Pernilla Åsenlöf
Professor at Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa; Fysioterapi och beteendemedicin
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 47 68
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 456 28 31
- E-mail:
- pernilla.asenlof@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, MTC-huset
751 85 Uppsala
- Academic merits:
- PhD, Associate Professor
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Short presentation
Vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
Professor in Physiotherapy at the Department of Women's and Children's Health. Clinical affiliation to Uppsala University Hospital.
Principal Investigator for the interdisciplinary research group "Physiotherapy and behavioural medicine" including the interdisicplinary research initiative UPIC where young persons' mental health is the target.
Biography
The Behavioural medicine and Physiotherapy research group was established at the Department of Neuroscience in 2008. Members are predominantly registered Physiotherapists, but the interdisciplinary feature of the group has been crucial for its progress within behavioural medicine. Current members include physiotherapists, nurses, dental hygienists and psychologists associated to either the Medical or Social Sciences faculties.
Ongoing research focuses on issues related to adoption and maintenance of health-related behaviours within a bio-psycho-social framework. The understanding of how biological, psychological and social variables interact during development of chronic conditions as well as recovery is the basis for research. Theoretical principles from social cognitive theory and learning psychology are integrated with empirical evidence on prognostic factors of each particular condition studied to create and evaluate tailored behavioural medicine interventions.
A comprehensive future goal is to find optimal matches of assessment strategies, treatments, self-management procedures and individual patient profiles/characteristics. The comprehensive research question is “Who benefit from which dose and content of behavioural medicine treatment at which time point?”Aspects unifying as well as differentiating conditions and patient profiles regarding prerequisites and effects of health behavior interventions are expected.
Ongoing research has two main tracks. Within each track, clinical trials and implementation strategies are emphasized.
Track 1 - Tailored behavioural medicine treatments and musculoskeletal pain
Ongoing projects:
- Acute Whiplash Associated Disorders - Prognostic factors , Behavioural Medicine Management and Health economic aspects
- Behavioural medicine treatments for children and adolescents in pain
- STEP-UP: A randomised controlled trial for the study of a stepped-care model of tailored behavioural medicine pain treatments in primary care.
Track 2 - Tailored behavioural medicine treatments, physical activity and eating behaviours
- Health behaviour change in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and obesity/overweight
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01102920?term=sleep+apnea+and+behavior&rank=1
- PINNs - Integration of patients´ innovations in a professional-supported web-based intervention targeting physical activity. A study among patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
- Increasing physical activity in persons with schizophrenia – a behavioral medicine intervention
For further information please contact pernilla.asenlof@uu.se
Publications
Selection of publications
- Physical activity in sleep apnea and obesity (2012)
- A further investigation of the importance of pain cognition and behaviour in pain rehabilitation (2010)
- A three-group study, internet-based, face-to-face based and standard- management after acute whiplash associated disorders (WAD) - choosing the most efficient and cost-effective treatment (2009)
- Long-term follow-up of tailored behavioural treatment and exercise based physical therapy in persistent musculoskeletal pain (2009)
- The Patient Goal Priority Questionnaire (PGPQ) is moderately reproducible in people with persistent musculoskeletal pain (2009)
- Self-efficacy, fear avoidance, and pain intensity as predictors of disability in subacute and chronic musculoskeletal pain patients in primary health care (2004)
Recent publications
- Psychologically informed health care (2023)
- Scientific approach and attitudes among clinically working physiotherapists in Sweden -a cross sectional survey (2023)
- Reliability, construct validity, and factorial structure of a Swedish version of the medical outcomes study social support survey (MOS-SSS) in patients with chronic pain (2023)
- Implementation of tailored exercise programs for MG patients in a gym setting (2023)
- Pain in patients with motor neuron disease (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Psychologically informed health care (2023)
- Scientific approach and attitudes among clinically working physiotherapists in Sweden -a cross sectional survey (2023)
