Marianne Storm

• PhD
• Professor at University of Stavanger

Patient-centered care, shared decision-making, patient participation and the recovery model are models of care which incorporate user involvement and patients' perspectives on their treatment and care. The aims of this paper are to examine these different care models and their association with user involvement in the mental health context and discu...

Effective coordination as people with serious mental illness (SMI) move between care settings is essential. We aimed to review challenges to care coordination for people with SMI and identify approaches for improving it. Sixteen articles were identified. Two main challenges emerged: people with SMI facing adjustment challenges during transitions an...

Objective: The objective of the study was to investigate providers' perspectives on how medical, mental health, and social services are coordinated for people with serious mental illnesses and general medical conditions in 2 predominantly rural states. Method: To achieve multiple perspectives on service coordination, this study includes perspect...

Background Engaging peer support to augment and enhance traditional mental health services presents novel opportunities to improve service engagement and delivery. However, there has not been an in-depth analysis of the processes and methods behind the coordination of physical health and mental health care by peer support specialists. Study aim To...

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds potential to support persons with serious mental illness, but evidence remains limited. To explore opportunities and challenges there, we conducted qualitative interviews with multiple Norwegian mental health stakeholders. Data was analyzed using thematic analysis and sentiment analysis. Twenty-two informants...

The present study aimed to describe registered nurses’ experiences of change in attitudes and self-efficacy when caring for patients with multidrug-resistant bacteria during a pandemic. This qualitative, longitudinal study used serial focus group interviews. It was conducted in a university hospital in southwestern Norway before and during the COVI...

Background People with serious mental illness (SMI) often encounter physical health issues, a lack of focus on self-management, and persistent symptoms of mental illness. Strategies to empower people with SMI to self-manage their mental, physical, and social health are needed. The PeerTECH application is an American digital peer support interventio...

Aim To explore patients and nurses' experiences of digital self‐management support following participation in a remote patient monitoring intervention. Design An exploratory qualitative multimethod study. Methods The study was conducted at two Norwegian university hospitals between January 2022 and February 2023. Data were obtained through semist...

Background Chronic illness research has many challenges making research recruitment difficult. Despite reports of facilitators and barriers to research recruitment challenges remain. The reporting of research strategies and their impact on recruitment and subsequent randomised control trials is not sufficient. A newly developed chronic illness rese...

Background Having a home is the foundation of most people’s lives. People with co-occurring substance use and mental health problems may experience challenges in acquiring and keeping housing. Many also have major health challenges. Supported housing is the subject of increasing interest, but there seems to be a lack of studies exploring supported...

Background Interprofessional assessment and management of health needs for older adults living at home can help prioritize community service resources and enhance health, yet there is a shortage of professionals with the necessary competencies. Therefore, support and training for healthcare professionals in community settings to assess older adults...

Background Patients living with long-term chronic illnesses often need ongoing medical attention, lifestyle adjustments, and psychosocial support beyond the initial diagnosis and treatment phases. Many experience illness deterioration and subsequently require hospitalisation, especially in the transition period after hospital discharge. A promising...

Background Care coordination is crucial to ensure the health of individuals with serious mental illness. The aim of this study was to describe and analyze an inclusive innovation process for coordinating municipal health and care services for individuals with serious mental illness. Methods We conducted café dialogues with professionals and servic...

Background Patients with heart failure (HF) and colorectal cancer (CRC) are prone to comorbidity, a high rate of readmission, and complex healthcare needs. Self-care for people with HF and CRC after hospitalisation can be challenging, and patients may leave the hospital unprepared to self-manage their disease at home. eHealth solutions may be a ben...

Introduction Colorectal cancer (CRC) creates elevated self-management demands and unmet support needs post-discharge. Follow-up care through eHealth post-primary surgery may be an effective means of supporting patients’ needs. This integrative review describes the evidence regarding eHealth interventions post-hospital discharge focusing on delivery...

