Cecilia Olsson

Research
My research is mainly focused on the following research domains: Models and innovations for safe health care and Management of complex health conditions. My research is of importance for patients and their loved ones, with regard to cancer treatment focusing on symptoms clusters, symptoms management, sexuality and support during treatment and rehabilitation and the quality of care near the end of life. In the fields of learning and professional development, I conduct research focusing on the pedagogical model peer learning for bachelor nursing students’ learning during their clinical placements. I also examine how contact nurses in cancer care view their professional competence.
I am the principal researcher in a follow-up project to my thesis: Experiences and need of support in issues related to sexuality - a study with patients treated for malignant hematologic diseases (HeMa6). Via diagnosis specific quality registries, data about approximately 260 patients diagnosed and treated between 2016-2018 have been collected. The patients also take part in a survey about how cancer and its treatment have impacted on their sexuality, up to 36 months after the treatment has ended. The data was collected in 2019.
SexWebEdNurse A web-based intervention for nurses in cancer care is developed. By using the knowledge from the HeMa6 project as a foundation, as well as the studies from my thesis and the current international findings that state that nurses in cancer care have lacking knowledge of how to inform and give support in issues related to the patients’ (and their partners’) sexuality is the intervention developed. The first data collection were done during the the autumn of 2022.
In the research programme Management of symptoms clusters - from theory to practice I am one of four researchers in the steering group. Within the framework of this programme, we have the interdisciplinary project Development of a model for management of symptom clusters during cancer treatment and survivorship – a complex intervention study, which examines the relation between biological markers and the patients’ descriptions of how they experience symptoms. Within the program, there are also ongoing interview studies with patients, with the aim of examining their experiences of simultaneous symptoms, as well as the meaning of and relation between the symptoms of patients with cancer who are given radiotherapy. The aim of the programme is to develop a model for preventing and treating symptoms in patients with cancer, during and after treatment. So far, one PhD-student in Nursing is affiliated to the project. https://www.kau.se/omvardnad/forskning/forskning-vid-omvardnad/pagaende-forskningsprojekt/relationen-mellan
Together with researchers from Norway and Scotland, I am part of the steering group for an international network running a research program on palliative care, Quality Care Near the End of Life. The programme focuses on the quality of palliative care and it contains three themes: Approaches to the organization of care, Competence in palliative and end of life care and Support for families. Examples of ongoing projects are Families’ preferences and experiences when a family member near the end of life is cared for at home, Implementation and evaluation of the 6S person-centered care model and Person Centered quality care near the end of life during Covid-19. https://www.kau.se/omvardnad/forskning/forskning-vid-omvardnad/pagaende-forskningsprojekt/arbetsmiljo-och-palliativ Three PhD- students in Nursing are affiliated to the programme.
Nurse-led cancer treatment and care is becoming more and more important for strengthening the patents’ position and participation in the care, as well as to meet the patients’ need for health care and support during the rehabilitation phase, in order to return to a normal life. In Sweden, all patients diagnosed with cancer shall be offered a contact nurse. In the project Kontaktsjuksköterska i cancervård – Patienternas och sjuksköterskornas perspektiv, models for contact nurses in cancer care are studied. I am part of a project that aims to examine and describe professional competences among contact nurses in cancer care, as well as different factors related to the role and function as contact nurse.
I am part of the research project Person-centered information to parents in pediatric oncology. This is a multicentre study, where a complex care intervention have been conducted at two children’s clinics at the University Hospital of Umeå and Skåne University Hospital, regarding support for parents of children with cancer.
Quality of Gynecological Cancer Care, a multiprofessional research group where data (n=1500) have been collected via diagnose specific quality registries for gynecological cancer and the instrument Quality from a patient perspective (QPP) (Kvalitet ur ett patientperspektiv - KUPP). In this project I am principally responsible for the psychometric testing of the instrument adapted for patients who have been treated for ovarian cancer, cervical cancer or vulvar cancer.
Within the field of learning and continual professional development, I am the principal researcher for a project focusing on the pedagogical model peer learning and its usefulness for nursing students’ learning during their clinical placements in Sweden and Norway.
ORCID-id: 0000-0002-0944-5650
Teaching
I teach courses related to sexuality of people with complex health conditions, symptoms theory and symptoms management, oncological care, palliative care, scientific method and ethics in research.
