Katarina Hjelm
Visiting professor at Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences; Caring Sciences
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 64 23
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 425 05 17
- E-mail:
- katarina.hjelm@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC, Husargatan 3
- Postal address:
- Box 564
751 22 UPPSALA
Publications
Recent publications
Part of Journal of Transcultural Nursing, p. 518-525, 2025
- DOI for First-Line Managers' Experiences of Leading a Multicultural Staff Group in Nursing Homes and the Implementation of Language Development Initiatives: A Qualitative Study
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2025
2025
Part of Nursing Open, 2025
- DOI for Experiences of Communication and Working During the Covid-19 Pandemic Among Nursing Home Staff: A Qualitative Interview Study
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Journal of Transcultural Nursing, p. 518-525, 2025
- DOI for First-Line Managers' Experiences of Leading a Multicultural Staff Group in Nursing Homes and the Implementation of Language Development Initiatives: A Qualitative Study
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Part of Nursing Open, 2025
- DOI for Experiences of Communication and Working During the Covid-19 Pandemic Among Nursing Home Staff: A Qualitative Interview Study
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Part of BMC Primary Care, 2025
- DOI for Effects of culturally-appropriate group education for migrants with type 2 diabetes in primary healthcare: pre-test-post-test design
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2024
- DOI for Experiences of labor-intensive procedures in the management of nocturnal enuresis—an explorative interview study in children and parents
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Part of Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2024
Part of Public Health Nursing, p. 664-674, 2024
- DOI for Who seeks care and for what reasons at a nurse-led walk-in center in an immigrant-dense area: A quantitative survey
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Part of BMC Public Health, 2024
- DOI for Social support as perceived, provided and needed by family-members of migrants with type 2 diabetes - a qualitative study
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Part of BMC Public Health, 2024
- DOI for A qualitative study on diverse experiences of medication safety among foreign-born persons living in Sweden
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Part of Infection Prevention in Practice, 2024
- DOI for Hand hygiene knowledge among nurses and nursing students: a descriptive cross-sectional comparative survey using the WHO's "Hand Hygiene Knowledge Questionnaire"
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Part of Omega, 2023
- DOI for Experiences of Next-of-Kin to Foreign-Born Dying Patients Cared for in Specialist Palliative Care: A Qualitative Study
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Part of Primary Health Care Research and Development, 2023
- DOI for Beliefs about illness: comparing foreign- and native-born persons with type 2 diabetes living in Sweden in a cross-sectional survey
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Audit of essential knowledge of diabetes in patients with diabetes in Zimbabwe
Part of Pan African Medical Journal, 2023
- DOI for Audit of essential knowledge of diabetes in patients with diabetes in Zimbabwe
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Part of Journal of Clinical Nursing, p. 2178-2192, 2023
- DOI for Migrant informal caregiver perceptions and experiences of caring for a family member with dementia: A systematic review and thematic synthesis
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Part of Primary Health Care Research and Development, 2022
- DOI for Gestational diabetes: changed health beliefs in migrant women from five Asian countries living in Sweden: a prospective qualitative study
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Comparison of Beliefs about Health in Migrants and Swedish-Born Persons with Type 2 Diabetes
Part of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
- DOI for Comparison of Beliefs about Health in Migrants and Swedish-Born Persons with Type 2 Diabetes
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Part of BMC Public Health, 2022
- DOI for Knowledge on diabetes and its related factors among the people with type 2 diabetes in Thailand: a cross-sectional study
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Part of BMC Geriatrics, 2022
- DOI for Relatives' perspectives on encounters and communication in nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study
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Part of BMC Geriatrics, 2022
- DOI for Residents' experiences of encounters with staff and communication in nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study
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Part of Health Informatics Journal, 2022
- DOI for Internet-of-Things (IoT) in healthcare and social services – Experiences of a sensor system for notifications of deviant behaviours in the home from the users’ perspective.
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Part of Primary Health Care Research and Development, 2021
- DOI for Migrant Middle Eastern women with gestational diabetes seven years after delivery - positive long-term development of beliefs about health and illness shown in follow-up interviews
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Equal palliative care for foreign-born patients: A national quality register study
Part of Palliative & Supportive Care, p. 656-663, 2021
- DOI for Equal palliative care for foreign-born patients: A national quality register study
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Part of BMC Public Health, 2021
- DOI for "This course is like a compass to us": a qualitative study on newly settled migrants' perceptions of civic and health orientation in Sweden
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Part of Primary Health Care Research and Development, 2021
- DOI for Evaluation of a healthcare walk-in centre in an immigrant-dense area from the perspective of Swedish-born patients
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Healthcare workers' perceptions and acceptance of an electronic reminder system for hand hygiene
Part of Journal of Hospital Infection, p. 197-204, 2021
- DOI for Healthcare workers' perceptions and acceptance of an electronic reminder system for hand hygiene
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Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2020
- DOI for The experiences of the process of planning, starting and organizing a culturally specific nursing home for Finnish-speaking older persons: a qualitative study
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Part of Primary Health Care Research and Development, 2020
- DOI for Development of a group-based diabetes education model for migrants with type 2 diabetes, living in Sweden
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HIV-positive migrants' experience of living in Sweden
Part of Global Health Action, 2020
- DOI for HIV-positive migrants' experience of living in Sweden
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Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2019
- DOI for Register-based study concerning the problematic situation of using interpreting service in a region in Sweden
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Part of Primary Health Care Research and Development, 2019
- DOI for Self-rated health, lifestyle habits and risk assessment in 75-year-old persons attending preventive clinic visits with a nurse in primary health care: a cross-sectional study
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Part of Disability and Rehabilitation, p. 2289-2298, 2019
- DOI for Perceptions of the transition from receiving the diagnosis recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy to becoming in need of human support and using a wheelchair: an interview study
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Healthcare staff's evaluation of a walk-in centre at a healthcare centre in an immigrant-dense area
Part of Journal of Clinical Nursing, p. 1473-1481, 2019
Part of Nursing Open, p. 367-376, 2019
- DOI for Lower knowledge about diabetes among foreign-born compared to Swedish-born persons with diabetes - A descriptive study
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Part of BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2018
- DOI for Language interpretation conditions and boundaries in multilingual and multicultural emergency healthcare
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Swedish HIV caregivers experiences of providing care to HIV-positive Migrants: A qualitative study
Part of Journal of AIDS and Clinical Research, 2018
Part of BMC Women's Health, 2018
- DOI for A qualitative study of developing beliefs about health, illness and healthcare in migrant African women with gestational diabetes living in Sweden
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Part of Nursing Open, p. 210-216, 2018
- DOI for Establishing a culturally specific nursing home for Finnish-speaking older persons in Sweden: A case study
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Articles, review/survey
Job satisfaction and wellbeing among migrant care workers in nursing homes: An integrative review
Part of Nursing Open, p. 3486-3505, 2023
- DOI for Job satisfaction and wellbeing among migrant care workers in nursing homes: An integrative review
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Conference papers
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Conference proceedings (editor)
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