BACKGROUND Functional decline is a common problem in old age. This decline is often observed across various domains, including physical, cognitive, psychological, social, and behavioral functioning. A decline in or loss of any of these functions can affect the overall well-being of older adults. Assessing functional status has been shown to be cruc...

Background Conducting a health needs assessment for older adults is important, particularly for early detection and management of frailty. Such assessments can help to improve health outcomes, maintain overall well-being, and support older adults in retaining their independence as they age at home. Objective In this study, a systematic approach to...

Background Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) are more likely to experience functional decline, low well-being, comorbidities, shorter lifespan, and diminished quality of life than the general population. This qualitative study explores determinants of health that individuals with SMI perceive as important to their health, well-being, an...

Objective This study explores how the collaboration between elderly multimorbid patients and general practitioners contributes to the patient’s experience of integrated care in the municipality. The research also investigates whether the municipality’s integrative mechanisms creating integrated care can be understood as distributed leadership. Met...

Background Owing to the demographic changes in the elderly population worldwide, delivering coordinated care at home to multimorbid older adults is of great importance. Older adults living with multiple chronic conditions need information to manage and coordinate their care. eHealth can be effective for gaining sufficient information, communicating...

Background Care coordination is crucial to ensure and improve the health of individuals with mental illness. This study aimed to describe and analyze an inclusive innovation process that could contribute to the responsible coordination of municipal health and care services. Method Café dialogues were performed to explore the perspectives of profes...

Background Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) are more likely to experience functional decline, low well-being, comorbidities, shorter lifespan, and diminished quality of life than the general population. This qualitative study explores determinants of health that individuals with SMI perceive as important to their health, well-being, an...

Introduction A growing number of patients with non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart failure (HF) and colorectal cancer (CRC), are prone to comorbidity, a high rate of readmissions and complex healthcare needs. An eHealth intervention, however, could potentially ameliorate the increasing burdens associated with NCDs by helping to smoothen...

Importance: People with serious mental illness (SMI), defined as a diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, or disabling major depressive disorder) die approximately 10 to 25 years earlier than the general population. Objective: To develop the first-ever lived experience-led research agenda to address early mortality in pe...

Background: The number of people with noncommunicable diseases is increasing. Noncommunicable diseases are the major cause of disability and premature mortality worldwide, associated with negative workplace outcomes such as sickness absence and reduced work productivity. There is a need to identify scalable interventions and their active components...

BACKGROUND Due to the demographic changes in the elderly population worldwide, delivering coordinated care at home to multimorbid older adults is of great importance. Older adults living with multiple chronic conditions need information to manage and coordinate their care. eHealth can be effective for gaining sufficient information, communication,...

This article considers ways in which a nursing home can come to serve as a hub for community health promotion. Inspired by the term ‘boundary crossing’ (Akkerman and Bakker. Boundary crossing and boundary objects. Rev Educ Res 2011;81:132–69), we suggest the notion of ‘boundary work’ to illustrate how a nursing home arranges community activities an...

Background The anticipated growth in number of older people with long-term health problems is associated with a greater need for registered nurses. Home care services needs enough nurses that can deliver high quality services in patients’ homes. This article improves our understanding of nurses’ career choices in home care services. Methods A qual...

Aims: To gain a comprehensive understanding of nurses' infection control practices, antibiotics stewardship attitudes and self-efficacy when caring for patients with multidrug-resistant bacterial infections in a hospital setting. Background: Multidrug-resistant bacteria cause a substantial health burden by complicating infections and prolonging...

Background: The problem of a lack of nurses is expected to worsen in the future. With an ever-increasing number of elderly patients with multimorbidity and a shortage of healthcare professionals, primary care must innovatively organise their services to offer more sustainable healthcare services. Organising healthcare services in a community virtu...

Background: One person in every four will suffer from a diagnosable mental health condition during their life. Such conditions can have a devastating impact on the lives of the individual and their family, as well as society. International healthcare policy makers have increasingly advocated and enshrined partnership models of mental health care....

