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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

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.
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

Mulder, Niels; Hamilton, Bridget; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2022). Coercion in Psychiatry: Epidemiology, Effects and Prevention. ISBN: 9782832501221. 177 p. Frontiers Media.



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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.

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.

Nyttingnes, Olav; Hanssen-Bauer, Ketil; Ruud, Torleif; Rugkåsa, Jorun (2018). Patients' Experience of Coercion in Mental Health Care. ISBN: 9788283772289. 104 p. Universitetet i Oslo.



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Dissemination

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

Rugkåsa, Jorun (2024). Reducing the use of involuntary admissions: prevention is better than cure. 32nd European Congress of Psychiatry. European Psychiatric Association.

Rugkåsa, Jorun (2024). Future research on coercion in mental health care – which gaps must we fill? Keynote presentation. 13th European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry. EViPRG.

Rugkåsa, Jorun (2024). The ‘Reducing Coercion in Norway’ (ReCoN) intervention: Results from a cluster-RCT. 13th European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry. EViPRG.

Rugkåsa, Jorun (2024). Service variation in the use of involuntary admissions: Implications for care quality and patient rights. 13th European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry. EViPRG.

Rugkåsa, Jorun ; Husum, Tonje Lossius (2024). Development, implementation and outcomes of the Reducing Coercion in Norway intervention for primary mental health services. Scientific meeting. FOSTREN Cost Action Network and the European Violence in Psychiatry Research Group.



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