associate professor
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- Catharina Lindberg Senior lecturer
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- Cecilia Fagerström Professor
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- Heidi Hagerman Senior lecturer
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- Kristina Tryselius Senior lecturer
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- Lina Nilsson Associate professor
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- Mirjam Ekstedt Senior professor
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- Sofia Backåberg Associate professor
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Staff members at Linnaeus University
- Amanda Hellström Associate professor
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- Ann-Therese Hedqvist Researcher
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- Camilla Wennerberg Affiliated researcher
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- Catharina Lindberg Senior lecturer
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- Cecilia Fagerström Professor
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- Chiara Lenza Senior lecturer
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- Elin-Sofie Forsgärde Senior lecturer
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- Gunilla Lindqvist Associate professor
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- Heidi Hagerman Senior lecturer
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- Jessica Olovsson Doctoral student
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- Kristina Schildmeijer Associate professor
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- Kristina Tryselius Senior lecturer
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- Lina Nilsson Associate professor
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- Linda Ljungholm Senior lecturer
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- Mirjam Ekstedt Senior professor
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- Natali Johnsson Lecturer, doctoral student
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- Sofia Backåberg Associate professor
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- Susanna Strandberg Lecturer, doctoral student
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- Tora Hammar Associate professor
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- Ulrica Lovén Wickman Senior lecturer
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Collaborative partners
Local collaborative partners
- Centre of Interprofessional Collaboration within Emergency care (CICE)
- Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA)
- eHealth institute
- Department of Computer Sciences and Media Technology
- Department of Medicine and Optometry
- Department of Psychology
- Municipalities in Kronoberg, Kalmar, Blekinge, and Öland
- Linnaeus Knowledge Environment Digital Transformations
- Linnaeus Knowledge Environment Sustainable Health
- The innovative Cardiac Arrest Research Group (iCARE)
Regional collaborative partners
- Region Blekinge
- Region Jönköping
- Region Kalmar Län
- Region Kronoberg
- Region Skåne
- Region Östergötland
National collaborative partners
- Blekinge Institute of Technology
- Cuviva AB
- Karolinska institutet
- Regional Cancer Centres in Sweden
- Telia
- Uppsala University
International collaborative partners
- AI Based Movement Assessment (AIMO)
- Savvy Knowledge Coorporation
- University of Bergen
- University of Calgary
- University of the Fraser Valley
Research funding agencies
- AFA Försäkring
- The Swedish Cancer Society
- Cancerstiftelsen i Kalmar Län
- The Crafoord Foundation
- The Kamprad Family Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Research & Charity
- The Public Health Agency of Sweden
- Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
- FORSS
- FORTE
- Linnaeus University
- Region Kalmar Län
- Region Kronoberg
- The Swedish Research Council
Publications
Current
Past activities (lectures etc)
Video: Safe training at home
In the open lecture Safe exercise in the home (43 min, in Swedish), Sofia Backåberg, lecturer and registered physiotherapist, shows and talks about research into how we in different ways can regain confidence in our own body and physical abilities through exercise at home. This is when, for example, age, illness or a period in hospital changes our ability to move in everyday life. The lecture is part of the lecture series Good Aging organised by the Kamprad Family Foundation.