Annika Grynne

Doctoral Student
Research School of Health and Welfare , School of Health and Welfare
Lecturer
Department of Nursing , School of Health and Welfare
Presentation Publications

Research

Annika Grynne, doctoral candidate in Health and Care Sciences, Research School of Health and Welfare. 

Digi-Do - Digital information tool directed towards women diagnosed with breast cancer and due to commence radiotherapy (RT). VR-teknik som ett hjälpmedel inför adjuvant strålbehanlding för kvinnor diagnostiserade med bröstcancer. Doktoranprojekt som en del av ett större forskningsprojekt.

The overall aim of the project is to develop a digital information  tool as well as explore and evaluate if such a tool can increase patient flow, enhance self-efficacy, health literacy, and thereby decrease distress before, during and after RT in patients with breast cancer while containing quality of care. 

Among women, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis and the leading cause of cancer death. Post-operative RT reduces the risk of recurrence of breast cancer and approxiamtely 75-80% of the patients will be eligible for RT post-surgery. It is know that the high tech environment and unfamiliar nature of RT can affect the patient's experience of this treatment. Patients diagnosed with breast cancer due to commence RT often, despite provision of considerable amount of information, report a range of unmet information needs about the treatment process. Factors such as inadequate provision of information, or the stressful situation having to deal with information about unfamiliar things may influence the patient's abilitiy to comprehend the information.

There is a need to further advance the format in which the information is presented. The emergence of digital technology provides innovative opportunities and virtual reality technology can in an innovative graphical way aid the preparatory information. 

Biography

Annika is a trained registered nurse (RN), MSc Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP). She did her MSc at the South Bank University in London and worked as a RN and ANP within areas of Infectious diseases, Sexual health, Acute care and Primary care/ Walk-in clinic in London between 1999 - 2012. She worked as a lecture in Biomedicine at Högskolan in Skövde between 2012 - 2019. Annika has been employed as a lecturer at the department of Nursing Science since April 2019. She is a memeber of the research environment IMPROVE at the Jönköping University. 

Article

Grynne, A., Wångdahl, J., Fristedt, S., Smith, F., Browall, M. (2023). Women's experience of the health information process involving a digital information tool before commencing radiation therapy for breast cancer: a deductive interview study BMC Health Services Research, 23(1). More information
Grynne, A., Browall, M. (2022). Women with breast cancer stories about divergent approaches of obtaining information of health, diagnosis, and treatment: A deductive approach based on dimensions of health literacy Annals of Oncology, 33(7), S1354. More information
Fristedt, S., Grynne, A., Melin-Johansson, C., Henoch, I., Hagelin, C., Browall, M. (2021). Registered nurses and undergraduate nursing students' attitudes to performing end-of-life care Nurse Education Today, 98. More information
Grynne, A., Browall, M., Fristedt, S., Ahlberg, K., Smith, F. (2021). Integrating perspectives of patients, healthcare professionals, system developers and academics in the co-design of a digital information tool PLOS ONE, 16(7 July). More information
Fristedt, S., Smith, F., Grynne, A., Browall, M. (2021). Digi-Do: a digital information tool to support patients with breast cancer before, during, and after start of radiotherapy treatment: an RCT study protocol BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 21. More information
Browall, M., Fristedt, S., Smith, F., Abelsson, A., Grynne, A. (2020). Digi-Do: A digital information tool to support patients with breast cancer before, during, and after start of radiotherapy treatment Annals of Oncology, 31(Supplement 4), S1126. More information