CIRCLE – Complex Intervention Research in Health and Care

Together with people with own experience of disease in one-self and close ones we develop, test, evaluate, and implement psychological interventions, several of these are webbased. We also investigate whether different recruitment methods and methods to support continued participation in research studies has an impact on recruitment and retention rates.
Research projects
Find out more about our research projects that we are working on within our research group

U-CARE
Our group hosts the strategic research programme Uppsala University Psychosocial Care Programme

Group members
Publications
A growing concern: Online access to minors’ health records
2025
A randomized controlled trial of beta-blockers effects on cardiac anxiety
Part of General Hospital Psychiatry, p. 26-32, 2025
- DOI for A randomized controlled trial of beta-blockers effects on cardiac anxiety
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Part of Health Expectations, 2025
- DOI for Addressing the Health Needs of Underserved Populations Through Public Contribution: Prioritisation and Development of a Peer Support Intervention for Sexual and Gender Minority Forced Migrants
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2025
Part of The Gerontologist, 2025
- DOI for An Intersectional Perspective on Digital Health: Longitudinal Narratives and Observations With Older and Middle-Aged Women Experiencing Homelessness
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Anxia Corda: Anxiety and related constructs as predictors and outcomes in the cardiac population
2025
Part of General Hospital Psychiatry, p. 95-99, 2025
- DOI for Association between psychological inflexibility, distress and health-related quality of life in people with cardiovascular disease
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Bridging lived experience and research: involving dementia caregivers in developing interventions
2025
Part of Acta Médica Portuguesa, p. 307-316, 2025
- DOI for Costs and Consequences of Chronic Kidney Disease in People with Diabetes in Portugal: A Modelling Study
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Part of Journal of Occupational Science, p. 97-108, 2025
- DOI for Defining and refining emplacement by deepening the understanding of embeddedness, situatedness, and enactedness
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Part of Journal of Advanced Nursing, p. 897-908, 2025
- DOI for Desiring support on a winding road with challenging intersections: Social and professional support for sexual minority forced migrant men
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Part of Women and Birth, 2025
- DOI for Economic evaluation and budget impact analysis of midwifery-led care for low-risk pregnancies in Portugal
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Effectiveness of animal-assisted services for school-aged children: a systematic review
Part of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2025
- DOI for Effectiveness of animal-assisted services for school-aged children: a systematic review
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Part of BMJ Open, 2025
- DOI for Effects of mental health interventions given at youth-friendly health services and integrated youth services: a systematic review protocol
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Part of JMIR Formative Research, 2025
- DOI for Engagement With an Internet-Administered, Guided, Low-Intensity Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intervention for Parents of Children Treated for Cancer: Analysis of Log-Data From the ENGAGE Feasibility Trial
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Part of Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 2025
Part of Health Expectations, 2025
- DOI for Experience, process, and impact of involving informal caregivers of people with dementia as public contributors to inform the development of a complex intervention: a mixed-methods study
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Part of Dementia, 2025
Part of BMC Geriatrics, 2025
- DOI for Extracted step parameters during the timed up and go test discriminate between groups with different levels of cognitive ability: a cross-sectional study
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Part of BMC Psychology, 2025
- DOI for "It is today that counts, and today everything is fine": coping strategies utilized by parents of children treated for cancer who seek psychological support - a qualitative study
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Microsimulation models on child and adolescent health: a scoping review protocol
Part of BMJ Open, 2025
- DOI for Microsimulation models on child and adolescent health: a scoping review protocol
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2025
Outreach health-care services for people experiencing exclusion in high-income countries
Part of The Lancet Public Health, 2025
- DOI for Outreach health-care services for people experiencing exclusion in high-income countries
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Part of BMC Geriatrics, 2025
- DOI for People with dementia and informal caregivers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators to implementing a behavioral activation intervention: a qualitative study using Normalization Process Theory
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Part of JMIR Research Protocols, 2025
- DOI for Research Participants’ Engagement and Retention in Digital Health Interventions Research: Protocol for Mixed Methods Systematic Review
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Part of International Review of Sociology, p. 72-88, 2025
- DOI for Seeking public assistance to escape violence: a study on relocation co-created with women with lived experience of homelessness
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Part of Nursing Outlook, 2025
