Research within U-CARE

With our research, we want to increase access to psychosocial support and psychological help for people with physical illness and their loved ones. We do this by, for example, developing, testing, evaluating, and implementing internet-administered self-help programmes for different groups of people with experience of physical illness, either as a patient or as an informal caregiver.

We conduct our research together with people with personal experience of physical illness, their loved ones, representatives of healthcare, and academics from a number of subject areas.

We are experts in a range of different scientific methods including study designs. One example is 'Studies Within a Trial' (SWATs) which are carried out to increase knowledge about recruitment to and participation in research studies.

We lead several national and international research projects.