Background Distributed Leadership (DL) has been suggested as being helpful when different health care professionals and patients need to work together across professional and organizational boundaries to provide integrated care (IC). This study explores whether General Practitioners (GPs) adopt leadership actions that transcend organizational bound...

Objective: Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) experience a 10–25-year reduced life expectancy when compared to the general population that is due, in part, to poor health behaviors. Yet, in spite of the development of health promotion and self-management interventions designed for people with SMI to promote health behavior change, the mo...

BACKGROUND Digital peer support may show longevity past the COVID-19 era. In April 2020, a survey of 180 peer support specialists from 23 states found a 95% increase in peer support specialists offering digital peer support and a 90% increase in peer support specialists’ confidence in digital peer support. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to...

Background Digital peer support enhances engagement in mental and physical health services despite barriers such as location, transportation, and other accessibility constraints. Digital peer support involves live or automated peer support services delivered through technology media such as peer-to-peer networks, smartphone apps, and asynchronous a...

BACKGROUND The population of older adults is projected to increase, potentially resulting in more older adults living with chronic illnesses or multimorbidity. Living with chronic conditions often results in fragmented healthcare services or a lack of information sharing between the involved healthcare professionals. Care coordination can help olde...

Background: The population of older adults is projected to increase, potentially resulting in more older adults living with chronic illnesses or multimorbidity. Living with chronic illnesses increases the need for coordinated health care services. Older adults want to manage their illnesses themselves, and many are positive about using eHealth for...

BACKGROUND For patients with long-term chronic illnesses, such as heart failure (HF) and colorectal cancer (CRC), eHealth interventions have the potential to meet the patients´ post-hospital discharge needs and strengthen their ability for self-management. To ensure the successful implementation of eHealth services, a user-centered co-design approa...

Background: For patients with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs; eg, heart failure [HF] and colorectal cancer [CRC]), eHealth interventions could meet their posthospital discharge needs and strengthen their ability to self-manage. However, inconclusive evidence exists regarding how to design eHealth services to meet the complex needs of patients. To...

As the digitalization of mental health systems progresses, the ethical and social debate on the use of these mental health technologies has seldom been explored among end-users. This article explores how service users (e.g., patients and users of mental health services) and peer support specialists understand and perceive issues of privacy, confide...

BACKGROUND The number of people suffering from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is rapidly increasing. NCDs are the major cause of disability and premature mortality worldwide, and are associated with negative workplace outcomes, such as sickness absence and reduced work productivity. There is a need to identify scalable interventions and their act...

Background: The number of people with noncommunicable diseases is increasing. Noncommunicable diseases are the major cause of disability and premature mortality worldwide, associated with negative workplace outcomes such as sickness absence and reduced work productivity. There is a need to identify scalable interventions and their active component...

Background Parents are a resource that can be of considerable importance in supporting their adolescents' recovery and shared decision‐making processes. However, involving both adolescents and their parents in treatment creates challenges. Understanding the roles of all decision stakeholders is vital to the implementation of shared decision‐making...

Purpose Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) might require coordinated health services to meet their healthcare needs. The overall aim of this study was to describe the perspectives of professionals (registered nurses, medical doctors, social educators, and social workers) on care coordination and measures to ensure proper and coordinated...

Community of Practice, a community-engagement method that encourages a group of people to interact regularly towards a common goal, may promote satisfying experiences in patient-outcomes research among marginalized populations. Peer support specialists are increasingly being involved in peer-informed mental health research due to their lived experi...

A qualitative study of why adolescents attend outpatient treatment in mental healthcare Despite the high prevalence of mental disorders among adolescents, many refuses to accept help or do not complete treatment. This qualitative study aimed to gain knowledge about what inhibits or promotes adolescents' attendance to outpatient therapy. Fourteen a...

Serious mental illness (SMI) is a leading disability worldwide. Partnering with people with SMI to co-produce smartphone apps to support mental health outcomes throughout the software development lifecycle may support patient engagement with smartphone health app interventions. Partnering with this community is often challenging and requires a high...