- Reliability, construct validity, and factorial structure of a Swedish version of the medical outcomes study social support survey (MOS-SSS) in patients with chronic pain (2023)
- Implementation of tailored exercise programs for MG patients in a gym setting (2023)
- Pain in patients with motor neuron disease (2023)
- Construct validity of the Mini-BESTest in individuals with chronic pain in specialized pain care (2023)
- U-PAIN cohort study among patients with chronic pain in specialised pain care (2022)
- “Opioids are opioids” – a phenomenographic analyses of physicians’ understanding of what makes the initial prescription of opioids become long-term opioid therapy (2022)
- Behavioral Medicine Physiotherapy in the Context of Return to Work for Chronic Pain (2022)
- Preventing Pain and Stress-related Ill-health in Employees (2022)
- Psychometric assessment of the Swedish version of the injustice experience questionnaire among patients with chronic pain (2021)
- Does exercise intensity matter for fatigue during (neo)adjuvant cancer treatment? (2021)
- Physical therapists' experiences of learning and delivering a complex behavioral medicine intervention to adolescents with pain (2021)
- Pain, disease severity and associations with individual quality of life in patients with motor neuron diseases (2021)
- Association between health care utilization and musculoskeletal pain (2020)
- Influences of Sex, Education, and Country of Birth on Clinical Presentations and Overall Outcomes of Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation in Chronic Pain Patients (2020)
- Reliability of the Addiction Severity Index self-report form (ASI-SR) (2020)
- "My life is under control with these medications" (2020)
- Effects on obstructive sleep apnea severity following a tailored behavioral sleep medicine intervention aimed at increased physical activity and sound eating (2020)
- The multiple faces of pain in motor neuron disease: (2020)
- Teaching Behavioral Medicine (2018)
- Concurrent Validity and Stability of Subgroup Assignment to Three Levels of Pain Condition Severity in Patients With Musculoskeletal Pain (2018)
- EULAR recommendations for the health professional's approach to pain management in inflammatory arthritis and osteoarthritis (2018)
- Improvement in obstructive sleep apnea after a tailored behavioural sleep medicine intervention targeting healthy eating and physical activity (2018)
- The Impact of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on Circulating IGF-1 in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea (2018)
- Integration of Physiotherapy in Behavioral Medicine Intervention Research (2018)
- Design of a randomized controlled trial of physical training and cancer (Phys-Can) - the impact of exercise intensity on cancer related fatigue, quality of life and disease outcome (2017)
- Pain rather than self-reported sedentary time explains variation in perceived health and activity limitation in persons with rheumatoid arthritis (2017)
- Editorial: Special issue - physical activity and health (2017)
- A 10-year follow-up of tailored behavioural medicine treatment and exercise-based physiotherapy in persistent musculoskeletal pain (2017)
- Stressful events and coping related to acute and sub-acute whiplash-associated disorders (2017)
- High or increasing levels of physical activity protect women from future insomnia (2017)
- A New Core Curriculum For Integration Of Behavioural Medicine And Physiotherapy In Graduate Studies (2016)
- What Is The Comparative Effectiveness Of Current Standard Treatment, Against An Individually Tailored Behavioural Programme Delivered Either On The Internet Or Face-To-Face For People With Acute Whiplash Associated Disorder? (2016)
- What is the comparative effectiveness of current standard treatment, against an individually tailored behavioural programme delivered either on the Internet or face-to-face for people with acute whiplash associated disorder? A randomized controlled trial (2016)
- Physical Therapists' Assessments, Analyses And Use Of Behavioral Change Techniques In Initial Consultations On Musculoskeletal Pain (2016)
- Physical therapists' assessments, analyses and use of behavior change techniques in initial consultations on musculoskeletal pain (2016)
- Treating youth in pain (2016)
- A mobile internet service for self-management of physical activity in people with rheumatoid arthritis (2016)
- High physical activity level protect women from future insomnia (2016)
- The Ongoing Shift of Paradigms within Physiotherapy and Pain Management (2016)
- A Systematic Review Of Randomised Controlled Trials Studying The Preventive Effects Of Physical Exercise, Manual And Behavioural Treatments In Acute Low Back Pain And Neck Pain (2016)
- Effects of Tracking Technology on Daily Life of Persons With Dementia (2015)
- A Mobile Internet Service for Self-Management of Physical Activity in People With Rheumatoid Arthritis (2015)
- Development of a web-based and mobile app to support physical activity in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (2015)
