Jorun Rugkåsa

Scientific publications

Stenmarck, Mille Sofie; Whitehurst, David GT; Lurås, Hilde; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2024). “It’s hard to say anything definitive about what severity really is”: lay conceptualisations of severity in a healthcare context. BMC Health Services Research. Vol. 24.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-10892-6

Standal, Kari; Solbakken, Ole Andre; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Halvorsen, Margrethe Seeger; Abbass, Allan; Wirsching, Christopher; Brakstad, Ingrid; Heiervang, Kristin Sverdvik (2024). Medication-Free Treatment in Mental Health Care How Does It Differ from Traditional Treatment?. 20 p. Patient Preference and Adherence. Vol. 18.
https://doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S435610

Husum, Tonje Lossius ; Wormdahl, Irene; Kjus, Solveig Helene Høymork; Hatling, Trond; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2024). Something Happened with the Way We Work: Evaluating the Implementation of the Reducing Coercion in Norway (ReCoN) Intervention in Primary Mental Health Care. Healthcare. Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12070786

Nyttingnes, Olav; Saltyte Benth, Jurate; Hofstad, Tore; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2023). The relationship between area levels of involuntary psychiatric care and patient outcomes: a longitudinal national register study from Norway. BMC Psychiatry. Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04584-4

Häikiö, Kristin ; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2023). Seeking a care–life balance: family carers’ perspectives on how quality of life can improve when caring for an older person living with dementia. International Journal of Care and Caring.
https://doi.org/10.1332/239788221X16909940695901

Hofstad, Tore; Husum, Tonje Lossius ; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Hofmann, Bjørn Morten (2022). Geographical variation in compulsory hospitalisation – ethical challenges. BMC Health Services Research. Vol. 22.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08798-2

de Waardt, Dieuwertje Anna; van Melle, Anne Laura; Widdershoven, Guy Antoine Marie; Bramer, Wichor Matthijs; van der Heijden, Franciscus; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Mulder, Cornelis Lambert (2022). Use of compulsory community treatment in mental healthcare: An integrative review of stakeholders’ opinions. Frontiers in Psychiatry. Vol. 13.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1011961

Mulder, Niels; Hamilton, Bridget; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2022). Coercion in Psychiatry: Epidemiology, Effects and Prevention. ISBN: 978-2-83250-122-1. 177 p. Frontiers Media.

Wormdahl, Irene; Hatling, Trond; Husum, Tonje Lossius ; Kjus, Solveig Helene; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Brodersen, Dorte; Christensen, signe Dahl; Nyborg, Petter Sundt; Skolseng, Torstein Borch; Ødegård, Eva Irene; Andersen, Anna Margrethe; Gundersen, Espen; Rise, Marit By (2022). The ReCoN intervention: a co-created comprehensive intervention for primary mental health care aiming to prevent involuntary admissions. BMC Health Services Research. Vol. 22.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08302-w

de Waardt, Dieuwertje Anna; van Melle, Anne Laura; Widdershoven, Guy Antoine Marie; van der Heijden, Franciscus; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Mulder, Cornelis Lambert (2022). Use of compulsory community treatment in mental healthcare: An integrative review of stakeholders’ opinions. Frontiers in Psychiatry. Vol. 13.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1011961

Research reports

Wormdahl, Irene; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Rise, Marit By (2022). Pathways towards involuntary admissions. How do they unfold in primary mental health care settings, and what can be done to prevent them?. ISBN: 978-82-326-6329-3. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet.

Wynn, Rolf; Stuen, Hanne Kilen ; Landheim, Anne; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2019). Community treatment orders in an Assertive Community Treatment setting: a qualitative study of experiences of patients, care providers and responsible clinicians. ISBN: 978-82-7589-649-8. 142 p. UiT Norges arktiske universitet.

Nyttingnes, Olav; Hanssen-Bauer, Ketil; Ruud, Torleif; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2018). Patients' Experience of Coercion in Mental Health Care. ISBN: 978-82-8377-228-9. 104 p. Universitetet i Oslo.
https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/61672

Dissemination

Rugkåsa, Jorun (2023). Involuntary psychiatric admissions: service variation and strategies for reduction. the Inaugural seminar for Clinical Professor Søren Fryd Birkeland. Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southe.

Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Kjus, Solveig Helene Høymork (2023). Reducing Coercion in Norway: forskningsresultater med relevans for MA utdanninger i psykisk helse, rusmiddelbruk og avhengighet. Nettverksamling for MA-utdanningene i psykisk helse. OsloMet.

Hofstad, Tore; Nyttingnes, Olav; Markussen, Simen; Johnsen, Erik; Killackey, Eoin; McDaid, David; Rinaldi, Miles; Dean, Kimberlie; Brinchmann, Beate; Douglas, Kevin Stewart; Gröning, Linda; Bjørkly, Stål Kapstø; Palmstierna, Tom Krisman Kule; Strømme, Maria Fagerbakke; Blindheim, Anne Alnes; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Hofmann, Bjørn Morten ; Pedersen, Reidar; Widding-Havnerås, Tarjei; Rypdal, Knut; Mykletun, Arnstein (2023). Long term outcomes and causal modelling of compulsory inpatient and outpatient mental health care using Norwegian registry data: Protocol for a controversies in psychiatry research project. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. Vol. 33.
https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1980

Rugkåsa, Jorun (2022). Capacity-based mental health legislation and the use of compulsion. The case of Community Treatment Orders in Norway. 20th Biennial Conference of the EPA Section on Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry. The EPA Section on Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry.

Rugkåsa, Jorun (2022). Can capacity-based law help reduce the use of compulsion? The case of Community Treatment Orders in Norway. Joint meeting of the FOSTREN Cost Action Network and the European Violence in Psychiatry Research Group (EViPRG. The FOSTREN Cost Action Network .

Rugkåsa, Jorun (2022). Compulsory psychiatric admission: geographic variation and opportunities for prevention. the12th European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry. The European Violence in Psychiatry Research Group.

Rugkåsa, Jorun (2022). What is care quality? The perspectives of family caregivers. Helsetjenesteforskningskonferansen 2022. Nasjonalt nettverk for helsetjenesteforskning.

Rugkåsa, Jorun (2021). Ny forskning om tvungent psykisk helsevern. Tvangsinnleggelser: geografisk variasjon og forebygging. Kontrollkommisjonskonferansen 2021. Helsedirektoratet.

Rugkåsa, Jorun (2021). A sociological perspective on medicalisation: The case of mental illness and implications for care. Keynote presentation. The 16th conference of the European Forum for Primary Care. European Forum for Primary Care.

Rugkåsa, Jorun (2021). Coercive processes in community mental health care: legal compulsion, informal treatment pressures, effectiveness and experiences. Invited lecture. to the FOSTREN COST-Action Training School. FOSTREN.