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Helén Marklund

Associate Professor

What happens when people experience urinary incontinence or difficulty emptying the bladder? How do the issues influence relationships with others, social interactions? My teaching assignment includes raising awareness about the subject.

Research on urinary problems and their impact on social life 

The title of my 2009 doctoral thesis was Sleep and Quality of Life in Men with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Their Partners. 

My main finding was that urinary problems led to poorer health-related quality of life and sleep than among a control group with hernias. Their partners are also affected by the problems.

Ongoing studies in the field concern sexual relations and the impact of urinary incontinence on men in their social lives.

I am also involved in designing instruments and a questionnaire (LIQ) that target urinary incontinence.

Teaching in Nursing Science

Since March 2016, I have been in charge of the first-cycle Nursing programme. The degree programme is offered at both our Linköping and Norrköping campuses.

I am an examiner in first-cycle Nursing Science for semester 2 of the Nursing programme, as well as the second-cycle course in incontinence and care.

I supervise first and second-cycle papers.

Publications

2020

Emina Hadziabdic, Sara Pettersson, Helén Marklund, Katarina Hjelm (2020) Development of a group-based diabetes education model for migrants with type 2 diabetes, living in Sweden Primary Health Care Research and Development, Vol. 21, Article e50 Continue to DOI

2019

Sara Pettersson, Emina Hadziabdic, Helén Marklund, Katarina Hjelm (2019) Lower knowledge about diabetes among foreign-born compared to Swedish-born persons with diabetes: A descriptive study Nursing Open, Vol. 6, p. 367-376 Continue to DOI

2015

Helén Marklund-Bau, Anders Spångberg, Ulla Edéll-Gustafsson (2015) Sleep and partner-specific quality of life in partners of men with lower urinary tract symptoms compared with partners of men from the general population. Scandinavian journal of urology, Vol. 49, p. 321-328 Continue to DOI

2010

Helén Marklund, Anders Spångberg, Ulla Edéll-Gustafsson (2010) Sleep and health-related quality of life in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms suggestive of benign prostatic obstruction compared to the general population and patients with inguinal hernia Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology, Vol. 44, p. 304-314 Continue to DOI

2009

Helén Marklund-Bau (2009) Sleep and quality of life in men with lower urinary tract symptoms: and their partners

Assignments and higher education degrees

Assignments

  • In charge of the first-cycle Nursing programme
  • Assistant supervisor for Sara Pettersson, doctoral student at the Department of Social and Welfare Studies
  • On the editorial board of the International Journal of Urological Nursing

Higher education degrees

  • 1983, Nursing degree
  • 1987, Advanced training in medical and surgical care
  • 2000, Master's programme in Public Health Science
  • 2009, Doctor of Medicine, Surgery, specialisation in Urology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping

Publications

2020

Emina Hadziabdic, Sara Pettersson, Helén Marklund, Katarina Hjelm (2020) Development of a group-based diabetes education model for migrants with type 2 diabetes, living in Sweden Primary Health Care Research and Development, Vol. 21, Article e50 Continue to DOI

Selected publications

Cover of publication ''
Helén Marklund-Bau, Anders Spångberg, Ulla Edéll-Gustafsson (2015)
Sleep and partner-specific quality of life in partners of men with lower urinary tract symptoms compared with partners of men from the general population.

Scandinavian journal of urology , Vol.49 , s.321-328 Continue to DOI

Cover of publication ''
Helén Marklund, Anders Spångberg, Ulla Edéll-Gustafsson (2010)
Sleep and health-related quality of life in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms suggestive of benign prostatic obstruction compared to the general population and patients with inguinal hernia

Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology , Vol.44 , s.304-314 Continue to DOI

Cover of publication ''
Helén Marklund-Bau, Ulla Edéll-Gustafsson, Anders Spångberg (2007)
Bothersome urinary symptoms and disease-specific quality of life in patients with benign prostatic obstruction: High prevalence of urinary incontinence before and after intervention

Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology , Vol.41 , s.32-41 Continue to DOI

Collaboration with researchers in Nursing Science

Katarina Hjelm

External partner

Anders Spångberg

MD
  • Region Östergötland

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