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Adjudication committee
- First opponent: Professor Joan-Carles Surís, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Second opponent: Head of Department Marit Kirkevold, OsloMet,
- Third member and chair of the evaluation committee: Associate Professor Lisbeth Thoresen, University of Oslo
Chair of the Defence
Professor II Marte Lie Høivik, University of Oslo
Principal Supervisor
Anne Lee Solevåg, MD, PhD, Oslo University Hospital
Summary
Adolescents are a group of patients with specific needs, different from those of the younger children, and the adult patients. Health services have not traditionally been designed in a way that takes this sufficiently into account. Adolescents who live with chronic or long-term illnesses meet extra challenges in their everyday life. Not only are they, like all other adolescents, facing large development tasks, but they increasingly have to take over responsibility for their own disease management and health. The international research literature argues that this group of patients need patient education in a guided educational process that runs for years and has been labelled ‘transition’. Akershus University Hospital (Ahus) was the first hospital in Norway to develop a program to be implemented in all subspecialties within paediatrics.
The overall aim of this study has been, through an action research design, to explore the current practice of our transition program in order to support and develop it. Through the experience of developing our own program, we sought to advance our understanding of transition programs in general.
Through exploring the practice architectures of the program, we see that there are elements in them that constrain the practice. Material-economic arrangements such as the amount of time in a consultation, enough staff to carry out consultations and access to adequate rooms for consultations are obstacles. The differences we saw among staff in the perceptions of the program goals, in other words in the cultural-discursive and social-political arrangements, illustrated a need for discussion of the program theory and what we want the program to be.
Additional information
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