Lars Johan Danbolt

• Innlandet Hospital Trust

Background Meaning in life is multidimensional. It encompasses different qualities of meaning, such as meaningfulness, crisis of meaning, or existential indifference, as well as the sources from which people draw meaning, or purpose. For both research and practice, it is of high value to know not only the extent of meaningfulness, or its absence, b...

Background: Maintaining good mental health is important during a crisis. However, little attention has been given to how people achieve this, or how they evaluate emotions associated with stressors, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to (1) investigate whether emotion regulation, in particular cognitive reappraisal and suppression, mode...

Meaning in life has become an important topic in empirical research in the psychology of religion. Although it has been studied and found applicable in many different contexts, research on meaning in life and sources of meaning in African countries is scarce. This study qualitatively investigates understandings and experiences of meaning in life an...

Background Developmental trauma has a profound effect on people’s lives. There are few studies of the perceived difficulties and treatment needs of adolescents with developmental trauma. More studies are called for to explore the perspectives and experiences of these patients, especially adolescents. Method Semi-structured interviews were conducte...

Patients in specialist mental healthcare services who are at risk of suicide may experience their struggles as existential in nature. Yet, research on meaning in life has been relatively scarce in suicidology. This qualitative study aimed to explore how patients at risk of suicide perceived their encounters with specialist healthcare professionals...

Introduction: The population of older persons with acquired deafblindness increases rapidly, but individuals with the disability are often not identified by healthcare services. Becoming deafblind is associated with profound existential challenges as social isolation, loneliness, depression, vulnerability for harm and abuse, and a lack of self-valu...

Background Meaning in life is important to achieve quality of life, psychological well-being and good mental health. Existential issues such as meaning in life have limited attention in mental health care and treatment for children and young people in Norway. People in crisis often ponder existential questions. We find little research on this topic...

This chapter addresses forms of ritualization that emerged in different countries in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Data from a recent survey on pastoral care consultations (PCC) in Norway (N=408) is presented, showing that PCC is a service priests and deacons provide for people in the municipality, independent of faith affiliation. The most common PCC themes regarded mental and social distress, such as grief, conflicts, and loneliness. Furthermore, illness-rela...

Religious coping and spiritual struggles were qualitatively analyzed in 15 semi-structured interviews with Norwegian Hodgkin’s disease survivors. We asked, How is religious coping expressed in 15 Norwegian Hodgkin’s disease survivors? The analyses were theory-driven, using religious coping and spiritual struggles theories as explorative tools. Espe...

Introduction: Existential care is an essential part of holistic care and is officially embedded in the profession of nursing and Norwegian law. However, nurses feel insecure about meeting the patients' existential needs. Due to the loss of the two most important senses for perceiving the world, namely hearing and sight, patients with acquired deafb...

Introduction Experiencing deafblindness is frequently accompanied by existential struggles. The number of older people with acquired deafblindness is fast increasing, and older persons’ health-related burdens are particularly associated with existential challenges. Hence, older persons with acquired deafblindness are explicitly exposed to existenti...

Dans nos sociétés sécularisées, où sont prônées laïcité et neutralité, on assiste à un effort de conceptualisation pour penser la spiritualité en clinique. Cet effort s’organise autour d’un consensus consistant à placer la personne humaine au centre de la prise en soins. Serait-il alors possible d’envisager un avenir construit sur une « spiritualit...

The integration (routinizing and sustaining) of evidence‐based practice (EBP) into hospital management is a key element for improving patient safety and ensuring better patient outcomes. Hospital managers and clinical leaders play crucial roles in this integration. Interactions between leaders and integration context influence the improvement's qua...

Aim Exploring the processes involved in two different strategies to integrate evidence‐based practice into nursing practice. Design Classical grounded theory methodology was used. Methods Data were collected through 90 hr of observation and 4 focus groups among clinical nurses in two different hospital wards. Results We identified a multidimensi...

Background: Volunteer crisis line responders are a valuable resource for suicide prevention crisis lines worldwide. Aim: The aim of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of how volunteers operating a diaconal crisis line in Norway experienced challenges and how these challenges were met. Method: A qualitative, explorative study was con...