- Tailored behavioral medicine intervention for enhanced physical activity and healthy eating in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and overweight (2014)
- Barriers, Benefits, and Strategies for Physical Activity in Patients With Schizophrenia (2014)
- Development of a Web and Mobile Application (WeMApp) to support physical activity in rheumatoid arthritis (2014)
- Lead users' ideas on core features to support physical activity in rheumatoid arthritis (2014)
- Leisure-time physical activity predicts complaints of snoring in women (2014)
- Coping Patterns and Their Relation to Daily Activity, Worries, Depressed Mood, and Pain Intensity in Acute Whiplash-Associated Disorders (2013)
- Supporting stepwise change (2013)
- How children and adolescents in primary care cope with pain and the biopsychosocial factors that correlate with pain-related disability (2013)
- Physical activity and sedentary time in persons with obstructive sleep apnea and overweight enrolled in a randomized controlled trial for enhanced physical activity and healthy eating (2013)
- Level of agreement between methods for measuring moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and sedentary time in people with obstructive sleep apnea and obesity (2013)
- Developing an Intervention on the Internet for Health Enhancing Physical Activity Behavior in Individuals with Rheumatoid Arthritis (2013)
- Developing an Intervention on the Internet for Health Enhancing Physical Activity Behavior in Individuals with Rheumatoid Arthritis (2013)
- Facilitators and barriers for eating behaviour changes in obstructive sleep apnoea and obesity (2013)
- SEDENTARY TIME AMONG ADULTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. THE PARA 2010 STUDY (2013)
- The clinical course of pain-related disability over the first year in whiplash associated disorders (2013)
- The clinical course of pain-related disability over the first year in whiplash associated disorders (2013)
- Step-Up (2013)
- Step-Up (2013)
- Daily stressors in patients with acute whiplash associated disorders (2012)
- Tailored skills training for practitioners to enhance assessment of prognostic factors for persistent and disabling back pain (2012)
- Physical activity in sleep apnea and obesity (2012)
- Experiencens with CPAP treatment in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and obesity (2012)
- Self-perceived non-motor aspects of cervical dystonia and their association with disability (2012)
- Physiotherapists' telephone consultations regarding back pain (2010)
- Biopsychosocial predictors of pain, disability, health care consumption, and sick leave in first-episode and long-term back pain (2010)
- Implementing behavioural medicine in physiotherapy treatment (2010)
- Implementing behavioural medicine in physiotherapy treatment (2010)
- Physical-activity coaching and health status in rheumatoid arthritis (2010)
- The mediating role of self-efficacy expectations and fear of movement and (re)injury beliefs in two samples of acute pain (2010)
- A further investigation of the importance of pain cognition and behaviour in pain rehabilitation (2010)
- A three-group study, internet-based, face-to-face based and standard- management after acute whiplash associated disorders (WAD) - choosing the most efficient and cost-effective treatment (2009)
- Long-term follow-up of tailored behavioural treatment and exercise based physical therapy in persistent musculoskeletal pain (2009)
- The Patient Goal Priority Questionnaire (PGPQ) is moderately reproducible in people with persistent musculoskeletal pain (2009)
- The associations between pain intensity, psychosocial variables, and pain duration/recurrence in a large sample of persons with nonspecific spinal pain (2008)
- Musculoskeletal pain in primary health care (2007)
- Idiographic outcome analyses of the clinical significance of two interventions for patients with musculoskeletal pain (2006)
- Individually tailored treatment targeting activity, motor behavior, and cognitions reduces pain-related disability (2005)
- Individually tailored treatment targeting motor behavior, cognitions, and disability (2005)
- Self-efficacy, fear avoidance, and pain intensity as predictors of disability in subacute and chronic musculoskeletal pain patients in primary health care (2004)
- Behavioral goal assessment in patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain (2004)
- Individually tailored behavioural medicine intervention delivered via Internet or Face to face in acute Whiplash Associated Disorders
- Enhancing Supportive Communication in Supervisors to prevent Work Disability associated with Pain and Stress – A Test of Effects
- Concurrent validity and stability of subgroup assignment based on three levels of pain condition severity in patients with musculoskeletal pain
- Psychometric Assessment of the Swedish version of the Work Ability Index in Patients with Chronic Pain in Specialized Care
Conferences