Book chapters:
Larsson M. & Olsson C. (2021). Omvårdnad vid cancersjukdom. (Nursing Care in Cancer Diesease, in Swedish). Medförfattare: Ax A-K, Degerfeldt J, Björkhem-Bergman L & Klasson C. In Stubberud, Almås, Grönseth (Red). Klinisk omvårdnad 2, sid. 403-499. Stockholm: Liber.
Olsson C, Henoch I, Ahlberg K & Larsson M. (2020). Hantering av patienters symtom ur ett omvårdnadsperspektiv. (Management of patients' symptoms from a nursing perspective, in Swedish). In Stubberud, Almås, Grönseth (Red). Klinisk omvårdnad 1, sid 17-27. Stockholm: Liber.
Collaboration
Part of Quality Care Near the End of Life (QCNEoL), which is a network of researchers from Sweden, Norway and Scotland.
Adjunct member of the Swedish Gynecological Cancer Group (SweGCG) https://swegcg.se/medlemmar/
Bio
I am a specialist nurse in oncology and I have long experience in working clinically with oncological and palliative care. I graduated with a PhD in 2014, with my thesis Sexuality in patients treated for hematologic malignancies- Problems and the need for support from patients’ and nurses’ perspectives.
I am chair of the Research Ethics Committee at Karlstad University.
Externally, I am an active member (former chair 2016-2017) of Swedish Society of Cancer Nurses (Sjuksköterskor i cancervård) and The European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS). Both the national and the European organisation are working strategically with questions related to research, education and clinical activities.
In addition to this, I have also represented The Swedish Associaton of Nurses (Svensk sjuksköterskeförening, SSF) in a group of experts appointed by the government in order to shorten the waiting times in Swedish cancer treatment (2014-2018).
Link to research profile https://www.kau.se/forskare/cecilia-olsson
Publications
- Anders Ringnér, Maria Björk, Cecilia Olsson, 2023
- Ole Martin Nordaunet, Edith Roth Gjevjon, Cecilia Olsson, Hanne Aagaard, Gunilla Borglin, 2023
- Cecilia Olsson, 2023
- Anders Ringnér, Maria Björk, Cecilia Olsson, 2023
- Cecilia Olsson, Bodil Wilde-Larsson, Maria Larsson, Erik Holmberg, Janusz Marcickiewicz, Bengt Tholander, Angelique Flöter-Rådestad, Maria Bjurberg, Pernilla Dahm-Kähler, Kristina Hellman, Preben Kjölhede, Karin Stålberg, Thomas Högberg, Elisabeth Åvall-Lundqvist, Christer Borgfeldt, 2022
- Emily Beatrice Bergersen, Maria Larsson, Malin Lovgren, Cecilia Olsson, 2022
- E. R. Gjevjon, E. G. Rolland, Cecilia Olsson, 2022
- Maria Tillfors, Sara Edlund, Johan Carstens-Söderstrand, Cecilia Olsson, 2022
- Emily Beatrice Bergersen, Maria Larsson, Cecilia Olsson, 2022
- Gunilla Borglin, Siren Eriksen, Cecilia Olsson, Edith Roth Gjevjon, 2022
- Anna Josse Eklund, Elisabeth Carlson, Christina Sundin-Andersson, Cecilia Olsson, 2022
- Cecilia Olsson, 2022
- Cecilia Olsson, M. Dahlen Granrud, Maria Tillfors, Carina Bååth, V. Abrahamsen Grondahl, A. K. Helgesen, I. Henoch, C. Melin-Johansson, J. Osterlind, Maria Larsson, 2022
- Karin Sandberg, Cecilia Olsson, Edith Roth Gjevjon, Gunilla Borglin, 2022
- Gunilla Borglin, Siren Eriksen, Cecilia Olsson, Edith Roth Gjevjon, 2022
