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Jorun Rugkåsa

Jorun Rugkåsa

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 32, 0166 Oslo
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

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Publications and research

Scientific publications

Hofstad, Tore; Nyttingnes, Olav; Blindheim, Anne Alnes; Håheim, Eirik; Aarre, Trond F.; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Bjelland, Ingvar; Mykletun, Arnstein (2026). Long-term health, criminal justice, and socioeconomic outcomes among people subject to compulsory mental health care in Norway: a nationwide registry cohort study. The Lancet Psychiatry. Vol. 13.
https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(26)00275-0

Ulvøy, Linn Eik; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Jørgensen, Trine Møgster ; Kjus, Solveig Helene Høymork; Häikiö, Kristin (2026). Encounters between people with mental health and/or substance use problems and ambulance clinicians: a qualitative interview study in Norway. BMC Psychiatry. Vol. 26.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-026-08546-4

Aluh, Deborah Oyine; Georgaca, Eugenie; Lantta, Tella; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2026). How does European mental health legislation promote autonomy for those in involuntary care? A comparative descriptive analysis of 27 countries. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-026-03179-0

Nyttingnes, Olav; Husum, Tonje Lossius ; Høymork, Solveig Helene; Överlund, Tiina; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2026). Patient experiences of coercion in mental healthcare: systematic review and metasummary of qualitative studies from 1991 to 2025. BJPsych Open. Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2026.12067

Thorvaldsen, Nina Øye ; Bergem, Anne Kristine; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Häikiö, Kristin (2026). Non-conveyance and autonomy: How organisational contexts influence ambulance clinicians’ practice in mental health crises – A qualitative study. Paramedicine.
https://doi.org/10.1177/27536386261457283

Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Aluh, Deborah Oyine; Chihai, Jana; Birkeland, Søren Fryd; Chatzittofis, Andreas (2026). Availability and restrictiveness of community treatment orders across 33 European countries. BJPsych Open. Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2026.12015

Lium, Marius Aleksander; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Hofstad, Tore; Lurås, Hilde; Nyttingnes, Olav (2026). Temporal patterns in compulsory psychiatric admissions: a four-year, nationwide registry study from Norwegian acute wards. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 80.
https://doi.org/10.1080/08039488.2026.2670376

Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Bråten, Beret; Johannesen, Anne-Kari; Häikiö, Kristin (2026). Care quality from family carers’ vantage point: a secondary qualitative analysis of experiential accounts through the lens of epistemic injustice. International Journal of Care and Caring.
https://doi.org/10.1332/23978821y2026d000000190

Ruud, Torleif; Benth, Jurate Saltyte; Hussain, Ajmal; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Dahli, Mina Piiksi; Hanssen-Bauer, Ketil; Brekke, Mette; Kates, Nick; Tveit, Ole Gunnar; Kann, Inger Cathrine; Haavet, Ole Rikard (2026). Effects of collaborative care on recognition and management of common mental disorders by general practitioners: a cluster-randomised trial in Norway. BMC Primary Care. Vol. 27.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-026-03227-3

Steinert, Tilman; Björkdahl, Anna; Flammer, Erich; Fradley, Kathryn; Haines-Delmont, Alina; Hirsch, Sophie; Kjellin, Lars; Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Scharfetter, Joachim; Richter, Dirk (2026). Abolition of coercion in psychiatry on the horizon? A descriptive ecologic data study from six European countries. European psychiatry. Vol. 69.
https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2026.10160



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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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