Community of Practice, a community-engagement method that encourages a group of people to interact regularly towards a common goal, may promote satisfying experiences in patient-outcomes research among marginalized populations. Peer support specialists are increasingly being involved in peer-informed mental health research due to their lived experi...

This study aimed to test the validity and reliability of the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale-6 (K6) with a nationally representative clinical sample with various mental health disorders. The cross-sectional, nationally representative, and publicly available data were extracted from the 2014 Health Center Patient Survey (HCPS), which was sponso...

Background: For digital tools to have high usability and fit service users' health needs and socio-environmental context, it is important to explore usability with end-users and identify facilitators and barriers to uptake. Objective: To conduct user testing of the smartphone health application, PeerTECH, in a Norwegian community mental health s...

BACKGROUND Heart failure (HF) and colorectal cancer (CRC) are non-communicable diseases (NCD) with high incidence rates, substantial treatment burden, and significant risk of readmission within 30 days following hospitalization. During the transition between hospital and home, electronic health (eHealth) can be one way to improve follow-up on HF an...

Background: Heart failure (HF) is a clinical syndrome with high incidence rates, a substantial symptom and treatment burden, and a significant risk of readmission within 30 days after hospitalization. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the significance of using eHealth interventions to follow up on the care needs of patients with HF to support sel...

Sykepleiere som arbeider i helsetjenester i hjemmet har krav om høy kvalitet på sykepleieutøvelsen. Samtidig har Norge en sykepleiermangel og primærhelsetjenesten utfordringer med å rekruttere og beholde sykepleiere. Studien beskriver og fortolker hva som var viktig for å fortsette i sin stilling som sykepleier i helsetjenester i hjemmet. En kvalit...

More than one out of ten adolescents suffer from mental illness at any given time. Still, there is limited knowledge about their involvement in mental healthcare. Adolescents have the right to be involved in decisions affecting their healthcare, but limited research focuses on their engagement and decision-making. Therefore, this systematic review...

The present study aimed to examine the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary effectiveness of an older peer and clinician co-facilitated Behavioral Activation for Pain Rehabilitation (BA-PR) intervention among adults aged 50 years and older with comorbid chronic pain and mental health conditions. This was a mixed-methods research design with...

UNSTRUCTURED As digital peer support is quickly expanding across the globe in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, standardization in the training and delivery of digital peer support can advance the professionalism of this field. While telehealth competencies exist for other fields of mental health practice such as social work, psychiatry, and psycholog...

Background: As digital peer support is quickly expanding across the globe in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, standardization in the training and delivery of digital peer support can advance the professionalism of this field. While telehealth competencies exist for other fields of mental health practice such as social work, psychiatry, and psycholog...

Objective: The primary purpose of the study was to explore and identify how components of recovery are associated with occupational performance and health among peer support specialists. Methods: One hundred and twenty-one peer support specialists were recruited from statewide peer certification training programs and the International Association o...

Introduction: Nordic countries face societal challenges for which social innovation may represent solutions. The aim of this scoping review is to explore the concept of social innovation within the research contexts of higher education, ealthcare, and welfare services. Method: A scoping review methodology was used, including a literature search and...

Background: Adolescents have the right to be involved in decisions affecting their healthcare. More knowledge is needed to provide quality healthcare services that is both suitable for adolescents and in line with policy. Shared decision-making has the potential to combine user participation and evidence-based treatment. Research and governmental...

Digital innovasjon i helse er en transformasjon av helsetjenesten og samfunnet, og det er et virkemiddel for å sette pasienten og brukerne av tjenestene i sentrum. Digital helse innbefatter informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi og benytter seg av både internett og en stadig økende mengde digitale verktøy. I kapittelet har vi belyst hvordan samsk...

Dette kapitel er en refleksion, som udspringer af forfatternes proces med at gennemføre et litteraturstudie i form af et scoping review om social innovation inden for helse- og velfærdsservice.