- Toril Merete Nysæter, Cecilia Olsson, Tuva Sandsdalen, Bodil Wilde-Larsson, Reidun Hov, Maria Larsson, 2022
- Daniel Kelly, Pauline Campbell, Claire Torrens, Andreas Charalambous, Ulrika Östlund, Manuela Eicher, Maria Larsson, Iveta Nohavova, Cecilia Olsson, Mhairi Simpson, Elisabeth Patiraki, Lena Sharp, Theresa Wiseman, Wendy Oldenmenger, Mary Wells, 2022
- Emily Beatrice Bergersen, Maria Larsson, M. Lövgren, Cecilia Olsson, 2022
- Anders Ringner, Cecilia Olsson, Emma Eriksson, Ida From, Maria Bjork, 2021
- Cecilia Olsson, Tuva Sandsdalen, Bodil Wilde-Larsson, Eva Eriksson, Mikaela Rognsvåg, Maria Larsson, 2021
- Maria Larsson, Cecilia Olsson, Anna-Karin Ax, Jan Degerfeldt, Linda Björkhem-Bergman, Caritha Klasson, 2021
- Anders Ringner, Cecilia Olsson, 2021
- Cecilia Olsson, Elisabeth Carlson, Christina Sundin-Andersson, Anna Josse Eklund, 2020
- Cecilia Olsson, Ingela Henoch, Karin Ahlberg, Maria Larsson, 2020
- Cecilia Olsson, Anna Josse Eklund, Maria Larsson, Anders Ringnér, 2020
- Kaisa Bjuresäter, Cecilia Olsson, Jan Nilsson, Maria Larsson, 2019
- Maria Larsson, Jan Nilsson, Kaisa Bjuresäter, Cecilia Olsson, 2019
- Cecilia Olsson, Eva Eriksson, Mikaela Rognsvåg, Maria Larsson, 2019
- Cecilia Olsson, Eva Eriksson, Mikaela Rognsvåg, Maria Larsson, 2019
- Cecilia Olsson, Maria Larsson, Elisabeth Kling, Karina Grundel, 2019
- Cecilia Olsson, Camilla Hultberg, Maria Larsson, 2019
- Andreas Charalambous, Mary Wells, Pauline Campbell, Claire Torrens, Ulrika Östlund, Wendy Oldenmenger, Elisabeth Patiraki, Lena Sharp, Iveta Nohavova, Nuria Domenech-Climent, Manuela Eicher, Carole Farrell, Maria Larsson, Cecilia Olsson, Mhairi Simpson, Theresa Wiseman, Daniel Kelly, 2018
- Maria Larsson, Siew Hwa Lee, Bodil Wilde-Larsson, Cecilia Olsson, Kaisa Bjuresäter, Reidun Hov, Ellen Karine Grov, Catriona Kennedy, 2018
- Cecilia Olsson, C Sundin-Andersson, Anna Josse Eklund, 2018
- I. Henoch, Cecilia Olsson, Maria Larsson, K. Ahlberg, 2018
- Cecilia Olsson, M. Björk, A. Ringnér, 2018
- Cecilia Olsson, Ann-Kristin Sandin-Bojö, Kaisa Bjuresäter, Maria Larsson, 2016
- Elisabeth Kling, Maria Larsson, Karina Grundel, Cecilia Olsson, 2016
- Cecilia Olsson, Ann-Kristin Sandin-Bojö, Kaisa Bjuresäter, Maria Larsson, 2015
- Cecilia Olsson, 2015
- Cecilia Olsson, Ann-Kristin Sandin-Bojö, Kaisa Bjuresäter, Maria Larsson, 2015
- Anders Ringnér, Maria Björk, Cecilia Olsson, Ulla Hällgren Graneheim, 2015
- Cecilia Olsson, Ann-Kristin Sandin-Bojö, Kaisa Bjuresäter, Maria Larsson, 2015
- Cecilia Olsson, Anders Ringner, Gunilla Borglin, 2014
- Cecilia Olsson, 2014
- Cecilia Olsson, Ann-Kristin Sandin-Bojö, Kaisa Bjuresäter, Maria Larsson, 2013
- Cecilia Olsson, Elsy Athlin, Ann-Kristin Sandin-Bojö, Maria Larsson, 2013
- Cecilia Olsson, Anna-Lena Berglund, Maria Larsson, Elsy Athlin, 2012
- Cecilia Olsson, 2012
- Cecilia Olsson, 2011
- Maria Larsson, Cecilia Olsson, Bjuresäter Kaisa, 2011
- Cecilia Olsson, 2010
- Cecilia Olsson, Anna-Lena Berglund, Maria Larsson, Elsy Athlin, 2009
- Cecilia Olsson, 2009
- Cecilia Olsson, Maria Larsson, Anna-Lena Berglund, 2008
- Cecilia Olsson, Maria Larsson, Anna-Lena Berglund, 2008
- Cecilia Olsson, Ann-Kristin Sandin-Bojö, Kaisa Bjuresäter, Maria Larsson,
