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Jorun Rugkåsa

Jorun Rugkåsa

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 32, 0166 Oslo
  • Office number: N050.119
Phone
  • Office: +47 672 35 840
E-mail
  • jorun.rugkasa@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Jorun Rugkåsa is Professor of Mental Health Care at  the Faculty of Health Sciences. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Queen’s University, Belfast (2010). She specialises in health services research, and in particular mental health care. She has researched the effects and experiences of involuntary care, the continuity and collaboration between primary and specialist mental health care, and the role of family caregivers.

Field of study

Health services research   Medical Anthropology   Mental Health   Health Services Research   Mental Health Services   Sociology, Medical

Research groups

Research projects

Ongoing research projects

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Ruud, Torleif; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Haavet, Ole Rikard; Dahli, Mina Piiksi; Hanssen-Bauer, Ketil; Brekke, Mette; Tveit, Ole Gunnar; Kates, Nick; Hussain, Ajmal (2025). A collaborative primary and mental health care model with psychologist and psychiatrist working in GP practices: process evaluation of the implementation, challenges, and sustainability. BMC Health Services Research. Vol. 25.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-025-13408-y

Lunde, Kristin; Madsen, Linda; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2025). Helsepersonells perspektiver på mulighetsrommet for pårørendeinvolvering for hjemmeboende eldre med psykisk helse- og/eller rusproblematikk: en kvalitativ studie. Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning. Vol. 28.
https://doi.org/10.18261/tfv.28.3.3

Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Nyttingnes, Olav; Benth, Jurate Saltyte; Husum, Tonje Lossius ; Kjus, Solveig Helene Høymork; Wormdahl, Irene; Hofstad, Tore; Hatling, Trond (2025). Can primary mental health services impact levels of involuntary admissions? A cluster-RCT of the ReCoN intervention. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. Vol. 60.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02914-3

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

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

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?. Patient Preference and Adherence. Vol. 18.
https://doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S435610

Aluh, Deborah Oyine; Lantta, Tella; Lourenço, Tânia; Birkeland, Soren Fryd; Castelpietra, Giulio; Dedovic, Jovo; Caldas-De-Almeida, José Miguel; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2024). Legislation and policy for involuntary mental healthcare across countries in the FOSTREN network: Rationale, development of mapping survey and protocol. BJPsych Open. Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.744

Nyttingnes, Olav; Benth, Jurate Saltyte; 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. Vol. 8.
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



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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: 9788232657100. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2998148

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: 9788275896498. 142 p. UiT Norges arktiske universitet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4219166

Nyttingnes, Olav; Hanssen-Bauer, Ketil; Ruud, Torleif; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2018). Patients’ Experience of Coercion in Mental Health Care. Universitetet i Oslo.
https://hdl.handle.net/10852/61672



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Dissemination

Nyttingnes, Olav; Hofstad, Tore; Johnsen, Erik; Strømme, Maria Fagerbakke; Markussen, Simen; Killackey, Eóin; Rinaldi, Miles; Blindheim, Anne Alnes; McDaid, David; Brinchmann, Beate; Bjelland, Ingvar; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Aarre, Trond Fjetland; Rypdal, Knut; Mykletun, Arnstein (2025). Study protocol for Controversies in psychiatry – antipsychotics: Long term outcomes and causal modelling of antipsychotic treatment using Norwegian Registry data.
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.166156.1

Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Whittington, Richard (2025). Research to reduce coercion in mental health services: FOSTREN and the future. Key note presentation. Holmenkonferansen 2025. Frivillighet og tvang.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5338513

Rugkåsa, Jorun (2025). Results from the cluster-RCT of the Reducing Coercion in Norway (ReCoN) intervention to reduce involuntary admissions. 13th European Conference on Mental Health. European Conference on Mental Health.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5338507

Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Lunde, Kristin; Madsen, Linda; Briseid, Kristin Margrete (2025). Hvorfor er pårørendeinvolvering så vanskelig å få til? Helsepersonells erfaringer fra kommunale tjenester til eldre med psykisk helse- eller rusproblemer. Helsetjenesteforskningskonferansen. SINTEF og Nasjonalt nettverk for helsetjenesteforskning.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5338499

Thorvaldsen, Nina Øye ; Häikiö, Kristin ; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Bergem, Anne Kristine (2024). Ambulance personnel's perspectives and perceived competence in encounters with patients with mental health illnesses. 999 EMS Research Forum . East of England Ambulance Services NHS Trust.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3591842

Thorvaldsen, Nina Øye ; Häikiö, Kristin ; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Bergem, Anne Kristine (2024). Ambulance personnel's perspectives and perceived competence in encounters with patients with mental health illnesses. Ambulanseforum 2024. Ambulanseforum .
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4549020

Nyttingnes, Olav; Hofstad, Tore; Benth, Jurate Saltyte; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2024). Exploring the Impact of Catchment Area Rates of Involuntary Care on Patient Morbidity and Mortality in Norway. XXXVIIIth International Congress on Law and Mental Health. International Academy of Law and Mental Health.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4924238

Nyttingnes, Olav; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Husum, Tonje Lossius ; Kjus, Solveig Helene (2024). Patient Perspectives on Coercion Reduction in Mental Health Care – Insights from Qualitative Studies. XXXVIIIth International Congress on Law and Mental Health. International Academy of Law and Mental Health.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5130651

Kjus, Solveig Helene Høymork; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2024). Brukeres egenerfaringer med og syn på tvang. Hva kan gjøres bedre?. Undervisning videreutdanning psykisk helse Oslo MET. OsloMet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3299246

Rugkåsa, Jorun (2024). Reducing the use of involuntary admissions: prevention is better than cure. 32nd European Congress of Psychiatry. European Psychiatric Association.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3518922



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