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Anna Strömberg

Deputy Dean, Professor

I am Professor of Nursing and Vice-Dean for Research and Doctoral Education at the Faculty of Medicine. My research is about how digital tools can support self-care and rehabilitation for people with heart disease.

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My research focuses on developing interventions for rehabilitation and psycho-educational support to persons with long-term cardiac illness and their families and to evaluate their efficacy and effectiveness on self-care behavior, health-related quality of life, physical function, participation in care, perceived control, survival and health care utilization. At present my research is focusing on evaluating and implementing eHealth tools to support self-care in persons with long-term illness especially heart failure. My main research tracks are: (1) interventions using tele-rehabilitation and exergaming to improve physical activity in elderly with long-term illness, (2) evaluations of different types of multidisciplinary disease management programs, (3) interventions to support family members/caregivers using eHealth, (4) Theory development in self-care and (5) developing instruments to measure patient reported outcome and experience measures.

I work with a broad range of methods, both qualitative and quantitative, co-design studies, RCT studies, registries etc.

About me

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  • University Certificate in Nursing 1990, Linköping University.
  • Bachelor of Nursing Science 1997, Linköping University.
  • Master of Nursing Science 1999, Halmstad University.
  • PhD 2001-12-10, Faculty of Medicine, Linköping University.
  • Associate professor 2005
  • Professor 2010
  • I mainly teach in doctoral education where I am an examiner/course leader for the PhD courses Scientific Methodology and Self care in chronic illness
  • I have supervised 24 PhD students that have graduated (8 as main supervisor, 16 as co-supervisor), and I have had 4 full-time post docs for 3-4 years each and 3 part-time post docs. I currently lead a research group with 9 ongoing PhD students (3 as main supervisor, 6 as co-supervisor) and 3 post docs.

Publications

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Claire A. Lawson, Lina Benson, Iain Squire, Francesco Zaccardi, Mohammad Ali, Simon Hand, Umesh Kadam, Wan Ting Tay, Ulf Dahlström, Lars H. Lund, Gianluigi Savarese, Carolyn S. P. Lam, Kamlesh Khunti, Anna Strömberg (2023)

eClinicalMedicine , Vol.64 Continue to DOI

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Towe Hedbom, Maria Liljeroos, Ingela Thylén, Lotti Orwelius, Tiny Jaarsma, Anna Strömberg (2023)

Journal of Medical Internet Research , Vol.25 Continue to DOI

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Hanna Allemann, Frida Andreasson, Elizabeth Hanson, Lennart Magnusson, Tiny Jaarsma, Ingela Thylén, Anna Strömberg (2023)

Journal of Clinical Nursing , Vol.32 , s.7589-7604 Continue to DOI

2025

Andreas Blomqvist, Anna Strömberg, Marie Lundberg, Maria Bäck, Tiny Jaarsma, Leonie Klompstra (2025) Exploring user experience: A qualitative analysis of the use of a physical activity support app for people with heart failure PLOS ONE, Vol. 20, Article e0309577 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Matilda Holmbom, Hanna Grundström, Frida Andreasson, Camilla Rotvig, Hege Andersen, Camilla Bernild, Tone Merete Norekval, Selina Kikkenborg Berg, Anna Strömberg (2025) Unravelling typology of family life when a parent has heart disease: A qualitative study of families with adolescents International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, Vol. 8, Article 100324 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Anna-Karin Ax, Leonie Klompstra, Marie Stridsman, Frida Andreasson, Anna Strömberg (2025) Patient's expectations and experiences of yoga in group with either online or on-site participation during cancer treatment: A qualitative study European Journal of Oncology Nursing, Vol. 76, Article 102889 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Andrew Thomas Reyes, Dion Candelaria, Reimund Serafica, Janett A. Hildebrand, Marysol Cacciata, Axel Santa Maria, Jung-Ah Lee, Anna Strömberg, Lorraine S. Evangelista (2025) Task effectiveness, usability, and acceptability of mHealth technologies among older adults at risk for cardiovascular disease: a feasibility study Health and Technology (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Pallav Deka, Dola Pathak, Martje van del Wal, Anna Strömberg, Tiny Jaarsma, Leonie Klompstra (2025) Shortness of breath, fatigue, and well-being in patients with heart failure: a daily trend analysis over 12 weeks European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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