- DOI for Simulation-based learning in nursing education to counter stigma and discrimination: A scoping review
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Part of The Gerontologist, 2025
- DOI for Supporting Older People Experiencing Homelessness and Memory Problems in Hostels: Learning From an Ethnographic Study
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Sweden's public health response to COVID-19: a qualitative study building on a realist approach
Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2025
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Part of BMC Psychiatry, 2025
- DOI for The acceptability and feasibility of an internet-administered, guided, low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for parents of children treated for cancer: findings from a qualitative study involving public contributors
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Trauma-informed care for women who are forced migrants: a qualitative study among service providers
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, p. 594-599, 2025
- DOI for Trauma-informed care for women who are forced migrants: a qualitative study among service providers
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Part of ECIS 2025 Proceedings., 2025
Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2025
- DOI for What are the training and support needs for homelessness hostel staff supporting older residents with memory and cognitive problems?: A qualitative study
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A Nordic Perspective on Patient Online Record Access and the European Health Data Space
Part of Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024
- DOI for A Nordic Perspective on Patient Online Record Access and the European Health Data Space
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Part of BMC Geriatrics, 2024
- DOI for Adaptation of a guided low-intensity behavioral activation intervention for people with dementia in Sweden: A qualitative study exploring the needs and preferences of key stakeholders
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Adolescents' and Young Adults' Experiences of Offense from Reading Their Health Records Online
Part of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, p. 1422-1423, 2024
- DOI for Adolescents' and Young Adults' Experiences of Offense from Reading Their Health Records Online
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Part of BMJ Paediatrics Open, 2024
- DOI for Adolescents' reasons for accessing their health records online, perceived usefulness and experienced provider encouragement: a national survey in Sweden
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Part of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, p. 337-343, 2024
- DOI for Adoption of additive manufacturing in oral and maxillofacial surgery among university and non-university hospitals in Sweden: findings from a nationwide survey
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Affordance trajectories and the usefulness of online records access among older adults in Sweden
Part of Digital Health, 2024
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Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2024
- DOI for Asking about violence and abuse among patients experiencing homelessness: a focus group study with healthcare professionals
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Part of Health Expectations, 2024
Part of European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, p. 720-727, 2024
- DOI for Association of anxiety and recurrent cardiovascular events: investigating different aspects of anxiety
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Part of BMJ Open, 2024
- DOI for Balancing between being the most valuable player (MVP) and passing the ball: a qualitative study of support when living with chronic pain in Sweden
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Benchmarking usability of patient portals in Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden
Part of International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2024
- DOI for Benchmarking usability of patient portals in Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden
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Part of Qualitative Health Research, p. 676-690, 2024
- DOI for Collaborative Interpretation of Researcher-Generated Photo-Elicitation Findings: Insights From Women With Lived Experience of Homelessness
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Designing Software for Web-based Psychosocial Care: Longitudinal Design Science Research in U-CARE
Part of Communications of the Association for Information Systems, p. 1153-1192, 2024
Part of European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, p. 708-718, 2024
- DOI for Effects of beta-blockers on quality of life and well-being in patients with myocardial infarction and preserved left ventricular function: a prespecified substudy from REDUCE-AMI
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Part of Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 2024
- DOI for Emotional Distress in Younger (<55 Years) and Older (≥55) Patients After a First-Time Myocardial Infarction and Its Prospective Associations With Working Status and Secondary Preventive Goals Among the Younger Cohort
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Part of Digital Health, 2024
- DOI for E-therapists' views on the acceptability and feasibility of an internet-administered, guided, low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for parents of children treated for cancer: A qualitative study
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Part of Cancer Medicine, 2024
- DOI for Examining the involvement of guardians of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Tanzania as public contributors to inform the design and conduct of the GuardiansCan project: A mixed‐methods study protocol
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