Background: Most mental health problems occur in adolescence. There is increasing recognition of user participation and shared decision-making in adolescents' mental healthcare. However, research in this field of clinical practice is still sparse. The objective of this study was to explore healthcare professionals' perspectives on user participati...

Sammendrag Hensikten med studien var å utforske hva ledere og helsepersonell opplever som viktig for trygg og sikker bruk av velferdsteknologi for eldre i hjemmebasert helse- og omsorgstjeneste. Studien har et eksplorativt, kvalitativt design. Det ble gjennomført fire fokusgrupper med tilsammen 20 deltagere: ti ledere fra åtte kommuner og ti helsep...

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore homecare professionals' perceptions of safety related to the use of telecare by older adults. Design: An exploratory qualitative design was employed. Methods: Two focus group interviews with ten female homecare professionals (nine Registered Nurses and one occupational therapist) were carried out betwe...

Background Patient centeredness is an important component of patient care and healthcare quality. Several scales exist to measure patient centeredness, and previous literature provides a critical appraisal of their measurement properties. However, limited knowledge exists regarding the content of the various scales in terms of what type of patient...

Resilient healthcare embraces complexity, performance variability and acknowledgement of when things go right and when things go wrong it is usually because there has been an aspect of organizational malfunction or failure. Each organisation comprises of a range of stakeholders both internal and external and holding a variety of roles. To gain a be...

Description of certified peer specialists integration of peer philosophy into the delivery of a self-management intervention enhanced with mobile health. Qualitative examination of peer case notes that were routinely entered on a peer care management electronic dashboard. This study included consumers with serious mental illness (N = 8) with a mean...

We explored the perspectives of certified peer specialists and older adults with serious mental illness on the impact of a peer-delivered medical and psychiatric self-management intervention, "PeerTECH." Transcripts from interviews with consumers with serious mental illness and a focus group with certified peer specialists who were engaged in PeerT...

Objective: To identify the strategies peer specialists use to provide illness self-management support for older adults with serious mental illness (SMI) through text messaging. Method: Transcripts of text message exchanges between 8 older adult participants with SMI who completed the PeerTECH intervention and 3 older adult certified peer special...

Introduction Nursing homes and home care face challenges across different countries as people are living longer, often with chronic conditions. There is a lack of knowledge regarding implementation and impact of quality and safety interventions as most research evidence so far is generated in hospitals. Additionally, there is a lack of effective le...

Objective: To give an overview of empirical studies investigating nursing homes as a learning environment during nursing students' clinical practice. Background: A supportive clinical learning environment is crucial to students' learning and for their development into reflective and capable practitioners. Nursing students' experience with clinic...

Objective The study objective was to assess the effects of an interorganisational educational intervention called the ‘Meeting Point’ on patient safety culture among staff in hospital and nursing home wards. Design The study employs a quasi-experimental, non-randomised design with a hospital and nursing home intervention group and a hospital and n...

Introduction User involvement has become a growing importance in healthcare. The United Nations state that adolescents have a right to be heard, and user involvement in healthcare is a legal right in many countries. Some research provides an insight into the field of user involvement in somatic and mental healthcare for adults, but little is known...

In this chapter, Dyrstad and Storm draw attention to the important role that next of kin play in care transitions, especially for vulnerable or older patients. The chapter describes the legal responsibility of healthcare professionals to involve next of kin and then discusses theories of relevance to the understanding of the next of kin’s role in t...

In this chapter, Marianne Storm aims to describe the connection between healthcare professionals’ competencies, and the subsequent quality of care transitions. The chapter draws attention to Boyatzis’ theory relating to professional competency as an individual characteristic, and uses aspects relating to “cost of coordination” and “agency problem”...

Background Developing a culture where staff are actively aware of how to prevent adverse events is a challenge. The use of survey tools to assess the status of patient safety culture seems to be acceptable as an early step in improving patient safety. The Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture (NHSOPSC) includes 12 dimensions and is specific...